Pre flight aviation course eyed for Amarillo high school
Amarillo high school will offer a first year pre flight aviation course alongside English math and science. The plan, outlined by H E Wrinkle of Greeley, would give credit for a full year course with topics including navigation meteorology regulations and theory of flight. Juniors likely to be given preference as they will attend next year.
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Amarillo High School
Charles M. Rogers
Plains Area
H. E. Wrinkle
Greeley
Colo
United States Air Corps
Wrinkle
Air Forces
United States Office of Education
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Army and Navy
Baggage and Freight Cars Are Wrecked at Grand Saline
Eleven cars of a Texas and Pacific train were wrecked near the T and P depot in Grand Saline on May 21 but no injuries were reported. Officials attributed the crash to a possible rail buckle. Freight cars carried high grade white vein man e and bran and carbon black. baggage cars were empty.
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Grand Saline
Texas and Pacific Railroad
T. and P
Drunk Holds $600 In Waving Cash At Dallas Cop
A intoxicated man, found with six hundred dollars in various pockets, was held for sobering up after police noticed the large sum. When told the money would be counted back, he muttered about missing eighty cents in change.
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Dallas
A.R
Try To Retain Skilled Hands In War Effort
The war manpower commission ordered the Selective Service System to consult with its agents before drafting any person skilled in a critical war occupation. The move aims to maximize manpower use without blanket deferments, as 4,500 field offices would seek deferments for irreplaceable workers while urging employers to hire through the Employment Service.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Commission
Paul V McNutt
Manpower Commission
U. S. Employment Service
McNutt
Employment Service
Proposed tax examples show next year’s larger burden
The article outlines how proposed income tax changes would affect a private and a family. It uses specific hypothetical figures to illustrate deductions exemptions credits and resulting surtax and normal tax payments. It contrasts current year taxes with projected next year taxes under the new rates.
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Washington
Waterways and Oil Lines Act Considered by House Committee
The House rivers and harbors committee opened hearings on a $144 million plan to build a Florida coastal canal and cross-state pipelines linking Gulf waterways to the East Coast. Proponents argue the barge canal and pipelines would move oil faster, ease wartime bottlenecks, and free ocean freight for other trade.
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Washington
U.P
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Gulf and Florida
Transportation and Oil Company
Joseph J. Mansfield
Florida
Mansfield
Corpus Christi
Tex
Office
Parten
Seaboard
Middle-West
Southwest
Patten
Longview
Philadelphia
Germany
Florida Canal
John M. Fouts
Dallas and
Fort Worth
Trinity Improvement Association of
Gulf of Mexico Seaward Zone Declared Restricted Area
A presidential proclamation creates a sea range area in Gulf waters near Padre and Brazos islands Texas. Private vessels may operate only with War Department consent and do so at their risk. The area extends 25 miles east into the Gulf and includes Laguna Madre south of 26 45 N, with a prior defensive sea area around Matagorda Bay also requiring War Department sanction.
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Washington
War Department
Gulf of Mexico
Padre and
Brazos Islands
Texas
Padre and Brazos Islands
Gulf
Laguna Madre
Matagorda Bay
Galveston
Corpus Christi
White House
Atlantic
Pacific
Mrs Otis Beard Honored At Shower In Miller Home
Mrs Otis Beard was honored Tuesday afternoon at a shower hosted by Mrs R N Miller at 2202 Spruce Street with assistance from Mrs Bunt Owens. The house featured irises and pink roses and guests included G G Crawford E Hughes Bill Swafford A Beard John Walker M A Hudson Jr Allen Johnson Jr Raymond Beard R Wingrove H L Henderson Ruth Barton Horace Wooten Olin Fastman W L Pittman W Fields Wayne Hopkins and gifts from C E Bonney M N Nelson and E W Warren.
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Otis Beard
R. N. Miller
Spruce Street
Bunt Owens
G. G Crawford
E. Hughes
Bill Swafford
A. Beard
John Walker
M. A. Hudson, Jr
Allen Johnson, Jr
Raymond Beard
R. Wingrove
H. L. Henderson
Ruth Barton
Horace Wooten
Olin Fastman
W. L. Pittman
W. Fields
Wayne Hopkins
Mesdames
C E. Bonney
M. N. Nelson
E. W Warren
Money Waits For Couple of Amarilloans
The Globe News reports two checks mailed to Amarilloans were returned to the office for better addresses. J. W. Couch at 4002 Fast Thirteenth Ave has two dollars in prize money waiting. Mrs. E. Suitzer general delivery has one dollar unclaimed since January 17. If unclaimed, funds may be used for defense stamps.
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The
Globe News
Rationing May Help Farmers in Kansas
In Topeka on May 21 government rationing could aid wheat farmers and elevator operators. Grain men seek to use vacated garages, filling stations and auto sales rooms as temporary grain storage due to full elevators and large upcoming crops. Governor Ratner asked state inspector Erland Carlsson to assess suitability of automotive premises for conversion to grain storage. Nearly 1,000 of 113,000 British post office workers in civil and armed services have been killed in active service or air raids.
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London
Reinhard
Heydrich
Europe
Gestapo
Brussels
Hague
Paris
Lille
Rotterdam
France
British Broadcasting Company
Oslo
Norway
BBC
Topeka
Kan
Payne Ratner
Erland Carlsson
Pattern 4100 and Anne Adams dress pattern offer
Pattern 4100 available in misses sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20. Size 16 uses 338 yards 85 inch fabric and 3 yards ric rac. Fifteen cents plus one cent mail cost for this Anne Adams pattern. Lead the Summer Parade with our Pattern Book costing ten cents. Send order to The Amarillo Globe Pattern Department 243 West 17th St New York New York.
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Anne Adams
Amarillo Globe
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Red Cross Series Publicized by General Mills Broadcast
General Mills funds a two weekly program series titled Thus We Live to inform the public about Red Cross services. The CBS network airs the Chicago produced dramatizations on Thursdays and Fridays from 8:45 to 9:00 AM Central wartime time. Each week features a guest Red Cross official or volunteer.
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American Red Cross
General Mills
Columbia Broadcasting System
Red Cross
Chicago
Columbia
Can the Deafened Hear Again Ad Claim
Medical authorities note hearing restoration varies by case and warn against unverified tests. The ad markets Ottrine Home Method and Curine as wax blockage remedies, touting since 1895 sales, refund promises, and low daily cost with pharmacy claims.
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U. S
Pharmacopeia
Cretney Ug
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