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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
6
About 12 000 to 14 000 animals were shipped nationwide and from Canada. The eight day exposition drew over 400 000 attendees, a new high. Horse drawn vehicles flood in due to gasoline shortage prompting government discouragement of further shipments.
The Khiva Temple 10 of Amarillo announces the first full form ceremonial since R Hester becomes potentate. Fred Galle invites nobles and new Shriners to attend May 21 with a staged program at the Amarillo Hotel and City Auditorium. The event includes a Camel Herders round-up and a 18-stunt second section with a ceremonial dance through midnight.
Beginning May 1 the Borden Company marks its 85th anniversary with a bold advertising push led by G S Vineyard manager of the Borden Milk and Ice Cream plant. He says the campaign is the dealers party and aims to boost sales of dairy items while highlighting milk and cream as key in household shopping. In Austin the state reports a April deficit and cash on deposit across 116 funds totaling 75.3 million. Motion picture attendance reaches a historic peak.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia for the first time did not mention the Philippines in his routine message. He issued a special note on Corregidor’s surrender, stating it has "sounded its own story" and “scrolled its own epitaph” as it faced the enemy.
Santa Fe plans to modernize with a watering trough on the main plaza while Belo Horizonte opens a school for healthy children of lepers built by the Society for Protection of Lepers and Defense Against Leprosy with government support.
Chicago dispatch reports cattle producers sharply cut shipments to major markets after the Office of Price Administration set beef ceilings. Prices slid 25 cents to 1 dollar per hundredweight, then fell 50 cents, as mediocrity filled a market once led by choice cattle. Officials note prices to growers and to consumers will likely hover near ceiling levels unless demand shifts.
Washington May 7. Japanese forces after the fall of Corregidor and Bataan are expected to salvage scattered resistance in the southern Philippine Islands and push toward America's South Pacific supply route. They may target New Zealand and Northern Australia with bases to threaten air and sea lines.
Samuel Hayward visited his sugar rationing board twice in May. He first sought the allotment for his newborn daughter and admitted no family member could think of a name. After a hospital side trip and a quick council with his wife they chose Patricia Ann and he admitted the nickname Sugar.
Pattern 4096 available in misses sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20. Size 16 requires 3 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send fifteen cents plus one cent mailing to Anne Adams pattern book announce summer 1942 patterns for dual life wardrobe plans and assorted wear. Send orders to Amarillo Globe Pattern Dept 243 West 17th St New York NY.
Park ceilings were established in March. The changes set new price caps and timeline for implementation, aligning ceilings across sectors. The note mentions targeted dates and involved entities but lacks detailed context.
The International Livestock Exposition in Chicago will not be held this year due to wartime constraints. Directors cited anticipated transportation difficulties as the main reason for postponing the 1942 show after last year’s event.
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