Selecting Daisy Maes at Sadie Hawkins Event
Voters at Amarillo College and High School choose a Daisy Mae and a Li l Abner for a Sadie Hawkins event at the Paramount Theater. Ballots close at 4 pm with results due tomorrow or Friday. A street dance on Ninth Avenue, a 9 pm roped street, and a Daisy Mae Li l Abner race boost festivities tonight.
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Amarillo College
Daisy Mae
Paramount Theater
Fred Patterson
Paramount
Ninth Avenue
Taylor
Polk Street
Li'l Abner
Camp Bowie Named Guard Post Near Brownwood
Maj. Gen. John F. Williams announces Camp Bowie as the new guard post a mile and a half south of Brownwood for Amarillo Guardsmen and draftees to train over the coming year. The name recalls World War I history, when Camp Bowie served Texans at Fort Worth with parts near Arlington Heights.
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Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Amarillo
John F. Williams
National Guard Bureau
Fort Worth
Arlington Heights
Greta Garbo Seeks U S Citizenship At Federal Hearings
Greta Garbo declares she wants to become a United States citizen and make the country her permanent home. The Swedish actress filed for naturalization at a federal court, stating she was born in Stockholm and arrived in 1933.
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Hollywood
U.P
Greta Garbo
United States
Federal Building
Stockholm
Second of Series of Cub Meetings Tonight
The second of three meetings on organizing a Cub Scout Pack at Margaret Wills School will be held tonight at 8 o'clock. About 25 parents attended the first session. Tonight’s agenda covers the Cub program with actual organization set for tomorrow night. All parents of Cub age boys are invited.
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Margaret Wills School
Senate Probing Wire Tap Claims On Supreme Court Wires
New York October 30 counsel for a Senate subcommittee said hearings will begin in Washington Friday to determine if the wires of Supreme Court justices were tapped during a pending major decision.
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New York
Senate
Washgton
United States Supreme Court
Political rallies across the nation push for third term support
Ambassadors and politicians urged unity and party loyalty as they commented on Roosevelt’s third term. Drexelbiddle urged national unity in Poland, Jones pressed farm support, Jackson criticized opposition to utilities act, Wagner urged workers to back Roosevelt, and Lewis considered a hypothetical Labor Secretary post.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Anthony J. Drexelbiddle
Poland
United States
Chicago
Jones
Texas
House Agricultural Committee
Congress
Richmond
Jackson
Willkie
Commonwealth
Utilities Holding Company
Supreme Court
New York
Robert Wagner
Jon L. Lewis
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Lewis
Markets at New York Stock Exchange and Kansas City Livestock
Market report from Kansas City notes livestock prices on October 30 with hogs mostly steady to firm and top quotes around 5.95 for 180 lb hogs. cattle and calves show slow demand for short fed steers and heifers with steady to weak prices. sheep sales steady with Colorado lambs above 9.15. Financial security fund shows liquidating price 1.57 and offering 1.72.
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Kansas City
U. S. ID
Culinary Workers To Hold Halloween Dance At Mayfair
Local No. 44 will host a Halloween dance tonight at the Mayfair on Highway 66 with Rose Revelers providing music from 8:30 p.m. Tickets are being sold by cooks waiters and bartenders.
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Culinary Workers
Mayfair
Highway 66
Rose
Plainview Pastor Appointed to Springfield Church
Dr. Edwin White of Plainview Texas was named pastor of St. Paul Methodist Church in Springfield. He succeeds Rev. Kenneth Pope, who moves to the First Methodist Church in Austin Texas.
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Springfield
Edwin White
Plainview
Tex
St. Paul Methodist Church
Kenneth Pope
First Methodist
Austin
Gardenia Plant in Amarillo Produces 75 Blossoms
Mr and Mrs Bruce Autry of 1600 Travis Street report a gardenia two feet tall produced 75 blossoms this summer. They moved the plant indoors for winter and note it thrives outside in Amarillo with watering and shade, though needs spraying.
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Amarillo
Bruce Autry
Travis Street
Mr. Autry
Rock Island Lines Reports Record Sept Receipts Rise
The Rock Island Lines posted gross receipts of 6 997 330 for September, the highest since 1931, up 83 796 from last September and 289 779 from August. Net railway operating income reached 887 239, up 170 175 from a year ago, with nine month net income at 4 469 405 versus 2 966 039 a year earlier.
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Rock Island
E. M. Durham
James H Harris Last Rites Held
Funeral services for James H. Harris a retired Amarillo building contractor were held this morning at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel with Rev H T Sullivan officiating. He died yesterday morning at his daughter’s home in Amarillo and is survived by his wife two daughters two sons two brothers and a sister. The body was sent overland to Nevada for burial.
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James H. Harris
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers
H. T. Sullivan
Line Avenue Baptist Church
Harris
W. G. Talkington
Wayside Drive
The
Baptist Church
Woodmen of the World
Virginia I. Harris
R. J. Wilson
Dallas
Talkington
James Masten Harris
Mobile, Ark
Harold Harris
McKinney
J. E. Harris
B. F. Harris
Nevada
Tex
Fannie L. Pool
Comedy Offered by Amarillo College Players
Amarillo College Players present Sorority House a three act comedy on November 12 and 13. Donald Clark announces the second three act produce in the 11 year history of the college with Fair Matthews in the lead and a cast including Bob Izzard J L Adams Rosemary Herrmann Hubert Wagner Dewitt Drury Tom Cole Doris Gale Crownover and others. Sets are built by the college speech class and admission is 35 cents for adults 25 cents for students.
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Amarillo College Players
Donald Clark
Fair Matthews
Bob Izzard
J. L. Adams
Rosemary Herrmann
Hubert Wagener
Dewitt Drury
Tom Cole
Doris Gale Crownover
Mary Stack
Margaret Boyce
Elizabeth Rollins
Joyce Herndon
Doris Mae Herrmann
Agnes Rose Larson
Sharleen Barker
Walls of Landmark of Amarillo Fall
The main walls of the old Nobles Building at Third and Polk were toppled this morning by John Farrell Lumber Company under contract to wreck the structure. Huge jacks and pressure caused the collapse and most bricks were salvaged. Norton Baker, who bought the site, plans a new $60,000 building leased to Amarillo Garage and Storage operated by the Hudson brothers and the Chapman brothers. Occupancy expected around January 1.
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Nobles
Third and Polk
John Farrell Lumber Company
Norton Baker
Amarillo
Hudson Brothers
J. H
S. W. and
Mart
Gene Chapman
Westbay Reappointed to Lead 1941 42 Scholastic Census
Mrs. W. D. Westbay, longtime director of the Amarillo Independent School District scholastic census, was reappointed by the school board to head the 1941 42 census. State funds for public schools are allocated by the census with about $22 per scholastic age resident in the district.
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W. D. Westbay
Amarillo Independent School District
Tulia businessmen sponsor city Halloween party
A large Tulia Halloween event is planned for Thursday night. Local businessmen sponsor the celebration to raise funds for high school band uniforms. The public is invited to attend in Tulia.
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Tulia
Chinese Plane Shot Down Over China Kills Passengers
Six of eight Chinese passengers aboard a China National Airways plane were killed when Japanese planes shot it down near Changyi, 22 miles northeast of Kumming. An American pilot, W. C. Kent of Kentwood, Louisiana, was also reported killed.
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Chungking
U.P
China National Airways
Changyi
Kumming
W. C. Kent
Kentwood
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Fenner & Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Fener & Beane
Financial Security Fund
P. M. Close
Alleghany Lud Steel
Allis Chalmers
Amer
Armour & Co
Atéssof
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation
Beth Steel
Borden
Chrysler Wees
Gillette Seene
Ty Goodrich
Goodyear
A Greyhound Corp
Houston Oil Fa Cary Int Harvester
Int
Power & Pap
Tel
Johns Manville Ree
Soe
Kennecott
Big
Repabr Steel
Sears Roebuck
Shell Union
Simmons Co A O. Socony
Wees Ayay
Stan Oil Calvee
Stan Oil Ind
Stan OU N J
Stewart Warner
Studebaker
Tex Cor
Tex Gulf Biod
Wilson & Co
Woolworth P
M. Close
Arkan Nat Gas
Niagara
Say
Furnis
Rock Island Lines
Tulia Businessmen
Arizon
Marizon
Texas Panhandle
Marizon’s
West Texas
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