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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1951
Page
8
Amarillo Globe Times lists home delivery prices by period including 1 month 3 months and year options Payable in advance for Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma and mail in rates for all other states Evening only and Evening and Sunday plans described The paper states its independence and commitment to impartial reporting
The penny postcard featuring Thomas Jefferson will cease at midnight on December 31, 1951, ending a tradition dating to 1872 during Ulysses Grant's administration. Once common to citizens, the format became costly for the Post Office and increasingly used for advertising by corporations. Nostalgia likens its end to other fading conveniences.
In Ed Reed Pearson style, the Washington Merry-Go-Round exposes tax fraud cases where the powerful escape jail while ordinary workers suffer. Illustrations recount Francis Massey forced to pay taxes on stock he did not own, mushroom growers jailed while J B Swayne escapes, Richard Smith given light punishment, and White House influence stalling prosecutions. The piece argues tax injustice erodes democracy and highlights political interference in prosecutions.
The page lists a large crossword with numbered clues across and down covering yields strength jackets and more, plus a cryptogram quotation puzzle. It notes a sample cryptogram and provides a solution hint and a prior quote.
Robert C. Ruark reflects on Wilfred Burchett, once a wartime correspondent, who becomes a Communist mouthpiece in Korea. He recalls their past in Honolulu and Australia, noting Burchett's shift from freedom to totalitarian propaganda and questioning what turned him away from Western ideals.
Dr J A Hill argues the new Motor Vehicle Law will reduce highway deaths by requiring safety checks and financial safeguards. He predicts fewer wrecks, but notes potential insurance industry costs and criticizes unaddressed speed as the main killer. He urges strong enforcement and even a special session if needed.
The piece cites Jane Whitbread and Vivian Gadden and their claim that modern women work hard, often more than prior generations, to “save time.” It also discusses aging workers, retirement, and the need for useful work for the elderly, plus concerns about science education and discovery versus manufacturing.
A witty column reflects on social tea etiquette and fashion mores with a joke about a dress worn only to teas. It shifts to a critique of waste from steel wire coat hangers and then to federal deficits, noting each person’s tax burden has risen since July 1 and concluding with a homespun caution about fiscal mismanagement.
A Pullman conductor asks a passenger if he wants the porter called in the morning. The man replies that he already wakes at six, prompting the conductor to offer calling the porter. Included are quoted lines from Ogden Nash on poetry and a light verse about tobacco by Graham Lee Hemminger.
A section of Rifle Range Road in Kuala Lumpur will be renamed Gurney Road to honor the late commissioner Sir Henry Gurney who was killed in a terrorist ambush north of the city on October 6.
Answers cover bibliomancy as foretelling by books, chiefly the Bible, with random passages. Largest tropical trees lie in South America. The economic rule is supply and demand. Britain's naval fairs are led by the First Lord of the Admiralty. A synod is an ecclesiastical council. A Briton in Abadan calls Britain's Persian withdrawal an economic Dunkirk.
Incomplete OCR fragment notes a Miss race in 2003 with names or terms like ingre Mr. and ana, and er. The readable text suggests a pre event context but contains garbled portions, limiting clear identification of participants or outcomes.
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