Dalhart XIT Boosters Invite Amarillo to 11th Annual Rodeo
A Dalhart in car caravan led by Mayor Elbert Wadkins and XIT committee head Allyn D. Finch invited Amarillo to the 11th Annual XIT Reunion and Rodeo in Dalhart this July. Virgil Patterson of the Amarillo Chamber welcomed the delegation as the Dalhart mayor praised the rodeo as the greatest in Texas. The visit included stops in White Deer Pampa Borger and Stinnett before returning to Dalhart.
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Dalhart
Amarillo
Elbert Wadkins
Allyn D. Finch
XIT General Committee
Sixth and
Polk
Wadkins
Texas
Sheriff's Department
Dalihart
Bob Langhorn
Joan Taylor
Betty Cantrell
Jean Farris
White Deer
Pampa Borger
Stinnett
Walter Donaldson Dies Famed Composer at 54
Walter Donaldson, Brooklyn born composer of My Blue Heaven and Yes Sir That's My Baby, died in Santa Monica at age 54 from a liver ailment. His hits began in 1915 with Kentucky Home and included How You Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm and Daughter of Rosie O Grady. He briefly collaborated with Irving Berlin. Mexico closes dairies as price-rigging cases surface.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Walter Donaldson
Kentucky
Rosie O'Grady
Irving Berlin
Fair lease talks resume with county officials today
Tri-State Fair Association officers meet Potter County commissioners to press a 20 year lease on the fairgrounds with a 10 percent share of net receipts. A five member board would govern, including the county judge and association presidents. A separate contract with wrestling promoter Cory Detton also under discussion. Reading of county bills scheduled.
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Tri-State Fair Association
Potter County
Fair Association
Roy C. Snodgrass, Jr
Amarillo Fat Stock Show
Will Rogers Range Riders
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Cory Detton
Fair Grounds
Detton
Charles Furr Cycling Over Italy and France
Charles Furr son of Mr and Mrs Key Purr 2422 Hayden is in Rome after a June 24 departure for a bicycle tour of Europe He has already biked across France with other Americans From Rome he plans to reach an Alps near Lake Geneva by bike and train and will sail from Le Havre on Sept 1 to return home.
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Jack Wyatt
Wyatt
Johnnie Horace Wooten
Mel Marrs
Mark Miles
R. T Roan
San Antonio
Charles Furr
Key Purr
Hayden
Rome
Cheries
States
France
Alps
Lake Geneva
le Havve
Firemen Respond to Car Blaze in Brief Alarm
Firefighters rushed to a car fire at Sixteenth and Van Buren this morning. The alarm was turned in at 7 36 and crews returned to station by 7 45. Earlier, burning rags at Truitt Buick Company prompted a 3 34 call. Six other alarms yesterday included grass fires and supervision of burning vacant lots.
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Sixteenth
van Buren
Truitt Buick Company
Fillmore
Marvin Jones Visits Amarillo During Mother’s Birthday
Marvin Jones former congressman and newly confirmed chief justice for the US Court of Claims arrives in Amarillo to visit his mother Mrs. H. K. Jones at 1401 Van Buren. Mrs. Jones celebrated her first birthday on July 6.
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Marvin Jones
US Court of Claims
Washington, DC
Jones
Panhandle
Congress
H. K. Jones
van Buren
Dixie Dice to Study Dancing in New York
Dixie Dice left by train for New York City to study dancing and ventriloquism with Ernest Carlos Jack Stanley and the Lucille Stoddard School. She will remain until August first and plans to start her fall dancing term about the middle of August.
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Dixie Dice
New York City
New York
Ernest Carlos
Jack Stanley
Lucille Stoddard
Fresh ideas from the big city inspire new stage plays
She spoke of ideas picked up in the big city and hoped to see new works like Fin ian's Rainbow. The piece notes New York City blood donors, with 1,100 men giving a pint every six weeks, totaling 5 000 quarts annually.
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Big City
Dixie Adhen
Finian
New York City
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Italy
Amazing Thing
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