Plans Known In Advance Of North Africa Offensive
Washington reports reveal months of secrecy and planning before America's first full dress offensive in North Africa. Eisenhower and Clark led a largely West Point trained force with extensive staff work in London and Washington. American and British officers, plus civilian aides, gathered intelligence via Vichy contacts, mapping roads and leanings across French-held North Africa to support the widening second front against Hitler.
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Washington
America
North Africa
African
Gibraltar
United Nations
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lonn
War Department
London
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Vichy
Africa
France
North African
AEF
Hitler
Music Building at Texas with No Echoes Opens
The University of Texas dedicates a $500000 music building designed to produce no echoes. The suspended ceilings, springy floors, angled walls and fluted surfaces ensure unique acoustics. A four manual pipe organ acts as eight organs in one with an auxiliary console for outdoor performances.
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University Terrace
City Officials Attend Parley in Dallas
Four Amarillo officials returned from the League of Texas Municipalities session in Dallas. Mayor Joe Jenkins was elected league vice president and city manager A P Hancock became first vice president of the city managers section. They noted war industry strain and urged actions including exempting key city employees from military service and extending Social Security to municipal workers.
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Amarillo
Dallas
League of Texas Municipaliies
Joe Jenkins
Oscar Hargett
A. P. Hancock
Perry Burks
Jenkins
League
Hugh 8. Cluck
Laredo
Hancock
OPA
ODT
OCD
WPB
A. 8. Grant, III
National Man-Power Board
Congress
Presbyterians Hold Meeting in Central Church
Approximately 100 Panhandle youths attended a Presbyterian meeting at Central Presbyterian Church. Amarillo delegates reported on the Texas Youth Synod in Dallas. Rev. J. Paul Stevens and Rev. Frank Travis discussed the Dallas event.
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Panhandle
Central Presbyterian Church
Martha Lois Carter
Nancy Brint
Tulsa
Phyllis Casey
Pampa
Brint
Texas Synod
Trinity University
Presbyterian Foreign Missions Board
National Missions and
Jack Myrose
McLean
Russell Wingert
Memphis
James Aiken
Hereford
Robert Boshen
Ceta Glen
J. Paul Stevens
Nelleen Zischang
Frank Travis
R Thomson
Amarillo
Boyce House Sells New Book About Hollywood Storm
Fort Worth writer Boyce House releases How I Took Hollywood by Storm a Western best seller drawing comparisons to Irvin Cobb and Ellis Parker Butler. The pocket size book, based on his time on the film Boom Town, comes illustrated and priced at fifty cents as a holiday gift option for readers and soldiers.
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Irvin Cobb
Ellis Parker Butler
Boyce House
Hollywood
House
Fort Worth
Texas
Deer Rampage Breaks Through Suppression Orders
In Van Nuys California a 110 pound spike buck breached hunting restrictions and charged into a backyard where Robert Kempley H C Mathers and Tom Enriquest were cleaning firearms. The deer felled Enriquest and escaped into a brick yard cornered by the others.
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van Nuys
Cal
UPI
Robert Kempley
H. C. Mathers
Tom Enriquest
Child Prodigy To Play Here
A nine year old violin prodigy, daughter of pianist Marvin Maazel, returns to Amarillo as the Civic Music Season’s first attraction. The program unfolds Thursday night at the High School Auditorium with the Maazel duo. Other season artists include Claudio Arrau on December 6, Glenn Darwin on February 17, and Margit Baker on March 21. Newcomers can buy season memberships at Tolzien's Music Store. single tickets are $1.50.
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Marvin Maazel
Civic Music
Civic Music Association
Claudio Arrau
Chile
Glenn Darwin
Margit Baker
Civic Music Board
Amarillo
E L. Roberts
Tolzien
Polk Street
Khiva Shriners To Honor High Potentate In Amarillo
Khiva Shriners plan a 6:30 PM banquet in Shrine hall at 312 East Fifth Avenue Amarillo to honor Imperial Potentate Albert H. Fiebach Cleveland attorney. Fiebach travels from India Temple Oklahoma City to Ballut Abyad Albuquerque after visiting here as head of the Mystic Shrine. He has covered over 15000 miles and visited more than 40 temples. Seven Patten brothers are stationed on U S 8 in Nevada.
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Khiva Temple
Amarillo
Albert H. Fiebach
Cleveland
Jerry Briscoe
Avery Lidin
John McCarty
India Temple
Oklahoma City
Ballut Abyad
Albuquerque
Shrine Hall
East Fifth Avenue
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H. V. Robertson & CO
Oliver-Eakle Bidg
Bozeman
Blackburn
Printing & Letter Service
Uncle Sam’s Land
Rock Island
Rock Island Lines
J. W. Hill
General Freight Trafic
J. D. Farrington
A. D. Martin
Trafic
Bob Hester
Patten
Nevada
Western Electric
Bell Telephone Laboratories Research
T. C. Webb
Audiphone CO
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