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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1944
Page
2
Summary of ration stamp validity across categories. Processed foods Blue stamps A8 to K8 cover 10 points. L8 M8 N8 and Qs valid May 1 onward indefinitely. Meats and fats Book IV red stamps A8 to Q8 provide 17 points for two weeks. Sugar Book four stamps 30 and 81 cover five pounds indefinitely. Stamp 40 also valid for five pounds.
Instructions list shelf life for home canning through February 28, 1945 and indicate airplane stamp book three covers stamps 1 and 2 as good indefinitely. Gasoline coupons Southwest 11-A allow three gallons through June 21 with B-2 B-3 C-2 and C-3 coupons good for five gallons everywhere.
Amarillo Optimists heard Carl Knupp manager of English Field explain Airways radio control at the weekly luncheon in the Capitol Hotel. Paul Smith led an impressive initiation of John C. Sledge. Guests included Sadie Sadderis and Carl Moffett of Kansas City. Ora Mae Harvey from New York City, formerly Amarillo, is visiting Amarillo Dalhart and Shamrock. she is a newspaper reporter in New Jersey.
A simple hot meat and potato meal using Armour's Treet pork shoulder. One tin serves five to six, with diced Treet fried with potatoes onions green pepper and seasonings until golden. Serve hot or cold for a quick, hearty family dish.
A Wichita Falls Rotary spokesman comments on a column about brevity noting that cabbage seed pricing is described with 2,500 words in an Office of Price Administration notice, contrasting historical documents. The piece lampoons wordiness and highlights the long threshold for announced price cuts versus concise landmarks.
Dr. Frank O. Kreager, a former professor at Washington State College and the University of Louisiana, developed a dehydration method that preserves fresh fruit flavor in dried fruit. The process uses high initial heat after immersion in a sugar glucose solution, then gradual cooling, enabling tree ripened fruit to be processed and reducing waste from unusable produce.
Members of John B. Golding Post No 1475 VFW and the auxiliary host a get together at 8 30 tonight in ITOOF hall 312 1 2 East Fifth Avenue for 1944 members and friends. Games dancing and refreshments planned.
Lt Ralph P Neely and his wife stay with his parents Mr and Mrs R C Neely Sr at 1201 Van Buren Street He served almost a year in the Alaskan theater and has completed further training before active duty He worked in insurance and was president of the Oklahoma City Junior Chamber of Commerce before joining the service.
Six women were named as new Girl Scout Brownie leaders for troops serving girls aged 7 to 16. The leaders will be invested at a Leaders' Club luncheon Monday at Mrs. R. A. Burnett's home, 113 Sunset Terrace. The new leaders are Mrs. A. C. McGinley, Mrs. Gail S. Boss, Mrs. E. M. Broome, Mrs. Floyd Stocker, Mrs. E. B. Ousley and Mrs. O. R. Morris.
Traffic violation cases yielded more money for the corporation court than criminal cases. Sixteen motorists were fined 45 dollars each by Judge J A Kirkman, while the three criminal cases totaled 20 dollars. Also notes asbestos uses from ancient times to modern brake linings and building materials.
Rabbi Arthur Bluhm delivers the theme Man's Value at the Friday Sabbath service at Temple B'nai Israel this evening at six. The service is open to the public. Pvt. William B. Hess, stationed in North Africa with the Army Air Corps, has been overseas since last November. He is the son of O. J. Hess of 511 Madison Street and the former Mrs. Hess, Mrs. C. S. Roberts of 404 Pierce Street.
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