Rationing shift lowers fruit juice values in wartime plan
The Office of Price Administration announces a new chart shifting point values for processed foods starting Monday. Dried soups drop 50 percent while canned beans ketchup and chili sauce rise. grapefruit juice and other juices see large cuts to ration points as apple juice and dried fruits are restricted to manage supply and reduce waste.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Mae Bae Binmman Nsintiana
OPA
Kenneth E. Stauffer
Brocesses Foods Division
Pererson
Stauffer
Bombs Blister Nauru Invasion Base In Pacific Push
Allied air forces struck Nauru 32 miles south of the equator and 675 miles northeast of Guadalcanal, damaging officers quarters barracks a wharf and runway. Other raids hit Kiska five times and allied planes attacked five Japanese bases above Australia.
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Navy
U. S
Kiska
Pacific
Australia
Nauru
Equator
Guadalcanal
Truk
South Pacific
Abraham Harbor
Attu Island
Aleutian Chain
Attu
Olton Farm Youth Weds Frisbie Girl To Provide Name for Child
Dorothy Frisbie, who testified at her murder trial about loving a man enough to poison his children, married Monroe Turner, an Olton farm youth, after receiving a 10 year sentence for murder. Dr. E. B. Fincher performed the ceremony as county officials required consent from Turner's mother. Turner, not the father of Frisbie’s expected child, sought to give the baby a name. Judge and clerk records delayed license issuance. The case notes multiple insinuations of paternity. no appeal steps were filed within the window.
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Dorothy Frisbie
Monroe Turner
Orton
Evelyn Boyd
Dorothy Prisbie
Olton
Johnnie Scott
E. B. Fincher
Hubert Cole
Plainview
Turner
Dorothy
Glenda
Non-Deferrable Workers Reclassified Under Draft Plan
United States draft boards begin reclassifying registrants in non-deferable jobs next Thursday. Those who switch to essential work may move to 3-B, while non-deferables not in essential work stay 3-A or move to 1-A with a 30 day induction stay upon proof of employment service registration.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Service Bureau
U. S. Employment Service
Fowler
Harper
WMC
Employment Service
Draf
Paul V. McNutt
Allied Push Advances as Tunisia Battles Expand
American troops launch a surprise drive toward Fondouk in Central Tunisia with initial gains as British Eighth Army presses Mareth Line defenses. Allied air forces drop heavy ordnance driving fires and oil storage near El Hamma, while Montgomery’s forces see mixed progress in the south and French colonial troops report gains. Rain slows Patton’s advance as air power targets Axis camps and positions across Tunisia.
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North Africa
Fondouk
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Kairouan
Maknassy
Berlin
DNB
Medjez-El-Bab
England
Mareth Line
el Hamma
Gabes
Western Desert Air Force
Fighth Army
German
Africa Corps
Bernard L. Montgomery
Little Maginot
Montgomery
Zarat
Wadi Zigzaou
Jacques le Clerc
Brazzaville
Reuters
London
le Clerc
Patton
Maknassy- el Guetar Battlefront
George S. Patton, Jr
Mediterranean
North
Africa
High Command
Associated Press
Paris
Algiers
Veere
Meat rationing under way as Americans rush markets
Washington reports widespread meat shortages amid first week of wartime rationing. Shoppers swarm markets from Chicago to Philadelphia while OPA notes two week path to “normal.” Ration coupons and 16 point allotments shape weekly purchases as civilian slaughtering is temporarily increased to ease scarcity.
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Washington
America
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Chicago
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Associated Press
OPA
Richmond
Enlist on the Home Front Victory Garden Drive
The Globe News offers full Victory Garden coverage with Do and Don’t guidance to aid families during the emergency. Community response is strong with many offering plots and others pledging to plant if land is found. The paper provides a coupon to join the effort and help Amarillo become a City of Victory Gardens for 1943.
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The
Globe News
Do's
Don's
Victory Garden Fastor
Globe-News
Amarillo
City of Victory Gardens
Helium Plant Contract Awarded for Otis Kansas Facility
Senator Reed of Kansas announced that the interior department has awarded contracts for a $2,000,000 helium plant at Otis in Rush County Kansas. The project will advance national gas reserves and industrial access.
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Washington
Senator Reed
Kansas
Interior Department
Otis
Rush County
Kan
USO Birthday Party Open House In Amarillo
Civilians may visit the Downtown USO at Sixth Avenue and Taylor Street and the Auditorium USO today. The Downtown unit opens at 2:45 PM followed by a birthday party from 4 to 7 PM. The two centers have aided 162 000 men and civilians in three months. USO marks its two year anniversary with President Roosevelt commending its moral and spiritual support.
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USO
Sixth Avenue
Taylor Street
Roosevelt
National
Surprise American attack opens in Tunisia in March 1943
Battlefronts report a successful American assault in Tunisia as Allied forces push back Axis. Bombardments blister Japanese bases from the Aleutians to the South Seas. Japan claims an air raid on an Allied base in Burma while Chinese forces recapture key Yangtze points and Soviet offensives press in harsh winter weather.
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South Seas
Nauru Island
Navy
U. S
New Guinea
Burma
Aleutian Islands
Tunisia
Berlin Target Of RAF Raid
British bombers attacked Berlin Saturday night according to a Berlin radio broadcast recorded by AP. The report said high explosive and incendiary bombs caused damage mainly in residential areas and five British planes were shot down.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Pope Pius VII Recovers and Works in Quarters
A Rome dispatch broadcast from Berlin and recorded by the Associated Press reports Pope Pius VII is recovering from illness and is up and at work in his quarters this morning.
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London
Rome
Berlin
Associated Press
Pius VII
Mild Sunday in Amarillo and New Mexico with little temp change
The section notes mild weather for Amarillo and nearby New Mexico with only small temperature variations expected Sunday and into Sunday night. Sunrise is listed at 7 39 AM and sunset at 8 05 PM, with accompanying past temperature data referenced.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
Making Plans For Gardens
Gardening weather is here again but not too soon. A gardener must decide when to start and how many seeds to buy to ensure a successful Victory Garden. Page 6 and 7 offer stories and information. be reasonable and avoid overbuying.
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Turner Is
E. W. Turner
Hale County
Sheaffer and Parker Pens
Russell Stationery Company
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Bizerte
Tunis
Victory Garden Army
Ecreet
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Yangtze
Red Army
Pope Pius
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