County road and bridge funds show strict early 1950s open door policy
First four months under three new commissioners Lon Sellars John Winters and Dan Pavillard reveal road and bridge expenditures. March costs dropped to 39 percent of December numbers with January at 13589.16 and overall four month total showing economies and cash basis budgeting under fiscal restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Lon Sellars
John Winters
Dan Pavillard
Mark Parker
Judge Riggs
Local notices and ads mention Amarillo firms and strike note
The page lists Amarillo Gas and Amarillo Oil Company executives, insurance from Northwestern Mutual, and a Roselle New Jersey sit down strike at Ravina Leather. It also notes local residents visiting Amarillo, hospital lawn work, and county government details with Judge Newt Riggs entering a new term and the commission structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roselle
N. J
Ravina Leather Products Company
Portrait of a Hard-Working Father and Courageous Child
A browned father leads a small girl into a cafe as a bandage shows behind her ear. The scene contrasts toil and tenderness while the man’s weathered features hint at inner softness amid adversity. The striped exchanges around them recall a quiet, hopeful moment.
Street Scene and Society Notes from Amarillo Page
A column mixes domestic dispatches and social notices from Amarillo with brief community updates. Police respond to a drunken domestic dispute involving a husband and wife, and both are later found intoxicated. The page lists local business visits, travel plans, and upcoming sales at J Levy’s, plus campus events at Amarillo College and fashion notices at Colonial Beauty Shop.
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Potter Road
Sumary
Bellars
Parker Winters Payillard
Edwin Crook
The
Amarillo Gas Company
R. K. Waite
W. W. Rusk
W. M. Wright
EF. C. Wagner
Amarillo Oil Company
Northwestern Mutual Fire Association
J. R. Lawrence Company
Gordon Tompkins, Jr
Monroe Street
Central Junior High School
Burton Thompson, Jr
Dalhart
Amarillo
Rudy Bauman
7Th
Tyler
F. A. Bender
J. L. Naylor
Earl Nunn
Panhandle
Mother's Self Culture Club
Northwest Texas Hospital
Sellars
PCO
Pavillard
Newt Riggs
United States
Mr. Smith
Dedham
Mass
Rich Young Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
W. L. Peake
North Grant Street
Fort Worth
Jane Mayo Bowdin
Savannah
Camden
Clarence Cosby
Zack McCrady
T. M. Conner
Oliver Taylor Company
Dallas
Jo McClelland
Herring Hotel
Marlin
W. W. Braden
J. Levy's
Ann Lee
Lorna Bennett
Harold Molyneaux
David Phillips
Amarillo College
Colonial Beauty Shoppe
16Th and Polk
Jack Phillips
Jacquelyn
Belleview Street
Clarksville
Twelfth Avenue
Oregon
Mr. Jamison
Owl Drug
West Sixth Avenue
Martha Kronbeck
Kronbeck Plumbing Company
Edith Roop
Damascus Art Linen Shop
Polk
Blanche
Nell Adams
Shamrock
Ed W. Jamisons
West
Erreee
Re Waa Ne
Lil Sas
Taylor & Williams Distilleries
Poet Ae
Americas
Diamond Ring
Sale
Zale
Belcher
Manning-Bowman
Carly
Zale's
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