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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1944
Page
1
An Amarillo reader complains about black market cake and price ceilings while urging fair distribution. Letters discuss teacher salaries, war stress on clerks, and social tensions from shortages. Readers cite a Texas image of wealth yet low wages as conflict rises with patriotic duties and civil life.
Jimmie Fidler notes Oscar campaigning has eroded credibility and calls for pure artistic merit in nominations. He relays anecdotes from K T Stevens protests to Mickey Rooney beginnings, Carl Esmond’s cigaret gag, and a Marine veteran on RKO’s Marine Raiders set, highlighting Hollywood quirks and pride.
Reservations for the Knife and Fork Club lecture by John Temple Graves II, Atlanta and Birmingham newspaper commentator, go on sale tomorrow at Maxor Drug Store in the Fick Building and Amarillo Hotel news stand. Tickets cost 60 cents for members and their ladies. The program begins at 8 o clock at the Country Club, with Graves discussing Free Enterprise Not Made to Die, followed by an 80 day hour and the election of directors.
A long regional weather forecast notes continued hard winter with an upcoming cold night and potential winter storms. The piece urges Amarillo to fund a modern two mile landing strip, stressing aviation growth postwar and city advancement. It includes letters about peanut hay sales, bond drives, WWI anecdotes, and requests to KGNC for songs for a resident.
Six wounded veterans from Salerno and other campaigns will headline the fourth war loan rally at Gregory Gymnasium in Austin on Jan 17. Travis County seeks a bond quota of 6 965 000. Speakers include Pfc Wallace Watson Winters Pfc Tom Starr Ballinger Lt Homer E Cluck Amarillo and MSgt Clinton R Eaton Amarillo.
A birth certificate lost by a Scandinavian descendant was found in the Amarillo postoffice. Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi has the document on his desk. It is a 1922 certificate signed by a Lutheran pastor with church seal, printed in Minneapolis, showing a birth in North Dakota.
A reader seeks in home child care for mothers working days and invites interested parties to contact at 1001 South Roberts Street. The notice blends with other reader lost items in the same column.
An advertising claim touts Blue Star Ointment for relief from eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples scabies and toe itch after one application. It promises money back if the first jar fails to satisfy and urges trying it today.
Technical Sgt. Willard D. Grantham, veteran of South Pacific campaigns, is spending a few days furlough in Amarillo from Fort Lewis, Washington, where he has been stationed for several months with a field artillery unit.
A reader asks for help locating a Lancet nurse's wrist watch lost around 6 30 PM on January 4. The watch features a red second hand and a red cross on the dial with a black hand. A reward is offered. finder should call 2 4160. Globe-News Want Ads Get Results.
A Barbo gray hair preparation promises a professional look at low cost. Mix Barbo Compound with water to create a bottle for applying to hair, yielding a uniform natural color that lasts, resists washing off, and leaves a glossy finish. The ad invites use and claims dramatic, age-reducing results.
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