Fun Chasers Inspect City Water Pumping Station
The Fun Chasers Club of teenage girls led by Mrs. Roger Harris toured the city water pumping station at Eighth Avenue Crockett Street. Members included Sidney Stinnett president Betty Harris secretary Shirley Jean Harris Jerry Josev Patricia Wells and Karan Thacher. Refreshments followed the inspection.
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Fun Chasers Club
Ers
Roger Harris
Eighth Avenue Crockett Street
Sidney Stinnett
Betty Harris
Shirley Jean Harris
Jerry Josev
Patricia Wells
Karan Thacher
Haynes Studies Ordnance at Navy Training Center
Seaman E. A. Haynes formerly of Amarillo trains at the Aviation Ordnance School in Norman Oklahoma to become an ordnance instructor. Before the war he taught history manual training and industrial art. After war began he left teaching for Pantex before joining the Navy. He earned basic training in San Diego.
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E. A. Haynes
Amarillo
Aviation Ordnance School
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Norman
Oklo
Seaman Haynes
Pantex
Haynes
Navy
San Diego
From Where I Sit Bob Newcomb Reflects on Homefront
The narrator recalls Dick Newcomb in the South Pacific asking about simple home joys like horseshoes, tools, and Seward's Creek. He says preserving these small pleasures is a sacred homefront duty, ensuring the world veterans fight for remains intact.
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Bob Newcomb
Dick Newcomb
South Pacific
Ray
Johnny
Seward's Creek
Aviation Student Smith enters Nashville center for placement tests
Harry Smith son of Mr and Mrs H K Smith 604 A Maryland Street enters the Center in Nashville Tennessee part of the Army Air Forces Training Command for physical and psychology examinations to determine his best fitting branch bombardier navigation or piloting This is the first step toward a training program that will graduate him as a commissioned officer Smith is a graduate of Amarillo High School.
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Harry Smith
H. K. Smith
Maryland Street
Nashville
Tenn
Army Air Forces Training Command
Smith
Amarillo High School
Soldier Robert C French Enlists in Signal Corps
Robert C French joined the Signal Corps after enlisting in October 1942. He trained at Lowry Field Denver Colorado and Jefferson Barracks Missouri and graduated from Amarillo High School. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Jack French of 1003 Buchanan Street.
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Robert C. French
South Pacific
Signal Corps
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Jefferson Barracks
French
Amarillo High School
Jack French
Buchanan Street
Aviation Cadet De Grassi Completes First Flight Stage
Aviation Cadet Winnette D. De Grassi III of 1503 Jefferson Street completed the first stage of flight training at the Army Air Forces primary school in Douglas Georgia. He has been transferred to Cochran Field in Macon Georgia for the intermediate stage of training.
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Winnette D. DeGrassi
Jefferson Street
Army Air Forces Primary School
Douglas
DeGrassi
Cochran Field
Macon
Colemans Spend Week in New York City Visit
Mr and Mrs Robert Coleman returned from New York where they spent a week. Mr Coleman, manager of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Beane here, visited the main New York office. They also saw Mrs Clara Hammond at the Biltmore Hotel and it was his first trip to the big city.
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Robert Coleman
New York
Coleman
Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Financial District
Colemans
Captain Storm Begins Second Flight Training Phase
Air Field Garden City Kansas prepares Captain Storm for the next stage of flight training. He attended Kemper School 1936 to 1938 and Massachusetts college where he played football and ran track. He was commissioned as an ordnance officer at the Proving Grounds Maryland and served with the American Supply Mission to Russia until October 1943.
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Air Field
Garden City
Kan
Kemper School
Massache
Storm
Between Proving Grounds
Russia
Storm Wil
Funeral Services Held for Mother of Beloved Captain
Belton reports the burial of Mrs. Mary Waskow age 66 the mother of Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Texas 36th Division. Services coincided with memorials for her son praised by war correspondent Ernie Pyle for actions on the Italian front. Mrs Waskow died Monday after a long illness.
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Belton
Captain
Texas
36Th Division
Henry T. Waskow
Waskow
Ernie Pyle
Mary Waskow
German occupation costs French in 1943 drags on economy
New York dispatch reports from a Swiss newspaper that Germany’s occupation cost France 285 billion francs in 1943, about six billion dollars, more than twice the prior year’s ordinary budget. Inflationary printing covered 123 billion francs of the burden.
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New York
U.P
Son Dies in Father's Grip in Seattle
Floyd W. Miles, 57, a former policeman, reportedly applied a full Nelson to his 28-year-old son Russell Miles until police arrived to find the son dead. Miles had signed a confession and was released on recognizance, claiming his son was drunk and threatening harm. The Capitol building in Washington is noted as covering about 3 12 acres.
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Seattle
Whitejhaired
Floyd W. Miles
Miles
Russell
Potter County Ration Board Members Earn Merit Certificates
Potter County ration board members who have served at least a year received merit award certificates from the OPA office in Lubbock. The certificates were signed by President Roosevelt, OPA official Chester Bowles, and the district director. One board member asked about his plans for the certificate.
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Potter County
OPA
Lubbock
Roosevelt
Chester Bowles
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Haynes Studies
Robert French
Frank J. Storm, JR
Ed H
W. C. McCord
Southland Life Insurance
Southland Life
Archie Copeland
A. R. Castleberry
Horace B. Gooch
A. B. Hall
L. F. Kirk
William T. McKinney
Far Shelton
Brenda
Joe Marsh
Brewing Industry Foundation
Pomona Turbine
Pomona
Pomona Niagara
Lubbock, Roswell and Plainview
Clowe & Cowan, Inc
Amarillo, Texas
Pacific
Mrs
New York City
Amarillo Printing CO
Boxwell
Dumas Perryton
Spearman
Capitol Building
Washington
Penetro
Hill Billy
Panhandle Record Store
Tyler
Will Martin
Doc" Vermillion
10Th Street Shoe Shop
Spicer
Polk
Muchas
Venezuela
South America
Coke
Cleveland
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
Amarillo Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Lincoln ST
The
C-C Co
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