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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1948
Page
14
The notice lists subscription prices for farrier mail or agent delivery. One year costs 1080, six months 540, two months a monthly plan of 1? The text mentions Globe and News with varying terms and prices, indicating advance payments for subscriptions in Puya bie and surrounding areas.
A reflective editorial urges starting anew after a turbulent election cycle. It argues for focusing on national welfare over party bickering, notes the potential for cross party majorities, and calls for constructive leadership as the country moves forward.
A pair of reader letters from Amarillo recounts loss and regret over a son lost to war and a world of changing times. One writer laments not raising his son, while another recalls bowlegged cowboy lore, riding gear, and old friends from Haskell to Nevada, ending with humorous anecdotes.
A George M. Adams Service letter questions why some highly paid Hollywood writers become Communists. It argues writers see art as a noble duty, while studios are commercial. The piece suggests ego and self-hate drive such shifts, blaming capitalists and portraying a rich Commie as an adult infant trying to eat his cake and have it too.
Paul Gallico riffs on the 1948 election mood and the honeymoon to come for the new administration. The piece lampoons pollsters, press relations, and the shift from triumph to realism as the year unfolds. Australia Cuts Plane Gas Use discusses a Canberra order limiting aviation gasoline to 2,000,000 gallons monthly for domestic airlines to bolster defense stocks.
Dorothy Thompson argues that lasting peace rests on a systemic power layout where all nations, including victors and vanquished, have a stake in preserving it. She cites Vienna and Versailles as contrasts, warns that both US and USSR threaten global security, and says real progress requires agreement on shared security goals and non provocative means.
A fragmentary column highlights Carolyn Sue Jones, an 18 year old Amarillo girl studying acting for radio and stage, heading for a second year at Pasadena Playhouse. It mentions Dr. Guy Owens and Harvard, a Killough and Davies anecdote, radio quips about travel and sundaes, a nursery tale, and a political jab about Texas electability and guitar singing.
A compact crossword list of horizontal and vertical clues covering mystery authority producer of dramas vegetables channels slaves skins lariats atmosphere fodder vats garments insults and more with related terms from flat boats to musical terms and time abbreviations.
The piece advises teens to protect privacy during family earshot by being brief and impersonal on calls. It warns against personal remarks and jokes that embarrass others and suggests callers may pause or call back if listeners intrude. It urges staying warm and direct to convey civility despite listening relatives.
Ghouls plunder German royal graves in Berlin near the imperial castle desecrating the old Garrison church. Coffin covers were stolen for firewood from vaults still holding about 200 coffins after the church was ruined in the war.
The Earl of Portsmouth, a prominent British agriculturalist, has purchased a 10 000 acre estate in Kenya and plans to divide his time between Africa and England. In South Africa whale meat is used in concentrated form to treat tuberculosis and miners phthisis according to Cape Town reports.
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