GI Joes Outrank All Officers At Amarillo Field's Laundry
At Amarillo Army Air Field a massive laundry plant prioritizes enlisted men over officers due to a labor shortage. The facility processes nearly a million items monthly for multiple bases and camps, turning a net monthly profit of about 10 000 dollars. The plant employs 125 people, with 50 more needed, and operates on two shifts.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Civil Service
Dalhart Army Air Base
Hereford
McLean
Pampa Army Air Field
Childress
West Texas State College
Canyon
War Department
Jack C. Buchholz
Treasury
Richard McCormick
Ray P. Birren
Quartermaster Corps
Jess H. Davidson
Orville Campbell
Amarillo
Birren
American Institute of Laundering
Panhandle
Army laundry policy praised for worker benefits at plant
Capt. Buchholz who ran a major Columbus laundry for 20 years now heads a plant that provides workers direct transport, daily work, and two and one sixth days monthly leave with pay totaling 26 days yearly. The facility operates under civil service with hourly policing and resembles a factory rather than a cleaning plant. The account highlights the Army's care for its personnel through this integrated service.
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Civil Service
Buchholz
Columbus
Soldiers Give Boy 200 Days of Life
In Dallas a four year old, Billy Meers, receives 200 pints of blood from Chanute Field personnel delivered by a Flying Fortress to Love Field and processed at Baylor Hospital. Doctors warn transfusions may keep him comfortable but not cure his chronic nephritis.
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Dallas
U. S. Army
Chanute Field
Til
Billy Meers
Love Field
Baylor Hospital
Billy
Charles Meers
Seymour
Tex
Soldiers send $2.05 to Gloria Vanderbilt Di Cicco
Stars and Stripes forwarded $2.05 raised by American soldiers at an Eighth Air Force station to Mrs Gloria Di Cicco heiress to the Vanderbilt fortune. The funds followed a report of her 1943 income and a 1944 accounting showing estate growth and expenditures. Her husband Lieut Pat De Cicco is hospitalized at Mitchell Field NY with the First Fighter Command.
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London
Stars and Stripes
Gloria’ Vanderbilt di Cicco
Eighth Airforce
Gloria
New York
New York State
Thomas B. Gilchrist
Pasquale
Pat) de Cicco
Mitchell Field
N. Y
BC Headaches and Neuralgia Relief Adverts
Headaches and neuralgic pains are described as yielding quickly to the BC formula. The product also relieves muscular aches and functional periodic pains and acts as a sedative for nervousness. Available in 10c and 25c sizes. Use only as directed and consult a physician if pains persist.
Bayonne Strike Settlement Affects Tide Water Refinery
More than 1000 union workers at the Bayonne Refinery of Tide Water Associated Oil Company win a seniority based system for all job classifications and promotions in the instrument and electrical departments after a 15 hour conference. The settlement was announced early today in Bayonne New Jersey.
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Bayonne
N. J
Tide Water Associated Oil Company
Rich Woman Shot in Head in Drake Hotel Mystery
Mrs Frank Starr Williams, 55, wife of a State Department attaché in Washington, was shot in the Drake Hotel apartment and reported near death. An unidentified middle aged, well dressed woman was the alleged shooter. authorities pursued clues while Williams regained consciousness before slipping into a coma. Her daughter Patricia Goodbody, 28, was also targeted as investigators sought motives.
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Chicago
Fraank Starr Williams
State Department
Washington
Drake
Patricia Goodbody
Williams Family Denies Any Motive for Harm
Williams family including her first husband Edgar R. Born a wholesale clothing executive and a second daughter said they knew of no persons who would want to harm her. Williams served as a U S embassy official in Tokyo from 1933 to 1942 and arrived in Chicago from Washington today. About one third of all gasoline produced in the U S east of the Rockies goes to the armed services.
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Williams
Edgar R. Born
U. S
Tokyo
Chicago
Washington
Rockies
The
Armed Services
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News-Globe
News Globe
Ansley Cleaners
Canada
U.S.A
Buckley's
Cretney Drug, Bush Drug Co., Pool Drug Stores
Polk
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