Pacific Veteran Employed Here at Dock Coffey Pontiac
Orville Bratton a Pacific Theater veteran of 28 months now works for Dock Coffey Pontiac at 509 Tyler He served 32 months in the Army with overseas duty in Australia and the Philippines in the Corps of Military Police He is a West Texas State College graduate and former coach at Woodrow Wilson School Pampa He and his wife and son Terry Lee live with Mr and Mrs Dock Coffey at 2421 Ong and plan a home at 2029 Lipscomb Bratton was discharged at Fort Bliss El Paso on January 6 returning to Amarillo January 16
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Orville Bratton
Pacific
Dock Coffey
Pontiac
Tyler
Australia
Philippines
Corps of
Military Police
Sergeant Bratton
West Texas State College
Woodrow’ Wilson School
Pampa
Army
Bratton
Terry Lee
Ong
Lipscomb
Fort Bliss
Paso
Amarillo
Eviction of 33 Lodgers From Dallas Rooming House
In Dallas a two story frame rooming house was emptied as sheriff deputies moved out 33 lodgers and the landlady Mrs Onda Williamson. Among the evicted are a 70 year old veteran and five children. Many lacked immediate housing options.
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Dallas
Sheriff's Deputies
Onda Williamson
Bill Decker
William Hall
George Bridger
John E. Clark
Army Air Forces
Marianas Islands
Christine Dingler
Waldrop Receives Navy Discharge after Philippines Service
Edgar Lewis Waldrop aviation storekeeper third class arrived Tuesday on discharge from the Navy after 15 months in the Philippines. He served at Guiuan Samar before reporting to Camp Wallace. Waldrop enlisted 20 months ago while employed as an auditor for the Amarillo Hotel. His wife and 11 year old son Lewis Don stayed at 908 Mississippi. Mrs Waldrop works in the post office money order department.
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Edgar Lewis Waldrop
Navy
Philippines
Camp Wallace
Waldrop
Guiuan
Samar
Amarillo
Wadrop
Lewis Don
Mississippi
Wa'drop
Congressman's Gun Registration Bill Sparks Idaho Protest
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho denounces a bill by Senator Albert Hawks of New Jersey requiring every gun owner to register firearms. Taylor argues the proposal would undermine shooting rights and fuel restrictions.
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Washington
West
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Albert Hawks
New Jersey
Taylor
Dog Strongheart Gives Up Hope of Finding Missing Master
German police dog Strongheart, once inseparable from Zeke Collier a B 17 pilot missing since May 1944, has stopped searching. He now dwells at Amarillo College with janitor A E Gunter, other family members recalling how he last heard Zeke’s whistle and how he used to wait by Zeke’s room window.
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Globe
Strongheart
Amarillo College
Zeke Collier
Collier
Z. C. Collier
Washington
Zeke
William
Navy
Germany
A. E. Gunter
Cleveland
Mr. Gunter
Strongke
William Collier
Polk
Ambulance wrecks en route to second crash injures two
A Griggs ambulance wrecked at Fourth and Fillmore while en route to a previous collision in which Tommy A. Moore, 27, Abernathy, was injured. Moore was later treated at St. Anthony's Hospital for cuts and bruises from the 1941 Ford collision with a cattle truck driven by E. J. McCain of Littlefield.
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Griggs
Tommy A. Moore
Abernathy
St. Anthony's Hospital
Moore
North East Eighth
Panhandle
Fourth
Fillmore
H. H. Welch
Houston
Welch
Amarillo
Deadline Soon On Bids For Amarillo Water Pipe
Amarillo bids are due Tuesday night for more than 21 000 feet of water pipe to expand and improve the city system. The city seeks 7 000 feet of 20 inch cast iron pipe for the south, 4 800 feet of 8 inch pipe, 3 400 feet of 16 inch pipe for south and east areas, and 6 000 feet of 12 inch pipe to link downtown to a new storage tank under construction at North Fast Fifth and Osage by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Commission
Water Department
San Jacinto
Fast Fifth
Osage
Chicago Bridge and Iron Company
Air Forces Pilot Missing After Mission Over Berlin
Lieutenant Collier went overseas in March 1944 and was reported missing in May after his bomber was hit near Berlin. He had earned the Air Medal. Mrs. Collier said the plane crashed on the beaches of Holland on the return to England and all crew except Zeke were later liberated from a German prison camp.
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Collier
Berlin
Holland
England
Zeke
Mrs. Collier
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