Amarillo Tax Policy Sets 50 Percent Red Book Value
City of Amarillo and Amarillo Independent School District agreed on taxing all private automobiles of 1942 model or later and all commercial vehicles, using 50 percent of Jan 1 Red Book values for 1950 taxes. A house to house canvass for personal property assessment was approved, needing 10 to 15 extra staff. Also noted: Italian parachutes with rotating propellers for gentler descents are being tested in Rome.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Independent School District
City Commis
Sion
City Commission
School Board and City Commission
Gene Klein
Rome
22 To Enter Speech Meet From Amarillo High
Amarillo High School will send 22 contestants to Panhandle A&M in Goodwell Oklahoma on Friday and Saturday for the Panhandle Forensic Meet. Participants include students from Texas Oklahoma Colorado and Kansas with judges Miss Jessie Mercer and J H Flathers coordinating. Events cover radio play debate discussion extempore speaking original oration public address radio speaking and dramatic literature and poetry oral interpretation.
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Amarillo High School
Panhandle A&m
Goodwell
Okla
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Jessie Mercer
J. H. Flathers
AHS
Bill Gibson
Grant Gross
Winston Adkins
Richard Thompson
Neal Allen
Barney Young
Billy Earl Smith
Don Elliott
Jerry Beck
Avent Smith
Bill Brooks
Merriwell Ingram
Nancy Bursey
Eugenia Scott
Betty Wagner
Barbara Beckman
Shirley Feierabend
Jaynee Sample
Diane Kent
Mike Flynn
Beverly Nance
Billie Mae Holden
Easter Seal drive in Amarillo tops $1900
G A Bert McCullough, Crippled Children's Council chairman, announced the current Easter Seal total about $1,900. Funds support medical, therapeutic, employment and recreation aid for crippled children. Seals were mailed to most homes, with over 100 coin containers placed in local businesses.
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Bert” McCullough
Crippled Children’s Council
McCullough
Amarillo
Herbert Cook Funeral at Vega
Funeral services for Herbert Cook aged 65 of Vega will be at 2 pm Friday at Vega Methodist Church with Rev W A Appling and Rev Vernon Henderson officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery Amarillo under N S Griggs & Sons. Cook, Vega service station owner, died yesterday at Northwest Texas Hospital. survivors include his widow five sons four brothers and two sisters.
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Herbert Cook
Vega
Vega Methodist Church
W. A. Appling
Vernon Henderson
Haskell
Memorial Park Cemetery
Amarillo
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Cook
Northwest Texas Hospital
Police and Fire Unit Examinations Set
Civil Service examinations for police and fire positions will be held next Tuesday in the office of city personnel director Clifford Davis to build an eligibility list. There are no vacancies at present. police tests are in the morning session and fireman exams in the afternoon.
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Clifford Davis
Athens Stores Close In Protest Over Tax Records Law
In Athens Greece most shops shut down in a coordinated protest against a new law requiring businesses to retain records for taxation purposes. The action reflects widespread concern about additional compliance costs and surveillance by authorities.
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Athens
Greece
Plainview Radio Grant Set Aside
The Federal Communications Commission set aside a grant to West Texas Broadcasters Inc for a Plainview radio station and ordered further hearings. The October grant for KPLW on 1570 kc/s 250 watts daytime only is reopened to examine interference with KCBD on 1590 kc/s Lubbock.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
West Texas Broadcasters, Inc
Plainview
KPLW
KCBD
Lubbock
Floydada
Marshall
Spur
Underwriters Meet Saturday in West Texas
About 300 underwriters are expected for the West Texas Insurance Sales Congress Saturday at the Herring Hotel. The 9 o'clock opening will be led by Tom Fletcher of Amarillo Life Underwriters, with speakers including Sam Cummings of Dallas, Bert Jaqua of SMU, and Barney Shields, authorities on estate taxes.
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West Texas Insurance Sales Congress
Herring Hotel
Tom Fletcher
Amarillo Life Underwriters
Sam Cummings
Dallas
Bert Jaqua
Institute of Insurance Marketing
Southern Methodist University
Barney Shields
Priority to Homes Project in Fort Worth
The Federal Housing Administration places top priority on Private Enterprise Homes Inc. app for 48 low cost home commitments received by Fort Worth office via local FHA official C. P. Atwood. The group plans to build 600 low cost homes locally with the 48 as the first units.
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Federal Housing Administration
Private Enterprise Homes Inc
Fort Worth
C. P. Atwood
FHA
Private Enterprise Homes Group
Turkey Boosts Merchant Fleet to 301636 Tons
Turkey has increased its merchant fleet to 301,636 tons largely operated by the state Sea Ways Administration. The expansion reflects broader government efforts to bolster maritime capacity and national logistics.
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Turkey
Seaways Administration
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Globe
Clyde Roller
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Tri-Way
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AAA Body Shop
Briley and McCracken
NEW
Tire Safety and
Saaforecon
Royaltex
United
U. S
Revel
Tyler
Polk
Charley Gibson
The
American Legion
18Th District
Amarillo Air Terminal
Carroll Deahl
Hedley
Lou Roberts
Plainview Radio
Globe News
Nick
Priority To Homes
FLY
Midland - Odessa
SLD
Globe-News
Seagram
Belmont Sieniaht
Monroe
Wayne McKee
Charlie Priolo
Summit School
China
White
Polk ST
Amarillo-Borger-Pampa
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