Price Will Hold On Drugs Despite OPA End
Amarillo retail druggists chief Thurman Gholston predicted drug store prices would not rise sharply with the end of the OPA. He cited a federal survey showing only a 0.7 percent price rise and noted increases in toiletries and luggage but not in drug items. Shortages in films and cleaning tissues persist while fountain departments gain volume amid higher costs for materials and labor.
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Thurman Gholston
Amarillo Retail Druggists Association
OPA
Gholston
Mr. Gholston
Potter County Purchases Racks to Hold Housing Deed Records
Potter County commissioners approved three new racks for housing deed records as volumes near capacity. Clerk Hubert Cole notes rapid postwar growth since 1939, with one third of all deeds issued since 1887 recorded in the last year. Racks from Stafford-Lowden Co. of Fort Worth priced at 1890 dollars.
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Potter County
Hubert Cole
Cole
Stafford-Lowden Co
Fort Worth
Poe at 26 Twice His Wife’s Age in Alignment
The note states Edgar Allan Poe, aged 26, was twice as old as his wife. This concise historical snippet highlights a demography relation tied to Poe and his spouse.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Outlaw film sparks protests and selective showings
The Outlaw, on the Legion of Decency Class C condemned list, draws protests and limited bookings across the U S Texas theaters report failed attempts to book the film while Chicago venues briefly screened it. An Alexandria Louisiana theater owner faced fines and jail terms that were suspended for showing the film. Independent theaters in West Texas including Pampa and Lubbock have screened it, while Amarillo venues have yet to book it.
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Forever Amber
Boston
Legion of Decency
Texas
Motion Picture Herald
Chicago
Alexandria
Minneapolis
Ohio
West Texas
Pampa
Lubbock
Amarillo
Major Keleher Nominated for Regular Army Promotion
Maj William O Keleher of the Organized Reserves is nominated for first lieutenant in the Regular Army. A Fruita Colorado native, he joined the Colorado National Guard in 1940, earned his commission via Officer Candidates School, and served in Italy France Germany and Austria. He holds the Combat Infantry Badge Silver Star Bronze Star Purple Heart with cluster and four battle stars on his ETO ribbon. A Fruita High School and Mesa Junior College alum, he was a standout athlete.
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William O. Keleher
Organized Reserves
Keleher
Fruita
Colo
Colorado National Guard
Italy
France
Germany
Austria
Fruita High School
Mesa Junior College
Paramount and other films on local billboards and showcases
A newspaper calendar lists film titles and stars at state and regional theaters including Paramount Dass, Renegades, Saratoga Trunk, Lone Rider Crosses Rio, The Woman in the Window, Spellbound, Paris Underground, That Night With You, She Went to the Races and more. Nightclub acts and orchestras appear nightly at Mayfair, NAT, Old Tascosa, Rainbow Gardens, Aviatrix, Mexican Inn with Dick Miles, Jim, and Carlton Scales. J. C. Sherrill and Eloise attend a western regional sales congress at Estes Park, with a Mexico City trip following. Jobs abound in Want Ads.
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Paramount
Susan Hayward
Paul Lukas
State
Evelyn Keyes
Willard Parker
Capitol
Saratoga
Ingrid Bergman
Gary Cooper
Rialto
Rio
Wild Bill Elliott
Leon
Joan Bennett
Edward G. Robinson
Raymond Massey
Texas
Gergory Peck
Victory
Constance Bennett
Gracie Fields
Franchot Tone
Susanna Foster
REX
James Craig
Frances Gifford
Eloise
J. C. Sherrill
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
Estes Park
Colo
Rittenberry
President Club
Mexico City
Link Tschudy Company Engineer and Contractor
Amarillo listing for Link Tschudy Company offering engineering and contracting services at 1500 W 6th St with day and night phone lines 4524 and 4341.
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Link Tschudy Company
St. Amarillo
Rittenberry Parr and Sherrill Honored
C. B. Rittenberry, R. C. Parr, and J. C. Sherrill are honored in a civic tribute with other local figures named in the ceremony program.
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C. B. Rittenberry
R. C. Parr
J. C. Sherrill
Cc. B. Rittenberry
R. C. Barr
Retail and Farm Income Rise in May 1946
Dallas July 2. Business by reporting department stores rose 31 percent in May 1946 compared with May 1945 according to a federal reserve bank announcement. Texas 1946 wheat harvest revised to about 46 million bushels, roughly 10 percent above last year.
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Dallas
Federaleserve Bank
Texas
Farm Report Notes Strong Pasture, Rising Prices
Outside the grouth areas pastures are good and livestock condition is satisfactory. Prices of farm products continue to rise with wheat at the highest level since 1925.
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Grouth
Mrs Iona Bowles Improves at Daughter’s Home
Mrs Iona Bowles, long ill at her daughter Mrs Vernon Hancock’s home at 912 Buchanan, is reported much improved.
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Iona Bowles
Vernon Hancock
Buchanan
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Dick Stevenson
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Jess Franks
Bob Sylvester
Featuring
Ray Wagner
P. O
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Aviatrix Club
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Paris
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Gregory Peck “Spellboys
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Gozzie Melson
Avalon
C. A Rogers Terrific Orchestra
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