Registrations Open for Regional Model Plane Contest
The event runs July 10 and 11 with open class for ages over 21 and a junior group under 16. Registration starts at Southwestern Motors, 1019 Polk, with AMA membership required and prizes valued over 1200 dollars plus two trips to Detroit.
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Southwestern Motors
The
Motor Company
Bemanilla Rawre Fiin
Mmabliiny Lycwo-Nsvnveo
Southwestern Motors Showroom
Polk
Butler Field
Tradewind
Plymouth Motor Company
Detroit
Academy of Model Aeronautics
AMA
Southwestern Hobby Shop
Kidwell Model Shop
East
Santa Fe Freight Derailment Forces Reroute Near Vaughn
A Santa Fe freight derailment just east of Vaughn New Mexico early yesterday forced trains to be rerouted through Amarillo via Rock Island lines. Two sections of east bound passenger train No 24 arrived around 9 pm instead of 6 30 pm. Santa Fe officials had little information on the wreck on the Pecos Valley division or how soon the line would clear.
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Santa Fe
Vaughn
Amarillo
Rock Island
Pecos Valley Division
Certification of Fireman's Fund authority to do business in Texas
The document states that Fireman's Fund Indemnity Company of San Francisco complied with Texas laws as conditions to operate in the state and that a Certificate of Authority is issued for the year ending May 31, 1949. Dated in Austin and signed by George B. Butler, Chairman of the Board, with the office seal.
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Fireman's Fund Indemnity Company
San Francisco
California
Texas
Austin
George B. Butler
European General Reinsurance Company, Ltd
London
England
Woman Is Taken to Hospital After Car Crash at Club Event
Mrs Jimmie Borders, 1330 Bellaire, was hospitalized after a traffic collision at East Sixth and Pierce. Her husband rode in a 1947 sedan as an 18 year old, Jesse Lester of 2101 Polk, drove a northbound car. the impact flipped Borders’ car. An ambulance carried Mrs Borders to Northwest Texas Hospital for emergency treatment.
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Jimmie Borders
Bellaire
Northwest Texas
Juke Box Burglary Reported at Casey's Bar
Police said burglars entered Casey's Bar at 511 North Fillmore by a north side double door and stole an undetermined amount of change from a juke box late Saturday night. Owner R F Casey found the burglary about 6 40 am Sunday. Comet sighting reported by Mrs J H McMahan of 617 Hill near Amarillo at around 9 30 pm last night.
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Casey's
Casey’s
Orth Fillmore
R. F. Casey
Amarillo
J. H. McMahan
Hill
Fort Worth Denver line to Panhandle town names and club charter
The Fort Worth and Denver Railway crossed the Canadian River two miles from Old Tascosa, then built a station at Cheyenne later Magenta near the red hill, renamed Boys Ranch after the famed Boys Ranch era. The American Business Club of Amarillo received its charter May 25 1923 at a banquet in the Amarillo Hotel with 24 charter members led by Adams Cartwright and Roy Britain.
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Mr. Adams
Rolla Cartwright
E. O. Northcutt
H. Keffer
Paul Speer
Roy Britain
Nichols
G. C. Matthews
G. B. Hamilton
Jim Webb
E. R. Archambeau
Lew Fields
Clyde S. Rehmeyer
Horace Griggs
Lowell Munday
John Armstrong
Judge Northcutt
R. E
Bob” Hill
J. W. Hill
Roy Burke
Charley Young
C. P. Atwood
Cheyenne
Magenta
Red Hill
Boys Ranch
American Business Club of
Amarillo
Cartwright
Britain
Adams
Vacation Bible School Opens at First Baptist Church
At 9:00 AM in McLean, First Baptist Church begins Vacation Bible School with persons interested. At 1:00 PM in State College New Mexico, delegates to the New Mexico Association of Home Extension Clubs register in Rhodes Hall at New Mexico A&M College. At 2:00 PM in Abernathy Farmers Co op Gin stockholders meet in the school lunchroom for interested persons. At 7:00 PM in Canyon, a softball organizational meeting is held in Buffalo Gymnasium for interested parties.
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Mclean
First Baptist Church
State College
New Mexico Association of Home Extension Clubs
Rhodes Hall
New Mexico A&m College
Abernathy
Farmers Co-op
Amarillo Business Club grows with 105 members
The Amarillo American Business Club, seventh in the nation, has 105 active members and sponsors Maverick Club. It raised over 5000 from members for a caretaker’s home at Boy Scout Camp Don Harrington as it plans a broad expansion. President Clayton Heare praised the progress.
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Ala
National Board of Governors
Amarillo
Leland Abbott
Vaughn D. Gouldy
Miller J. Beard
Leon Bowen
Robert R. Carr
Henry Gould
Harry Holland
A. F Jones
Claude H Keeney
Keffer G. C. Matthews
Sam Montgomery W. M. Moore
James L. Quick
Clayton Heare
Certificate of Authority for European General Reinsurance Ltd 1948
Board of Insurance Commissioners of Texas certifies European General Reinsurance Company Ltd London has complied with Texas laws and is authorized to do business in Texas for the year ending May 31, 1949. The certificate bears number 513 and company number K-320 dated May 6, 1948.
Summer Term Classes Open at Amarillo Schools
Summer term classes begin this morning at Amarillo High with about 185 high school enrollments and 64 elementary enrollments planned to start at 7 30. Enrollment remains open this morning per Summer School Principal M L Matherly. Amarillo Center 2101 Harris opens registration at 7 30 tonight. College courses will be offered mornings and evenings, with times decided at tonight's organizational meeting. Amarillo College has no summer sessions scheduled.
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Amarillo
M. L. Matherly
Amarillo Center
Harris
Amarillo College
Printer’s Ink associate editor dies in Larchmont
Joan Allen Murphy aged 64 an associate editor of the trade publication Printers Ink for 11 years died last night in Larchmont New York.
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Larchmont
Joan Allen Murphy
Tradeublication
Printers Ink
Panhandle Rites For War Victim
The body of Lt. James W. Mecasky, the first of 46 Carson County men to die in World War I, will be interred in the Decatur family plot. Mecasky, shot down in October 1942 over Egypt while piloting a light bomber, leaves parents Mr and Mrs James Mecasky and a brother Robert of Panhandle. The Veterans of Foreign Wars are involved.
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Panhandle
James W. Mecasky
Carson County
Decatur
Mecasky
Egypt
James Mecasky
Robert Mecasky
Panhandle post named for Lt Mecasky in honor
Funeral services are set for Lt Mecasky’s namesake post at Panhandle. The service will be conducted by Rev James Todd Jr of the First Christian Church in the community.
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Panhandle
Mecasky
James Todd, Jr. Pe
First Christian Church
Turkish Roundup Seizes Suspected Communist Agents
Istanbul dispatch notes a nationwide pursuit of alleged Communist agents in Turkey. Anatolia reports three suspected saboteurs arrested near Izmir and an interior ministry spokesman says foreign agent activities are being investigated in other regions.
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Turkey
Istanbul
Anatolia Agency
Izmir
Smyrna
Interior Ministry
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Bill McSwain
South- Western Hobby Shop
Khoury Bros
5Th Avenue
Bruckner
Board OF Insurance
State of
Boxwell
Ambulance Service
Dumas Perry Ton
Spearman
Floyd V. Studer
American United Life Insurance Company
Amarillo, Texas
B. M. Goff Company
Lubbock
Broadway
Irs
Are
Optometrists
Texas Optometric Association
Drs Benson G Benson
Robert Benson Borger
Glenn S Burk Perryton
Drs
Clough & Clough Plainview
P. I. Crum
W . Erwin Tulip
Joe Goldston
Clarendon
Joe M Gooch Shamrock
Dr. J M. Hyden
Dr. W. &. Houghton
Milton Adams
Hereford
Drs. Staehlin
G Dyke Borger
Drs. Montgomery & Montgomery
Chas
Paul Owens Pampa
L D Porter Dothart
J E Hewitt
Dr. L. N Pittman
Dr. L. J. Zochry Pampa
Hugh Sticksel
W.G Martin
Panhandle Division
Texas Optometric Assn
Associated Press
Dallas
Elven Howe
Denver Post
Duncan Meyers
War Assets Administration
Charles H. Keffer
Dewitt Leachman
Marvin Nichols
Fort Worth
Bend, Ore
High Plains
Canyon
Buffalo Gymnasium
E. B. Burgess
Tyler St
F. Goodrich
Archie Castleberry
Barfield Building
Mon
Thor
KFDA
Adams Straw
Meee
Omer al
Oleo
Deat Tommy
Tommy's
Jorg
Big M
Tommy
Tom Bandy, JR
RED & White Foods
West 7Th
Baracat's Linen Shop
6Th Ave
Dr. Scholl
DE DE Scholls
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