Amusing Clippings and Local Banter From Lubbock Letters
A playful mix of reader recollections and quips including praise for Amarillo’s basketball team the Sandies, jokes about city populations, and comments on wartime topics. The piece ranges from a mock bet about a suit for Pampa’s Arch Fullingim to stray notes on Nabobs, U boats, epidemics, and fashion etiquette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch Fullingim
Pampa News
Amarillo
Panhandle
Sandies
Pampa
Seminar invites 52 reps for advanced training in Dallas
52 representatives including C L Copeland John J Halley and Harris L Landon were invited to an advanced underwriting seminar in Dallas next week as guests of Southwestern Life Insurance Company. Manager G W Mills announced the event as part of an intensive two year old sales training program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.L. Copeland
John J. Halley
Harris L. Landon
Dallas
Southwestern Life Insurance Company
G. W. Mills
Solon Figures How To Pay Income Tax
HOUSTON March 6 State representative Jim Heflin has figured how to pay his income taxes. He'll go without beer liquor or wine tailor made cigarets radios an automobile barber shop shaves shoe shines electricity soft drinks long distance phone calls jewelry and candy. He'll abstain from contributing to political campaign funds read one magazine a week and smoke a corn cob pipe. This the legislator figures should let him break about even.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Atlantic
Napoleon
Josephine
Nap
Britain
Lord Chamberlain
Bangor
Daily News
Washington
Gridiron Club
Willard
National Capital
Pacific Coast
Mount Palomar
California
Pacific Ocean
Houston
Jim Heflin
War Fund Bill Signed by FDR
President Roosevelt signed a record 32.76 billion dollar war appropriations bill to fund the army lend-lease aid and Maritime Commission. The package lifts total defense spending for 1941 to 43 to about 142 billion with 23 billion for the army and sizeable lend-lease and ship-building authorizations. In Detroit Lakes a man paid 1000 final on a 20 year old auto, after selling for 600 cash and taking a note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Maritime Commission
Detroit Lakes, Munn
U.P
G. C. Munn
Munn
War Guilt Court Meets in France Riom Session
Riom France March 6 United Press reports the conceal meeting of the war guilt court to hear details of the August 23 1939 conference. Guy La Chambre claims Britain and France had 2800 planes at the outbreak of war and accuses French aircraft makers and communists of slowing production. Defendants include former premiers Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riom
France
Poland
Guy la Chambre
Britain
Edouard Daladier
Leon Blum
Tam
Japs Warn Filipinos to Surrender Weapons in Occupied Philippines
Washington reports Japanese orders in occupied areas compel Filipinos to surrender guns and tools including bolos. Gen. MacArthur views this as fear of rising resistance amid Moros loyal to the United States. Allied air actions in Subic Bay disrupt Japanese plans as naval raids in the Pacific continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Department
MacArthur
Subic Bay
Philippines
United States
Pacific
Gilbert Island
Java War Conditions Worsen As Dutch Destroy Liquor Stocks
Java reports describe advancing enemy forces toward Bandoeng with a permanent air raid alert in place and the capital area blacked out. Dutch scorched earth measures extend to liquor stocks including Arak, gin, rum, and whisky to avert disturbances as bombardment continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soebang
Bandoeng
Aneta
Tijilitjap
Java
Fast Indies
Also Mentioned on This Page
Abie Waacvey
Texhy
Lubbock, By the Way
U. S. Army Air Corps
Washington State
Cascade Range
Joan J. Walley
Harris L, Landon
L. Copeland
Solon
Fdr
Chester Fitz
Mabel Alice Fitz
Lincoln Street
Mary Johnson
Chester
Stark
E. E. Jordan
Kansas City
Mary Harris
Clover Fitz
Chester Fitz Iti
Chester Fitz IV
Linda Lee Fitz
Claudia Curtis
Elden Harris
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Congenial
Amarillo Exposition & Fat Stock Show, Inc
Grover B. Hill
Panhandle Livestock Convention
Jack Roach
Panhandle Hereford Breeders Ass'n
E. B. Meyer
4-H Club
Dancing Daily
Handle
Amarillo Hotel
C. S. Pryor
Austin
L. A. Woods
Hitler
O. K
Adkisson - Baker Tire CO
Tyler
Sixth
Louisiana
ZALE
Clipper
Sheaffer
Remington “Remette
The
Rock-Sharpe
China
Lady Betty
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!