Fischer Heads Book Division at Harper Brothers
Jack Fischer former Amarillo newspaperman and editor of Harper s Magazine was named editor in chief of the general book department at Harper Brothers He was born in 1910 in Texhoma and has served in wartime roles with the Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration before joining Harper s Magazine in 1944 He is planning a novel based on his India experiences
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Jack Fischer
Amarillo
J.S. Fischer
Monroe
General Book Department
Harper & Brothers
Harper's Magazine
Russia
National War College
Harper’s
India
Board of Economic Warfare
Foreign Economic Administration
Mr. Fischer
Texhoma
Texas-Oklahoma
New Charter Group Members and Rhodes Scholar Highlight
University of Oklahoma joins a charter group with a member who studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1933 to 1935. His journalism career spans United Press in Europe and Germany and Associated Press in Washington. A hydrofin propeller device enables silent boat movement by clamping to any craft and moving side to side to push water backward.
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University of Oklahoma
Oxford University
Rhodes
The
United Press
England
Germany
Associated Press
Washington, DC
Sub Committee Appointed for City Charter Revisions
The charter revision committee met at City Hall to organize with R. E. Underwood as chairman. He appointed a sub committee of Ross Rogers John Fullingham John Boyce Wes Izzard and Hugo Loewenstern to study proposed changes model charters and other cities reports. The sub committee will notify Underwood when ready to meet the larger panel and a report is due in about two weeks. Mayor Lawrence Hagg announced three new committee members.
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R. E. Underwood
Underwood
Ross Rogers
John Fullingim
John Boyce
Wes Izzard
Hugo Loewenstern
Lawrence Hagg
Weed cutting drive urged for clean up summer plan
Mayor Lawrence Hagg appeals to gardeners and residents to join a weed cutting and cleanup campaign amid delays in mowing machine deliveries. He notes alleys can feature flowering plants for background, warns weeds breed pests, and stresses soil and plant life importance. The piece endorses a city wide, youth-involved effort and laments June’s flowering promise.
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Lawrence Hagg
Perennial Garden Tips For Lasting Color And Lawn Health
Last year’s careful planning pays off with fall transplanting of peonies iris and other perennials. Combine deep red peonies with blue iris for a striking bloom display with three year staying power. Also note lime can correct sour soil and beans thrive in alkaline soils, a spring lime treatment for lawns and gardens.
City charter amendments and new committee named
The mayor appointed the original committee last Friday with members Cas Johnson Al Reville and A H Chesser. Other committeemen include Tom Wingate Charles Ware Ed Hardin S B Whittenburg Fred Car Joe Shields Joe Jenkins Jay Taylor John McKnight N S Griggs and Virgil Patterson. Amendments propose extending city limits without a charter amendment increasing the commission size raising the tax limit and empowering signatures by a bonded city employee granting bonds callable modifying city manager duties allowing vacancies to be filled from within the commission selecting the mayor by the commission and broadening the tax base. International air freight traffic rose 34 percent in Q1 1947 to 131824 shipments per Railway Express. News-Globe Want Ads Get Results.
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Cas Johnson
East Tenth
al Reville
North Pierce
A. H. Chesser
East Eleventh
Tom Wingate
Charles Ware
Ed Hardin
S. B. Whittenburg
Fred Car
Joe Shields
Joe Jenkins
Jay Taylor
John McKnight
N. S. Griggs
Virgil Patterson
City Commission
FASTEETH Promises Secure Denture Wear for Comfort
An advertisement extols FASTEETH powder for dentures enabling wearers to eat talk laugh and sneeze without teeth loosening. It emphasizes a pleasant non gummy taste and alkaline formula that avoids nausea, claims to reduce plate odor, and notes availability at drug stores.
Russian Correspondents Begin Ten-Day Tour of American Zone Germany
Seven Russian newspaper and news agency correspondents accompanied by a Russian interpreter began a ten-day tour of the American zone of Germany. They will study industrial recovery, meet German government and union leaders, visit displaced persons camps, and tour the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
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Germany
Nuernberg
Frankfurt
Early Today
Curley Granted Catholic Last Rites in Hospital
Boston Mayor James M. Curley, facing a 6 to 18 month jail term for mail fraud, received the Catholic Church’s last rites at Cohasset Hospital where he has been confined since Friday. Dr. Edward H. Scott reported Curley restless and nervous, seeking a priest, and noted his diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Cohasset
Mass
U.P
Boston
James M. Curley
Cohasset Hospital
Edward H. Scott
Scott
Curley
US Supreme Court
Right Remedy Promised at 113 W. 7th St
A terse note emphasizes that proper medical care hinges on an effective druggist prescription. The ad highlights the address 113 West Seventh Street as the location to obtain the remedy.
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