Prices on Low Bracket Homes Nearly Doubled In Texas
The National Housing Agency reports inflation in Texas real estate with low price houses of 1940 under 6000 dollars up 91.4 percent and city land for veterans up over 100 percent. From V J Day to mid February servicemen saw small homes in large cities rise 18 percent. Agencies involved include Federal Home Loan Banks Home Owner's Loan Corporation FHA and NHA administrator office. The figures reflect mean averages, not extreme fluctuations.
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National Housing Agency
Federal Home Loan Banks
Home Owner's Loan Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
Administrator
NHA
Real estate rise and timber outlook noted in 1940s report
A 1940 real estate surge shows small houses under 6000 dollars up 74.1 percent while postwar demand boosts small dwellings by about 18 percent due to returning servicemen. Forbes warns a decade of lumber shortages with a seven billion board feet annual gap. Harold Taylor, ex Amarillo area, now with a Houston firm, notes war depletion and possible synthetic materials.
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U. S
Forbes Magazine
Forbes
Harold Taylor
Amarillo
The
Army Engineers
Houston
California
Kansas City Livestock Market Report
Kansas City USDA market figures show cattle at 11 000 head and calves 900, steady, active trade. Beef steers 16.00 to 17.25, heifers 15.75 to 16.60, cows 13.50 to 14.25, bulls 14.00 to 14.25. Hogs at 1 500 head active steady 170 lb and up 14.55. Sheep 18 000 head slow, practically not sold early.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Water main not broken after geyser spotted near Fillmore
A tipster alerted the Globe News to a geyser and water a foot deep along the curb near Tenth and Fillmore. The city water department denied a main break and blamed energetic sidewalk washing for the spill.
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The
Globe News
Tenth
Fillmore
City Water Department
Dead Man Tentatively Identified As Father of Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards of 1507 Clover Drive was en route to Nevada Missouri after learning a man tentatively identified as his father F Lee Edwards of 826 Florida had been found dead in a Nevada Missouri automobile. Edwards was in Missouri on business and left by plane. death was due to a heart attack per Coroner March Eichinger.
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Scott Edwards
Clover Drive
Nevada
F. Lee Edwards
Florida
Edwards
Missouri
March Eichinger
Chicago Livestock Market Report April 22
Chicago livestock prices show hogs at 9 500 with steady demand and hogs and sows around 14.85 and 14.10. Cattle and calves total 13 000 and 600 with steady to slow activity. yearlings and light steers uneven, medium and heavy steers steady to fully steady, beef cows 10 50 to 14 13, vealers 16 50. Sheep at 11 000 with lambs weak to lower, medium to good lambs 15.00 to 15.85, limited sheep prevent list formation.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
Courthouse Records Warranty Deeds and Marriages
Department lists numerous warranty deeds transferring lots and tracts among individuals and couples including Gooch, West, Starker, Lyons, Johnson, Spaulding, Jenkins, Pleper, Hare, Rosenbaum, Ward, Luse, Nesbitt, Summers, Graham, Beer, Bivins, Peak, Peak, Weaver, Castleberry, Elkins, Della Louise Elkins, and others. Marriage licenses issued for Gilman Blakeley Puckett Clayton Dobbins Morris Jeffrey Brown. For easier juicing of citrus fruits roll the fruit under the palm before cutting. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
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Horace B. Gooch
W. R. West
W.H. Pleper
Ella A Starker
G&s
Helen Lyons
Pat Johnson
Old Town
Hugh Thomas Jenkins
Ethel H Spaulding
Savage
A. H. Hare
W. T. Graham
Mary E Bivins
Eva Peak
Mary E. Bivins
Charles Peak
C. M. Toleretux
Joe C. Weaver
S. J
Della Louise Elkins
Archie R Castleberry
Eakle
Roy Lee Gilman
Esther Inez Blakeley R . Puckett
Gladys Marie Clayton
Jessie M. Dobbins
Carrie Morris James L. Jeffrey
Ruth Brown
Bass Striking At Buffalo And Conchas
Bass fishing dominated the scene at Buffalo Lake and Conchas Lake Tucumcari with record catches reported. Jack Hinerman led bass hauls aided by crawfish wigglers at Conchas Lake with 55 pounds collected. Easter Parade at Buffalo Lake featured O C Riley and others with multiple five to four pound bass. Bill Pace earned speed honors with ten channel catfish in 90 minutes. Edward Gates caught a 11 pound channel cat as top fish of the day.
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Buffalo Lake
Conchas Lake
Tucumcari
Jack Hinerman
Hinerman
O. C. Riley
West
Mr. Riley
A. A. Wilson
East Eighth
Louis Morris
Bonham
Bill Pace
Lipscomb
Edward Gates
OPA leaders defend program as critics press for extension
Porter and Bowles urged continued wage price controls amid House actions on the nine month extension bill. They predicted Senate passage with minimal changes while denouncing profiteers and vowing to keep costs steady. Opposition labels the OPA as inefficient and asks to extend the program another year.
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Wichita
Kan
Porter
OPA
Congress
House
Senate
Bowles
Besse
Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson
John D. Small
W. Willard Wirtz
Rose Bampton to Headline Amarillo Philharmonic Finale
Rose Bampton dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera will headline the final Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra concert of the 1945 46 season on Tuesday evening April 30 at Municipal Auditorium. The American born artist trained at Curtis Institute and rose to fame with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Tickets are on sale at Southwestern Public Service Company offices.
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Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra
Rose Bampton
Metropolitan Opera Company
Municipal Auditorium
Miss Bampton
Cleveland
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Curtis Institute of Music
Worcester Festival
Philadelphia Grand Opera
The
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo Women Gather for Emblem Breakfast Talk
Nearly 100 business and professional women met at the Capitol Hotel for the annual emblem breakfast. Oma Heaton spoke on freedom through faith from St Paul’s Philippines letters, celebrating 32 new members welcomed by Mrs. Mavis Utterback.
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Amarillo
Capitol Hotel
Oma Heaton
Parquet and Balcony Tickets for Amarillo Event
Mail orders may be addressed to Mrs. Howard Lynch at 1000 Western Amarillo Tex for April 29 and 30 hours 9 to 5. Parquet seats cost 3.60, balcony 2.40, student 1.29.
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Fifth
Polk
Howard Lynch
Western
Amarillo
Tex
Cheese deliveries top six hundred million pounds to Britain
During the first three years of lend lease the British Isles received more than 600 million pounds of cheese, highlighting the scale of economic aid.
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British Isles
Wilson Drug Store Directory Card
Contact numbers listed for Wilson Drug Store at 322 East 10th Avenue and adjacent phones 2-0872 and 828.
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H and Y Drug Store
16Th St
Herbert Drug Store
Amarillo
Kendall Drug Store
East 10Th
Taylor St. Lincoln Drug Store
Nelson Drug Store
West 10Th
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Ole
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Amarillo Retail Druggists’ Association
Atkinson Drug Store
Polk St
Beery
Prescription & Vitamin Shop
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Cretney
C. & E. Drug CO
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Dickson Drug Store
FOX Drug Store
4Th and
Pierce Streets
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Maxor Drug Store
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