Navy Week Civic Club Speaking Tour Planned by Naval Reserve
Naval Reserve marks Navy Week with open house at the Training Center and a speaking tour. Lt. W B Lansing will address the 20 30 Club at the Blackstone Hotel and later speak at Optimist Club, with Navy movie shorts Iwo Jima and The Fleet That Came To Stay. Commander Jones and Lt Cmdr Thompson will join Lansing for Jaycees and Exchange Club events at Amarillo Hotel and Herring Hotel. The Training Center opens Wednesday 1 PM to 10 PM. Navy Day exhibit appears in Southwestern Public Service Co window. The Navy League promotes Navy Day as part of national security efforts.
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Naval Reserve Training Center
Naval Reserve
W. B. Lansing
Blackstone Hotel
Navy
Iwo Jima
C. B. Carroll
C. J. Martin
Lansing
Jaycees
Amarillo Hotel
Andrew P. Jones
Thos. H. Thompson
Condition Remains Critical After City Auto Crash
Mrs J C Shannon of 705 North Hayes remained in a critical semi conscious state Monday at St Anthony's Hospital after a collision at Twenty fourth and Tyler Sunday afternoon. Her husband, Linda Powell's infant daughter and Marvin Shannon were injured or unhurt with the other driver Filmer Hayes escaping injury. The baby was released at 10 15 Monday morning.
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J. C. Shannon
North Hayes
Twenty-fourth and
Tyler
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Shannon
Linda Powell
J. H. Powell
Fillmore
Filmer Hayes
Kress
Shannons
Community Chest drive may exceed goal in Amarillo
Amarillo officials report the 1948 Community Chest pledge cards overflow the Chest headquarters as clerks work to tally. Chairman E M Blackburn Jr notes a good chance the $125 000 goal will be surpassed while cash and final totals await compilation.
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Amarillo
Chest
E. M. Blackburn, Jr
Floyd V. Studer
Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey Details
Antonio Giannetti of 59 Dearborn Street Springfield Mass cited with Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey 86.8 proof 65 percent grain neutral spirits Calvert Distillers Corp New York City listed.
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Dearborn St
Springfield, Mass
Calvert Reserve
Calvert Distillers Corp
New York City
Gaither to Ask for Three Jailers and Deputy
Potter County sheriff elect Paul Gaither says he will request three jailers working nine hour shifts when he takes office. He also seeks a deputy assigned to River Road and Pleasant Valley to patrol beer venues and oversee traffic near schools.
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Paul Gaither
Potter County
Commissioners Court
River Road
Pleasant Valley
Gaither
Amarilloan Pictured With Truman In War Film At Paramount
Gordon Jordan of Amarillo appears in a film story of President Truman’s life shown at the Paramount Theater. The ex-officer and friend of Truman recalls days at Fort Sill and in France and says he plans to vote for him.
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Truman
Paramount Theater
Amarillo
Gordon Jordan
Ong
American National Bank
Fort Sill
France
Paramount
le Mans
127Th Field Artillery
Mr. Jordan
San Antonio
127
Burglary Plan Foiled At Cooper Lumber Co
Police say a nightwatchman halted a planned break in at Cooper Lumber Company on Fillmore Street by discovering a loose hasp on a south door around 7 30 PM Sunday. Detectives believe burglars had already loosened the hasp in preparation for entry.
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Cooper Lumber Company
Fillmore
Equipment Company Named Distributor in Texas Panhandle
Thew Shovel Co. appoints Tom W. Carpenter Equipment Co. of 501 Harrison as distributor for the Texas Panhandle. M. B. Garber, general sales manager, announces the move. Amarillo firm led by Tom W. Carpenter Sr. with Tom W. Carpenter Jr. as vice president and A. G Garner as secretary and treasurer.
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Tom W. Carpenter
City Tax Collections Reach $87 417 for Week
Collections of current city taxes totalled 87417.22 last week, the first full week of collections. City tax office manager Mrs Inez Sullivan said payments for the first installment on the one in stallment plan are due January 31 1949. The deadline on the half payment plan is November 30 with the second installment due June 30 of next year.
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Inez Sullivan
Palsy Authority To Talk At 7 30 Palsy Treatment Center Talk in Amarillo
Martin M. Ricker executive director of the Texas Society for Crippled Children will speak at 7 30 o clock Monday night in the Herring Hotel about establishing a cerebral palsy treatment center in Amarillo. Mrs Richard Wagner leads local efforts inviting the public and physicians to attend.
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Martin M. Ricker
Texas Society For Crippled Children
Dallas
Herring Hotel
Ricker
Amarillo
Richard Wagner
Florida
Exploiters Run US Taylor Tells Texans
Glen Taylor the Progressive Party vicepresidential nominee told a friendly Houston audience that the party is the only one not controlled by exploiters and warned the country is being led as Hitler did. He denounced Defense Secretary Forrestal Army Undersecretary Draper and John Foster Dulles for seeking global military domination to exploit the world.
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Austin
Progressive Party
Glen Taylor
Taylor
Adolf Hitler
Defense
James Forrestal
Army
William Draper
John Foster Dulles
Definition by publisher on politics as trouble seeking
Sir Ernest Benn defined politics at a Society of Individualists luncheon as the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it wrongly and applying it incorrectly. The remark reflects a critical view of political effort and public discourse in London.
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London
Sir Ernest Benn
Society of
Individualists
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Civic Club
Navy Week
Lieutenant Lansing
Optimist Club
Mexican Inn
Commander Jones
Exchange Club
Admr
Ralph Riggs
San Jacinto and
Rusk
Batallion Organization
Southwestern Public Service Co
The
Navy League of the United States
Employers Casualty CO
Amarillo Building
News-Globe
St. Mary's Academy
Globe
Roy Bradburn
Harrison
Thurman Havins
Hayden
Polk
Community Chest Agency
Blackburn
Studer
Antonio Giannetti
Barber
Calvert
Norito
Modern Motors Polish Shop
W. 6Th
Lamar
Amarillo Tent & Awning CO. Inc
Adami
S. Ashby
Mgr
Cash & Carry
Gravel Cleaners
Willie Watt
Amariuolex
America
Allied van Lines
Allied
Mod
Ras
Mel C. Kruse
Great National Life Insurance Co
Graduate Institute OF Insurance Marketing
Southern Methodist University
Citizens Finance Service
Boston Hat Works
Polk St
Gouldy Bros
B. F. Goodrich
Goodrich
Pilmere
M&l
Sy Ip
Arthur
ST - Bonde
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