How Airline Hostesses Shaped by Rules and Routines
A vivid overview of air hostesses or flight angels highlighting entry rules, training costs, and duties. It notes age and weight requirements, unmarried status policies, salary scales, and the blend of glamour with strict discipline. It also cites passengers, etiquette, and humorous anecdotes from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchell
Flight Angels
American Airlines
Dale Carnegie
Virginia Bruce
Warner
Air Hostess School
Tax Collector Finds He's Welcome Visitor
Amherst, N. H. and surrounding areas report Charles Haynes, tax collector, noted in his routine tour that employment conditions have improved so much he was welcomed into the homes of his clients. In one district only two men were out of work, yet he helped find jobs for them so they could pay their taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst
Hitch Hiker to Capital Keeps Expenses Low
Harold Edwards aged 17 hitchhiked from Temple New Hampshire to Washington with $3.75 total for travel. He was hosted by Senator Charles W. Tobey, arrived unannounced, serenaded locals with a harmonica and guitar, walked about six miles of the 1000 mile round trip, spent 30 cents on sandwiches and rode a street car. In Washington he toured the steps of the Washington Monument. A note adds a separate fact that about half the world’s fishermen are Japanese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
N. H
U.P
Harold Edwards
Washington
Capital
Charles W. Tobey
Edwards
Washington Monument
Colored woman seeks steady cooking and housework work
A reader requests permanent employment as a cook and housekeeper. She describes herself as a settled colored woman with no bad habits and asks to be contacted at 2 3492, Room 12, for work with good people. The note continues on page 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
At&t
At& SP
Aviation Corp
Bendix Aviat
Barnsdall
Reth Steel
Borden Tedaeoee
Callahan Calumet & Hee
Certainteed
Chrysler Col & Bou
Com! Solventa Colum G & el
Gly Ao
Consol Cornwith & Bou
Curtiss Wright
du Douglas Aircraft
el Power & Lt
Gen Foods
Goodrich
Goodyrar
Gt Nor Ire
Gt Nor Ry
Eam Freom Houd
Houston Oil
Howe Sound T
Hudson Mot
Hupp Sa Os Aieens
Int Harvester
Hydro el A
Johns Manville
Wm Kennecots
Lorillard
On Life
Marshall-Pield
Montgom
M Wanedage
Jane Nash
Kelvinator
Nat
Penhandle P&ar
Penney
Penn RR
Pet
Plymouth Ol
Pub Soc NJ
Pullman
Pure Ou
Seibuipetitee Rca
Fly
RKO
Rem Rand
Repab Steel
Seaboard Oj
Sears Roeb
Servel Bei
Simmons
Socony Vi
Sou Pac
Sou Ry
Stand Brands
Stan OU Cal
Stan Oil Ind
Stan ON J
Stewart Warn Thy Ty
Stone & Webster
Studebaker
Tex Ac, Corp
Tex Gulf
Tex Gulf Sylph
Tex Tex
United Drucee
United Gas Imp
US Rubber
US Steel
Iiena
Warner Bros
West el & Mfg
Wilson & Co
Woolworth Ay
American Business Club Discusses War Situation
Wes Izzard spoke at the Capitol Hotel luncheon of the American Business Club sharing views on the war situation after delivering his regular KGNC noon newscast from the luncheon room. Ernest Archambeau led the program and moderated the discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Izzard
American Business Club
Capitol Hotel
Mr. Izzard
KGNC
Ernest Archambeau
Jackson Rites On Saturday
Funeral rites for Leland Earl Jackson will be held at 2 PM at San Jacinto Baptist Church. Rev. W A Criswell will officiate. The body was found yesterday near Amarillo with a gunshot wound. a verdict of accidental death was returned. He was 43, survived by wife, mother, daughter, two brothers, and a sister. Burial at Llano Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland Earl Jackson
San Jacinto Baptist Church
W. A. Criswell
First Baptist Church of
Chickasha
Okla
Mr. Jackson
Shamrock Oil and Gas Company
U. S. Helium Plant
W. D. Pinkerton
W. L. Burns
J. M. Curry, Jr
Elmer Tomlinson
Guy Bateman
Elmer McCullough
J. B. Andrews
Jesse Roach
L. A. Foster
C. FE. Flanagan
R. FE. Singletary
Cleo Meharg
Aflie Speer
Vernon McIntyre
Jackson
Co. W. Carder
Amarillo
W.S. Jackson
Leon Foster
J. C. Jackson
Los Angeles
J. H. Jackson
Texline
Fred McCann
el Paso
Llano Cemetery
N. S. Griggs
Deadline Extended For Butler Tickets
The Knife and Fork Club reservations for the Smedley D. Butler address are extended to noon tomorrow. Members can obtain reservations at Maxor Drug Store or Amarillo Hotel news stand this afternoon or tomorrow morning. General Butler will speak tonight in Pampa at a Legion sponsored meeting with tomorrow's topic titled America and the European War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smedley D. Butler
Maxor Drug Store
Amarillo Hotel
General Butler
U. S. Marine Corps
Pampa
American Legion
America
Lawyers Hear Waco Justice Proposals for New Rules
Law institute in Amarillo Hotel heard Panhandle attorneys discuss new civil practice rules. Judge James P. Alexander presided as a 21 member Texas Supreme Court panel prepares a draft for legislature. Joe B. Dooley of Amarillo serves on the committee. Alexander plans further institutes in Huntsville after Waco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
James P. Alexander
Court of Civil Appeals
Waco
Law Institute
Amarillo
Texas Supreme Court
Joe B. Dooley
Alexander
San Antonio
Beaumont
Longview
Tyler
Dallas
Huntsville
Captain Ivy to Take Command of Panhandle Patrol
Captain Ivy from Dallas is due to arrive tonight or tomorrow to assume command of the Panhandle district highway patrol. He will succeed Jim Line, who is transferred to the Dallas district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk Ivy
Dallas
Panhandle
Justice Department Aids SCS in Tierra Blanca Water Suit
Chamber of Commerce secretary Carl Hinton said Justice Department and Solicitor General's office attorneys would aid the Soil Conservation Service in the Tierra Blanca Creek water dispute. A dozen land owners from below Buffalo Lake seek to block diversions, with a May 20 hearing in Canyon's 47th District Court. They allege Buffalo Lake Dam traps water, harming downstream McSpadden Lake and claim only once a sufficient release reached it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Carl Hinton
Washington
Department of Justice
Solicitor General's Office
Solid Conservation Service
Tierra Blanca
Buffalo Lake
Soil Conservation Service
State Board of Water Engineers
Tierra Blanca Creek
47Th District
Canyon
Hinton
Buffalo Lake Dam
McSpadden Lake
Airmail Shipments Rise in April at Amarillo Post Office
Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi reports Amarillo airmail shipments for April totalled 3,995 pounds, 885 pounds more than the same month last year. The note mentions a general topic on albinism in animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Post Office
W. D. DeGrassi
Good Deed Goes Awry In New Hampshire
In EAST ROCHESTER New Hampshire two Girl Scouts tried a good turn when a street light failed. They saw a youth stumble and fall as he retreated from the sputtering lamp and summoned police a doctor and an emergency repair crew. The youth had disappeared when aid arrived.
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Rochester
N. H
Electric Light Company
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Pascha Heifetz
Mr. Heifetz
Heifetz
TWA
Lillian Fette
Margaret Mary O'Grady
Errol Flynn
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ann Malcolm
United Airlines
Hoeis
Western States
Steve Simpson
Mary Crutch
Fort Worth
Information Bureau
Catholic Register
Denver
Arctic
Beethoven
Mozart
Schumann
Richard Strauss
Hitler
New London
Conn
Frank Maria
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
New York City
Hollywood
Harvard
New York
DOW Jones
Fenner & Beane
Cocci Cee Eens
Kansas City
Livcock
Arizona
Financial Security Fund
Chicago
Wee Tack
Tack
Bill Dee
Fairmondee
Plains Office Supply CO
WPA
Cleveland
Ohio
Earl Blankenship
Claude Pickett
T. S. Sullenberger
B. E. Tyler
E. N. Armstrong
Clem Speer
H. N. Cooke
A. C. Youngblood
Butler
Waco Justice
Captain Ivy
Justice Department
SCS
Animal Kingdom
Tool
Mitchell
Las
Cner
UNION
L_S
Harry Mircuer
Brewmwsa Company
el Paso, Texas
POLK
Sears Map & Blueprint CO
H. ¥. Robertson & CO
Accountants & Auditors
Tisdal Beer Company
Polk ST
Moo
Great
Phillips Refining Organization
Phillips 66
QOTOR
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