Area Meet of Methodists Highlights Crusade for Christ
Ministers district superintendents and church members from five Northwest Texas Conference districts gathered at Polk Street Methodist Church for an evangelistic meeting. Bishop Charles C. Selecman presided and spoke, with Rev. Don Schooler and Rev. Orin Carter also addressing. Reports on progress followed a luncheon, as the church pursues the crusade aiming to add one million members in the current year.
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Northwest Texas
Crusade of Christ
Polk Street Methodist Church
Charles C. Selecman
Dallas
Don Schooler
Chickasha
Okla
Caradine Hooten
Orin Carter
Abilene
Hooten
Fellowship Hall
Clarendon
Perryton
Vernon
Plainview
Amarillo
Methodist Church
Two Former Lubbock Residents Arrested for Beer Transport
Rosa Lawrence and Moren G. Bitela, both 30s to 40s, were jailed in Potter County on bonds of 500 each after police found nearly 200 untaxed beer bottles in their car. They have prior liquor violation convictions in Swisher Randall and Lubbock counties. The Rex Bar on East Tenth Street had its license temporarily suspended after agents found over 50 cases of untaxed beer.
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Lubbock
Potter County
Rosa Laurence
Moren G. Bitela
Liquor Control Board
Swisher
Randall
Rex
East Tenth Street
Nina Jones
Texas Liquor Control Board
Coast Sailors to Receive Discharges in Camp Wallace
Fireman Richard Adams and Seaman Mack Settle are aboard the President Adams when it docked in San Francisco. They expect to receive their discharges at Camp Wallace in a few days. Seaman Settle, a 1945 Amarillo High School graduate, entered the Navy July 1 1945 and served at Tubabao Manila Subic Bay after training in San Diego. Adams, Amarillo High School 1944 graduate, joined May 15 1945 and served at Samar Subic Bay after training in San Diego.
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Richard Adams
Mack Settle
President Adams
San Francisco
Camp Wallace
I. F. Settle
Settle
Navy
San Diego
Tubabao
Manila
Subic Bay
Amarillo High School
Adams
Carl Adams
South Pierce
Samar
Sandie
Amarillo College
Sigma Alpha Delta
YMCA Campaign Reaches $7 227 in Amarillo Drive
Members of the Amarillo Young Men’s Christian Association campaign have raised $7 227 since opening June 17. YMCA secretary Paul Fowler reported last night totals rose from $3 180 with Joe Herring as top solicitor collecting $1 558. Arthur Truitt chairs the drive. a Thursday meeting is planned at the YMCA office in Municipal Auditorium 501 Buchanan. Fifteen to twenty more workers will join the effort.
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Amarillo Young Men's Christain Association
Paul Fowler
YMCA
Joe Herring
Municipal Auditorium
Buchanan
Arthur Truitt
Baseball Action Sees Nationals Fall To Americans In Extra Runs
In a tight contest the Nationals battled the Americans through seven innings with no score until the eighth. Williams homered for the Americans as Sam Chapman and Jack Kramer shut down the Nationals, and Feller gained the win while Passeau took the loss.
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Nationals
Ennis
Lowery
Enos Slaughter
York
Stirnweiss
Gustine
Marion
Rosar
Kurowski
Bill Dickey
Newhouser
Jack Kramer
St. Louis Browns
Americans
Hal Wagner
Sam Chapman
Phil Cavarretta
McCormick
Mass
Stephens
Cavarretta
Chapman
Williams
Keller
Gordon
Lamanne
Blackwell
Rip Sewell
Nats
Wagner
Kramer
Slaughter
Vervan
Totels
RIS
Aks
Cabe Americans
Feller
Passeau
Markets Report Covers Stocks and Grain Prices and Livestock
Markets note Dow Jones levels and Merrill Lynch closing averages for 20 industrials and 20 rails. Chicago grain tables show corn barley and farm data. Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets report cattle hogs and sheep with price ranges and trends for July 9.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Chicago
Kansas City
USDA
Warranty Deeds and Divorces in District Court
Property transfers include Amy C G George to W T Goodson and N 50 of lot 3 bik 109 Plemons. E C Busby to Ernest Denny lots 17 18 bik 406 Mirror. West Texas Gas Co to J W Bogard 75x75 east of lots 1 2 bik 21 A Fairview. Hobart W Mayes to Everett L Anderson lot 3 bik 21 Forest Hill Park Adda. District Court J D James vs Helen James divorce. Helen Burgess vs Weldon Burgess divorce. Marriage licenses listed for six couples including Walter W Lawrence Jr and Virginia Lee Coleman.
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Amy C. G. George
W. T. Goodson
Plemons
E. C. Busby
Ernest Denny
West Texas Gas Co
J. W. Bogard
Fairview
Hobart W. Mayes
Everett L. Anderson
Forest Hill Park
Add
Bass for the Asking At Buffalo Lake
Anglers report Buffalo Lake bass are available at the asking price as a five day biting streak continues. Artificial lures and live bait work well with a five pound record caught by Bill Lively of Otis Elevator on a red and white River Runt. Jitterbug lures yielded a 4% pounder for Ernest Huett and a 2 pound 12 ounce bass for Raymon McCabe of 115 West Seventh.
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Buffalo Lake
Bill Lively
Otis Elevator Company
Ernest Huett
Raymon McCabe
West
Federal Jury Excused As Cases Continued
Federal Judge James C. Wilson excused the federal jury here without a case having been presented. The jury had been rubbing a day and was sent back after government attorneys asked a two suits for condemnation be continued due to absent witnesses. Four Wages and Hours Law cases against Certain-Teed Products Co operators of Pantex Ordnance Plant are set for hearing tomorrow.
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James C. Wilson
Certain-Teed Products Company
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Amarillo Gubernatorial Candidates Schedule Tonight
Amarillo residents will hear two candidates in order tonight. John Lee Smith speaks at 8 on the courthouse lawn and Homer P. Rainey follows at 9, with Rainey’s talk broadcast statewide on KGNC.
Sign Company Honored as Manufacturer of the Week
V. M. Rippey heads City Sign Co and is named Manufacturer of the Week by Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. His Polk Street exhibit at Southwestern Public Service displays signs made from start to finish with in-house glass bending and installation. The firm began neon signs in 1935 and covered a vast Panhandle trade area before transport limits.
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V. M. Rippey
City Sign Co
Amarillo
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Lubbock
Harrison
Rippey
Panhandle
Will Open Bids on Paving Sidewalks in Amarillo
City commission will open bids tonight for paving on Lipscomb West Fifth Fannin and Johnson streets and for sidewalks in Ellwood Park North Buchanan Park and Eakle Park South Amarillo. Hughes blocks between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth bid opening is July 16. Tonight also includes second reading of a building code ordinance amendment and first reading to allow Pecos and Northern Texas Railway and Santa Fe Railway to install industrial tracks through Oliver Eakle Addition blocks 46 47. Planning and zoning commission last Friday night report to be submitted.
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City Commission
Lipscomb
West Fifth
Fannin and
Johnson
Ellwood Park
Buchanan Park
Eakle Park
Amarillo
Hughes
Thiry-fourth
Thirty
Pecos and Northern Texas Railway
Santa Fe Raiway
Oliver- Eakle
Planning and Zoning Commission
Commission
Move to Laredo for Richards Family
Mr and Mrs Marion Richards and children Marilyn and Dale relocate from 2222 West Tenth to Laredo. Richards former manager of Kress Co here is transferred to Laredo for new assignment.
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Laredo
Marion Richards
Marilyn
Dale
West Tenth
Richards
Kress Co
Ford Coupe Thefts Reported In Dumas
A 1940 Ford coupe was stolen last night from the 1500 block North East Eighth in Dumas, near O. D. Young. Police are also seeking a 1935 Ford coupe taken Sunday night from Samuel Rector at 213 Madison.
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O. D. Young
Dumas
Samuel Rector
Madison
Driver Held After Wreck Involving Bus Injuries
Gladys McCarley, 38, is held on a $1000 bond for driving while intoxicated after a collision with a San Jacinto Bus Co. bus at North West Fifth and McMasters. Four injured include two teen girls Helen Mason 15 and Betty Dorsey 17. bus passenger Mrs. Carter Thompson hospitalized with a fractured rib.
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Gladys McCarley
McCarley
McMasters
San Jacinto Bus Company
North West Fifth
Helen Mason
Betty Dorsey
Miss Dorsey
North West Fifteenth
Amarillo Airmen to Meet Thursday for Reorganization
A special meeting of the Amarillo Airmen's Association is set for Thursday night at 8 30 in the 47th district courtroom. The group will discuss reorganizing the club to affiliate with the National Aeronautics Association and elect officers without discriminating against commercial operators. Don V Seevers of the NAA southwest division will attend to outline plans. Any aviation-minded person may join.
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Amarillo Airmen’'s Association
National Aeronautics Association
Don V. Seevers
NAA
The
Airmen’s Association
Burglary at Mitchells Billiard Parlor Stuns Town
Thieves broke into Tom Mitchells Billiard Parlor last night and stole about $40 from the cigarette machine. They entered by removing pins from the back door hinges. Earl Windsor owns the establishment. Jobs aplenty in the Want Ads.
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Tom Mitchell
Earl Windsor
Paper Empire funds frozen in wartime probe
Secretary of War Patterson ordered funds of Erie Basin Metal Products, a key firm in a Midwest munition combine, frozen to protect government interests. The move targets approximately 3.27 million dollars in alleged excess profits as Patterson and the War Investigating Committee pursue links to Rep. Andrew J. May amid ongoing testimony.
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Washington
U.P
Robert P. Patterson
Senate War Investigating Committee
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc
George H. Knutson
War Department Price Adjustment Board
Knutson
Erie
Patterson
Chemical Warfare Service
Goodwill trips planned by Amarillo Chamber group
A schedule of goodwill trips to Texas and New Mexico towns including Pampa Tucumcari Plainview and Tulsa was prepared by the wholesale trade development committee of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. Arrangements also set for a market week in Amarillo this Fall and a barbecue when State Highway 136 linking Amarillo and Borger is finished.
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Texas
New Mexico
Pampa
Tucumcari
Plainview
Tulsa
Wholesale Trade Development Committee
Amarillo
Mrs Adeline B Ford Arrives for Month with Ford Family
Mrs Adeline B Ford of Long Beach California arrives to spend a month with her son and his wife Mr and Mrs W F Ford at 1216 Bonham. She came from Byersburg Tennessee where she visited friends for two weeks.
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Adeline B. Ford
Long Beach
Cal
W. F. Ford
Bonham
Byersburg
Tenn
Saunders Family Embarks Three Week Western Trip
Mr and Mrs Guy Saunders of 2200 Hayden depart with their three children Marian Guyon and Celia for a three week journey to Colorado Yellowstone San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Guy Saunders
Hayden
Marian
Guyon
Celia
Colorado
Yellowstone
San Francisco
Los Angeles
City Issues Permits Totaling Forty Thousand Dollars
The city engineer issued permits totaling $40,000 today with a $12,000 commercial permit to Ralph E. Linck for a 40 by 70 foot bottling plant at 1404 North Fillmore and several residential permits including Jack T. Hicks’s $10,000 six room brick veneer home with garage Emma Lee Johnson’s $6,000 six room frame residence and C A Thomas’s $7,000 five room frame home with garage.
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Ralph E. Linck
North Fillmore
Jack T. Hicks
Bryan
Emma Lee Johnson
Beverly
C. A. Thomas
Fannin
Visitors from Albuquerque Stay in Roswell
Mrs. Edward Everett and daughters Carol and Sondra visitation in Roswell New Mexico at 204 A West Thirty-fifth. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. B F Dennis and will stay a week.
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Roswell
Edward Everett
Carol
Sondra
West Thirty-fifth
N. M
B. F. Dennis
Quick at Home Fat Loss Recipe Claim
A claim describes a simple at home fat loss method using four ounces of liquid Barcentrate and grapefruit juice in a pint bottle with two tablespoons twice daily. It asserts no harm and low cost but lacks credible medical backing and cites a drugstore source for supplies.
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Cretney Drug Stores
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