From A to Izzard rhen leaves for Great Adventure
A four person party plans a two week touring trip from Longmont Colorado toward Dumas and Encampment Wyoming. Bill Gilstrap Herb Budke Norman Dana Bartlett and a working press member discuss travel topics from fishing to by passing Denver. The piece notes Gilstrap WWI service and includes a humorous anecdote with a Times Square encounter. The story ends with plans to depart for Wyoming and a teaser for a continuation.
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Longmont
Colo
Denver
Long's Peak
Amarillo
Wyoming
Ieacher
Bill Gilstrap
Amarillo Board Approves Next Year Budget and Hiring
The Amarillo school board approved the 1951 52 budget of 3 209 000 with a five cent per 100 valuation tax rise to fund fireproofing and a 6 percent pay hike for teachers and staff. The college budget was set at 321 340 with 1 000 moved to the exigency fund reducing scholarships to 5 000. Seventeen new hires were approved bringing staffing to 71 since Rogers announced needs, with 4 teachers and 2 nurses more planned to reach full strength amid expected student growth from 1200 more pupils and 650 more due with the Air Force Base reactivation.
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Amarillo
Bob Douglas
Potter County Taxpayers Association
Supt
Chas. M. Rogers
Rogers
Amarillo Air Force Base
Hurricane builds to 130 mph heading for Mexican coast
A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico strengthens to about 130 mph and moves west at 16 mph toward the Mexican mainland. It is located about 300 miles east of Tuxpan and is expected to reach the coast between Nautla and Tuxpan, with hurricane winds reaching Tampico. Earlier today it dropped to 15 mph winds after crossing the Yucatan peninsula, where no deaths were reported.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Tuxpan
Mexico
Nautla
Tampico
Yucatan Peninsula
Eight-Point Peace Plan Proposed by Truman to Russia
President Truman sent a Soviet peace resolution to Congress while warning it does not guarantee changes in Soviet policy. He outlined eight conditions for real peace including UN respect, ending aggression, helping postwar Germany Austria and Japan, halting subversive moves, and pursuing disarmament and atomic control.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
Congress
Soviet Union
Germany
Austria
Japan
Price OPS Meeting For Area Merchants At Municipal Auditorium
Price specialist L R Shaddix from the Lubbock OPS office will preside at an 8 o'clock tonight clinic for merchants in Potter Carson Armstrong Deaf Smith Oldham and Palmer counties. Topics include service establishment regulation CPR 34 procedures for long term and cost plus contracts transfers tax extra charges records and hardship adjustments.
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Office of Price Stabilization
CPR
Municipal Auditorium
Potter, Carson, Armstrong
Deaf Smith
Oldham
Palmer Counties
L. R. Shaddix
Lubbock
Weather Almanac and Date Facts Almanac
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers in the Panhandle and South Plains. Cooler highs around 70 to 80 degrees in New Mexico and the West. On this date in 1831 Nat Turner led a slave insurrection in Virginia. British World War I tanks introduced, named to mislead enemies. Moonrise and star sightings noted for Panhandle skies.
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Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
BO Teestony
Vest. In
Vest
Nat Turner
Southhampton County
Turner
Cindé Procyon
Mars
Procyon
Conference approves housing aid for defense areas
A Senate House conference committee agreed to a bill to spur defense housing development and ease Federal Reserve down payment rules. The measure authorizes up to 50 million for defense area housing, up to 60 million for waterworks and sewers, and insures 1.5 billion in mortgages. Credit restrictions would be lifted in critical agencies. down payments are set at 10 percent for non veterans and 4 percent for GI loans on homes under 7 000, with a 10 000 ceiling changing rules.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Senate In Its Original Consideration of the Bill. the Conference Committee
Federal Reserve Board
South Carolina
Kentucky
Federal Housing Administration
Potomac Fever in Washington Dated Rumors and Policy Shifts
A Potomac Fever column notes the Wage Stabilization Board partial freeze on bonuses and Pentagon permission for part time farm and defense plant work. It reports RFC investigators criticizing Truman and Boyle on morality, price ceilings for cars over 25 years removed, Barkley hints at a 70 year old candidate, House vacation planned, and Red Chinese remarks on peace negotiators.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
Pentagon
Truman
Boyle
Warren Harding
Barkley
House
Red
Bullet kills oil operator Thomas Doswell in auto
Thomas W. Doswell an oil operator tied to Henry Ford Jr in West Texas drilling was shot dead in his car in Dallas as his wife prepared to hand him a gun. Police noted two empty .38 cartridges but one bullet and wound in the chest. Inquest verdict withheld as Mrs Doswell was hysterical and could not provide full details.
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Thomas Doswell
Dallas
Thomas W. Doswell
Henry Ford, Jr
West Texas
Justice of the Peace
W. E. Richburg
Doswell
Richburg
Nolice
Page Ap
Accident Toll Rises In Panhandle Wrecks
Critics reported slight improvement for Wallace J. Mueting 26 and his wife 24 after a Sunday crash on Highway 287 near Happy. Their daughter Diana 22 months escaped with minor bruises as three other crashes killed four people in the Panhandle.
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Wallace J. Mileting
East Twenty-fourth
Happy
Swisher County
Tulsa
Panhandle
Mueting
Diana
Leo Romas
Plainview
Plainview Clinic
Pfe
John B. Uneen
John Uneen
Wheeler
Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home
Borger
Fir Lumber Shipment To Olver & Wiggins Lbr Co
A shipment of fir lumber including 2x4s 2x6s and 1x8s totaling 84 aes ndrda is sent to Olver and Wiggins Lbr Co at 121 Jest 600. The note lists merchandise from Jest 600 warehouse with details on sizes and quantities for distribution.
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Fir
Shipman
Aes
Ndrda Olver & Wiggins Lbr Co
Jest
House approves 90 percent cut in civil defense funds
Washington Aug 2 The House voted to slash civil defense funding by 90 percent to 62.255 million dollars despite warnings of a larger Soviet A bomb program. The chamber rejected increases and heard Rep. Price claim Russia has more and larger bombs than U.S. intelligence believed.
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Washington
House
Russia
Federal
Civil Defense Administration
Chamber
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Melvin Price
Illinois
Price
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Clyde Doyle
California
Millard F. Caldwell
CIA
Henry M. Jackson
The
Atomic Energy Committee
Justifiable homicide in Antioch slaying of soldier
Coroner's jury ruled the Sunday slaying of Pic. Bobby L. Tull a justifiable homicide by self defense. Tull, 21, a Korean War veteran from Muleshoe, was shot by Herbert R. Collier 33. The incident followed a struggle after Tull tried to enter Collier's bed with the couple during a beer night at their home.
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Antioch
Cal
Pic
Bobby L. Tull
Muleshoe
Tull
Herbert R. Collier
Collier
Les Bower
Bureau of Identification
Joseph H. May
Colliers
Fibreboard Products
DeWitt
Ark
Evelyn
Changes Stated On Police Force
Amarillo plans sweeping police department changes after Det. 1. Chief Sir Harper announced an inspector will assist, a central records bureau headed by Don Stipes will be established, and two daytime patrol cars added. Force size rises to 137 from 99 with 15 short. next year’s budget allows 23 more than current.
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Amarillo
Det. 1
Sir Harper
Harper
Central Record Bureau
Don Stipes
Hale County Tot and Dad Take Anti Rabies Shots
A father and his four year old son, Rudy Ebeling, were bitten by a skunk on a porch near Kress Texas. Rudy began a series of 15 anti rabies injections, with his father also receiving shots after helping the child. The skunk was shot and killed.
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Hale County
Plainview
Rudy Ebeling
Kress
Ebeling
Ebelings
Billy, 2
Armistice Talks Hobble Over Ambush Near Kaesong
Deadlocked truce talks face a new crisis after a shooting in the neutral zone near Kaesong. UN and Korean officials blamed civilians or political elements, while subcommittee talks continued in Munsan with Gen Hodges and Adm Burke absent. Chief Red Armistice delegate Nam Il demanded a reply, and Joy in Tokyo said preliminary findings do not substantiate charges.
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Munsan
Korea
Kaesong
Henry Hodges
Arimight Burke
Nam Il
Red
Sunday Morn Ing
Turner Joy
United Nations
Tokyo
Joy
William P Nuckels
Matthew Ridewany
Truman seeks 400 million flood relief fund and disaster insurance
President Truman asked Congress for 400 million dollars to aid flood victims in the Midwest and to establish flood disaster insurance. He urged swift action as damage across Kansas Missouri and nearby states nears a billion dollars with another billion in implied losses, while 25 million dollars has already been appropriated for immediate relief.
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Washington
Atv
Truman
Congress
Midwest
White House
Mr. Truman
Kansas
Missouri
Amarillo Events Schedule Highlights City Club and Tournament
Today's list in Amarillo includes a noon to evening schedule with an all day women’s tennis tourney at Amarillo Country Club, downtown club meetings at Horrittie Hotel, and municipal committee sessions at the Municipal Auditorium. A 815 PM golf event features Ross Rogers Civirse with the NASPRALL and a Gold Sox game against the Bore Ger Gassers at Gold Sox Field.
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Iniers
Amarsillo Country Club
Amarillo Country Club
Cltans Club
Horritie
Amarillo
Minstrips
Ross Rogers
Ten Killed as Jet Plane Crashes Near Soldiers at Fort Dix
A T-33 jet training plane crashed into a scrub pine forest near a Fort Dix field class killing 10 servicemen and injuring 20. Two officers and eight soldier students died, with 16 more treated for burns. three injured were critical.
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Fort DIX
UPI
Army
Air Force
McGuire Field
Jack Boersig
Air Force Public Information
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