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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1943
Page
2
The highway patrol warns that many drivers licenses begin expiring this month. Check yours on the green paper for the issue date and two year expiration. To renew, obtain a form, attach the renewal stub from the current license, send 50 cents, and mail to Austin. If the stub is missing, you must renew after a patrol examination.
Percy Grainger the Australian American pianist arrives tomorrow for a three concert series starting with a formal show at West Texas State College Canyon. He and violinist Robert Louis Barron will perform Cesar Franck Sonata in A Major in all three programs.
Frank E. Hobgood appointed Amarillo area rent control director succeeding Earl W. Heath who returns to Dallas. Heath notes a hot summer in Amarillo while staff report heavy rental activity and many properties rented for first time with ceilings unmet. The Amarillo office covers eight counties Potter Randall Childress Dallam Hansford Hartley Moore and Sherman.
Chicago and Kansas City livestock markets Oct 4 show hogs 8,000 head with prices mostly $14.75 for large barrows and gilts, cattle and calves mixed with steers and yearlings steady to weak, veal steady, and sheep slow. Financial notes list INDUSTRIA FUND liquidation at $1.94 offered.
Rumors swirl over who will replace Associate Justice A J Folley on the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo as he moves to the Texas Supreme Court. Gov Coke Stevenson may announce the appointment during his Amarillo appearance October 14 for Service Men Mother Day. Potential nominees include Joe Dooley and F H McCiegor of Amarillo and Judge W E F Gee of Potter County with other Panhandle judges also favored.
Sgt. Pete Hayhurst of Camp Pine Dale California will lead a parade scene in This Is the Army to be shown in Amarillo during the Service Mother's Day celebration on October 14. His parents J J Hayhurst and seven sisters plan to attend the Paramount Theater premiere with his brother and twin sister among the attendees. He worked at Pantex before enlisting a year ago and is 21 years old.
The city hall corporation court collected 885 in fines over the weekend from individuals arrested by police. Of that total 191 was paid by 46 persons arrested on traffic charges.
Allied and Axis forces clash across the Balkans Aegean and Caucasus as British and American air offensives target Germany Kassel and Frankfurt. Soviet troops near Mogilev advance while Red Army pushes to cross the Dnieper amid heavy rains and German resistance.
Transfer Park Police in Amarillo take on traffic control at all city schools. Officers who patrolled city parks this summer are reassigned to each school with two officers near Polk Street's Senior High and one officer at each remaining campus.
Report notes over 26 million cows across more than 6 million farms in the United States, highlighting scale of livestock population and distribution.
Prowlers roamed Amarillo over the weekend taking a police officer’s pistol and badges, gas ration books, and about $30 from a mail room worker and others. A wrist watch vanished from Capt. Watson’s room while he bathed. A nearby resident reported $14 and a pint of whiskey were taken from an unlocked home.
Ed Doud of Amarillo travels with the Santa Fe to New York noting Chicago resembles Dallas with more of it and sailors about. He shares train-life anecdotes, encounters officers and soldiers, and mentions headlines, costs, and travel delays en route to Pennsylvania Station rather than Grand Central.
Discussion suggests Bulgaria's patriotic front manifesto urges breaking with Germany to join Allied cause, while Istanbul suspects Soviet inspiration. The piece notes Moscow may not exclude Britain and the US from Balkan affairs, complicating the three power conference and possible Soviet air base concessions against Japan. It also references a Cuban sugar cane anecdote and notes supply shortages on the battlefield.
Amarillo Safety Council proposes relocating downtown bus stops from San Jacinto to ease congestion on Polk Street. City manager A P Hancock traffic captain H H Thomas and bus line attorney W W Gibson attend a joint meeting at Blackburn-Shaw parish hall at 8. Proposal would have east bound buses loading north of Woolworth's at Sixth Avenue and Polk, then route east to Taylor Street south to Seventh Avenue for return.
The Etruscan line is described as a mountainous backbone spanning the peninsula from Spezia to Rimini. It is deemed far more defensible than the Po line and is expected to be held by Hitler with at least 20 divisions. Early operations will reveal the preliminary nature of the current actions as the front converges in the north.
State and county tax notices go in the mail tomorrow. Taxpayers may begin paying on October 1. The tax office failed to bind the large roll in time, delaying notices. Discounts of 3 percent apply for prompt payment this month.
WAVES on leave before reporting for active Navy duty will speak tonight on KGNC at 9. Yeoman Doris Campbell will question Miss Dena Beth Gilbert Martha McGee and Helen Stocker during a 15 minute program. Enlisted WAVE Evelyn Yates awaiting training will also participate asking about boot camp.
The John Robert Powers models attraction "Beauty Through the Ages" scheduled for Oct 19 matinee and night at Amarillo High School has been postponed due to illness in the cast. The tour will resume later per a telegram from National Concert and Artists Corporation of New York, the booking agent for the act.
Hanson Post American Legion announces a noon executive board meeting at the Capitol Hotel tomorrow with officials urging all Legionnaires and Auxiliary members to attend. A Legion meeting follows tomorrow night at Legion Home to address important details.
U S Navy Secretary Frank Knox arrived in Recife Brazil after traveling from Africa. The stop marks a diplomatic visit amid wartime relations with Brazil and the Allied war effort in South America.
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