Pilot Leon Oliver Promoted To First Lieutenant
Leon Oliver son of Mr and Mrs H W Oliver 400 East Ninth promoted to first lieutenant. He serves with the 356th Fighter Group Eighth Air Force credited with destroying a German Focke Wulf. He wears the Air Medal with two clusters. Prior to service he was a shipping clerk for Texas Co Amarillo. He earned wings at Luke Field Dec 5 1943 and joined his unit overseas last October. His wife Mrs Verha Lou Oliver resides Huntington Park California.
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Leon Oliver
H. W. Oliver
East Ninth
Leutenant
356Th
Eighth Air Force
Oliver
The
Texas Co
Amarillo
Air Corps
Luke Field
Ariz
Verha Lou Oliver
Huntington Park
Cal
Cpl
Carlyly F. Boehringer
Ina Mae Beehringer
Volbert
Germany
Beehringer
447Th
Luther A. Cooper
John W. Cooper
South Lincoln
Normandy
Europe
Cooper
England
Radio Schedule Chronicle and Local Serviceman News
Radio Wednesday and Thursday programs list numerous KGNC KFDA NBC CBS broadcasts with music news and variety shows. The report also notes military service updates on Amarillo area servicemen including Cpl Beehringer and Sgt Cooper, plus gunner graduates and a Bremerton assignment.
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KFDA
CBS
Kirkwood
MBS
Fulton Lewis, Jr
NBC
London
Blue Lone Ranger
Truman
Three Suns
Kaltenborn
KPDA
Mrs North
Ted Malone
Jack Carson
Cecil Brown
Blue News
Lum
Abner
Curt Massey
Christian Mbs
Barney Grant
CBS News
Eddie Cantor
Frank Sinatra
Gabriel Heatter
San Francisco
KGNC
District Attorney
Ken Murray
Kay Kveer’s College of Musical Knowledge
Niles and Prindle
Bell Transfered to France At Eighth Air Force Depot
Franklin E Bell now serves at an emergency landing field and repair depot of the Eighth Air Force in France as chief clerk in the reclamation section of the supply division. A 1941 Pampa High School graduate, he entered the Army in July 1941 and has spent 15 months in the European area. His brother Sergeant James L Bell serves in the Aleutians.
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France
Eighth Air Force
Franklin E. Bell
Tyler
Strategic Air Depot
Pampa
Bell
Army
European
Sgt
James L. Bell
Aleutians
Macy’s 1944 pages equal 1858 in newspapers fold
Macy’s annual folder shows New York firm spent 112 million dollars in sales for 1944 across 400 000 merchandise types. It notes 85 percent of its advertising budget goes to newspapers and claims Macy’s buys more newspaper space than any other store.
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New York
R. H. Macy & Co
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Macy's
William H. Howard
Navy Building Hospital For 1000 At Houston
Houston based Navy project to open a large hospital with about 1000 beds within a year. The facility along the Ship Channel will cost around 6 million dollars and serve wounded sailors and soldiers from various theaters of war.
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Navy Building Hospital
Houston
Houston, Tex
U.P
Houston Ship Channel
Navy
Houston Hospital
Gordon Highlanders Adopt Black Buttons for Sir John Moore
Black buttons on the gaiters of the Gordon Highlanders were first adopted as a mourning token for Sir John Moore who died at Corunna in 1809.
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Gordon Highlanders
Sir John Moore
Corunna
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Burgiary Insurance
RADIO
Doc Hopkins
Melody Lane
Lora Laton
Aunt Jemima
Blue
Joyce Jordan
Tom Brennaman
Hollywood
Trade Winds
Whiteway
NBCU
Light Crust
Chester Bowles
Lorenzo Jones
Paris
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Bill
ABC
CBS Cimarron Tavern
Farrell
Wilderness Road
Parker Wilson
Jack Armstrong
Wes Izzard
Lowell Thomas and News
Gunner’s School
Kingman
Curtis Dean Powers
S. F. Powers
1611 Travis
Jess Thomas Webb, Jr
Lois Webb
Washington
Bremerton, Wash
Harold W. Sparks
Della Sparks
van Buren
Sparks
Oklahoma City
Civil Aeronautics Administration
USS
Claude H
America
Billie Burke
Eddie Howard and His Orchestra
Mrs. North
Kay Kyser
Joyce
Brora
M.D
Pal Cntters
Pal
PAL Blade CO
Barbara Gould
Picion
Frazier
Alta Frasier
Maury
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Luzon
Lingayen Gulf
Quito
Ecuador
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Globe-News
Detroit
TWA
Globe News
Capito
Aia
IEC
Claudette Jennifer Rr
Joseph Cotten Sie
Mi Ma Eta Aa Tan
Robs
Lowery -Deuk Brooks
NEWS
Nature
SSS
S.S.S. Co
Globe - News
Elsie
Borden
Homo
Quart
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