Coal Mine Shutdowns Hit Local Industry Hard
The Amarillo Globe notes the month long coal mine shutdown damages steel supply, delays farm machinery and plow production, and impacts local manufacturers like Willborn Bros and Superior Manufacturing. Trade cautiousness grows as Birmingham furnaces pause and steel stocks shrink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Jeoffrey
Jeoffrey
Jones
Amarillo Metal Industries
Herb Willborn
Willborn Bros. Inc
Graham Hoeme
Superior Manufacturing Co
Birmingham
Ala
Chicago
Railroads Update From Page 6 Notes Staff Changes
Carman R. N. Reeves returns from Fort Worth hospital eye exam. R. B. Sain reassigned as permanent section foreman at Brakemen L. D. Knight E. L. Settle back at Amarillo from the South Plains Line. Frank T. Davis and R. Evans, Mrs. Gypsy Pond telegrapher, resume duties at yard office. Turns around service Fort Worth to Dallas assigned to J. E. Malone. C. T.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carman R._N. Reeves
Fort Worth
R. B. Sain Hs
L. D. Knight E. L. Settle
Amarillo
South Plains
Frank T. Davis
R. Evans
Gypsy Pond
E. Steel
Plainview
Dallas
J. E. Malone
C. T
Rail line staffing shifts adjust crew duties in Amarillo
Allee takes passenger trains 1 and 8 filling J B Webster's vacancy while Walter M Smith remains regular conductor. Josh M Kelly away a week fishing, G L Smith and R A Suillivay on the run. Hodges vacancy covered by G C Pope temporary. Brakemen Wilson Knight recalled. Walker to Wichita Falls. Moore covers for Kelly. Par ker displaced shifts to through freight with Hudspeth. W M Gray returns from Fort Worth meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex
Allee
J. B. Webster
Walter M. Smith
Josh M. Kelly
Possum Kingdom
W.L Peake
Saint F. Webb
G. L. Smith
R.A. Suillivay
W. E. Hodges
Darhart
St. Anthony's Hospital
G. C. Pope
Washburn
Hodges
J. F. Wilson
L. D. Knight
G. H. Walker
Wichita Falls
Glen T. Moore
Josh
Kelly
Amos H. Parker
Joe
Hudspeth
W. M. Gray
Fort Worth
C. T. Allee
Railroad staffing notes include furloughs and returns
In Boston a driver escorts a 1948 Chevrolet while W. G. Dickson covers George L. Smith’s passenger run during the Smiths’ San Francisco visit. L. H. Reveau bids in between Amarillo and Texline with Steve A. Eason acting in his absence. Conductor B. B. Burton returns to work on the Childress Lubbock local as Louie C. Dubuque goes back to Amarillo. C. C. Damon also returns to the Amarillo extra board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
W. G. Dickson
George L. Smith
Childressubbock
Louie C. Dubuque
Amarillo
Amarillo Extra
C. C. Damon
Train crew family notices and vacancies noted in Arkansas visit
Fragmentary notes from 1948 mention R. T. Thomas vacancy work by Joe Profanick, brakemen F. J. Anderson and M. V. Allen visiting Little Rock to see relatives, and trainmen F. R. Howard G. L. Campbell with others in Ohio visiting relatives amid scattered references to children and in laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T. Thomas
Joe Profanick
F. J. Anderson
M. V. Allen
Little Rock
Ark
Chiling
Delta “Eason
F. R. Howard
G. L. Campbell
Ohio
Broth Smith
J. B. Bennett
Mrs. Webb
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Ihuman Ahumidu
Fillmore Street
San Jacinto
John S. Neat
Lewis
Bicycle Information Bureau
Rockefeller Plaza
New York
United States
Sixteenth
Fillmore
Holly's
West Sixth
Virginia
Cal Farley
Mason King
Mason
Grandfather Farley
Mr. Farley
Glenn
Ray Parr
Dewey Ashcroft
Glenn Newbold
Iwi
Amarillo Credit Association
Herring Hotel
Don Blazheim
Walter Blackburn
Memorial Park
Texas Manfacturers Association
Amarillo Building
S. H. Twaddell
Texas Ailroad Commission
Southwestern Investment Co
Ed Shaw
PBX
Mr. Shaw
Vermont
Seattle
Volk Bros. Co
Bullock's
Wilos Angeles
Lord & Taylor
Manhasset
L. 1
Harold F. Volk
Samuel Building Corp
Murray Samuels
Santa Fe Sding
Harlan
Seventeenth and
Jackson
West Tenth Avenue
BPS
Clapp
Clapp's Baby Foods
East 40Th Street
N. Y
Burlington
Don Miller
Igre
Taylor
Roy Mathes
Weston Sides
Roy Mathes Lumber & Supply Co
Lee Bcra
Mrs. Newman
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