Amarillo city awards contracts for pumps and street work
City commissioners met to award bids for five water pumps and eight sewer pumps. A zoning ordinance for annexed areas passed final reading. Traffic and safety matters included stop sign recommendations and a needed traffic signal at key intersections. A 2 percent franchise tax check from Amarillo Gas Co. arrived for 1948 first quarter. Minor earthquake reported near Tokyo with no damage.
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Ag Commissionets
Ces
City Planning and Zoning Commission
John Anderson
West Eighth
Independence
Fourth
Houston
Julian
Twenty-seventh
Twenty-ninth
H. R. Smith
National Hospital
N. V. Moss
Moss
State Highway Department
Sixth
Adams
Highway 66
Lawrence Hagg
DeWitt Greer
Austin
Thirty-sixth
Canyon Highway
Hayden
Retired Engineer Wins Title in Panhandle Rodeo Fish
At Buffalo Lake the Panhandle Outdoor Sportsmen's Club Globe-News rodeo opened last month. Retired engineer Mr Burrows, 605 North Buchanan, has landed six tagged fish, far more than any other contestant. Prizes include a portrait photograph, sweater, groceries, and cash, with a grand prize of a $1,200 speedboat and gear for most consecutive tagged numbers.
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Burrows
Gineer
Panhandle
Globe-News
Buffalo Lake
North Buchanan
Betty Johnson Wins Local Business Scholarship Award
Mrs. Betty Johnson of 1209 Taylor received the Business & Professional Women's Club scholarship at a Crystal Ballroom reception in the Herring Hotel. She achieved the highest general average among Amarillo High School graduates in business courses this year and may attend any business school or college.
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Betty Johnson
Taylor
Business & Professional Women’s Club
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
Johnson
Amarillo
Elmire ‘Tesson
Mattie Reed
Johnnie Pollan
Laverne Mott
Howard Dill
Amarillo College
Russel C. Curtis
South Amarillo
Funeral Tomorrow For Mrs Pickering In Amarillo
Funeral services for 69 year old Mrs Sarah Pickering of Amarillo will be held at 2 pm tomorrow at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr E B Fincher officiating. Burial follows in Memorial Park Cemetery with pallbearers Elmer Burdett Buck Nelson Arthur Pritchard Grady Nutt J C Moore and J D Bishop. She died Saturday at St Anthony’s Hospital after moving to Texas in 1930 from Missouri where she was born. The home address is 3900 Tyler and survivors include her son Clyde C Pickering, Amarillo, the daughter Edith Inman and a brother Bart Nix of Broadfield Missouri.
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Sarah Pickering
Amarillo
Blackburn ‘Shaw Memorial Chapel
E. B. Fincher
Southern Presbyterian Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Elmer Burdett
Buck Nelson
Arthur Pritchard
Grady Nutt
J. C. Moore
J. D.bishop
Pickering
St. Anthony's Hospital
Edith Inman
Honault
Missouri
Fame
Tyler
Clyde C. Pickering
Bart Nix
Broadfield
Co-Ed Club Plans Picnic for Juniors
The Co-Ed Club plans a picnic for present junior high school students next month and a dance this Saturday. Wayne Olver president noted club board approved picnic plans at a YMCA meeting. Club director Jimmy Hale will lead both events and entertainment features were discussed.
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Ricnic
Wayne Olver
YMCA
We Three
Plant
Jimmy Hale
Sloan's Balm Promises Instant Pain Relief
Advertises Sloan's Balm as fast relief for rheumatism neuritis neuralgia sciatica lumbago and muscle aches. Claims heat circulates through the painful area and provides lone lasting peace with ten times the effectiveness of leading balms tested at all druggists.
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Sloans
SLOAN
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Tokyo
Honshu
Central Meteorological Observatory
Tagged Fish
Miss Kroeger
Mineme
Betty Jane Kroeger
Bobby Soxer
Fred Kroeger
Betty Johnson Gels Award
Mrs. Pickering
Carter
J. M. Hyden
Barfield
Yor Falcaro
Schlitz
PABST
Blatz Budweiser
Prager
Fillmore
Panhandle Steel Building and Material CO
Edwin L. Hart
A Taylor
Acme Venetans
Southwestern Tile & Supply CO
Atm
ACME
Don Valentine
Wards
Au Tae
ROMA
Mate
Mr Tomercltas
Collegiales
Wards Catalog Sales Department
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