Fire station mascot skunk alarms sleepy firefighter
AThursday morning at Fire Station No. 3 in Amarillo set a humorous record when a firefighter awakened by a skunk named Stinky. The incident occurred as he reached for a nap while the station welcomed the new mascot. Nearby, a long list of visitors and growing local births highlighted community activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Jesse Hughes
Marie
California
Hughes
Earl Rives
Parker
Today and Now Spanning Half Century in Amarillo
A compact period snapshot from Amarillo’s history highlights events from July across multiple years. It notes ex Confederates meeting in Canyon City in 1900, a Palo Duro Canyon tour in 1912, civic notices from the Amarillo Water Light and Power Company, and local ads for Mathews Fish and Oyster Market. It also mentions 1925 mail plane service, Kiwanis educational work, a 1935 community garden near city wells, the Amarillo zoo’s lion cubs, Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace’s 1945 visit, Mrs. Joe Jenkins leading the First Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union, shared family laundry efforts, Hereford potato crop projections, Mead’s Bakery’s first birthday, and a horse crutch invention by Dr. L M Griffin.
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West First
Northwest Texas Hospital
Raymond McCarley
Rusk
Ted Maojr
Kate Wilson
Roy L. Vineyard
LaVern Taylor
Donald Mulkey
Ray Parr
T. W. Treet
Effie Krobath
Betty Bandley
G. C
C. B. Williams, Jr
Bonham
Fourth Army
Fort Sam Houston
Williams
Veteran Administration
Amarillo
ST Anthony’s Hospital
Clara Belle Sims
Rio Grande
D. A. George
Mary Hutchinson
Canyon
Olie Harbour
Suimnett
Agnes C. Smith
Washington
Fred Prux
Taylor
Frances Moore
Dalhart
Lillian Maupin
George Pyeatt
C. J. McClenny
Carolina
Janie Bert
Louisina
Evelyn Culp
North Polk
Betty Lou Mays
Buch
Canyon City
Caldwell
Peale
Brittain
Palo Duro
R. W. Hall
LaCostura Club
Polk
E News
Joe Jenkins
First Baptist Women’s Missionary Union
Maytag
Mead’s
L. M. Griffin
B. I. Barfield
Moving away and local notices in Amarillo
Local brief items list residents moving away returning from trips and visiting relatives. Names include Mr and Mrs W R Earnest Ms J F Mead Ruby Hare J W Wilson R A Brown Grady McKenzie H L Holland Donald Hersinger C W Ford Bertie Tower Chy Poe Nora Tarpley Milt Williams B C Baker and P Cronister returning to barbering. Visitors noted include Leo Young from Weather Bureau and J Claude Wells of Memphis with family connections to local residents.
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Sissy Melton
Virginia
Amherst
E. A. Womack
Pierce
Melton
Amarillo
City
James E. Williams
Odem
Tex
Ernest
James, Jr
Williams
Walter Watts
Army Tech Village
Ben McNeil
Springerville
Ariz
McNeil
West Virginia
John Sory
Decatur
Zerla Sory
Mary
John Parr
Monroe
Mr. Parr
Mr. Sory
Northwest Texas Hospital
J. F. Mead
Polk
Ruby Hare
East Seventeenth
J. ©. Wilson
West Seventh
R. A. Brown
Green Acres
Grady McKenzie
San Jacinto
H. L. Holland
Sedan
Donald Hersinger
C. W. Ford
Buchanan
Bertie Tower
Clayton
Chy Poe
Neuches
Ebangre Bernal
van Buren
A. B. Cluster
Dumas
Nora Tarpley
Milt Williams
Shamrock
B. C. Baker
Louisiana
Leo Young
US Weather Bureau
Fort Worth
Weather Bureau
Amarillo Air Terminal
Memphis
J. Claude Wells
Wells
Memphis Democrat
L. A. Wells
Taylor
R. L. Vineyard
Harrison
G. T. Vineyard
Tyler
Spokane Chamber Eyes Reindeer For 1950 Christmas
Spokane Chamber of Commerce seeks six reindeer for 1950 Christmas celebrations. Secretary M. H. Hammer sent letters to Alaska chambers in Fairbanks and Seward and others to locate the animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
M. H. Hammer
Chambers of Commerce
Fairbanks
Seward
Alaska
Giant Housing Project Opens
ANGELES July 17. The Lakewood Park housing project opens as the world’s largest planned community with 17 000 homes planned 65 000 population over about 10 square miles Seventy five homes a day are started and prices range from 7825 to 9700 with no down payment for veterans The project includes schools churches parks playgrounds and a 164 acre shopping center
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Angeles
Lakewood Park
Film Endurance Aims At Extreme Temperatures In War Use
Armour researchers develop a versatile photographic film capable of functioning from 65 degrees below zero to 140 degrees above, meeting US Army Signal Corps demand for operation in Arctic cold and tropical heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
W.A
Armour Research Foundation
US Army Signal Corps
Fort Worth Air Lines Simplifies Timetable
Central Air Lines adopts a simplified timetable after an official admits trouble reading the average schedule. The change aims to ease passenger use and clarify departure and arrival times for the Fort Worth area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Central Airlines
Our Younger Generation by Ora Wright
Marty Allen Fenberg known as Pudgye at Elizabeth Nixon Junior High earned letterman status on the football team and held multiple student leadership roles. He loves football hunting and swimming and aims for an open-air job. 14 years old with brown hair and eyes, son of Sam A. Fenberg. Robert Kerns, 12, seventh grader at Sam Houston Junior High, also shows brown hair and blue gray eyes, with baseball as a favorite sport, son of F. Kerns.
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Ora Wright
Marty Allen Fenberg
Pudgye
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High
Sam A. Fenberg
Robert Kerns
Sam Houston Junior High
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Joe Weddington
West Eleventh
W. M. Fisher
Kitty Lou
Hale Center
C. T. Cline
McLean
Donna Gail
June Stubblefield
Bethie Mantooth
Floella Cubine
Ann Cooper
Lillie Watrous
Peoria
J. H. Brown
Bowie
James A. Allen
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
James H. Jernigan
Childress
Sam L. Seay
E. P. Williams
Broadmoor
Odom
B. J. Phelps
Perryton
W. A. Broome
West Eighteenth
Oklahoma
Virginia Guilbert
A. G. Nussbaum
St. Anthony’s Hospital
L. P. Birden
Independence
E. L. Phillips
East Fifteenth
Betty Lou Tolleson
Ann Moreland
Broadmoor Hotel
Colorado Springs
Colo
Messrs
Mesdames R. T. Spain
Earl Burson
Thurman Parish
M. D. Redus
Clyde Romine
Lloyd Hamilton
Herman Allison
Charles White
Selma Benton
Erlene Burson
Sondra Tarkington
Reba Parish
Red River
Virginia Bailey
Leona Adams
H. E. Broome
Florida
Sherman
Heath Furniture
APEX
Were
Heath
Long Island
Occalee
Buster
Aho Mwa Fitom Home
Gorry
Miss Farley
Jan
Barney's Big Barcain
L. V. Cradit
Des Yar
Iowa
North
City Wells
McDonald
Amos
Andy
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Robert Liddell
T. Roy Ratcliff
Jackson
G. C. Rateliff
Travis
St. Augustine
Fla
Inida
Key West
New Orleans
P. L. Gristy
Hayden
B. F. Goodrich
4Th and Fillmore
Run
Zeno Guarantee
Become Optical CO
West 8Th
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