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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1946
Page
2
The weather sketch describes a mild autumn with lingering warmth and frosty nights. A tribute laments Stanley Marsh as a generous Amarillo and Southwest contributor, while a warning against hunting law violations urges stricter enforcement and front page coverage for violators, especially near the Dumas lakes.
The State Game Department asks farmers to report deep lakes lasting a year or more for future stocking with catfish. Captain Jim Maggard will arrange stock by next spring, hinting at abundant fish if wet seasons persist. Also notes on women wearing rat hairstyles and public annoyance.
A humorous rant extols women abandoning ratty hairpieces as the road to cheerier lives. The speaker claims husbands, suitors, and widows would fare better if women stop wearing these unattractive rat coverings and embrace modern styles.
Denver is sending four times as many patients to the state mental hospital at Pueblo Colorado as it did ten years ago. Dr Franklin Ebsugh director of the hospital told Denverites not to worry saying they are in the best of mental health. He explained that the average lifespan in America has grown by years during the last three decades.
Two college youths charged with arson in the fir ing of the beta theta phi fraternity house at Westminster College campus waived preliminary hearings today in the justice of peace court of W. Pearl Garrett. Tom G. Campbell of Ironton Mo and Otto Grosse of Granite City Ill likely will be tried in the December term of Callaway county circuit court.
Denison, Oct. 29. Game Warden Eddie Laird warned duck hunters during the weekend wild fowl season opening on Lake Texoma that sea gulls are being shot. He said fines of 25 dollars apply and pledged tougher enforcement with no excuses.
Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres 67 a noted business statistician died of a heart attack at his home in Cleveland. He served as a vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co. He was internationally known in his field.
The Office of Price Administration removed ice price controls today, Oct 29, affecting natural and manufactured ice and icing services. The move lifts caps and allows market pricing to determine costs.
Lost dog notice for a black cocker spaniel named Lobo with tag 1300 and reward offered by Mrs Ralph Soper. Also tire and wheel sale and a puppy needing a home note from readers with contact at 1007 Western Ave.
Mrs T V Donald of 3205 Hughes requests help locating Mr and Mrs Harold Green. She provides a contact phone number 4831 and asks readers to respond with any information about their whereabouts.
Dear Tack readers seek an old-fashioned iron wash pot for sale. Contact Mrs. Byrd at 3048S Lincoln, phone 2 4561.
Two keys on a chain with a small knife found. One car key and one door key. Claimant can contact Judy at Silver Grill.
Classified snippet notes a coat left on a hedge at 300 South McMasters. A contact line for Mrs J A Goddard is included with phone 9697. Also a notice from Mrs June Higgins seeking a live-in housekeeping position in Brownfield for a 314 year old son with preferences for a small motherless or older couple.
A reader seeks a small furnished apartment for a war veteran couple who do not drink and offer good references. They request part time work and ask to be contacted at 2-2690, signed by Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Eslick, Gen. Del. Amarillo.
Elderly gentleman seeks an independent elderly lady to share a two room apartment. Must be easy to get along with and able to care for herself. Contact Mrs Mea at 307 S Arthur.
Betty Jo Martin reports a brown leather billfold lost on a Fast Amarillo bus between 5 and 6 PM on Wednesday. It contains over three dollars and valuable papers and pictures. Finder may keep the money. return papers and pictures. Call 26385 or mail to 812 N Roosevelt.
Cattle to 12,000 head with steady to mixed prices as good and choice steers and heifers trade slowly. Prices run from 22 to 27.50 for steers, 22 to 25.25 for top yearlings, cows 15 to 16.50, vealers 15.50 to 17.50, stockers 14.50 to 17.75. Hogs active with 170 lb plus at 24.75 to 25, top 25. Sheep, lambs steady to higher with Colorado lambs at 23.50 and natives around 23.50, New Mexicos 8.25, westerns 7.75.
Chicago markets show hogs at 24.00 to 24.50 per cwt with bulk sales at 24.50, sows 22.50 to 23, cattle steady to a dollar lower with fed steers around 36 for 720 lb, calves weaker, sheep steady with Idaho lambs around 23 to 24 and western lambs near 8.75 for slaughter. Financial funds liquidating at 1.9579 offering 2.14.
Warranty deeds record transfers for Clark Arnold Jinks to Georgia Williams and others with prices from 1 to 10 dollars. District Court lists several divorce actions between McCollum Meyers and Meyers, Berry and Berry, Feather and Feather. Marriage licenses issued to multiple couples including Watson Vaughn and Nase Risinger and others.
Corn Products Refining Co will spend 10 million dollars to build a starch and dextrose plant in the Texas Gulf Coast near Houston or Corpus Christi. The facility will grind 20 000 bushels daily for the 1948 maize crop and aims to refine crude oil later. Sayre says products will cost no more than similar corn products and credits relief from price ceilings for better operations. He anticipates strong fourth quarter profits but below September levels.
The Office of Price Administration reports the master decontrol list is ready for signature by Price Administrator Paul A Porter and could be issued Friday. It will remove controls on hundreds of items not affecting cost of living while keeping limits on remaining essentials. Ceilings were lifted on natural and unmanufactured ice, and clothing style restrictions on women and children were ended. OPA notes over 3,500 items decontrolled to Oct 15, with 44 percent of items no longer under control.
Mrs Stella George 33 died today after leaping five stories while carrying her 11 day old daughter Helen. Husband Samson 36 a waiter slept in their three room flat. They have another child Robert aged 3. Police say she could not sleep after returning from the hospital where the baby was born.
Police sent reinforcements to Sasnor in southeastern Bombay province after reports of up to 100 killed in communal riots. Scattered violence continued in Bombay itself with one dead and 27 wounded in the 24 hours ending at 11 A.M.
Mrs. O. D. Compton, 707 Hayden, remains unconscious after a Sunday night automobile collision 10 miles south of Canyon. She lies at Neblett Hospital with unchanged condition. five others were injured and treated but not admitted.
A New York October 29 dispatch reports Republicans unite for a landslide Dewey victory to boost 1948 presidential hopes. Mead trails in the state poll, with Dewey leading in upstate New York and a strong NYC showing predicted.
The United States issued a strongly worded note accusing Romania of intimidating and discriminating against opposition parties as it plans for the November 19 election. The note referenced Yalta Potsdam and Moscow declarations on free elections and conveyed formal concern. Britain delivered a similar note to the Romanian foreign ministry at the same time.
An open safety pin swallowed by nine week old Kathleen Molay was removed in a operation at Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago. The pin was taken from her right bronchial tube and the infant resting easily after the procedure. The baby was brought to the hospital by Mr and Mrs Paul Molay from Wilmington California.
The 36th Division received the Croix de Guerre with palm for its Vosges breakthrough in 1944. Col. Carl L. Phinney of Dallas, president of the division association, announced the French citation issued by President Georges Bidault.
Potter County sheriff's deputies report three arrests, two juveniles, closing five burglaries and seven car thefts in Friona Tulsa Canyon Clovis NM and Amarillo. Two shotguns and a camera recovered near a Canyon culvert. other stolen items remain unrecovered. Suspects held in county jail to be transferred to the county with most offenses.
Potter County grand jurors met this morning and at noon returned no indictments. Laurence Boy is charged with murder in connection with the shooting of Amarillo fireman C. W. Weatherby and is held without bond. The globe notes its surface is 71 percent oceans and 29 percent land.
Hezzeki Allen, a Black man, appeared in 47th District Court and pleaded not guilty to murder in his wife’s August shooting. He filed a motion for a suspended sentence if convicted. Testimony began after the noon recess and jurors were seated. a prior case left him acquitted of assault with intent to murder regarding James Stewart’s wounding.
Guy W. Martin, charged with forgery, has waived extradition and will be returned from Reno, Nevada immediately. Sheriff Adams announced this morning. Deputy Lem Pounds will depart for Reno tomorrow. Martin was free on bond and bond signers requested relief of responsibility.
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