Around Town: Army Discharges and Family News
Lt. and Mrs. Otto Payne head to San Antonio for his Army Air Forces discharge. Promotions, moves, births, and hospital notes fill the town pages, with updates on Air Force service members, new arrivals, and residents returning from various posts.
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Otto Payne
Otto T
San Antonio
Payne
Army Air Forces
Margaret Farwell
Earl Hatchett
Army Air Force
Hatchett
Katherine Farwell
James Farwell
West Sixteenth
Gordon W. Caldwell
Philip D. Phillips
Dallas
Captain Phillips
Phillips
Philip Carr
Nell Blake
Leo M. Ryan
Ryan
Amarillo
Bomb and Bear Observe Wind by Smoke from Ships War Study
A wartime method used by air crews over the Pacific involved tracking wind direction by the smoke trail from burning Japanese ships. The article notes this technique as part of aerial reconnaissance and navigation during combat.
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Pacific
Taxes Paid During December Reported
Taxes collected in December totaled 19 699.44 with 15041.25 as current tax payments. A 1 percent discount was given on full payments, and from now on no discount will apply. Delinquent taxes paid reached 1044.65, while 1723 voters bought poll tax receipts despite an upcoming election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hoyt
Hostess Upset By Visitors
Mrs. Ida Guerrero invited friends to drop by but six strangers arrived in a car that vaulted from an elevated freeway, struck her house corner and collapsed her garage. The car, garage, and furniture were wrecked, yet no one inside the car was seriously hurt.
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Los Angeles
Ida Guerrero
FCC Exams for All Classes of Licenses to Start in Amarillo
Federal Communications Commission examinations for all radio operator licenses will be held in Amarillo semi monthly starting March 14. Postmaster W D DeGrassi announced the tests will occur in the Civil Service room in the Post Office basement, per notice from FCC field office inspector Nathan A Hallenstein.
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Federal Communications Commissions
Amarillo
W. D. DeGrassi
Civil Service Room
Nathan A. Hallenstein
FCC
Thunderbolt Division Roars from England to V E Day Front
The Eleventh Armored Division known as the Thunderbolts began combat in mid December crossing the channel then fought near Bastogne securing the Neufchateau Bastogne highway. They advanced through Belgium Luxembourg and Austria and captured over 76000 German prisoners by V E Day.
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NEA
Eleventh Armored
Thunderbolt
English Channel
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Thunderbolts
Bastogne
Neufchateau
Austria
Rhine
Bavaria
Linz
Danube
Preudenthal
Collections fall on highway fees at county office
December totals show highway fee collections at Frank Hoyt's office dropping to 1770.84 dollars. Car transfers declined as dealers logged out sales in November and held stock in December. License sales also fell with three months left before new licenses. Car licenses brought 824.20 dollars and commercial trucks 613.97.
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Frank Hoyt
Santa Fe System Week Ends Jan 12 1946 Loadings
Santa Fe System car loadings for week ending January 12 1946 were 24 560 versus 24 776 in the same week of 1945. Cars received from connections totaled 9 258 compared with 12 429 for the same week in 1945. Total cars moved were 33 818 com.
North Sea herring yield and rail freight figures
The excerpt notes 400,000 tons of herring produced annually in the North Sea. It records Santa Fe handling 28,744 railway cars in the preceding week and compares to 37,205 for the same week in 1945.
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Santa Fe
North Sea
Make This Home Recipe To Take Off Ugly Fat
A marketing claim promotes a simple home fat loss plan using four ounces of Barcentrate liquid mixed with grapefruit juice in a pint bottle. Two tablespoons twice daily supposedly reduces fat from neck to ankles with a money back guarantee if the result is not visible.
Radio Programs and ABC Listings From a Scrambled Page
Fragmentary radio schedule notes include Lum and Abner Elmer Davis The Alan Young Guy Lombardo The Doctors Talk and ABC trophies to Sugar Bowl players plus Coronet Front Page News and casino gardens listings with scattered program names and stations.
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Lum
Abner
Elmer Davis
ABC
Alan Young
Guy Lombardo
the Doctors
Navy Officer On Sea Duty After Training
Ens. Carl Pankratz has completed Catapult and Arresting Gear School in Philadelphia and reported to Portland for sea duty. A Amarillo High School graduate and Navy V-12 alumnus, he earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Notre Dame and the University of Oklahoma Norman, and will serve aboard the C.V.E. Sicily as catapult officer.
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Philadelphia
Carl Pankratz
H. J. Pankratz
River Drive
Portland
Ore
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Ensign Pankratz
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Notre Dame
Ind
C.V.E
Sicily
Neighbors Recall Cow Horse Stuckey’s Porch Visit
Camden South Carolina residents tell of a neighborhood horse named Stuckey who wandered from a yard, entered the Miller home kitchen, and claimed a spot on the porch. A transfer company improvised a ramp to remove the animal after it stayed put at the Miller home.
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Camden
S. C
William Miller
Radio Schedule Fragments From KGNC Era
A historical listing of radio programs and time slots including Smoky Joe Barnes Rise n Shine News by Air and NBC Sunrise Serenade. The page catalogs station segments with program titles and hosts like The Sky Pilot, Panhandle Livestock, and Texas School of the Air, reflecting a mid century broadcasting lineup.
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KGNC
K.C
The
Sky
Smoky Joe Barnes
Air Oo
Air
Reveille
NBC
Dariana Central Baptist Church
Panhandle Livestock
Rhythm Range
Martin “Agronsky
ABC
News
Monte Magee
Lora Lawton
Road of Life
Joyce — Jordan
Barry Cameron
David Harum
Judy & Jane
Texas School of the Air
Glamour Manor
Capitol Dome
Moment Musicale
NBC daytime lineup blends serials and talk segments
The schedule lists NBC soap operas and programs such as The Guiding Light Today's Children Betty Crocker Woman in White Stella Dallas Portia Faces Life Pepper Young's Family The Right to Happiness Backstage Wife Lorenzo Jones Young Widder Brown Just Plain Bill Front Page Farrell and other NBC shows for Wednesday afternoon.
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NBC
Betty Crocker
Woman In White
NBC News
Ail Women of America
Ma Perkins
Pepper Young's
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Just Plain
Bill
Farrell
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Earl Bryan
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Fibber McGee
Molly
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Bob Hope
Red Skelton
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Roy Shield
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Sportsman's Lane
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Charlie Chan
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Theater of Romance
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