Horrible Lena Contest Ends Tomorrow at Leon Theater
Robert D. Sparks of the Leon Theater receives dozens of Lena the Hyena cartoons for an amateur contest with a 10 dollar prize. Submissions must be a pen and ink 8 by 10 inch white paper piece and print ready. The winner will be published in the Amarillo News Thursday edition. The theater will show The Hairy Ape with William Bendix for two days starting Thursday.
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Robert D. Sparks
Leon Theater
Lena
Sparks
Amarillo News
Hairy Ape
William Bendix
MISS ARNETT IN ABILENE
Miss Ann Arnett of 312 Mississippi is visiting her sister in Abilene for a week.
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Miss Arnett
Abilene
Miss Ann Arnett
Mississippi
School Buildings of The Future Studied
Texas schools of the future may take revolutionary shapes if plans from a conference in Austin are adopted. George Waddill says architects and lighting acoustics and building material specialists presented ideas. Morrow School and Sam Houston Junior High School attended with Mr. Waddill. Jobs aplenty in the Want Ads.
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Texas
Austin
George Waddill
Innovations in school building lighting at conference
Attendees discussed Ernest J. Kump designs, California schools renowned for daylighting from both room sides to reduce glare. His models featured continuous east west classroom rows, glass and glass brick for even illumination, with elementary, primary, and higher grade wings arranged around courtyards. Other architects presented similarly novel school shapes.
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Wadldill
Ernest J. Kump
California
Kump
San Francisco
Waddill
J. Roy Smith
Dwight
State Rent Control Asked by Houston Officials and Veterans
Houston city fathers and veterans prepared to ask Gov. Coke Stevenson to freeze rent ceilings and ban evictions. The council urged merchants to hold prices, landlords to refrain from rent hikes, and a petition to the governor was being drafted as rents climbed. Veterans cited 40 to 200 dollar monthly rents and examined city wide rent controls and eviction bans.
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Houston
U.P
Coke Stevenson
Lewis W. Cutter
Washington, D. C
W. Lee O'Daniel
OPA
Veterans
Veterans’ Council
Albert Thomas
Congressional Record
Sen. W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
Texas veterans press for state rent controls
The American veterans committee wired Governor Stevenson urging creation of state rent controls as part of a protest against the OPA and wartime measures.
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Veterans of Texas
OPA
The
American Veterans Committee
Stevenson
Local Youth Fellowship Rally Attendees Return to Amarillo
Willeen Christopher Fern Morgan Neil Lowe and Ray Hart of Portales New Mexico attended the Perryton District Methodist Youth Fellowship Rally in Perryton and returned to Amarillo.
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Willeen Christopher
Tennessee
Fern Morgan
Arthur
Neil Lowe
Maryland
Ray Hart
Portales
N. M
Amarillo
Perryton
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Expect Complete Recovery of Marine
Pvt. Charlies E. Rucker of Orion Texas, victim of Ludwig's angina, was expected to recover after a 500 mile off course detour by a troop transport from San Francisco to Shanghai. Rucker received an operation aboard the J C Breckenbridge and was later flown to Pearl Harbor for treatment. Mrs Lillie Diver of Dallas visits her son and daughter in law Dr and Mrs George W Diver in Dallas.
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Washington
U.P
Charlies E. Rucker
Orion
Tex
Ludwig
San Francisco
Shanghai
Rucker
Pearl Harbor
J. C. Breckenbridge
Midway
Lillie Diver
Dallas City
George W. Diver
Sow Taylor
Bill Tanner 1918 Tyler Spends Week in New Mexico
Bill Tanner of 1918 Tyler is spending a week in New Mexico, staying for travel or leisure. The brief notes his visit as part of local society coverage.
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New Mexico
Bill Tanner
Tyler
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Walter Irvin, Inc
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Sears Map Blueprint CO
West Fifth
Lewis Caddell
Amarillo, Texas
N. van Buren
W. J. Batson
W. B. Batson
Mrs. Diver
Ben
Prince
W. 6Th
J. Ralph Carroll
Harrison
Gs Telephone
Seiberli
Dad
Sister
Brooks Drug Stores
24Th and
Polk
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Corporal
U.S. Army Recruiting Station
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