Winter Chaos Strands School Bus Riders in Texas Snowstorm
Eight children on a stalled Pampa school bus feared lost as a raging snowstorm paralyses roads. Rescue crews with tractors, Cross and veterans groups mobilize. state patrol and deputies roam highways to locate buses and stranded motorists amid 20 degree winds and 55 to 60 mph gusts.
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Ke Phillips
Jeff Norris
Pampa
KPDN
Federal Communications Commission
Sid Patterson
Red Cross
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Gray County Commissioners Court
Harry E. Hoare
News
George Ingam
Lefors
Amarillo
Bill Adams
Claude
Highway 5
Washburn
Milt Cunningham
Ivy Wilkinson
St. Francis
M. L. Berry
Inman
Jess Cunningham
Cunningham Taxi Co
Borger
Roadrunner Baseball Park
U. S. Highway 60
Memphis
Vernon
Childress
Carey
West Texas Utilities Company
Plains
Harold Lloyd Gibson
Clyde Clark
Gibson
Clark
E. Rudd
Third Avenue
Buchanan Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
West Texas State College
Canyon
J. D. Nabers
Kirkland
Nabers
Rock Island Railroad
Shamrock
Santa Fe Railway
Panhandle
Waynoka
Shattuck
Boise City
Blizzard Declared Worst Since 1918 Cold Wave
The Panhandle declares Thursdays blizzard the worst since the 1918 cold wave as cattle perished and fences were cut to drift cattle toward the Canadian River breaks amid 12 below zero temperatures. Cattlemen faced long drifts, isolated towns, and disrupted roads while rescues and shelter efforts continued.
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Panhandle
North Plains
Dumas
Hartley
Mason King
Pioneer
Amarillo
Senate Strips Tax Bill in Rapid Revenue Revisions
Washington April 7 The Senate moved swiftly to strip the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes from the House revenue bill and substituted a flat 18 percent rate on corporate income and a flat 15 percent capital gains tax. Administration aides admitted defeat as the chamber approved the changes after a brief debate, noting the record pace of action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Chamber
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
Democrat
Mississippi
House
Chamber of Commerce Campaign Postponed to Morning
Due to the storm the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce sales army meeting was moved to 10 o clock this morning in the blue room of the Amarillo Hotel. Leaders Bill Gilstrap and Mason King urged attendance for final instructions and prospect cards.
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Amarillo
Gilstrap
King
Guy Saunders
Ted Lokey
Jim Farwell
Julius Dozenfield
He-Man Food Demonstration At City Cooking School
Miss Jessie Hogue leads a Globe-News Cooking School session at the Municipal Auditorium with Italian meatballs and ham center meals, baked beans, spinach, salads, and desserts. Hundreds of women attend despite strong winds as prizes, displays, and equipment from Cudahy, Kelvinator, Montgomery Ward and Green Bros. highlight the event.
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Globe-News
Jessie Hogue
Chambers
Miss Hogue
Kelvinator
Money for Rent and Loans in Globe News Want Ads
Advertisers list options for Automobile Loans Property Loans and Personal Loans under the Globe News Want Ads. The ad promotes borrowing against a car farm or home or on a plain signature with 90 days to a year to repay, mentioning the 90 percent FHA plan and urging action on debts repairs and improvements.
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Globe News
Quins To Act Rhymes Of Mother Goose
Beginning next Sunday the Dionne Quintuplets will star in a Mother Goose story series in the Sunday News Globe. The young viewers will watch the quints act out traditional nursery rhymes as they live in their Callander Ontario nursery. The feature invites families to share the make believe tales that have delighted children for over two centuries.
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Sunday News Globe
Callander
Ont
News-Globe
F D R Plans Vast 1.5 Billion Public Works Program
Washington April 7 A Roosevelt program to provide 1.5 billion dollars for loans and direct expenditures to relieve unemployment and fight the slump appears in the works. The plan would offer interest-free public works loans to cities states and sub-divisions repayable over 50 years at 2 percent per year. Officials say start dates loom while critics warn of deficits and debt effects.
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Washington
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Glass
House
Senate
White House
Treasury
Home Owners Loan Corporation
PWA
Panhandle-Plains Society Banquet Draws Big Crowd
More than 75 reservations for the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society annual banquet with expectations near 200. Col R P Smythe presides. Judge James D Hamlin acts as toastmaster. Dr Edward Everett Dale will deliver the main address on The Romantic Cow Country with Mrs Guy Carlander and Mrs John Josey performing music in Cousins hall Canyon.
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Rrol
L. F. Snelly
Society
Cousins Hall
Col
R. P. Smythe
Plainview
James D. Hamlin
Farwell
Oklahoma
Edward Everett Dale
University of Oklahoma
Amarillo Host to 400 Older Boys
The Northwest Texas Older Boys Conference opens at Amarillo High School with 400 delegates expected. About 300 from out of town and 100 from Amarillo join Hi Y clubs churches and other youth groups. F B Faubion presides with J J McConnel Jr and Grover C Good assisting.
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Northwest Texas
Amarillo High School
Panhandle
Norman
Oxklahoma
Tucumcari
N. M
Abilene
Texas
Amarillo
Hi-Y
United States
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions with clearing Friday. Temperatures rise through the day with a high near 70s and a low around 50s. Measured precipitation over the last 24 hours ending 4 PM yesterday was 0.1 inches.
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Amarillo
Packie
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