Polk Street Methodists Plan Family Night Series
Polk Street Methodist Church announces four Thursday Family and Church Night programs starting tomorrow from 5 to 8 PM. Activities include Children's Hour with adult movies, Junior Choir, story hour, supper, devotional hour, leather raft and woodcraft instruction, choral reading, and forums led by Rev J Frank Peery and Rev Wayne W Coffin with guest speakers Mrs A D Foreman Jr and Dr Roy Boger.
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E. D. Landreth
Howard Lynch
Fellowship Hall
Marvin Chamberlain
J. Frank Perry
Oscar Wise
H. B. Vaughan
Martha Pisk
J. Frank Peery
Methodist Church
Wayne W. Coffin
Neal D. Cannon
City Commission Awards Paving and Hose Contracts
City Commission approved paving contracts totaling about 33 000 dollars. A Parker street paving project from Twenty second to Thirteenth was awarded with signing delayed over lien negotiations. Clowe and Cowan of Amarillo won hose contracts for 2000 feet of 2 1 2 inch hose and 500 feet of 1 1 2 inch hose. A grazing lease at City Lake was signed for Kenneth LaFon.
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Parker
Clowe and Cowan
Amarillo
Kenneth LaFon
East Eighteenth
City Lake
Christmas Toys Backfire On Pop Mom and Neighbors
The Globe Office Girl notes holiday gifts gone wrong as families face mishaps with a BB gun unsafe handling skates and a croquet set. Neighbors recount broken windows injuries and yard hazards, urging better toy responsibility and safety awareness after Christmas.
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Globe Office Girl
Mama
Papa
Junior
Joyce
Santa Claus
AFL Chief backs Wallace opposition in 1948 race
AFL President William Green joined labor leaders in opposing Henry A. Wallace as an independent candidate. Green called a third party a political mistake and said labor will oppose Wallace. Walter P. Reuther and Jack Kroll also spoke against Wallace, with Green also opposing Senator Robert A. Taft for the GOP nomination.
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WUP
AFL
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Henry A. Wallace
Green
Wallace
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
CIO
Jack Kroll
Robert A. Taft
Day Old Babe Strangled. Unwed Mother Charged
In Beaumont Texas Jessie Carr a hospital maid is charged with murder for strangling a day old baby. The baby was left in a suitcase behind a Woodville bus station. The Jefferson County grand jury will investigate next week. officers traced the suitcase to her.
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Jefferson County
Grand Jury
Woodville
Jessie Carr
Charley H. Meyer
15 Killed in Plane Crash Near Paris Le Bourget
A French Air France DC-3 crashed in fog at Le Bourget airport near Paris killing 15 of 16 aboard. Among the dead were three Americans including diplomatic courier Mrs. Jane Wallis Burrell and Louis Libre of New York. Survivors included a Polish passenger.
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U.P
Brussels
le Bourget
Jane Wallis Burrell
Mrs. Burrel
Dubuqueque
Iowa
Louis Libre
New York City
Amimex Trading Corp
New York
John Sherrod Power
Power
Waco
Tex
Air France
Court Enjoins Wiley College Strike Action
Twenty five former Wiley College students were temporarily restrained from further interference in college operations by a court order issued by District Judge W. H. Strength. Hearing for a temporary injunction was set for Jan. 16 after a student strike began at the Methodist Negro College following holiday roll removals for prior strike participation.
Home Decorating Contest Winner Attracts Hundreds
Van H. Allm on 3108 Monroe won first place in the Christmas Home Decorating Contest doorway division as hundreds of citizens viewed his display with 487 cars passing by the home on Christmas Eve.
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van H. Allm
Monroe
Christ
Milk output in 1946 would stretch 140 earth circumferences
A claim states that if all U S milk produced in 1946 were bottled in quarts and lined up, the row would extend 140 times the earths circumference. This emphasizes vast production volume with approximate scaling.
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