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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1947
Page
12
War Assets Administration will auction a quarter of a million dollars worth of musical instruments to veterans. Tom Nelson, director of the Veterans Information Center, says Amarillo veterans have sought surplus instruments and this marks an early sale effort.
J E Doud of the Panhandle Santa Fe Railway explained factors behind the Interstate Commerce Commission sanctioned freight rate rise. He noted a 20 percent hike includes 9 percent wartime boosts, leaving an 11 percent net increase beyond current rates. He said future ICC actions will handle rail and motor freight together and that the rise applies to interstate carriers only due to higher labor and equipment costs.
K. C. Smith, assistant district director of the Federal Housing Administration in Fort Worth, will speak at the Texas Home Builders Association first 1947 meeting. Dinner at 7 tonight in Capitol Hotel with K. S. Reynolds presiding. Globe-News Want Ads for Results.
The American Business Club hosts an installation banquet and dance at Amarillo Country Club tomorrow at 7 o clock. Julia Dean Evans directs a musical program with the quartet and quintet performing pieces while Rolla Cartwright installs new officers led by J R Brown. Nile Noble's orchestra will play for the dance after the program. About two hundred attendees expected with corsages for the ladies.
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