Cars for sale in downtown listing
A 1934 Plymouth sedan with good motor tires and body at 809 Kentucky Rd after 5 PM. A 1936 Chevrolet in nearly new condition with radio and heater at 500 North Virginia after 4:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Crudgington
W. E. Pope
AFGS
Dalhart
Plymouth
Kentucky
R. B. Cor
Chevrolet
North Virginia
Clifford McMurtry
West Ltd
Real Barains
Luther Hough
Amarillo
Harvey Southworth
Ford
East
North East
Taler
Washington Street
Canyon Highway
Frank Smith
St. Francis
Norris
South Aldridge
Judge Pitts Arrives to Take High Bench Here
Judge E L Pitts of Lubbock arrived in Amarillo and will be sworn in as chief justice of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals. He succeeds Chief Justice M J R Jackson who did not seek reelection after service since 1937. The 46 county Panhandle district includes Panhandle. Pitts has served as Palo Pinto and Lubbock county judge and on the 99th district bench in Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Pitts
Lubbock
Amarillo
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Panhandle
M. J. R. Jackson
Jackson
High Court
W. N. Stokes
A. J. Folley
Pitts
Palo Pinto
99Th Judicial District
99Th District Court
Talmage Place
Virginia Lee Pitts
Lois Cammack
Judge Pitts
Fast Texas Normal College
University of Texas
Palo Pinto County
The
Christian Church
Lions International
Allied air raids pound Sfax Gabes in Tunisia drives
Allied airmen attacked Axis docks rail yards transports and troops in Tunisia around Sfax and Gabes. Fortresses and B 26 bombers with P 38 and P 40 escorts bombed harbor works freight yards rail yards and airfields while anti aircraft fire flared and no enemy planes intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
United States
Sfax
Tunisian
Gabes
County auditor post filled after long service
Frosty Hamrick’s resignation opened the county auditor position, paying 4000 a year, with Mrs Mary Jinks serving the unexpired term and planning to apply for the job. appointment remains with Potter County district judges W E Gee and Henry Bishop, with several applicants waiting. The article notes a 46 percent rise in land devoted to public parks since 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frosty Hamrick
Mary Jinks
Henry Bishop
Jinks
New Income Tax Blanks Are Now Out
Washington reports the 1940s style tax forms issued on New Year’s Eve. The trio includes Form 1040, the detailed form, Form 1040-A for simpler cases, and accompanying instructions. Form 1040-A targets earners under 3000 dollars with only salary and certain investments, while higher incomes prompt consultation with a lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Markets News and Grain Table From Chicago and Kansas City
Market notes list numerous companies and stocks on the New York Exchange, with prices and percentage changes. Grain and livestock sections detail Chicago and Kansas City figures for wheat corn oats rye and futures traded Dec 31, including hogs cattle sheep and cattle prices, with top bids and weekly shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Britain deplores Argentina policy in remaining with enemies of humanity
London foreign office issued a formal statement noting that Britain deplores Argentina's decision to maintain diplomatic relations with what it calls the enemies of humanity. The remark was issued on December 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Foreign Office
Argentina
War Workers Housing Plan Gains Wide Federal Backing
H Vandenberg will represent HOLC in Amarillo with new WPB rules expanding private and public conversion housing. John B Blanford and Preston L Wright cite high priority ratings for government and private efforts to convert existing structures into multiple family dwellings to ease the wartime housing shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Vandenberg
HOLC
Amarillo
United States
WPB
John B. Blanford
Preston L. Wright
National Housing Agency
Federal Housing Administration
NHA
City Observes New Year with Public Closures
Amarillo will suspend most business tomorrow to observe New Year’s Day. All public departments close except protection services and the tax office open noon for payments. Banks post office and mail deliveries halt. City hall nonessential departments close. fire and police stay. Community watch parties and church services are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Court House
Amarillo Credit Association
Ome
Braniff Plans New International Airline to Mexico
Braniff Airways president T. E. Braniff announced that a Civil Aeronautics Board decision would allow soon starting a new transborder service between the United States and Mexico. The plan links San Antonio to Laredo with existing routes to Monterrey and Mexico City, pending wartime routing rules.
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Dallas
T. E. Braniff
Braniff Airways
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
United States
Mexico
Braniff
San Antonio
Laredo
Tex
Pan American Air Ways
National Defense
Formal Dance at USO Tonight with Amarillo Field Orchestra
Victory Command members and service men will see the New Year in with a formal dance at the Auditorium USO tonight. The Amarillo Field Orchestra will play for the dance. During the intermission Miss Pat MacClarney will sing solos, accompanied at the piano by Miss Duke Watson. Companies A B and C will be hostesses at the Victory Command dance tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Command
Auditorium Uso
Amarillo Field Orchestra
Pat MacClarney
Duke Watson
Alarm Clocks May Be Out Early in 43
Alarm clocks have been out of production for six months or more though electric models remain available. Watch repairmen in Amarillo and elsewhere are overworked fixing expensive timepieces as shops fill with chime alarms. The WPB and industry committee may unite to bring a “Victory” model clock to market before old units fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
WPB Cansuvert
Rabie Goods Division
Creamery Names A F Madison New General Manager
A F Madison former Sunset Creamery owner Roswell becomes general manager of Plains Creamery effective Jan 1 succeeding stock seller Far L Shelton. Lindsay Nunn remains president G D Bowie secretary treasurer. Madison, Amarillo raised, WWII veteran, returns to oversee Amarillo Pampa plants. family to move from Roswell after term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Madison
Sunset Creamery
Roswell
Plains Creamery
Far
Plains
Amarillo
Pampa
Madison
Columbia, Mo
Amerillo
John Brooks Rites Friday Afternoon
Last rites for Amarilloan John Brooks who died Monday in Phoenix Arizona will be held Friday at 2 30 p m in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev Lloyd H Jones officiating Burial will be in Liano Cemetery Pallbearers are J C Phillips J G Cain M B Hagins Howard Hagins W E Throckmorton and A L Throckmorton Brooks lived in Amarillo 16 years He was 60 years old at death Survived by wife Betty, five daughters Marie Robinson Lorie Brooks Lolita Brooks Monteline Jacaway Lena Hardage two sons Jim Brooks Arthur Brooks mother Mrs Margaret E Brooks two brothers Earl and Willis Brooks and sister Mrs Lela Cannon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brooks
McLean
Arthur Brooks
Muskogee
Margaret E Brooks
Amarillo
Earl and
Willis Brooks
Lela Cannon
Courthouse Records Note Transfers and Licenses
Courthouse records list several warranty deeds with buyer and seller names and prices, including H W Kruger to Roy F Galloway and Loyd M Ledbetter to H P Ledbetter, plus other deeds and several marriage license entries. The excerpt also notes an estimate that American elites provide an acre of park per 300 inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Kruger
Roy F. Galloway
Loyd M. Ledbetter
H. P. Ledbetter, Sr
Abkm
R. Foster
Wm Victor
J. B. Coe
EB. S. Cates
Eakle
Nugent Kunkel
M. L. Kline
Morningside
E. B. McMahan
A. C. Hefner
Plemons
Howard E. Boxwell
Et Ux
L M. Johnson
Morton D. McClurkin
Carol Crecelius
Russell S. Cardner
Doris Bo
Gasoline Mileage Decisions By Potter County Board
The Potter County Rationing Board voted to allow preferred mileage for auditors in income tax work, evaluating each case individually. It maintained a policy denying preferred mileage to government agency employees deemed nonessential to the war effort, denying five specific workers. The board noted steady progress and requested office action on handling salesmen mileage beginning January 1 with initial cuts to 470 miles monthly and a revised order granting about 65 percent of last year's mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Soil Conservation Service
Homelers’ Loan Corporation
Pea Eating Time in Mean Tomorrow
The piece recalls a southern superstition that eating black eyed peas on New Year’s Day brings good fortune. Sheriff Bill Adams in Potter County noted the practice, prompting grocers to stock peas and people to travel for them, with AP and UP distributing related stories. The tone is humorous about the old custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Adams
Potter County
Amarillo
Associated Press
United Press
New Year Arrives Across Far Pacific Timeline
Dateline Auckland reports New Year 1943 arriving for U S forces in the Pacific as clocks strike in the Fiji Gilbert Ellice Islands Solomons and French New Caledonia and reaching Eastern Australia by nine AM CWT.
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Auckland
N. Z
United States
Far Pacific
Tonga
Friendly Islands
Fiji
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Solomons
French New Caledonia
Australia
Wichita Falls Woman Belle Dorward Dies at 60
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Lynn Dorward 60 long time Wichita Falls resident will be at 3 pm Friday in the First Methodist Church. Interment at Byers Cemetery beside her late husband W W Lynn. She died Tuesday after a three week illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Lynn Dorward
J. Paul Lynn
Amarillo
First Methodist
Wichita Falls
Byers Cemetery
W. W. Lynn
Cow Produces Two Calves In Wartime Spike
Mrs Susan McCormick in Oklahoma receives news from granddaughter Mrs Harold McCormick of a Kenton farm. An old cow planned for sale delivered a calf one morning and another a week later, halting sale as wartime production. Paper white narcissus bulbs can grow in soil pebbles or moss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan McCormick
South Fillmore
Harold McCormick
Kenton
Oklahoma
Air fields at Dakar used by Allied forces in West Africa
A U S mission led by Vice Admiral William Glassford plans immediate use of Dakar air fields by American transport and military planes in coordination with French authorities. Consul General M. Barnes arrives to establish a consulate, signaling Washington's priority. Tools for military use take absolute priority over civilian goods.
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Cunningham Allied
North Africa
Dakar
United States
William Glassford
Marenard Barnes
Washington
Jean Darian Dakar
Natal
Brazil
Middle East
South Atlantic
United Nations
Shepler v. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Pierre Boisson
French West Africa
Barnes
Liberty Theater Sets Earlier Hours Starting January 1
The Liberty Theater announces a new policy effective tomorrow January 1. Beginning with Friday's matinee the venue will open at 12 30 pm and run continuous shows until 11 pm each night. Previously shows started 30 minutes later and ended at 11 30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Theater
Liberty
Frazee to Serve as Court Reporter in 4th District
Judge Henry Bishop announced that W. R. Frazee will be his court reporter returning to the 4th District Court. Frazee, a former Amarillo resident, will replace Norman Minter, who leaves the 47th district to become reporter for the 31st district, covering Gray Roberts Wheeler and Lipscomb counties. The notice includes a Texas Insurance Board certificate for California Western States Life Insurance Company to do business in Texas for the year ending February 28, 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bishop
W. R. Frazee
Frazee
Amarillo
Norman Minter
Gray, Roberts
Wheeler
Lipscomb
Board OF Insurance Commissioners
Austin
Texas
O. P. Lockhart
Also Mentioned on This Page
Floyd Cooper
Red Cross
Eaid
American Red Cross
Army
Navy
Michigan
H. N. Wheeler
Hugo H. Loewenstein Co
Pork Phone
E. A. Regal Company
Southern States Loan Co
Lee
Globe News
Ayone
Fillmore
Jean Fillmore
Ibob Crudgington
Elum Dress CO
Keith
RAY Lloyd Motor Co
Tyler
Frost Motor CO
Plains Chevrolet Co
Auto Parts, Service
Elmer Auto Supply
N. Fillmore
International
P. O. Box
Chrysler
Buick
P. O
Hughes
H Patterson
As Co
Birmingham
Pleasant Valley
Africa
Walther Nehring
Tunisia
Tripoli
Tripolitania
Walter Irvin Inc
Taylo
NEW York Stock Exchange
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Alleghany Lnd Steel
Allis Chalmers
Am Roll Mill
Am Smell
Am Zinc & Lead
Anacondaens
Armour & Co
AT & 8
Fogate Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem
Borden
Budd Mfg
Calmuet
Hecla- Chrysler
Consol Copper
Consol Oil
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft Electric Boat
General Electric
Gen Foods
Gen Motors Greyhound
Houston Oil
Int Harvester
Int Power & Pap
Kennecott Copper
Marshall Field of
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator National Biscuit National Dairy Products
New York Central Railway
North American Aviation
Ohio Oil Packard
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures
POND
Sacs
Phillips Pet
Plymouth Oil
Sears Roebuck
Shell
Union Oil
Socony Vacuum
Southern Pacific Standard Brands
Stand Oil
California
Stand
Oif
Indiana Tees Stand Oil
New Jersey
Studebaker
Texas Corp Texas Gulf Sulphur Union Carbide
United Aircraft US Rubber Pure Oil
Remington Rand
RCA
Republic Steel
U §& Steel Wilson & Co
White Motor Woolworth
Ana
Financial Industrial Fund
Britain
USO
Creamery
Courthouse Records
Gle
Duane F. Dettloff
Helen E Olson
Fordwood C. Spitzlee
Helen M. Davis
Berlin Lee Hale
Mildred Hoffman
Zeb A. Moore, Jr
Ora Vondee Lewis
C. N. Tippery
Jean McAtee
John B. Mattioli
Violet Edmundson
Dean
Bireetay
Uncle Sam
America
Army & Navy
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