RFC Credit for Defense Ready to Aid Industry
Washington reports the RFC offered secured credit facilities to defense driven industries and would cover 75 percent of loans or underwriting. Banks would carry 25 percent while discussions on financing defense demand continue amid congressional inquiry and plans for long range capacity expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
RFC
Jesse Jones
Jones
Congress
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
Republican House
Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Hovey to Attend Rocky Mountain Religious Conference
Paul Hovey director of Christian Education at Central Presbyterian Church will attend the Rocky Mountain Regional Planning Conference for the United Christian Adult Movement at Geneva Glen Camp, Indian Hills Colorado from July 22 to 29. The event features leaders from Presbyterian and Methodist groups with limited enrollment of 150 persons and denominational quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Paul Hovey
Central Presbyterian Church
Rocky Mountain
United Christian Adult Movement
Geneva Glen Camp
Indian Hills
Colo
Denver
E. P. Westphal
Rocky Mountain Council of Christian Churches
T. Raymond Aliston
Presbyterian
Colorado
Nebraska
L. R. Semones
Tulsa Council of Churches
Tulsa
Okla
Frank I. Finch
Nebraska Methodist Churches
Carriers' Auxiliary Host a Whatnot Party Night
Carriers' Auxiliary members hosted a whatnot party in the Federation Club Rooms with about 50 attendees including post office employees and wives. Rob Lewis won the first game "Going to Jerusalem" while J D Porterfield, Noble R Fowlkes, John F Mitchell and BE R Bruce shared homemade cakes after the cake walk. E P Palm won the last contest and also received a cake as prizes. the evening ended with refreshments, dancing, bridge, and forty-two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
Federation Club
Rob Lewis
Jerusalem
R. O Dickson
J. D. Porterfield
Noble R. Fowlkes
John F. Mitchell
BE. R Bruce
E. P. Palm
Final Rites Held for Wallace H. Brown
Funeral services were held at 3 PM in Blackburn-Shaw Chapel for Wallace H Brown 21 of Amarillo son of Mr and Mrs F W Brown. He died from injuries after falling from a ladder in Lubbock where he worked. Dr J Howard Williams officiated. Interment was in Liano Cemetery. He is survived by his parents a sister and three brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackburn-Shaw
Wallace H Brown
F. W. Brown
Amarillo
Young Brown
Lubbock
J. Howard Williams
First Baptist Church
Liano Cemetery
Amarillo Life Insurance Group Hosts Banquet and Elections
The Amarillo Association of Life Insurance Underwriters met at the Mexican Inn on May 18 with three Jefferson Standard Life executives. Rob ert M White spoke and elections named F B Martin as president and FE Donald Wyatt as vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCormick Co
Robert M
Bob) White
Texas Association of Life Underwriters
Amarillo Association of Life Underwriters
Mexican Inn
W. R. Jenkins
Taylor Street
Amarillo
United States
Amarillo Association of Life Insurance Underwriters
Texas
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
Dallas
G. H Watson
Wichita Falls
Jefferson Standard
Roy Cloninger
Panhandle
Mr. White
Amarillo Association
F. B. Martin
W. G. Clayton
Donald Wyatt
Nick Browning
L. R. Cloninger
C. L Copeland
J. K. Blythe
FE. R Archambeau
Safety Committee Meeting Planned in Amarillo
Amarillo 3 E committee will meet within the next week or two following the Amarillo Safety Council session. Maynard Drake presided at KGNC offices as Charles Belfi urged civic groups to respond on 3 F appointments. The council reviewed the quarterly state police report showing 431 Texas deaths in three months and many single vehicle crashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Amarillo Safety Council
Texas
William C. Belles Rites Today
Final rites for William C. Belles fireman of the San Jacinto station are set for 4 PM at the N S Griges Sons Chapel with Rev H Clyde Smith officiating. Interment follows at Liane Cemetery. Amarillo fire department members will be honorary pallbearers. He died Sunday night in an Amarillo hospital after a month illness. He is 44, lived in Amarillo 14 years, home at 1320 Fillmore Street. Survivors include wife two sons a daughter a granddaughter father two brothers and two sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Belles
San Jacinto
N.S. Griges & Sons
H. Clyde Smith
Amarillo
Fillmore Street
Geological Society Plans Field Trip to Canyon Areas
The Northwest Texas Geological Society will sponsor a field trip May 25 26 led by M G Cheney to study canyon and Strawn groups in Young Jack Wise Parker Palo Pinto and Eastland counties. Geologists meet at the Driver Hotel Graham May 24 for a pre trip talk. The group departs Graham May 25 at 8 am and returns to Eastland Sunday evening. Members of the Panhandle Geological Society are invited, said H H Hinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest Texas Geological Society
M. G. Cheney
Canyon
Strawn
Young, Jack, Wise
Parker
Palo Pinto
Eastland
Driver Hotel
Graham
Cheney
Crazy Hotel
Minera
Wells
The
Panhandie Geological Society
H. H. Hinson
Secretrry
Shenefelt Joins Bruner Realty Office in Amarillo
Shenefelt, a veteran Amarillo real estate salesman, has joined the real estate office of T. M. Bruner after years with local and larger city sales. The staff includes T. L. Lipscomb and Floyd McNeill who runs the company’s insurance department. The office sits at 203 West Sixth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Shenefelt
Amarillo
T. M. Bruner
Shenefelt
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Mr. Bruner
T. L. Lipscomb
Floyd McNeill
West Sixth Avenue
R. A. Brown
Oliver-Eakle
Mr. Brown
Panhandle Building and Loan Association
Amarillo Clean-Up Drive Seeks Citywide Turnout
Amarillo launches its annual clean-up paint up fix-up campaign with extra trash trucks and a call for residents, school children, Boy Scouts, civic clubs, and local groups to join from day one. The effort aims to surpass Lubbock as Texas’s cleanest city, led by S F Rose. Trash routes list streets for May 21 and May 22 across districts and additions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Lubbock
S. F. Rose
Polk
Tyler
Harrison
van Buren
Florida
Virginia
California Quake Damage Rising in Imperial Valley
Estimates of damage from Saturday night's Imperial Valley earthquake rose with City Engineer Walter Hopkins reporting Brawley losses alone may exceed 2 million dollars. Other affected towns El Centro Calexico Imperial Holtville and Mexicali add at least 1 million more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centro
Cal
Imperial Valley
Brawley
Walter Hopkins
el Centro Calexico
Imperial
Holtville
Mexicali
Lower Calif
Brooks Named Rock Island Agent
Howard Brooks was named executive general agent of Rock Island Lines with headquarters in Fort Worth effective May 16. Brooks, long treasurer for Rock Island Texas properties, is a widely known Southwest railroad official announced by EK M Durham Jr the road chief executive officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Brooks
Rock Island Lines
Fort Worth
EK M Durham, Jr
Road
Brooks
Rock Island
Texas
Southwest
Old Time Dances Return to Amarillo Rainbow
The Rainbow presents Tuesday evenings of Balboa Varsovienna and Schottisch dances with music by Sons of the West starting at 8 30 tonight in Amarillo Old Time Dance venue returning popular dances expand from larger cities to the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Sons of the West
Kiwanians Visit Preventorium in Amarillo
The Amarillo Kiwanis Club visited the Preventorium at noon with box lunches served by Circle 6 of Polk Street Methodist Church. Over 100 members toured the veranda, heard a KGNC broadcast, and learned of WPA support and tuberculosis care for underprivileged children. A tree planting ceremony followed the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Kiwanis Club
Circle 6
Polk Street Methodist Church
M. A. Webb
KGNC
Phillips 66
Cal Farley
Sim Kelly
Austin Meredith
WPA
Frank Scurlock
Kelly
Homer Rice
Ernest Duke
C. C. Grimes
van Bruner
Ed Parcells Rites Held at Church
Final tribute to Ed Parcells 22 year old son of Dr and Mrs R P Parcells was paid in services at the First Baptist Church. Dr J Howard Williams officiated. Interment followed at Llano Cemetery under Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Survivors include parents a sister and paternal grandfather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Parcells
R. P. Parcells
First Baptist Church
J. Howard Williams
Royston Taylor
Roy Lyon
Gerald Haston
Bob Rogers
Joe White
Dan Higgins
Llano Cemetery
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Amarillo
Canyon
Rail Cut Hearing Set In Amarillo For Abandonment Plan
Texas Railroad Commission will hear the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad petition to abandon two passenger trains between Amarillo and Lubbock. Protests from Plainview Lubbock and Tulsa are expected. The hearing begins at 9 at the Herring Hotel. Trains 94 and 95 would be dropped with routes serving Canyon Happy Kress Hale Center and Abernathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Railroad Commission
Panhandle & Santa Fe Railroad
Amarillo
Lubbock
Herring Hotel
Plainview
Tulsa
Canyon
Happy
Kress
Hale Center
Abernathy
Clyde Fuqua Heads Local Hi Y Group
Clyde Fuqua was installed as president at the final Senior Hi Y meeting of the year at the high school. The program honored all graduates and a retiring president Kenneth Wheatley received a gift. Harold Nichols spoke briefly and the group plans a delegation to the national Hi Y conference at Oberlin Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Fuqua
Kenneth Wheatley
Harold Nichols
YMCA
Great Plains
Oberlin
Tucumcari
Pampa
Dalhart
Anti Ally riots flare in Rome as crowds clash with guards
In Rome on May 20 anti British and anti French demonstrations surged through the city. A thousand marchers seized flags from embassies, while soldiers blocked access to the British consulate. Mussolini did not appear as crowds chanted Duce and Tunis. Foreign minister Ciano warned Italy awaits the order of the day and plans a trip to Albania as Americans plan to leave Genoa aboard the Rex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Carabinieri
Bersaglieri
Piazzi Venezia
France
Tunis
Piazza Venezia
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Ciano
Italy
Trauce
Albania
Balkan
Genoa
Rehearings and motions in Texas Seventh District civil appeals
Civil Appeals in the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas at Amarillo list motions submitted May 18 1940 and 20 1940 with grants overrulings and affirmations. Cases include West v Citizens State Bank Wheeler Mertel Christy Hall County Eakin Knight McAfee Jeter Townsend and others. Cases set for submission September 16 include Fish Bush Thomason Veal Sanns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Civil Appeals
Seventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas
Amadillo
Tannehill Brothers, Inc
Andy McAfee
N. T. Shirley
Jeter & Townsend
Texas Employers Insurance Association
W. W. Humphrey
H. L. Stanton
Ruby Travis
Potter County
Wise Common
Castro County
S. E. Fish
Ruth G. Bush
Claude A. Thomason
George T. Veal
Hockley County
James Sanns
Chas. C. Chapman
Terry County
DuPont Leaders Resign as Board and Company Presidents
Pierre S. Du Pont retires as chair of the board and Lammot Du Pont resigns as president of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company. Lammot Du Pont is elected board chairman and Walter S Carpenter Jr becomes president. The company cites age and desire for more leisure as reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Pierre S. du Pont
Lammot du Pont
E. T. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Walter S Carpenter, Jr
Aeronautical Group To Give Dance Here
The Aeronautical Association of Texas will host a dance at the Nat on Thursday, June 6. Lois Haning, a club official, said Eddie Dunsmore will provide the music. Admission is 40 cents per person, and plane rides will go to the two best dancing couples. Profits go to the Preventorium, and Dixie Dice will present a floor show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeronautical Association of Texas
Lois Haning
Miss Haning
Eddie Dunsmore
Dixie Dice
Tragic Drive Ends in Infant Death in San Antonio Yard
Delia Garza an 18 month old girl wandered into the yard to bid farewell to her father A G Gara as he backed his truck from the driveway. The vehicle ran over her and she died shortly after at a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
U.P
Delia Garza
A. G. Gara
Garza
Spicer Displays Atmos Clock Solar Powered Wonder
M Spicer jeweler at 917 Polk Street showcases Atmos, a clock claimed to require no winding and driven by temperature and barometric pressure. The hermetically sealed device, bought from Longines Wilnauer, sits in glass case with its 10 slow wheels, promising no maintenance for 100 years and silent operation for sleepers, though it cannot adjust for daylight saving time or practical jokes like the cat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ripley
M. Spicer
Polk Street
Ripley
Mr. Spicer
Longines-Wiltnauer Watch Company
Amarillo
Congenial Couples Class Banquet At First Christian Church
The Congenial Couples Class held a Friday night banquet in the church Fellowship Hall with spring flowers white tapers and pastel favors. LaMonte McBride presided as toastmaster as Rev. Jordan Grooms delivered the inspirational address Our Partnership With God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Christian Church
Thomas Gunn
Vern Hickerson
Carl Jenkins
Roy Hanna
Ralph Foltz
God
Jordan Grooms
W. P. Strickland
J. P. Miller
S. H. Madden
H. A. Shaw
Alta Kimrey
Mary K. Utterback
Clair Smith
Messrs. and Mesdames
G. C. Carter
J. H. Utterback
Keith Caldwell
la Monte McBride
H. A. Hunter
R. L. Moore
Paul Gaither
J. T. Smith
Luther Glovier
Carl Baird
H. M Rawlings
A. L. Cox
Lee Shropshire
Bob Ferguson
H. C. Ferguson
W. A. Hopkins
D. W. Leach
Mesdames Myron Dorman
E. C. Tucker
J. C. Lester
Larry Ellis
Ireland calls reservists to strengthen defense forces
Ireland announces the calling of certain reservist classes over the weekend to bolster defense. Police found a group drilling between Castle Connel and Newport on the County Limerick County Tipperary border and arrested 40 to 50 men found with firearms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
U.P
Eire
Castle Connel
Newport
Rock Island Opens Public Relations Office in Fort Worth
The Rock Island Railroad opened a new public relations office in the transportation building in Fort Worth on May 16 with George R Angell in charge. Angell will speak at public meetings on railroad topics and contact newspapers in the Southwestern territory served by the Rock Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Rock Island Railroad
Transportation
Fort Worth
George R. Angell
Texas Receives Federal Social Security Funds for Pensions
The state treasury reports 615000 dollars in federal social security matching funds for Texas old age pensions in June and an additional 30750 dollars for state administration costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
First Baptist M. O. L. Class holds lunch and meeting
The First Baptist M. O. L. Class met at the church for lunch and business Friday. The gathering featured prayer by Mrs. J. H. Cureton, a devotional on Isaiah 53 by Mrs. Lela Powell, class singing, and a motto reading. Sixty-five attendees included many named members and guests, with reports on absentees and jail inmate literature distribution. Homecoming of the Berean Class at West Amarillo Christian Church drew former members and guests, with talks by Art Wheeler and Eunice Hulen plus telegrams and letters from former members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist M. O. L
J. H. Cureton
Lela Powell
God
Dorothy Allen
E. E. Mims
Steele
Rockport
N. Y
S. F. Pelton
St. John
R. G. Rogers
J. B. Mulkey
Ruby Rhea
W. W. Whitsett
R. C. Dow
J. L. Collier
H. C. Ammons
W F. Key
J. R. Rowntree
Emma Dodson
P. B. Dailey
M. V. Retherford R. R. Smith
J. W. Sanders
Berean
West Amarillo
Junkins Dry Goods Co. to Remodel Store at 613 Taylor
Junkins Dry Goods Co. announces a major remodel at 613 Taylor Street under manager Mrs. Tromiie Smith. The store will enlarge fixtures and add departments to emphasize piece goods and fabrics while simplifying layouts and speeding merchandising. The remodeling sale has already begun and stock reductions fund the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junkins Dry Goods Co
Taylor Street
Tromiie Smith
Coin Machine Operators Promote Brick Drive for Museum
Members of the Coin Controlled Machine Operators Association of Amarillo convened at the Amarillo Hotel pledging brick or cash contributions to the Panhandle Plains Historical Society Museum addition in Canyon. C A Gordon leads a committee to contact absentees while H Gallerneau presides and J C Wesberry heads a sub committee on a tri state headquarters plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Gallerneau
George 8. Wilson
Amarillo
J. C. Wesberry
Ted Calvo
Trade Press Bureau
Kansas City
Coin Machine Journal
Amarillo Coca Cola Company
Dr. Pepper Bottling Company
Subpoena Privilege Fought by Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward and Company challenged the federal wage and hour division authority to subpoena records at its Kansas City plant in a wage hour probe. In the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguments, counsel called the subpoena unreasonable and unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
O.S
Montgomery Ward and Company
Federal
Kansas City, Mo
Sixth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Texas highway department hires 41 engineering graduates
The Texas state highway department announced today the employment of 41 civil engineering students who will receive degrees in June. They will work in the engineering division in the field. Mrs. E. C. Arterburn presided at the meeting of the register. The next Class business session is planned for June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Texas Colleges
State Highway Department
E. C. Arterburn Pree
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Executive Departments
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Hovey
Wallace H. Brown
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Geological Society
Bruner
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DuPont Company
Spicer
R. C. Snodgrass
LaMonte McBride
Ireland
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