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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1946
Page
2
USDA notes calf and cow prices down with lighter demand in Kansas City. Hogs and sheep show broad declines across categories while Chicago values reflect slower trading and lower weights. Financials indicate fund activity with a liquidation and offering at $2.68.
Courthouse records list transfers of deed interests in Amarillo and vicinity including Garner to Robert Franklin, G&S Amarillo Improv to Charlie Priolo, Mann to George Ritter, Ellis to Marion O. Newman, We Whorter to M W Fox, Weaver to Jimmy Lonzo White, Jones to J P Jones, Holcomb to Joan Thompson, Curtis to Elmer Williams, and Hardin to H V McAllister. District Court shows two divorces Dailey and Breden. Marriage licenses issued to Kelley Moore, Hall Northen, and Henson Lanterman.
Monte Magee's Orchestra will open an engagement at Buck's Tavern tonight. Buck's owner M. R. Buck announced the run, with music scheduled from 9 to 12 each night.
Alan Ladd and wife Sue Carol endured a tense first night at their unfinished Hid den Valley ranch. A section of temporary roofing over their bedroom collapsed, a mountain lion spooked the area, and a faulty pipe flooded the kitchen. He spent hours repairing the plumbing before dawn.
Pay regular attention to the spark plugs in your motor boat. Oil mixing with outboard fuel reaches the tops of the cylinders and causes trouble. Clean the spark plugs well and inspect them for wear or damage.
Clifford D. Pierce of Memphis Tennessee, a former Weatherford resident, was elected president of Lions International at its Philadelphia convention. Amarillo delegates included Ben G Lane and Byron Ellis among others. Pierce previously served as first vice president. he is a Kappa Alpha Shriner and Methodist.
Eugene Talmadge, trailing Carmichael in the popular vote, led in unit votes with 249 of the needed 206 in Georgia’s governor race. Third place E D Divers had about 54 000 votes and 18 unit votes as observers weigh potential in state policy and voting rights disputes.
New York shopper Hanna Sherman urges women to wear their best clothing when shopping to gain favorable treatment from saleswomen. She says attire shapes the clerk’s perception of taste and discrimination and recommends befriending the sales staff to secure scarce merchandise.
Mrs. Joe E Wright of 722 North Mirror found a one fourth karat diamond worth 50 to 75 dollars in a sugar spill from a bowl. She believed it to be a mere stone until a jeweler identified its value.
Earl McFarland a 25 year old former Marine died in the electric chair for the rape murder of 18 year old Dorothy Berrami a government worker from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin He proclaimed innocence to the end insisting he never knew the victim and recalling only killings of Japs in the South Pacific during the war.
County officials announce July 27 candidates must itemize billboards posters and ID cards in a filing to the county clerk today. After primaries, all candidates must start third campaign expenditure check, county clerk Hubert Cole said.
Early peoples viewed rice as a symbol of productivity and abundance and tossed it after the bride and groom to blessing and prosperity.
In Washington workmen signed Missouri Avenue replacing Concord Avenue as designated by street signs. President Truman, a Missourian, noted two weeks ago that Missouri lacked an avenue in the national capital. The change adds a Missouri named street to the capital area.
Walter Lemm was named football and track coach and assistant basketball coach at Marmion Military Academy in Illinois. The former Miami of Ohio star assisted Jake Kline with Notre Dame's baseball squad this Spring.
In Sleaford England residents hunted two days for a missing three quarter ton bull. The bull was found atop a 60 foot Kyme Castle tower after climbing a narrow stair and couldn't turn around. Farmers coaxed him down by tapping his nose to back him off the stairs.
Beau Jack makes his 24th Madison Square Garden appearance by defeating Johnny Greco in a ten round rematch.
A study suggests the normal human thigh bone can support about one and a half tons without breaking. The finding highlights bone strength and resilience in everyday locomotion and potential implications for medical understanding of skeletal limits.
Amarillo Optimist Club will host the Amarillo Gold Sox at its regular weekly luncheon at noon Thursday in Mexican Inn. The meeting featured guitar music by Mr and Mrs Joe Barnes of KFDA with Don Donathan as program chairman. An annual club picnic is planned for Aug 3 in the back yard of Mr and Mrs Jack Proper.
Rhode Island averages 644 persons per square mile, while Nevada averages 0.83 persons per square mile, highlighting a dramatic urban to rural spread between the states.
In a brief corporation court session a woman admitted drunkenness after returning from South Carolina. The judge fined her 15 dollars and gave a receipt. She departed as the officer warned not to cause disturbances again.
Bread rationing in Great Britain will start Sunday amid public doubt and fear of baker protests. Winston Churchill clashed with the labor government over the plan and failed to win support in the Commons vote, 305 to 182.
Firemen were called at 1 45 this afternoon to extinguish a grass fire in a vacant lot near the Kearns Grain and Seed Company elevator at 1619 Johnson Street. No damage occurred and the blaze was under control within minutes after trucks from Central Fire Station and the Sixteenth Avenue Station arrived.
OFF BIKINI ATOLL July 19 A P—All preparations have been completed for the underwater explosion of the atomic bomb in Bikini lagoon on July 25, Vice Adm. W H P Blandy operation Crossroads commander announced today.
Dick Gallagher has been named basketball coach at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia succeeding S B Frosty Holt who returns to Carson New man College Tennessee Holt was on the staff for one year and was here from Carson New man on a lend lease basis Gallagher was freshman cage coach here before joining the Navy in 1942
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