Albuquerque Notes: Izzard Pattters on Travel and Town
Wes Izzard recalls a highway trip to Duke City Albuquerque while highlighting the city’s low rainfall eight inches per year and light wind. He touts local growth, schools, and road work on Route 66, then shares a humorous tale about Albuquerque via a joke about St. Peter.
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Albuquerque
Neil Clark
Amarillo
Juan
Pearly Gates
St. Peter
Hell
Wes Izzard
Amarillo civic clubs and high school baseball slate
Today in Amarillo a busy schedule features noon and afternoon gatherings of the Rotary Herring Hotel San Jacinto Kiwanis Lions Optimists Continental Club and other groups at venues around town including Youth Center South Amarillo and Amarillo Hotel. M High School Baseball pits Amarillo Sandies against Panhandle Panthers at Gold Sox Field plus a Story Hour at Youth Center Branch Public Library and Panhandle Kennel Club and Safety Council meetings at local venues.
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Willys-Overland
Southworth Willys Company
Tenth and
Fillmore
Herring
San Jacinto
Amarillo Safety Council
Commission
Municipal Auditorium
High Plains Today Regional Event Highlights
All day events listed across Panhandle regions include Palmer County Fat Stock Show and Dairy Day at FFA Show Barns, Castro County Dairy Show in Dimmitt, and a Guymon County Grain Grading School at District Courtroom. Evening programs feature Good Friday services in Ferryton, Tri-County Electrical Co operative annual meeting, Ex-student banquet in Quail, and Easter pageant at the Christian Church.
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Palmer County
FFA
Castro County
Guymon Okla
Ferryton
First Baptist Church
Tri-County Electrical Co-operative
American Legion
Christian Church
Chinese Nationalists accuse Soviet air support for Communists
The Nationalists charge Russia is sending planes and pilots to Red China and demand UN action. George Yeh cites Soviet fliers arriving in north and central China with former Japanese and U.S. lend-lease aircraft in use by the Communists. Reports estimate hundreds to thousands of Russians in Shanghai, with air activity near Formosa and Quemoy as tensions rise.
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Taipei
Formosa
Russia
China
United Nations
George Yeh
Hangchow Bay
Shanghai
Yeh
Soviet Russia
Associated Press
Fred Hampson
Hong Kong
Hampson
Lunghwa
Dairen
Manchuria
Chushian
Central
Claire L. Chennault
Quemoy
Ju Lien
Thug Shot and Killed In Running Gun Battle
FBI and California Highway Patrolman shot and killed a top FBI wanted criminal, Fred Walter Lennon, 39, on Highway 466 near Mojave. Lennon and partner Lee Emory Downs were pursued from Los Angeles into the San Joaquin Valley. Lennon was killed after a running gunfight. The incident involved a 1949 Packard and marks Lennon as a fugitive in multiple robberies and burglaries. A second item reports Burgess Pharmacy in Quitaque burglarized for 500 in Jewelry.
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Mojave
Cal
FBI
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles
Fred Walter Lennon
Lennon
California
Sam H. McDaniel
Here
McDaniel
Lee Emory Downs
San Joaquin Valley
Downs
San Francisco
Pasadena
Madison, Minn
Qutaque
Burgess Pharmacy
Quitaque
Roy Burgess
Frank Probst
Amarillo
Clergymen Sentenced in Czechoslovakia Treason Case
Prague court sentenced Roman Catholic clergymen to prison on treason spying for the Vatican and planning an armed revolt against the Communist government. Dr Jan Mastilak 39 led with life imprisonment. others received two to 25 years. Mass trial marked first such case since 1948.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vatican
Jan Mastilak
Moravian Theological Institute
Mastilak
White lemon shaped object sighted over Breckenridge
Three residents described a white lemon shaped craft hovering about 15 minutes in Breckenridge. Mrs. E R Tracey, her daughter in law Mrs Henry Danner and granddaughter Mrs Juanita Epley reported the craft maneuvering, cruising east briefly, then returning west and vanishing.
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Breckenridge
E. R. Tracey
Henry Danner
Tracey
Juanita Epley
New York Rainmakers Fail to Make Artificial Rain
New York attempts to induce rain for depleted reservoirs failed as weather remained unsuitable. A police plane carrying the official rain maker and dry ice returned 45 miles from the watershed due to unfavorable air conditions. Dr Wallace F. E. Howell cited radio issues as a factor in the setback.
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New York
Police Department
Catskill Mountain
Floyd Bennett Field
Wallace FE. Howell
Maundy Thursday Almanac Note For Amarillo Area
Almanac brief notes the day in Amarillo area with cloudiness and warmer temperatures ahead. Historical anniversaries referenced include Peary North Pole 1909 US declare war 1917 Joseph Smith Mormon Church 1830. Moonrise, planetary views, and a daily fortune about a child and a wise wit close the snippet.
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Peary
North Pole
Germany
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
Seneca County
New York
New Mexico
Amarillo
Earth
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
McCarthy Plans Mystery Witnesses On Lattimore Case
Senator McCarthy tentative to produce next week witnesses who will identify Owen Lattimore as a Communist. He could testify Thursday if sources appear before the Senate committee probing State Department Reds. President Truman’s loyalty board seeks the same files.
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Washington
McCarthy
Owen Lattimore
Wisconsin Republican
Senate
State Department
New York
Lattimore
Truman
Loyalty Review Board
Wisconsin
Tydings
Maryland
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Johns Hopkins University
FBI
Loyalty Board
Breakthrough in Chrysler strike with new union pension proposal
In Detroit on April 5 the CIO United Auto Workers proposal for a pension plan prompted a major breakthrough as Chrysler said it is considering the offer. The development raises hopes for a swift resumption of work by about 89,000 Chrysler strikers and 50,000 indirectly idled workers. Mediators paused negotiations, with talks likely to resume soon.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Cio-United Auto Workers
Labor Wins A New Seat In Neepsend Division
In Sheffield Neepsend Labour increases overall Commons majority to four after a special by election. Sir Frank Soskice polled 22,080 votes for Labour while Liberal Conservative challenger James Hunt had 8,365 and Communist E L Moore earned 729.
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Sheffield
Eng
House of Commons
Neepsend
Frank Soskice
Britain
James P. Hunt
E. L. Moore
Culberson Exits Governor Race After Heart Attack
Husky Olin Culberson, 63, railroad commissioner, was knocked out of the governor's race by a heart attack. He had been at Seton Hospital on oxygen and withdrew after an electrocardiogram showed heart trouble. Gov. Allan Shivers now faces only Case March of Waco as a remaining opponent.
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Allan Shivers
Case March
Waco
Atty
Price Daniel
Tokyo acid spill after streetcar collision injures dozens
In downtown Tokyo a streetcar and a truck carrying sulphuric and hydrochloric acids collided. Fifty people were burned by the spill. One person died and several others were reported in serious condition.
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Tokyo
Bednasek Freed by Jury in Coed Killing Case
Iowan jury acquitted Robert E. Bednasek 24 of murdering Margaret Anne Jackson 20 in a Dec incident at the Empty Arms rooming house. The verdict followed tense deliberations with a prior split of four for acquittal to three for murder, and Bednasek declared his love for the victim while planning how to resume his life and return to the University of Iowa.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
University of Iowa
Margaret Anne “Gee-Gee” Jackson
Bednasek
Trinity Episcopal Church
Walter Goetsch
Cedar Rapids
Census- Taker Baffled by Man Who Wasn't There
Amarillo enumerators face a stubborn case of mixed counties and a missing resident. A woman counts 1410 West Eleventh, finds no one, and learns the house spans Randall and Potter counties. The resident admits taxes and sleep lie in Potter, but the census count is tangled by jurisdiction. The supervisor Walter S. Shaller remains uncontacted.
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Amarillo
West Eleventh
Walter S. Shaller
18Th
Randall County
Potter County
Randall
Potter
Census takers in Philadelphia report few injuries
In Philadelphia the census head John J. Lennon says only isolated incidents mar the Census takers as most enter homes peacefully. A 22 year old woman, Doris Williams, was bitten on the nose by a dog. another woman was struck on the head with a frying pan. and a young bride forced a census taker out, asking for a man to be sent.
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Philadelphia
John J. Lennon
Lennon
Doris Williams
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Sultan Hamid II
West Java
Bandoeng
Turk) Westerling
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Quitaque Pharmacy
Fort Worth
Fred Cheek
Cheek
Daily News Index
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Requilla
McLemore
Pampa
Cee Wuase
Elizabeth Woodward
Daily News Almanac
West Texas
Pecos Valley
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South Plains
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Nate
Serene
Llong
Labor
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Sweethart
Gunn Bros
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Thomas
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