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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1940
Page
12
A detailed listing of daily programs across KGNC and KFDA stations, detailing daytime and evening lineups. Notable items include Glen Gray and Kay Kyser orchestras, Abbott and Costello, The Guiding Light, Pepper Young’s Family, The Lone Ranger, and multiple early morning and afternoon shows.
Rep. Martin Dies, head of the un American activities committee, arrived back East after vowing to drive out Harold Ickes and Frances Perkins if they aid enemies. He cited 6,000,000 in the U S as members of Communist, Fascist or Nazi groups, warned leaders in government must be ousted, and cleared Fredric March James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart of Communist ties while promising to report findings to the full committee.
Texas residents and out of town Coffee family members gather at Ellwood Park in Amarillo for the annual reunion and all day picnic. About 100 Coffee relatives from across the state are expected along with several elder members aged 65 to 78. Notables include George Coffee of White Deer as president and A C Coffee of Pampa as vice president with Mrs W Coffee serving as secretary.
On a city bus in Amarillo two visiting women from Boston and Denver chatted with printer Carl Parker. A man who had just exited wore a Nazi emblem on a silver wrist band prompting remarks about fifth columnists as locals discussed why he displayed the symbol.
Program lineup lists 4:00 A P Bulletins and 4:05 Old Fashioned Girl on MBS, 4:15 Crime and Death on TSN, 4:30 Musical Arts Conservatory, 4:45 Johnson Family on TSN, 5:00 Fulton Lewis on MBS, 5:15 News on INS, 5:20 KFPDATA, 5:25 San Jacinto Boosters studio, 5:30 Dixie Revelers, 5:45 Sage of Sage Hills on TSN.
Radio lineup for Wednesday August 21 lists programs across networks from 3:45 pm to 10 pm CST. Highlights include The O Neills Sketch, Li l Abner sketch, News by Edwin Hill and Paul Sullivan, Abbott and Costello, Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Kay Kyser College program with various music acts and dramatic segments.
A fragment notes a traveler recounting a New Mexico keepsake and the shift away from the Swastika by Indians due to its association with Hitler, while the symbol is shown counter clockwise.
Rock Island Railroad begins work within days on terminal facilities at Pennsylvania Avenue and Railroad Street in Memphis for new streamlined Rocket diesel trains to operate this fall between Memphis and Amarillo. The site, near the Mississippi River bridge approach, includes a transfer table hoist wheel renewal pits 8000 gallon fuel tank and service extensions. Facilities will support five car Rockets with room to expand to seven cars.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager Carl Hinton will leave Washington this Saturday for a week of vacation in Canada. Approval of the leave was given by Chamber officials. He said the trip is on his own expense and time and he expects to gain insights useful for Amarillo and the Panhandle defense plans.
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