City civil service proposal sparks debate and hours set
City officials weighed a proposed civil service ordinance for all employees to curb or expand city authority. Clifford Davis, city personnel director, explained provisions like a classified service, seniority weighting, and a current salary schedule. Some commissioners urged caution while others argued it would increase employee security. The measure, tied to state law for police and fire, faced final discussion at the June 15 meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Davis
Mr. Davis
Gene Klein
Ty's Civil Service Board
Lawrence Hagg
Ira Stephenson
Bud Curtis
City Commission
Amirillo
Davis
Texas
Stephenson
H.R. Smith
Public Works
Smith
Employe Publiis
Dew
Hagg
Ordnance
Civil Service Commission
Stanton Field
Ben Manning, Jr
Manning and Singleton
Texas League of Mar P
Curtis
Hagy
Midway Airport Not To Open Unit 1950
Fort Worth city officials report Midway Airport project two years from opening with $2.5 million approved by Congress to start work and plans for an 11.5 million super port moving ahead. Bids on the first contracts may come June 29, but regular traffic is not expected until 1950. The note also mentions soil fertility loss through erosion.
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Fort Worth
Midway Airport
Dallas
W. O. Jones
House of Representatives
Senate
Midway
Highway Booster Trip to Denver Planned by US 87 Group
US Highway 87 boosters form a motor caravan for a two day Denver meeting starting Friday June 11. The caravan departs Brady Wednesday morning with pickups along the route and arrives in Denver early Friday. They will join the booster parade Saturday with Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce as the Amarillo representative.
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Denver
Brady
Rex Baxter
Amarillo
Stachel Free on Bail Ahead of Deportation Action
New York June 24 Communist Jacob Abraham Stachel aged 49, educational director for the Communist Party, was freed on 3500 bail to await deportation proceedings. He was arrested yesterday and released from Ellis Island after bond. accused of entering the United States illegally in 1991 and joining a subversive organization after entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Stachel
New York
Jacob Abraham
Jack) Stachel
Stachel
Communist Party
Ellisland
United States
City Purchases 10 000 Feet Pipe for $16000
City approves a bid from United States Pipe and Foundry to supply 10 000 feet of 6 inch castron pipe in 18 foot lengths at 1.60 per foot, total $16000, delivery within 15 months. Other bidders included Clowe and Cowan 1.955, American Cast Iron 1.88, and James B. Clowe and Sons 1.76 per foot. prices subject to raw material changes. Production of steel ingots in 1947 totaled 847 million tons, five million below wartime peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Pipe and Foundry Company
N. V. Moss
City Commission
Clowe and Cowan
American Cast Iron Company
James B. Clowe and Sons
Flash of a krypton lamp lasts 17 millionths of a second
A krypton lamp emits a fleeting flash measured at 17 millionths of a second, illustrating extreme brief light emission relevant to photographic and lighting contexts.
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Retail Merchants Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
David M. Brown
Nso
Bill Sensing
Hollywood
Dean White
White & Kirk
W. H. Gattis
G&c Quality Shoe
Rex B. Baxter
Chamber of Comerce
Russell Stationery Chamber of Commerce
R. Siller
Dub Thomsen
Thomsen
Clyde Holtzclaw
Labratory
Tokyo
Japan
Asahi
ELOYD
Studer
Sianaman Cote Ive Insurance Company
Amario Bice
Amarili, Texas
Radcliff Supply CO
Post Office
Thomas Bakery
Fier
Thomas
Oleo
Rey
Hunt
Jack Spratt
Ouau
Magnesia St. Joseph
Eraroes
P.A.G. AD
GLOBE
Roger Sueprint
V.F.W
Galveston
Guido Nasti
Herman Hall
John Reifel
Erman Ross
Ross
Deason
DR. L. V. Cradit
Barfield
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Polk Sts
Southern Presbyterians
Atlanta
General Assembly of
Southern Presbyterian Church
Committee On Christian Relations
Ummer School
Pomem Kingtom
Guinn
Severn
IOFM
Capitol Stock Company
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Ockes-Fyfe Agen
Ordway-Sounders Co
D. W. Owen Panhandle Ins
Herold S. Richey Ricks-Meguire Realty Co
Thomson-King
Upshaw Insurance
Howard Williams
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