Amarillo Rings in the New Year With Plans for 1944
Amarillo residents organize a slew of New Year celebrations including a basketball game at the High School Armory, dances at the Amarillo Army Air Field and USO, a Khiva Temple watch party, watch night services, and Salvation Army evangelistic events. Several venues close for New Year’s Day and officials anticipate Leap Year and election year effects.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Field
Amarillo Army Air Field
Golden Sandies
First Presbyterian Church
Recreation Hall
Victory Command
USO
Khiva
Trinity Lutheran Church
Donal V. Hafemann
Dumas and
Dalhart
Salvation Army
van Buren
Polio Fund Climb Gains With Unsolicited Gifts
Six more contributions to Amarillo polio fund bring the drive $215 closer to $3,000. Ed Hardin, Ray Baland, Amarillo Firefighters Union, Ted Lokey, S. B. Whittenburg, and Bill Gunn gave amounts totaling new support. Tickets for a benefit show are on sale for a midnight event January 8 at the Paramount Theatre.
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Amarillo
Percy Blackburn
Blackburn
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club
Ed Hardin
Ray Baland
Clarendon
Firefighters’ Union
Ted Lokey
S. B. Whittenburg
Bill Gunn
Mr. Blackburn
Paramount Thea
Winston Brown Faces Storm Weather on Home Leave
Amarillo ace Captain Winston Brown describes wartime hardship from emergency rations to malaria and winter on the plains. Home on leave to see his fiancée Miss Sylvia Urbanszyk, he recalls stalling his car and nearly freezing after wandering to a farmhouse.
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Amarillo
Ace
Winston Brown
White Deer
Sylvia Urbanszyk
Death notice for Mrs Estalla Grove and family obituary
Funeral services for Mrs Estalla Grove will be held tomorrow at noon at First Baptist Church with Dr Jr officiating. Survived by husband P A Grove two daughters Ralph Cook and Wanda Mas Grove two sons Arthur Grove Jr and Edward E Grove four sisters. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at 2406 Taylor Street.
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Stells Grove
First Baptist Church
Dr. A Jr
P. A. Grove
Ralph Cook
Wanda Mas Grove
Arthur Grove, Jr
Edward E. Grove
Taylor Street
P. A. Masterson
S. T. Harmon
Roy Hanes
Perry Burks
C. R. Konkle
Clyde Carrs
D. E. Willis
Fred Par
Memorial Park Cemetery
D. Foreman
Veteran Unit Fights Nazis In San Vittore
Fifth Army forces clash with German defenders in San Vittore outside Cassino. Lt. Dashner and Sgt. Yates lead patrols through a held town as artillery barrages hammer cellars and above ground buildings, with radio delays and photographer exposure amid heavy gunfire.
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San Vittore
Fifth Army
Cassino
George Yates
Beaumont
Yates
Pvt
Lloyd Stern
Cleveland, O
David Prazier
Houston
Richard Cashner
Waco
Dashner
Frazier
Russian Plains Were His Home
Wolf Herring the Amarillo furniture man recalls his early life in White Russia near the Dvina river and the Pripet Marshes. He describes the fertile plains, the marshland hazards, and his journeys through Russia and the Baltic provinces before moving to the United States in 1907 and settling in Amarillo in 1906. His son Earl serves in the Army Air Forces.
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Vitebsk
White Russia
Wolf Herring
Mr. Herring
Dvinsk
Dvina
Baltic
Riga
Europe
Pripet
Herring
Russia
South Africa
Capetown
Kimberly
William Jennings Bryan
United States
Boston
Amarillo
Herrings
Earl
Army Air Forces
Services Announced For Mrs. W. L. Turpin
Funeral services for Lena Louise Tupin 35 will be held Sunday in Sayre Oklahoma. The body was moved there by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. She died yesterday morning in an Amarillo hospital. Survived by husband W. L. Tupin two daughters Wanda and Margaret a son Carl her mother Louise Bingham of Sayre and sisters Verna Long and Sophia Henderson of Long Beach California.
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Lena Louise Tupin
Sayre
Oklo
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Tupin
W. L. Tupin
North Grand Street
Amarillo
Wanda
Margaret
Carl
Louise Bingham
Verna Long
Sophia Henderson
Long Beach
Cal
Three Generals From South Boston Open on Active Duty
South Boston still produces fighters with three brigadier generals on active duty Francis Logan Albert F Hegen berger and Thomas Hickory listed as on active duty VS Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
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South Boston
Boston
John L. Sullivan
Francis Logan
Albert F. Hegenberger
Thomas Hickory
Globe News
Gig Young
Vancouver Island
Globe-News
Tack room and board offered to caregiver at Pantex
A reader seeks a live‑in caregiver for a nine year old daughter at 404 Carolina Street. The family offers room and board plus wages. Continued on page 3.
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Pantex
Carolina Street
Movies Replacing Army Band Concert This Week
The First Army Air Force Band is furloughed and will not perform Sunday evening. Two technicolor films, Carlsbad Caverns and The Navajo Sand Painter, will be shown free at 8 o clock in the Auditorium USO through Santa Fe Railway Public Relations. The Navajo Sand Painter is noted as the first film of these Indians with depictions of ceremonial rites.
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Army Air Force
Carlsbad Caverns
Santa Fe Railway
Uso
Hollywood Dispatch Reflects War Time Film Craft And Jokes
Jimmie Fidler reports on Warner Brothers film One More Tomorrow with nostalgia for stage trials of Bogart and Hepburn. He notes wartime Hollywood shortages, progress in studio filming, and the resilience of crews, plus light anecdotes from It Happened Tomorrow and guild charity efforts. Badoglio's son Mario arrested in Stockholm concludes the update.
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Warner Brothers
Gilbert Miller
Humphrey Bogart
Katharine Hepburn
Miller
Hollywood
Armed Services
Badoglio
Stockholm
U.P
Rome
Mario Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio
War Workers Praised In Amarillo Year’s Review
War Manpower Commission area director F A Wells commends Amarillo workers and community cooperation including the Chamber of Commerce Boy Scouts newspapers and officials. He notes ongoing need for labor in Pantex and loading lines at ox teams and Amarillo Army Air Field, urges workers to contact USES for referrals. More farmers join war plant work as communities near capacity.
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Amarillo
F. A. Wells
United States Employment Service
Seventh
van Buren Street
E. J. Bruderlin
Pantex Ordnance Plants
Amarillo Army Air Field
Wells
WMC
Dumas-Berger-Pampa
Markets overview and Kansas City livestock prices
Dow Jones industrials around 13603 with mixed moves. At Kansas City livestock market on December 31, hogs steady to firm in weights 200 to 325 pounds at 12.75 to 13.55, sows 12.00 to 12.25, cattle scant with steers 11.50 to 13.50 and cows 6.00 to 11.00, sheep slow with 4,000 total offered.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Hogs Beef Cattle and Lamb Markets Reported Mixed Prices
Chicago AP market notes show hogs offered 10 000 head with varied weights and steady demand, cattle and calves pricing steady, best fed steers at 15.40 and beef cows 8.75 to 11.00, vealers firm at 15.00, sheep and lambs range from 14.00 to 15.50 with mixed grades, holdovers about 2 000. Financial offerings include Liquidating fund at 1.6921 with 1.85 offering. Church services note Feast of Circumcision with Holy Communion at St Andrew's Episcopal Church led by Rev. Frederick A Foster.
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Chicago
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Frederick A. Foster
Walker Says Varga Girl Is Not Art
Postmaster General Walker ruled Esquire magazine is not art news or science and barred it from second class mails. Earlier a trial board split two to one had recommended dismissal of proceedings. Walker said periodicals must publish public information or be devoted to literature science or arts to qualify for second class rates. Esquire’s attorney estimated annual cost of fourth class rates at $500000.
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Washington
Der
Walker
Esquire
Post Office
Only 36 of Scharnhorst crew survive sinking off North Cape
Reports from authoritative sources state 36 crew members of the Scharnhorst survived the battleship’s sinking off North Cape last Sunday, a reduction from an earlier Vichy count of 1,460. The item also notes a wedding in Toledo, Oregon with a bride’s sister serving as best man and mentions a projected US war expenditure of 100 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944.
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London
U.P
Scharnhorst
North Copry
United States
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