Around Town Notes Highlight Travels and Births
Ramona Gilbert sails to California guests in Berkeley with the Fowler family while others vacation in Colorado and California. New babies arrive at St. Anthony's and Northwest Texas Hospital, with many local names listed among birthdays and visitors across Amarillo and area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramona Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert
Crockett
California
Lela Fowler
Berkeley
Maynard Drake
Jimma
Travis
San Francisco
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Unorthodox General Gets GI Job Done in Germany
Maj. Gen. Ernie Harmon, famed overseas police figure, leads with unorthodox tactics. He championed armor first at Anzio breaking lines, sacrificing tanks to save infantry, then shifts to the American zone with a railroad train as his lodge for inspection. He mingles with troopers, praises discipline, and consoles wounded veterans, embodying a tough yet sentimental leadership style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bamberg
Germany
Ernie Harmon
America
Harmon
Anzio
McNarney
American Constabulary
Constabulary
Ernie
36Th Division
Rapido
Italy
Cat Loses One Life Artificial Respiration Saves Other Eight
Blackie seemed lifeless after an apparent electrocution but firefighters revived her with artificial respiration at Dallas Fire Station 225. Capt. H. L. Russell reported the cat regained breath, mewed, and drank milk, preserving eight of her nine lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Blackie
Fire Station 225
H. L. Russell
World favors cut in air mail rates finds Hannegan says
Postmaster General Hannegan reports foreign postal chiefs backed lower world air mail rates and the creation of international air parcel post after his overseas tour. These topics will be on the agenda of the international postal congress next year in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hannegan
International Air Parcel Post
Paris
Visit by Lt. JG Goodrich to Mrs Hurd and family
Lt. (jg) Raymond Goodrich and wife visit Mrs. Murphy Hurd at 3803 East Eleventh and other relatives before his transfer to the West Coast. Their son Jimmy accompanies them on the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurd
Raymond Goodrich
Jimmy
Murphy Hurd
East Eleventh
Lieutenant Goodrich
West Coast
Vernon visitors greet local Andersons and Robersons
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anderson of Vernon are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Anderson at 806 A Adams and Mrs. J. E. Roberson at 1006 North East Fifth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. McFarland
Jackson
North
H. W. Miner
Charlotte and
Harry
Corpus Christi
Joe Ostrander
Taylor
Roy Adams
Tanya
Eric
Battle Creek
Mich
G. R. Maxwell
South Roberts
C. L. Veacey
Virginia
Nugent Kunkle
Robert
Mountain View
Cal
Kunkle
Maxwell
Veacey
Amarillo
Gladys Grubbs
West Ninth
Minerva Dean
Wichita Falls
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
NEWS
Tommie Elwyn Rockett
North Buchanan
William Edgar Haley
Sunset
Gertie Grant
South Garfield
Catherine Beeman
Polk
Zenobia Johnson
Florida
Mona Frances Wright
Borger
Alan Johnson
Georgia
May Cooper
Charles Vernon
Dumas
G. M. McDonald
Guymon
Nina Helen Johnson
Frank Graham
Johnson
M. K. Hill
Madison
Vernon
W. H. Anderson
W. L. Anderson
A Adams
J. E. Roberson
North East Fighth
Vocal Tom Cat Silenced With Burned-Out Bulb
Deputy Sheriff Brad Wilson used a burned-out light bulb as ammunition to stop a noisy tom cat that kept him and neighbors awake. The cat fled, and neighbors woke to Wilson’s loud laugh after the shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Cat
Cumberland
Mad
Brad Wilson
Tommy
Wilson
Males Form No-Haircut Club To Protest High Prices
Protesters in Chicago form a No-Haircut Club protesting $1 haircuts and a second group forms in New York City. Members will wear wigs to show how they might look without trimming prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York City
Railroad personnel shifts and hires at Fresno and Amarillo
Railroads report Fresno safety supervisor reassigned to Valley and San Francisco terminals with part of Arizona divisions. Duggan visits Amarillo on company business. Phillips moves to statement clerk in the superintendent’s office. Meckel becomes roadmaster’s office clerk. Pitts returns from St Louis wedding. Jeffus fills in. Billingsley marries Virginia Montgomery in Tahoka July 13. now living at 1508 Hayden. New signal department workers include Carpenter and Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Valley
San Francisco
Arizona
E. L. Duggan
Amarillo
Bill Phillips, Jr
Letitia Meckel
Phillips
O. H. Pitt
Granville Billingsley
Stone
Virginia Montgomery
Tahoka
Hayden
Signal Department
R. L. Carpenter
JL. N. Lewis
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Colorado
Frank Holtzclaw
Roy Holtzclaw
Tulsa
Monte Vista
Colo
Charles Cox
Creede
E. F. Langdon
Edwin Langdon
Amarillo Hotel
Hornsville
R. A. Stargal
West Thirteenth
St. Anthony's Hospital
C. A. Crotty
West Eighth
Ivan Frederiksen
Wichita
C. M. Capps
Spring
O. E. Hudson
Stratford
West Texas Hospital
E. P. Harkins
Northwest Texas Hospital
H. W. Cotex
North Hughes
BY the
Way
E. M. Blackburn
Topeka
Lima
George Menninger
J. B. Oxford
Rusk
W. A. Whitfield
Albuquerque
Oxfords
New Mexico
Raymond H. Routh
Pat
Floyd Wilson
Claude
K. H. Routh
Hillsboro
Granville Routh
Miner
First Baptist Church
Jack Martin
Mangum
Okla
Martin
T. M. Brown
Jennie Lynn Ladd
T. K. Flack
Houston
Pierce Flack
Fort Worth
G. R
Houston Temple
al Baggett
Martha Young
Lena Berry
Peggy Stanford
Charles Mulkey
Northwest Texas Hospital News
Margaret Henderson
Texhoma
Lara Tucker
Pierce
Robert D. Higgs
North West Tenth
Margaret Hill
Cleveland
Patsy Moore
Hughes
W. S. Neville
Shamrock
Lucille Davis
Texas
W. C. Meharg
Carey Pryor Page
Clarendon
Bobby Bivins
Tyler
Peggy Walker
Belleview
Johnie William Miller
Harrison
Nellie
Cecile Dyke
Betty Lu
Wayne Lovelady
Monroe
Pueblo
Idaho
James Gwyn
Kentucky
Tennessee
Milholland
North Johnson
Roy Gerard
Carolyn
Cecile
Kansas City
Gerard
Ann Flamm
Dalhart
Ann
Mattie B. Flamm
la Salle
L. T. Edwards
Fillmore
W. L. Summers
Sanford
A. J. Lynn
H. C. Pendleton
North Taylor
Loyle A. Seburn
North Fillmore
Margaret McMillen
West Eighteenth
Surgical
J. FE. Burt
Tom Lane
Memphis
Lillian S. Rockett
Santa Fe
L. J. Smith
van Buren
Kappen
TRAT
Bolivar
Chase
Pug
Oppaui
MR. Jorkim
Jorkim
Jorkim, Inc
Los Loco
MR. Abernathy
Joakim
Boe Woopy
Cherry
Woreyv
Los
Wahy
TM Ree
Apereae Pykiieders Bnew
Motor Investment CO
State Department of Banking
Fagaly and Skorten
Frances R Schafer
Milwaukee
Wisc
MR. Cringely
Dari Ann
KGNC
Darierage Wiesen
K. C
Buck Chambers
Davis Sisters
Trading Post
Reveille
NBC
Dariana
Lora Lawton
NBC Ai
Joyce Jordan
NBC Oo
Bernie Howell
Barry Cameron
David Harum
Allen Shivers
Art van Damme
Rush
Russi Hughes
Star Reporter, LLC
Wunstop
Dunzitt
Ma Perkins
Morton Downey
Pepper Young
Bride and Groom
ABC
NBC _ Bride and Groom
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
al Pearce
Jack Berch
Portia
Texas Wanderers
Parrell
Walter Kiernan
Judy and
Jane Terry
Dick Tracy
Jack Armstrong
Monte Magee
K. C. Lum
Abner
The
Vaughn Monroe
Chesterfield
Shrednik
KFDA
Central Baptist Church
Smoky Joe Barnes
Breakfast In
Hollywood
Ted Malone
ABC News
Monte Mag
Panhandle
Olmstead Playhouse
Maxwell House
CBS
FBI
MBS
Vic and Sade
Andre Kostelanets
Gabriel Heater
Hobby Lobby
Globe-News
Anna Pautz
P. O. Box
Vancouver
Wash
Nue-Ovo Laboratories
J. M
Simpson
Plate Glass
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