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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1948
Page
4
The Amarillo Daily News lists Gene Howe as resident and publisher Wesley Lizard as editor in chief Paul Allingham as general manager and Grady Camp as business manager The paper is a second class matter publication in Amarillo Texas and identifies as an independent Democratic newspaper seeking impartial news coverage
The narrator tours the Alamo and three San Antonio sites, noting war relics and a Sam Houston document. In Austin he observes Will Rogers Range Riders at the McCandless Hotel and comments on political skirmishes, voter sentiment, and a hot Senate campaign between Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson.
Washington Daybook reports a lengthy eight page memo to President Truman warning that expanding German heavy industry risks strengthening Soviet leverage and reviving potential conflicts with France and the Channel coast. It cites policy shifts favoring Ruhr output and calls for tighter controls and a US study on German economic strategy.
Washington June 6 Democrats fear Republicans may reconvene after the Philadelphia convention to push measures aligned with the party platform. Potential items include anti-Communist and anti-poll tax bills, public power questions, and information access laws to seize issues for 195? campaign leverage.
The Atomic Energy Commission will fund a 2 million dollar electrostatic accelerator at the University of California scientific lab in Los Alamos New Mexico. The device aims to produce 12 million electron volts for research on light and complex nuclei, with two years of construction and a 25 foot tall vertical column. Senator O Conor urges broader public education on peaceful atomic energy use and supports discussion through established educational groups.
Paris reports a rapid right left confrontation as Gaston Palewski accuses the government of abandoning security through the six nation Germany agreement. He claims an unconstitutional Indochina regime and predicts a new speech threatening the government and Bidault. Details of the German plan include a Sept. 1 constituent assembly and an International Ruhr Authority to control coal coke and iron ore.
Cardinal Mindszenty in a pastoral letter urged Catholics to stop reading government papers and avoid state broadcasts. He denounced falsehood and terror in Hungary, warned of possible excommunication for supporters of church school takeovers, and stated bishops stand united with no talks with the state. Police Sgt. O B Harvey also returns to duty after illness.
William Solomon Sharp 88 died at his home 1902 Fillmore yesterday afternoon. Native of Frankfort Kentucky he had lived in Amarillo 13 years. Funeral arrangements pending at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home with relatives arriving later. Survivors include three daughters.
Mrs. J. H. Powell of Amarillo and Mrs. Frank Lee of Jacksonville Florida listed with three grandsons Ansel Jimmie Powell of Amarillo and Donald Hubbuock of Sanford Florida in a family notice.
Harold King of Austin a Texas University graduate and his son Mark visit Mr. and Mrs. C H Pryor at 1009 Pierce. King, Pryor’s son in law, will assume a football coaching post in Coleman starting August 15.
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