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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1949
Page
4
Texan Elmore Torn touts enriched grass vitamin tablets as a potential remedy for colds and flu and as a general health aid. He claims daily grass pills helped him lose weight and may aid digestion, sharpen senses, and relieve a hangover.
In Frankfurt on January 17 the US Army limited GI marriages to German brides. Sergeants may not wed Frauleins except in special cases, and the ceremony wait rises from three to six months. Officials cite 15 000 marriages in two years and say restrictions protect young draftees and prevent use of marriage as a ticket out of Germany. An adequate financial background is required for permission.
Four precocious youngsters aged 9 to 11 confessed to burglarizing two Pittsburgh service stations at 3 am. Police found $1.84 buried near one station. A girl led the way, later naming the other suspects, while a twin quipped I’m just a burglar but I don’t carry a rod.
James Andrew Morrissey, 30, of Oakland, plunged seven stories from the Rosslyn Hotel skylight area. He survived with critical internal and spinal injuries after landing on a wire grating, and notes found in his room indicated a suicide attempt.
Phillip Kreis 31 a member of the Wallenda troupe fell 35 feet at a Shrine show in Shreveport injuring a broken left wrist a forehead cut and possible skull fracture when the rope snapped as he descended to bow Archibald Gayer of Ward Bros Circus said Kreis was coming down to bow when the rope broke R L Kilipstine Jr husband of Frances Klipstine sails aboard a destroyer on Caribbean Naval Reserve training cruise
P C Bennett former Potter County farm agent who returned from Korea as US military government agricultural adviser discusses Korea 38th parallel division and the south’s agricultural focus He notes rice output is low subsistence farming prevails and government programs control rice quotas and prices He recalls postwar rebuilding efforts by US technicians and the formation of the Republic of Korea under Rhee with UN recognition and gradual US troop withdrawal He describes Korean hospitality customs and cautions about blood brother rituals and notes ECA now oversees American interests in Korea
Mr. Bennett plans a two week stay in Amarillo before reporting to Washington for re assignment. He is remembered for his work with the Amarillo Fat Stock Show and for helping build the West Texas milk shed. A Missouri A&M College graduate, he moved to the Panhandle in 1916 and served as county agent in Hansford Donley Dallam Swisher and Potter counties. He later worked with the Soil Conservation Service here.
Rep Bloom of New York says Chiang Kai shek and his faction must be removed before China can be defended against communism. Bloom becomes chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week and demands Chinese aid be genuine, not pro Communist.
A 19yearold youth named Charlies Barnard Richardson of Austin was found fatally shot in an automobile 28 miles west of the city. A 15yearold girl companion was seriously wounded with a .22 caliber rifle. Investigators say both were shot, Justice of the Peace withheld a coroner verdict.
A fragment lists several drugstores with street addresses and phone numbers including Lincoln Drug Store at 106 West 8th and Nelson Drug Store at 400 West 1, plus others such as Maxor Drug Store and Annie Hotel Pharmacy with phone 6319.
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