Spreading the Word on Our Climate Campaign
The newspaper announces a deliberate campaign to spread the truth about Panhandle weather across the country. Photographer Lester Williams mailed AP wire photos showing Clark Gable vacationing in Amarillo Texas with dachshund pets. A new weather feature promises to present climate truth from the paper’s weather conscious staff.
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Lester Williams
Clark Gable
Associated Press
Amarillo
Texas
Don Harrington
United States
Gable
Day in Amarillo Sun Tops 351 Sunny Days in a Year
Climatic notes claim Amarillo enjoyed 351 sunny days in a single year with minimal days of cloudiness, comparing local optimism with other Texas cities. The piece discusses sunshine percentages, sky conditions, and the Panhandle climate in contrast to Houston and Dallas, previewing more data.
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Amarillo
Louise Evans
Phoenix
Miami
el Paso
Downstate
Texline
Potter County
The
North
Panhandle
Texas
Houston
H. C. Winburn
Daily News
Canadian
Michigan
Southwest
Oklahoma City
U.S. Weather Bureau
Weather summary from Amarillo region reports sunshine
Readings show clear skies and sunny conditions across Houston Dallas Oklahoma City and Amarillo yesterday 3 PM wind speeds around 10 to 20 MPH visibility good with bright sun ongoing across locales reported in the brief weather note
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Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Dallas
Okla
City
Houston Uy
Amerillo
Houston
Amagilio
Expansion of Elevator Bins in Pullman Cooperative
Pullman Wheat Growers Co operative awards a $99,000 contract to A F Roberts Construction of Sabetha Kansas to build six new grain elevator bins with 200000 bushel capacity. When finished the site will hold 350000 bushels total five miles east of Amarillo with the May completion target. Construction starts within 60 days joining the north side of the existing 150000 bushel structure built in 1949.
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Pullman Wheat Growers Cooperative
A. F. Roberts Construction Company
Sabetha
Kansas
Amarillo
Pullman Switch
Roberts
Pullman Wheat Growers Elevator
Warmest January date on record in Amarillo wakes city
City records show a high of 76 degrees on January 7 tying the 1927 record. The roundup notes Pantex Plant staff layoffs 240 separation notices amid rumors of closure while six new grain bins are added to the Pullman Wheat Growers elevator east of town. Kiwanis clubs install new presidents J W Hill and John Halley. Investigation into the First National Bank theft drags and a highway routes survey begins after city commission approval.
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J. W. Hill
Amarillo Kiwanis Club
John Halley
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club
First National Bank
High Center
Essay Deadline for Week Is Tomorrow
Deadline for the first weekly Current History Essay Contest in 1954 is tomorrow at midnight. The Daily News offers cash prizes to top high school essayists with cumulative points for their schools toward an annual award. Topics cover current events of the week December 31 to January 6. send essays to Sue Suffolk, Current Events Contest, 8800 Taylor, Amarillo.
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The
Daily News
Sue Suffolk
Taylor
Amarillo
Three teens plead guilty in Tucumcari robbery case
Three AWOL Marine claimants aged 17 to 19 pleaded guilty in District Court here to car theft and armed robbery after a roadblock pursuit near the New Mexico Texas line. Judge Bonem postponed sentencing pending fingerprint records as Arthur Francis Christ, 21, an airman from Moffat Field, reported the robbery.
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Tucumcari
San Diego
Cal
David S. Bonem
Carl E. Green
St. Louis
Eddie John Davis
Detroit
Leonirez Diaz Fuentez
Houston
Oldham County
Day Thompson
Texas- New Mexico
Highway 66
Jesse Scruggs
San Jos
New Mexico
Arthur Francis Christ
Moffat Field
San Jose
Bridge
Hill
Christ
San Jon
Scruggs
Whey
Texas
Justice of the Peace Court
Fred White
District Court
Expressway Route Survey Opens in Amarillo
The city Engineering Department began a survey to determine right-of-way costs for the Amarillo Expressway. City Manager N V Moss says the study will take at least 30 days. The project plans a 220 foot wide right-of-way inside the city and wider in surrounding counties.
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Amarillo
City Commission
N. V. Moss
Fillmore Street
36Th Avenue
Moss
Texas State Highway Department
Potter County
Randall County
Pleasant Valley
Canyon
Quake in India reports tremors in central region
Earthquake tremors of more than seven seconds duration were reported today in central India. At Kottacadem in southern Hyderabad state people rushed from shaking houses. No loss of life was reported.
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India
Madras
Kottacadem
Hyderabad
Court Orders Venire of 200 For Railroad Suit Hearing
A district court in Amarillo ordered a venire of two hundred for the merits hearing of an injunction suit brought by fourteen Amarillo employees against Santa Fe Railway and sixteen non operating unions. The case, filed in May 1953, seeks to determine if a union shop agreement would threaten employees’ jobs.
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Venire
Santa Fe Railway Company
Amarillo
108Th District Court
Santa Fe
The
Dist
E. C. Nelson
Tempo
Col
E. A. Simpson
Simpson
47Th District Court Room
Push to lower voting age to 18 spreads in Congress
President Eisenhower proposes 18 year voting age and triggers constitutional amendment efforts in both chambers. Senator Knowland and Rep Widnall lead bills seeking nationwide recognition of 18 year olds as eligible voters. Georgia already allows 18 year olds to vote, while most states require 21.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Knowland
California
Senate
House
Rep
Widnall
New Jersey
Georgia
Pantex Denies Closing Amid Workforce Reductions
Lt. Col. R H Edger announced a 200 worker cut at Pantex Ordnance Plant, denying rumors of closure. He said reductions are part of refitting to a broader atomic weapons program, with no plant shutdowns, and only a small percent of Amarillo workers affected.
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Pantex Ordnance Plant
R. H. Edger
Edger
Rex Baxter
Amarillo
Pantex
Duval Judge Laughlin Wins Suspension Fight
District Judge Woodrow Laughlin of Alice won a brief procedural setback for his removal case when the Supreme Court refused to order immediate suspension. The ruling allows him to stay on the bench in Jim Wells Brooks Starr and Duval counties until a full decision is made.
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Austin
Woodrow Laughlin
Alice
Supreme Court
South Texas
Laughlin
Jim Wells
Brooks
Starr
Duval
Camp Don Harrington Scout Leaders Roundtable
Canyon Choral clinic workshop at WTSC scheduled 9 15 AM.
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Don Harrington
Canyon Choral Clinic
WTSC
GOP Leaders Hail Chief's Defense View
Republican leaders praised Eisenhower's message as peaceful prosperous and defense minded though critics warn of farm and tax policy battles ahead. Key figures anticipate support for some proposals but division over corporate taxes and military spending remains.
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GOP
Washington
Eisenhower
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Compress
Martin
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
Richard M. Nixon
Ways and Means Committee
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
Noah M. Mason
Illinois
Daniel A. Reed
New York
Ways and Means
Walter F. George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Senate Agriculture Committee
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Agriculture
Aiken
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
U.S
Korea
Senate
Lyndonb. Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Stuart Symington
Misouri
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TWA
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