Blind workers prove skillful at North American Aviation plant
In Dallas July 17 two blind workers Thomas Stone and Louise Scott perform high precision tasks on aircraft parts at the North American Aviation Texas plant. The experiment, done with the Texas Commission for the Blind, shows blind workers can match sighted coworkers in handling tiny burrs and metal parts, boosting hopes for expanding employment of blind people in wartime production. Stone, from Dallas, and Scott, from Fort Worth, are hailed as top workers with exceptional touch and dexterity.
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Dallas
North American Aviation
Texas
Thomas Stone
Louise Scott
Stone
Miss Scott
North American
Texas Commission For the Blind
Miss Reott
Miss Btone
Fort Worth
Daling
Lighthouse
Isolation Cells Planned at Eastham Prison
Dallas July 17 Incar cer rigidible convicts soon will be placed in isolation cells at Eastham Prison Farm No 1 as Eastham Farm No 2 on the Trinity River is abandoned Colonel William George Gilks says confinement in tanks has failed isolation cells will be the answer penologists approve the plan. Maury Paul Cholly Knickerbocker society editor of the New York Journal American dies at 52 in East Side apartment after a two week illness from heart ailment
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Dallas
Tex
Eastham Prison
Parm No. 1
Eastham Farm No. 2
Trinity River
William George Gilks
State Prison Board
New York
Maury HR. B. Paul
Cholly Knickerbocker
New York Journal-American
East Side
Invasion of Western Europe A Debate on a Second Front
Wide World War Analyst De Witt MacKenzie reports Major General Zhuravlev asserts Germany would be hard pressed to defeat the Soviet Union before a second front opens in Europe. He argues Allied invasion remains tied to military readiness and weather, urging civilian restraint and preparedness.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
Zhuravlev
Moscow News
Dere Pitler
Western
Europe
Jis
Uiis
Tve
Waitkee
Red Armies
Local births and residents welcomed as Amarillo adds newcomers
The town notes multiple births including a daughter to Mr and Mrs M L Chapman and a baby girl named Donna Gavie. New residents arriving are C W Pearson and family at 303 Fairmont, the Lovelaces from Dimmitt, J D Gillespie and family from Paris, and others moving to or visiting Amarillo as part of Pantex Plant and local business life. Several residents are reported recovering from injuries or illness, with bus crash and hospital updates.
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Bellaire Street
M.L. Chapman
North East
Ninth Avenue
C. W. Pearson
Herring Hotel
Amarillo
Lubbock
Mr. Pearson
Fairmont Street
Lovelace
Prospect, Street
Amarilie
Dimmitt
Pantex
Lovelaces Hive
I Diesel
Northwest Nexus Hospital
Tulsa
A.M. Strait
Fillmore Street
Strait
The
Shamrock
Compan
Noble Sides
West Thirteenth Avenue
Sires
Sires Produce Company
Paris
Sues Bepen
Lenny Planks
North Roberts Street
Donna Gavie Shewent
Atonthaeneys Hospital
Blindness No Handicap for Ohio Inventor
TIFFIN Ohio Pi Henry J Mc Ferren a blind Tiffin inventor and refrigeration engineer has built wealth after losing sight in 1925. He began with a small automatic door closing device and expanded to larger systems used in storage houses nationwide. He repairs his own units with help from his assistant the seeing eye Herbert Crane who drives and handles tools.
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Tiffin
Ohio
Henry J. McFerren
McFerren
Express
McFerresy
Herbert Crane
McFerrety
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Eldon F Beer
Mer
Moon Mullins
Uncle Sam
Round Town
M's. Clide Holtzman
Ong Street
Whoa
Claude
Northwest Texas Hospital
Hemner Peirod
Tebis
J. D. Gillespie
Stephen P. Austin State Teachers College
Ray Myers
North Woodfand Brrest
AL O
Corpus Christ
Baptist Biunday
Austinite
Belle Wilson
Louisiana Street
New York School of Interior
Salida
Colo
Hart
Johnny Nunnery
Long Taland
Jupiter
Wilson
Columbia, SC
P.V. Esden
Mr. Facey
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapid
Towa RB. J
June Halen
Py Pont
Mich
Amarilla
Ming Janna Reach
Venthira Calif
Lola Travey
Thlea
Oklo
Prescott
Ariz
Ruby Jones
Phenix
Artz
D. Dever
West Eighth Avenue
Charley Wells
Hatel
East Fourteenth Avenue
Joby Newtorn
Merbite
Alata Vieyt Hy Pwiren
Benton
J. Paul Craig
Amarilo
Harold Brooks
Tyler Street
New Mexico
Banta Pe
James Hackleree
Albuquerque
Ruth Owen
Weet
Tenth Avenue
R. Martina
Crouccroft, N
Jack O'Farrell
Amarito Apartments
Mrs. O'Farrell
Frances Hemphill
Blondie
Superman
Bob
Donald Duck
Bolivar
Daddy
Ryder
Macnn Wan OM
Fara Syih
Tevet Ietetiaey
Bol
Ora
Papes
Yeawa
Saimes
Sete
FISK
Southern Brokerage Co
Mary Montgomery
Boxwell ‘Brothers
Ethyl
Lewis Gasmarts
Georgia
E.R Lewis & Sons
16Th and Polk
Ard
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