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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1947
Page
5
Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi notes postal savings continue rising with a 2 percent yield. Deposits may be withdrawn anytime after three months, with a $2,500 per-person limit. Four-year tabulation shows increasing totals from 1943 to 1946, reaching 1,765,357 in 1946.
Sixty Range Riders plus the Dalhart Lions Club and local ranchers spent a day constructing rodeo pens at Boys Ranch across from the Tascosa courthouse. They aim to resume the Boys Ranch rodeo this summer with a June date and a hoped for 7000 attendees.
Santa Fe reports January 1947 net railway operating income of 4,429,698 a drop from 6,613,620 in 1946 and 4,828,082 in 1945. Gross for January 1947 stood at 34,168,697, down from 36,225,789 in 1946 and 44,958,962 in 1945. President F G Gurley released the figures noting the year over year decline.
Tax Collector Frank Hoyt urges motorists who have traded autos since obtaining plates to apply early for 1947 licenses. Early filing allows correction of title irregularities before the April 1 license purchase deadline.
Ama rillo Franklin Life Insurance official Don Wyatt reports total ordinary life insurance paid or sold by company agents in the United States rose 103 percent from 1945 to 1946, reaching 115,288,544 dollars. President Charles E. Becker called 1946 the most substantial year in the firm’s 63 year history and expects a similar gain in 1947. Before Buying Check the Want Ads.
E. L. Duggan, superintendent of safety based in Chicago, will address a joint meeting of Santa Fe safety clubs tomorrow night at 7:30 in the auditorium of the Santa Fe general offices Park at Ninth. The session, the first joint meeting of mechanical department safety clubs, will be followed by a free dance flow show and refreshments. All Santa Fe employees are invited to attend.
The Teton range in Wyoming is considered one of the most precipitous mountain fronts on the North American continent, noted for its dramatic cliffs and rugged geography.
Max Callaway of Callaway's Home and Auto Supply, a former Navy pilot, uses miniature railroad building to regain footing. He displays a two track layout in his window at Seventh and Jackson with town, station, switch engine and 19 cars.
Callaway served in the Ferry Command flying Navy planes and logged 1,500 hours in service. He piloted all types of single engine aircraft. He credits his hobby with shaping a peacetime mindset.
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