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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
14
Eighteen miners hid behind a canvas barrier two thousand feet underground as an explosion rocked the Etna Coal and Coke mine. Ten companions suffocated from black damp after eight hours of struggle to escape. Two others fled the barricade and died from carbon monoxide fumes 400 feet away. Rescue parties freed survivors.
The Junior Business Women's Club met at the Capitol Hotel with a Mother-Daughter Banquet planned for Friday at 7 PM. Allyne Whelchel led a devotional on Success and members studied Personal Grooming with guests Sue McGee Connie Garrett and Jessie Street in attendance.
The Polk Street Methodist Women will hold a rummage sale Friday at 623 East Fourth Avenue. At the First Christian Church a bi monthly KUM DUBL Class gathering hosted by Joe Long and others featured Judge E L Pitts as teacher. The Pleasant Valley Christian Church Woman’s Council met for a covered dish luncheon and devotional led by Mrs. Crull with a session on church growth.
Tonight downtown USC hosts several programs at 8:30 including Companies A and D Victory Command dance at Auditorium. W. O. W. Hall hosts Poplar No.171 Woodmen Circle and Horace Mann Glee Club spring festival. Friday lists many club meetings and a family games party at Amarillo Country Club.
Elaine Ross eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs G R Ross Greenhaven Community will give her first piano recital on Mother's Day at 3 30 o clock in the afternoon at her parents home. Elaine is pupil of St Marys Academy. Her friends are invited to attend the program.
A ration era guide shows a 64 point weekly plan for meat butter and fats for a family of four. It lists allocations for butter margarine cheese shortening and specific meat buys including lamb stew round steak shoulder pork chops and lamb kidneys with a four day meat supply and two meatless days accompanied by eggs fish or leftovers. It includes Lamb Stew With Vegetables recipe and a sample 10 year old child’s daily menu aligned to Basic Seven nutrition guidelines.
Mesdames Sam Ratliff and Joe Benson hosted a lunch meeting of the San Jacinto Kiwani Anns at the Ratliff home 405 Sunset Terrace. Members voted to buy a bond and donate 6.50 to the American Legion cigarette fund. Attending were Mesdames Floyd Hissong Carl Clifft Roy Barnard Robin Allen George Kercher Kenneth Kohler Bill Beechler W N Rynders C C Cunningham B F Hasty I Hood F W Ansley L G Brady and Charles Copeland.
A lunch plan lists peanut butter sandwiches with carrot and apricot on enriched bread, orange milk soup or cocoa, and a dinner of meat loaf scalloped potatoes and slaw with buttered bread, apple sauce and cookies. Tomato soup uses potatoes onions cabbage and tomatoes simmered with butter and crackers.
Amarillo residents cut daily water use from 10 million to 7 million gallons following a rainfall described as a 3 million gallon impact on the city. City hall pumpage records show consumption remains higher than last year. The Twentieth Century Club will meet for a noon luncheon at the Aronson Tea Room to discuss plans for next year. Household tips advise soaking soiled powder puffs to restore fluffiness.
Amarillo mandats physical exams for all city employees with blood tests and donor typing. Fire department members were previously tested and typed as donors before the war.
A Texas Laundrymen's Association conference in Dallas announced seven day laundry service nationwide. Stuart W. Short of Galveston was elected president with Frank Patton of San Antonio as vice president and A D Bolm of Austin as vice president. Other officers named include Jim Bailey of Houston sergeant at arms and directors from Beaumont Abilene San Angelo Amarillo Houston Fort Worth Goose Creek Tyler Bryan Lubbock Waco and Dallas.
The Office of Price Administration authorized a one cent per loaf increase in bread prices. The move marks the first relaxation of President Roosevelt's Hold-the-Line policy, applying to Utah bakeries and those in Fargo North Dakota and Moorhead Minnesota.
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