Around Town Highlights From the Pampa Area
Local social pages recounts include Mrs. R. H. Brooks hosting a covered dish supper with spouses of Texas Company Old Timers Club. Birthdays, visitors, letters to Santa, and references to Amarillo and Dalhart residents fill the community notes with nonprofit clubs, travel, and holiday cheer.
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Texas Company
Old Timers Club
R. H. Brooks
Crockett
Sam Johnson
J. F. Coffman
Carl Buchanan
L. V. Dorsch
Jim Baker
P. Harmon
J. D. Andrews
Beth Miese
I. H. McMahon
Frank Wire
North Pierce
Charles W. Noe
Louisville
Hollywood
Cal
Noe
Rebecca Jane
Noes
Isham Wright
Our Newer Citizens James E Chaney profile item
James E Chaney born October 29, 1923 in Ada Oklahoma. He lived at 1604 A North Lake and worked in Armour and Co Household Soap Dept after Navy service. He arrived in Amarillo after a Korea injur discharged and favors traffic improvements downtown and a wider highway.
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James E. Chaney
North Lake
Jim
Ada
Okla
US Naval Hospital
Charleston
Household Soap Dept
Armour Co
Armour and Co
Fire kills three horses at Peacock Military Academy
Three horses died in a peacok academy stable fire last night in San Antonio. Cadets guided twelve other horses to safety as firefighters fought the blaze. Damage was estimated at seven thousand five hundred dollars per Fire Chief M. L. Butler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Peacock Military Academy
M. L. Butler
Wets Win Ballot in Howard County Vote
Howard County voters approved liquor sales Saturday by 3 571 to 2 984, the county had been dry about a year.
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Big Spring
Howard County
Two Local Teens Profile Highlights and Dreams
Arline Lively, 13, of 304 North Pierce, Horace Mann Jr High eighth grade, red hair gray eyes, active in Home room social chair FHA Club and volleyball. Joe Mclaughlin, 17, 620 West Eleventh Amarillo High senior, brown hair brown eyes, 1951 Sandstorm sports editor Allied Youth football basketball baseball student council, aims to attend University of Oklahoma and become a sportswriter.
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Arline Lively
North Pierce
H. J. Lively
Horace Mann Jr. High
FHA
Joe Mclaughlin
Run
West Eleventh
J. B. McLaughlin
Amarillo High School
Sandstorm
University of Oklahoma
US Controls Pribilof Seals
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service sets the kill quotas for fur seals on the Pribilof Islands under an international agreement. It oversees sealing operations to maintain the herd. Pribilof seals account for about 60 percent of the world’s fur‑seal population. Before hunting was restricted to the breeding grounds, large numbers were killed.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Pribilof Islands
Bering Sea
Pribilof
Volcanic Eruption Rages On Hibok Hibok
Aboard evacuation ship off Camiguin Island Philippines December 10 a new atomic like eruption of Mt Hibok Hibok sprayed lava and ash over a devastated countryside where 1000 to 2000 inhabitants perished last week. Survivors have been evacuated and rescue parties try to recover bodies amid multiple blasts.
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Camiguin Island
Philippines
Philippine Navy
Camiguin Islands
Cagayan de Oro
Mindanao Island
Migration and extinction threats noted for sea herd
The text mentions deaths at sea and an impending extinction for a herd. It notes about 3 million animals undertake the annual spring migration to the Pribilofs. It also references the Rig Veda as a collection of Hindu sacred hymns.
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Pribilofs
Garand Rifle Still Choice of US Army
The United States orders multi million dollar contracts for M1 semi automatic rifles with International Harvester Company. Deliveries are to begin early next year despite British proposals to adopt a .28 caliber NATO rifle. The M1 is praised by General Patton as a great battle implement.
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Washington
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
George 8. Patton
NATO
Defense Department
Mls
International Harvester Co
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Barbara Jean
Lipscomb
Los Angeles
H. C. Bennett
Amarillo
Bennett
Dalhart
Jewell Nickell
Buchanan
Jewel Nelson
The
Art Beauty Shop
Fillmore
de Soto
Lanham Nelson
Canasta
Alvie Wright
Oak, Dalhart
Hope Ewing
van Buren
Tulsa
Lockney
Ralph Lowe
Patricia
Ralph, Jr
West Third
Corpus Christi
Lowe
John King
Farnsworth
King
Ochiltree County
George Dashier
Vega
M. M. Maddox
W. L. Briddle
Miami
T. M. Brad
Toni
Santa
Mother
A. D. Silvey
Pampa
Bob Rawlings
AATT
Edna Milford
Capitol Hotel
N. L. Livingston
Mr. Livingston
Alma Jo Davis
Fillmore St
M. L. Currie
East Eleventh
Canyon
Maud Cates
Elsie Middleton
Perkins
John Rusk
Borger
Santa Madelyn Creitz
Adrian
Santa Claus
Jeff Lawson
Bowie
Patty
Sam
Coonskin
Lubbock
Hiram Houghton
Washington, DC
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Bryan Edwards
Sra Robertson
J. Louis Murfee, Jr
Edith Priest
Blackburn Bros
W. J. Wade
Bovina
Max Wade
J. L. Brooks, Jr
Phillip Wayne
Johnny Johnson
Jan
Childress
Mr. Brooks
Mrs. Johnson
J. L. Brooks
EF. A. Stack
Nora Garvey
Raleigh Adams
Estelline
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Patsy Smith
Wellington
B. L. Tuttle
West Ninth
Fred Sherman
Harry Hovard
Hughes
O. W. Malicoat
W. N. van Shaw
Tyler
R. D. Shoonover
William Garland
Sanborn
Hubert Richards
Sunray
Amarillo Maternity Hospital
C. C. Hearn
Leonard Hanna
Reagan
Looney
Howard Looney
Kay
Lynn
Vina Meier
Insurance Women of Texas
Pampa- Borger Insurance
Black
Bill Ward
W. M. Gray
Kroehler
Bke
Clancy
Phil
Jterryz
Licat
Supr
Post-Hall SynDicate
Dixie
George Thomas
Hogan
Thomas
Anne
Emmy
Spendryss
MT Money
Wall
Amona
Wrigley
Wrigley's
TN Aah
Navy
Korea
Canyon Highway
North East Eighth
Gla Leila
Henry Danciger
West
Lasses
Garand
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