Open House Dances Draw Large Legion Crowd
Legion Post open house drew a record crowd for Hanson Post with dancing and entertainment. Col. E A Simpson called the event successful. Mrs John Robinson reported a large Auxiliary turnout and 166 members. total post membership 636, aiming to surpass Houston. War Bond sales and cigarette fund donations topped drive efforts.
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Legion Home
Glove News
Charles Putman
Putman
The
Legion Auxiliary
Hanson
John Robinson
Hanson Post
Houston
Roy Beard
Elk’s Club
Delinquency Rise Linked to Latchkey Children in Texas
A Texas legislative report cites latchkey children as a major factor in juvenile delinquency. Mothers working in war industries are named as a chief cause. The study led by Sen. Vernon Lemens urges stronger family and community responsibility for child care amid wartime shortages and a waiting list of 500 orphans in state homes.
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Austin
Texas
Sen
Vernon Lemens
Waxahachie
Courthouse Records Transfer and Divorces Listed in Notices
A docket of court actions includes numerous warranty deeds from April 1943 among parties such as Charles E. Collins to E. D. Baggs and Peggy Masterson Stinnett to Mike N. Wink, with prices from $1 to $8650. District court entries show several divorces including W. M. Jenkins vs Inar Jenkins and A. B. Towery vs Ima Ellen Towery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Collins
E. D. Baggs
Peggy Masterson Stinnett
Mike N. Wink
Bs&f
Fred C. Schupp
W. L. Watters
Jewell Utley
J. A. Hinger
Plemons
P. L. Reppert
Raymond Adkisson
O. T. Roy B. Carlton
Ruth Davis
Holland
Lloyd Urton
S. L. McMahan
Ridgemere
Fred B. Morrison
William Lewis Pickering
G&s
John I. Clift
John L. McDonald
South S
Glenwood
J. H. Walsh
J. C. Reese
Marie J. Smith
Tedo R. Neal
District
W. M. Jenkins
Inar Jenkins
A. B. Towery
Ima Ellen Towery
L. E. van Doran
Willie Mae van Doran
Ida M. Barnes
H. Roy Barnes
Lola M. Dockray Foliart
Home Canning Sugar May Be Available Soon
Dallas reports that sugar allotments for home canning of 1943 fruit crops may be set by local war price and rationing boards under a regional OPA ruling. Local boards gain authority to set dates to prevent spoilage, and allocations will follow the same basis as last year with no deduction of blue, processed sugar.
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Dallas
Regional Office of Price Administration
OPA
Food point stamps from ration book No 2 for sugar
A fragment notes food point stamps from ration book No 2 were used for such a purpose. The terse item hints at rationing details without full context or names.
WAAC Recruiters End Panhandle Tour In Spearman
WAAC recruiters Lieut Ann Markusich corporal Della Coleman and sergeant T K Morris wrap up a northeast Panhandle recruiting tour in Spearman this evening and plan to return to Amarillo for all day volunteer aptitude tests and examinations tomorrow. Despite a short of quota optimism remains that Panhandle women will enlist in larger numbers once they grasp the need for women in the Army.
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Ann Markusich
Della Coleman
Waacs
T. K. Morris
Amarillo
Panhandle
Spearman
Lieut
Curry
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Legion’s Open House
Parmerettes
Glenn Bowen
Parent-Teacher Association
Dixie Dice
Dolly Pendleton
McKinley School
Dixie Dice School of Dancing
McKinley
Dwight Morrow
Martha Macis
Margaret Tenorio
Martha Navarette
Olivia Palatio
Globe-News
Courthouse Records
Sparen Brothers Ambitange Service
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Lgcataes Amarillo— A
Hawkinson
Tyler St
Milt Apm
Tyler
6Th
Louisiana
Texaco
Ufa
WAAC
James
Money Burke
van Arden
Wards van Ardens
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