Housing shortage drives long line at Amarillo USO aid office
Wives and children of GIs wait since early morning as 622 room seekers are turned away last month. The USO Travelers Aid office reports 1,292 placed, 662 requests unmet, including 280 couples with children. Demand rises as housing supply cannot meet strives for rooms or bedrooms with kitchen access.
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Uso-Travelers Aid
East Fifth
Amarillo
Travelers Aid
Uncle Sam
Gj] Jor
Joe, Jr
Amarillo Army Air Field
USO Travelers Aid Service
Service Men In the News
Bill Reville stationed at Camp Mead Maryland after Army service since last June. W G McDonald home on leave. Navy veteran of 19 months in the Mediterranean. served on LST and took part in Sicily Salerno Anzio and South France landings. William Winston Carter in the Marine Corps in the Pacific. Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation awarded. Amarillo High School and Amarillo College graduate. Carter’s brothers Jim and Charles Jackson also in the service.
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Bill Reville
al Reville
Cactus Avenue
Camp Mead
MD. Reville
Camp Howze
Greenville
Tex
Amarillo High School
W. G
Bill) McDonald
D Ll McDonald
Polk
McDonald
Mediterranean
Navy
Sicily
Salerno
Anzio
South France
William Winston Carter
Winston Harris Carter
Louisiana
Sergeant Carter
Marine Corps
Carter
Amarillo College
Marine Lt Jack J. Jackson Goes On Leave and Transfers
Lt Jack J. Jackson U S Marine Corps on short leave from Quantico to Camp Pendleton for tank school. Commissioned Nov 27 at Quantico after enlisting in October 1941, he trained at Quantico and served at Pearl Harbor and Midway before officer candidate school.
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Jack J. Jackson
U. S. Marine Corps
Folsom Jackson
Monroe
Quantico
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Jackson
Marine Corps
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Insurance in Texas Showing Huge Gains
The forty second annual report to policy owners of Southwestern Life Insurance Company shows record gains since 1928 with in force insurance at 481 718 273 and assets of 108 940 511. Investments exceed 50 million in US government securities since Pearl Harbor reflecting wartime policy. The Texas pension market expands with Southwestern underwriting over 60 of 104 plans. Deaths in armed forces total 474 858 and 65 500 missing and 25 500 prisoners of war are insured. Over 140 agency staff are in the armed services with three missing in action and two deaths reported. Local reps are G W Mills Earl A Irwin A P Gibson Harris L Landon J M McMahon.
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Southwestern Life Insurance Company
C. F. O'Donnell
O'Donnell
United States
Pearl Harbor
Texas
Home Office
Armed Service
G. W. Mills
Earl A. Irwin
A. P. Gibson
Harris L. Landon
J. M. McMahon
Murry Watts
Elizabeth Martyr
C. P. Hutchings
Skeet Gibson
Ray S. Daniel
Housing demand grows as veterans seek rooms postwar
The report notes 27 unplaced individuals including 10 couples with children. Although calls for rooms by combat returnees have declined, the total number seeking housing continues to rise.
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Plainview
Broadway
Pacific
Ment
Marines
Charles
Bees
Wallace, Idaho
Jim
Charles Jackson
Jim Globe-News
Globe-News
Jack Jackson $E
Liquor Mart
Suena
Echart's Shoe Repair Shop
West 10Th Sj
Sleghiveigh
Resistol
Champ
Dickies
Home Companion
Cinder
Smagr Reoces
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