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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
8
Questions and answers explain credit for pre 1937 service under the Railroad Retirement Act. Credit allowed if employed in the United States on specific dates. service outside the U S not credited. some pre 1927 service may be reduced. Also notes conditions for annuity payments and age requirements.
A long roster reports Amarillo area railroad staff on vacations and personal travel. Several engineers conductors and clerks are noted visiting relatives in Galveston Albuquerque Denver and Baltimore. Also listed are job moves leaves of absence and new hires among the Santa Fe and railroad crews with local representative Livingston reachable by phone.
The Galveston L. F and E convention lists Mr. and Mrs. R. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. F. L. West Mrs. D. F. E. Willis Mrs. W. L. Brock Mrs. W. T. Dixon Mrs. F. E. R. Heath and Miss Lorene Wood. Bob Lovelady works as time keeper on the extra gang near Clovis, after serving as assistant file clerk in the superintendent's office. I. M. Robinson, traveling freight and passenger agent at Lubbock, plans hospital transfer after a recent operation. George Polley reports two bass caught at the lake Saturday.
Ross F. Pixley rose from Studebaker beginnings to railroading, joining Santa Fe Western Lines as chief clerk to General Manager J A Gillies after starting as a tracer in Dodge City. Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, he trained in South Bend and spent decades advancing through roles from trainmaster aide to chief clerk before transferring to San Marcial.
Ross Pixley rose from maintenance clerk to chief clerk to the general manager of the Santa Fe, with postings in Las Vegas and Clovis before his 1938 promotion. An avid spectator of baseball and football, he chairs the Santa Fe Employer Recreation Club and helms dances in the company auditorium. He enjoys bowling and bridge, supports a flower-filled home, and has a brother Ralph also in Santa Fe, plus a sister in Sterling City.
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