Amarillo Library Set To Circulate New Books This Friday
Amarillo Public Library announces a Friday release of new titles. Among the featured works are The Moneyman by Thomas Costain and The Gentle Bush by Barbara Giles. Additional items include Madman's Memory, Blue Remembered Hills, and The Barber of Tubac. Nonfiction selections cover Man Against Myth by Barrows Dunham and The World of Dreams edited by Ralph Woods.
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Amarillo Public
Thomas Costain
France
Gentle Bush
Barbara Giles
Roger Vercel
Blue Remembered Hills
Sarah Leone Nielx
Tubac
Elson C
Peter Duluth
Pattrick Quentin
Barrows Dunham
Ralph L. Woods
William Hardy McNeill
Greece
Henry F. Woods, Jr
Arnold Gesell
Philip Wylie
Wendell Johnson
Irving Kohn
Janet Lane
Beauty
Mary MacFadyn
Bertram
Pedant's Chinese Wealth A Dilemma for Prof Cressy
Syracuse news notes Dr. Geo B Cressy has earned 2 055 900 in royalties from a Chinese translation of his textbook. The cash sits in a Shanghai bank earning 40 percent interest but cannot be converted to American dollars or withdrawn. The exchange rate worsened from 12 000 1 to over 50 000 1, leaving the funds trapped in China.
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Syracuse
Geo. B. Cressy
Shanghai
Keeper's Wife Hopes Deer Momma To Take Responsibility Of Raising Her Offsprings
Potter County Zoo deer population doubled with twins born to the doe. Mrs. Ed Eubanks, custodian’s wife, cared for previous fawns and now suggests momma deer may raise the youngsters. Local child Pookie Jones proposes names Spotty and Junior. Helen Knochs returns from Tyler visit.
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Potter County Zoo
Ed Eubanks
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Eubanks
Mrs. Eubanks
Visit Mexico On His Motor Scooter Trip
Jack Baumgartner of the US Bureau of Reclamation took a 1130 mile vacation by motor scooter from Amarillo through Plainview Lubbock Brownfield Pecos and a stop at Balmorhea State Park to the Davis Mountains near Presidio. He used two pints of oil for 30 cents and 10 percent gallons of gasoline for 231 dollars.
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Mexico
Jack Baumgartner
US Bureau of Reclamation
Mr. Baumgartner
Old Mexico
Amarillo
Pecos
Balamorhea State Park
Davis Mountains
Presio
California visitor joins Amarillo family gathering
Mrs. Walter B. Conwell of Los Angeles visits her sisters Mrs. L. H. Davis and Mrs. Effa Rutherford in Amarillo and her brother Edgar Arterburn during the stay.
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California
Walter B. Conwell
Los Angeles
Amarillo
L. H. Davis
Harrison
Effa’ Rutherford
Pierce
Edgar Arterburn
Western
Skeletons of Rhode Island Wampanoag Found in Gravel Bank
Workmen digging a gravel bank near Bristol uncover three skeletons believed to be Wampanoag from about 300 years ago. Clarence Davis found jawbone and skull fragments with thirty-two teeth intact, plus arrowheads and a tomahawk head nearby. The site lies about a mile north of the King Philip death site in 1676.
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Bristol
Clarence Davis
King Philip
The
Wampanoags
Greek Guerrilla Attack Kills 23 Civilians in Anatolikon
In a raid near the Yugoslav border, 300 guerrillas attacked Anatolikon village killing 23 civilians and wounding 16. The official statement notes 16 dead were women and children and 40 houses were burned.
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Athens
Ministry of Public Order
Anatolikon
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M. Bernheim
Our Island
Bernice Robinson
Boykin
Cee
Taylor Night Pens
Pedant
Armour and Company
Chiffon
Gravenstein's
Peaches
Calif
Haile's
Libby
McMasters
SUGAR
Rinso
Mmore
Stokely
McCormick Co
Momma
Amarillo National Bldg
Rhode Island
Jee
Pete
Wonder Beverage Co
4Th St
Schilling
Maxwell
Kellogg's
van Camp's
Joan of Arc
Hunt's
del Monte
Paes
K. C
Sunkist
Morrell's
Palace
Aeace
Rhythm Ranch
Buchanan Sst
N. FE
Th Ave
Florida
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