Civic Club Seeks Land For Youth Center Project
Amarillo group led by Mike Martinez aims to raise 650 dollars to buy land and start construction of a youth center with a swimming pool in East Amarillo. The effort seeks 40 thousand dollars overall. volunteers include Bobby Flores and Toni Guillen, with calls at 1316 Arthur or 2 7497 for donations.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Mike Martinez
Vari
Martinez
Bobby Flores
Rayeamond Cervantez
Joe Quintana
Toni Guillen
Arthur
Fire damages Haven Hall at University of Michigan
A $3,500,000 blaze tore Haven Hall on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor on Tuesday. It destroyed final exam papers, but Dean Hayward Keniston said professors will determine final grades, not reschedule exams.
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Ann Harbor
Mich
Haven Hall
University of Michigan
Literary College
Hayward Keniston
Father’s Day gains fame as June 18 observed
Stores in Amarillo feature gifts for papa as Father's Day approaches. The piece traces the holiday's origins from 1909 when Mrs. John Bruce Dodd proposed it, through early observances in Spokane in 1910, to Coolidge backing nationwide recognition in 1924. It notes Dad’s rising prestige since 1907 Mother's Day launch.
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Papa
Amarillo
Dad
Mother’s Day
Jane Addams
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
William Smart
Spokane Ministers Association
Coolidge
Smokers Leading Fire Hazard in New York City
The American Public Works Association ranks careless smoking as the top fire cause in New York City, with about 6 million dollars of the citys 20 million dollar fire damage. The city recorded 44 407 fires in 1949, up about 2 000 from the year before, while defective wiring was the second leading cause. Noon to 6 pm saw the most fires, 6 pm to midnight the second most, and midnight to 6 am the fewest.
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American Public Works Association
New York City
Recreation Leaders Received Instruction For City Playground Program
Recreation leaders and supervisors from Amarillo parks enrolled in an instruction school to guide the city summer playground program. Sessions were held in the recreation department yesterday and today with tomorrow at Ellwood Park. The program starts Tuesday and runs daily Tuesday through Saturday under supervised recreation. A note warns that Vitamin A shortage weakens eyesight and increases night blindness.
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Amarillo
Recreation Department
Ellwood Park
Navy Seaman Clovis Hill Returns From Overseas
Clovis C. Hill of 2619 Brooks completes 30 days leave with his parents before reporting back to his San Francisco ship. He had returned from seven months in China and the Philippines and will finish three years in the Navy next January. He plans to resume studies at West Texas State College in Canyon.
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Clovis C. Hill
Brooks
San Francisco
China
Philippines
Young Hill
Navy
West Texas State College
Canyon
Olivier to star in Sister Carrie film Carrie Ames
Hollywood announces Sir Laurence Olivier will return to Hollywood after ten years to play Hurstwood in a film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie retitled Carrie Ames. Producer-director William Wyler confirms the contract and Olivier will arrive August 15.
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Hollywood
Laurence Olivier
Theodore Dreiser
Carrie
William Wyler
Paramount
Hurstwood
Carrie Ames
Olivier
Rebecca
Paraguay bans coco palm export to shield soap industry
Paraguay imposes a total export ban on coco palm in all forms to safeguard the domestic soap industry, extending to all varieties and uses and signaling a strong protectionist move by the government.
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Paraguay
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Hwedorunia & Bank Supply
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Aleba
Rod
Ecuador
Oriente
BIG Choice
Lovell Wringer
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