Amarillo approves new home permits amid fast construction
City building inspectors issued 11 late permits boosting the total to 36 dwelling units costing over 113000. First batches for several builders, including Just-Rite Homes and Amarillo Housing Co, target Brook Avenue and Rusk Street with four and five room frames as 175 worker homes near completion.
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Amarillo
Amarillonere
Jackson Street
Y Just-Rite Homes, Inc
Fred M. Seale
Ruse Street
Amarillo Housing Company
Rusk Street
Hughes Pe Inc
Brook Avenue
Onorth Bivins
Meat and housing reports set for Amarillo luncheon
Rex Baxter announces meat quotas and housing updates to Chamber of Commerce directors at Amarillo Hotel during the first Wednesday luncheon in weeks. Meanwhile local motorists face $28 in traffic fines at city hall. A long wire service roundup from Kansas City and Chicago reports livestock prices and market activity across hogs cattle and sheep with varied bids and tops. The coastline note adds a BC fjord detail.
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Chamber of Commerce
Rex Baxter
Amarillo Hotel
Amarillo
Corporation Court
Kansas City
U.P
AMA
Colorado
Rear Admiral Scott and Captain Young Die in Solomon Islands Battle
Rear Admiral Norman Scott of Kirkwood Missouri age 53 and Captain Casin Young 48 of Coronado California were killed in the Solomon Islands engagement on November 13, Navy officials announced. Scott commanded a naval unit at sea since June and Young held the Medal of Honor for Pearl Harbor and commanded Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan's flagship. Callaghan's death had been reported the day before amid news of a major American naval victory over the Japanese. Scott, Indianapolis native, usually resided in Kirkwood. Young, Washington DC native, last listed 560 B Avenue Coronado with prior Philadelphia as home.
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Norman Scott
Kirkwood
Casin Young
Coronado
Calif
Solomon Islands
Navy Department
Scott
Young
Pearl Harbor
Daniel J. Callaghan
Callaghan
Navy
Indianapolis
Washington, D. C
B Avenue
Philadelphia
Soldiers Dance At U S O Tonight In Town
Members of Company D of the Victory Command host a service men's dance at the downtown U S O from 8 to 10 30 tonight with moving pictures at 6 30 to 7 30, a square dance and community singing at the Auditorium U S O.
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Victory Command
278 Home Nurses Graduated Here
The local Red Cross chapter reports 278 home nursing graduates this year with 183 certificates pending. Mrs. Floyd Cooper, executive director, announced renewed emphasis on home nursing and nurses aides for the coming year in cooperation with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and the National Nursing Council for War Service.
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Red Cross
Floyd Cooper
Cooper
General Federation of Women's Clubs
National Nursing Council For War Service
Armed Forces
WPB Conferences Planned Tomorrow
WPB officials from Washington and Dallas will meet city county leaders and women organizations at 10 30 Wednesday in the Chamber of Commerce offices. Roy Greenhill said Amarillo and Potter County will receive a WPB pennant for scrap collection soon after reporting 9 505 000 pounds collected in September and October, about 20 percent of the total scrap.
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WPB
Washington, D. C
Dallas
Roy Greenhill
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Potter County
Mr. Greenhill
Panhandle Farm Income Surges in 1941 Compared to 1940
Rex Baxter of the Chamber of Commerce cites a Bureau of Agricultural Economics report showing Panhandle agricultural cash income through Sept 10 rose to 62,126,000 dollars, 172.5 percent of normal, up from 28,134,000 or 96.8 percent in 1941.
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Texas Panhandle
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Baxter
Volunteer Cookie Bakers Sought for Service Men Center
Mrs. L. K. Patton says the Service Men's Civic Center needs more volunteer bakers to keep the cookie jar filled as growing numbers of service men visit the center and both USO units share the cookies. Cookies are no longer given to troops passing through Amarillo by train due to shortages.
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Service Men's Civic Center
USO
L. K. Patton
Service Men's Civic Center Board
Amarillo
Surgical dressings shipped from Amarillo by Red Cross
Eighteen large boxes of surgical dressings are mailed to a Denver medical depot today by Potter County Red Cross Chapter. The shipment includes 14 400 eight by ten inch pads and 7 200 four by eight inch sponges. One hundred volunteers prepared the dressings under chairman Mrs. P. L. Reppert supervision.
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Denver
Potter County
Red Cross
P. L. Reppert
Tint Your Hair This Easy Way
A home hair tinting recipe promises a professional look at low cost. Mix bay rum glycerine Barbo Compound with water, apply to hair, and comb through for a satin natural color that won’t wash out or affect permanents.
Prepare Now For A Changing World
An article portrays a Los Angeles leader called The Voice of Two Worlds urging worldwide followers to prepare for postwar changes. It describes ancient Tibetan methods for mental control and character building to exploit upcoming opportunities and promises a free 9,000 word treatise from the Institute of Mental Physics in Los Angeles, urging prompt reply before supplies run out.
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Canada
Los Angeles
Mr. Dingle
Tibet
Land of
Institute of Mental Physics
South Hobart Blvd
Dept
Calif
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