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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
2
A weather column notes mild days but predicts more snow within days and a looming blizzard sweeping from Colorado and Kansas toward the plains. It urges cattlemen to prepare, warns of colder winters ahead, and requests readers to pay poll taxes while debating a beauty contest.
A traveling preacher helps rescue Jimmy Faulkner who bought the Baldwin County Times at 20. Faulkner becomes a noted young publisher and political figure in Alabama, overcoming $12,000 debt before turning the paper around with community support and education efforts.
In Stratford officers selected three jurors by noon for the Lloyd Howard trial. A pool of 138 veniremen remains from 180 man list as Judge Schultz weighs challenges. Howard, 32, Texhoma, is accused of attacking a 75 year old Texhoma woman in her home on November 23.
Markets show stock averages around firm levels with diverse quotes for various components including Merrill, Union Gas, and Trans products. Kansas City livestock reports note cattle calves and steers steady to weak, with hogs and sows uneven but largely steady amid active feeders and light supply.
Floyd Davis left his chow Teddy with neighbors in Columbus while moving to Arizona. After three years he found the dog in the neighbors yard. Teddy ran to Davis offering a paw as he left, then collapsed in the street and died.
Police detain six Black men this morning on petty thievery charges pending investigation. Three suspects are jailed for allegedly stealing 18 pairs of women's shoes from White Kirk, with one man arrested at his home after the loot was found. The other three are detained for stealing two cartons of Hershey bars from an American Warehouse Company truck in an alley between Polk and Tyler. Both thefts allegedly used cars.
Shipmate Orville Snyder will chair the formation meeting for Amarillo Ship of the national Navy Club of the USA at 7 30 tomorrow evening at the American Legion Hall 615 West Seventh. Ten members are needed for a club charter with applications already received. Membership open to all honorably served in Navy Naval Reserve Marine Corps Navy Reserve Marine Corps Reserve or Coast Guard. The group aims to benefit veterans of ship service and operates as a non political non sectarian organization inviting Amarillo area navy veterans to attend.
A writer describes a wintry morning walk in Hyde Park and a domestic moment of reorganizing a personal library. She discusses Max Ascoli’s The Power of Freedom and the debate on world government a balanced approach for sovereignty and standards, then praises Cheaper by the Dozen and the humor of the Gilbreth family.
A simple sauce to serve with fish fillets melts butter with lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Four teaspoons of lemon juice and a half teaspoon of Worcestershire are mixed into a quarter cup of butter or margarine. Spoon over broiled fillets before serving. Serves two to four.
In Davis West Virginia a 17 year old youth John Helmick celebrated his birthday in a hospital while recounting a two week trek with brothers Eston Carr and Robert from which only he survived. The boy’s feet show gangrene and doctors expect amputation to save his life. A sheriff led the search party that found the freezing youths after they wandered in mountains seeking shelter and food.
The Senate approved three million dollars for snow relief in the West and set aside 750,000 to reimburse federal agencies for road maintenance costs in 10 states. The House previously approved 500,000 for the President's emergency relief fund, after 300,000 had been allocated to snow relief. Aircraft aided ranchers in Nevada with 200,000 stranded livestock, easing the feed crisis though concern over cattle and sheep weakening persists. White Pine County sheepman Jack Singleton notes animals may die after warm weather returns. The Air Force used 23 C-82 boxcars for the latest relief effort.
The condition of Judge C B Reeder is described as about the same. His family visited today as he rests at Northwest Texas Hospital, despite a siege of hiccups yesterday.
Sumner Welles formerly Undersecretary of State was found frostbitten near his Oxon Hill Maryland estate on December 26. A new frostbite therapy including cold packs whirlpool massages penicillin and heparin helped prevent amputation and restore circulation.
Norwich University historian Prof. William M. MacLeod argues cannibalism flourished in what is now Vermont three and a half centuries ago. He attributes savage acts to Iroquois captors and says Algonquin reprisals followed, noting the region between the Great Mountains and Lake Champlain hosted feasts rivaling those in Africa. In Tokyo, Gen Douglas MacArthur orders a nationwide survey of child slavery for abolition efforts.
North Texas reports show city streets blocked by hundreds of fallen trees and poles. Power outages affect most residential areas, with about a thousand phones out and bus services to Sans Angelo and Wichita Falls canceled. Dallas officials describe the storm as the worst in memory, with severe fire hazards in Oak Cliff and widespread damage to utilities.
The column recounts Axis Sally's radio program with a US wartime listening off, includes a joke about lazy American days, and a Bing Crosby recording. In Sofia, Bulgaria, the Front newspaper accuses Yugoslavia of aiding American war mongers and calls Tito and his followers treacherous for exporting basic strategic materials like lead antimony chrome and mercury.
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