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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1946
Page
14
The Amarillo Globe and Globe News publish in Amarillo Texas with editors Gene Howe and John McCarty. Rates show daily, Sunday, and combined subscriptions by mail carrier within and outside Amarillo with yearly, half, and quarter options.
A small NYC labor action by 2500 tugboat workers, about 0.5 percent of the population, sparked government seizure orders and a mixed vote on returning to work. After days of wrangling, a settlement kept the tug fleet moving, yet a continued vote of 60 to 1 kept the strike, impacting 80 percent of the city’s fuel and half its food supply.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations releases a detailed report on 36 principal affiliated unions. It outlines operation, funding, auditing, and openness to members and the public, arguing unions follow one man one vote and cancel secrecy. A concluding anecdote warns to beware strangers and money.
In our town a stranger offered to pay for both meals and asked a back table partner to wave to the cashier to show the payment. The plan backfired as the townsman learned he must still pay for his own meal.
The San Jacinto Kiwanis Club designates this Sunday as Go To Church Day to urge members to attend the church of their choice. E T Cummings chairs the organizing committee. Local Internal Revenue offices will close Friday for Washingtons birthday and reopen Monday morning per Ralph Kenniston field division chief.
Gallup Poll sketches Harold Ickes exit as a controversial, feisty figure in the New Deal era. The writer notes Ickes sparring with Pauley, releasing a 2000 page letter, and dominating the public discourse amid wartime policy chaos.
A nationwide Institute survey shows voters split on which party handles issues best. Republicans lead on taxes, profits, and encouraging business while Democrats edge on wages, farmers income, and world affairs. Reducing strikes and government efficiency remain tossups.
A list of crossword clues with across and vertical entries including judge of Court of Appeals and Ce rium symbol and other then and now clues. The grid references and abbreviations hint at standard puzzle conventions and entries across and down.
A brief reflection attributing the quote to Juvenal on revenge as a weak pleasure for small minds.
A five member judging panel, three teachers and two officials, will evaluate entries at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Happy Fair tonight at 8 30 in the VFW building. Premiums total 50 dollars for first to third places across 12 divisions with age groups 5 to 9 10 to 12 and 12 to 17. Harold W Vogel chairs the fair.
Corporal Robert C White Jr of 1304 Parker was discharged at Fort Bliss by Col Frank L Whittaker deputy commander. He served since January 1943 and fought with the 90th Division in Europe and Japan.
Efforts were underway to locate Art McVea father of 14 year old Charles McVea who is hospitalized in Northwest Texas Hospital with a wound from a rusty nail. Amarillo police are asked to assist. McVea is reported to be transacting business near Odessa. the family lives on a rural mail route near Amarillo.
Lt George W Tiffany of 2116 Monroe is awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious action in the Philippines. He now serves with the Eighth Army in Matsuyama Japan after leading a native carrying party to an isolated rifle company and returning through jungle infested with Japanese forces with two seriously wounded men.
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