Texas Firms Win Contracts From Defense Agency
The Defense Supply Agency awarded three contracts on Friday to Texas companies Hicks Ponder Co of El Paso for 200,000 pairs of men's cotton sateen trousers at 582000 dollars Williamson Dickie Mfg of Fort Worth for 200,000 pairs of similar trousers at 590000 dollars and another 950000 dollars for 250,000 pairs of men's cotton UT trousers.
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Philadelphia
Defense Supply Agency
Hicks Ponder Co
el Paso
Williamson Dickie Mfg
Fort Worth
2400 Fight Brush Fire Near Santa Barbara
A crew of 2,400 firefighters reached 70 percent containment of a brush and forest fire in Los Padres National Forest about 35 miles north of Santa Barbara. Full containment hoped by Saturday. cost to battle the blaze estimated at 1.5 million with watershed damage around 900,000. Smoke-jumping Indians from Arizona and New Mexico assisted.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
U.S. Forest Service
Here
Forest Service
Clifford Stevens
Stevens
Arizona
New Mexico
Wellman Canyon
Collision and Fire Kills Seventy-One in Port of New York
In New York Harbor a collision between the British tanker Alva Cape and the Texaco Massachusetts, both loaded with naptha, caused a blaze and loss of life. Seventy-one survivors were counted. the Coast Guard formed a marine board to determine the cause amid harbor widening requests.
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Amarillo Daily News
Sig
New York
Mont
Texaco
Port Arthur
Tex
York Harbor
Cape Massachusett
Alva
Texaco Massachu
Esso Vermont
Coast Guard
Donald Baker
Apparel
Ett
Richard Finn
He Pinder
Clarksboro, NJ
Port of
New York Authority
Congress
Newark Bay
Alva Cape
Texaco Massachusetts
Austin J. Tobin
Port Authority
Staten Island
New Jersey
Kill van Kull
Tobin
The
New York-New Jersey
Constitution
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Marine Board of Investigation
Esso Ver
Truck Hits Two Structures in Clarendon Incident
A semi trailer rolled from its parking spot at Lee's Cafe in Clarendon causing about $3,000 in damage. The canopy roof was grazed and a metal building was struck. Driver Robert Paul Jackson Jr. of Quanah and owner R. P. Jackson of Quanah were involved. brakes set, truck in gear, unclear why it rolled. Damage to service station and building placed at $1,500 each, equal to the truck’s damage.
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Team Fur Corresp
Clarendon
Robert Paul Jackson Jr
Quanah
R. P. Jackson
Lee
Jackson
Fiia
Harold Thompson
Bill Williams
Dimmitt
City Schedules Auction Today
Sixty used vehicles plus a 40 ton hydraulic press will be sold at the City of Amarillo's second annual auction at 1 p.m. today at the Texas Service Center, 27th and Grand. Inspect items at the center. proceeds aim to exceed dealer trades, per Charles Hall.
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Amarillo
Texas Service Center
Charles Hall
New Texas Public Accountants elect complete slate
The Texas Association of Public Accountants elected its full slate at the state convention in the Coronado Inn. Officers include John Karsh Jr of Houston as president and Harold Ingersoll of Austin as first vice president, with Hugh Williams of Wharton as second vice president and Milton Campbell of Baytown as secretary treasurer.
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Texas Association of Public Accountants
Coronado Inn
John Karsh Jr
Houston
Harold Ingersoll
Austin
Hugh Williams
Wharton
Milton Campbell
Baytown
Jeff Bentley
404 Prospect
Amarillo
Ingersoll
Campbell
Henry Goode
Karsh
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Duniven Circle
Aenctone
House of Hearing
Madras
Isotox
Chevron Chemical Company
Ortho Division
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Chevron
Dowd-Jones Furniture
Polk ST
LA Bonita
Dowd-Jones & Save
Anish Modern
Mattress & Box Spring
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Happy High School
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