Amarillo Voters Set Sept Meeting On Personnel Board
City Commission announced the three nominees for the new personnel board to be created under a charter amendment. Capt. A Petersen is director and work has begun. The board will serve two year terms without pay and begin within six months of appointment. Meanwhile a Chicago Public Administration Service survey studies city job classifications and pay rates as civil service expands beyond fire and police.
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Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
Department of Personnel
Capt
A. Petersen
Hancock
Public Administration Service of Chicago
Spellman Foundation
Civil Service
Kansas City Livestock Market Report September 7
Kansas City cattle receipts 3 000 salable 4 000 calves 1 200 salable 1 400 with most grades steady. Hog sales 2 000 active mostly 14 14.50 per cwt. sows 13 75. 140 170 lb hogs 13 75 14 45. Sheep 4 000 salable 5 000 steady for killing classes. native spring lambs 13 25, Colorados above 13 75. Chicago hogs 14 500 steady 150 240 lbs 14 75. cattle 6 000 top steers 18 30. sheep 7 000 bids on spring lambs steady above 14 25. Financial fund Liquidating 1 8586 offering 2 04.
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Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
R H Norton Dies at Home Pioneer Amarilloan
Reuben Harrison Norton aged Amarillo pioneer died at his home 716 Pierce Street at 8 50 this morning after years of poor health. He came from Quanah in 1896 built a wholesale grocery firm later sold it and moved to Hereford then Kansas City and Artesia New Mexico before returning to Amarillo in 1928. Survived by three sons three daughters two sisters and six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services are planned for 2 00 PM Saturday at the First Christian Church with graveside rites at Hereford Cemetery at 5 00 PM. Graves in state at Griggs Funeral Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben Harrison Norton
Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association
Western Cowpunchers Association
First Christian Church of
Hereford
Amarillo
First Christian Church
Claude O. Norton
Goldthwaite
E. H. Norton
H. D. Norton
Joplin
J. E. Urschel
Mexia
Una Hutcheon
Alma Norton
Lily Goodwin
Breckenridge
Fay Abbott
Ventura
Cal
Hereford Cemetery
Griggs Funeral Chapel
Funeral services for Mrs. W. E. Walker Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. W. E. Walker and her infant son will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Buchanan Street Baptist Church. Mrs. Walker, 30, lived in Amarillo for years and in Sunray for the past three years. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery I V.
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W. E. Walker
Buchanan Street Baptist Church
Allied push toward Besancon and Alpine passes in France
American armored columns of the Seventh Army advance toward Besancon as French units head for a junction with northern invasion forces. Reports place American action west of Mont Cenis and Little St Bernard passes near the Franco Italian border. British radio notes possible positioning north of Besancon.
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Belfort
Germany
France
Seventh Army
Besancon
DNB
Mont Cenis
Little St. Bernard
Grenoble
Forces push toward Belfort through Saone Valley gains
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch moved 20 to 25 miles north and northeast through the Saone River Valley. A headquarters spokesman said the drives occurred without contact with the German 19th Army’s main artillery, as the French followed along the advance.
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Belfort
Alexander M. Patch
Saone River
19Th Army
River Forces Narrow Gap Between Armies Near Allery
River actions swept toward Allery ten miles northeast of Chalon and reduced the distance between the 7th and 3rd armies to about 55 miles.
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Allery
Chalon
Navy Mothers Call for Rummage Sale Donations
The Navy Mothers Club led by Mrs. J B Raymond asks Amarillo residents with service relatives and others to donate clothing for a Rummage Sale on September 13. Donors should contact club members in South Amarillo Ral Amarillo and other districts. sale location to be announced.
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N. G. Monaghan
van Buren Street
Wiegiore
Ral Amarillo
J. B. Raymond
Harrison Street
Country Club
G. R
Arch Road
San Jacinto
E. FE. Baker
Prospect Street
North Amarillo
Ray Kendall
North
Lincoln Street
Navy
E. M. Vernon
West Eleventh Avenue
Raymond
George Maggard Called Here by Death of Father
George Maggard manager of The Borden Company in San Antonio is in Amarillo urged by illness and death of his father West Milton Maggard who died yesterday. Maggard has long been connected with Texas milk industry and became Borden’s Amarillo manager in 1931 later moved to San Antonio.
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George Maggard
Borden Company
San Antonio
Amarillo
West Milton Maggard
Mr. Maggard
Texas
Borden's
Kay Williams and Clark Gable Quiet on Romance
Hollywood report says Kay Williams and Clark Gable are just friends with no marriage plans. Williams notes they have dated prior to his army service and Gable gave her a wrist watch on her birthday. A second brief item covers a Milwaukee man bitten over a dental plate mix up on a street car.
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Kay Williams
Gable
Hollywood
U.P
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Clark Gable
Milwaukee
George W. Schermuly
Schermuly
Funeral Pending for Drowned Nurse and Her Son
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Agens Drake, a former Amarillo nurse, and her 14 month son are pending in Albuquerque New Mexico where their bodies were found washed ashore at a municipal beach pool yesterday Relatives searched for the husband and father an oil firm employee in the area overnight and this morning.
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Mary Agens Drake
Amarillo
Albuquerque
N. M
Allies Press Across Europe As War Continues
The Transocean News Agency reports American forces concentrate between Namur and Sedan and thrust near the Moselle at Pont-a-Mousson as fighting rages. Allied coastal advances enclose Calais and Boulogne with Dunkerque likely, while Canadian troops move toward Ypres amid poor weather.
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Transocean
Namur
Sedan
Meuse
U. S
Moselle
Pont-a-Mousson
Nancy
Metz
Channel
Calais
Boulogne
Dunkerque
Gravelines
Ypres
First Army
Bay of Biscay
Paris
Know aspirin demand St. Joseph Aspirin now
Advertisement urges readers to ask for St. Joseph Aspirin claiming it is faster and stronger and the world's largest seller at 10¢. It emphasizes price and brand name as a procurement cue.
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Select Board of Personnel
Financial Industrial Fund
NEW York Stock Exchange
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Armour & Co
At& SF
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Loco
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel Sats
Borden
Gi Braniff
Briges Mis
Budd
Burroughs
ARI
Chrysler
Sinclair
Comm Invest
Delveureseur
Motors
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
Snt
General Electric
General Motors
Goodyear
Snt Harvester
Kennecott Copper
Lockheed Wenstre
Glenn L Martin
Montgomery Ward
Anny Nash Kelvinator
National Bisecult
Nat Can
New York Shipbuilding Yiy
New York Centralfly
North Am Aviation
Seneenr
Packard Ohio Oil
Pan Amer Airways
Paramount
Xdl
Pennsteeneee
Phillipsetree
Plymouth Oils
TAM Radio Corp
Remington Rand
Repter
St Jo Lead Teeres
Sears Vee
Shell Union Oi
Socony Vacuum
South Pac
Oil NJ
Studebaker
Swift & Co
Texas Corpo
Tex Gulf
Tidewater Union Carbide
US Steel
Wilson & Co
White Motors
Sept
R. H. Norton
Walker
Jack Rogers
Quinlan
Okla
Moreland
R. L. Rogers
Oklahoma
Santa Fe Company
Miss Wilkins
Jane Wilkins
Globe News
Harwood
Goddard
A-B Liquor Store
Harrison St
George
Patton
American Red Cross
Army
Peacock
Beauty Shop
Fisk Bldg
Sayman
Blacks
Kirk's
A Polk
Capital Liquor Store
POLK
Levine
Cytled
Levine's
Department Store
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