Amarillo To Receive Special Salute For 1939 Traffic Safety
Amarillo will receive a Sunday afternoon salute on KGNC at 2 o clock honoring the city's 1939 traffic safety record. The event, part of Employers' Casualty Company program, follows Amarillo being lauded as Texas safest city. Maynard Drake leads the American Legion safety committee, which sponsored many 1939 radio programs promoting traffic safety.
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Amarillo
Employers’ Casualty Company
KGNC
Texas
American Legion
Maynard Drake
Weather notes and community notices in Amarillo row
Local items describe a mix of reader submissions and community events in Amarillo. Highlights include a charity bridge class at the Elks Club, a $1000 prize for Old Tack No. 1 oil depth guesses, a birds on courthouse square observation, plus busy Milk Fund donations and stock market excerpts.
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Rufus Steele
The
Elks Club
Mr. Steel
Tack Experienced Clerk
A job seeker identifies herself as Tam a lady seeking employment with clerking experience. The fragment hints at additional details continued on another page.
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Tack
Tam
Potter County Tax Collects Rise In 1939 Totals
Potter County's 1939 tax collections rose by 222916.25 over 1938 reports according to Miss Jewell Davidson County Tax Officer. Boosts came from prompt payment discounts and a higher state tax rate though the county notes the rate was set by the state tax board.
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Potter County
Jewell Davidson
Automatic Tax Board
Finnish Relief Fund Dance Floor Show Set at the Nat
The floor show at the Finnish Relief Fund features Dixie Dite with a new act and costumes at the Nat next Wednesday night. Dick Mills and his 12 Merry Milers provide music, with H A Dyer covering substantial Nat expenses. Tickets are 55 cents, profits aid the Finnish relief effort in New York and Finland. Dancing runs from 9 30 to 1.
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Dick Mills
Merry Millers
H. A. Dyer
National
Finnish Relief Fund
New York
Finland
New President Outlines Aims for 1940 at A B C Meeting
President E M Blackburn Jr outlined a vigorous year of accomplishments at the first A B C meeting of 1940 held in the Capitol Hotel Dixie Dice and her troupe performed song and dance numbers. A J Folley supervised the program.
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E. M. Blackburn, Jr
American Business Club
Capitol Hotel
Dixie Dice
A. J. Folley
Italy Germany Arms Transit Dispute Over Finland Shipments
Reported tensions over Italian arms shipments to Finland routed via Germany. Dispatches claim Germany halted some consignments including crated airplanes at Sassnitz port and sent others back to Italy. Italy allegedly protested and was told Germany knew nothing of the halts and reserves the right to approve transit of war material.
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Italy
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Sassnitz
Warner's Compound diuretic for urinary relief
Warner's Compound is a diuretic that stimulates urine flow to dilute urine, relieve burning and frequent urination. Get a bottle from your druggist and find relief. Warner's Remedies Co Inc Rochester NY.
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Warner's Remedies Co., Inc
Rochester
N. Y
British Trawler Croxton Sunk by German Warplane
A 195 ton British trawler Croxton with nine crew members landed in an English port after the vessel was sunk in the North Sea by a German warplane on Thursday morning.
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London
Croxton
Englis
Mayor Signs Lease to Amarillo Oil Company
City commission adopted a resolution authorizing Mayor Ross D. Rogers to sign the lease on municipal land to Amarillo Oil Company. The firm has 60 days to begin a 5000 foot oil test, with drilling expected soon after. H. R. Smith notes a park survey for location and prior test data was requested. The Bureau of Biological Survey reports about 250 Texas longhorn cattle remaining.
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Ross D. Rogers
Amarillo Oil Company
H. R. Smith
Thompson Park
Bureau of Biological Survey
Texas
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