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Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 20, 1947

Page

21

Amarillo Board Awards 102000 Contract and Coaches Hire

The Amarillo school board approved Walter Wirtz for a 102208 contract to build the Dwight Morrow School as part of a 2 million expansion and hired Windy Nicklaus to coach and teach at Horace Mann Junior High. Nicklaus replaces Tom Gilley, with Gilley gaining extra duties. Top priority remains the new Negro school at a 300k project. The meeting covered league pay rules, equipment bids, seating upgrades, scholarships for athletes and bandsmen, and Summit School funding questions.

Walter Wirtz Dwight Morrow Windy Nicklaus West Texas State College Horace Mann Junior High School Wirtz Dwight Merrow Litle Hill Co C. S Lambie Co Ramey & Mathis Windy Nicklans Horace Mann Tom Gilley Nicklaus Dick Bivins R. P. Parcells West Texas Happy Howard Lynch Amarillo High School Sandies Lynch Amarillo College A. M. Meyer Golden Glove Fund Control Board Golden Gloves Summit School Sibley Summit Rev Chas. M. Rogers John L. Hannon Humphries Highland School College Inea

Vest Pocket Essays on Barbers and Banter

A whimsical reminiscence on barbers of the era noting quiet shops and lost chatter. The piece riffs on pay, efficiency, and the social role of barbers with jokes about home shaving, clock faces, and a barber’s clock running backward. Includes digressions on salaries for teachers and anecdotes of barber lore.

No World War I Big Bertha shell reached 24 mile peak

Report notes that WWI era Big Bertha shells did not achieve a flight peak altitude of 24 miles.

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