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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1943
Page
1
Root leads with a 66 in the First Annual Diamond Open at the Ross Rogers Memorial course. Jefty Stackhouse, Angelo Country Club pro, is second with 72 while George Ausbach of Amarillo Country Club scored 74 in the opening round.
President Roosevelt told reporters he has no plan to urge Congress to establish compulsory savings. He said taxes could be used, but Congress would decide details and resisted a general sales tax. He hopes continued voluntary war bond purchases avert mandatory saving.
Vatican dispatch reports Pope Pius XII will address 20 000 Italian workers Sunday at the Vatican. Berlin radio notes the speech may carry political significance. Workers invited from across Italy, with 15 000 from Rome and 5 000 from other regions by government trains.
A notice seeks a permanent farm family within seven miles northwest of Groom to milk cows. Offer includes an eight room house on bus route, $75 monthly, furnished milk and eggs, 300 chicks on halves, half the eggs from 100 hens, a hog and 70 to 80 lb beef, and garden space. See Rhea Robbins in Canyon on a weekend.
Billye Diggs reports a missing package from the Lucille Shop containing a pink skirt size 27 and offers a one dollar reward for its return. Contact 093. 3411 Polk St.
JIMMIE FIDLER reports Paramount finds two major box office sensations in Alan Ladd and Betty Hutton during 1942 43. The feature covers talent luck, Dor othy Lamour rumors, Gail Russell rising star, and a costly 110 foot galleon ship built on studio lot for Frenchman s Creek with a 30 000 budget.
National regional and state officials of the War Production Board head to Amarillo for a 32 county salvage clinic at 9 30 a m in the Herring Hotel Crystal Ball room. The event brings together educators mayors scouts and industry reps to discuss salvage programs and future material recovery efforts. Local organizers include the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce and Lowell Monday with speakers such as Wm A Becker from Washington and Texas salvage leaders. The meeting targets counties listed from Dallam to Cote and Moore to Hale.
Petitions for rehearing and reconsideration to establish two new air routes have been sent to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Amarillo and its Chamber of Commerce drafted the petition led by aviation committee head R A Bob Stone. The proposed Amarillo San Antonio line would route via Lubbock Big Spring and San Angelo while the Lubbock Houston path would go via Abilene and Austin.
Pessimistic crop forecasts and drains on the food supply spur two farm state senators to demand fundamental policy changes. They call for eliminating federal planting restrictions in flood damaged areas and ensuring manpower to harvest undamaged crops as UN relief plans advance toward a August conference. Davis warns weather and shortages threaten 1943 production.
President Roosevelt said he might send Congress a message covering the entire inflation issue including closing the gap between national income and purchasing power. He noted tax details are up to Congress.
Firemen in Amarillo responded to a bus on fire at THIRTY-SIXTH Avenue and Harrison Street around 2 AM. Crews had the blaze out and were back at their stations within 17 minutes.
Pleasant Valley Christian Church invites the community to an ice cream and cake social at the church tonight at 8 o clock. The event aims to bring neighbors together in a casual, friendly setting.
F C Higgins was elected worshipful master of Amarillo Lodge No 731 A F A M at last night’s meeting He is past high priest of Amarillo Chapter No 196 Royal Arch Masons and thrice illustrious master of Amarillo Council No 134 He serves as senior warden of Amarillo Commandery No 48 Knights Templar and grand visitor for the Grand Chapter of Texas Installations set for June 24 with joint invites to other Masonic bodies Also elected were Martin Clifton senior warden Fred Galle junior warden and re elected officers C M Tyler Henry Lyle S R McManus J Frank Wright Dave Mays and Jim Webb
The OPA revises Maximum Price Regulation 268 adding Section 13a for butter pricing. Retailers must compute a new maximum price on June 10 1943 using the largest single purchase since June 4 1943 from creamery manufacturers or since June 6 1943 from primary distributors, with adjustments if no delivery occurred. The new price remains until the net cost changes, effective stencil No. 345.
Col. John M. Barr 34 of Gilberts, S. C. and San Antonio Texas received the Distinguished Flying Cross the Silver Star and the Air Medal in New Delhi for 50 combat missions in a P 40 and 25 more meritorious flights. Major Gen. Clayton L. Bissell said his record speaks for itself and Barr was ordered to return to the United States.
A spokesman for the livestock packing industry predicts the subsidy plan to roll back meat prices will spark black market operations. He claims the plan is being pushed by administration officials over opposition from federal leaders after meetings with President Roosevelt. The subsidy takes effect in retail stores June 21.
Denver district court jurors found Bernice Williams, a 23 year old department store infant wear buyer, guilty of second degree murder in the drowning of one of three illegitimate infants born to her. The jury also convicted her of concealing birth. Sentencing ranges from 10 years to life. judge to set date.
Widely scattered thunder showers forecast for late afternoon and early evening. Cooler today with similar temperatures tonight. The 67 degree low yesterday was the highest this summer, and yesterday’s 93 degree high nearly set the record. The Waupaca chain of lakes in Wisconsin is nicknamed the Killarneys of America.
Detroit police report sporadic clashes in the northwest between high school students and about 65 zoot suit wearers with armbands. Several groups dispersed by three precincts, one high school boy stabbed in the arm. Zoots allegedly armed with clubs knives and auto irons. a youth’s zoot suit torn as a window was smashed. Rodgy Mulliville links the brawls to a dispute from a dance at St Francis De Sales High School.
Washington reports a state department draft for a United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration with council central committee and executive staff led by a director general. The proposal, approved by Britain Soviet Russia and China, aims to feed clothe shelter and rehabilitate liberated territories and may shape postwar international cooperation.
Moscow June 11 Lieut. Col. Dmitry Koshitz a Soviet glider pioneer died on active duty. Koshitz started in aviation in 1924 and helped pioneer towed glider experiments. The report notes his early work with train tows and gliders.
HOLC issued permits for seven apartments at 900 Washington Street costing 11 704 and four apartments at 908 Washington Street costing 6 818 under the war worker conversion plan. A separate permit to Ted Ferguson for remodeling at 206 8 10 Taylor Street estimated at 4 000.
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