Underpass Crash Interferes With Route 66 Traffic West of Amarillo
An overloaded Navajo Freight Lines truck crashed into the Rock Island underpass on Route 66 near Bushland, knocking out tracks and collapsing bridge timbers. Debris blocked the highway until 3 p.m. and 50 crew members from several cities repaired the line. The driver Ralph A. Smith of Albuquerque faced illegal loading charges after 28 000 pounds of jet engines were found on board.
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Rock Island Bridge
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Los Angeles
Burlington
Dalhart
West Coast
Ralph A. Smith
Albuquerque
Smith
Justice of the Peace Co
W. Carder
Potter County
Pratt
Kan
el Reno
Okna Delhart
Vandals Sprayed Cars With Suspicious Fluid
Motorized vandals Saturday night sprayed a liquid on many cars including two police patrol vehicles. Chief JL King said the liquid faded paint. Two victims called police. descriptions led to three youths earlier spotted riding in a similar car. Patrolman De Witenes nabbed them at Seventh and Poo as the car stopped at a light. They were questioned and released.
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Jodine
JL. King
de Witenes
Mrs. T. W. Gilstrap 44 Dies in Temple
Daffin Gilstrap wife of T W Gilstrap died at 5 PM yesterday at Scott and White Clinic Temple after surgery last Monday. She was 44 born Feb 14 1907 in York Alabama and came to Amarillo as a Girl Scout executive. Funeral 4 PM Wednesday at Polk Street Methodist Church Blackburn Shaw in charge. Continued on Page 12.
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T. W
Bill” Gilstrap
Scott & White Clinic
Temple
Polk Street Methodist Church
Blackburn-Shaw
Gilstrap
Daffin Lowrey
Alabama
Amarillo
Kiwanis Club
York
Ala
Frank Mitchell Lowrey
Huntington College
Montgomery
Fairfax
Juliet Lowe
Cloudland
Chattahoochee Valley
Girl Scout Council
UN Patrols Jab At Enemy Forces on Korean Front
Allied tank infantry patrols clashed with Chinese Reds on the central Korean front near Kum song in a three hour battle before withdrawing. The front, 145 miles long, saw limited night air sorties and 131 daylight flights by the Fifth Air Force. Nine B 29s dropped 90 tons on the Sinanju rail bypass Sunday night. Communist terrorists derailed a pilot train and burned two buses in Malaya, causing at least one death.
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Kumsong
Fifth Air Force
Sinanju
Singapore
Malaya
Ohio River Flood Swamps Ohio Valley Driving Mass Evacuations
Rain fueled by record totals sent the Ohio River and tributaries into a major flood across Ohio and neighboring states. Three people were killed and thousands evacuated as water rose hourly, with Emergency declarations in Wheeling and Marietta. National Guard stood by, and cars carried emergency transport as towns faced extensive property damage potential.
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Ohio Valley
Cincinnati
Wheeling
Wva
Columbus
Big Walnut
Scioto
New Egyptian Government Ordered in Wake of Rioting
King Farouk ousted Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha and named Aly Maher Pasha to head a new independent cabinet amid a national crisis. Riots burnings and shootings prompted a shoot on sight curfew in Cairo and martial law across Egypt as Nahas Pasha was dismissed for failing to preserve security and order.
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Mustapha el Nahas Pasha
Aly Maher Pasha
Wafd
Egypt
Nahas Pasha
Fevptian
Comisal
Farouk Names Maher Pasha Premier Amid Cabinet Shakeup
King Farouk announces Maher Pasha as premier and forms a new cabinet including Murtada El Maraghi and Zaki Abd El Motaal as key ministers. A night curfew and anti-British rioting precede the change as the army restores order and aims to maintain security and unity during a critical stage toward independence.
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Maher
Farouk
Guesrson
Britain
Britain Hails Farouk Move in Feyplian Crisis
Britain welcomed King Farouk’s intervention seen as a potential path to renewed negotiations with Feyp. Officials avoided comment on cabinet shifts while reports swirled about a Waldist government shakeup as Britain weighed changes as a possible easing of tensions.
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Toneht
Parouk
Britain
Feyp
Cairo
Mass resignation workers seek reemployment at Shamrock plants
About 200 workers from McKee and Sunray who quit over a firing unanimously voted to seek reemployment with Shamrock Oil & Gas. The union leaders and company officials planned to respond by Monday noon while applications for vacancies were opened.
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Harold Dunn
Shamrock
Dunn
McKee
Sunray
Schmidt
Williams
Amarillo
Oil Workers
C. B Marshall
Dumas Local 847
OWIU
Hey
Income Tax Primer helps readers cut tax costs
Alexander R. George of the Associated Press Washington bureau writes an income tax primer in The Daily News. The feature targets seniors 65 and older, homeowners selling houses, self employed workers, and parents with earning children, offering money saving tips starting today on page 12.
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Alexander R. George
Associated Press
Washington Bureau
Daily News
Community events and meetings listed for Amarillo day
A rough schedule lists United Christian Youth Week activities at Amarillo College and Washington Avenue Christian Church, chipper youth events, a noon Kiwanis gathering, a drive-in at Phillipe Park, a 7 30 pm Leberal Legislative Council meet, and a State Guard morta unit at the Armory with scattered entries for other local groups.
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United Christian Youth
Amarillo College
Kiwanis
Herringale
Washington Avenue Christian Church
Phillipe Parkemon
Amarillo Leber l Legisietive Coune
T Carpenters
Wee
Morta
Guerd Armory
Spy Charge Threatens Flier Captured by Foe
A fragmentary clipping mentions Lt. Jehan Paul Streit labeled a spy while in a prison camp. The garbled text references captors, a jail or camp setting, and mentions names like Walker Reed and others, but provides no clear events or outcomes.
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Jehan Paul Streit
Nerth Keens
Walker
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Clinton Evans
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Saan
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Zaki Abd el Motaal
Hamed Soliman Pasha
Abd el Khalek Hassouna Pasha
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha
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Labban Agriculture
Salih Sami Pasha
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