New England Seared By Record Cold Wave
A sweeping polar blast locks New England and Mid Atlantic in sub zero heat with many cities posting all time lows. Watertown New York hit 35 below while New York City recorded 7 below and Boston -14. Numerous deaths and fuel shortages prompt school closures and evacuations fears as officials urge ration relief.
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Associated Press
New England
Middle Atlantic
Watertown
N. Y
Ogdensburg
Warrensburg
Gloversville
New York City
Boston
Hartford
Buffalo
Joseph J. Kelly
Office of Price Administration
New Haven
Conn
Amarillo Business Index Shows Growth in 1943
Chamber of Commerce release reports January 1943 gains across postal receipts gas and water connections building permits and bank clearings. Real estate transfers total 144 in January 1943 with January 1942 figures provided for comparison, highlighting overall business improvement in Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Gardner Services At 11 Tomorrow
Funeral services for G. C. Gardner Globe-News country circulation manager will be at 11 Tuesday in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. Dr. R. C. Snodgrass will officiate with burial in Llano Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Gardner, 60, died after weeks of illness. survived by wife Millie and four daughters including Edith and Ruby Gardner. He moved to Amarillo last June from Fort Smith Arkansas.
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G. C. Gardner
Globe-News
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
R. C. Snodgrass
Llano Cemetery
C. F. Underwood
Ed Harris
J. P. Black
DeWitt Leachman
Warren Parsell
Earl Myers
Gardner
Amarillo
Fort Smith
Ark
Millie Gardner
Edith Gardner
Denver
R. P. Beach
Washington, D. C
Ruby
Ruth Gardner
Annie Brittain
San Diego
Cal
Florence Butler
Glen Elder
Kan
Herb E. Gardner
Colorado Springs
Colo
Plans For Rationing Registration Discussed At High School
Rationing board members and school officials meet at the high school Wednesday afternoon to plan the upcoming point system registration. Registration is set for February 24 with school closures on February 25 and 26. Forms for declaring processed food quantities are not yet arrived but will be mailed from the district office in Lubbock within days. Retail grocers will distribute the forms and consumers must prefill them for the registration day.
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Land School
Iman Chansler Weymouth
Lubbock
McMurtry Low Bidder On Army Field Housing
Lee McMurtry was the low bidder for building 185 war housing units at Amarillo Army Air Field with a proposal of $222 376. The Chamber of Commerce says all Amarillo housing plans are completed under way or ready to start, with nearly 750 units authorized in the past year, excluding HOLC conversion program units.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Lee McMurtry
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
HOLC
Commission Frowns On Jap Importation
Amarillo commissioners oppose importing American born Japanese workers for war work. They note a War Manpower Commission report denying a labor shortage locally and say calls have flooded in from opponents since a related story appeared.
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Commissioners Court
War Manpower Commission
Amarrillo
Catalina Flying Boat Crash Leaves Three Missing
In San Francisco Bay the navy reported that a Catalina flying boat crashed late yesterday. Three men are missing and six were rescued with only minor injuries. Names of the missing were not disclosed. A note on ancient Greek warfare references a self igniting lime and oil compound similar to early flame devices.
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San Francisco
Navy
Catalina
San Francisco Bay
Kansas City Livestock Market Report February 15
Livestock totals show hogs salable 3,000, demand fairly active with 10 to 20 cent gains and top at 15.40. Cattle salable 15,000 with calves 600. fed steers yearlings and stockers steady to firm. Bulls rise 25 cents. vealers steady. crowd includes stocker and feeder classes.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Gandhi Fast May Be Catastrophic
Washington reports Lieut. Col. Frances V. Keesling told the House military affairs committee that a bill to base draft quotas on states and to rank induction priorities would be hard to administer. He said the measure would complicate operations for the Selective Service Bureau and cited in particular the plan to draft all single men before other categories.
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Washington
Selective Service Bureau
Frances V. Keesling
House Military Affairs Committee
Keesling
Kilday
Texas
Dream and World Crisis Lectures At Canyon and Amarillo
Dreams interpreted at an USO forum by Pvt. Harold Feldman at the Auditorium tonight open to civilians and service men. Dr Syed Hossain lectures at West Texas State College Canyon on India and the World Crisis with a focus on India China relations and possible Allied cooperation in the war.
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USO
Pvt
Harold Feldman
Gandhi
Syed Hossain
West Texas State College
Canyon
India
Mohammed
University of South California
Hossain
Amarillo
College Lyceum Committee
China
Dr. Hossain
Japan
Tack Letters long-run classifieds seek work and lost items
A series of short notices includes a man asking for the return of a lost paper route earnings amount, a widow seeking farm work raising poultry, a man’s pigskin glove found with initials J C W, and several employment requests from readers seeking domestic, cooking, or childcare roles at homes across local streets and addresses.
Lost left glove on bus or school playground
A reader reports a woman's black kid glove lost on the Fillmore bus or Wilson School playground. Finder please call 2 5625.
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Tack
Fillmore
Wilson School
Colored girl seeks work with references in Jefferson area
A colored girl seeks a job with room and references and provides contact details 7992 after 4 PM and 1605 North Jefferson Street. A rosary in a black zipper case was turned in at Globe-News front desk and may be claimed by the owner. A gold tie clasp and chain with initials was found last week and may be claimed at the Globe-News switchboard.
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Tack
North
Jefferson Street
Globe- News
Globe-News
F. B. Henry
Hazlewood Bill Aims Aid For Aged Recipients
In Austin on Feb 15 Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo introduced a Senate bill directing the department of public welfare not to count income from labor toward old age assistance if the yearly total does not exceed 250 dollars.
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Austin
Department of Public Welfare
Senate
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Soviet Forces Press Kharkov Pincers In Ukraine Action
Russian dispatches report Red Army advances along the Donets pocket and near Kharkov. Rostov is described as burned with German dead, while trains to Kiev allegedly carry withdrawing Nazi troops. A mid day communique claims 62 German tanks and over 1,200 officers and men destroyed in three days. The north arm of the Kharkov encirclement takes another locality 25 miles northwest of Kharkov.
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Donets
Rostov
Kharkov
Kiev
Red
Zolochey
Soviet counterattacks slow German advance near Kursk
Communique reports German attack repulsed with heavy losses as Russians push west of Kursk about 120 miles north of Kharkov and seize a large town. Two hundred German soldiers killed and 12 guns, 15 trucks, three tractors captured. Evacuation of Novorossiysk and Kerch operations mentioned as Germans withdraw across the Kerch Strait toward Crimea.
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Kharkov
Caucasus
17Th
Dunkirk
Kerch
Crimea
Burea
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Moscow
Tunisia
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