160 Homes for City Still In the Mill
Amarillo officials report 160 of 175 new homes authorized for the city as a critical defense area remain in the mill. No permits issued for the first 15 homes cleared through Dallas offices. Conversion plans under Victory Housing allow up to $100 in critical materials per room via FHA order P-110. War workers face housing shortages as gas heaters are halted and basements tents and garages become living spaces.
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Amarillo
Dallas
Victory
Federal Housing Administration
Associated Press
San Francisco
Board OF Insurance Commissioners
Austin
Texas
O. P. Lockhart
Seek Control Of Manpower By JACK BELL
Congress may review a proposal to create a war manpower commission with broad power to direct workers into essential war tasks. It may also authorize inspectors in plants to prevent labor hoarding on cost plus contracts as Congress returns in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
Congress
War Manpower Commission
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Senate
House
Old Cowhands Plan Roundup Aug 20 27
The 22nd reunion of West cowpunchers set for Aug 26 27 on the T Anchor range near Canyon. Activities include a ranch dance Aug 26 with square dancing and music by Bill Hensley Uncle Billy Jarrett and others, a John Snider barbecue at noon, and a program featuring Elmore Dodson and Judge C E Coombes. Members must notify E C Britain and pay $2 initiation. eligibility extends to pioneers before 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Canyon
E. C. Britain
Mel Armstrong
Ed Baird
Bill Hensley
Amarillo
Billy” Jarrett
Dalhart
John Snider
Britain
Elmore Dodson
Dodson
Collingsworth County
Blackburn-Shaw
C. E. Coombes
Stamford
Billy Dixon
Laura V. Hamner
John McCarty
Oliver Fable
Hanoi Raided by Chinese Report Claims Japanese Broadcast
New York reports that a Japanese controlled radio in Saigon broadcast to CBS that Chinese aircraft raided Hanoi and Haiphong in French Indo China, including the capital and Gulf of Tonkin Port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Saigon
CBS
Hanoi
Haiphong
Indo-China
Gulf of Tonkin
H. R. Smith In Amarillo En Route To Pecos War Project
H R Smith former Amarillo city manager is in Amarillo today en route to Pecos to supervise water system installation for a war project. He has been chief supervising superintendent for Uvalde Construction Company based in Dallas with several large war contracts and recent Love Field improvements in Dallas. He planned a brief visit with his mother in Clovis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Smith
Amarillo
Pecos
Uvalde Construction Company
Dallas
Love Field
Texans Launch Fighting Ships Amid War Shipyard Efforts
Ships launched along Texas Gulf coast and in Beaumont boost United Nations war needs. The U S S Murray destroyer named for Capt Alexander Murray was christened by the commandant’s wife and launched amid shower. In Beaumont the U S Portent minesweeper and Cape St Elias cargo vessel slid into the water, sponsored by Mrs. Arthur L. Kline Jr and Miss Frankie Rumery, marking continued series of CIA type ships from Consolidated yards and Pennsylvania yards respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. S. Murray
Fighth Naval District
Beaumont
Pennsylvania
U. S
Orange
Murray
H. B. Hird
Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd
Consolidated Yard
Alexander Murray
Arthur L. Kline, Jr
Cape St. Elias
Kline
Buffalo
N. Y
Robert E. Kline
Frankie Rumery
Kyle Rumery
Mrs J C Montgomery Injured in Front Porch Fall
Mrs J C Montgomery of 506 North Johnson Street sustained a broken arm and back injuries when she slipped and fell from her front porch while watering the lawn. Neighbors summoned an N S Griggs and Sons ambulance to take her to St Anthony's Hospital. The accident occurred about 9 o'clock this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Montgomery
North Johnson Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Mascot Dog Fausto Survives Lifeboat After Sinking
An East Coast port reports Fausto the ship mascot and 13 seamen spent 15 days in an open lifeboat after the Uruguayan freighter Maldonado was torpedoed west of Bermuda on August 1. The group had ample provisions and faced no particular hardships before landing here on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fausto
Maldonado
Bermuda
Fourth Naval District
Rogers To Discuss School Term In Amarillo Meeting
Amarillo schools superintendent C. M. Rogers will outline plans for the coming term at a South Amarillo Club gathering at 8 pm in the Alice Landergin school. After his talk a Q and A period will follow with music and entertainment planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Rogers
Amarillo
South
Post Office Parking Plan Faces Revisions Amid Traffic Woes
Amarillo officials weigh reverting to angle parking on Fifth Avenue while removing north courthouse square meters and banning south side parking between Taylor and Fillmore. City Manager Hahnock cites aim to ease jams as parallel spaces shrink and complaints grow about walking to mail. Police Chief Harper notes accessibility concerns for mail service as changes loom.
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Amarillo
Fifth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Austin P. Hancock
Taylor and
Fillmore Streets
Courthouse Square
A. S
Sid" Harper
WAAC Positions Announced in West Texas District
Lieut. Col. Marvin B. Durrette announced WAAC shipping quotas for the next two months. The call seeks clerks chauffeurs switchboard operators stenographers typists cooks and general duty auxiliaries. Specialists qualified for WAAC enrollment may be called to active duty soon. Full information at army recruiting stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin B. Durrette
West Texas
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
WAAC
Army
Ambassador Joseph Grew Planned as Special Assistant to Hull
Washington reports Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, returning from Japan, slated to become special assistant to Secretary of State Hull to advise on Far Eastern affairs. If not assigned elsewhere, he will handle most Far East advisory work, reporting to Roosevelt, Hull, after Gripsholm voyage and a rest on his New Hampshire farm.
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Washington
U.P
Joseph Clark Grew
Japan
Cordell Hull
John van A. MacMurray
Turkey
Hull
Grew
Department
Roosevelt
Far East
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Office of Civilian Defense
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Fine Diamonds
J.T. Russell
Ell House
Peett Fleer
Ares
MARCO
Johnson's
S&h
GLOBE
West 7Th Ave
United States
Africa
Asia
Australia
South America
ATS
Mouthed
Glycerine and Associated Industries
Conservation Division
The
WAR Production Board
Old Cowhands
United Press
Gulf Coast
United Nations
Rogers
Cleveland
United Spanish War Veterans
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Affairs
Board OF Insurance Commissioners of the
State of Texas
New York Casualty Company
Amarillo Printing CO
Gripsholm
New Hampshire
Aspirinorld
Badger Ice CO
Bellshein Cleaning
Bell’s
Bell Tailors, Inc
Polk St
Better Business Bureau
West 6Th ST
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