Forty eight graduates at Amarillo High mid term
Amarillo High School will graduate forty eight seniors at mid term according to principal R B Norman. Commencement is set for January 22 at 8 pm in the school auditorium with the senior class program directed by Mrs C P Atwood. Baccalaureate will be January 19 at 7 30 pm at First Baptist Church with Dr D Foreman Jr delivering the sermon. Grape and wine production in the United States is estimated to be a half billion dollar industry.
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Amarillo High School
R. B. Norman
C. P. Atwood
First Baptist Church
D. Foreman
The
Arch
United States
Doctor Harvey K. Jackson Opens General Practice
Dr Harvey K Jackson announces release from the armed forces and opens his office for general medicine and surgery at 510 Georgia Street.
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Georgia St
Guy Lombardo Riding High Amid Dying Big Band Era
Music critic Leonard Feather says many famous name bands are dying as lean times hit the business. While Duke Ellington Lionel Hampton Stan Kenton and Guy Lombardo stay active they rely on steady gigs and avoid touring. Feather argues some bands may return when conditions settle.
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Guy Lombardo
New York
U.P
America
Leonard Feather
Feather
Woody Herman
Esquire
Metronome
Benny Goodman
Tommy Dorsey
Capitol Theater
Harry James
Les Brown
Ina Ray Hutton
Benny Carter
Fatso Goering
Duke Ellington
Lionel Hampton
Stan Kenton
Manhattan
Horsemen Plan Mid-Summer Show in Amarillo
Amarillo Horsemen's Association members will meet soon to elect officers and plan the annual mid summer horse show. Officers include B I Barfield president Bill Gunn vice president and Mrs Charlie Judd secretary. The club, in its seventh year, posted a 5000 purse last summer with entrants from eight states. Proceeds benefited the Crippled Children's Council of Amarillo.
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Amarillo Horsemen’s Association
Vera Walker
Crippled Children’s Council of
Amarillo
Tana
Fail To File Rent Registration Forms
Several rooming house operators did not file the supplemental registration forms required by the new OPA regulation. Frank Hobgood, area rent control director, noted a Dec. 31, 1946 deadline. He urged operators to complete the registration, covering rooming houses hotels and tourist courts in Randall and Potter counties.
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OPA
Frank Hobgood
Mr. Hobgood
Amarillo
Conventions Set for Amarillo in 1947
Nineteen conventions have been scheduled for Amarillo in 1947 with 1946 figures showing over 50 conventions and about 27 500 visitors. Estimated economic impact exceeds 250 000 dollars. Scheduled groups include Anxiety Hereford Breeders Panhandle Dental Society Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association Fat Stock Show Texas IOOF Grand Lodge Potter County Unit No 9 of Texas State Teachers Association Texas Pilot Club Panhandle Press Association Delta Kappa Gamma Optimist Club Panhandle American Petroleum Institute Panhandle Bankers Association Disabled Veterans and Auxiliary State Firemen and Fire Marshals Association Texas Music Teachers Association District 1 West Texas Chamber of Commerce Southwest Warehouse and Transfer Association Northwest Texas Methodist Conference and International Municipal Signal Association with Tri-State Fair attendance boosting totals.
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Amarillo
Bill Lansing
Chamber of Commerce
Hereford Breeders
Panhandle Dental Society
Panhandle Hardware
State Firemen’s Land Fire Marshals’ Association
Texas Music Teachers Association
District 1
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Southwest Warehouse and Transfer Association
Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
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Whiteway
Folger's
PUREX
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Inucoa
C&h. Lm
Texas
Idaho
Con
East
S. Fillmore
N. E
N. Buchanan
Taylor
International Municipal Signal Association
Lansing
la Reed
M. H. Farr
Nunn
W. J. Batson
W. B. Batson
Bat's Liquors
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