Pilot Club to Run Park Fundraiser for Infant Hess Bed
Pilot Club members operate Eleventh and Polk amusement park tomorrow night to raise funds for a Hess Bed for a pre mature infant unit. Proceeds from the merry go round ferris wheel and concessions will be donated by manager S S Rhodes. Ice cream popcorn and cold drinks will be sold starting at seven. Funds totaling 500 will finance the Hess Bed for an Amarillo hospital.
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Pilot Club
Eleventh and Polk
S. S. Rhodes
Amarillo
Lewis Shane
Frances Cyrus
Billie Davis
Josephine DeCoster
Frances Ruth Benson
Florence Ames
Sarah Winter
Hess
Second Polio Death in Year Shocks Amarillo
Mickey Vineyard dies of polio in Plainview bringing Amarillo's polio fatalities this year to two. The previous death occurred in mid May. City health officer Dr. John Hooper says the situation is serious but not epidemic. Eight cases reported in Amarillo this year with six hospitalizations this month at West Texas Clinic. Five Amarillo cases remain hospitalized. No polio deaths in Amarillo last year. two in 1944.
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Mickey Vineyard
Plainview
Amarillo
John Hooper
West Texas
City Health Department
Milk buyers strike called off in Amarillo
Amarillo organizers led by Mrs. J. R. Marler said there will be no strike for now after studying pasture feed and labor conditions related to milk processing and distribution. Co organizers include Mrs Lyman Hall.
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Amarillo
J. R. Marler
West Eleventh
Marler
Lyman Hall
Don’t Wish For Flawless Skin Glamorous Complexion Remedy
An advertisement for Golden Peacock Bleach Creme promises to improve dull muddy skin, flakiness, and external blemishes with gentle, safe application. A few uses allegedly yield a brighter firmer complexion almost overnight, offered at 50c and 1.00 at drug counters.
Milk Riches Hair Growth Claim By Chicago Child
Grace Courtney reports her daughter Joan Marie Courtney a five year old girl from Chicago who began drinking a prodigious amount of milk at 1.2 years old and now has hair 27 and a half inches long. The mother believes the milk fuels the rapid hair growth.
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Amarillo
Jean Marie Courtney
Grace Courtney
Chicago
Joan Marie
Joan
Criminal Court Docket Set for Week of Aug 26
The 47th District Court criminal docket excluding capital offenses is set for trial the week of August 26. A petit jury of 160 men has been ordered.
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47Th District Court
OPA Authorizes Price Increase on Truck Trailers
The Office of Price Administration authorizes an 8.6 percent rise in price ceilings for truck trailers to offset higher wages and material costs. The increase takes effect Saturday and dealers may pass the full amount to customers. The note about 1859 petroleum discovery appears as historical context.
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OPA
Washington
Slowdown in Residential Building Permits This Week
Construction activity eases from last week’s pace with only five residential permits issued in the first three days of the week. New dwellings include five one and two story brick veneer or frame houses valued from four to nine thousand dollars. Three foundation permits for eight room Quonset style residences in the 600 block of South Osage target rent or sale.
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E. W. Sides
West Eleventh
Jack T. Hicks
Beverly
W. F E. Leavelle
Parker
C. L. Phillips
Ong
Louis Kirchafer
William H. Harmon
South
Osage
Ease Neuralgia With Quick-Acting BC
Use quick acting BC head ache powders for prompt relief from neuralgic pain. BC also relieves head aches muscular aches and functional periodic pains. 10c and 25c sizes. Use only as directed. Consult a physician if pains persist.
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Promes
Nine Osage lots to host future steel frame dwellings
Quonset style construction with plastered walls and white siding fronts. Each unit includes three closets and trellised fronts. Mr Harmon owns nine South Osage lots to be landscaped and prepared for new steel frame dwellings at a later date.
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Harmon
South
Osage
Deputy Sheriff Heads to Kansas City for Embezzlement Case
Deputy Sheriff Dick Vaughn will depart for Kansas City Missouri to take custody of Loren R Edwards recently indicted by the Potter County grand jury for embezzlement Edwards is held by Missouri officers and charged with embezzling four truck tires valued over 250 dollars from a local firm
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Dick Vaughn
Kansas City
Loren R. Edwards
Potter County
Grand Jury
Edwards
Missouri
Reenlistment Accepted for Navy Aviation Mate Kerbow
James Edward Kerbow an aviation machinist mate third class has been accepted for reenlistment for two years Navy recruiter Chief M E Pierce said. Kerbow previously served two years and two months and is the son of Mrs Myrtle Kerbow 904 Jefferson. Also enlisted was Alvin Alexander Marchbanks son of Mrs Myrtle Marchbanks Shamrock who took a minority enlistment to serve until his twenty first birthday.
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James Edward Kerbow
Navy
M. E. Pierce
Kerbow
Myrtle Kerbow
Jefferson
Alvin Alexander Marchbanks
Myrtle Marchbanks
Shamrock
Pittsburgh Officials Report Big Annual Entertainment Spending
Pittsburgh taxpayers spent 36 million dollars in the last fiscal year for recreation and night club entertainment, with the bulk going to public amusements as noted by the Internal Revenue Bureau.
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Pittsburgh
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