Base expansion planned with new operations building
The Amarillo Globe reports a $900000 expansion for the base including a permanent operations building. The installation cost was $14700000 up to the war end, with about $5400000 spent last year on operation maintenance and $378000 for minor construction and maintenance. About 3000 military personnel are rationed, with 300 civilians employed.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Kalberer
My Day Meets Great Grandson For First Time
A Portland journal entry describes meeting a five and a half month old great grandson. The baby is healthy and cheerful, with a comical double chin when upright. The narrator recalls not hearing the child cry and comments on family ties and the youngster’s potential energy as he grows. The piece also details winter travel delays from Los Angeles to Portland via San Francisco and Salem, noting fog, ice, and late arrival to a lecture audience.
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United Features
Portland
Ore
California
Oregon
Pacific
Sissie
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Salinas
Honolulu
Salem
Midland teen shines as she meets Lindsay in golf title
In Miami on January 27 Marlene Bauer, a 15 year old from Midland Texas, advances to the third round of the Helen Lee Doherty women's amateur golf tournament by routing Claire Doran of Cleveland 7 and 6. She faces Marjorie Lindsay in the next match, her sternest test to date.
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Miami
Fla
Marlene Bauer
Helen Lee Doherty
Marjorie Lindsay
Midland
Tex
Claire Doran
Cleveland
Flower-Fashion embroidery pattern advertisement
Advertisement notes pond lilies as a new flower embroidery motif for a sheet and two pillowcases. Includes crochet and embroidery directions with pattern 7479, two small motifs, easy charts and photos, and complete instructions. Requests twenty cents and mailing details for The Amarillo Globe News. Also promotes the Alice Needlework catalog with a fifteen cent pattern copy.
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Amarillo Globe News
Household Arts Dept
Old
Chelsea Station
New York 11
Alice Needlework
Amarillo Darlings to Perform on Sundowner Premiere
The Amarillo Darlings juvenile square dance group will perform a 30 minute street routine Monday afternoon on Fifth between Polk and Taylor just after the parade. Under Grady Wilson’s tutelage they have three to two years of training, averaging age 12, with prior national recognition and a five movement medley. Their act will be filmed for Eagle-Lion Films The Sundowners premiere and shown on over 15,000 screens worldwide.
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Amarillo
St. Louis
Wilson
Dick Owens
Eagle-Lion Films
Rapid City B-36 Base Seen as Jumping-Off Point
Rapid City Air Force Base in South Dakota is described as a key jumping-off site for northern flights of the B-36 super bomber. Col. Alfred F. Kalberer notes the base’s conversion to a permanent B-36 home, with eight bombers on site and plans for a full 18-plane wing. Investments around 9 million dollars have funded large hangar and improvements since the war's end.
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Radid City
SD U.P
Rapid City Air Force Base
Alfred F. Kalberer
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Neb
Rapid City
Carswell Air Force Base
Ft. Worth
Tex
Kalberer
Fairfield-Suisun
Calif
Air Force Base
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Hurlock
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Glenn Godsey
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Tommy Reager
Grady Wilson
Nance
Eniwetok
Marshall Islands
Polk
Tion
Globe-News
Rit Ince
Muesquirers
Warner Bros
Milton Berle
Virginia
Alice Brooks
Dakota
Griggs & Sons
Fillmore
YUKON
Birdseye
Percales
Flannelette
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