13 Oct 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1942
Page
1
A readers’ contribution batch catalogs hunting tales and quips from the field with in jokes about clubs in 1921 lions, big game trophies, and city novices. Interwoven are brief soap opera and Hollywood tidbits and stray war news items, plus light humor about Roy Rogers and Red Skelton.
Society notes and quotes on cinema stars, ads, and cultural quirks fill Jimmie Fidler’s Hollywood column. Items span movie gossip, racehorse lore, politics, and wartime humor with named figures like De Gaulle, Grew, Hoover, Roosevelt, Kirby, and Fidler, reflecting wartime mood and showbiz intrigue.
A reader seeks a white woman for general housework and child care with room and board and wages, for an elderly couple. Contact J. B. Herndon at 1305 N Harrison St. Also requests help finding a lost orchid wool bonnet for a little girl lost near Sixth Avenue and Fairmont Street, contact 7393.
Female puppy mix bulldog collie offered by Mrs Wilson at 732 N Cleveland St. Call 8395. Also a housekeeper wanted ages 25 to 40 for light work with room and board. Call 7174 or 2-3387. Coat lost Friday morning on Morning Side or McMasters bus. girl’s size 8.
Merrill Lynch data show at 1 P M the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 20 to 115.12 with utilities and rails showing mixed moves and a total stock sales figure of 688,710. Kansas City livestock report notes hogs salable 3,000 head, prices mostly 14.40 to 14.55 for 140-180 Ibs, cattle salable 11,000 with calves 2,500. beef steers active, other classes largely steady with modest shifts.
A man stole several bushels of green tomatoes from a 10 acre PTA Council garden for the Free Lunch Project. He posed as sent by the PTA and enlisted workers at the McDonald Water site to take only the largest produce. Other thefts from nearby gardens have been reported.
George Hulen Murphey labeled a conscientious objector was sentenced in U S Court to three years and six months in the reformatory after failing to report to his draft board. Judge James C Wilson also handed Horace Wells a five year penitentiary term for probation violation. The report notes market listings for Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado cattle and sheep, with ranges and prices for yearlings steers cows and lambs.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors may decide tomorrow noon on recommended later store hours to ease traffic. Transportation committee led by Jess Rogers will present proposals from merchants professionals and wholesalers. If approved the plan would begin November 1 with 10 A M openings to stagger peak bus and worker flows.
The cookie jar at the Service Men's Civic Center in the Amarillo Hotel is empty after a surge of soldiers visited yesterday. Amarillo women baked cookies for the troops who pass through, using sugar they were repaid for, and the treats were shared with soldiers departing on troop trains.
Students of Amarillo Public Schools complete the first six weeks of the 1942 43 school year this week with the standard six week tests.
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