Amarillo Men To Confer On Palo Duro Park Lake Plan
Three Amarillo men travel to Austin to discuss with the State Park Board a financing plan for Palo Duro State Park Lake. If approved and legislation enacted next session, the dam could be completed by next winter and the lake usable by summer 1961.
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Amarillo
Austin
State Park Board
Palo Duro State Park
Park Board
Mark Miles
Chamber of Commerce
Palo Duro
Sunday Creek
No. 2
Goodnight Dugout
Hatfield Engineering Company of
Transit Strike Averted In New York City
New York officials announce settlement between the transit authority and unions preventing a bus and subway strike. Mayor Wagner confirms no interruption in service, with the city contributing 13 million dollars over two years and wage talks settled between Quill and the authority after hours of mediation.
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New York
City Transit Authority
City Hall
Robert F. Wagner
TIT Am
Quill
Year To Open on Icy Note
A blizzards storm moves from Utah and Arizona toward the Great Plains threatening the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles with near blizzard conditions. Regions from the northern Texas Panhandle to eastern New Mexico face heavy snow, high winds, and drifting as the system crosses the Rockies. Amarillo forecasts wet weather turning to snow with temperatures not rising above 38.
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Daily News
Utah
Arizona
Great Plains
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Texas Panhandle
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo Air Terminal
Upper Panhandle
High Plains
Amarillo
Dodson
Matador
Childress
Dalhart
Clovis
Borger
Golden
Rockies
Navy’s Rhyme Time on New Year’s Watch Logs
A New Year’s Day naval tradition prompts duty officers to rhyme their first log of the year. From Lt John Westbrook aboard USS Bremerton to logs aboard Ticonderoga and Kane, sailors penned verses during lonely watch hours. The practice, traced to the 19th century, appears in All Hands and Naval Institute records.
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Navy
J.G
John Westbrook
USS
Bremerton
Mare Island
Navy Information Department
J. C. Ford
Kane
U.S. Naval Institute
Fateful Fifties Fade Highlights Across a Decade
A compact retrospective lists key events from 1950 to 1959 noting Truman health insurance push and rail seizures, Eisenhower election, Everest conquest, Taft death, Bannister mile, Davy Crockett, merging unions, Coping with stock price rises, space for expanding rights, Alaska statehood, Hawaii entry, and notable public figures including royalty and presidents.
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Frank Costello
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Far East Command
Dwight D Eisenhower
George VI
Britain
Elizabeth II
Supreme Court
Hillary and
Norkay
Mt. Everest
Robert Taft
Ohio
Bobbie Greenlease
Roger Bannister
U. S
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway Project
Dior
Davy Crockett
Congress
Dodgers
Giants
West Coast
Pope Pius XII
John XXIII
Alaska
Nixon
South America
France
Charles de Gaulle
Dulles
Khrushchev
Moscow
Hawaii
Rockefeller
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Southern Plains
Amarillo records 320 sunny days in 1959 with a 3 PM Thursday reading. Wind and visibility vary with fog in Amarillo, rain in Dallas and Oklahoma regions, and cloudy conditions elsewhere.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Red Hair Bandit Robs Bill's Place Attendant
Patrols reported a red headed gunman robbed Bill's Place at 4002 NE 8th, taking about 300 dollars from the night attendant at 11:50 p.m. Thursday. The assailant entered with a small caliber revolver and demanded the cash, leaving in a brown paper bag. The terrified attendant could only describe him as redheaded.
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Bill’s Place
Changes in American schools in coming decade
Washington expects larger school days and years with more independent study. Rigor in programs lowers elective options and expands foreign language and Russian study, while television and teaching aids grow. College education gains value as adult education expands and enrollments rise nationwide.
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Washington
America
Quick Action By Rescuer Saves Driver
In Plainview Pat King 55 without prior first aid training is credited with saving Texas Highway Department worker G Milton Estep 25 after a crash. Estep suffered a deep forehead cut as his truck cab was struck by an auto driven by Jimmy Dickerson 21. King applied pressure to Estep’s temple until paramedics arrived.
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Pat King
G. Milton Estep
Texas Highway Department
Jimmy Dickerson
Estep
King
Amarillo Businesses Set New Year Weekend Hours
Holiday observances close stores and offices Friday with the Amarillo Globe News Classified Department open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Advertisements must be in by 4 p.m. Friday for Saturday insertion as most businesses plan Saturday hours.
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Amarillo
The
Amarillo Globe News
Rogers Seeks Federal Crime for Payola and Crackdown
Attorney General William P. Rogers urged that payola become a federal offense and that two federal agencies use their powers to halt deceptive practices in broadcasting. He made the recommendation in a 54 page report to President Eisenhower, delivered after House disclosures last summer of fixed TV contests. The document calls for stronger regulation of the industry and stricter enforcement.
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Hower
White House
House Committee
Rogers
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Nearby Regions
Forecast warns stockman and traveler in upper Panhandle of rain turning to snow Friday with strong northerly winds. Snow flurries Saturday, with continued cloudiness and colder temperatures. Northeast Texas and South Plains see rain turning to snow, then cold and windy through Saturday. New Mexico faces heavy snow warnings in northern and northeastern areas.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
South Plains
Ando
Stockman and Traveler
Upper Panhandle
Texas
Northwest Texas
Stockman
Travelers
N.M
Rogers backs stronger enforcement and penalties in reg bodies
Rep. Walter Rogers of Texas lauds the attorney general s proposals while urging Congress to empower regulatory commissions to assess money penalties to back their orders. He also supports a stiff law against semi bribery or payola.
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Walter Rogers
D-Tex
Congress
Rogers
Texan Wins Burlington Liars Club Prize
W C Cook of Wichita Falls Texas is crowned the new world champion of the Burlington Liars Club. His winning lie claims extreme wind scarcity last summer that forced tearing down two windmills to power the remaining one and removing fences to let wind flow, a tale no doubt exaggerated for humor.
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Burlington, Wis
UPI
Burlington
Liars’ Club
W. C. Cook
Wichita Falls
High Plains News in 1959 Highlights Bold Changes and Tragedies
Highlights of 1959 on the High Plains include record cold lows in early January, a fatal truck accident in Pampa, a church fire in Hale Center with vast losses, a large land gift to Wayland Baptist College, a helium extraction venture planned for Sunray, a murder indictment in Floyd County, a hospital expansion ballot in Clovis, a Phillips Petroleum wage hike approved by the union, and winter snow and blizzards across the Tri-State area.
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Pampa
Charles Edward Poston Jr
Hale Center
First Methodist Church
Floyd County
Robert Branum
Lockney
Branum
Phillips Petroleum Company
International Union of Operating Engineers
Afl-Cio
Phillips
Frittering money blocks drug price fixes, reader says
A reader tells the editor Congress erred by blaming price chips for high drug costs. He argues the real issue is people’s lack of money and suggests a committee probe into tax waste and frittering. Wellington reader D. FE. SCOTT.
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D. FE
Scott Wellington
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