Birthday Jinxhaunted Hollis DeGrassi Jr
Local notes recount Hollis DeGrassi Jr turning 16 with a string of birthday mishaps from a head injury at age five to a wrist sprain and a nail in his foot at work. The item frames a quirky superstition about a birthday jinx across years 1990s Amarillo context.
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Hollis DeGrassi, Jr
Bowie
Hollis
Mr. DeGrassi
J. Frnest Stroud & Co
Don Culton
Hughes
Don
Bill
Bob Singleton
Rip Singleton
Pasadena
Northwest Texas Hospital News Page Briefs
A jumble of names and addresses tied to Northwest Texas Hospital News items lists residents visiting relatives and local figures across Borger Panhandle and Plainview. Notable mentions include visits by Coeta Fields and Mary Tingle, plus redecorating at Roberts County courthouse and guests Opie Gude and Jody Jinks at Cross Roads.
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Janis Crandall
A Parker
Jimmy Neill
Everman
Sue Robus
Prospect
Donald Strout
Florida
Georgia Garner
Monroe
Margaret van Huss
River Drive
Ida Roselius
Panhandle
Louise McRee
Borger
Ronnie Mullins
Boys Ranch
Wilbur Wood
North Fillmore
Florence Thompson
Lipscomb
Pearl Daugherty
Pierce
Arline Heidenrich
Tech Village
Margaret Munger
Georgia
Iva McAlister
Madison
Minnie Conrad
Travis
Pat Forman
Crockett
John Henry Thompson
North Arthur
Ted Harp
Katheryn Whitehead
Army Tech Village
Thomas Johnson
West Eighteenth
Bertha Carroll
West Tenth
Patsy Harman
Tulsa
Jimmy Groom
Walter Brown
Hereford
Irene Plaster
LaSalle
Ann Watkins
Bettye Webb
East Tenth
Nellie Robinson
North Alabama
Doris Cooper
North West First
Raymond Arabalo
Lincoln
Bonnie Jean Alverson
Luke Smith
North Fast Second
Helen Delaho
Martha Reeder
Jackson
Glendoris Pris
Louisiana
Guy Rakes
North East Fifteenth
Mary Tingle
North West Twelfth
van Buren
Gayola Johnson
Roberts County
Cross Roads
Opie Gude
Bonita
Jody Jinks
East Central
Irvin J Seymour Born in Anacortes and Carpenter
Irvin J Seymour born March 14 1912 in Anacortes Washington is listed as a new citizen applicant. He resides at 1828 Austin Everet Washington and reports fronting a carpentry trade. He states health prompted his move to Amarillo and his hobby is fishing.
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Irvin J. Seymour
Austin
Anacortes
Wash
Everett
Carpenter
Amarillo
Garveys and students travel to Austin for Texas University term
Mr and Mrs Pat Garvey of Olney Texas accompany Leon Dowie and Gilbert Ford from Amarillo as they prepare for the fall term at Texas University Leon enters the university for the first time while Gilbert is already enrolled Both were notable basketball players at Amarillo High School.
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Dolly McDaniel
Los Angeles
Globe-News Dispatch
Prospect
Amarillo
al Bannister
Sammy
Clinton
Okla
Hayden
Bannister
H. T. Dickens
White Deer
Pat Garvey
Olney, Texas
Leon Dowie
Western
Gilbert Ford
Belleview
Austin
Texas University
Leon
Gilbert
Amarillo High School
Kefauver urges federation of free nations within UN
Senator Kefauver at a Portland Democratic picnic proposes forming a federation of free nations under the United Nations to strengthen common defense. He says the federation would carry power to assure safety and advocates transatlantic democracy on a federal level. He defends Truman foreign policy and attacks Republican opposition as alarmist about Communism.
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Portland
Ore
Kefauver
Tennessee
Free Nations
United Nations
Homemade Sloop Returns From Atlantic Crossing
Two young British shipbuilders Stanley Smith and Charles Viotet from the Isle of Wight sailed an 18-foot homemade wooden sloop from England to New York. They were skippered by a Nova Scotia fishing boat and reached Liverpool Nova Scotia on August 8 after an eight day voyage.
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Liverpool
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Stanley Smith
Charles Viotet
Isle of Wight
England
Nova Scotia
Price Chart Check On Dealers Starts
The government moves to require retailers to file price charts for clothing, furniture, household wares, radios and televisions. OPS enforcement agents will pursue court action through US attorneys against dealers who ignore warnings and fail to file the charts.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
Edward P. Morgan
Justice Department
Suitcase Baby Remains Unidentified in Galveston
Galveston officers said the week old infant found in a discarded suitcase on a downtown street last Friday remains unidentified. The child is described as healthy and content, currently cared for at St. Marys Infirmary, with no leads on the parent or anyone connected to the incident.
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Galveston
Aug
St. Mary's Infirmary
Soff Drinks Overtake Liquor in Venezuela Output
In 1950 Venezuela produced twice as much liquor and wine as in 1945 while soft drinks surged tenfold. Puerto Cabello reports the shift in beverage production reflecting a growing consumer market.
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Puerto Cabello
Venezzuela
Venezuela
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B. C. Burde, Jr
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