WAVES Urge Papers for Texas Blue Bonnet Squadron
WAVES members of the Texas Blue Bonnet Squadron must file enlistment papers by Tuesday at the Oklahoma City Office of Naval Officer Procurement to join fellow squadron members in leaving for Hunter College New York City on February 17. The Panhandle unit will be the first Navy women to occupy the college building and dormitories with national publicity planned for their arrival. Lawrence Hagy and committee plan a Navy Open House at the Herring Hotel Friday night February 12 to honor the 68 members with dancing floor show and entertainment, open to all without charge.
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Texas Blue Bonnet
Oklahoma City
Naval Officer Procurement
Navy
Hunter College
New York City
Panhandle
West Texas Navy
New York
Lawrence Hagg
Herring Hotel
Hagy
Navy officer inspects Dallas and Lubbock offices
Lieut. Ridout, in command of the Dallas Navy District, completed his inspection tour of the local office and visited Lubbock to inspect the station. He announced Lieut. Ben Blackwell’s appointment as Navy physician at the West Texas Induction Station in Lubbock, joining Amarillo natives in service there.
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L. H. Ridout
Dallas
Lubbock
Ben Blackwell
West Texas
Blackwell
Amarillo
Navy
Harold Hamilton
Dick Cazzell
Ridout
Night gym class for Amarillo women opens at Social Center
The USO sponsors recreation night classes for Amarillo women at the Social Center for girls. Sessions run 5:30 to 9:30 each Thursday and are open to soldiers wives and other local girls and women.
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Amarillo
USO
Elizabeth Payne
Payne
Young Women's Christian Association
Bay City
Mich
Globe News
Baby Born With Stomach on Wrong Side
One year old David Schmidt in Louisville was born with his stomach and descending colon on the right side. Doctors meet daily to decide if surgery could allow normal eating and growth. He weighs 11 pounds 14 ounces at birth and now weighs 13 ounces more, and is fed via tube.
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Louisville
David Schmidt
David
Fred Schmidt
Edwin P. Scott
Weaver Receives Burns From Powerline Incident
Ralph Weaver a 29 year old Southwestern Public Service lineman sustained hand and back burns after contact with a live powerline on North Mirror Street this morning. He fell 15 feet but remained conscious and was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital for treatment. He has worked with the company two years and lives at 2710 West Eighth Avenue.
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Ralph Weaver
Southwestern Public Service
North Mirror Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Weaver
Southwestern Public Service Company
West Eighth Avenue
George G. Ivey Funeral Pending
Funeral arrangements for George G. Ivey of Vega are pending arrival of relatives. He died Tuesday in an Amarillo hospital. Survived by wife Lois Ivey two sons Billy Glenn and Joe Neal three brothers Roy John and Horace in the army three sisters Bernice Harris Mora Bell and John Majors and his mother Mrs. James Ivey all of Vega and Sweetwater respectively.
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George G. Ivey
Vega
Griggs Funeral Chappel
Ivey
Amarillo
Lois Ivey
Billy Glenn
Joe Neal
Roy
John
Horace
Bernice Harris
Mora Bell
John Majors
Sweetwater
James Ivey
Army to switch from white underwear to olive drab
In Philadelphia Maj. Gen. C L Corbin announces the Army will stop issuing snowy white underwear and switch to olive drab to avoid white wash line targets. In Newark a war workers court opens, with Judge Untermann noting 25 to 30 defendants in war plant badges appear weekly and daytime hearings hinder production.
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Philadelphia
C. L. Corbin
Court For War Workers
Newark
N. J
William M. Untermann
Texas cow hand confesses after high speed chase to murder
Robert Harrington claimed he killed a man in a Claremont hotel quarrel but was not believed. He rode with C. D. McFadden to Los Angeles and finally was arrested when a motorcycle cop woke Harrington at Lincoln Heights jail. He signed a confession matching fingerprints from the hotel. George C. Powell, 66, of Sayre died in Amarillo hospital. Powell’s body to Sayre, funeral in Sayre.
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Los Angeles
Robert Harrington
Barlow Bowen
Claremont
Calif
Harrington
C. D. McFadden
McFadden
Lincoln Heights
George C. Powell
Sayre
Okla
Powell
Amarillo
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Dumas Girl to Join WAACs
Miss Veda H. Smith of Dumas heads to Lubbock for WAAC enrollment per local Army recruiter Set T. Morris. Sgt. Morris and Pfc. Dan Castle travel to Borger to aid Lieut. Rose Smothers in interviewing women, with Borger HQ at Southwest Public Service. Smothers will be in Pampa at the Army Recruiting Station Saturday through Monday.
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Veda H. Smith
Dumas
Lubbock
WAACS
Set
T. K. Morris
Sgt. Morris
Pfc
Dan Castle
Borger
Rose Smothers
Southwest Public Service Company
Lieut. Smothers
Pampa
Army
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