Girls Prepare School Exhibit In Amarillo
The home economics exhibit at Palo Duro Furniture Company features work from Central Junior, Buchanan Junior, and Sam Houston schools during American Education Week. Ample enrollments show 889 girls in homemaking across Amarillo junior and senior high schools, up 100 from last year.
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Palo Duro Furniture Company
Central Junior
Buchanan
Sam Houston
Amarillo
Mrs. Fly
Gladys Armstrong
Miss Avent
Central Junior High
Sue Donald
Buchanan School
Scout Leader Condemns Youth Exploitation Across Nations
Dr George J Fisher deputy chief Scout condemns exploitation of youth as the saddest spectacle of modern history citing Germany Italy Russia and Japan as examples observed in San Antonio during November 1944.
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San Antonio
Germany
Italy
Russia
Japan
George J. Fisher
Burned Child Seeks Christmas Doll Before Death
Twelve year old Mary Orwell of Sewickley wrote to her aunt May Chapman asking for a doll at Christmas. She dropped the letter into the fire while placing it on the mantle, ink still wet, then a flaming fragment ignited her clothes and she ran into the street as neighbors helped. She died a short time later.
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Pittsburgh
Mary Orwell
May Chapman
Sewickley
May
Mary
New York Executive Urges Independent Youth Thought at Scout Banquet
An executive from New York urged continued independent free thinking among American youth during a banquet closing the first day of a two day regional Scouters meeting. The talk addressed leaders from Galveston to the Lower Rio Grande and emphasized youth should be responsible without being mobilized or exploited in nationalistic foreign nations. Dr Fisher, Scout movement’s second in command, urged that youth must not be organized into a self conscious bloc.
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New York
Galveston
Beaumont
Austin
Corpus Christi
San Angelo
Houston
Port Arthur
Rio Grande
Alamo
Fisher
Scout Movement
Dr Fisher
Amarillo High Schools Begin Debate Work on Cotton Control
About 175 students in the public speaking department, led by Miss Oretha Cornelius, are enrolled in classes and activities. The Interscholastic League debate squad has 40 members preparing for the question resolved: federal government should control cotton production. The debate teams, 110 declaimers in preliminaries, Forensic Society with 50 members meets Thursdays, and Pi Delta Dramatic Club with 35 members, under Mrs. W. E. Murrell, are involved as the senior play and one-act contest begin.
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Amarillo High School
Oretha Cornelius
Forensic Society
Pi Delta Dramatic Club
W. E. Murrell
Mother Bears Son Weighing 14 Pounds
A San Francisco hospital reported the birth of a 14 pound, 7 ounce boy to Mrs. Julia Quinn, wife of Lawrence Quinn. The infant, said to be the largest born there in years, is the couple’s fourth child, joining three older boys of normal birth weight.
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San Francisco
Nov
Julia Quinn
Lawrence Quinn
Speech program offers broad opportunities at convocation
Under Mrs. Lela Crossett direction students participate in cast selections and assembly programs. A wide range of activities accompanies study courses and convocation entries, offering practice in better speech and public discourse.
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Lela Crossett
Amarillo Chamber to form young men division
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will add a young men division within two weeks. A nominating committee led by Lowell Munday will select directors for the junior body, with plans to meet Friday at 1 30 pm. The division is open to all business and professional men ages 21 to 35.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Arney
Young Men's Division Integrated With Parent Body
Mr Arney described the young men division as an integral part of the main organization with its own program. He cautioned it is non political, not a money raising scheme, and not a dumping ground for seniors. Chamber leaders welcomed the group at a luncheon attended by over 65 people.
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Arney
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