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Trainmasters and Rail Officials Attend Christmas Banquet
Trainmaster R G Foster returned from Kansas City where he visited his son Raymond Jr. Jimmie Cogdell and wife travel to Quanah for holidays. Ticket Clerk Giles Phillips is ill with flu but improving. Edythe Koch hosts Miss Neeta Thompson of Pampa. Chas H Rohrer and wife return from Tucumcari to handle passenger matters. The Order of Railway Conductors held a Christmas banquet with 125 attendees including speakers from Santa Fe, Fort Worth and Denver, Rock Island, and guests from the Railroad Retirement Board. Sam Tidwell showed wartime railroad films and Navajo life reels. L B Burriss recovered a lost purse with passes and IDs. Best wishes for Christmas. A note adds wood treatment may extend lifespan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Foster
Kansas City
Raymond, Jr
J. B. Briscoe
Santa Fe
J. W. Mode
Fort Worth
Denver
F. B. Gibbs
Rock Island
R. E. L. Phillips
Railroad Retirement Board
A. M. Baker
Sam Tidwell