Census Specials Cars for sale in Amarillo listing
A collage of used car offers with models from 1937 to 1950 including a 1941 Chrysler 4 door sedan with radio and heater, a 1940 Dodge 4 door, a 1941 Plymouth 4 door, a 1937 Chevrolet 2 door, and a 1947 Ford Tudor. Prices range from fifty dollars to nineteen fifty, with contact details for Boyd's Garage and individual listings.
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Oldsmobile
Chevrolet
Taylor's
Harley
Ré&H
Green Gables Courts
N. E
R&h
O.D
Boyd's Garage
South Fillmore
New Zealand Samoa Trustee Report Compared to Bikini Suit
At Lake Success a New Zealand report on Western Samoa administration is praised as covering the fundamentals while exposing essentials, likened by Philippines delegate Melchor P. Aquino to Bikini swimwear. Grattan detailed Samoa's status over three days, with delegates generally praising New Zealand's control.
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Lake Success
New Zealand
Western Samoa
Melchor P. Aquino
Philippines
F. H. Grattan
Mother Hubbard
Grattan
Samoa
Quiet championship win ends in hush on roof garden
Harry Semple of Baytown won the state checker title at the Kyle Hotel roof garden in Temple in a quiet manner. Judges used stopwatches to limit each move to six minutes as Semple defeated Harry Orton of Bellevue for the state crown.
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Temple
U.P
Harry Semple
Baytown
Semple
Kyle Hotel
Harry Orton
Bellevue
Aviation School Owner Sues American Airlines for 83000
Harry M. Chase Inc files suit in Dallas against American Airlines for 83000 over damages from a Love Field collision on November 29. The case targets the airline for compensation related to the aviation school.
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American Airlines
Dallas
Love Field
Airlines
Harry M. Chase, Inc
Auto trade ads mix with new restaurant news in Dallas paper
Classified style listing shows autos for sale and trade including a 37 Plymouth 4 door a 38 Chevrolet 2 door a 49 Jeep wagon and a 1949 Ford with trade options. Local addresses phone numbers and businesses referenced include Quality Paint and Body Company King Trailer and Equip Co and Elmer Auto Supply with insurance certificate notice from Texas authorities. A restaurant association election in Waco names Roy Bertrand as president and other officers are listed.
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Plymouth
Chevrolet
Cleveland
FORD
Royce Gant
JEEP
Waco Man Heads Restaurant Association
Dallas
Roy Bertrand
Waco Cafe
Texas Restaurant Association
Roy P. Etchison
Houston
John Kattman
Lubbock
Ernest Winkler
Waco
May wedding licenses issued in Clovis total 253
Clovis reports 253 marriage licenses issued in May with more expected in June as couples from nearby towns including Amarillo Lubbock Plainview and Pampa lined up for permits. The list names couples from Clovis Muleshoe Amarillo and other Texas communities among the May issuances.
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Clovis
Bobby Gene Trout
Clarendon
Cula Jo McClellan
McLean
Charles Pinkston
Twylah Bailey
Broadview
Phines O
Ruby Belle Ford
Muleshoe
Elegie Grant
Rowsey
Betty Marie Pitzer
Wichita
Kan
James Carl Holmes
Mary Kelley
Charles A. Gilbert
Pampa
Ruby McWhorter
Amarillo
He Baxcom Alexander
Doris Edna Dickard
Edith May Whisenant
Burton Kenneth Mann
Willa Mae Mays
Hereford
Loyd J. Stone
Velma Faye Phillips
James Hoover McDonald
Carmella Veegali
Lubbock
Marion Robert Barkier
Phillips
Wendella Faye Hatfield
Buena Vista
Tommy Lee Randel
Vernon
Sula Rae Davis
Cecil McCain
Myrna Jean Swinney
Quitaque
Henry Leroy Thomas, Jr
Cortland
Jessie Merle Pipkin
Richard Douglass Settle
Plainview
Mildred Luetille Cargill
Lockney
Harold Hampton
Peggy Jo Sparkman
Slaton
Ernest Dewey Roberts
Martha Sue Tons
Clinton
Okla
Curtis Hale Baker
Lavelle Kelly
Idalou
Billy Bob Townsend
Imogene Kemp
Billy Joe Garner
Los Alamos
Phyllis LaDean Gist
Texhoma
Rita B. Wogan
Maurice C. Wogan, Jr
Jimmie Allen Sills
Anita Cooper
Lee Wayne Feemster
Ruth Allen Wilson
Robert E. Gragg
Fayrene Pennington
Shamrock
Clifford M. Whitten
Ellen Boykin
Wellington
Jim Howard Rush
Joan Ehmann
Thomas Truman Perry
Mildred Riggs Perry
Levelland
James Farr Young
Helen Norene Mortman
Percy Carter
Gwendolyn Jones
William Joseph Jackson
Mattie Narcissus Helton
Briscoe
Joe B. Collier
Lucille Foster
Friona
C. E Rhodes
Snyder
Jackie Lou Adams
Atty General Aims Widening Ban on Western Union Wires
Atty General Price Daniel said he would ask the Travis County District Court to widen its injunction against Western Union to halt all gaming information sent over wires to bookie shops. He seeks a quick hearing to cover baseball bookmaking after Dallas police reported Western Union ticker tapes found in six baseball bookie shops.
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Austin
Price Daniel
Travis County District Court
Western Union
Daniel
Telegraph Company
District Court
Ed Preston
Dallas Police Vice Squad
Preston
Justice Promised In Border Incident
Prosecution to the fullest extent of the law was promised for those accused of mistreating Vera Trememen of Canada at Matamoros on May 27. Mexican federal prosecutor Jose Raul Peniche Martin said the action would be pursued, as Trememen and his wife allege they were jailed for a permit violation and Trememen was flogged and beaten in custody.
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Laredo
Vera Tremenen
Canada
Matamoros
Mexico
Jose Raul Peniche Martin
Nuevo Laredo
Rio Grande
Texas
Tremewen
Tremewens
Fort Worth Firms Swap Building Sites
Fort Worth bankers agreed to swap the Fort Worth National Bank Building for Continental Life Insurance Company’s downtown site plus the Dundee building lease. The bank plans a block long 24 story replacement on the new site with completion in two years. height to be determined.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Fort Worth National Bank
Continental Life Insurance Company
Continental
Dundee
Canyon Leader Has Many Jobs
Andy Walsh is Canyon's new mayor and a veteran civic worker with a 25 year Randall County residence. He has worked for Phillips Petroleum for 15 years and serves as Canyon jobber for the firm. Walsh is a longtime American Legion booster and WWI veteran, led Palo Duro Post 97 as commander twice, and belongs to Masons Khiva Temple and Canyon clubs. He hunts and fishes, supports Baylor Medicine, and his wife teaches in Canyon schools.
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Andy Walsh
Canyon
Walsh
Randall County
Phillips Petroleum Co
American Legion
France
The
Legion
Palo Duro
Masonic Order
Khiva
Amarillo
Lion's Club
Canyon City Club
Baylor School of Medicine
Houston
Grapevine Creek Named for Wild Grapes in Gray County
Local notes trace the naming of Grapevine Creek in Gray County to the plentiful wild grapes along its banks, as recorded by Laura Vy Hamner.
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Gray County
Laura VY. Hamner
Expanded DP Bill Goes to President
The Senate approved a measure sent to the White House that would raise the displaced persons admissible to 341000. The bill extends by a year a 1978 law, allowing 341000 DPs, 5000 adopted children, 64744 German-origin eastern Europeans, and up to 15000 refugees already in the U S on temporary visas.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Europe
Business loan totals dip for second week in May
The Federal Reserve Board reported a four million dollar decline in business loans for the week ended May 31, bringing total loans to 13.355 billion dollars. Various notices include a highway construction bid in Pampa Texas with a June 23 1950 deadline and wage group II requirements. Also Cream City Mutual Insurance Company Milwaukee Wisconsin received Texas approval to operate through May 31 1961.
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Globe News
Texas
Austin
Travelers Indemnity Company
Hartford
Connecticut
George B. Butler
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Pampa
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo
Texas Highway Commission
James G. Lott
Board OF Insurance Commissioners
Auverrusseiatoo
Jealousy Leads To a Haircut in Germany Trial
In Frankfurt on June 7 an American mother of three, Alma Victoria Wall of Shreveport, faces assault and cutting hair charges after she allegedly attacked Lithuanian witness Elsa Kerwiskaeta. The Lithuanian testified Mrs Wall cut Kerwiskaeta’s hair and a Polish girl helped restrain her. The trial included claims of threats and a firearm gesture.
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Frankfurt
Germany
US High Commission
Elsa Kerwiskaeta
Alma Victoria Wall
Shreveport
Wall
Burney M. Wall
US Air Force
Wiesbaden
Kerwiskaeta
Lydia Grzegoroczkow
Mrs. Wall
Sergeant Wall
Assault at Mrs Wall home ends in violence
A Polish maid recounts being lured to Mrs Wall's residence after staying in a taxi with a blonde. The woman woke to a gag, scissors, and hair as Mrs Wall attacked, pushing her down and striking with a shoe as she resisted attempts to force her from a third floor bedroom.
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Sergeant Wall
Mrs. Wall
Motor Freight Firm Struck by AFL in Texas and Pacific System
AFL picketed the Texas and Pacific Motor Transport Company in Dallas as drivers and mechanics from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters left work. The strike, affecting El Paso to New Orleans, involved 300 to 406 union members. The firm operates as a subsidiary of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
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Dallas
Texas and Pacific Motor Transport Company
AFL
el Paso
New Orleans
The
Texas and Pacific Railway
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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Truitt
Mercury Radio
Pontiac
Tyler
Chevrolet Styleline
Dodge
International
Fillmore
Olds
Hydra
R.H
Rae
Jones Motor
Financing
Harvey
Southworth
S. Fillmore
Automobile Row
Eaulopes
Ot Clean
BOB Fuller Motor CO
Kaiser-Frazer
Rh&o
Aerosedan
Re&od
Studebaker
C.C R&a
Stude
Studebaker Dealer
Bob
Crudgington
Ol’ Neel
S. A Uttle
M&el
Buchanan Ph
GMC
Hedgecoke. Motor CO
Ronne
Forrester Truck CO
International Harvester Company
Pendell Bisore CO
Walter Irvin, Inc
Ford Toney
Taylor Ph
Roadmaster
Buick
Lincoln
Blackburn
Shaw Funeral
Sullivan Gerald S Sullivan
Eugene
Oregon
Margaret
Gail
W G Sullivan
Bill
Bruce
Thomas H. Faulkner
Liane Cemtery
Ces Griggs & Serig
Castleberry Ernest Castleberry
Post
Mary Sue
William Castleberry
T. Hallingsworth
Ruthker
Jefferson
Llano Cemetery
Harry
Auto Service
Fillmore Auto Electric
Hudson
Auto Parts & Acces
American Aa Wrecking
Chrysler
Elmer Auto Supply
Omaha
Schulz
National
Coppercraft
Silverbrook
Furree
Bryan Olt
West
Moe
Andy
Taylor
Spartan Aircraft Company
Canyon Highway
East 7Th
Buchanan
Geddis
Seiberling
Istice
Poe
Tveny conisTan
Georgia Street
BOX Office
Kroger Babe
J. $. Jossey
Que Lawton
Jimmie Fidler
Versatility
Canyon Leader
Asta
Leh A
Beatrice Pearson
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Abbott & Costello
Creart Aries LD
Spencer Tracy
Deborah Kerr
Edward
Son
Gary Cooper
Melen Hayes
Polk
Thurs
Panhandle
Rod Cameron
van Johnson
Liberty Whip Wilson
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
Dan Onley
Corinne Cavet
Colleen Townsend
Exage
N Ius
Cartoon—News
Tet Maccesy Panace
Lavens
Mickey Rooney
the Big Wheel
M.G
Ney Vice Powell
Randolph Scott
Roth Roman
Warner Bros
Zachary Scott Edwins
M Marin
Thomas Blackby
Ferton Webb Myawa Loy
Jeanne Crain
TE Ikea
Beau Geste
Gary Cooper Milland
Bill Elliott
Sierras
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