Sears Plans 35000 Remodel in Amarillo Store Expansion
Sears Roebuck & Co in Amarillo celebrates 21 years with a 35000 remodel finishing touches. The store adds 2800 square feet at 917 Polk and expands to 40 departments. It has 147 employees, more displays, and new departments including hardware, plumbing, and a Roy Rogers Corral.
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Amarillo
Sears- Roebuck & Co
Tenth
Polk
Sears
Spicer
Third
Buchanan
Ratcliff Supply Company
Fred Bone
Polk Street
Johnson
Sears Organsa
Roy Rogers Corral
Australians mark citizenship journey after residence year
More than 13 000 displaced persons have completed a year of residence in Australia as required before applying for citizenship and have filed declarations of intention, Sydney reports.
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Australia
Sydney
Earliest Record of Asbestos Lamp Use in 450 Cc
The fragment suggests a claim that asbestos was used to make a lamp in 450 Cc. It may represent the earliest known instance, though details and dating are unclear in the surviving text.
Master Merchandiser Heads Southwest Area
C B Roberts of Dallas named master merchandiser and vice president over Sears Southwestern territory. A Sears board member since 1936, he completed 37 years with the company and has long ties to Amarillo, Dallas, and regional business and civic groups.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co
C. B. Roberts
Dallas
Roberts
Sears
Leslie Stephens
Amarillo
Albuquerque
el Paso
Corpus Christi
Lubbock
Midwest
Republic National Bank of Dallas
Texas Better Business Bureau
Baylor University
First Baptist Church
Texas Historical Society
Dallas Citi
Radio Drill Draws Eleven Of Thirteen Operators
Eleven of thirteen area amateur radio operators answered the emergency drill led by Gus Goodnight W5RDG at 825 Mississippi. The weekly practice at 8 pm on Tuesday trains the network for urgent messaging, with participants from Amarillo Canyon Hereford Exell Plant and surrounding towns.
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Gus Goodnight
Mississippi
Goodnight
Tex Smith
W5cyx
Amarillo
Chester Isabel
Parrot Talks in Many Languages
Jamestown reports Eva LaCroix owns a bilingual parrot and a large bird collection. Pat the parrot recites nursery rhymes and whistles at girls, while 17 red canaries and about 200 other birds fill the aviary. Valued canaries range 100 to 175 dollars each.
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Jamestown
N.Y. U.P
Eva LaCroix
Councillors Count Parking Meter Pennies in Flin Flon
Councillors in Flin Flon Manitoba faced a pile of pennies from the town’s new parking meters. With bank wrappers available but no counters, they spent nine man hours on the task after a pailful was placed on the council table.
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Flin Flon
Manitoba
Two Veterans See Big Changes at Sears Roebuck
E O Chad dock and H H Mike Corbin, longtime Sears employees, note broad merchandise improvements over 21 years. Chaddock in furniture says women's purchases dominate, while Corbin, now irrigation director, began in Sears fire department and has remained since 1929, with ties to Claude Clarendon and McMurry College.
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Sears-Roebuck
E. O. Chaddock
H. H
Mike) Corbin
Chaddock
Corbin
Sears
Third and Buchanan
Claude
Clarendon
Clarendon College
McMurry College
Abilene
Amarillo
Underground Chicago rail line hauls freight unseen
Chicago boasts a railroad operating beneath the Loop for nearly 60 years. The Chicago Tunnel Co runs 61.8 miles of track under every street, with 150 electric locomotives and 3,300 one-ton cars. It hauls ashes, packages, and freight without street congestion or pavement wear, according to traffic manager Arthur J. Watts.
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Chicago
Textile sector employs over one third of Canadian women workers
More than 36 percent of all women employed in Canadian factories are in the textile industry, highlighting the sector’s large share of female labor. The finding points to the concentration of women in textile jobs across the country’s manufacturing base.
Sears-Roebuck Names Thirteen Department Heads
Thirteen key department heads direct merchandising, sales, credit, delivery and other activities of Sears-Roebuck. M. L. Pine heads furniture and lamps, Arthur Helfenbein rugs, Mrs. Avis Bartley personnel director, Arthur Brown resident auditor, A. M. Coleman credit manager, Geneva McCullough women’s ready-to-wear, S. E. Secrese soft lines, Walter Farmer hard lines, Clyde Cooper and Travis Barton appliance, John C. Cobb catalogue orders, C. O. Crabb customer service, Frank Brown Farm Store, and John Mallett directs advertising and display.
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Sears-Roebuck & Co
M. L. Pine
Arthur Helfenbein
Avis Bartley
Sears
Arthur Brown
Dallas
A. M. Coleman
Geneva McCullough
S. E. Secrese
Walter Farmer
Clyde Cooper
Travis Barton
John C. Cobb
C. O. Crabb
Frank Brown
John Mallett
Color Harmony Coordination by Mrs Pope Offers Blending Cues
Under Mrs. Chris Pope, color harmony coordination helps furnish homes. A triple wheel demonstrates harmony colors in rugs draperies and upholstery as a tool of her trade. The palette is designed to blend into a pleasing balanced picture.
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Chris Pope
Biting Denture Debacle prompts windy tale
Mrs A G Eisenberg recalls a comic misadventure when her husband coughed, lost his lower teeth in a Kleenex, and tossed it from a car seat onto Washington Street. Neighbors retrieved the tissue and teeth after an hourlong search, with no harm done.
Farmers mutual fire insurers numbered near two thousand
The Department of Agriculture reports about 1 850 farmers mutual fire insurance companies operate across the United States serving rural communities.
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Department of Agriculture
U. S
Touch of the Hand Dissolves Saucers
In Philadelphia four policemen report observing a six foot diameter flying saucer that dissolved after being touched by a hand. The object evaporated within 30 minutes leaving a sticky odorless residue and no other evidence for the FBI.
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Philadelphia
John Collins
Joseph Keenan
Joseph Cook
James Casper
Collins
Cook
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Amarillo Sears Leaders Bring Deep Store Experience
Leslie Stephens and Jack Ellington lead the Amarillo Sears with long service in merchandising. Stephens began in 1931 as an appliance salesman, rose to merchandising manager, then store manager by 1940. Ellington, a career merchant, started in the men’s furnishings dept, became merchandise manager of soft lines, and was promoted to assistant manager in August after wartime service and Treasury work.
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Amarillo Sears
Leslie Stephens
Jack Ellington
Stephen
Sears
Stephens
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Army
Treasury Department
Southern Methodist University School of Business Administration
Mr. Ellington
Hillsboro
Authorize Two Signal Lights on Fillmore Street
The city commission ordered installation of traffic signals at the Eighth and Ninth Avenue intersections on Fillmore Street to divert traffic from nearby streets. In related business, commissioners tentatively approved beautifying sites of the city’s elevated water tanks following neighborhood requests for landscaping or weed cutting near Twenty-seventh and Pierce. City Manager N V Moss noted landscaping plans exist but have not been acted on, with the water department owning the land and the department paying for landscaping, to be coordinated with the park department.
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Eighth
Ninth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Twenty-seventh
Pierce
N. V. Moss
Water Department
Park Department
Mr. Moss
Barefoot burglar jailed for 110 years in Houston
Negro Robert L. Caradine dubbed the barefoot burglar received a total 110 year sentence after admitting he robbed about 500 Houston homes. He said he gathered around $100,000 in loot spent on wine, women and song. Judge Frank Williford imposed the term.
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Houston
Robert L. Caradine
State Penitentiary
Caradine
Frank Williford
A R Wisenbaker Leads Sears Regional Store Network
A R Wisenbaker began at Sears in Port Arthur and rose to zone manager in Dallas overseeing 33 B-type and 7 C-type stores across Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas and New Mexico after career moves including Monroe Port Arthur El Paso and a Dallas headquarters appointment.
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A. R. Wisenbaker
Sears
Port Arthur
Monroe
el Paso
Dallas
Wisenbaker
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
New Mexico
India to recondition Curtis Commandos as passenger planes
India plans to pull 70 Curtis Commandos from wartime disposals, reconditioning them as passenger aircraft. The move follows a fleet largely built from DC-3s, with the Curtis fleet serving as a wartime freight carrier now repurposed for civilian use.
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New Delhi
India
Communications Ministry
Casey's Mare Wins Palomino Title
Wilson's Lady owned by Glen L. Casey of Amarillo Texas was named champion mare at the New Mexico State Fair Palomino Horse Show. Reserve champion was Monte's Bird owned by Dixie Lee Roger of Woodward Oklahoma. Judge was Dr M T Ramsey of Abilene Texas.
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Albuquerque
Wilson
Courthouse Records Warranty Deeds and Court Notices
A sequence of real estate deeds transfers across multiple blocks and subdivisions including Seale's Poof, Humphreys Highland, Fairview Town Site, Denver Heights, Famous Heights Park, Crestview Subdivision, Wolflin Park, Wolflin Place, North Highlands, and North Highlands Subdivision. Also included are domestic relations actions Dolores Cross versus Nathaniel Cross divorce and Helen A Johnson versus Norman Paul Johnson divorce.
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L. T. Leary
W. H. van Shaw
Seale's
Holland
W. B. Beasley
Allen Seale
Humphreys Highland
Edna Herring
Mary McGee Landrum
Fairview
M. G. Everet
Roy Mathes
Royce McCluskey
Doris Earl Davs
Famous Heights Park
Melvin Aet U
Crestview
West Hills, Inc
Am-Tex Development Co
Am-Tex Develment Co
West
Bivins
Frank Wilkinson Construction Co
Jim Parker
North Highlands
Tarter
A. L. Ammons
Robert G Fritts
W. B
Court OF Domestic Relations
Dolores Cross
Nathaniel Cross Dvorce
Helen A. Johnson
Norman Paul Johnson
Engineers Repair Worn Steel Parts With Molten Spray Tool
Westinghouse engineers spray molten steel onto worn parts to extend equipment life rather than discard. The method uses a new tool devised by an atomizer company, enabling in situ restoration of obsolete components.
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Westinghouse
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New York
U.S
Gurore
Master Merchandiser
Zens Council
The
Texas Farm Bureau
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Hilton
Hilton Hotel
Lubboc
Artonian Manager
Aes
A. B. Carr
Sears, Roebuck
Bray Building
4Th Avenue
Department On Color Harmony
Mallett
Texas A&m College
A. G. Eisenberg
Harrison
Casey
Courthouse Records
W. L. Finkley Electric Co
Amarillo National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Panhandle
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