Pantex Suil Short of Men
Panhandle labor shortage hits Pan tex Ordnance Plant with a doubled bomb-making schedule and missing workers. Amarillo agencies launch a civic drive with Boy Scouts canvassing homes to list potential applicants, under War Manpower Commission and Civilian Defense cooperation.
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Pantex Ordnance Plant
Panhandle
Amarillo
Pantex
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
Civilian Defense
Boy Scouts
Boy
Area Scout Executive
What Causes Epilepsy and Labor Recruitment Notes
A wartime recruitment notice urges Amarillo and Potter county residents to take jobs in essential industries, with Pantex listings and interviews via the U S Employment Service. A Salt Lake City item reports McKinley school children lowering the flag to half mast for their mascot Oscar, killed by a car.
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Wells
Amarillo
Potter County
Pantex
Globe
U. S. Employment Service
Salt Lake City
Oscar
McKinley
Few Choice Philharmonic Seats Left
Philhamonic memberships offered at $5 and $3 by the Philharmonic Association. Seats for the opening concert must be reserved tomorrow afternoon or handled by mail next week. Season includes four formal concerts plus Grainger chamber program October 11 12 with Louis Barron. season opens November 23 with Albert Spalding. Templeton soloist in April. possible individual admissions at higher prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Lynch
Percy Grainger
Louis Barron
Albert Spalding
Alec Templeton
Shortage Forces Stretch of Whiskey Supply Through 1947 48
The aged whiskey intended for sale in 1943 to 1946 must be stretched through 1947 and 1948 as distilleries shift to wartime alcohol production. The supply is constrained by wartime demands and aging requirements.
Chinese Start Counter Blows in Kiangsi and Canton Regions
Chinese forces in Kiangsi report heavy fighting around the Fu River as they check a Japanese advance and launch a counter offensive. In Kwantung, Chinese troops attack east of Canton near the Canton Kowloon railway, claiming heavy Japanese casualties.
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Chungking
Fu River
Kiangsi
High Command
Kwantung Province
Canton
Canton-Kowloon Railway
Sandie Band to Salute War Chest Fund Drive
The United War Chest of Texas will be saluted at the Amarillo Vernon football game tonight. The Sandie Band will form UWC and a halftime talk will highlight the Chest. Officials from the Panhandle will attend as guests of Lawrence Hagg.
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United War Chest of Texas
Amarillo-Vernon
Sandie
UWC
Panhandle
Lawrence Hagg
Amarillo
Hagg
Herring Hotel
National War Chest
New OPA Gas Order Sparks Rationing Boards Questions
A Washington issued OPA order cuts B coupon value from 3 to 2 gallons. Local rationing boards work on mileage savings and expect to issue additional coupons as in earlier reductions. Clerks and citizens seek clarity while awaiting official confirmation.
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OPA
Washington
Tack Letters- CAT KITTENS Dear Tack
A mother cat with kittens seeks a new home. readers are invited to 1203 North Buchanan Street. The Nobles offer to work on ranch headquarters and request contact through Angelus Hotel Amarillo room 325.
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Tack
North Buchanan Street
Angelus Hotel
Amarillo
Nobles
Widow seeks hospital work with varied experience
A widow with hospital kitchen, housekeeping, bedmaking, supplies, and patient care experience offers to work in a hospital. Call 20233. Also a plea from Mrs Dempsey Winn for a jacket lost by a neighbor’s child, asking the finder to contact 24179.
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Tack
Dempsey Winn
West 11Th Ave
Waste Fats Urgently Needed for War Salvage Drive
Mrs. Forrest Barnes, chairman of Waste Fats for Amarillo and Potter County, urges housewives to turn in all waste kitchen fats even if rancid. Government guidance urged cooling fats to prevent rancidity, as rancid fats spoil handling and glycerine content. Households in rural areas especially must salvage fats to support wartime glycerine production and immediate shipment to renderers.
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Forrest Barnes
Amarillo
Potter County
Barnes
Military Funeral for Sgt Elmer Pace
Military funeral services for Sgt Filmer Pace killed in a plane crash near Pueblo Colorado will be held at 4 o clock tomorrow afternoon at the Memorial Chapel of the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. Chaplain Allen of the Amarillo Army Air Field assisted by Dr A D Foreman Jr pastor of the First Baptist Church will officiate. Pallbearers include Sgt Richard Ingram Sgt Edward Morris Sgt Clara Lovelace Sgt Paul Bonstead Sgt Walker Elliott and Sgt Arley Brindle Pace is survived by wife Mrs Billye Smith Pace of this city and mother Mrs Fred Phillips of San Antonio. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
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Filmer Pace
Pueblo
Colo
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Allen
Amarillo Army Air Field
A. D. Foreman
First Baptist Church
Richard Ingram
Edward Morris
Clara Lovelace
Paul Bonstead
Rommel Moves Across Europe After WWII Campaigns
The traveling German Field Marshal Edwin Rommel, noted for action in North Africa, is reported to be moving through southern Europe. Initial reports claimed he fortified the southern France coast, then were contradicted by a plane crash fatality rumor. latest dispatches place him in Greece, inspecting defenses at Salonika.
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Germany
Edwin Rommel
North African
Tunisia
Europe
France
Greece
Salonika
Mrs Dona James Taken by Death in Amarillo
Mrs Dona James 68 died in a local hospital after a lengthy life in Amarillo. She is survived by three sons Arthur Calvin and Wilburn James all of Amarillo a daughter Mrs Lee Bilis of Don Okla two brothers Ear man George Co Childress and Walter Col Bakersfield Calif and two sisters Mrs Mary Pugh Levelland and Mrs Ella Bland Sulphur Okla Funeral arrangements have been announced and the body is at Blackburn-Shannon Funeral Home.
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North
Taylor Street
Arthur James
Calvin James
Wilburn James
Amarillo
Lee Bilis
Don Okla
Earman
George Co Childress
Walter
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Pantex Suil
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Dept
F. A. Wells
War Man Power Commission
Arecheck
Philharmonie Orchestral Association
Association
Southwestern Public Service Company
Hiram Walker
OPA Heroes
Signet
Bond Rye
Hiram Walker & Sons Inc
Peoria
iMinois
War Chest
Cat
Hammock
Gulf Oil Station
Monroe St
Iva Herrington Strange
Globe News
Robert K. Kunkel
South
Lincoln St
AL Hickmott
Sat
Elmer Pace
Guy Mills
Lipton Tea Company
Dona James
South Pacific
Manda
Robert
Betler
Beigh
Beightler
Globe-News
A. Office of Chief of Ordnance
U. S. Employment Service Office
Victory Bus Company
S. Fillmore
Pantex Villene
F.P.H.A
U. S
van Buren
WAR Manpower Commission Survey
Certain-Teed Products Corporation
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