Tag Day Sale for Navy Welfare Tomorrow
Ama rillo Navy Mothers launch their annual tag day sale on Navy Day to aid maritime welfare. Hundreds of articles for naval hospital patients and Christmas packages for sailors have been prepared, with proceeds aiding similar community causes. Sale headquarters at 500 Polk with Mrs M E Jordan in charge and workers on Polk from Third to Tenth, plus a courthouse station by Mrs E P Small.
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Amarillo
Naval
Navy
Polk
M. E. Jordan
E. P. Small
Courthouse
Plans By Bedbound Man Sparked Azon Televised Bombs
Amarillo's Arvell Meador, 40, bedridden subscription agent, drafted a 1942 concept for radio controlled glide bombs with tail fin transmitters and a TV sight. His idea helped guide developments used to destroy strategic bridges in Burma and disrupt Nazi supply lines. Meador later recovered from a farm accident and remains a ward of wartime innovation.
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Amarillo
Arvell Meador
Meador
Army Air Forces
Arr
Wright Field
Arwell
War Department
Army
Burma
Aviso
Rome
Brenner Pass
Hereford
Medical Corps
Brooks Field
Another View On Relieving Traffic Jam
Readers offer traffic relief ideas for Amarillo post office area. B D Dye suggests external receiving stations on Taylor and Fillmore to ease Fifth Avenue congestion. Ed Harris proposes making Fifth Avenue a one way street between Fillmore and Taylor. Traffic officers confirm the plan has been studied and reported to city leaders.
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B. D. Dye
Jackson
The
Globe
Taylor
Fillmore
Fifth Avenue
Ed Harris
Amarillo
Fifth
City Commission
Chester Park Visits Son and Grandparents During Navy Furlough
Chester J. Park on furlough from the Navy visits his four year old son Ross and the grandparents Mr. and Mrs. L Raymond Reed at 1602 Palo Duro. Park entered the Navy in April and is stationed in Washington DC with a photographic section in the Navy Ordance Laboratory.
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Chester J. Park
Ross
L. Raymond Reed
Palo Duro
Navy
Washington, D. C
Navy Ordnance Laboratory
Sam Page Honored as VP of President's Club
Amarillo representative Sam Page of Great Southern Life Insurance is elected vice-president of the President's Club, the firm's top honor, earned by achieving 100 percent renewal of last year's business.
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Sam Page
Amarillo
Great Southern Life Insurance Company
Nance in Choir for Memorial Service
Jim Bob Nance son of Mr and Mrs A D Nance of 834 Western was one of 20 men chosen from the San Diego Naval Training Center choir to sing at Navy memorial services off the California coast last Sunday aboard the USS Parris Island singing hymns.
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Jim Bob Nance
A. D. Nance
Western
San Diego
Naval Training Center
California
Navy
Uss
Parris Island
Skinner's Raisin Bran Introduces Crisp Flavor Flakes
Skinner's Raisin-Bran presents a full crispy texture with Skinner Flavor Flakes made from whole wheat and plump raisins. The ad emphasizes this is not a standard 40 percent bran mix but a distinct cereal variety.
Navy Yeoman Honors Fallen Sailors At Sea Ceremony
During services first at the Santa Fe pier and later miles seaward, hundreds of flowers were cast on the water honoring Americans who died at sea in World War II. Nance, who entered the Navy in June, attends the yeoman school in San Diego.
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Santa Fe
Nance
Navy
Yeoman School
San Diego
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Ansley Cleaners
Navy Welfare
Grand Bar
Pantex Ord
Miss Fern Watson
Dickson
Texatt
By Frank Godsoe
Gene Worley
Henry L. Stimson
Tom Connally
Alexander P. de Seversky
Stimson
Air Technical Service Command
Air Force
Trouble
TNO Better
Consolidated Razor Blade CO
Nat Pm UK
Western Finance & Thrift Corp
Dept. of Banking
State of Texas
Waterfill
Frazier
Liquor Mart
Mono
Chester Park
Skinner
Hingeaturen
Texas
C.O.D
R. M. Minton
P. O
San Angelo
Tex
Wilson Battery & Electric Service
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