Miss America pageant aims to launch careers and crowns Roswell winners
The article outlines how the Miss America pageant offers career opportunities for American girls, noting past contestants who moved into Hollywood modeling singing Broadway opera and other fields. It details local Roswell entries for a preliminary Miss America event at the Yucca Theatre August 13 14 leading to state finals and the Miss New Mexico title with an Atlantic City trip. It also covers local notices about community members moves travels and a July 21 birth at Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
America
Hollywood
Yucca Theatre
Roswell
Pecos Valley
Blossoms in the Dust portrays Edna Gladney’s crusade for homeless children
The article profiles Edna Gladney of Fort Worth who for thirty years found homes for over three thousand children through her charity. It notes the upcoming film Blossoms in the Dust, with Greer Garson as Mrs Gladney and Walter Pidgeon as her husband, and outlines the social impact of her work amid wartime concerns.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Edna Gladney
Niaswine Tha Saorler
Afhaw
Greer Garson
Gladney
Chips
Walter Pidgeon
Sam Gladney
Mervyn LeRoy
Felix Bressart
Marsha Hunt
Fay Holden
Samuel S. Hinds
Texas Home For Children
Hope News Social notes and local visits in Artesia area
Hope News reports Mrs. Edgar Williams hospitalized in Artesia after a week under a doctor’s care. Includes travel by Mr. and Mrs Eddie McAuliffe to Roswell and Los Angeles, visits to Capitan and Fort Bliss visitors, Fern Buckner’s return from Alamogordo, extended visit of Mrs. Irvin Williams in Hope, and a Boy Scout aluminum drive aiming for a 100 percent precinct contribution. Joe Knick and Richard Fore return home for a short break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Ft. Sam Houston
San Antonio
Texas
Frank Crockett
Roswell
Edgar Williams
Artesia
Eddie McAuliffe
Los Angeles
California
Hoyt Keller
Claborn Buckner
Fort Bliss
J. C. Buckner
Capitan
Mr. Buckner
Tom Key
Mrs. Buckner
Mr. Key
Fern Buckner
Alamogordo
Irvin Williams
San Diego
Robert Parks
Hope
Lockie Trigg
Boy Scouts of Hope
Joe Knick
Richard Fore
Three Crop Loan Types Offered in Local Counties
W H Butterbaugh announces three Emergency Crop and Feed Loan types for farmers in Chaves Dona Ana Eddy and Otro counties through Farm Credit Administration Wichita Kansas. Fall seed loans up to 400 first mortgage required subordination by landlords or mortgage holders harvesting loans new this year first mortgage on harvested crops livestock feed loans also secured at 4 percent interest. Maturities July 31 1942 August 31 1942 and October 31 1941 with about ten days funding after approved.
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Chaves
Dona Ana
Eddy
Otro
W. H. Butterbaugh
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office
Farm Credit Administration
Wichita
Kansas
Emergency
Butterbaugh
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Wiley Padan
Ad Bling
New Castle
Benny Hanna
Baby
Hanna
City
Bill Glasscock
Emmett Potter
George Olin Teel
Teel
Austin Reeves
Hillary White Sr
Bill Burleson
Maurice Teel
St. Mary’s Hospital
Irving Cox
R. N. Stinett
Carlsbad
Holley
J. L. Berry
S. C.S
Merlyn Guess
Mémorial Hospital
John Teel
Stinett
L. A. Neal
Odessa
Maxine Guthrie
Lubbock
George Murphy
Ge Sothern
MGM
Maisie
Roy Lester
Glassie
Maxie Rosenbloom
Robert Sterling
New York
N. Y
Ann Sothern
Annette Lake
McPhail School of Music
Minneapolis
Indo-China
Haiphong
Marshal Joffre
Burma Road
Japan
South Pacific
Singapore
Gerald “Chick” Robinson
Scranton
George W. Korgman
Wildwood, N. J
Chick
Hope News
Robert Porter & Sons, Inc
Albuquerque & Las Cruces, N. M
Eevee Et
Paha
Pat Jenty Boones
Mbusiter
Aise
Bourbon
Hill
Ernest Landreth
B. M. Ballard
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
W. H. Batterbaugh
P. O. Box
New Mexico
Mr. Batterbaugh
Clayton
B. O. Berry
Tucumcari
Children’s
Sport Oxfords
Montgomery Ward
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