Mop Up After Metalkrieg in Amarillo Seeks Remaining Aluminum
A. K. Baracat reports stragglers in Amarillo still need to donate scrap aluminum after a national defense drive. Residents can call 2-1501, 6359, or 2-2052 for pickup. the Polk Street collection point remains, and trucks will relocate the big V aluminum to storage. Walter Irvin Inc will move metal to free storage. Heneman Grain will weigh and issue weight tickets.
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Amarillo
A. K. Baracat
Mr. Baracat
Boy Scouts
Community Chest
Baracat
Polk Street
Sixth Avenue
Walter Irvin, Inc
Furn
Armstrong Transfer & Storage Company
Uncle Sam
Heneman Grain & Seed Company
Four Changes In Stamp Plan For Food Stamps
Amarillo area retailers receive revised guidance from Robert M. Moss of the Marketing Administration. Revisions ban dealers from exchanging soft drinks for stamps and narrow the surplus foods definition to US grown and processed items. Bakery and milk merchants may now accept stamps on weekly bakery deliveries, and dealers cannot loan money to customers for stamps.
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Amarillo
Robert M. Moss
Surplus Marketing Administration
Moss
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
SMA
Preventorium aluminum drive continues operations
Mrs. Olive Childers, chairman, announced the aluminum and tin foil collection for the Preventorium will continue without a public drive. Collected metal will go to defense industries, similar to government efforts, with deposits accepted at the drive headquarters on Polk Street.
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Olive Childers
Polk Street
Lunch Project Seeks Vegetables for Winter Canning
Mrs Olive Childers the financial chairman today urged donations of surplus vegetables for the free lunch project. Residents with extra produce were asked to notify Mrs Childers or project supervisors at phone 2 2735. In the past month the project fed over 400 children daily at a cost of 171 dollars.
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Olive Childers
Margaret Lytle Dies in Salina
Mrs. Margaret Lytle aunt of Mr and Mrs Homer Kirk of Amarillo died Tuesday in Salina Kansas at age 72. She had been staying with her daughter Mrs Tim Cellner in Salina and will be buried in Joplin Missouri, her original home.
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Margaret Lytle
Homer Kirk
Hayden Street
Salina
Kans
Reward for Stolen Auto goes to USO
Four convicts escaped from a state prison farm and were captured by Amarillo officers. The $25 reward for recovery of the prison chaplain's car will go to the USO, with any additional rewards for the capture also funding the national fund for recreation for service members. Mayor Joe Jenkins praised officers and civilians with letters of commendation. Clayton, New Mexico license plates were later identified as part of the case.
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Amarillo
United Service Organizations
Joe Jenkins
Clayton
N. M
Chief Harper
New Mexico
Air express revenue and shipments hit records in May 1941
Nationwide air express gross revenue in May 1941 rose 46 percent from May 1940, with shipments totaling 122,089,000 pounds a 26 percent increase. Weight carried reached 891,212 pounds up 55 percent as long haul defense traffic drove growth. Amarillo office shipments rose 26 percent. NYC population grew from 6,930,446 in 1930 to 7,380,259 in 1940.
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New York
Nationwide Air Express
Amarillo
New York City
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Metalkrieg
Harry Gardner
Plains Chevrolet
Toney Chisum
International Harvester
M. & L. Transfer
Daiby Motor Freight
Yellow Cab
Hammond Cab
C. & M. Delivery Service
Pleasure Street
Interstate Theatre
Showtime
Essick
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W.D. Burger
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Mr. Burger
van Buren Street
Safety Council
L. E. Smith
Levine's Department Store
St Anthony’s Hospital
Darwin C. Wingfield
Okolona
Ark
Borger
Howard A. Lacey
Dumas
Marine Corps
USO
Globe-News
Air Express
Cretney Drug
Walgreens
Good Drug Stores
Ady
Lorillard
Priscilla
E.O.M
Penney’‘S Penney Company, Incorporated
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