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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1943
Page
9
The local Red Cross board announces postponement of all swimming classes in cooperation with health officials until conditions permit. Examinations pending will resume where discontinued.
Pittsburgh reports a federal grand jury will consider action under the Connally Smith Anti-Strike Act as 5,000 UMW locals and 700 Isabella workers defy back-to-work orders amid widespread picketing. U.S. Steel shutters nearly a third of Pittsburgh district furnaces as labor tensions rise.
Agonizing itching from eczema rash or skin conditions is said to ease in one application of Blue Star Ointment. Repeat as needed as nature helps heal with a money back guarantee if the first jar fails to satisfy.
Texas farmers may not obtain adequate farm labor from Mexico and must rely on domestic workers. Director H H Williamson of the Texas A and M College extension service says farmers will likely have to pick their own cotton and thresh their own wheat.
Dr. John F. Mead, former president of Amarillo College, was promoted to major while on leave from the Army Air Corps. He entered service last September as a captain and is stationed in Washington with offices in the Pentagon. Dr. Ernest C. Shearer, current college president, announced the promotion learned on Mead’s return to Washington.
San Quentin prisoners mailed 1,504,408 No 3 war ration books 21 days ahead of schedule. Francis Carroll OPA director and Warden Clinton T. Duffy praised inmates for completing the delivery, enabling California to become the first multi state to send out its stamp sets.
A total of 135,743 has been paid or approved for payment to cities with war housing projects in Texas New Mexico and Louisiana Marshall W Amis regional director of the Federal Public Housing Authority said the payments are part of a national disbursement exceeding 400000 in 35 states tax rates on public war housing have been set and amounts in lieu of taxes determined Texas 199058 New Mexico 5460 Louisiana 11225
New Orleans market reports 10 inch to 12 inch shrimp weighing nearly a quarter pound. Biologist Dr James Nelson Gowanloch identifies them as oralian shrimp found offshore but now close to shore where they grew large. The giant catch drives a record $60 per barrel as Louisiana shrimpers profit from the unusual harvest.
Five black soldiers and two black civilians were under arrest in Abilene after a disturbance in the Negro section. Police and 35 military police were summoned to restore order, with no white involvement reported.
CORSICANA July 124 Tell of a bus accident stood at three to day with the death of Charles L Moore Sr of Brownfield. Moore died yesterday after a north bound Bowen bus crashed into a concrete Richland Creek bridge near here. Two were killed and 32 injured in the accident.
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