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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1958
Page
2
Amarillo officials hire Dallas expert Erick Ehrenberg to conduct a tax valuation study. The project, costing 50000 with city and school district splitting, aims to align property values with similar properties and will influence the 1958 tax roll.
Mrs. Hettie Craddock arrived at work in a chemise dress admired by colleagues. She later revealed the garment was found in an attic trunk and dated from 1924.
London reports that NATO members including the United States pressed to avert strain on the alliance by delaying Britain's Cyprus policy announcement for 48 hours. Prime Minister Macmillan told the House of Commons the pause allows allies to aid conciliation while avoiding a new Greek Turkish clash. A full policy statement is promised Thursday.
A 47th District Court jury found Archie M. Rogers a 52 year old salesman not guilty of driving while intoxicated second offense. Rogers was charged May 2 1957 and arrested at 12 09 am on U S Highway 60 east of Amarillo. Judge Gene Jordan presided.
In Canton Ohio Amarillo detective and Greyhound driver testify in the murder case of Harry Dale Bundy 40 of Zanesville. Prosecution aims to counter key witness Russell McCoy who claims Bundy helped kill a grocer and clerk on November 25 1956 in Uniontown Ohio. The jury is expected to verdict by Thursday.
Mrs Mab Millen Foster 58 of Albuquerque and her son Jack 21 were listed in fair condition at Northwest Texas Hospital Amarillo after their car rammed a concrete embankment beside a roadside park on Highway 66 west of Adrian at 12 50 p.m. The car swerved to miss people in the park and was driven by Foster who tried to avoid a fronting vehicle. Both were transported to Amarillo by Vega Ambulance Service.
Data from the Bureau shows 24 hour precipitation and monthly totals. The report notes all time and yearly averages with periods ending per year.
In Dalhart on June 17, workers and heavy equipment battled to topple a 156 ton floating head house atop a grain elevator. Despite cables snapping and the roof caving in, the structure remains aloft, with about 10 percent toppled and crews planning an outside stairway before renewed cutting torch efforts.
TV and radio lineup lists programs across Channel 4 from early morning to late night including Today Daily Word Treasure Hunt News Weather Wagon Train Ringo at Home Matinee Theatre Queen for a Day Jack Paar Edge of Night Popeye and The Millionaire among others. The schedule features soap operas game shows dramas news and weather segments with regular interruptions for sports and special broadcasts.
Nine of the 94 spring semester honorees at West Texas State College posted straight A records. The dean’s list recognizes the upper 5 percent with a minimum 2.40 on a 3.06 scale. Notable names include Dellalene Baker Denison Joy Feuerschutz Amarillo Hal Grider Amarillo and Alvy King Canyon.
Labor leader Grover Cantrell was certified to run against Rep. Bruce Alger in the July 26 primary after a Dallas County GOP Executive Committee meeting. Cantrell called himself a Stevenson Republican and pursued court action to place his name on the ballot as the Supreme Court ordered.
The City Commission awarded Davis Bumper to Bumper Service a year contract to furnish tires and tubes for Am arillo, estimated at $20,919.20, with stock replacements as needed. A watermelon feed was approved for July 3 in the 500 block Polk, 3 pm to 7:30 pm, with Jaycees coordinating health precautions. Earlier, officials rejected extending beer sales in dry areas and kept liquor boundaries unchanged.
A 17 to 18 year old Black youth was jailed Tuesday night after an almost two hour pursuit by sheriff deputies. The chase began at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown and ended about a mile east of Pullman Switch road. He is wanted for burglary and was lodged in Potter County jail. Multiple officers chased him from 9:15 p.m. through 11 p.m. and again near 12th and Harrison before he was captured in a field east of Pullman Switch road shortly before 1 a.m. Percented by Curtis Travis of the Potter County sheriff's department.
Two crop dusting planes crashed within 25 miles of each other in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. One brother died and the other survived, both employed by William Merrill of Rio Hondo. A separate fatal crash near Harlingen killed Merrill as his plane stalled in a field. Robert Merrill reported losing control six miles south of San Benito.
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