Two Major Airlines Here Now Handling Air Freight
Amarillo sees freight service by Braniff and TWA, with TWA planning 18 to 20 cent rates for transcontinental shipments as planes and staff grow. Braniff began Dec 1 with initial shipments including brooms from Colorado, while TWA operates coast to coast. Fresh fish and flowers move quickly. fruits and garments arrive from coastal markets. Export material is scarce, limiting outbound shipments. TWA serves 33 coast to coast cities and uses deferment with separate pickup and delivery charges. Cargo costs currently 38
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Braniff Airways
Colorado
TWA
Amarillo
Air Express
Highway Fatalities Rise 38 Percent in 1945 in New Mexico
Santa Fe report shows 163 highway deaths in January through October 1945, up from 125 in the same period of 1944. Director J. B. Mitchell of the Drivers' License Division, Bureau of Revenue, cites the year to date increase.
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Santa FE
U.P
New Mexico
J. B. Mitchell
Bureau of Revenue
Mitchell
Dalhart Post Office Receipts Rise in 1945
Dalhart postal receipts for 1945 reached 64 605 dollars, marking a gain over the year but remaining about 20 percent below the 1944 peak of 80 416 dollars. The drop mirrors reduced activity at the Dalhart Army Air Field in the latter half of the year.
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Dalhart
Dalhart Army Air Field
Postmaster Jack Wade Reported Over Air Field Post Office
Postmaster Jack Wade was reported to be due to drop in receipts at the air field post office, signaling changes in local postal revenue. The note highlights financial concerns facing the facility and its administrative oversight.
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Jack Wade
Air Field Post Office
Twelve Enlist In U S Navy From Amarillo and Wellington
A Saturday release by M. E Pierce announces twelve men enlisting for two years in the regular Navy. Amarillo recruits include Cecil Lloyva Boyle Billie Floyd Oller Louis Donald Brown Gerald Castleberry Jack Donald Martin and Chester Lee Seaton. Wellington entrants are James Alvin Winter Jimmie Scott Billy Arthur Nelson Newman Lee Brown Howard Thurman Moore and Clyde Eugene Scott from Guyman Oklahoma.
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Amarillo
M. E Pierce
Cecil Lloyva Boyle
Geneva Katherine Killion
West Seventh
Billie Floyd Oller
Jacob B. Oller
North McMasters
Louis Donald Brown
Bird A Brown
East Fourteenth
Gerald Castleberry
John Castleberry
Virginia
Jack Donald Martin
Clement J. Martin
Fairfield
Chester Lee Seaton
Arthur W. Seaton
Rusk
Wellington
James Alvin Winter, Jr
Anns A. Winter
Jimmie Scott
Maxine Hackworth
Billy Arthur Nelson
Arthur R. Nelson
Newman Lee Brown
Millard R. Brown
Howard Thurman Moore
Leslie A. Moore
Guyman
Okla
Clyde Eugene Scott
Clyde W. Scott
Funeral Services Yesterday For W. B. Hudspeth at Texline
Funeral services were held at the Texline Baptist church for W. B. Hudspeth a Texline resident for 35 years and longtime Dallam county commissioner. He died Thursday in a Clayton hospital after illness midweek. Survivors include his wife two daughters and five sons.
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Texline
Texline Baptist Church
W. B. Hudspeth
Sam Hanson
Dalhart
Dallam
Hudspeth
Clayton
Mary Stewart
J. F. Day
Amarillo
F. E
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H. E
W. C
Hereford
Major Harold Scoggins Now in Philippines
Dalhart residents report Major Harold Scoggins, former Methodist pastor in Dalhart and Borger, is stationed in the Philippines. His wife, living in Georgetown, plans to join him soon. Scoggins, a World War I veteran, served as Army chaplain after World War II began, and his son Grant is discharged but holds a first lieutenant rank in the Air Corps Reserve. Both Scoggins and his wife attend Southwestern University in Georgetown.
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Dalhart
Maj
Harold Scoggins
Borger
Philippines
Georgetown
Major Scoggins
Grant
Air Corps Reserve
Young Scoggins
Southwestern University
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