National Grand Champion Steer Sells for 3.30 a Pound
The 42nd International Livestock Exposition grand champion steer Loyal Alumnus 4th, an Aberdeen Angus exhibited by Purdue University, sold for 330 dollars per pound to Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. The similar last year’s winner Largo, a Hereford, owned by Evelyn Asay, also went to Firestone. The auction started at 1 dollar and rose slowly, with the reserve grand champion T-O Again selling for 1 dollar per pound to a Chicago club. The winning steer, weighing 930 pounds, was exhibited by T. Richard Tacy. Firestone plans a touring display in a glass-enclosed land yacht across Texas and the Southwest this winter and the Northern cattle regions next spring and summer.
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Purdue University
LaFayette
Ind
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Largo
Evelyn Asay
Carroll
Roy Johnston
Belton
T-O Auain
T. Richard Tacy
Kansas
T-O
Firestone
Texas
Southwest
All-School Dance Planned by Student Congress
An all-school dance will be held in the Senior High School gymnasium Saturday night from 8:30 to 11:45. Admission is 50 cents plus a toy for Christmas charities. Principal R B Norman notes the same charge for couples and stayers. Amarillo College students and alumni are invited. Decorations are being assembled and The Collegians will provide the music.
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R. B. Norman
Norman
Amarillo College
Amarillo Backs State Traffic Safety Drive
Mayor Joe Jenkins announced Amarillo will join a December state wide emergency campaign against traffic accidents after letters from Governor Stevenson and Texas Safety Association director George Clark urged stricter enforcement.
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Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Coke Stevenson
George Clark
Texas Safety Association
Stevenson
Chief Cooper Attends State Fire Meeting
Chief George B. Cooper, recently named district coordinator for the state fire defense, left for a state conference in Austin. Coordinators from Canyon and Wellington were urged to attend as 49 counties in Amarillo’s district seek organization for fire emergencies.
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George B. Cooper
Austin
Cooper
Canyon
Wellington
George Hawley
Amarillo
Top Salesman Talks Tonight by Elmer Wheeler
Elmer Wheeler the nations No 1 salesman speaks tonight at the city auditorium on tested selling words and low pressure selling. He heads the Tested Selling Institute in New York and has 100000 selling words in the lab. Proceeds go to Boys Ranch and Maverick Club. Jeanne Kavanaugh signs Roosevelt's name to government documents.
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Elmer Wheeler
City Auditorium
Wheeler
Mr. Wheeler
Sonny
New York City
Amarillo
Rotary
Boys’ Ranch
Maverick Club
New York
Reservations Open for Amarillo to Mexico City Air Trip
Five reservations by a single individual nearly fill the remaining spaces for the Christmas holidays air cruise from Amarillo to Mexico City. The deadline is tomorrow night. Interested parties should contact Mason King the tour director or Barney Ogle Braniff Airways district traffic manager.
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Amarillo
Mexico City
Mason King
Barney Ogle
Braniff Airways
Moe Tack General Housework Advertisement
A reader asks for general house work on Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays afternoons with possible mornings. Please call after six. Also a housekeeper wanted between 20 and 35 years old. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17.
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Tack
Diving Bombers Breeding Nest Dedicated in Columbus
In Columbus Ohio on December 4 the Curtiss-Wright plant site a 26 acre facility was dedicated as the breeding nest of the worlds best dive bombers John H Towers head of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics declared the occasion and Curtiss Wright will build the Hell Diver dive bomber and Seagull No 1 scouting ship for the navy with production expected to begin early next year The first scouting ship was displayed at the ceremony.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
Democracy
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
John H. Towers
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Curtiss-Wright
Navy
Indies Will Protect Vast Oil Industry
A Netherlands East Indies spokesman said the Indies oil industry would come under government supervision if involved in war and would be destroyed if undefendable. The enemy would pay a heavy toll, then find ruins, per Aneta. The report notes U.S. exports of cotton and tobacco before the European war.
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Batavia
Java
Netherlands East Indies
The
Indies
Aneta
Net
Amarillo Man Joins Navy After Quitting Job
W. B. Mitchell, an Amarillo zinc smelter worker and former army man who served in the Philippines for two years, quits today to join the U S Navy citing dislike of Japanese attitudes. He has a wife and two young daughters. In Manila a transport group bound for China arrives to support Burma Road supply lines with U S currency and war materiel for Chiang Kai-shek's government.
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W. B. Mitchell
Mitchell
Philippine Islands
Amarillo
Philippines
Uncle Sam
Navy
Manila
Burma
China
United States
Far East
Chiang Kai-Shek
Bridge Collapse Drenches Hartford Workmen
A section of the Connecticut River bridge in Hartford collapsed burying workers beneath a 100 ton crane and a massive girder. At least 20 men were believed on the span with rescuers checking for those trapped while ambulances and police aided the scene. Wives gathered along the riverbank as crews worked to locate anyone still missing.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut River
The
Hartford Times
Flower Arranging Classes Attract Boston Housewives
Boston horticulturalists sponsor weekly flower arranging classes for housewives led by Mrs. Arthur P. Teele. Students bring only scissors a flower holder and 50 cents while the society provides a variety of flowers. The program aims to offer relaxation and pleasure to city dwellers.
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Boston
Arthur P. Teele
The
Horticultural Society
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