Red Cross Fund Drive To Display Cartons In Amarillo Stores
Amarillo store managers will display Red Cross cartons for the 1946 campaign for two weeks contributions from customers will go into the containers. Junior Red Cross members are affixing stickers to cartons to be distributed tomorrow by organization members. Campaign headquarters outline envelope procedures for firms with cartons to be returned to the firm chairman or to the old library basement on Sixth and Taylor or to local banks. A radio program at 10 15 Sunday morning on KGNC features a dramatization of Red Cross volunteer work with cast members including Mrs Cornelia Patton and Mrs.
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Amarillo
Red Cross
Red Cross Campaign
Sixth
Taylor
KGNC
Cornelia Patton
Campaign team and goal for Potter County Red Cross drive
Wayne O Keefe and Frank Coulter lead as campaign organizers with Gus Roberts as chairman. C E Crowe heads the Potter County Red Cross chapter guiding a fundraising goal of seventy five thousand dollars.
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Wayne O'Keefe
Frank Coulter
Gus Roberts
C. E. Crowe
Potter County
American Red Cross
Lost dentures found at Portland store in rush line scramble
In Portland Oregon February records a department store lost and found reports a pair of unclaimed false teeth found near the nylon counter. Clerks recall a heavy set woman dropping the denture bundle as she hurried to the line and clamped her hand over her mouth to remain in place.
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Portland
Ore
By Popular Demand Rabbi Preaches at Temple Friday
Rabbi Arthur Bluhm will deliver a sermon on a subject chosen by popular demand at the regular Friday evening Sabbath service of Temple B'nai Israel. The service at eight o clock is open to the public. The Temple Sisterhood announces an open house Sunday night.
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Arthur Bluhm
Temple B'nai Israel
Temple Sisterhood
Bluhm
Political candidates agree on one point in Childress County
In Childress on February 22 candidates for county offices at a meeting agreed that for now they will not attend box suppers or pie suppers. The unusually united stance aimed to avoid campaign events that could imply political favoritism or conflict.
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Childress
Hoarded Flour in Danger of Spoiling
Amarillo USDA official urges housewives to use current flour supplies and buy only needed amounts to prevent spoilage and weevil infestation. January food purchases totaled 34.37 million dollars with butter from the Army comprising most of the value. total surplus stock stood at 57.67 million dollars.
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FE. A. McBryde
Amarillo
Usda Production and Marketing Administration
Department of Agriculture
Ike Cannot Free Soldier From Bed In Hospital Joke
In Tacoma at Madigan General Hospital General Dwight D Eisenhower visits wounded GI Vincent Mayde of Seattle and asks what he can do. Mayde asks to be allowed to leave bed. Ike jokes that he cannot grant that order.
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Tacoma
Wash
Vincent Mayde
Seattle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army Chief of Staff
Mayde
Madigan General Hospital
Maude
Ban on Cane Alcohol for Liquor Use by Government
The Civilian Production Administration ordered tomorrow a ban on using cane alcohol to make alcohol beverages. The move aims to free molasses for essential uses and to boost industrial alcohol output. Production and inventories are insufficient to meet demand due to scarce raw materials.
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Washington
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
Navy allows Waves optional slacks due to hosiery shortage
At Farragut naval center on February 22 the Navy issued an order permitting Waves to wear slacks as an optional working uniform amid a hosiery shortage. The measure addresses violations of a rule requiring stockings as part of official uniforms and credits the shortage for the concession.
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Farragut
Idaho
Navy
Farragut Naval Center
Imprisoned Rouget de l Isle Sings National Anthem in Prison
French royalist Rouget de l Isle, author of the Marseillaise, was sentenced as a dangerous traitor when France became a republic. The song was hailed as the national anthem by the people and sung in the streets while he remained behind prison walls.
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Rouget de l’Isle
France
13 Deputies To Aid In Filing Tax Returns
Beginning Monday 13 deputy collectors will be on hand at Amarillo Field Office to help wage earners with income tax. The office is closed today and tomorrow for Washington's Birthday and Sunday, but staff will work Monday to Friday for three weeks to meet the March 15 filing deadline. Ralph Kenniston notes early filing speeds refunds and avoids last minute lines.
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Amarillo Field
Internal Revenue
Amarillo
Washington
Ralph Kenniston
Sea Mine Rescue Foils Flower Pot Plan
A sea mine washed ashore at Washington State. An unidentified man attempted to load the dangerous globe onto a truck with plans to repurpose it as a flower pot. Coast guard officials intervened, likely saving his life.
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Seattle
Coast Guard
Washington
New Milk Inspector Appointed by City Health Department
Two men join Amarillo city health department as milk bacteria inspectors. Lee First helps Wayne Hildreth in monitoring Amarillo milk shed quality, with First formerly in the medical department at Amarillo Army Air Field. Hildreth is a Texas Tech Dairy Manufacturing School graduate. The department provides equipment to test bacteria, sediment, acidity, odor, temperature, butterfat, adulteration and pasteurization efficiency.
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City Health Department
Lee First
Wayne Hildreth
First
Amarilo Army Air Field
Hildreth
Dairy Manufacturers School of Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Amarillo
Community opens drive to aid war hero Harrell dairy
Mercedes residents launched a campaign to raise 25000 to buy a ranch for former Marine Sgt. Billy Harrell Medal of Honor recipient and his bride. Harrell who lost both hands in combat against Japan was studying animal husbandry at Texas A and M College when he joined the service in 1942.
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Mercedes
Billy Harrell
Harrell
Texas A. & M. College
Texans study veterans information centers in Houston meeting
Rex Baxter and Ernest O. Northcutt were to appear in Houston before a group studying veterans information centers called by Gov. Coke Stevenson. The meeting aims to study organization and operation of centers with representatives from Texas towns of 10,000+ population. Ten cities have centers: Amarillo Dallas Houston Fort Worth Lubbock San Angelo Corpus Christi Beaumont Orange Port Arthur. Gen Omar Bradley head of the Veterans Administration will address the group tonight.
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Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Ernest O. Northcutt
Houston
Veterans Information Centers
Coke Stevenson
Ters
Texas
Amarillo
Dallas
Fort Worth
Lubbock
San Angelo
Corpus Christi
Beaumont
Orange
Port Arthur
Omar Bradley
Veterans Administration
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