Sailor Seeks Life at Sea After Pacific Tour
Seaman Laurence C. O Rourke of New York returns from a Pacific duty and heads toward San Diego aboard ship. He plans Merchant Marines after the war and hopes to visit Dublin to see his father’s birthplace, with a New York shipline office as a future goal. Also noted MIXON entering LSU Baton Rouge and Cpl Charles W Conner on a 15 day furlough from Randolph Field.
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Sixth and
Polk
Laurence C. O'Rourke
Yeoman
U. S. Navy
O'Rourke
New York
Ireland
Eire
United States
Pacific
San Diego
Stock Exchange
Dublin
Cpl
Charles W. Conner
E. L. Conner
Tyler
Randolph Field
New Sickness Accident Policy Promises $100 Monthly
Postal Life & Casualty offers a new sickness accident hospital policy at 3 cents a day providing up to $100 monthly disability and hospital benefits, with $1 monthly or up to $10 yearly payment plans. It covers all accidents and most sickness from day one, no medical exam, no waiting period, and pays beneficiary up to $1,000 if death occurs. Write for a free inspection policy.
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Postal
Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Company
Postal Life Building
Kansas City 2
Defense Department Entries Feature Local Service Members
From Our Defenders lists Amarillo area servicemen: Pvt Orvil Anderson, recently home, en route from Camp Howze to Fort Meade, infantryman and former Amarillo High student. Sgt Howard Nelson, promoted from corporal, overseas about a year, with action in France Belgium Luxembourg. Cpl M C Moore Jr, Field Artillery specialist in France, Amarillo High School graduate 1935. 18-year-old Johnny Hawkins, Navy hospital apprentice first class on leave in Amarillo, en route to Port Chicago after enlisting July 1943.
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Pvt
Orvil Anderson
Freeda Anderson
West Seventh
Fort Meade
Camp Howze
Anderson
Army
Infantry
Amarillo High School
Harley- Davidson Motorcycle Co
Lula Anderson
Buchanan
Howard C. Nelson
Louisiana
Nelson
Alfred Nelson
Hughes
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Cpl
M C. Moore
Paris
Corporal Moore
Amarillo
West Texas News Company
National Guard
Fort Louis
Wash
Fort Bragg
N. C
M. C. Moore
Florida
Spencer Haynie
Austin
Johnny Hawkins
M. C. Thweatt
Navy
Hawkins
Port Chicago
Cal
Elizabeth Nixson
Navy enlistment for 17 year old Burgess returns to boot camp
Bill A. Burgess, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Burgess of 722 North Johnson, has enlisted in the Navy after wartime home front service. He previously worked as a welder at Amarillo Army Air Field and began basic training on June 21, 1943 in Miami Beach Florida with subsequent Army service dates listed as April 21, 1944 in Santa Ana California and August 21, 1944.
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Bill A. Burgess
Navy
San Diego
Bill Burgess
C. C. Burgess
North Johnson
Amarillo Army Air Field
Miami Beach
Fla
Santa Ana
Cal
Lucky 21: Kaufhold Promoted to Lieutenant in Italy
Robert Ross Kaufhold, son of Mr and Mrs A A Kaufhold of 3503 South Taylor, and grandson of Mr and Mrs J B Marica of Sayre Oklahoma, earns promotion to lieutenant on January 21 in southern Italy. He serves as a navigator in the Army Air Forces aboard the B 24 Liberator bomber Boomerang, a veteran craft that has flown 160 missions without being shot down.
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Robert Ross Kaufhold
A. A. Kaufhold
South Taylor
J. B. Marica
Sayre
Oklo
Italy
Army Air Forces
Kaufhold
Young Pilot Kaufhold Advances To Flight Officer
Lieutenant Kaufhold, 19, joined the Army July 14 1943 and has been overseas since November 1944. He flew missions over the Brenner Pass and Austria and Germany, earning the Air Medal in December 1944. He has moved across the United States, with assignments in Miami Beach Morningside College Sioux City Santa Ana Hondo Lincoln Tucson and Topeka.
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Hondo
Kaufhold
Brenner Pass
Austria
Germany
E.T.O
United States
Miami Beach
Fla
Morningside College
Sioux City
Santa Ana
Cal
Lincoln
Neb
Tucson
Ariz
Topeka
Kan
Kaufthold
Globe-News
Glenwood
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Army
Mrs Elaine Cleland to Travel to New Orleans for Navy Return
Elaine Cleland secretary to city manager A P Hancock will leave tonight for New Orleans to join her husband Lt Robert Bruce Cleland of the United States Navy who returns home after sixteen months in the South Pacific.
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Elaine Cleland
A. P. Hancock
Essary to Enter University in Texas
Maurice Essary son of Mr and Mrs R A Essary of 414 Arch Terrace left last night for Austin to enter the University of Texas.
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University
Maurice Essary
R. A. Essary
Arch Terrace
Austin
University of Texas
Sign of the Times Boston Tea Room Notice
Boston readers see a humorous placard at a tea room stating not responsible for snagged stockings in a light hearted sign. The note reflects casual shop humor.
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Sign OF the Times
Boston
U.P
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D. E. Dunl
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Blackburn
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