YMCA Volunteer Campaign Drive Meeting Tonight
Fourth report meeting for YMCA membership campaign will be held at 7 30 tonight in the YMCA. Herbert Willborn Y board president said the campaign total at the last report is 12014 with a goal of 21063. He urges all volunteers to attend. Doc Watkins Aggie team will handle refreshments. The drive aims to finish in time for a May 4 victory banquet and asks contributors by mail due to limited contact capacity.
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YMCA
Herbert Willborn
Y” Board
Willborn
Doc Watkins
Aggie
Legion Stag Party Tonight at Herring Hotel
Amarillo American Legion members will attend a stag party at 6:30 tonight in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel. Hanson Post No. 54 sponsors the event for all members and their guests with a buffet dinner and entertainment planned.
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Amarillo American Legion
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
Boots Jones
Hanson Post
Fires Mostly Caused by Careless Use of Matches and Smoke
About 30 percent of home-destroying fires stem from careless matches and smoking. Authorities urge caution and prevention measures.
Old Fiddlers Contest Adds Square Dance Chili Pepper Style
The Old Fiddlers contest in Amarillo adds the Chicken Feed Set to the program at Municipal Auditorium with John Warlick as manager. The Warlick team joins Hap Latridge's Cowboys Set, boosting the square dance lineup alongside the final $565 prize fiddler contest. Ticket prices range from 60 cents to $1.20 with tax included.
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John Warlick
Municipal Auditorium
Warlick
Amarillo
Cliff Harris
Hap Latridge
C. E. Loter
Wheeler
Eck Robertson
Wes Campbell
Levelland
N. F. Fox
Delmar Shirely
Friona
Les Beard
Calvin Brown
Plainview
Hugh Rhoden
Gene Sewell
Granite
Okla
George Cockrell
Harris
Tolzien
East Ninth
Panhandle veterans enroll in SMU lumber dealers training
Kenneth Linn of Amarillo and Robert A. Ward of Pampa join a four week Retail Lumber Dealers Training Course at SMU announced by Gene Ebersole. The program, sponsored with national and state lumber bodies, opens with 35 students many ex servicemen. Graduation certificates will be issued by the university and state association.
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Panhandle
Kenneth Linn
Poxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co
Amarillo
Robert A. Ward
Houston Bros., Inc
Pampa
SMU
Gene Ebersole
Lumbermen’s Association of Texas
Mac Lingo
University and State Association
Palestine's troubles span history and power struggles
James E. Roper surveys the Palestine question from 1000 BC to postwar era. He traces Arab Jewish rivalry, Balfour Declaration, League mandate, and Zionist claims, noting British restraint on Jewish immigration and Arab insistence on sovereignty as major tensions. Attendance at county farm meetings rose from 12,000,000 in 1920 to 46,000,000 in 1940.
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United Nations Hall
Flushing
N. Y
United Nations
Middle East
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Palestine
Egypt
Joshua
Jericho
Greece
Rome
France
Turkey
Lord Balfour
Italy
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Holy Land
Amarillo Crime Rate Falls But Rises Nationally in 1946
FBI data show Amarillo had 1 057 crimes in 1946 down from 1 347 in 1945, a rate of 2040 offenses per 100 000, better than the West South Central regional rate of 2410 and Texas 2940. Larceny led with 544 cases. burglaries 158. auto theft 354. no robberies or assaults reported. J Edgar Hoover notes a nationwide 7.6 percent rise in crime in 1946 as juvenile offenders move into more serious crime.
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Amarillo
West South Central States
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Texas
J. Edgar Hoover
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C. L. Copeland
American Life Ins. CO
BOB Seeds Hardware & Sporting Goods
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B. Taylor
Coats
Army O.D
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Bendix
Westinghouse
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Research and Development Department
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips, Texas
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Geo. S. McCarthy
FISK
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J. E. Hewett
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East Sth
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Amarillo Printing
Amarillo Printing Company
Franklin Life Insurance Company
Franklin Life
Springfield
Illinois
Stox - Legal Reserve Life Insurance
America
Pames
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NORTH
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N. Fillmore
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