Amarillo Busy Week Sparks New Arrivals and Local News
Newcomers include Mr and Mrs K K Houtchins and daughter Carole moving from Long Beach California to 812 Bowie Street. Families relocate to Amarillo with several listed at addresses on West Eleventh Avenue Harrison Street and nearby streets. Hospital notes list multiple patients at St Anthony's and Scott White while births include several newborns at St Anthony's Hospital with dates in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Haddon
Julie
Amarillo
Talmage Apartments
General Haddon
India
Reid Hughes
Harrison Street
California
Reid
University of Southern California
Ola Irene Hughes
K. K. Houtchins
Carole
Longeach
Calif
Houtchins
Post Office
Bowie Street
Clair S. Baker
David
Kay
Susan
Roscoe
Baker
Conoco
Tenth Avenue
West Eleventh Avenue
William Wallace
Galveston
Wallaces
John R. Sanford
Tennessee Street
Temple
Scott White Hospital
W. E. Colley
Nancy
Hayden Street
Vernon
J. W. Thomas
Hereford
Thomas
Ivan Covey
Joan
West
Fifteenth Avenue
Oklahoma
Nichols Rejoins YMCA Service After USO Work Past Two Years
Harold Nichols, first USO worker in Amarillo, resigns from United States Organizations to return to civilian YMCA service. He helped found the Auditorium USO and cooperated on the Negro USO Club with local groups. He thanked volunteers and urged continued effort in France. Other brief notices list local medical cases and hospitalizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Nichols
United States
Nichols
Amarillo
Amarillo High T expands ROTC under Capt Jack Rogers
Captain Jack Rogers assumes leadership of Amarillo High School ROTC the largest ever with 306 cadets enrolled. He brings 12 years in Texas State Guard and Oklahoma National Guard plus prior ROTC experience at Oklahoma A and M and Oklahoma Military Academy. He also works for Thomson King Insurance on Ninth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Rogers
Texas State Guard
Oklahoma National Guard
Amarillo High School
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Rogers
A. R. Donnell
Donnell
Can+yon
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Soldier on furlough finds moving manpower tight
A Kansas City soldier home on furlough learned the civilian manpower shortage when a moving company refused to move his furniture into a second floor apartment saying they do not like to carry upstairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Dance hall misstep ends with safe landing
Pte. Ernest Olivier of Pittsburgh collapsed from a second story window during a "fitter-bug" spin in McCook Nebraska. He missed his partner, bounced off a low bed, landed unharmed, and asked for the next dance as he looked up at his partner in the open window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCook
Neb
Ernest Olivier
Pittsburgh
Calamity Towns Ellery Queen Mystery Excerpt
Incognito as Ellery Smith, Ellery Queen visits Wrightsville to write a novel and becomes involved in a family mystery. Nora Wright and fiancé Jim Haight face secret letters and possible poisoning as Pat Haight aids Ellery while weighing secrecy and danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellery Smith
Mr. Queen
Wrightsville
John F. Wright
Hermione
Nora
James Haight
Lola
Jim” Haight
Ellery
Frank Loyd
Wright
Haights
Pat
Rosemary Haight
Jim
Sis
Dr. Willoughby
Carl
Wright County
Carter
Ser geant Clemens Dies in Action in France
First Sergeant Robert L. Clemens was killed August 16 in France while serving in an armored tank unit after a brief service with the Texas National Guard and paratroops. He had been working in Lubbock before enlisting and went overseas in June. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Clemens of Amarillo, a daughter Mary Kan, five sisters, and a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Clemens
France
Hugh Clemens
Tyler Street
War Department
Clemens
Texas National Guard
Pearl Harbor
Amarillo High School
Lubbock
Mary Kan
A. Lamberth
Bruce Hinsley
A. ©. Fristoe
Amarillo
Paula Terry
Fay McCollum
Fort Worth
Charles Clemens
Prairie Fires Hit Three Bivins Ranches
Three Julian Bivins estate ranches suffered fires from Saturday evening to Sunday morning. The Channing ranch fire started near an oil rig while lightning ignited fires at the Airbates and Coldwater ranches. Joe Gamble, the manager, said fires were controlled with little damage and urged public care to avoid prairie fires. North Carolina is noted for filling every census blank in farm products across northern and southern regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Bivins
Joe Gamble
Channing Ranch
Airbates Ranch
Coldwater Ranch
North Carolina
United States
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W. 8. Birge
Gwendolyn Cobl
H. M. Adkins
Mrs. C. A. Robertson
Hammond
ST. Anthony's Hospital
NEWS
Edna May
Borger
E. J. Stratton
Portales
N. M
Berdel Morrow
Pantex Village
L. B. Mack
Route 3
Virginia Burns
St. Anthony’s School of Nursing
C. W. Hair
Canyon
Freddie Wayne Kelsey
A. L. Ashton
North Houston Street
Rebecca Anne Breton
Pierce Street
Bennie Joe Williams
North West
Eighth Avenue
Jake Blinderman
R. M. Vannata
Boise City
Okla
Darrell Dwight
Thomas Jack McCreary
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
John Montgomery
Chicago
Montgomery
J. E. Montgomery
Madison Street
W. L. Parton
Jefferson Street
O. E. Thornton
North Tyler Street
Edward J. Gibbons
Taylor Street
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Ray Pancoast
Vega
S. W. Perry
Rusk Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Robert J. Hein
Lamar Street
L. V. Martin
East Tenth Avenue
L. W. Hough
van Buren Street
Hough
Clara McLean
I. J. Killian
Austin
University of Texas
Northwest Texas Hospital News
B. Landers
East
Nineteenth Avenue
R. J. Pheiffer
Pleasant Valley
Alfred Ken Vigo Park
L. H. Taylor
Dumas
Eva White
Twila Brice
Howard Eugene Dye
Claude
A. C. Huff
Stratford
G. H. Johnson
Route 1
Ralph Caird
Bushland
Jenkins
Ong Street
D. A. Akers
Tom
Concordia
Kan
C. L. Akers
Akers
Cecil Harris
Osawatomie
Kans
Earl Wyatt
Santa Fe
Taos
Colorado
Vaughn Plumbing
Hugh Striver
Hugh
ROSEN
Sues
Miss Glory
Blondie
Jane Arden
ALY
Les
Paw
Giooyap Beviyis
YMCA
Wyatt
Charles Dale Hulsey
Johnson Street
M. Winslow
East Nineteenth Avenue
Ruth Peyton
Lloyd G. Neal
Thelma Missiner
Alvin Noel Allen
Seminole
Hazel Hall
East Sventh Avenue
John Evans
Tulia
Elizabeth Hatch
Sam Appleton
T. H. Holland, Jr
North Grant Street
Ernest Russell Graham
Buchanan Street
W. A. Thrash
Cleo Clayton
Jackson Street
E. L. Hess
South
Garfield Street
Willis R. Alexander
South West
Twentieth Avenue
Globe News
Clicdy
Alicch
Ellery Queen
Honey Childt
Edgecomb
Jim Haight
Frank Lloyd
Sgt. Clemens
Bradford
Carter Bradford
Bivins Ranches
Gulbranson, Steinway
Story-Clarke
Mary
Spence
O. K
Bull Tire CO
Tyler
Mary Montgomert
Herring Hotel Pharmacy Corner Herring Hotel
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