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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1950
Page
12
The buying slowdown affects all sectors from sheets to towels and ready to wear. Retailers report hoarding waning, yet fear price rises as mills may hold firm on replacement costs. Levine's Louis Gold notes uncertainty and delayed price signals into fall with November or December deliveries.
The report notes oil output increases as retailers worry over a government roll back and a price freeze. It cites industry reactions, comments from Ansel Shupack on ready-to-wear demand, and broader economic notes including auto credit controls, wool prices, and brick shortages impacting construction.
The article notes shared economic outlooks with a dollar dividend paid by some firms abroad while a New Mexico lumber swing and heavy oil field traffic press on Amarillo highways. It contends ousting Acheson from the State Department would be harder than removing Johnson as Defense Secretary due to Acheson’s long government career.
Andrew Boehm a 38 year old shepherd and his dog Shep walked 2900 miles from Seattle to Philadelphia in search of work He wore out eight pairs of socks and three pairs of shoes and learned there were few calls for sheep herders in Philadelphia He aims to earn money for a trip to Germany to visit his mother and will keep looking for work despite slim openings
Spinal arthritis ends George Ray Tweed’s return to duty with the Navy after his World War I wartime evasions on Guam. The former chief petty officer hid from Japanese forces for 21 months, later ran a Grants Pass bowling alley, and was recalled to fleet reserve duty before doctors sent him home. He said he minds little, as he now has a wife and two children.
Columbus arrived in 1492 at an island in the West Indies now identified as Watling Island in the Bahamas.
A bolt struck a wire and set off five dynamite charges in a Tremont area mine near Pottsville. Miner Harry Hartz, 34, was killed and Harvey Reiner, 32, was seriously injured as they prepared to leave the mine. Ira Rhody, who had already left, reported the blast to rescuers.
The Salian code, an ancient Germanic law once enforced in France, prohibited women from inheriting the French throne and remained in force through the monarchy’s end.
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