20 Flees in Safety Drive Contest Names Participants
Nearly a score of operators enter the Fleet Safety Contest sponsored by Amarillo Safety Council. Henry Wilson, contest chairman, says the six month program began July 1 and includes fleet owners with three or more commercial vehicles within city limits. Entry is free and winners will receive attractive awards. Participants include Borden Company, Amarillo Baking Company, Panhandle Laundry, Amarillo Coca Cola, Yellow Cab, Amarillo Laundry, Amarillo Ice, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, Rainbow Taxicab, M. & IL Transfer & Storage, Plains Creamery, Amarillo Gas, Dr Pepper Bottling, and Ted Lokey Tire Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Safety Council
Henry
Wilson
P. O. Box
Borden Company
Amarillo Baking Company
Panhandle Laundry
Amarillo Coca Cola
Yellow Cab Company
Amarillo Laundry
Amarillo — Ice
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Rainbow Taxica
SMA Plans Peach Drive to Boost Home Canning
SMA will launch a peach promotion across 13 Southern states beginning Thursday to promote fresh peaches for home canning. The effort, supported by regional director Lester Cappleman and Potter County’s J H Florey, ties in with free blue food stamps on Orange stamps to boost consumption and bolster national defense through an abundant peach supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Surplus Marketing Administration
Robert M. Moss
SMA
Moss
Lester J. Cappleman
Dallas
Cappleman
National Defense
J. H. Florey
Potter County Food Industry Committee
Blood bank to stock plasma and whole blood in Miami
A blood bank to maintain a large plasma and whole blood supply will soon be fully operational in Miami. A building at Jackson Memorial Hospital is under construction to house the blood and the equipment needed to separate plasma from whole blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Open Blood Bank
Miami
Fla
U.P
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Annual broods of 17 year locusts hatch yearly
The article explains that although a given locust takes 17 years to mature, broods emerge each year. It notes the sustained presence of 17 year locusts with annual hatchings and discusses implications for observation and timing.
What Hitler is Trying To Do
Dewitt Mackenzie argues Hitler seeks a quick decisive victory in Russia by destroying the Red Army rather than seizing cities. He warns that without swift collapse, even Moscow or Leningrad won’t yield victory, while prolonged war aids Allied strength in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Berlin
Hitler
Moscow
Leningrad
Kiev
Russia
Reich
Red Army
Britain
Atlantic
Mediterranean
American consular officials to sail home from Europe Friday
More than 300 American consular officials and families expelled from Axis Europe move toward Lisbon for sail to New York on Friday aboard the West Point. The 234 from Germany Norway occupied France and others from Greece Italy head via Barcelona Madrid, with 21 ambulance drivers and 11 Athens consular staff joining en route. The exodus leaves the U S with little consular representation on the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
United States
Lisbon
Portugal
New York
West Point
Germany
Norway
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Frankfort
Spain
Hendaye
Berlin
San Remo
Italy
Legation
Greece
Barcelona
Madrid
State Department
Zamzam
Rome
Leslie E. Reed
Athens
Patriotic Crochet Panel Promises Prideful Display
An Amarillo Globe Needle Craft notice offers a patriotic crochet panel or pillow pattern. It includes chart directions and illustrations, lists required materials, and asks readers to send ten cents and pattern number 2929 with name and address to a New York address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N.Y
Lew Fields Dies at 74 in Beverly Hills
Lew Fields a member of the Weber and Fields vaudeville team died at 74 in Beverly Hills after becoming ill Thursday. Joe Weber attended the funeral services with the small family group and recalled their long partnership. Fields helped stage girl shows featuring Lillian Russell David Warfield DeWolf Hopper Fay Templeton and Willie Collier among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Lew Fields
Weber and Fields
Joe Weber
Fields
Weber
Lillian Russell
David Warfield
DeWolf Hopper
Fay Templeton
Willie Collier
Weber Fields
Amarilloan Escapes Injury In Boiler Explosion
Mrs. Don Crossett narrowly avoided harm when a hot water tank at 905 Jackson Street blew up. Firemen noted the blast hurled tank pieces around the room while she stood nearby. Investigators blamed mineral scale clogging the heat spreader from Amarillo hard water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Crossett
Jackson Street
Rats and Racketeers Fight B B B Amarillo
Dressed like gentlemen thieves swindled town merchants and homes using ads, catalogs, and phone solicitations. The 1939 effort by Amarillo’s B B B organized to drive out these rats funded by public donations.
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Peach Drive
H. V. Robertson & Company
The
First National Bank of
Fisk
Leon Henderson
Office of Production Management
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Benito Mussolini
Jay Allen
North
Alliance
Richard Hottelet
United Press
ST. Louis
Iu.p
Arthur R. Hicks
Willam Jewel College
Liberty
Hicks
COPA
Needlecraft Service. Inc
U.S
Iceland
Bertel Eric Kuniholm
Reykjavik
Kuniholm
Peter
Pied Piper of
Santa Claus
B.B.B
Bureau
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