grain swindle in panhandle wheat trade costs half a million
Plainview June 3 The Hale County grand jury and Dist Atty Harold M. LaFont say a ring of 35 to 40 truckers stole and swindled grain worth about 250000 from Hale Center elevators and more from regional farmers. Methods included falsified weighings and staged overloads, with ongoing investigations.
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Luron Brown
The
Daily News
Plainview
Panhandle Plains
East Texas
Dist
Atty
Harold M. LaFont
Hale County Grand Jury
LeFont
M. B. Jernigan
Sherman
Hale County
Hale Center
LaFont
la Font
Roswell Flooding From Rio Hondo Spreads Into Business District
Flood waters from the Rio Hondo advance through West Roswell encroaching on the business district at a rate of about a foot every ten minutes. Residents sandbagged exposed areas as the crest approached, following earlier high water from mountain rains and rising flows in the Pecos and Rio Grande.
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Roswell
Pecos
Rio Grande
Santa Rosa
Middle
Amarillo Man and Eastland Boy Die in Truck Jeep Crash
Two youths and a man died near Washburn when a Chevrolet truck struck a jeep on Highway 287. Willis Madison Lamb 31 of Amarillo and Don M. Hill 14 of Eastland perished. Douglas King 14 of Eastland and Winston C. Connors 41 of Amarillo were injured. Funeral arrangements and investigations are pending.
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Amarillo
Washburn
Willis Madison Lamb
Lincoln
Don M. Hill
Eastland
Douglas King
St. Anthony Hospital
Winston C. Connors
Concho
Texas
Lamb
Highway 287
Connors
Hill
King
New Mexico
Don C. Hill
Eddie Cunningham
Daily News
Willis M. Lamb
John Moore
Armstrong County
Airlines Strut Safety Record Across Globe
The National Safety Council reports 23 airlines logged 7.0 billion passenger miles with no fatalities through 1947. Pan American Airways earned recognition for 1.44 billion miles from Aug 1945 to June 1947 without a fatality. Other winners posted multi year, zero fatality records up to 18 years. Pioneer Air Lines noted no fatalities since August 1945.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Pan American Airways, Inc
Council
Pioneer Air Lines, Inc
Houston
Government orders free shoes for workers in Colombia
The government required employers to provide a free pair of shoes every six months to permanent workers earning under 80 pesos a month. The move aims to protect footwear for laborers in Bogota and reflects state intervention in workers welfare.
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Bogota
Columbia
Daily News index summary of mixed stories
A compact index lists multiple topics across pages including foreign relief funds naval funding oil field news Western speaking tour and tariff battles. It notes editorial and market sections plus features on photography farming and press coverage with various regional and national interests.
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House
Doyle
Son
Babson
Europe
McLemore
MacArthur
Red River
Island Paradise
Payoff charges swirl over foreign exchange fund for publishers
Washington reports claim a 10 million dollar foreign exchange fund was proposed as a payoff to magazines newspapers and other media for backing European aid. House Appropriations cut the fund from 15 million to 10 million, prompting critics to call it subsidies and propaganda while publishers deny accepting government subsidies.
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House Appropriations Committee
State Department
Leo Allen
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Taber
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Appropriations Committee
Foreign Exchange Fund
Paul G. Hoffman
European Recovery Program
Europe
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J. Noel Macy
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Ture
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Life
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New York Times
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Today In Amarillo swimming courses start at Thompson Pool
American Business Club cancels its regular meeting and will celebrate its 25th anniversary at Boys Ranch Old Tascosa on Sunday afternoon. At 3:00 PM Amarillo club women meet at Municipal Auditorium to discuss plans for securing new quarters. 8:30 PM Art Querry Studio Dance Review at the high school auditorium. Public attendance notes that it’s fun to shop for books at Russell's air conditioned store on Taylor Street.
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American Business Club
Boys Ranch
Old Tascosa
Amarillo Club
Municipal Auditorium
Art Querry
Russell
Taylor
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers and little temperature change expected for Friday and Saturday. West Texas sees similar partly cloudy skies with widely scattered afternoon and evening storms and no major temperature shifts. Yesterday’s temperatures ranged from the low 60s to high 80s with a high near 89 and a low near 43. Sunrise was 5:33 AM and sunset 7:57 PM.
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Amarililo
West Texas
Texan Named to Lead Battle On Herd Blight
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Johnson of Glenfhoro Texas is named co director of the US Foot and Mouth Disease Commission in Mexico City amid efforts to expand cattle vaccination. He will maintain his role as assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. vaccination aims to reach 150000 animals weekly, with 20 million cloven hoofed animals in Mexico under consideration for vaccination.
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Mexico City
Harry H. Johnson
United States
Foot and Mouth Disease Commission
Johnson
Glenfhoro
Tex
Rome
Wr. M. S. Snahan
Bureau of Animal Industry
Secretary of
Nazario Ortiz Garza
Walter Thurston
Commission
Oscar Flores
General Johnson
Shahan
Mexico
Gulf Coast
Nevada suffers first recorded tornado in state history
Reno June 3 Nevada joins Tornado Union as a tornado rips an 11 by 16 foot cabin from its foundation 25 miles east of Reno. Cecil W. Sherwood a 37 year old Reno painter is carried with the wreckage but climbs free with painful but minor injuries. The Weather Bureau notes Nevada had no prior authentic tornado report.
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Reno
Nev
Nevada
Cecil W. Sherwood
Sherwood
Here
Union
C. E. Shepherd
US Weather Bureau
County Receives 10000 From National Foundation
Hidalgo County on June 3 received a 10000 grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Robert L. Lyon, county tax collector and foundation chairman, announced the donation yesterday. Al's Radio Service Amarillo’s Oldest. 2-3851.
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Edinburg
National Foundation For
Hidalgo County
Robert L. Lyon
Al's Radio Ser
Amarillo
Army Bounces Paraguay Chief
In Asuncion on June 3 the army deposed President Higinio Morinigo after eight years in power. Juan Manuel Frutos, chief justice, becomes Provisional President until Aug 15 when Juan Natalicio Gonzales is due to be inaugurated. Morinigo's cabinet resigned. Frutos swore in and began governing as Asuncion returned to relative calm.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Higinio Morinigo
Juan Manuel Frutos
Supreme Court
Morinigo
Colorado Party
Juan Natalicio Gonzales
Frutos
Toniight
Gonzalez
What Am I Saying Morning After
A humorous piece by Frank Morean riffs on Byron and a hangover after wine and merriment. The joke centers on two heads being better than one except when a hangover ensues. Copyright 1948 Post Corp. Inc.
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N. ¥. Post Corp., Inc
Thanksgiving In- June at Woodward
Citizens of Woodward marked Appreciation Day under a June sun to honor contributions from Oklahoma Kansas and Panhandle dollars that rebuilt the city after the April tornado. Gov Roy J Turner and Red Cross official Robert C Edson led ceremonies dedicating the new junior high school and praising disaster relief efforts.
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The
Daily News
Woodward
the Panhandle
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Kansas
Roy J. Turner
Robert C. Edson
Midwest Disaster Relief
Red Cross
Dorsey Baker
Woodward Hotel
George Trego
Daily Oklahoman
America's Gangsters Gold and Gals Souped Up for Soviet Radio Audience
A congressional study of the Voice of America reports on scripts that mix crime, fashion, and race. Officials denounce the material as trash while defending it as depicting real life. The hearings cite a West Point visit joke about gold and gangsters, and Harlem scenes referencing Paul Robeson.
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America
Washington
Lake Placid
Russia
Congressional
Voice of America
Voice
State Department
United States
House
Senate
West Point
Fort Knox
Charles W. Thayer
The
New York
Chenoweth
Colorado
Thayer
Harlem
Paul Robeson
Robeson
First Wheat Shipped from 1948 Collingsworth County Crop
First truck load of wheat from the 1948 Collingsworth County crop arrived at Wellington. Harvested by T. M. White the 100 bushel load tested 59 and sold for 2.15 dollars per bushel. County cutting is not expected to become general until next week. Yield described as fair.
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Wellington
Collingsworth County
T. M. White
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