Around Town notes on movers births and visits in Amarillo
Mr and Mrs Don Culton plan trips to Kansas City Chicago and Washington. The Growing Population section reports births and visits including Murray Elson and the Hunter family. Newcomers to town include W N Thurston and Paul Fowler families. Various residents receive medical care or travel details and local events unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Culton
Harrison
Kansas City
Chicago
Washington
A. C. Keith
Clark
Hayden
Las Dias Alegras
Las Vegas
N. M
Keith
Murray Elson
Tres Ritas
C. J. Hunter
St. Louis
Local Residents Undergo Medical Procedures
Miss Billie Ruth Johnson of 1310 Johnson and Mrs Loretta Ferguson of Vega received medical care. Mrs H A Shaw of 2113 Ong, P H Barksdale of 205 Louisiana, and James Hisel of Channing underwent or were dismissed after medical treatment. Mrs Nanny Kelley of 721 Grand remains under medical supervision. Mrs W B Dowell of Hereford underwent surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Boatridge
Washington
Jo Ann Bennett
Arthur
Larry Ross Franklin
Pampa
Larry Morris
Bill Taylor
North East Fighth
Harry Wood
Happy
Wanda Ruth Brown
Garfield
C. J. Hunter
Amarillo
W. R. Bannister
Monroe
Billie To Lagrone
Clarendon
Stanley Thurman
Christopher Allen Paul
Parker
Jim Culbertson
White Deer
Thomas _L. Lively
North Polk
A. G. Elliott
Fast Tenth
Brance I. Crutchfield
Pantex Village
Thelmas Timlin
Johnson
Billie Ruth Johnson
R. E. Dunlap
Tulsa
Okla
Loretta Ferguson
Vega
H. A. Shaw
Ong
P. H. Barksdale
Louisiana
James Hisel
Channing
Nanny Kelley
Grand
W. B. Dowell
Hereford
When Rail Cars Die They Go to Japan
Hal Boyle recalls a rail trip from Yokosuka to Yokohama in postwar Japan, detailing crowded platforms, train announcers, ruins along the waterfront, and wary but curious locals. The piece contrasts American subway life with a Japan rebuilding era, ending with Yokohama’s stark, skeletal scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Yokohama
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Yokosuka Naval Base
Tokyo
America
New York
Long Island
Yokosuka
Health director warns Amarillo food firms to clean up
Dr D M Cowgill Amarillo city health director repeats warning to food handling establishments to clean and maintain cleanliness or risk closure after several border line cases last week. About 500 licenses exist in the city and inspectors will close borderline places that do not improve immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
D. M. Cowgill
Queen Mary Due Monday With Three Amarilloans
Three soldiers from Amarillo aboard the Queen Mary are due in New York next Monday. The Associated Press reported to The Globe that the soldiers are Pfc. Clifford Whitfield Pvt. Elmer McLaughlin and Cpl. James E. Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
New York
Associated Press
Globe
James E. Dawson
Clifford Whitfield
Elmer McLaughlin
Polio cases rise in Texas to 713 for week
Texas health department reports 33 new poliomyelitis cases in the week ending September 1, lifting the annual total to 713. The seven year median is eight. Harris County records 13 new cases as the worst hit area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
State Health Department
Harris County
Corn King Bill Casey Visits Amarillo in 1930s Return
Bill Casey once known as the Corn King of the Panhandle visited Amarillo today, first since 1940. He farmed 8,200 acres near Dalhart in the early 1930s. His son Lt. Paul D. Casey, shot down over Vienna, is on leave in Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Casey
the Panhandle
Amarillo
Mr. Casey
Dalhart
Paul D. Casey
Vienna
Denver
Delphine Nasek To Be Returned to Connecticut
Connecticut authorities dispatch a trooper to Amarillo to extradite Delphine Nasek also known as Jean Gillette Nasek on a grand larceny charge. She was arrested here last week on a Connecticut warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Amarillo
Delphine Nasek
Jean Gillette Nasek
Completes 25 Years Service A. D. Jackson Retires
A. D. Jackson of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station publication division ends 25 years as chief on his 70th birthday. He promoted prompt agricultural news releases to Texas papers and helped found the Texas Agricultural Writers Conference in 1921. After retirement he will reside in Bryan, five miles north of College Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Jackson
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Jackson
Experiment Station
Texas
Texas Agricultural Writers Conference
Texas A. & M
Texas Press Association
Texas Editorial Association
Bryan
College Station
Johnson Discharged After European War Service
Cpl. Leroy Johnson son of Mrs. Anna Johnson of 1223 West Ninth arrived for honorable discharge at Ft. Sam Houston after 3 years 5 months with the Signal Corps First Armored Division. He served as a high speed radio operator in Tunisia Italy and Northern France including the Rome Arno North Apennines Naples Foggia and Po Valley campaigns. He was stationed near the Swiss border after VE Day and arrived on the East Coast August 30. discharge issued last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Leroy Johnson
Anna Johnson
West Ninth
Signal Corps
First Armored Division
Tunisia
Italy
France
Rome-Arno
North Appenines
Naples
Foggia
Po Valley
Europe
Corporal Johnson
East Coast
Ft. Sam Houston
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Plondie
Jane Arden
Elmer
Mabe
Tina
Ryan
Yankees
Hhooots
Ruth Peffley
Roy Vineyard
Fancher Upshaw
Walter S. Mount
C. J. E. Lowndes
Beulah Luther Esells
Cedar Puckett
R. C. Martini
W. K. Ludden
William LaFevers
East Fifth
Northwest Texas Hospital
Dale Herring
Texas Hospital
Eldon Walker
William Wiegel Jones
Amarilo
L. V. Dufer
Jim Newby
Albuquerque
H. P. Freeman
Red River
New Mexico
Gus Wiedel
Alabama
W. A. Glocier
Belleview
W. N. Thurston
Big Spring
Thurston
The
Tretolite Company
Bonham
Paul R. Fowler
Gale
Abilene
Fowler
USO
Jack Cage
C. V. Goodman
Dallas
Goodman
Mr. Cage
Carl Westley Miller
Cross Roads
Albert Parker
Georgia
Carl Monty
Robert D. Stevens
J. B. Conrad
West Central
Nashua
N. H
Lieutenant Stevens
Columbia University
Stevens
University
Northwest Texas Hospital News
Mitt Fox
Canyon
Thomas Joe Culver
West Sixteenth
Beverly Ann Arnold
West Twelfth
C. C. Shocklee
Fritch
John J. Halley
Charlotte
Long Beach
Halley
Johnny A. Denton
Camp Fannin
Groom
J. A. Denton
Glen Maples
Hart
Glenn Ann
Dimmitt
Daisy Person
Herring Hotel
Dallas and
Fort Worth
Withers Plumbing Company
van Buren
Tyler
Gouldy Bros
Heath's
Heath
Taylor
Hal Boyle
Queen Mary
Park City Liquor
YIVKE
H. H. Latson
Beauty Mart
Eunice Loftis
Laverne Hardin
Lillian Floyd
Aline
Polk
John H. Smith
Life Insurance
Ol’ Vernon
Oriental Cleaners
Vernon Hancock
10Tm
Sucnanan
Polk ST. Methodist Church
Amarillo, Texas
Borden
Bordens
Borvenco
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