Amarillo Round Town Impromptu Markets And Personal News
Describes Amarillo markets with staff in green chairs watching chalk numbers as market updates come from Bob Coleman and others. Includes honor roll students at Tufts, new baby births, moves, politcs, and local anecdotes centered on Amarillo residents and happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Coleman
Santa Fe
Margaret Stone
Catherine Loving
Guy Owens, Jr
Billy Rual Jones
Tufts College
Boston
Amarillo High School
Solon Byrd
George McGrath
Jack Nichols
Cedar Puckett
George Mayer
Floyd Honeycutt
Mr. Coleman
Amarillo
Olive Schramm
Canyon
Women at Home and Work urged to join Pantex war effort
A wartime appeal describes a mother who works at Pantex Ordnance Plant while her husband fights abroad. It highlights how civilians can support the war by taking shells and bombs production jobs, with high pay and quick training, through the United States Employment Service or at Pantex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Pantex
Ernie Pyle Describes Navy Crew On English Channel Escort
The account details Seaman John Leppard of Hershey and Harold Lampton from Farmington aboard an LST in the English Channel. Various crew members, including Loyce Gilbert, Oscar Davis, and Lloyd Woodville, share quiet reflections on war and travel. The narrator notes drawing his name on a gun and the crew's mix of age, background, and fatigue as they head toward combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Leppard
Hershey
English Channel
Albuquerque
Harold Lampton
Farmington
N. M
Navy
Southwest
Rio Grande
LST
Corp
Loyce Gilbert
Spring Hill
Pfc
Oscar Davis
Troy
N. C
Pvt
Lloyd Woodville
Baltimore
Plan to Release U S Workers Set for orderly postwar firings
Washington July 25 The Civil Service Commission plans an orderly reduction of hundreds of thousands of wartime federal workers. Officials say rules already drawn up emphasize rights and efficiency ratings and that reductions cannot be made all at once. About 65 percent of civilian staff serve in War and Navy Departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Service Commission
Commission
War
Navy
Army
War Agency
Cowboys Up North Fail to Round Up Texas Palominos
A Philadelphia Inquirer front page depicts a Texas Palomino roundup near Telford. A wearied posse of amateur cowpunchers chased 19 horses, netting four. 15 remain at large as the Texas shipment neared the Fisher farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
Texas
Montgomery County
Telford
Paul K. Fisher
Souderton Furniture
Fisher Farm
Eggs Disposed Of Under War Food Admin Plan
Chicago reports the War Food Administration disposed of eggs for school lunches and institutional use. Current receipts are sold to drying and breaking plants at ceiling price. over 3,500 eggs were in stock under the price support program. Purchases continue but reduced. WPA notes limited freezer capacity may shift more WFA eggs to drying plants. Sixty one plants freeze eggs, potentially dropping to fifty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tt Food Administration
WFA
WPA
Tromone Promises New Vitality For Men
Scientists report a vitamin and hormone supplement named Tromone may restore vitality for middle aged men run down and unable to enjoy life. The product claims to correct deficiencies and provide verve like a younger man with directions on the label. Tromone is sold at Cretney's and druggists everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cretney’s
Amarillo
Pampa
Boger
Clovis
Tucumcari
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the Green
Clair
Guy
Guy Owens
Sunset Terrace
Billy Rual
Rual Jones
Fairmont Street
E. L. Campbell
Madison Street
Kansas
Anthony
Patricia Balmaine
Harrison Street
F. M. Gevier
Jackson Street
Bill Armstrong
Ong Street
Eddie Paul Bland
Borger - Shirley
Lucille Shubert
Pantex Village
Buell Bradley
Shamrock
Charlotte Louise Strafford
Skellytown
Iris Westbay
A. D. Foreman, Jr
Women's Missionary Society
Fred C. Campbell
Athens
Hayden Street
L. R. Baird
Polk Street
Baird
Finklea Electric Co
Belen
V. C. Proffer
Edwin
Keith
Danny
Arch Terrace
Mr. Proffer
Joe Jenkins
Nellie Jane Luther
Harvey Walden
van Buren Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Ollie Harold Duff
South Houston Street
L. 8. Johnson
South Fillmore Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
Marilyn Cornelius
Pepper
Herbert Duniven
Bart Edwards
Donal Anderson
Sam Humphreys
John Gordon
Weather Bureau
English Field
H.C. Winburn
H. L. Robinson
Mr. Winburn
Mr. Gordon
Phillips Petroleum
Bobby Glenn
Melvin William Meadows
North
Lamar Street
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Willard Harris Higdon
Claude
Richard Clarence
W. J. Plesher
Price Hays
Spring Street
N. F. Weed
South
Houston Street
MEG
Uek
Mary Montgomery
Cours Pour
Panhandle
Gunn-Hinerman
Harrison
Hugh Striver
OSWS
Miss Graf
Blondie
Darling
Jane Arden
Hin
Aki
Ronny
YO Lee
Kneck
Hove
Uwmmie
Taytle Ants
Ann
Ernie Pyle
U.S
Nite Club
Aaa
Khoury Bros
Baoke
Dumas Perry Ton-—Spearman
China- Reid
China-Reid
Knox Company
Feeae Animg-Toig
Drs. Benson and Benson
Optometrists
R. J. Benson
Frances Benson
Oliver Eakle
6Th & Polk
T. A. Preston
Prop
A E
Polk
Santa FE Railway
Power Commission Stabilization Plan
United States Employment Service Orto
Railroad Retirement Board
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