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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1942
Page
2
County Clerk Hubert Cole is named explosives licensing agent in Potter County. All persons handling explosives must obtain permits from Mr Cole, with a 25 cent fee per permit under a 1917 act as amended. The act defines explosives broadly and restricts manufacture distribution storage sale or disposal without a license.
The final day in January marks the deadline for current taxes with penalties for delinquency. Taxpayers should render values for school and county taxes to avoid trouble. Assessors are ready at tax offices. loan companies do not render values, so owners must act.
Former Amarillo school teacher Mrs J R Lewis died in a Los Angeles hospital after burns from a gas heater incident on November 23. A Portales, New Mexico native, she taught at Highland Park School near Amarillo last year and had lived in Los Angeles for months. Survived by husband and one son, funeral rites set for Sunday in Portales.
Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi says tax stamps arrive tomorrow at the Amarillo post office. All cars motorcycles and trucks must display the stickers by February 1. Each machine costs 2.09 dollars and remains valid until July 1 when new five dollar stickers replace them, lasting one year.
Markets page notes Dow Jones levels at 1 PM with mixed moves across Industrials Railroads Utilities and Stocks. Kansas City Livestock report shows hogs cattle calves and sheep trading with varying demand and price ranges, including top hogs at 11.40 and vealers up to 14.50.
Rufus Steele, noted bridge expert, will entertain veterans at the Veterans Hospital Sunday with card tricks. He will visit bed patients and perform for convalescents at 7 pm, arranged through Globe News and the Gray Ladies. A bridge school starts Feb 2 at the Elks Home in Amarillo for charity groups.
Air Raid Wardens of District 11 and assistants will meet at 7 30 tonight in the offices of Texas Tile and Marble Company 909 Travis Street. Joe Chambers chief air warden announced and listed district wardens and assistants by name.
Deputy Sheriff Dick Vaughan, who quit cigarettes days ago, declares the habit stinks and contends he has entered a new stage of the quitting process. He tells others to remove the cigarette scent and asserts he does not miss the odor.
One of the University of New Hampshire laboratories cost nothing. The state soil offers geology students a wide variety of minerals, rocks and rock structures for study. Mexico has produced 271 motion pictures in the last decade. South Africa issued stamps honoring a school for the blind.
LeRoy C. White of the Llano Estacado Council executive board will address the Dal ham Hartley Sherman County District meeting. The event is at 7:30 p m tonight at Pine Street Methodist Church in Dalhart with Amarillo participants Lon D Edwards Will J Hiatt and John McKnight attending.
London dispatch reports large scale RAF bombing of Emden and Hamburg with fires started at both ports. The raid hit targets in northwest Germany and enemy airfields in the Low Countries as six planes went missing. Hamburg described as heavily bombed in repeated night strikes. Oklahoma motorists turn in 1941 plates for 1942 license plates with metal conservation barrels in license offices.
Ross Rogers substituted for John McCarty as chairman of the Bond of the Month Club at the American Business Club noon meeting. He urged broad defense bond support and announced Clyde Rehmeyer to lead the campaign. The 42 members pledged a total of 9,335 annually, with no V for Victory car flags given to contributors in Shabani Northern Rhodesia.
In Washington on January 16 the Office of Price Administration outlines a proposed limit banning tin packaging for most marketable goods to conserve tin. Likely casualties include pork and beans spaghetti canned meat and beer. dog food production would drop from about 650 million one pound cans yearly. The plan also hints at reintroducing pole axes for cattle due to cartridge shortages.
Robert C. Dow will be guest speaker at Amarillo Elks Lodge regular meeting Monday night. Rufus Steele, bridge expert, will demonstrate card tricks with a deck of playing cards. A dutch lunch follows. all members urged to attend.
The admiralty said the trawler Lady Shirley which sank German submarine U-111 on Oct. 4 is overdue and presumed lost. Wes Manchuria expects to ship 50 million bushels of cereals to Japan next year.
Mrs Nellie Witt Spikes farm writer and Homer Steen publisher of Floyd County Hesperian will be guests on the Ex change Editor program over KGNC at 8 15 Sunday morning. Spikes writes about farm life and old timers from a Floydada area farm and is sister of Joe Witt Amarillo district court reporter.
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