Reds Capture Vantage Point at Stalingrad in Caucasus Retreat
Texas pension rows mix politics and old age aid as records show monthly additions linked to elections. The piece traces pension figures in Dallas and Amarillo districts, board members appointed by governors, and a persistent fund surplus amid calls for need based payments. Seattle note follows about Arthur Wright who walks 13,514 miles over 1,325 trips in 28 years with a pedometer.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Dallas
Seattle
Arthur Holmes Wright
Wright
Hereford Tour Highlights Farm Aid and Rubber Plant News
Enthusiastic Hereford crowd greets Jimmie Allred as he campaigns for Senate promising food production for the nation and federal farm price parity. In Washington a Phillips Petroleum three unit plan resumes work on butadiene and styrene and a synthetic rubber plant to be ready by spring 1943. Major Elliott Roosevelt takes lieutenant colonel oath from a hospital bed. Allred cites farm relief and labor measures while urging unity for war effort.
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Eugene Worley
Washington
Phillips Petroleum Company
Worley
Phillips Company
Bartlesville
Rubber Reserve Company
Phillips
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Elliott Roosevelt
U. S. Army Air Force
Hereford
Jimmie Allred
Senate
Deaf Smith County
Thompson
James V
Allred
Roosevelt
Texas
Battlefronts Update August 6 1942 Caucasus Stalingrad Area
On the Caucasus offensive the German drive nears the Volga plains within striking distance of Stalingrad oil fields. Russian reserves bolster sagging lines as Britain faces India independence pressures. Meanwhile Japan tightens grip around Australia with three island seizures and RAF strikes hit Ruhr and England.
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Caucasus
Russia
Volga
Stalingrad
Breakfast for Allred Today
There will be a breakfast for James V. Allred in room 202 at the Herring Hotel from 7 to 7 45 this morning. Friends of the run off Senate candidate are invited to attend the breakfast. Each person will pay 75 cents for his own breakfast. The party will go from the hotel to the KGNC auditorium at Eighth and Harrison where Allred will broadcast a speech from 8 to 8 30 this morning.
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Herring Hotel
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KGNC
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Harrison
Allred
Plains Salutes Newcomers in War Industries
New residents to Amarillo and the Panhandle are welcomed with a week of events. Free Friday screenings at Municipal Auditorium open the program, followed by a Chamber of Commerce barbecue, a Victory Command dance, church services, a 2 30 p m ceremony and softball game at Malin Field, a 3 30 p m Interstate Theatre Show salute on KGNC, a 9 p m premiere at the Paramount, a Masonic reception, and a Tri-State Fair Grounds meet the Army technical men event. Each activity spotlights newcomers meeting locals and officials urging all to attend.
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Old Tack
Alaska
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Navy
Army Air Forces
Army
KGNC
Interstate Theatre
Chain of Texas
Mrs. Miniver
Paramount Theatre
Hollywood
Jan Struther
Masonic Lodge of
Tri-State Fair Grounds
German raid hits southwest town hospital at dusk
German raiders bombed a hospital section in a southwest town at dusk injuring and burying several patients. Nurses and doctors worked amid debris to rescue the trapped and other town property suffered damage including a church tower clock being struck.
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London
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Nearby Regions
The Amarillo area forecasts show afternoon and evening showers or thunderstorms with little temperature change. West Texas and the Panhandle expect similar showers and storms with minimal temperature variation. New Mexico also sees scattered showers with temperatures near Thursday. Max and min readings from yesterday are listed, alongside circulation totals for August 6, 1942 in Amarillo newspapers.
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West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Russians Hold Lines in Don Bend Caucasus Battles
Soviet communiques report new reserves bolstering defense in the Don bend near Kletskaya and Kushchevka while Russian troops retreated to fresh positions in Belaya Glina. German forces push along the Don-North Caucasus rail corridor toward Rostov and the Volga region amid heavy fighting.
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Tsimlyansk
Sal Rivers
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Astrakhan
Volga
Caspian Sea
Persian Gulf
Kushchevska
Tikhoretsk
Rostov- Baku
Baku-Black Sea
Kuban
Voroshilovsk
Sal
Rzhev
Volkhov
Leningrad
Volea
Kushchevske
Semeon Timoshenko
Baku
Timoshenko
D. T. Kozlov
Caucasian
North Caucasus
Voronezh
Maikop
Caucasus Mountains
Salsk
Follett Bradley
U. S
Gereman
William H. Standley
Archibald Clark Kerr
Red Star
Karelian
Katelnikovski
Jack Lamb's Alaska Movies Here Tonight
Tonight at Amarillo Municipal Auditorium the free show by Jack Lamb, famed fisherman, reveals Technicolor footage of Old Tack's Alaska hunt. Doors open 7, screening 8:30 with no admission charge and optional scrap metal donations for the war effort. Lamb will narrate shots of ptarmigan, caribou, mountain goat and bear hunting, and virgin fishing scenes.
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Jack Lamb
Old Tack
Alaska
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