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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1946
Page
5
A 1874 patent grant marks the birth of barbed wire as fencing technology in the United States. The milestone highlights early innovation shaping agricultural boundaries and ranch delineation across the country.
Berlin May 20. Associated Press reports on Manfred a thin blue eyed German boy and Karin who roam Berlin’s streets daily. Manfred is called the “little werewolf” at press camp and king of the black market for doughnuts and soft drinks. He visits the press club daily, collects cigarette butts, steals tennis balls, and dreams of America where doughnuts and soft drinks flow. He greets visitors with a big hug and longs for life in the United States.
Hollywood star Myrna Loy says the star system limits actors from small character parts she would like to play, noting public perceptions and studio controls prevent stars from taking minor roles even when they could offer fresh interpretations. She says trained actors should perform all types of roles.
A historical note states that only 26 000 truck owners in the United States operate more than five vehicles highlighting a concentration of fleet usage and enterprise scale among a limited number of operators.
The Production and Marketing Administration of the U S Department of Agriculture announces federally inspected meat packers must make up delivery deficits in meat and lard for government agencies. The action speeds relief feeding and may withhold meat subsidies if set-aside or delivery provisions are not met.
The Greek government reports 18 attackers described as Macedonian Slavs from Yugoslavia entered Greece from Yugoslavia and attacked a frontier post north of Florina. Guards, reinforced, repelled the assault back into Yugoslavia. Florina lies near the Greek Yugoslav Albanian borders. An Allied observer calls the area Greece next trouble spot.
Maj. Gen. Edward C. Shannon longtime Pennsylvania lieutenant governor under Pinchot and former 28th Division National Guard commander died at 75 in Columbia after long illness. He retired in 1939 after 50 years of service and was a Phoenixville native.
In Lubbock Texas the Evening Journal notes the nickname Two Yard earned by a colonel commanding the Ninth Infantry of the 28th division in France for keeping two yards ahead of his troops. In Kobe Japan three Japanese restaurant operators were fined 10000 yen each and imprisoned for selling poisonous liquor that caused a Filipino seaman’s death.
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