Panhandle to retain Texas State Employment Office funding
The Panhandle region will keep its Texas State Employment Service office despite a Washington plan to fund only 10 percent of employer contributions. C. E. Peake says Texas will not face office closures though budgets may shrink, noting Texas leads in TSES job placements with 359 private, 139 public hires and 1,004 farm jobs via Amarillo district in the latest period.
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Panhandle
Texas
Washington
C. E. Peake
TSES
Peake
Amarillo
Nobles Poem Accepted for Crown Anthology of Verse
Amarillo pioneer H A Nobles has a poem Universal Power accepted for a deluxe Crown Anthology of Verse edition to be printed early next spring in the Tribune Building New York. Nobles previously published poems in Pacific Northwest and New England magazines.
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H. A. Nobles
Amarillo
City Bastile Gets Bath and Airing
Amarillo city jail was fumigated yesterday. Most clean cells were empty last night and again this morning. No arrests were made during the night.
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Bastile
Amarillo
Bet You Don’t Know Amarillo So Very Well
The Amarillo fire department is assembling a special card index of city streets. The ready reference sits atop the PBX in the fire alarm room at city hall. Cards detail each street with block distances to the central fire station and directions.
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Amarillo
Bids Open Tonight for City Pipe Contract
The city commission will hold a field session and bids are to be received at 7:30 this evening for a contract to supply about 4,000 feet of six inch cast iron pipe and fittings.
Yuletide Store Hours in Amarillo
Amarillo merchants face variable Christmas hours as no mutual agreement exists. Townsend of the Amarillo Credit Association notes no prior accord. Deputy labor commissioner Gragg surveys Panhandle mercantile setups for holiday trade and cites a state law limiting female workers to nine hours per calendar day.
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Amarillo
Rolla Townsend
Townsend
Robert B. Gragg
Panhandle
South Plains
Gragg
Bids Sought for Water Main, Road Grader and Reservoir Paint
The notice lists bids due for a water main to the VA hospital site along Highway 66 west of Amarillo a two horse seven foot steel wheel road grader and the contract to paint the interior of the elevated water reservoir at Eighth Avenue and Parker Street.
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Veterans’ Administration Hospital
Highway 66
Amarillo
Eighth Avenue
Parker Street
Vets Hospital Construction Underway in Amarillo Area
Officials announce start of construction on the Veterans Administration hospital for Amarillo. Initial estimate was 800000 dollars, with expenditures likely exceeding 1000000 dollars. Plans include a laundry, nurses quarters, storage, water tower, a duplex and attendants quarters.
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Veterans’ Administration
Amarillo
Poor Boy Sandwich Makes Debut in Amarillo
Amarillo embraces a taste of New Orleans with the Poor Boy sandwich now offered locally. Described as a whole meal at a low price, the sandwich is large and layered with roast beef, reportedly selling for a dime.
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Amarillo
New Orleans
Tax Deadline Rush Pressures Amarillo Taxpayers
Property owners in Amarillo stood at city hall yesterday and today as a midnight deadline loomed for tax payments under the installment plan. Perry C. Burks says collections were unusually strong. half payments can be made now with the other half due next summer, or the full amount by the end of January. Mail payments must postmark by Wednesday midnight.
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Amarillo
City Hall
Perry C. Burks
Good Will Didn't Wait for Christmas in Amarillo
Amarillo chamber of commerce good will chairman Clay Thornton reports a year of extensive outreach. About 2000 residents made nearly 20 trips to Shamrock Plainview Guymon Clovis Hereford Tulsa Pampa Clarendon Memphis Tucumcari Dalhart Happy Perryton Borger Portales with over 500 riding a cattle train to Dalhart XIT reunion on August 9.
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Clay Thornton
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Pampa
Clarendon
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Tucumcari
Dalhart
Happy
Perryton
Borger
Portales
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