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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1947
Page
2
A Des Moines Tribune Register note recounts an Iowa couple after 25 years of marriage extended stay in Texas returning home with their first baby. The column blends light humor with local sports and society items from the era.
Calves and mixed yearlings show steady to weak trends with beef steer loads up in choice. Good and mostly choice 1 192 lb loads fetch 25.00 to 25.75 with other classes steady. Hogs total 1500 slow and uneven, top at 24.40. sheep and lambs slow with various lots and price spreads noted across weights and grades.
A reader derides psychiatry as amateurish and unnecessary while urging the public to ignore the field. The writer jokes that surgeons and psychologists clutter waiting rooms and suggests drastic remedies for fashionable psychiatric treatment. An anecdote about Winchell Edgar Mowrer in Albania follows.
The piece notes Sen Pappy O Daniel as a has been and links his reaction to FDR's death to a political misstep. It also mentions a range of topics from Middle East conflict to Irish volunteers in Palestine, a dive in mystery novels, Ford stock history, and a casual sports mood about home runs tonight.
President Truman, on his 63rd birthday, expressed confidence that a lasting peace will be achieved and that the United Nations will play a vital role. He reaffirmed his unchanged outlook and said he will withdraw envoy Myron C. Taylor to the Vatican once peace is consummated, noting peace is not yet completed.
Merrill Lynch computed closing stock averages show declines with notable losses in several key figures. The bulletin lists drops in major indices and notes total sales activity around 670,000 shares.
A caregiver reveals desire to keep children at home while expressing commitment to guardianship for two young daughters. The note continues on page 3.
Chicago markets show hogs uneven with lower prices for most weights while cattle and calves trend higher. Slaughter cattle and yearlings rise, vealers hold firm, sheep market slow with shorn lambs around steady and light demand persists. A small financial note lists Liquidating fund offerings at $2.04.
Warranty deeds transfer Lots 4 and 5, Block 32 in Bivins Estates and other parcels. District Court lists divorces for Garrett and Little and a marriage license pairings for Ogle Ashurn and Rodgers Walker.
Austin May 8 House tax forces choose not to press a showdown on holding the legislature in session until Gov Beauford H Jester disposes of all appropriations measures A resolution to this effect was debated as the period expired The House then refused to extend and moved to calendar Senate bills Advocates say they will likely take it up again next week Both houses trimmed their overloaded calendars adjourning for the weekend to let conference committees work on money bills The House appropriations committee cut about 2 5 million from the 43 145 177 departmental appropriation measure without further salary cuts.
The Supreme Court rejected two last minute appeals to halt Willy Francis's execution, ruling the action without prejudice. Attorneys may press grave new allegations in Louisiana courts claiming witnesses were intoxicated during the first execution attempt.
Robert May testified that two $1,000 checks cashed at the capitol in 1944 were political contributions. The government says A J May received proceeds for interceding with Army authorities for favoring Freeman and Feldman. Co defendants include Murray Garsson Henry Garsson and Freeman in a $78 million munitions case.
More than 175 grain dealers, country elevator operators, county agents and farmers studied at Tri State Fairgrounds for the Old Time Grain Grading School. The event closed the grain grading short course run by the Amarillo Grain Exchange, which began Monday and ended yesterday.
A member of a Holdenville law firm serving in the Senate was involved in handling a property settlement for Scott's divorced wife, linking political and legal spheres and prompting scrutiny of professional conflicts.
Gov Beauford Jester said he would be absent from Gregory gymnasium May 17 when Henry Wallace speaks there. Jester declined to comment further on the record.
Witnesses conflicted as a duel between Anglin and Scott escalated in the chamber. Scott believed Anglin fired first though the senator’s pistol was not discharged. Both men accused the other of trying to kill him amid a hometown feud.
Officials in Jerusalem reported a telephone warning that a public information building in Tel Aviv had been mined and ordered an immediate evacuation of the all-Jewish city facility.
Tin served a two day term in jail after pleading guilty to speeding 55 miles an hour on a boulevard last April 26. Municipal Judge Joseph Call sentenced him yesterday.
Film and radio singer Tony Mar was jailed in West Los Angeles on May 8 amid undisclosed charges. Police did not immediately release further details.
A list of wind types from different regions includes Bora in the Adriatic area Chinook in North America Foehn in the Alps Mistral in southern France Simoom in deserts and Sirocco from North Africa to Europe.
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