Campaign Ends But Politics Go On In Midwest Dinner
A wire dispatch reports Democrats begin a three month campaign for Mid West farmer votes with a $10 plate dinner in Sioux Falls South Dakota Adlai Stevenson to speak and Harry Truman to rejoin the stump. A Texas forecast reflects mixed results with local observers predicting close margins. Local voters await tonight's polls after a bitter state primary.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic National Committee
Harry Truman
Lyn
McCarthy
Texas
Expert No
Yarborough
Polls and anecdotes weave through Amarillo notes
A collection of local items spans a banker’s query on XIT to Star Cross, reader sketches, and remarks by Chuck Hanna on workers as customers. It recalls Amarillo’s first night football under lights in 1923, the Paschal game telecast in 1948, and a map based traffic tip, with a closing jab about the cradle rocker earning 75 cents an hour.
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John Head
Clarendon
XIT
Star Cross
Merrit Hudson
Steve Hudson
Dora Lemons
Burnett
Evetts Haley
Snowball Rodgers
Clara McCall
Gene Jordan
Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo High School
Clarendon College
Guy Hayden
A.H
R. P. Parcells
Sandies
Fort Worth
Wbap-Tv
Exac
Rio Grande
Fred Linn
New Mexico Petroleum Industries Committee
C. O. Sutton
Evangeline
First Baptist Church
Keith Lloyd
Lloyd Keith
Wes Izzard
Pachuco Hunt Expands Across Chicago Area
Federal city county and military authorities began a broad search for young hoodlums wearing Pachuco symbols. The sweep followed the seizure of three men carrying a small radiant cross marked on the skin, a symbol associated with the Pachuco organization.
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Chicago
Pachuco
Shivers Drops Reelection Bid Urging Texas to Resist Gamble
Gov. Al Lan Shivers ended his campaign for reelection with a firm warning that Texas must not gamble with its future. He argued the state is too fine to be set back 50 years by an administration he claims buys people with empty promises and political payoffs in a statewide radio address.
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Max B. Skelton
Houston
Allan Shivers
Texas
Church council backs private enterprise shift in message
Church leaders from 163 denominations debated a responsible society and condemned capitalism while urging freedom from arbitrary arrest and rights protections. They cited lessons from Communist Hungary and signaled a move away from Amsterdam founding positions.
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Gatien
Hungary
Amsterdam
Texans cast ballots in governor runoff and four Potter County races
Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Potter County features four races including a county treasurer runoff. Statewide ballots focus on governor Ralph Yarborough and Allan Shivers, with Supreme Court Place No 1 Few Brewster and Court of Criminal Appeals Lloyd Davidson among others. Absentee votes indicate heavy participation.
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Potter County
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Brewster
Bell County
Alfred M. Oe
Lloyd W. Davidson
Travis County
Randall County
T. H. Lair
Amarillo
Gas Blast Hurts Ten in Clovis Home
Ten persons from three families visiting a relative in Clovis were injured when a gas line was damaged by a ditch digger in the Warren Grant home area. The blast at about 10 30 a m damaged a three bed room house and minor injuries were reported for two others. Hospital officials said none were in critical condition.
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Ben Melton
Clovis
Warrenie
Daily News
N.M
Clovis Memorial Hospital
Warren Grant
32Nd
Prince
Ollie Damron
Grant Home
Weldon Smart
George McBride
Where To Vote Precincts Listed For Amarillo Election
Voters are advised to locate precinct numbers on tax receipts or exemption certificates and then check the lists to find polling places. Precincts 1 through 33 include schools, halls, and the Civic venues across Amarillo with specific addresses and entrances noted. Democratic polling places split by Washington Street: Alice Landergin School for east of Washington and Lamar School for west of Washington.
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Municipal Auditorium
Buchanan
McKinley School
Adams
Elizabeth Nixon
Tyler
Wilson School
Taylor
Amarillo College
Washington
Wolflin School
Hughes
Cathedral Hall
Oom
Fannin
East Oor
Bivins School
Fannin North Door
Randall County
29Th Avenue
Alice Landergin
Washington Street
Lamar School
Lipscomb
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas area
Amarillo and vicinity expect continued fair with warm afternoons. Friday night low around 69 and high on Saturday near 80s. West Texas will be clear to partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and evening showers and little temperature change. New Mexico mostly fair Saturday with isolated thundershowers in the southeast. highs 80s to mid 90s. sunrise 6 16 a.m. sunset 7 20 p.m.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Wayside Man Smothered to Death in Wheat Bin
Newton Thomas Williams 57, of Wayside, died in a wheat bin on the J W Byrd farm 27 miles southeast of Canyon at about 5 30 p m He slipped into heated wheat and was pulled under by the shifting grain in a slope floored bin Mrs J T Jones alerted her husband and Sheriff L B Johnston said Williams was trapped and suffocated by the grain His body was removed with help from neighbors Funeral services set for Amarillo with burial in Liano Cemetery Williams was born November 3 1896 in Ozona Texas and survived by a large family including five brothers and five sisters
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Canyon
Here
Newton Thomas Williams
Williams
J. W. Byrd
W. A. Williams
Amarillo
Paul
Herbert
Bil
Wayside
Jess
Plainview
Pete
el Paso
Ann Cook
Jewell Rowe
Happy
Irene Smyth
Riverside
Cal
Myrtle Meyer
Los Angeles
Blackburn-Shaw
Rockford
Angela Gilbertson
Maxine Gu
Pro Grid Games On KGNC-TV Channel 4
The opening fall season Canadian pro football game between Toronto and Ottawa will air on KGNC-TV Channel 4 at 11 45 a m Amarillo time. The game starts a nine game telecast schedule on the station.
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Kgnc-Tv
Channel 4
Toronto
Ottawa
Amarillo
Hurricane Carol Rapidly Strengthens Near Florida and Carolinas
Hurricane Carol rose from tropical storm to a full hurricane off the Florida coast then neared North and South Carolina. At 5 p.m. winds reached 115 mph near the center as reconnaissance planes tracked its slow movement and outer gale bands 50 to 90 miles from the center.
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Miami
Fla
Carol
North
South Carolina
Florida
Jacksonville
J. G
E. J. Casey
Navy
Miami Weather Bureau
Adlai Predicts Demos Sweep at Iowa Luncheon
Adlai Stevenson predicted a Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress in the coming fall elections. Speaking at a $100-a-plate luncheon in Sioux City, he said the outlook was more Democrats and planned a tour toward a farm conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to push a broad attack on new farm legislation.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Braniff Airlines
Sioux Falls
S.D
Graham Sutherland Begins Churchill Portrait in London
London August 27 British artist Graham Sutherland, prominent in modern art, has started painting a portrait of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The work marks a notable commission reflecting wartime leadership and postwar Britain’s artistic circles.
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Winnie
London
Graham Sutherland
Britain
Churchill
Yarborough Says Opponent Used Fake Photos in Campaign
Ralph Yarborough accused his opponent in the Texas governor runoff of releasing fake photographs and vowed to present the smear sheet to a grand jury after the campaign ends. He labeled the broadcasts as political dirty tricks and urged voters to assess the claims.
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Dallas
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Yarborough
Allan Shivers
Texans face runoff in Democratic governor race
Texas Democrats vote Saturday in a runoff between Governor Allan Shivers the conservative and Ralph Yarborough the liberal in a contest shaped by the split within the party. The winner will face Republican Todd Adams in November as Democratic nomination has long stood for election.
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Texas
Eisenhower
Allan Shivers
Atty
Todd Adams
Houston
Shivers
Yarborough
Dallas
Baseball results from West Texas New Mexico and major leagues
Scores from the West Texas New Mexico league show Clovis over Albuquerque 8 0 and Lubbock defeating Pampa 6 5. American League results include New York 4 Detroit 0 and Washington 3 Cleveland 2 in 0 innings. Paris reports Ton Danaher awaiting a Rome flight after a long Europe tour.
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Clovis
Albuquerque
Lubbock
Pampa
Abilene
Plainview
New York
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Second Annual Panhandle Open Chess Tourney Opens Today
The Panhandle Open Chess Tournament begins in Amarillo at 2 p.m. in the YMCA building with defending champions anticipated to participate. Registration is at 10 a.m. and play times are 2 and 7 p.m. today and 9 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m. tomorrow. Spectators may watch as Ralph Price, tournament director, notes the Amarillo Chess and Checker Club sponsors the event.
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Amarillo
YMCA
Ninth
van Buren
E. Czapski
Roswell Air Force Base
Borger
R.S. Underwood
Lubbock
Bert Brice-Nash
Wichita
Underwood
W. C. Marshall
Ralph Price
Globe News Model Airplane Contest at Tradewind Airport
Today and tomorrow the Globe News Model Airplane Contest showcases precision acrobatics and radio controlled flight at Tradewind Airport. Flying events run 9 am to 4 pm with awards in 15 classes at 5 pm tomorrow. spectators are urged to observe barricades and keep hands off fragile scale models.
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Tradewind
Globe News
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Izzard
Chuck Hanna
Rotary Club
Pachuco Search
Arra
Church Group
George W. Cornell
Istice
Christ
Stormy
Jefferson County
Ralph W. Yarborough
By Juanita Goodman
Ralpa Yarborough
Margaret Wills
San Jacinto
Carolina
Georgia
Sam Houston School
Forest
East Door
Summit School
N. Florida
Pythian Hall
Carver
N. Hughes
N. Amarillo Kiwanis
N. Pierce
Horace Mann
N. Buchanan
Forest Hill
8Th
Grand Street
13Th
Sanborn
Roberts
Glenwood
Ady
Bushland
West Door
Highland Park School
Pleasant Valley School
River Drive
River Road
Range Riders
Masterson Ranch
Hurricane Carol
Adlai
Demos
Congress
House
Senate
By Martha Cole
Robert H. Johnson, JR
Associated Press
Austin
Danaher
Paris
Ton Danaher
Europe
Rome
Newfoundland
Ireland
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