Lamesa Educator to keynote Amarillo school banquet
L Z Timmons of Lamesa former Johnson Street School principal will be special guest at a 6:45 PM banquet at Sam Houston Junior High School. Dr Harris M Cook of West Texas State College will discuss school supervision meaning and function. Annie L McDonald leads a supervision round table. Reservations contact club members.
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L. Z. Timmons
Lamesa
Johnson Street
Sam Houston Junior High School
Amarillo Principa
Supervisors Club
Harris M. Cook
Department of Education
West Texas State College
Annie L. McDonald
Amarillo
F. B. Pendergraft
Mr. Seby
Sarah Miller
Ola Boyles
Louise Orr
Gertrude Elliker
Ethel Jackson
R. A. Seby
E. L. Horner
J. S. Evans
Fiord Hemphill
C. C. Walden
R. B. Norman
Selvin Allen
J. E. Ferguson
E. F. King
J. W. Hill
Virginia McQuirk
Helen Worley
Maude L. Fletcher
M. H. Birchfield
Ross Larsen
Violet B. Davidson
Perry Burks Heads Texas Assessing Officers Meeting
Perry Burks head of the city tax department is in Austin to preside over the Texas Chapter of Assessing Officers meeting. A. P. Hancock also attends city business and the Texas League of Municipalities. Mayor Joe Jenkins and Commissioner Oscar Hargett attend the league meetings. The four return after meetings close Wednesday.
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Perry Burks
Austin
Texas Chapter
A. P. Hancock
Texas League of Municipalities
Joe Jenkins
Oscar Hargett
Gist Family Reunited as War Ends Visits Here
Combat veterans Col. Charles Lockett and Lt. Joe Wheeler, on terminal leave, visit Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Gist at 2015 Hayden. Lockett, praised for petroleum supply to Allied forces in North Africa and Italy, wears the Legion of Merit and Croix de Guerre with Palm. Wheeler, a naval fighter control officer, served 30 months in the Pacific and watched Tokyo Bay surrender.
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R. D. Gist
Hayden
Charles Lockett
Army Engineers
Eleanor Gist
Joe Wheeler
Frankie Gist
Denny
Wheelers
Austin
Lockett
Army
Army Air Forces
Fifth
Eighth Armies
Italy
France
Germany
The
Petroleum Administration For War
Washington, D. C
Europe
San Antonio
New York City
Wheeler
San Pedro
Cal
USS American Legion
Green Island
Emiri Island
Bismarck Archipelago
New Ireland
Bougain Ville
Choiseul
Truk
Saipan
Guadalcanal
United States
Pacific
Ancon
Okinawa
Monument Placed At Grave of FDR
A white marble monument weighing 15 tons was erected beside Franklin D. Roosevelt's grave in Hyde Park Rose Garden. Basil O'Connor, co-executor of the Roosevelt estate, said the tombstone follows the late President's instructions. The Danby marble stone measures eight by four by three feet and bears the inscription Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 1945 and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 1884. An official dedication is planned for next spring.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rose Garden
Hyde Park
Basil O’connor
O'Connor
Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Marine Corporal Skips Homeward Tales From China
Amarillo native Corporal Billy Engle, 24, stationed in Tsingtao China, writes of 2000 Chinese dollars per US dollar exchange and luxury meals in a university barracks. He recalls Okinawa fighting, service with the 22nd Marines, and his son David at Pryor Oklahoma.
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Cpl
Billy Engle
Amarillo
Tsing, Tao
China
Okinawa
Hunters Bay Freak Rabbits Hawthornes Biggest Patch
D. W. Barnes and George Meyers rabbit hunting northwest of Amarillo yesterday morning found a freak rabbit with two tails and seven horns around its mouth. Myers brought the bizarre specimen to his home taxidermy room at 213 North Pierce for proof.
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D. W. Barnes
George Meyers
Amarillo
Nature
Mr. Myers
Mr. Barnes
North Pierce
Baldwin Returns Here on Discharge to Visit Mother
Cpl Woodrow W Baldwin after three years in the Army Medical Corps at Camp Kilmer New Jersey returns to visit his mother Mrs Ledia Baldwin at 1211 West Eighteenth. He plans to begin a master degree in business administration at UCLA when spring term opens. Before service he earned a BA from the University of Oklahoma.
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Army Medical Corps
Camp Kilmer
Woodrow W. Baldwin
Ledia Baldwin
West Eighteenth
University of California At
Los Angeles
Army
University of Oklahoma
Law Service In New Guinea
Veteran of a year of Army duty in New Guinea Pfc. Pat Sheridan Jr has been discharged at Bruns General Hospital Santa Fe and is visiting his grandmother Mrs J H Sheridan 1203 West Tenth Private Sheridan was returned to the United States last April for hospitalization and has been a patient at Santa Fe since that time He was assigned to a supply unit while overseas After three weeks in Amarillo he will go to Matador for a visit with his father Pat Sheridan
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New Guinea
Pat Sheridan, Jr
Bruns General Hospital
Santa Fe
J. H. Sheridan
West Tenth
Sheridan
United States
Amarillo
Matador
Pat Sheridan
Queen Mary Returns with 11,400 Troops and Civilians
The liner Queen Mary sailed from Southampton with 11,400 United States troops and 174 civilian passengers aboard. Among the travelers were Canadian Prime Minister W L Mackenzie King and U S Assistant Secretary of State James Clement Dunn. The homeward bound Americans proceed homeward.
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Southampton
England
United States
W. L. MacKenzie King
U. S
James Clement Dunn
Temporary Rank May Be Made Permanent on Reenlistment
Capt. John G. Henry of the Amarillo Army Recruiting Station announced a new rule allowing reenlistees to convert their temporary wartime rank to permanent if they rejoin by November 21. The change applies to veterans discharged since May 12 and offers a stronger incentive to stay in the peacetime Army.
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John G. Henry
Amarillo
Henry
United Air Lines serves fruit cake on holiday flights
In Denver United Air Lines prepares four tons of fruit cake for distribution to 13 500 passengers aboard its 10 flight kitchens. Chefs craft festive fruit cake to mark Christmas aboard the planes and deliver holiday cheer to flyers nationwide.
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Denver
U.P
United Air Lines
United
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Hammond
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Lincoln
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National Pharmacy Week
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Amarillo Retail Druggists Assn
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Beery
Prescription & Vitamin Shop
Polk Street
Brooks’ Drug Store
Campbell Drug
Tailor St
Dickson Drug Store
FOX Drug Store
Pierce Streets
H and Y Drug Store
16Th St. Herbert Drug Store
Herring
Gerring
Hollingsworth Pharmacy
6Th St
Kendall Drug Store
East 10Th
Lincoln Drug Store
Mark Galloway
Maxor Drug Store
Nelson Drug Store
Jack Phillips Drug Store
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