Potter County Tax Roll Shows Overlooked Growth In 1938 Valuations
Potter County's 1938 tax valuations total 33,310,540, up 1,037,530 from 1937 with no special levy. New Amarillo construction, autos, larger retail inventories, a west county telephone line, and two new gas wells drive the increase. Homestead exemptions rise to 5,499,540 with 12,570 resident renditions.
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Potter County
Jewell Davidson
American Marcaibo
Arkansas Natural Gas
Cities Service
Colden Pet Corp
Eagle-Picher
Eas
Gulf Oil Corp
Hecla Minés
Humble
Lockheed Aircraft
Niagara Hudson Power
Pante Ee Ol Co
South Yand
Aeee
Sunray
United Gas Corp
E. A. Pierce & Co
Amarillo
Homestead 'Stry
NEW York Stock Exchange
Bam Amarillo
Cms
Aee
Allied Chemical & Dy
Allis Chalmers
Allied Stores
American Power& Light
Mills
Armour & Company
Atchison To
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Atlantic Refining
American Smelt & Ref
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
B'S Barnsdall
Va Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden & Company
Callaham Zinc
Qi Calumet & Hecla Eeerereee AX
Sebeeenees
Case J I & Co
Celanese Cor
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Bu
Chrysler
Columbia Gas & Electric BA Commercial Credit
Commonwealth & Southern
Consolidated Oil
Continental Baking ‘ Rae
Continental Oil
Crosley Radio
Curtiss Wright
Dupont de Nem
Deere & Co
Baton Manufacturing
Electric Power & Light
Engineers
Sve
Einecitccisnes
General Electric
General Foods Eee
General Motors
Gen Pub Service
Gillette Safety Razor
RM Gimbel Bros
Goodrich Peeetees
Theveeene
Goodyear
Great Weat
Great Northern
General Tire & Rubber
Eeoicerne Hecker Products
Houdaille-Hershey BY
Houston
Howe Sound
Nash-Kelvinator Caeneere
Nat'l Biscuit
Nat'l
Nat'l Distillers
Nat'l Power & Light
Nat'l Supply
New York Ship Building
North American Aviation
North American Co
Northern Pacific
Saysnovenan
Ohio
Aone
Otis Steel
Packard Motors
Paramount Pictures
Penney Co
JC Ene
Pennsylvania RR
Petroleum Corp
Phillips Petroleum
Palima Company
Pureill
Fh Radio Corpa
Ralio-Keith-Orpheum
Remington Randeree
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Neeaee
We Standard Brande Ltd Oil of
Calif Frenne
Ind
Owen
Neeenee Tee
Stewart-Warner
Stone & Werwater
Studebaker
Texas Car
Texas Guilt
Gulf
Texas Pacific Coal & Oil
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Thompson Products
Tide Water
Transamerica Corp
Trancontinent West Air
United Aircraft
United Air Lines
Nited Corporation
United Gas Improvement
U & Steel
Warner Broa Pictures
Western Union
Westinghouse Electric
Wilson A Company
Woolworth
Walworth
Yellow Truck & Coach
Zenith Radio
Salea
ABC Members Hear Chest Drive Talk
Guy S Saunders addressed the American Business Club on the Community Chest budget campaign citing relief work experiences and Amarillo welfare statistics. Chest officials Dr Jason H Robberson G R Mills E Levy and Frede Coster attended. Emil F Myers offered musical selections by Mrs R M McFitterick Evelyn Kennedy Myers Billye Diggs Carolyn Kerr Ray Nell Armstrong Linda Lee Mack Betty Ann Rapp Vesta O'Dell.
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Guy S. Saunders
American Business Club
Community Chest
Mr. Saunders
Amarillo
Jason H. Robberson
Chest
G. R. Mills
Ert Levy
Frede Coster
Emil F. Myers
Home
Refugee relief sent to three groups near Breclav
The war ministry with the Czechoslovak Red Cross ordered immediate relief for Jewish refugees living in fields near Breclav. About 204 refugees, Czechoslovaks said, were forced from their homes when German occupation moved through Breclav, now Lauindenberg, over ten days ago. They have had no shelter in a no mans land between German and Czechoslovak territory.
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Prague
War Ministry
Czechoslovak Red Cross
Breclav
Breclaw
Lauindenberg
Airport Survey Delayed to Monday in Amarillo
Walter G. Reich of the Civil Aeronautics Authority was to survey Amarillo airport facilities but the visit has been postponed to October 24. The survey is part of a nationwide CAA study on potential federal participation in airport development. The CAA report is to be submitted to Congress on February 1.
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Walter G. Reich
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Amarillo
WPA
A. A. Meredith
CAA
United States
Cochran First Woman Wins Bendix Trophy Race
Jacqueline Cochran wins the Bendix Trophy in the Bendix transcontinental race, becoming the first woman to take the prize. She outpaced nine male pilots in the contest.
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Jacqueline Cochran
Miss Cochran
Kansas City Markets Hogs Cattle Lambs Oct 21
Markets report from Kansas City shows hogs 500 head with top 7.80 for 180 lb plus and 7.60 7.75 for 150-170 lb. Cattle 800 head calves 400, butcher cows 5.00 5.75, grass heifers down from 6.50, vealers to 10.00, stockers and feeders steady with Texas yearling stockers at 8.00 and stock heifers at 6.65. Sheep 1,500 lambs active 15-25 higher. natives 8.25 range lambs 8.60, range ewes 2.75 3.35.
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Kansas City
D. A
I Am
Texas
Postal Employees To Meet Saturday In Amarillo
Postal workers of the 18th District will convene in Amarillo on Saturday November 5 with about 300 attendees. Congressman Marvin Jones will speak at a banquet after the afternoon session, announced by C H Walker of Pampa district president.
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Amarillo
C. H. Walker
Pampa
Marvin Jones
Brothers Indicted In Cattle Theft
Alva Thornburg and Orvil Thornburg Jr and Sam Whatley were indicted by a 47th district court grand jury at Claude on cattle theft charges. They allegedly stole yearlings from Armstrong County rancher G. A. Blankenship. Earlier the trio were tried in Carson County on cattle theft charges and given three year suspended sentences.
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Alva Thornburg
Orvil Thornburg, Jr
Sam Whatley
47Th District Court
Claude
G. A. Blankenship
Armstrong County
Carson County
Pretender to Chinese Throne Begins Term for Theft of Purse
PEIPING October 21 Chu Tachi a 26 year old self styled pretender to the Ming throne began a one year prison sentence for stealing a schoolgirl’s purse. He says he descends from Chu Yuan-Chang the first Ming ruler who began his reign in 1368.
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Peiping
Chu Tachi
China
Chu
Chu Yuan-Chang
Tail of Typhoon Ravages Tokyo Area Readies New Storm
The tail of a typhoon, after causing about 230 deaths in Kyushu, flooded an estimated 10,000 houses in Tokyo and destroyed many trees. About 35,000 people in Kyushu were distressed as a second typhoon was forecast to hit Tokyo tonight off the Izu Peninsula.
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Tokyo
U.P
Kyushu
Weather Bureau
Izu Peninsula
Students Test Themselves at Baylor University
Baylor University used seven personality tests this fall to guide new students choosing courses. The tests assess psychological tendencies aptitude scholastic record and study habits to help faculty advisors tailor course selections. Officials said the plan aims to reduce student failures.
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Waco
Baylor University
Halo around the sun sparks scientific, city names spark memory
Halo around the sun prompts Halo meteorology claim by Weatherman Collman who calls it a common cloud formation, while Landau, Germany names streets after 1934 murderers Otto Planetta and Franz Holzweber in memory of Chancellor Dolifuss.
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Collman
Landau
Germany
Otto Planetta
Franz Holzweber
Engelbert Dolifuss
Ickes Renews His Sixty Families Feud
Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, labeled over concentration of economic power the nation's public enemy number one in a Commonwealth Club speech in San Francisco. He revived the sixty families controversy from a December radio address, linking economic indecision to a clash between economic autocracy and democracy.
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San Francisco
Harold K. Ickes
Interior
Commonwealth Club
Ickes
In Albanian homes walls rise high and windows stay shut
Albanian houses favor tall opaque walls and ground floor rooms without windows, shaping a fortresslike living pattern. The design emphasizes privacy and security, limiting daylight and external visibility in residential life.
Dam Projects Draw Officials to Panhandle Meetings
Congressman Marvin Jones and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Carl Hinton attended two Panhandle dam project meetings today. They visited a projected dam site near Mobeete in Wheeler County and were invited to a barbecue in Alanreed hosted by the Pampa Chamber of Commerce to mark completion of the McClellan Creek dam conservation work.
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Marvin Jones
Chamber of Commerce
Carl Hinton
Panhandle
Mobeete
Wheeler County
Bureau of Agricultural Economics Engineers
Alanreed
Pampa Chamber of Commerce
McClellan Creek
Holdrege Town Scores 12-Year Auto Fatality Record
Sheriff G Royal Hanson notes Holdrege has not had a fatal automobile accident in 12 years. He says the town deserves recognition for its traffic safety record and cites continued efforts to reduce crashes.
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G. Royal Hanson
Holdredge
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Amarillo Building
E. A Pierce & Co
Japan
Russia
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Yee
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Underwood Elliott Fisher Coured
Park Avenue, New York
Elkins
W. Va
Marc Peter
Kansas City Livestock
Mr. Collman
Hinton View Dam
Holdrege
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Monroe
Glendronach
Jack Dempsey
Old Crow
Chateau Gay
National Distillery
Atenys
Texaco
Adkisson-Baker Tire Company
Tyler
E. B. Meyer Texaco Products
Dick Hennessee
Texaco Products
Georgia
ED McCaskey
Midway
Madison
Grigsby
11Th
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Talkington
Russell's
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