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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1946
Page
10
The government will enter the nylon stocking business, signing an agreement to manufacture machinery for full fashioned stockings. Eight hundred workers will start on a 4 million dollar order at an ordnance plant in Nottingham. The move is seen as a stimulus to trade and postwar export efforts.
In Boston Faneuil Hall market district the historic Durgin Park restaurant dating to 1875 posted a sign claiming it was "Established before you were born" as a wry remark to newcomers. The Want Ads note adds a playful tease about longevity.
Republicans face a tall task to win big city votes to claim the House, with 1944 data showing Roosevelt sweeping 83 of 91 cities over 100,000 population and Democrats dominating New England and the Pacific Coast. Negro voters are noted as a potential power broker in urban districts. In Los Angeles, USC veterans favored classical music over swing on a campus radio survey for KUSC.
Twenty six states and Hawaii will match federal funds to feed millions of needy school children under a new 75 million dollar act. States cover half this year with the federal share dropping to one-fifth by 1951, a shift from prior full federal financing.
Claude M. Harvey, 45, failed to convince a judge he would refrain from armed robbery after a half hour display of tricks and dice rolling. The court convicted him of robbing a vegetable peddler of $18, deeming the tricks remarkable but not credible.
Pullman Company officials express sympathy for housewives suffering the wash board blues. The company handled 216 782 000 pieces of linen during the last year.
Washington U P reports the National Bureau of Standards uses a four room unoccupied bungalow heated by various systems to study efficient heating for small homes. The 1939 building hosts 150 measuring stations to test baseboard hot water, floor furnaces, space heaters, warm air furnaces and other methods while outside temps are controlled.
In Brockton, Peter A. Lynch and a Milford neighbor, once promised to wed, reunited after 40 years. Both widowed, they met again at a July party and married. The coincidence of enduring life paths culminates in a remarriage decades later. In Columbus, Clara Skipper, 83, weaves about three rugs weekly for 30 years on a single iron loom.
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