Thunderstorm Sparks Across Panhandle With Dust and Hail
Severe storms rumbled across the Panhandle last night, bringing louring winds up to 65 mph, heavy rain amounts including 1.25 inches in Dumas and 1.5 inches in Gruver, lightning outages near Borger, and blowing dust in multiple towns. No major damage reported but street flooding slowed traffic and a tree was struck near Phillips.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Dumas
Bonavista
Borger
Dial
Phillips
Silverton
Tulsa
Gruver
Panhandle and South Plains Forecast Today
Partly cloudy with widely scattered thunder showers and local thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. Temperatures showing little change. readings by 4 p.m. around 55 to 69. Sunrise at 5 36 a.m. Sunset at 8 06 p.m. No precipitation in the 24 hours ending 4 p.m.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Mediator Moves For Steel Talks
With 650000 United Steel workers on strike, the federal mediation director in Washington seeks talks with union and management to discuss the situation. Union leader David J. McDonald says government contact is absent and industry-wide bargaining remains a goal but unlikely this week.
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John Moody
Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Washington
Finnegan
Arthur Goldberg
The
Union
McDonald
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem and Republic
J W Cole of Abilene Elected VEW Commander
J W Bill Cole of Abilene was elected commander of the Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars at the encampment closing. Mrs Guy McCandless of Kingsville named Auxiliary president as registration topped 1 600. New officers were installed at the Herring Hotel with many district commanders named.
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Daily News
Texas
Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Guy McCandless
Kingsville
Herring Hotel
T. C. Selman
Freeport
Doyle Willis Fort Way
Senate probes hit picnic spoon waste
Senate Preparedness subcommittee reports the Pentagon sold 23 million wooden spoons and forks at bargain prices while another agency bought them anew. The 32 cited cases show wasteful surplus selling and repeated buying across defense agencies. Johnson urges cost consciousness and frugality in household management.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Senate
Pentagon
Defense Department
General Services Administration
Senate Preparedness
Subcommittee
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Tas
Defense
Wilson
Globe-News Free Fireworks Show at Tri State Fairgrounds Amarillo Stadium
The Globe-News free fireworks display marks the Fourth of July at Tri-State Fairgrounds Amarillo Stadium starting 8:30 p.m. The 7 p.m. program features a drill team drum corps and a concert by the 320th U S Air Force Band. A talk on A Decade of Security by T Sgt Art Ponder is planned.
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Globe-News
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Amarillo Stadium
U. S. Air Force
Art Ponder
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Oklahoma City 1956
Weather report notes Amarillo had sunshine 174 of 184 days in 1956 with Sunday readings at 3 p.m. showing partly cloudy skies. Oklahoma City reported 0.18 inches of precipitation and clear to partly cloudy conditions with winds around 15 mph.
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Amarillo
Okla
City
128 Killed in Worst Air Crash in Grand Canyon
Two large airliners collided in flight and burned on adjacent peaks in the Grand Canyon. A Trans World Airlines Super Constellation with 70 aboard and a United Airlines DC7 with 58 aboard were found wrecked with no survivors. Civil and military authorities opened an investigation.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Arizona
Trans World Airlines
United@Jr Lines
Grand Canyon Plane Collision Claims Dozens of Children
The two airliners United and TWA crashed in rugged Grand Canyon terrain after flying into thunderclouds. Rescue teams, CAB investigators, and military helicopters converged as officials expected to recover victims, including at least 15 children, with search efforts ongoing for dawn retrieval.
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TWA
Colorado
DCT
Civil Aeronautics Board
Grand Canyon
Civilization
Arizona
William K. Andrews
CAB
Air Safety Investigating Bureau
Air Safety and Accident Investigation
Assn
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
Kansas City
Byrd Ryland
March Afb
Calif
Alvin C. Scott
Hamilton Afb
Dean Lewis
Luke Air Force Base
Phoenix
Grand Canyon Village
Grand Canyon National Park
Chuar Butte
Temple Butte
Jeromé A. Seldt
Transport Aviation Hlicopter
Ft. Hauchuca
Ariz
Flagstaff
Constellation
United
Baseball scores roundup from Western and American leagues
Western League results Amarillo beat Colorado Springs 7 to 4 while Topeka defeated Sioux City 10 to 4. Lincoln topped Des Moines 34 to 9 and Pueblo crushed Albuquerque 43 to 2. American League action saw New York 38 over Washington 246 and Cleveland 7 to 6 over Chicago with Baltimore 5 over Boston 3. National League matches included Chicago 7 over Milwaukee 0 and Philadelphia 7 over Brooklyn 4. Cincinnati led St. Louis 19 to 7 as New York beat Pittsburgh 3 to 2 in a game halted at the end of the eighth due to curfew with New York leading 7-6 in the second game.
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Amarillo
Colorado Springs
Topeka
Sioux City
Lincoln
Des Moines
Pueblo
Albuquerque
New York
Washington
Cleveland
Chicago
Baltimore
Boston
Detroit
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
McLean Dedicates Tax-Financed Clinic Hospital
The McLean clinic hospital, financed by bonds and linked to High’s General in Pampa, opens with Dr Don Schultz and Dr Norma Schultz taking residence and starting practice. About 600 to 700 attendees toured the $150,000 facility as officials praised local efforts. The hospital plans to serve the community starting Monday morning.
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McLean
Semna
Bruce Parker
Roy McKerson
Gray County Hospital Board
Norma Shultz
Don Shultz
Ahn Loe Mionl
Texas
Shultz
Norma /Shultz
Norma
Donto
Methodist Hospital of
Dallas
Ed Lander
High
Pampa
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Colorado River
United Air Lines
Weather Forecast
U.S Weather Bureau
David J. McDonald
USW
J. W. Cole
Abilene
VEW
J. W
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A. M
Jack) Armstrong
Austin
Jimmy Roe
Gene Waters
Fort Worth
R. K. Moupin
San Antonio
Pat McMullan
Midland
Clinton Eaton
Joyce Salm
Taylor
Lynette Self
Rosenberg
Father Mae Johnson
Houston
Cleo G. Clayton Jr
C. FB. Killingsworth
G. D. Wilson
Bowie
Bill Dor
Seagraves
Talmadge E. Dean
Anson
Walter L. Brown
Tommy de Baca
el Paso
Marvin Franger
la Coste
Glynn C. Brumley
Kil
Johnson
Lawrence Malkin
Donald Hunter
Greenfield
Ind
Ari
Zona
Pirar
New Clinic
By AL Hall
KGNC
NBC Matines Theater
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