Jam Session Highlights Amarillo Kiwanis Program
The Amarillo Kiwanis Club featured a jam session with Bill Curtis on guitar and vocals, Harvey Lively on piano, and Claude Tackitt on violin performing pieces including Pistol Packin Mama. Druggist Thurman Gholson opened the program while Vice President Carl Jenkins chaired in President Ray Milner's absence.
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Amarillo Kiwanis Club
Bill Curtis
Harvey Lively
Claude Tackitt
Thurman Gholson
Ray Milner
Carl Jenkins
Kraeers Move to Amarillo from Bartlesville Oklahoma
Mr and Mrs O A Kraeer relocate to Amarillo occupying 605 Jackson Street. He works in Phillips Petroleum Co auditing and recently earned an honorable discharge after serving as a glider pilot in the Army.
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O. A. Kraeer
Amarillo
Bartlesville
Okla
Jackson Street
Kraeer
Phillips Petroleum Co
Army
Four Brothers Serve As Family Drives War Effort
Alma Lowry of Plainview now works at the Pantex Ordnance Plant and follows her brothers in the service. Major Leon Lowry just returned from 50 missions in North Africa Italy and Sicily earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with nine oak leaf clusters. Leonard serves with the Seabees in North Africa while Woodrow is in the Air Corps at Tampa and John an ensign at Cornell. Parents Mr and Mrs J T Lowry are cited.
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Armed Services
Alma Lowry
Plainview
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Leon Lowry
North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Pantelleria
Lowry
Amarillo
Amarillo Field
Major Lowry
Leonard
Seabees
Woodrow
Air Corps
Tampa
Fla
John
Cornell University
J. T
Lowry Sets Sights On War Job At Pantex
Miss Lowry formerly worked in Hale County AAA in Plainview then moved to Amarillo in 1942 to take a vital war position at Pantex. She resides at Colonial Apartments.
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Lowry
Plainview
Miss Lowry
Hale County
Amarillo
Pantex
Colonial Apartments
Clubs rally for nurse in Amarillo fund drive
San Jacinto Kiwanis seeks help from other civic luncheon clubs to fund a resident physiotherapist in Amarillo. The goal is a $3,000 eight to nine month course for a nurse at Harvard Medical School, with contributions from multiple groups and a benefit show at the Paramount on January 8.
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San Jacinto Kiwanians
Amarillo
Percy Blackburn
San Jacinto Club
Neal Cross
Amarillo Globe News
Blackburn
Hubert Cole
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Paramount
Harvard University
Boston
Harry Hatch
Northwest Texas Hospital
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Joe Desires His Overcoat Stolen By Officers
Wartime column recalls a GI overcoat stolen from a police station. A sister of a commando reveals the boys used Christmas decorations as sling targets, prompting Joe Desires His Overcoat to request its return.
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Joe
G. I
Thurman Gholston
Post Office
Aspermont
Bill Lundbeck
Gholston
Thurman
Bill
Amarillo
Sam
Ak Ron Woman Seeks Gas Coupons To Phoenix
An Akron Ohio woman sought extra gas coupons from the ration board to drive to Phoenix Arizona. When refused she telegrammed the board saying she had reached Amarillo and asked for further assistance.
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Akron, Ohio
Phoenix
Ariz
Amarillo
Untitled remark on travel to Amarillo with A card
A speaker says a friend drove the way and towed her by coincidence. The note references travel to Amarillo and an A card.
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Amarillo
Roe
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E. 6Th Ph
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W News
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Allen-Wales
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