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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1944
Page
2
A Globe-News item notes the city block sale price of 48000 with a possible $1000 drop. Grady Camp is named. The piece cites fashion in French women, critiques American fit, and poses a reader question about postwar marriage trends. Several letters discuss love, cooking, schooling in love, and the impact of attire on behavior.
Washington report shows a net reduction of 23,768 civilian workers in the executive branch for August, bringing total paid employees to 3,088,008. War and Navy Departments account for the largest cuts, while the Post Office, Interior, and Veterans Affairs gain staff.
City thinly explains dog license fees after 300 licenses issued as registration opens this month. Deadline is October 31, after which unvaccinated dogs without tags may be taken up. Fees are two dollars for females and one dollar for males, justified by ordinance.
A Japanese prisoner of war was killed and five others injured when a rocket bomb smuggled into barracks at Camp McCoy in Sparta Wisconsin exploded during the night of October 16. Col. George M. MacMullin said the device was likely picked up by a work detail and declined to disclose further details or the bomb’s purpose.
A comparison notes that while beet sugar is chemically identical to cane sugar, it did not see commercial production until the 19th century, marking a shift in agricultural and industrial practices.
The Census Bureau reports 1.7 million unmarried men aged 20 to 34 and 4 million unmarried women in the same group, yielding 425 thousand women per man. A feminine majority exists overall, with 600,000 more women over 21 than men. War marriages trend shows decline until soldiers return. Regional ratios show West and small towns favor men, with Alaska extreme at 145.7 men per 100 women.
Service members across 48 states face ballot issues from wrong addresses and mismarked ballots to attempted tampering. Problems include censors inspecting ballots in Michigan, heatproof glue in New Hampshire mailings, and states like Wyoming and South Carolina denying or misallocating ballots. Legal questions and old laws complicate absentee voting for GIs nationwide.
Captain Tul ly Shelley, acting chief of staff to Admiral Harold Stark, said the Pacific war had progressed so fast that the U S Navy could not rely on sailors released from the European Theater. The remark underscored shifting manpower needs as operations accelerate across the Pacific.
Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for medicine. The Bern Radio said in a NBC recorded broadcast.
A $25 penalty is fixed for letting a dog stray across neighboring lots in London as home gardens become increasingly important.
Hogs salable total 3,000 active at mostly ceiling prices with good and choice 180-240 lbs at 14.50 and heavier weights and sows mostly 13.75. Cattle totals 7,000 salable 8,000 with calves 2,300/2,500. slaughter steers and beef cows steady to 25c higher on some grass grades. native fed steers 15.00 to 17.00 with loads near 17.00. cows and stock steers varied. yearlings 12.50 to 13.00. sheep 6,000 salable 7,000 with good and choice lambs around 14.00 and trucked-in at 12.50. Chicago hogs 12,500 fully steady at 14.75 for 150-240 lb. range.
Local Amarillo advertisement highlights Marie Earle Cosmetics and Herbert Drug The Prescription Drug Store offering beauty and pharmacy items with contact phone 2-3221 Oriented to readers seeking drugstore and cosmetics in one stop in Amarillo Texas
Ensign Arthur Mollenhauer, 21, of Santa Barbara, becomes Navy ace after shooting down five Japanese planes during a carrier-based fighter sweep off Formosa. Lt. C. E. Harris adds four more, raising his total to ten, as the battle claims multiple Japanese aircraft.
Col Frederick H Payne an assistant district chief of the Springfield Massachusetts ordnance district arrived in Amarillo yesterday He will MC the Army and Navy production award presentation to Pantex Ord nance Plant set for 3 20 PM Oct 20 at the plant Other arrivals include Rawson G Lizars president of Certain Feed Products Corp and John V Lizars director both of Chicago.
In a brisk market, cattle, calves, and fed livestock traded with gains on yearlings and grass cattle. Top weighty steers and feeders sold around 12.50 to 13.50, while sheep opened steady with choice native lambs at 14.00 to 14.25. Western range leanings showed about 6.10 for a 125 lb load.
In Dallas a sun warmed tar pit trapped a 9 year old boy who dropped his slingshot. His 12 year old brother tried to help and sank. An 11 year old neighbor and later an adult plant worker were pulled free with boards and a rope. Hospital care followed for two boys to remove tar residue.
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