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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1950
Page
2
HAL BOYLE reflects on how infantry casualties lose personal identity. Dog tags and wallets reveal scant clues. pockets hold tokens and photos. A captain preserves Lieutenant Blond’s notebook, showing a meticulous, joking youth whose final entry vows learning beyond survival.
Detroit dispatch notes auto price rises likely as wage boosts reach nearly 800,000 workers and steel and non ferrous metals climb. Producers warn price gains may follow wage gains if costs outpace productivity, with GM denying immediate hikes while Ford signals potential impact.
Residents in the Netherlands can now place a three minute call to Northern Rhodesia via the se service, with the cost approximately ...
Commercial artist James D. Davis of Los Angeles accuses his wife Ruth Hays of cruelty in a divorce suit. He claims their 17 year old son James M. was urged to torture pets and to burn his father with lighted matches while Davis slept. The couple married in Oklahoma City on Oct 11 1933 and separated on Aug 17. Mrs Hays also has a pending divorce suit.
Ecuador introduces its first dial telephones in the northern section of Quito, the capital, marking a new era of automated local calling for residents and businesses in the area.
Washington, Sept. 12. Civil defense plans call for scattering federal offices to multiple centers 20 to 30 miles from the capital to protect against a nuclear strike. President Truman seeks 139.8 million dollars to build four centers and expand emergency facilities, with potential total costs around 500 million dollars. Congress debates funding as committees delay action.
Santa Fe System carloadings for the week ending Saturday totaled 20 639, up from 18 327 in the same week of 1949. Cars received from connections reached 12 119, compared with 9 686 previously. Total cars moved were 32 758, versus 28 013 in 1949, and the system handled 36 573 cars in the preceding week of the current year.
Australian researchers say centuries old theories about how rain forms are unreliable. The team analyzed atmospheric processes and found no simple mechanism that fully explains rainfall amounts, urging revised models and further study.
A collection of small ads and notices: a colored girl seeks day work at 75 cents an hour and evening Monday to Wednesday. request for a cheap used play pen. offer to give away a three month old fox terrier mix puppy with dog house. shoe trade for Friedman Shelby boys shoes size 3% to trade. a Girl Scout dress size 10 for sale. a green ladies coat size 16 and a girl’s legging suit size 2 to sell or swap. reader seeks sewing work and child dresses. contact numbers included.
Archbishops Geoffrey Fisher of Canterbury told the Canterbury synod that the Communist government in China is bringing a release from long ignored social evils. He described atheistic and imperialistic Communism as a threat yet noted in the Far East it may be seen as a liberation, while urging a balanced response beyond denunciation.
A Los Angeles man Maurice Meyenberg sues his wife Marcella Meyenberg the lodge queen and Theodore Baker the lodge king for an alleged secret affair begun after both were elected to royal posts in the Santa Monica lodge. Meyenberg’s wife Muriel Baker’s wife also filed for divorce.
Clifford Davis city personnel director has been invited to lead a discussion panel at the annual convention of the City Personnel and Civil Service Officials of Texas in San Antonio in October. He will reply to the welcome address and will chair a session on examination and employment of firemen and policemen.
In Tokyo on September 12 the Philippines delegation assumed the rotating chairmanship of the United Nations commission on Korea. Maximino Bueno, the Philippines alternate delegate, will assume at the next meeting, with Dr Bernabe Africa, chief Philippines delegate, taking over upon his Manila return. India previously held the chair.
Tokyo weather observers forecast a typhoon will avoid Tokyo as it tracks across western Honshu Wednesday. The storm is expected to skirt Kyushu’s eastern coast, cross western Honshu and dissipate over the Sea of Japan by Thursday.
A British housewife urged an update to household ware by branding a century old pan with a funnel at the center. The design feature fills with water to prevent milk from boiling over, showcasing practical innovation and consumer demand.
Edwin J. Dingle, once near death in Tibet, claims a mystic taught him a transformative power. He reports restored health, wealth, and global recognition and offers a 9,000 word treatise for free to Western readers via The Institute of Mentalphysics in Los Angeles, urging prompt requests as copies are limited.
UPI report by H. D. Quigg mocks Seoul City Sue radio broadcasts to U S troops in Korea. He says her monotone, scripted style and dull entertainment fail to sway GIs accustomed to top entertainers. He urges a disc jockey format instead.
Portland based report shows Douglas fir shipments in first half of 1950 reaching an all time peak. The West Coast lumbermen’s survey lists pecan at 5 313 385 000 board feet in the period.
SAYRE Pa Three patients with mumps have responded to aureomycin, two women showing definite improvement 24 hours after treatment and another patient improving 48 hours after therapy began.
SIUDAD TRUJILLO This year's sugar crop in the Dominican Republic is expected to total a bit over 500,000 short tons and bring about 43 million dollars, up from 38,354,634 last year. The price may average four and a half cents per pound, with most sugar sold to Great Britain.
U R Lee Solomon, Fort Worth Fish Market manager for twenty years, has never gone fishing. The Globe News Want Ads promise results.
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