Ten Thousand Dollar Peace Plan Contest Announced
Ziff-Davis offers 10000 prize for a 1000 word American opinion on postwar world order. Radio dramatization of William B. Ziff’s The Gentlemen Talk of Peace airs on KGNC with a March 23 deadline ahead of the San Francisco Conference. Open to all Americans and armed forces members.
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Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
William B. Ziff
KGNC
San Francisco
America
United States
C. C. Directors, Chairmen To Meet Friday Noon
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will hold a regular session Friday at noon at the Amarillo Hotel with directors and committee chairmen in attendance.
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C. C
The
Amarillo
Kerr Brothers Home on Leave from Navy Service
Both sons of Mrs. L. A. Kerr, 800 Fairmont, were home on leave this week. Clay Thomas is a Seabee who has returned from the South Pacific. L. B. Thomas, in the Navy, has finished boat training in San Diego and will attend radar school after his current visit.
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L. A. Kerr
Fairmont
Clay Thomas
South Pacific
L. B. Thomas
Navy
San Diego
Cal
Did Stomach Ulcer Pains Make Jack Spratt Eat No Fat
Modern day "Jack Spratts" who eat no fat due to stomach distress or ulcer pains, indigestion, gas, heartburn, burning, and bloat should try Udea. Get a 25c box of Udga Tablets from your druggist. First dose must convince or return box for double your money back.
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Jack Spratts
Tax Deadline Not on Mailing
Ralph Kenniston Amarillo office warns taxes must be in this office by midnight tomorrow. Mail cannot substitute for timely filing as late arrivals are delinquent regardless of mailing date. No extension for 1945 estimates and first quarterly payments. 1944 extension policy changed to April 15.
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Internal Revenue
Ralph Kenniston
Amarillo
Kenniston
Chamber of Commerce Names Election Judges
Four of five judges for the Chamber of Commerce directorate election were named C P Hutchings Oscar Hargett Jim Vernon and Bill Beechler with a fifth judge yet to be named The election occurs at the Amarillo Building offices with 12 of 25 candidates to be elected Ballots are cast from 9 a m to 5 p m listing candidates including W N Barrick John Cowan Charley Crowe Bob Crudgington Bill Gilstrap Bill Gunn Roger Harris Bob Howle E Kancher Jack King Charley Lambie Hugo Loewenstern Jeff Neely L S Nemecheck Earl O Keefe Dr Jason Robberson Howard Roberson Gus Roberts Jesse Rogers H O Starks Henry Thomson Pinky Vineyard C P Wells Dean White and H O Willborn
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Chamber of Commerce Directorate
C. P. Hutchings
Oscar Hargett
Jim Vernon
Bill Beechler
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
W. N. Barrick
John Cowan
Charley Crowe
Bob Crudgington
Bill Gilstrap
Bill Gunn
Roger Harris
Bob Howle
E. Kancher
Jack King
Charley Lambie
Hugo Loewenstern
Jeff Neely
L. S. Nemecheck
Earl O'Keefe
Jason Robberson
Howard Roberson
Gus Roberts
Jesse Rogers
H. O. Starks
Henry Thomson
Pinky Vineyard
C. P. Wells
Dean White
H. O. Willborn
Rotarians Hear Aims of West Texas State Foundation
Amarillo Rotarians will hear the aims of the West Texas State College Foundation at noon Thursday as Ross D. Rogers, foundation chairman, presents the program. He will be joined by special guests including Newton Harrell, Claude Deskins Wells, J. T. Hale, C. H. Keffer, Herschel Coffee, Raymond Thompson, Roy Boger, David Warren, Mel Davis, and Dr. J. A. Hill, president of West Texas State College, who will discuss foundation aims. A board meeting follows in Parlor A.
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Amarillo
West Texas State College Foundation
Ross D. Rogers
Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Newton Harrell
Claude
Lee Johnson
Canyon
John McCarty
Deskins Wells
Wellington
J. T. Hale
Tulsa
C. H. Keffer
Herschel Coffee
Raymond Thompson
Vega
Roy Boger
David M. Warren
Panhandle
Mel Davis
Pampa
J. A. Hill
West Texas State College
Parlor A
Rotary
Fatigue Not Hit By Car Says Elderly Pedestrian
A State patrol report states an elderly man found five miles east of Amarillo on Highway 60 was resting in a roadside ditch when mistaken for a hit-and-run victim. He explained fatigue and rain had forced him to lie down en route to Kansas. he was taken to St. Francis hospital.
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State
Amarillo
Kansas
St. Francis
Amarillo Garden Club hears Dr Yocum on pruning ornamental shrubs
Members of the Amarillo Garden Club heard Dr Warren W Yocum associate professor of horticulture at Texas Technological College speak on pruning ornamental shrubs at the club meeting this morning in the Municipal Auditorium.
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Amarillo
Income Tax Reports A C counting and Letter Service
Income tax reports and accounting services offered at 203 Nunn Building with phone contact 2-2075. Local filing assistance and letter service available through the office.
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Income Tax Reports — Accounting & Letter Service
Amarillo Pool Halls Close After Managers Meeting
Four Amarillo pool halls Paramount Recreation Club Peoples Recreation Club Grand Bar and Crown Bar closed voluntarily after a managers meeting. Judge Henry S. Bishop had charged a grand jury to investigate local pool halls and an injunction was issued against a Canyon hall. Justice concerns cite Texas law restricting commercial pool halls with penalties for operation.
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Amarillo
Henry S. Bishop
Grand Jury
Canyon
Paramount Recreation Club
Peoples Recreation Club
Grand Bar
Crown Bar
Jimmy Morris
Texas
Sixteen Eggs in a Dozen Surprise Mrs Baker
Mrs. W W Baker of 609 North East Sixth found four of the eggs in a dozen she bought Saturday had double yolks. The incident left her with sixteen usable eggs in the batch.
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W.W. Baker
North East Sixth
Amarillo Field Soldier in Winged Victory at Paramount Theater
Pvt. Stanley Bragg of Amarillo Army Air Field appears in Winged Victory current at the Paramount Theater. He was stationed in Santa Ana California when the picture was produced and he and his wife reside with Mrs. J. K. Hill at 1100 Taylor.
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Pvt
Stanley Bragg
Amarillo Army Air Field
Army Air Forces
Paramount Theater
Bragg
Santa Ana
Cal
J. K. Hill
Taylor
Miss Husted Confined At Home With Sinus Infection
Miss Hazel Husted of 303 North Lincoln has been ill at home for a week with a sinus infection. She works for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
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Hazel Husted
North
Lincoln
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
New York Coast Guardsmen Take Over Transatlantic Transports
About two thousand Coast Guardsmen from the New York area are serving aboard transports converted from the trans Atlantic merchant fleet. They man the vessels aiding wartime logistics and coastal defense operations.
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New York Area
Two Criminal Cases Set in District Court
Two criminal cases are slated for trial in 47th District Court Monday as a petit jury panel reports. Hugh Haralson faces robbery by assault linked to a liquor store hijacking on East Fourth Avenue January 24. L. C. Offutt and Barney B. Beeland are charged jointly with robbery by assault tied to a hijacking near White Deer east of Amarillo.
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47Th District Court
Henry S. Bishop
Hugh Haralson
Bertha Lowe
East Fourth Avenue
L. C. Offutt
Barney B. Beeland
Lee Burns
White Deer
Amarillo
Offutt
Beeland
Juror Hospitalization Triggers Mistrial in Liquor Store Hijack
C. H. Weaver alias Billy Weaver faces charges in the liquor store hijacking case. The trial ended in a mistrial after a juror suffered a heart attack, according to Globe News.
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Ber
Haralson
C. H. Weaver
Billy Weaver
Matthews Completes Radio Training and Goes on Leave
Bert Matthews son of Mr and Mrs Carter Matthews 213 West Thirteenth is home on leave after completing fleet radio training at Navy Pier Chicago. He is now a radio technician second class and will report next week to the West Coast for reassignment leaving Amarillo Monday. He graduated Amarillo High School and attended Amarillo College before enlisting in the Navy a year ago. After boat training at Great Lakes Naval Station he went to Hugh Manley School in Chicago for a pre radio course.
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Bert Matthews
Carter Matthews
West Thirteenth
Navy Pier
Chicago
Matthews
West Coast
Amarillo
Amarillo High School
Amarillo College
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Station
Hugh Manley School
Judge calls curfew hysteria as he frees 17 card game defendants
Magistrate Harry G. Andrews dismissed charges against 17 men charged with disorderly conduct during an early morning card game. He rejected guilty pleas saying the curfew hysteria wrongly criminalizes harmless social gatherings and asked if curfew means bedtime at twelve.
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New York
Harry G. Andrews
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