Amarillo Commission Holds Routine Session After Secret Meeting
After a one and a half hour secret session, the Amarillo city commission appoin ted department heads and heard rezoning requests. The meeting included a protest from Larry Sisk and W B Stubbs about the city building code publication. The budget timing and a fiscal year change from April 15 to October 1 were discussed.
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New City Commission
Joe Jenkins
Larry Sisk
Amarillo Times
W. B. Stubbs
Taxpayers’ League
Amarillo Globe
Stubbs
Jenkins
Pistol in Robbery Believed Stolen
Police think the pistol used in the youth robbery of Dr. W. L. Ball at 2039 Hayden Street was taken from the J. M. Lyons home at 2010 Van Buren Street. Lyons reported a burglary after 8:45 with a screen cut, $2 to $2.50 in pennies, a fountain pen, and a pistol stolen. The pistol matches the description used on Dr. Ball who was surprised at 9:30. The youths, who claimed hunger, led him to the kitchen and then left.
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W. L. Ball
Hayden Street
J. M. Lyons
van Buren Street
Lyons
Dr. Ball
Cinderella Stage Play at Municipal Auditorium Tomorrow
Cinderella a folk story adaptation by the Zale Diamond Players will be staged tomorrow night at the Municipal Auditorium directed by Dorris Landers Hess. Billie Bethune stars as Cinderella with Marguerite Smith Betty Jane Wheat as stepsisters and John Reynolds as Prince Charming in a production featuring ornate costumes and a Dixie Dice Dance Studio ballet.
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Zale Diamond Players
Municipal Auditorium
Dorris Landers Hess
Red Coronation Lodge
Billie Bethune
Rowena Carrigan
Marguerite Smith
Betty Jane Wheat
Shirley Cline
Levy
Dixie Dice Dance Studio
Fairies
Guydell
LaNell Ekelund
Prince Charming
John Reynolds
Bill Dickson
Amarillo City Commission Tours All Municipal Plants
Amarillo's new city commission led by Mayor Joe Jenkins and including Commissioners Epperson and Hargett with City Manager H R Smith toured all municipal departments and properties. They started at Word Ranch and visited fire stations the city barn disposal plant and other city properties. The group received a floral tribute from Bones Hooks.
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Amarillo
New City Commission
Joe Jenkins
Jenkins
R H. Epperson
Oscar Hargett
H. R. Smith
Bones
War fronts clash near Mt Olympus amid Allied retreat
British and Greek troops pursued by German forces fight near Mt Olympus and west of there as Stuka raids pound retreating Allied units south of Servia. German bombers strike England and Kiel while Liverpool endures heavy attacks and Berlin cites British casualties. In North Africa the British report successful strikes against German panzer columns at Fort Capuzzo in Libya near Salum.
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England
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Germany
Egypt
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Libya
Salum
Amarillo Home Defense unit to hold evening medical exams
Amarillo physicians will conduct physical examinations for members of the Amarillo unit of the Texas Home Defense Guard at tonight's regular drill at 8 at the high school armory gym. The unit aims to form a complete Home Defense battalion, with officers planning three more companies. the current company is seven men short, and there is no enlistment limit with a waiting list. Captain A. Petersen, commanding officer, announced.
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Amarillo
Texas Home Defense Guard
High School
A. Petersen
Rainbow Girls Doughnut Sale To Benefit El Paso Delegation
The Rainbow Girls of Palo Duro Assembly announce a three week doughnut sale. Sale days occur early in the week with Saturday deliveries. Two flavors available cake style and large raised glazed. Priced 25 and 30 cents per dozen. Proceeds fund Rainbow treasury for trip to El Paso for the grand assembly in June.
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Rainbow Treasury
el Paso
Grand Assembly
Drowned Woman Visited Here
Mrs. W. H. Parker of Birmingham Alabama drowned Easter Sunday afternoon when a boat capsized in a private lake at the country home of her daughter Mrs. E. H. Hargis. Parker had visited Amarillo and was known to many here. Mrs. Hargis when Miss Florence Parker taught in summer sessions.
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W. H. Parker
Birmingham
Ala
E. H. Hargis
Family Ties Shadow Oklahoma Funeral Reach
Sisters in law and a niece of Laura V. Hamner attend funeral in Dallas with interment in Falls County. The note places the deceased with connections to West Texas State College Canyon and Texas Tech Lubbock, highlighting family links and travel from Stillwater to the service.
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Sions
West Texas State College
Canyon
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Laura V. Hamner
Stillwater
Dallas
Big Hill
Falls County
City faces summer water shortage and turbine pump bids
Amarillo's new administration confronts a looming water crisis as the city plans to bid for turbine pumps to upgrade Word Ranch and McDonald plants. The manager notes current output at 10 million gallons daily, far below peak summer demand of 2.5 million. The study seeks authority to prepare bid specs before peak usage. Leading beet sugar producers nationwide are listed as California, Colorado, Montana and Michigan.
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R. H. Epperson
Word Ranch
McDonald
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United States
California
Colorado
Montana
Michigan
How to Keep Bees at Home Sparks Legal Stinging Issue
In San Jose California Deputy District Attorney Vernon E. Perren faces a request from Frank Mahoney to compel F A Lucas to keep bees at home or prosecute for trespass after a swarm stung Mahoney's family in Mae Honey's yard. The case turns on whether beekeeping can be regulated across property lines.
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Perren
Frank Mahoney
F. A. Lucas
Maehoney
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