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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1946
Page
8
The Amarillo Globe announces its founding date and post office filing in 1924. It lists leadership including Gene Howe and John McCarty, and prints publishing and subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, with prices for Amarillo delivery and mail orders.
Odie Minatra, rehabilitation director of the Texas prison system, began Jan. 21 in a program moving beyond punishment. It includes recreation, welfare, moral support, counseling, and job training to solve emotional problems and prepare inmates for honest livelihoods after release.
A News-Globe reflection on printing daily lists of servicemen from Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico plus west coast cities. The piece honors returning troops while noting 248 161 names not listed as KIAs or MIAs and recalls Pearl Harbor Okinawa and the war’s cost.
Herbert A. Nelson, executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, says financial grants to aid veterans would solve 90 percent of the problem if the government stops hampering housing and allows the industry to build homes.
A collection of statements from Robert M. Hutchins Herbert Hoover and Lord Halifax urging wartime restraint and focusing on peacetime uses of resources. They emphasize conserving wheat and fats, avoiding meat and sugar cuts, and linking hunger to unrest while advocating for a peaceful, prosperous world.
Quote from Engineering News-Record urges more profit opportunity, risk, and fair chance to break even for American industry.
The piece notes whispers in the Senate that Hoover’s world famine mission could be a survey task and hints at a broader relief overhaul. It mentions Herbert Lehman’s illness and resignation from UNRRA and connects relief policy shifts to Truman’s wheat order and bread quality concerns.
Dorothy Thompson argues that Europe, especially France, determines global fate as Soviet influence grows. She warns that a Soviet dominated Europe could force Britain into submission and end civilization, urging aid to France and long term credits to rebuild industry.
About twenty five Amarillo engineers will travel to Pampa next Monday for a Panhandle Chapter meeting of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. The 7 30 dinner meeting in the Pampa city banquet room will be hosted with G K Reading of Pampa as chapter president and George Thompson, Pampa city engineer, in charge of the program. Home demonstration women will serve a chicken supper.
Coast Guard announces open applications for the U S Coast Guard Academy. Exams for officer candidates will be held May 8 and 9 for civilians and military personnel aged 17 to 22. Eligible applicants need 15 high school units by June 1946 with specific math and science credits. Applications due by April 1 from the District Coast Guard Office in New Orleans.
James Templeton formerly of Amarillo and a News- Globe carrier boy has been released from the Army Air Force and is visiting in Amarillo. He plans to re-enter Hardin Simmons College as a junior engineering student. He spent nearly five years in the Army and was last assigned to the ordnance department of the Eighth Air Force.
The full opening of the Sub-Regional Office of the Veterans Administration in Amarillo is delayed due to the lack of a physician. Col Polk Lunquest says the medical department is central to operations and the office cannot function at full scale without a doctor. Applications may be sent to Lunquest in Muskogee or via the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
The piece argues Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith will negotiate in Moscow with a direct military approach. It notes Iran’s UN protest against Russia tests new diplomacy and reflects hope that Iran stands for independence and counters Soviet pressure on four freedoms.
A Polk Street professor laments the rise of so called smart men and urges a return to 100¢ country boys who are dependable plain spoken and trustworthy. He condemns slick talk and suggests people value honesty neighborliness and straightforward action over cleverness.
Puzzle clues list with partial entries across and down. The grid items include names like Bulgaria premier and Kimon, with many incomplete or garbled clues and assorted lengths.
West Texas State College Canyon and Amarillo College faculty members will headline a mass meeting of Negro citizens Thursday night. Sponsored by the NAACP and the Negro Business League the event at the Ben Davis USO Third and Monroe starts at 8. Music by Kathryn O Hines Lorainne Martin Sherwood Moore and the Johnson Chapel AME Choir. The origin of the word turnpike is noted as toll roads blocked by pikes turned aside.
The OPA appealed to housewives to delay canning sugar purchases until fruit is ready for preservation. Spare Stamp No. 9 for five pounds was validated on March 11, enabling zonal distribution. Housewives nationwide reportedly used stamps for general household use, risking disruption of sugar supply plans.
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