City Commission Jail Inspection Highlights Updated Amarillo Jail
Amarillo city officials including City Manager A P Hancock toured the basement jail after remodeling doubled cell capacity with heavy bunks and fresh paint. The meeting noted purchasing $100,000 in war bonds, gaining two Mercury cars for police use, truck bids for streets and trash, and legalized new taxi rates. A Bureau of Standards test reported 14.7 percent gasoline wastage from carburetion.
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Amarillo
City Commission
A. P. Hancock
Walter Irvin, Inc
New Secretary of Tax League Named
Robert Douglas named executive secretary of the Potter County Taxpayers Association at a noon Amarillo Hotel meeting. Douglas, a Philadelphia native with 25 years in Texas, will devote full time to the association as it resumes regular meetings after a two month summer recess. He served as Spearman city clerk from 1936 to 1940 after living in Dallas and moving to the Panhandle. Directors vow to continue studying local taxes to cut costs and boost efficiency across local government units.
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Robert Douglas
Spearman
North Plains
Potter County Taxpayers’ Association
Douglas
Amarillo
Philadelphia
Texas
Dallas
Panhandle
Woul
James Psellas Receives Army Send-Off at Magnolia Cafe
James Psellas manager of the Magnolia Cafe leaves Amarillo for the army tomorrow in a send-off gathering at the cafe. Born in Megalopolis Greece forty four years ago he came to America in 1912 becoming a citizen in 1923. He previously ran the Busy Bee Cafe in Buffalo before moving to Amarillo.
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James Psellas
Magnolia Cafe
Greece
Megalopolis
America
Busy Bee
Buffalo
N. Y
Amarillo
Psellas
Navy
Soldier From Chicago Praises Friendly Amarillo Town
Corporal Raymond A. Buch of Chicago in an army medical detachment says Amarilloans are lively and friendly to soldiers. He tells hostesses in the Service Men's Recreation Room that Amarillo is the best Texas city he has found in ten months there, though he misses tall buildings and lake shores and describes Texas as a wind swept prairie with one tree blown down.
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Amarillo
Corp
Raymond A. Buch
Chicago
Texas
Remodeling Plans For Auditorium
Remodeling plans for the Municipal Auditorium were discussed at a luncheon of the auditorium unit U S O management committee at the Capitol Hotel. Attending were chairman C T Crowe and members G G Ordway Abe Fefferman Bert Levy Sim Kelly Porter Underwood Lloyd Jones along with U S O directors Harold Nichols and Harry Levin and representatives from the Army Technical School.
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Municipal Auditorium
U. S. O. Management Committee
Capitol Hotel
C. T. Crowe
G. G. Ordway
Abe Fefferman
Bert Levy
Sim Kelly
Porter Underwood
Lloyd Jones
Harold Nichols
Harry Levin
Special Service Department
Army Technical School
Tack Letters young Collie sought for two girls
A reader at 511 Jackson Street asks for a young Collie or any dog, about six months old, to provide a good home for two young girls.
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Tack
Jackson Street
West 21St Street
Dresser Drawer Lost Between Amarillo and Pampa
In moving furniture a dresser drawer went missing from the truck near Forrest Hill School. If found, please contact the sender.
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Amarillo
Pampa
Forrest Hill School
Lost items and personal ads crowd small town noticeboard
A mixed collection of short notices offers rewards for return of a gold felt hat and a lost white greyhound mix dog, seeks workers including a high school girl or college student, kittens and a mother cat seeking good homes, a colored woman seeking cafe or hotel maid work, and a few personal identifiers with contact numbers and addresses.
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van Buren Street
Tack
Dear Tack
Farm Job Seeker Advertises Near Amarillo
James McSmith seeks farm or ranch work near Amarillo and offers to move. L N Blanton requests half day work six days a week from general delivery in Amarillo Texas. The notice weighs youth and age contrasts and shows job hunting in a small town classified page.
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Tack
Amarillo
L. N. Blanton General Delivery
Texas
Mrs. H. L. Johnson Dies at 47 in Amarillo Home
Mrs. H. L. Johnson died this morning at 1721 Jackson Street. She was 47 and a Ver non Texas native who lived in Amarillo 22 years. Survived by husband president of Amarillo Welding and Machinery Co and two children. Funeral at 2 p.m. tomorrow at First Christian Church with Dr. R. OC Snodgrass and Rev. H. M. Red ford officiating. Burial Llano Cemetery. body in Boxwell Chapel.
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H. L. Johnson
Jackson Street
Green Lantern Kitchen Burns Fire at Polk Street cafe
A grease pan caused a kitchen fire at the Green Lantern coffee shop in the Rule Building Polk Street at Third Avenue. Firefighters were on scene from 5:37 to after 6:30 AM. Owner said kitchen equipment was not insured. Damage estimate pending. Another fire damaged a chicken house at Twenty-fifth Avenue and Arthur Street last night.
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Green Lantern
Rule
Polk Street
Third Avenue
Ed Spann
Arch Rogers
Earl Curry
Spann
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Arthur Street
Baby Gitch ee Goo Fails to Work on Newborn in World News
In Greybull Wyoming Mrs Herbert Pique held her five day old daughter to a hospital phone so her Pearl Harbor husband could hear. The baby was jiggled and gitchee gitchee gooed but nothing happened until a nurse tickled the baby's feet producing a gurgle heard across the Pacific. Cordell Hull has held the post longer than his predecessor.
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Greybull
Wyo
Herbert Pique
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
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United States Bureau of Standards
Tax League
SSS
Amarillo Globe
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
By Leura Wheeler
Army
Soldier
West 2Nd Street
Elowese
DR. Barnes
Travis Street
William E. Savage
Katharine Baker
Monroe Street
Will
Bulldog
James McSmith
N. Taylor Street
Ion
Worild
ATIO
Bathtowers
New
Ata
Portable Phonograph
All
Uwsss
Aa Taos
Montgomery
Polk
Green Lantern Kitchen
Gitchee
Cordell Hull
Lis
T Montgomery Ward
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