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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1950
Page
2
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Senator Byrd of Virginia urges delaying a broad excise tax cut plan until more about government spending is known. He backs balancing the budget with restraint and even tax increases if needed, while amid talks in the new session of Congress. Maybank calls for tougher tax enforcement to prevent rate hikes.
A skeptical column questions long term promises of science and space travel. It argues real progress should focus on happiness and social harmony, not gadgets or lunar real estate, warning that cures and comforts without humanity may dull life. The piece laments missed opportunities to improve human relationships and calls for a universal happiness and kindness pill.
Teal reports his home at 1321 Harrison was burglarized Sunday evening. A bedclothing, a clock, and an overnight bag were taken after a rear window pane was broken. Burglars also tried to break into a neighboring home, cutting a screen and breaking a window at 1301 Harrison, but Mrs. G C Boney found no evidence of entry.
Bobby Roy Merrick, 21, Amarillo Marine, son of Mr and Mrs Roy Merrick of 1702 Buchanan, recently left for Washington DC to attend the Naval School of Music for six months. A 1947 Amarillo High School graduate, he previously played flute and piccolo with the Second Marine Division Band at Camp Lejeune NC. He entered active service July 22, 1948, has seen no overseas service except Cuba maneuvers in spring 1949, and is a private first class with about half of his three year term remaining.
In Columbus Georgia Mayor Walter A Richards and two former city chiefs protested being hung in the city hall while alive. It later emerged they were opposed to their portraits being displayed in city hall during their lifetimes, not to their deaths.
The speaker urges a transformative solution for global congestion not by new vehicles but by a unifying, humane innovation. He seeks a Thomas A. Edison of the human heart to inspire lasting progress, and pleads for relief from the perpetual pursuit of the moon.
Two soldiers from Fort Bliss El Paso were killed when their light plane crashed after takeoff from Lubbock municipal airport bursting into flames and burning twenty five bales of cotton. Pilot James E. Paul of Shawnee Oklahoma was identified. a passenger remained unnamed hours after. The flight plans filed with CAA listed Paul as civilian. The men rented the plane in El Paso and had arrived in Lubbock the previous day. Weather and instrument flight limits were poor with low ceiling seven miles visibility and a red warning light at takeoff. The crash occurred at 5 20 with the cotton stored in open bales at the nearby old South Plains Army Air Force base.
Hollywood is de glamorized in this essay asserting the town’s mythic glow fades on closer look. The Boulevard through Hollywood and Vine is described as gaudy and mostly lacking studios, with actors preferring Beverly Hills and natives offering colorful glimpses of daily life and lingering traces of film history.
Plainview obituary for James T. Diffey 26 killed in an automobile wreck near Brownfield while returning from El Paso housing project work. Survivor list includes parents George and Mrs. Diffey, two sisters Lottie Clark and Maxine Diffey, brother Paul, widow Jackie Diffey. Burial at IOOF Cemetery with funeral at Roy Wood Funeral chapel. Diffey, a WWII veteran, had lived in Plainview most of life and worked as a roofer.
On 1833 the contrato between Mexico and Stephen Julian Wilson was cancelled and the Dolores venture awarded to John C. Beales and Jose Manuel Roquella. Beales, a controversial English empresario, founded Dolores near Los Moras Creek by Eagle Pass. The settlement faced privations. two years later colonists tried to reach Texas coast but were attacked by Indians. Eleven men died. women and children were taken captive. Two prisoners later escaped with details of the venture's end.
The piece recalls the Boulevard once hailed as glamorous and fabulous by celebrities who lived and played there, noting today it serves more as a frame of mind than a physical place.
In Murfreesboro Tennessee H P Wrather reported two months of eerie store tunes from a mouse he trapped. He described the culprit as a small brownish mouse that sang in a canary-like style indicating the source of the odd sounds in his shop.
Potter County commissioners took under advisement a request by District Attorney Lloyd King to raise Branch Archer Jr. from 220 to 250 dollars a month when salaries are set next Monday. King said the increase fits the statute and would align with Randall and Armstrong counties while noting the good work of the staff. County Judge Gene Jordan pledged to keep the matter in mind.
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