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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1946
Page
2
Market indices show modest changes with Dow Jones preliminaries slightly down and utilities up. Kansas City livestock report lists cattle, calves, hogs and sheep with price ranges and shifts, noting feeder cattle and slaughter grades, with bids around 11 to 25 dollars for various categories.
Chicago livestock prices show hog market slow with declines around 25 cents while bulk sales edge up to 25.25 per cwt for 180 to 300 lb hogs. Cattle and calves remain active with steers strong and cows steady to 25 cents higher. vealers steady. Sheep trade slow with lambs about 25 cents lower and several small lots offered. Financial notes report a liquidating fund at 1.9466 with an offer of 2.13.
A list of warranty deeds transferring Lots in Country Club Terrace John Dees and others to multiple buyers including Lakeview Mirror and Hol land additions. Also titles to Crowdus and Starkey Crowdus and Starkey and East Amarillo parcels. Marriage licenses issued for Allen Hearon Keeling Martin Glasgow Stabe Hodges Ravrey Pittman.
The United States Employment Service will be turned back to the states tonight after a wartime, wartime and peacetime operation. Governors had loaned their offices after Pearl Harbor, and Congress compromised on extending federal control beyond Roosevelt’s request, with a plan that shifts authority to state governments.
A Amarillo realtors spokesman says landlords are split on rent decontrol. He cites that real estate handles only 10 percent of apartments and fears being labeled strikers against customers. Mrs. A C West promotes absolute decontrol and says a meeting will be announced soon as support pours in.
Police arrested a youth within an hour of a 9:30 a.m. report of a stolen car. A highway patrolman spotted the vehicle in the 400 block of North Taylor. two youths fled as officers approached. The car belonged to A. A. Phillips of 3601 Taylor and was stolen at Eighth and Polk.
Four cars of an Amarillo bound Santa Fe freight and passenger train derailed in Boise City Oklahoma yards about 4 this morning. No injuries among crew or passengers. Cause unknown to Amarillo Santa Fe officers. Investigation begun. Derailed cars cut off from the train and moved toward Amarillo this afternoon. Western Division crew in charge. Panhandle division men assume control.
Leaflets pasted on walls in Jerusalem warned Arabs and Jews to avoid Palestine railways. Claimed by Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Jewish underground, they warned that passenger, freight, and troop trains could be blown up by mines amid heightened track security and handcar escorted locomotives.
London November 15. The Labour government agreed to a full dress debate in the House of Commons on Ernest Bevin's foreign policy amid left wing rebel pressure. The debate will be held Monday on whether policy threatens war between the United States and Russia.
Ruby L. Fields of Texarkana tried to mail a letter and pulled a fire alarm lever by mistake. Five fire trucks and two police cars responded to the box in the Washington area yesterday.
Seventy five delegates led by Roy Baker from Sherman walk out of the Young Democrats of Texas convention in Houston. The rump session arose from a dispute over seating and a rule limiting voting strength of recently chartered clubs. The executive committee had recommended restricting votes to three for clubs charted since Oct 6, a move Baker opposed in a 256 to 80 roll call.
AFL International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers reports signing wage and union representation agreements with Willborn Bros Co tank manufacturers. Nine of nineteen workers receive raises through re classification. an Oct 16 election chose boiler makers as bargaining representatives by 14 to 6. A third election is requested for Amarillo Iron Works workers. Local 531 in Lubbock oversees talks. an Amarillo boiler makers local is planned.
In Honolulu on November 15, the sugar strike faced a near settlement as the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association agreed to add 10.5 million dollars yearly to employee pay. The ILWA and 33 plantations must ratify this deal, which would return about 25,000 idle workers to their jobs after 75 days on strike.
Chiang Kai-shek called the national assembly into session in Nanking as peace hopes falter. Comrade Chou En-Lai warned that the government unilateral decision to assemble would spark civil warfare in North China.
Brownwood Texas, Nov 15 John A Tomlie 64 of Brownwood was missing over 24 hours and found in a slough bottom by 16 Boy Scouts aiding police. He was in fair condition and suffering exposure and memory loss.
Fifth in a series of talks between Phillips Petroleum officials and AFL International Union of Operating Engineers spokesmen continued in Borger. The union plans a strike vote next Monday and Tuesday as 2,500 plant workers press for wage and security bargaining with the company. Joe Rigdon said talks would proceed despite the vote.
Final rites for Mrs. Ola B. Hamill widow of A. W. Hamill Canyon businessman were held at 3 p m in the First Methodist Church Canyon Rev Hubert Thomson officiated She died Wednesday at her daughter’s Kingsville home where she had lived three years She had lived in Canyon since 1920 Mr Hamill died in 1928 A sister Mrs C O Keiser of Amarillo survived by two sons and a daughter Burial was in Dreamland Cemetery under Griggs Warren Funeral Home of Canyon
The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs board urged legislation to raise state ratings in public welfare education literary work public health and public safety. They named Houston host city for the golden jubilee meeting in May 1997 after Austin hotels could not accommodate expected visitors.
Texas deer hunters complained about warm muggy conditions, hoping for dryer cooler weather the next day when the season opens. Reports to the game fish and oyster department said much of the deer country was overcast with light rain.
Pete Stewart, treated at a local hospital for a scalp wound, said he borrowed his son's bow and arrow and shot upward. He recalled the quote while describing the incident in Vincennes Indiana.
A Oak Park suburb veterans group forms with 100 founders who reject national veteran ties They will focus on local issues and avoid military uniforms or ritual parades.
Western Airlines pilot Max Kail reports sighting what he believes is the missing Western Airliner near Lebec on the ridge route. He saw the tail section and found no signs of life as the extended search continues for the plane with 11 aboard that vanished near Lockheed Air Terminal after receiving permission to land.
France’s passenger car production is rising monthly while citizens expect slim chances to buy. The Ministry spokesman says output could double in 1947 with 80 percent earmarked for export to bolster foreign exchange. By year end target 3000 cars monthly. next year 4000. Noah used pitch in building his ark.
Poplarville Mississippi November 15 Senator Theodore G Bilbo a normally vocal Democrat offered a ten word statement on Washington news that his Senate seat may be challenged I have done no wrong and have nothing to say Bilbo remarked.
Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia told University of Texas students that the Democratic party must alter its tactics to have influence in the presidential election. He warned against compromising with reaction and said without change there may be no point in voting in 1948. He also predicted the South would win freight rate discrimination cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A press ad notes A L Biggs as unit manager at 711 Fisk Building with phone contact 8811 for Sure Imsurance products and services.
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