Building Permits Total $72 300 In Amarillo Week
Amarillo issued building permits totaling 72300 last week raising the year total to 1127450. The largest permit was a 50000 addition to St George College. Other permits included new residences repairs and an industrial structure for car greasing.
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Amarillo
St. George’s College
East Amarillo
Cecil Ingram
L. M. Dobbins
Washington Street
Plemons
L. J. Gamblin
Polk Street
Oliver Eakle
R. M. Brown
Barfield Lumber Company
van Buren Street
D. W. Mayes
Cleveland Street
Glenwood
A. E. Robinson
Star Lumber Company
West Sixth Avenue
San Jacinto
Perry Vermillion
Tom Turner
W. J. Beck
West Tenth Street
Florence Harden
Jess A. Fowlkes
North Buchanan Street
North Amarillo Baptists
A. E. Ewell
Ong Street
Wolflin
Hugh Underwood
Building in Childress at High Mark
Childress shows brisk construction as fall approaches with over 100 laborers at work. Sixty on the coach shops and new depot plus ongoing improvements, residences, and brick veneer homes. Local contractors and lumber firms report steady activity and optimism for a strong fall season.
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Childress
Ed Rutledge
South
Maine
Thaten and
Maxwell
C. P. Sanders
Tragic Train Wreck Off Ostend Seaside Injures fatal toll rises
At Ostend Belgium August 4 two launches collided near the seawall injuring many tourists including Americans. Nineteen bodies recovered, twelve missing, twenty nine hospitalized as crowds watched a seaside tragedy unfold.
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United Press
Ostend
Belgium
Floydada Records Strong Building Month With Permits
Floydada reports a busy July with building permits totaling 27 450 for the month and 213 885 year to date. This week permits include three residences for W B Trice LeRoy McDonald and Floyd County Baptist Association. Earlier in July two brick business houses an addition to a brick business house and a residence addition valued at 18 600 were approved. Russia will construct oil pipelines of an annual capacity of 5 000 000 tons.
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Floydada
Burl Bedford
W. B. Trice
Bartley Heights
LeRoy McDonald
South Side Heights
Floyd County Baptist Association
Distinctive Spanish Type Home improvements of Chil dress area
The article describes extensive building and expansion across several towns. It notes 12 000 dollars of new equipment for a telephone service in Childress, a planned August 16 opening for a new city hall in Clovis, and construction at Dimmitt and Paducah with schools, gyms, and post office space. It mentions the Blue Front ranch sale to Wimberly of Tulsa, plans for Wayland Baptist College gym, and various homes and commercial buildings rising in Tulsa, Amarillo, and Memphis.
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Childress
Clovis
H. H. Errett
R. C. Sharp
Clayton, N. M
Blue Front Ranch
W. GC. Wimberly
Tulsa
A. J. van Cleave
Mr. Wimberly
Dimmitt School Board
G. W. Winsor
Amarillo
Amarillo Brick Company
W. H. Hayman
Triangle Electrical Company
Lubbock
N. G. Jackson
Wilson Lumber Company
Jackson
Talsa Bank
Gau and Vogel
Economics on big agenda at Williamstown
The ninth convocation of the Institute of Politics at Williamstown opens with a focus on world economic stabilization. Discussions cover armament limits, postwar Europe, British industry, and debts and reparations, with sessions on US relations with Canada Mexico and Latin America.
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United Press
Williamstown
Mass
Institute of Politics
Europe
United States
Canada
Mexico
Siegfried
Andre Siegfried
School of Social Science
Paris
America
France
Giovanni Elia
Rome
Italy
T. E. Gregory
London
George Young
Labor
MacDonald
Young
C. L. Hussey
Much Building in Pampa Last Month
Pampa building totals for July reach 105 715 with 684 815 year to date as city inspector Townsend notes. The month ranks third in annual activity behind January and June, no large permits issued, largest at 7 500. Glasgow labor unions have split.
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Pampa
F. FE. Townsend
Book of Home Plans Offered at Low Cost
A book of home plans is offered to promote better homes. Published by the News- Globe and Panhandle Lumber company, the volume sells for 50 cents for pick up or 60 cents delivered by mail.
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Book of
News- Globe and the Panhandle Lumber Company
Seven Farmers Die in Blast at Latnice Battlefield
Seven farmers were killed and several others injured when a shell they found on Latnice battlefield near Lemberg exploded after they removed the fuse cap to recover copper parts. The incident occurred Sunday and involved villagers and local workers.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Poland
Latnice
Lemberg
Mooreland Plans Municipal Power Plant for City Light
Mooreland Oklahoma officials vote to build a municipal light plant to supply electricity locally. They studied required machinery with a power plant manufacturer and will negotiate for plant equipment to be housed on city lots currently containing the pump house and water tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moreland
Okla
Mooreland
Woodward
Paducah Building Permits Rise to 47725 in July
City figures show Paducah issued 47725 in building permits for July as the town experienced steady activity through the usual dull period. Both commercial and residential districts show improvement across the city.
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Paducah
Institute Aims to Foster International Understanding
A description outlines an institute led by Dr. Harry A. Garfield chairman and Professor Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago. Its goals are to study international events, promote adult foreign affairs education, and build goodwill through shared understanding of problems and policies.
Mexican Prisoners to be Taken to Colony
A group of 183 prisoners heads from Mexico City to Islas Marías prison colony to join exiles serving sentences for various offenses. The party left Friday and will sail aboard a government steamer from Manzanillo. It includes several women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mexico City
Islas Marias
Manzanillo
Big Building Boom In Panhandle With New Schools And Depots
A $50,000 Cotton Center School is completed with electric lighting and steam heat and a district wide bus system serves 82 square miles. Lubbock ISD accepts plans for a $600,000 three story high school to be let in September. Big Spring issued $56,825 in building permits. Groundbreaking for Texas and Pacific Railway depot, First Presbyterian Church, and Harvey L. Rix building proceeds along with major contracts including a $150,000 concrete viaduct and $125,000 Wilcox Ellis building.
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Cotton Center
Plainview
Lubbock Independent School District
Peters, Strange and Bradshaw
Lubbock
West Texas
Big Spring
Texas and Pacific Railway
First Presbyterian Church
Harvey L. Rix
Texas and Pacific
Wilcox-Ellis
Baptist
Rhodes issues stamps for royal visit and ethnographic museum
The Italian colony of Rhodes will issue a set of nine portrait stamps to commemorate King Victor Emmanuel Queen Elena and the royal princesses. Rhodes highlights its crusader history with a new ethnographic museum attracting attention.
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Rhodes
Victor Emmanuel
Elena
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Russia
Harrison and Smythe
Wayland Baptist College
Lindsey Nunn
Wellington
Nazarene
Hugh J. Johnson
Buick Company
Whitehouse Lumber Company
Carl Boston
Channing
Memphis
F. S. Randerson
Floydnda
Henry Motor Company
Dodge Brothers Aveney
Cline Brothers Radiator Service
Gullison and Son Tire Service
Glasgow
Panhandle
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
EL Toro
Énbyun
News-Globe
Vernon
W. 6Th St
Amarillo, Texas
Builders Supplies
Texas Plains
Tyler
Wil
Texas
Sixth Avenue
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