Senate votes to curb big power veto at UN
The Senate approved the Vandenberg resolution urging the United Nations to abolish the Security Council big power veto on peaceful disputes and on admitting new members. It backs regional defense under UN charter and the UN peacekeeping force, while calling for global arms regulation and reductions.
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Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
Congress
House of
Truman
United Nations
Security Council
Michigan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
America
Europe
Russia
Marshall
House
Foreign Relations Committee
Super Dam To Tame Turbulent Columbia
Interior Secretary Krug approves a plan for a 740 foot high Hells Canyon Dam on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The project would back a 4.4 million acre foot reservoir 93 miles long and generate about four billion kilowatt hours annually for power and irrigation support in the Columbia River basin.
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Washington
Secretary of Interior
Krug
Snake River
Idaho-Oregon
Hoover Dam
Nevada
Arizona
Reclamation Bureau
Hells Canyon
Pacific Northwest
Michael W. Straus
Reclamation
Columbia River Basin
Straus
Columbia River
Snake
Weiser
Lewistown
Ida
Suspect Comes Out of Amarillo Woods Faces Federal Flight Charge
Louis B. Conley, longtime Amarillo resident and former photographer, was arrested at his mother’s home on Monroe by two Amarillo detectives and an FBI agent. Massachusetts authorities accuse him of kidnapping his daughter Lynette and assault, with federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He will be arraigned before US Commissioner Mary K. Hardy and is held in Potter County jail.
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Amarillo Woods
FBI
Louis Conley
Massachusetts
David Rasco
Louis B. Conley
Amarillo
Conley
Mary Conley
Monroe
T. H. Nall
Jack Raymond
Lynette
Mary K. Hardy
O. K
Daily News
Unofficial Population Signs Stir San Angelo Debate
In San Angelo Jaycee population signs at the city entrance read 44 950 while Amarillo authorities remove unofficial estimates. State officials call the Jaycee signs civic advertising, allowed in highway rights of way. Also noted is the death of Ed S Britton, 81, a veteran Texas Ranger.
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San Angelo
Amarilla
State Highway Department
Amarillo
Tack
Guy Lott
Lions
Rotarians
Civic Club
A. F. Moursand
Lad, 2, Injured By Passing Car On Polk Street
Robert James Weaver Jr age two, son of Mr and Mrs R J Weaver, was struck by a car on Polk Street about 9 45 PM while exiting his parents vehicle. He suffered facial and leg injuries and possible leg fracture at St Anthony's Hospital. Driver D B Aronholt of Washington DC was southbound and visiting Amarillo. Police say the child ran into the lane of traffic. Boxwell Brothers ambulance transported him.
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Robert James Weaver Jr
R. J. Weaver
North Johnson
St. Anthony's Hospital
Polk Street
West
Fifteenth
Boxwell Brothers Ambulance
Junior League opens summer playground program and events
Amarillo daily notices list today events including a junior league playground program at 1:00 PM, a model airplane contest at Thirty-fourth and Bowie, a Building Trades Council luncheon at Carpenter's Hall, a Gideons gathering at Herring Hotel, and a Saturday youth program at San Jacinto Youth Center running until 11:00 PM.
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Poe
Thirty-fourth
Bowie
Building Trades Council
Central Trades Union
Carpenter's Hall
West Seventh
Gideons
Herring Hotel
San Jacinto
Carolina
Department Store Sales Rise 12 Percent in Texas
Dallas Federal Reserve district reports total department store sales up 12 percent for the four weeks ending June 5 versus a year earlier. By city, San Antonio up 12 percent, Houston 26, Fort Worth 10, Dallas 5. Dallas totals show a 1 percent rise. Fort Worth 16, Houston 26, San Antonio 19. Based on 22 firms.
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Dallas
U.P
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
Fort Worth
Model Planes Compete In West Texas Contest
Model plane enthusiasts from a tri state area compete in Amarillo for the first annual West Texas Model Airplane Contest. Events start at 1 PM today at Thirty Fourth and Bowie and run to dark, with 10 AM Sunday flying until entrants finish. Prizes exceed 200 dollars. more than 100 entries received, including a 60 year old member.
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South Amarillo
Tri-State
West Texas
Bowie
Kidwell Model Shop
Exchange Club
Aeroneer Club
Barefoot Burglary Suspect Leads San Antonio Police Chase
A 22 year old burglary suspect fled from a police station and led officers and reporters on a 30 minute chase through downtown San Antonio. He escaped by pushing a detective against a wall while taking a drink of water.
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San Antonio
U.P
Cap's the Climax In GI's Dilemma
James Hearn must report with gear in Dallas on June 18 to board a troop train but lacks his Air Corps cap taken during swimming at Gem Lake. A former service member who owned a regulation convertible cap with leather base may help. Hearn, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hearn, 907 Grand, can be reached at 2-5166.
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Air Corps
James Hearn
James
C. R. Hearn
Dallas
Gem Lake
Amarillo
House approves bill to admit displaced persons to the United States
The House passed a measure to admit about 202,000 displaced persons and thousands of orphans from DP camps in Germany Italy and Austria over the next two years with limited restrictions. It also plans to admit up to 2,000 Czech refugees and several thousand unmarried minor orphans under nonquota visas. A Senate House conference will reconcile differences.
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Washington
United States
House
Senate
House Conference Committee
Fellows
Maine
Europe
Germany
Italy
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Representatives Vorys
Ohio
Vorys
Javits
New York
Cellers
Britain
Belgium
France
Canada
Australia
New Zea
Texas Delegation Split on Bill to Admit 202,000 Displaced Persons
Washington report notes the Texas delegation evenly split on the proposal to admit 202,000 displaced persons. Nine lawmakers supported, nine opposed, with three absent. Supporters included Albert Thomas and J. Frank Wilson. opponents included Wright Patman and Sam Rayburn. Absent were O. C. Fisher, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Milton West.
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Washington
Texas
United States
Albert Thomas
J. Frank Wilson
Wingate Lucas
J. M. Combs
Lindley Beckworth
Clark W. Thompson
John E. Lyle
Paul J. Kilday
Ken Regan
Wright Patman
Sam Rayburn
Ed Gossett
Olin E. Teague
Tom Pickett
W. R. Poage
Omar Burleson
Eugene Worley
George Mahon
O. C. Fisher
Lyndon B. Johnson
Milton West
Mine Rips Ship 200 Lost in Danish War Mine Disaster
A Danish passenger vessel Kroebenhavn struck a wartime mine off Aalborg and sank in Katteg at dawn. About 200 believed drowned with 261 survivors listed. many passengers and crew remain missing as divers search the wreck and the line's war era service is noted.
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Aalborg
Denmark
Kjoebenhavn
Kattegat
Copenhagen
What Am I Saying MARRIAGE by Frank MorcGan
A satirical piece riffing on marriage citing Swift and modern wives. It contrasts the three guiding books a union relies on the cookbook the checkbook and the Good Book, presenting a witty view of domestic life.
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Frank MorcGan
Dean Swift
NY Post Corp. Inc
Man Convicted in Attack on Rival Slashes Threat in Court
ODESSA June 11 A. S. Hostetter 63 years old is convicted of assault with intent to murder for firing seven shots at Francis Bell last July 12 in a cafe booth with Hostetter’s estranged wife. He slit his throat in court as the judge prepared to sentence him to 10 years. he died at a hospital.
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Odessa
S. A. Hostetter
Hostetter
Francis Bell
Undattar
Alton Chapman
Florinda
Bell
Hortter
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Outlook With Scattered Tstorms
Partly cloudy for Saturday and Sunday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Little temperature change expected. Extended forecast: Texas west of Gulf Plains sees temperatures 2 to 5 degrees above normal with no major daily changes and locally moderate precipitation from scattered thunder showers Saturday and Sunday.
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DS Wea'ne Bureau of
Amarillo
West Texas
Sbestia
Texas
Gulf Plains
Harvest Gains Speed Across Texas as Wheat Harvest Advances
The Texas Employment Commission in Amarillo reports wheat harvest moving rapidly northward from North Central Texas and Abilene into the Panhandle and Oklahoma. No worker or equipment shortages expected. TEC offices listed in Perryton Spearman Stratford Dumas and Hereford. First loads of 1948 Potter County wheat share premiums, while St Francis Palmer’s Union Cooperative Grain reports initial shipment weighing 40 bushels per load at Highland Park.
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Texas Employment Commission
Amarillo
Texas
Abilene District
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Northern
Panhandle
TEC
Perryton
South Main
J. Cruz Lopez
Ochiltree
Lipscomb
Spearman
Edgar Yates, Jr
Hansford
Stratford
Garrison Motor Co
O. H. Williams
E. L. McElhanon
Dallam
Sherman
Dumas
Robert Toland
Moore
Hartley
Hereford
Phillips
North Main
B. H. Tate
Deaf Smith
Palmer
Pullman
Potter County
Floyd Thomas
John Bichsel
Pullman Wheat Growers, Inc
Thomas
Bichsel
R. A. Burell & Son
Highland Park
St. Francis
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Lucille Conley
David
Columbia
Lucille
Brockton
English Field
Brocton
Boston Papers
Little Lynette
Johnson
Texas Tech
Mrs. Conley
Camp Standish
Mass
Army
Transportation Corps
National Guard
Ardennes Salient
108Th District Court
Louis Bob Conley
Lynette Conley
Strawn
Ed. S. Britton
The
Texas Rangers
Lad
Cap
Land
Switzerland
Worley
United Steamship Company
Kroebenhavn
Ter Com
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