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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1943
Page
2
The text predicts unsettled weather starting tomorrow with a strong chance of widespread rains across the high plains, the best in weeks. It notes optimism for relief and references prior rain forecasts and regional implications for Amarillo and Texas Panhandle.
A reader notes war plant mothers need more park your child style day care as a solution. The piece adds anecdotes on worker safety, a laundress working after childbirth, and various wartime curiosities fromPenicillin costs to PM tabloid finances.
Lt. Edwards home briefly as his bulldog Pvt Buddy, sent to California for his bomber crew, is expected to arrive today. Family checks with the express company while Buddy awaits rest and then will join Lt. Edwards at the bomber base with mask and parachute ready.
Roscoe Anstead, former Amarillo fireman wounded at Kaserne Pass, returns home and recounts Arab poverty in Africa. He describes improvised pants from barracks bags and notes how a single cigarette elevates a man socially while multiple gifts are quickly forgotten.
Two Amarilloans receive Army promotions in a War Department release. Wesley Eugene Williams rises from first lieutenant to captain in the infantry and is the son of Mrs. Ollie Williams of 1108 Fillmore Street. William Horace Maynard is promoted to first lieutenant and is serving on maneuvers in Louisiana with the infantry. his wife residence is 108 Florida Street.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to repeal the Chinese exclusion law and grant citizenship to Chinese residents. He framed the measure as essential to winning the war and securing peace. Count Carlo Sforza met with John G. Winant in London en route to Italy after discussions with Anthony Eden.
Hollywood columnist Jimmie Fidler criticizes celebrity culture and gossip in a roundabout column. He cites fan-magazine love stories, divorce court potential scandals, and reports on stars like Anita Louise Loretta Young Sonny Tufts and Ann Sheridan. He notes the paradox of star sanctimony and public scandal amid wartime constraints.
Lt. Horace Smith of the Air Transport Command was sidelined by a mosquito bite on the forehead that caused his eyes to swell and skin to peel. Son of Amarillo residents, he trained as an aerial navigator and earned his wings at Hondo Army Air Field. He may return to Florida duties soon unless sick leave is extended.
The weather service expects a possible drizzle tonight with light moisture. Wind details are unclear though a passerby briefly displaced his hat by Fillmore Street. Warmer and windy today with little temp change. high 76 Sunday, low 47 this morning.
Pantex plant hired 68 additional workers over the weekend 37 Saturday and 31 Sunday to boost production while still needing 284 more in operations stores and maintenance. Amarillo unemployment offices remain swamped with applicants for jobs at Pantex zinc smelters railroads and Amarillo Army Air Field.
Two Rock Island freight trains collided between Alanreed and McLean this afternoon between 1 and 2 o'clock. Both trains were traveling east and one plowed into the rear of the other. Local officials did not know the extent of damage at press time.
Principal R. B. Norman reports ten cases of empty pop bottles were stolen at Friday night’s football game. The loss will be charged to the student activity fund. he notes bottles are normally broken and losses run about ten cases, but fans did not break them this time.
Registration for Ration Book No 4 will be held in Potter County from October 21 to 23. Registration takes place at Amarillo elementary and rural schools while Central and Sam Houston Junior High and the Senior High are excluded. Teachers conduct hours 1 to 5 PM October 21 and 9 AM to 5 PM on the 22nd and 23rd. Chairman C E Weymouth expects about 70 000 county registrants and a national total near 120 million. The book will cover about two years.
In an Amarillo display by Long-Bell Lumber Company at 412 West Third Avenue, safety pins scarce since prewar days are offered to ladies in a traffic sale. Pins cost eight cents a dozen with a limit of one dozen per customer.
Dr and Mrs F E Clements of Santa Barbara California, plant environment experts, tour the Amarillo Experiment Station near Bushland to review progress on range grass experiments as station manager Dr J Whitfield hosts the visit.
Camp Adair Oregon April 20 1945 A soldier interviewed by Bob Ruskauff managing editor of the Camp Adair Sentry offers three definitions of furlough Furlough a wonderful thing you only begin to appreciate during the last hours Army camp what makes a sure laugh seem old twenty minutes after you return to the post Friends three fourths of the swell people you did not get to see while on furlough
The House voted to allow all taxpayers to use post war credits against the victory tax. Credits range from 25 percent for single filers to 40 percent for married couples.
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