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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1948
Page
3
Home offices of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co notify Roy L Sessions of Amarillo as the first of several hundred agents to qualify in the companys sales contest.
Dedication services for the San Jacinto Youth Center are set for 2 30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Judge W N Stokes Amarillo Kiwanis Club president said all Amarillo Kiwanis chapters cooperate. Dr Charles W Armstrong Kiwanis International president will be principal speaker and guest of honor for the Texas Oklahoma divisional conference. He represents 2750 clubs with over 185000 members. The Amarillo address theme is Citizenship Responsibilities The Price of Freedom. Funeral services for Mrs Susan Lain 68 are pending following a short illness. She moved to Amarillo 12 years ago from Tulia and belonged to Tulia Presbyterian Church Woodmen Circle. Surviving: two sons Vernon Lain Amarillo A F Lain Bowie and daughter Mrs W E Hill Amarillo.
To qualify in a region wide sales contest Mr Sessions becomes the first agent west of the Mississippi to win a trip and expenses to a regional meeting sponsored by Jefferson Standard next July at Hotel Stanley Estes Park Colo The contest runs from Jan 1 He has worked for the company since 1929 and operates offices in the Barfield Building DEES NEW RECORD CLERK Bunk Dees transferred to a record clerk post at News Globe
John Laymon 87 died in a fire that destroyed his one room home at 2002 Mirror. Funeral service 2 PM tomorrow at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Elder George LaGrone officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include four sons Robert Marvin Bill and Perry Laymon.
Funeral services for Karen Kay Williams infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Williams were held at 2 pm in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev. Roy B. Flippo officiating. The child died at North west Texas Hospital. Surviving relatives include the parents and three grandparents, Mrs. Alice Williams and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Veale of Amarillo. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery.
W E Riley, an employee of the W D Riggins Ranch northwest of Groom, died last night at the ranch headquarters. The body is at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home and funeral services are pending.
Sam Houston Junior High School was broken into, with a window broken to enter the principal’s office. Police reported the break in may have occurred overnight and the intruders possibly spent the night inside the building.
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