Around Town Notes and Birth Announcements
Local column blends social notes and family updates from Amarillo area. It lists visits, travel plans, births at Northwest Texas Hospital and St Anthony's, plus military and civilian milestones, with multiple households and addresses noted.
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Paul A. Henderson
van Buren
Northwest Texas Hospital
Walter J. Honcik
Lamar
Wesley Jackson
Dalhart
Sam Singleton
Hayden
St. Anthony’s Hospital
D. Zachry
Happy
St. Anthony's Hospital
Donald Metgger
Canyon
Crazy To Fly Without Priorities Says Airline Official
An Air Transport Association official warned travelers to avoid planes without priority status as airline networks struggle after Pearl Harbor. He noted shifts from military to commercial use reduced planes from 366 to 165, then to 374, with safety limits and longer daily flight times. Passenger numbers and miles have more than doubled since April 1941.
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Washington
Air Transport Association of America
Pearl Harbor
Army
Wallace Wade Seeks Return as Duke Athletic Director
Lt Col Wallace Wade, home on 30 day leave from Europe, says he wants to resume his post at Duke University as athletic director and head football coach. He has applied for a discharge and awaits confirmation.
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Durham
N. C
Wallace Wade
Europe
Duke University
Chandler Sits Down And Meets the Boys
Happy Chandler, baseball commissioner, sits to become better acquainted with the men who hired him. Some big league club owners had not met the man chosen to succeed Judge Landis. He will preside at a joint major league session in his first formal meeting with baseball's owners.
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Washington
Happy Chandler
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Chandler
Kentucky
Madison county girl applies for farm work at age 11
An 11 year old girl applied to the Madison county farm extension office for summer farm work. When asked about experience she answered she had nine years.
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Old Hand
Anderson, Ind
U.P
Madison County Farm Extension Office
Sgt Tommie T. Harris Honorably Discharged After Long Air Force Career
Sgt Tommie T. Harris, a master sergeant with 147 points and over eight years in the Army Air Forces, returned home for an honorable discharge. He served 18 months in the Pacific and a year in Europe, flying B 17s with the 234th Bombardment Squadron from Hickam Field. Harris earned the Silver Star for Midway gallantry and the Distinguished Flying Cross for 200 hours over enemy territory, plus a Silver Star cluster for more hours. He also received the Air Medal with clusters for downing a Japanese flying boat and sinking a transport at Bougainville, plus a Presidential Unit citation for stopping a Japanese landing on New Hebrides. His decorations include Pacific Theater and European Theater ribbons with campaign stars. He was discharged July 8 at Ft Logan Colorado after a U S convoy crossing the Atlantic post V E Day.
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Army Air Forces
Tommie T. Harris
van Buren
Harris
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Hickman Field
Oahu
234
Battle of
Midway
Solomons
Bougainville
New Hebrides
South Pacific
United States
Amarillo Field
Eighth Air Force
England
Atlantic
Ft. Logan
Colo
C Card Overissuance Could Hit A Card Gas Coupons
Dallas July 12 H F Carmichael district OPA director says over issuance of gasoline to C card holders may force a reduction in A card coupon value. A spot check of 100 card issuances will be made at each war price and rationing board to determine if preferred mileage is being over supplied.
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Dallas
H. F. Carmichael
OPA
Carmichael
British railways run more trains per day than any other country
Under peacetime conditions the railways of Great Britain run 25 percent more trains daily than any other country. The average number of trains per route mile of line is 54 per day, compared with nine in the United States, according to British Railways.
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Great Britain
United States
British Railways
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