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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1948
Page
3
John J. Banderson Amarillo Social Security Administration office manager visits branch offices across the Panhandle this week and is expected to return to the offices here Thursday evening.
Thomas D. Affleck of Galveston heads a UT campus States' Rights club formed to back J Strom Thurman and Wright for President and Vice President. Elected officers include William R Archer of Houston as vice president and Robert L Bradley of Houston as secretary treasurer. New Zealand plans homes for British war orphans.
About 40 retail furniture dealers will gather at 7 30 PM Tuesday in the Amarillo Hotel for the Panhandle Furniture Association’s first meeting since last June. Host Rhea Owens will preside with J Frank Heath assisting. A banquet will precede a business session featuring a furniture design film and talks by Herbert Dill and Bob Lindsey on credit rules and price trends.
The Philadelphia Orchestra cancelled its 1948-49 season amid a deadlock over Local 77 AFL pay demands for a minimum 125 dollars weekly per musician. Manager Harl McDonald said 225000 dollars would be refunded to patrons and notes the move would have closed a 226000 dollar deficit. The season opening was set for Friday.
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce launches a series of project clinics on water and soil conservation starting today in Tahoka with meetings to follow in Panhandle Quanah and Decatur later this week The chamber backs all eight constitutional amendments on the November 2 general election ballot Dublin reports 120000 working class families living in tenements.
Norman Thomas, veteran Socialist candidate for president, said in Austin he could offer only a program aimed at general plenty, peace and freedom. He criticized Henry Wallace's South small business plan and praised Truman for backing civil rights and opposing perceived rights abuses against Indians in Alaska.
Houston report: another traffic fatality brings the annual toll to 42 as a city dump truck struck a five year old girl. Curtis Lee Roberts, 30, testified the children darted into the truck’s path. no charges were filed.
Paul Colburn a high school biology teacher in Los Angeles was bitten by a dead rattlesnake after bringing it to class as an exhibit. The bite occurred when the snake’s jaws closed on his finger while he wrapped it in paper. He slashed the finger and sought hospital serum.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner J E McDonald, a Democrat, backs the Republican ticket as state director for Texas. GOP chairman Henry Zweifel says McDonald will work under the national committee's agricultural division. Campaigns kick into high gear mid October with Stassen speaking in Amarillo and Taft in Dallas.
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