Ammarillo College student and former sergeant honored
Gordon P. Tompkins Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Tomkins Sr. from 1914 Tyler, Amarillo, is a former Eighth Air Force Weather Squadron sergeant stationed in Greenland. He was discharged March 15 at Fort Sam Houston San Antonio. A 1941 Amarillo High School graduate, he attended Amarillo College before enlisting and plans to finish his sophomore year, study journalism at a university.
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Amarillo College
Gordon P. Tompkins Jr
Gordon P. Tomkins Sr
Tyler
Eighth Air Force
Greenland
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Amarillo High School
Army
GI Inherits Two Million Won't Talk
At Los Alamos a GI, 20, Jack Grundy of Pasadena Illinois, reportedly inherits 2 375 000 from his uncle Dr Sven Larsen of Baltimore. He refuses to discuss the fortune or reveal his marriage to a Santa Fe girl after a two week courtship.
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Los Alamos
N. M
Jack Grundy
Pasadena
Santa Fe
Hjalmar Gustan
Sven Larsen
Baltimore
Brazilian exchange student wins American history quiz prize
Brazilian exchange student Geraldo Danneman, in the United States since September, outshone his classmates in an American history quiz at the college and took the top prize.
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Evansville
Ind
Geraldo Danneman
United States
Red Cross Aided 260 Disasters in 1945 at Costly Aid
Red Cross workers assisted in 260 disasters during 1945 at a total expense near 3.5 million dollars. The report highlights substantial relief work and funding supporting emergency response nationwide.
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Red Cross
Editor proposes reorganization of USDA to cut overlaps
Ferdie Deering editor of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman argues in his book USDA Manager of American Agriculture that the Department of Agriculture suffers from overlapping agencies and bloated staffing. He urges a streamlined structure that groups related functions and adapts to needs while preserving core scientific work and farmer services.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Department of Agriculture
Ferdie Deering
Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman
Deering
USDA
Army and Navy
Agriculture Department
University of Oklahoma Press
Paris Police Stave Off Mob at Trial
Police used wooden barriers to hold back a large Paris mob as the court for Dr. Marcel Petiot’s murder trial visited his dilapidated Bois de Boulogne mansion. Magistrates jurors and witnesses left the Palace of Justice in a motor convoy to continue testimony on site after a police official described human remains found in the mansion.
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Paris
Hoover Finds New Problems In Europe
Former President Herbert Hoover begins an in depth study of the European food shortage while en route to Rome. He warns four months are crucial with immediate relief needed from the Americas and hunger could inflame political unrest in liberated and conquered countries.
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Hoover
Europe
Paris
Herbert Hoover
Rome
Old Mother Hubbard
Mr. Hoover
South
America
Willy Nilly
Passenger Disembarks as Train Stands for Bride Reunion
Ten years on this week one passenger allowed to disembark for a reunion. Mrs Maisie Spencer of Doncaster England wife of Francis Spencer of Bynum Hill County, a former technical sergeant, failed to locate her husband when the train halted in Dallas. Red Cross workers met her at Hillsboro.
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Maisie Spencer
New Rail Turntable Handles Big Engines
In Los Angeles a 135 foot long 175 ton Union Pacific turntable opens at East Los Angeles being the largest in the United States. It can turn the longest and heaviest locomotives and cost 110000 to build. The complete unit was manufactured in the East and shipped here on three flat cars.
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Los Angeles
U.P
United States
Union Pacific East
Former Amarillo Resident Rex Peters Returns for Visit
Rex Peters, once Amarillo's resident, is back for a visit the first since 1943. He serves as superintendent of machine shops where experimental work on atomic energy is conducted. Peters holds a Santa Fe New Mexico address and received a War Department certificate of award from the late Secretary Stimson for his role in developing the atomic bomb.
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Rex Peters
Amarillo
Peters
Santa Fe
N. M
Stimson
Crack Train Breaks Record To Stop for War Bride
Hillsboro dispatch reports the MKT's Texas Special, a crack southbound train, stopped there for the first time to honor a war bride. The event marks a notable record stop as officials note the occasion.
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Hillsboro
MKT
Texas
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SWC
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Globe News
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Patsys
Ryo
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Clorox
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France
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W. 6Th Ave
Tex
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Calif
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Cleveland
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Brooklyn, N. Y
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Ft. Lauderdale
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Thousand Window Bakeries
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company
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