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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1958
Page
4
New York analysts weigh Moore 1957 58 recession severity and 100 year expansion history. They predict a recovery lasting about 30 months if past cycles hold, possibly extending to 40 months or more, with risks once activity returns to 1957 highs. Personal incomes support spending and inventory rebuilding may begin in fall.
Advice column warns June marriages may last about thirteen years with a first and only trip to the altar likely. Odds say this will be the couple’s initial wedding.
The House passed a bill granting a 10 percent pay raise to about 1 021 000 civil service and government workers and sent it to the White House. The hike costs an estimated 542 million dollars yearly and includes retroactive pay from January 1 totaling about 250 million dollars to be disbursed next month. President Eisenhower is expected to sign the bill.
BELTON AP Jimmy Shaver of San Antonio faces execution after Judge James Evetts set July 3 for the rape slaying of a San Antonio girl in 1954. Shaver appeared briefly to hear the new date after resentencing in the case of tiny Chere Jo Horton.
Four prisoners escaped from Jackson county jail in Murphysboro believed armed and dangerous. They took a 1957 Plymouth and two shotguns with a .22 pistol missing from the jail, with suspects Bert Gowdy Jimmy Whitehead George Boyd and William McDowell identified.
Civil appeals motions submitted and overruled or rehearing granted in various cases from Deaf Snn County to Potter and Lubbock counties. Names include Syammings v Leona Bartlett Pace estate administrator Oscar Pace and others. Decisions range from dismissals to reversals and renderings, with several rehearings noted.
The piece argues that upswings in the economy last longer than downswings and predicts a sustained rise. It forecasts a housing boom, new products from SO research, and a surge in world travel as drivers of global prosperity and peace into the 1960s.
West Texas State College presents A Dash of Bitters at the Branding Iron Theater for four days starting 8:15 pm with bargain 50 cent tickets tonight. The cast includes Margaret Glenn Amarillo as Muriel Whitlock Rae June Hamilton Amarillo as Virginia and John Lee Welton Pampa Lefors as Ricky Vidal with Jack Reynolds Stillwater as Matthew Fenn.
The Weather Bureau projects a 30 day outlook from mid June to mid July with cooler than normal temperatures in the northeastern quarter of the nation. Above normal heat is expected in the West and Gulf areas. The coolest weather centers in the Great Lakes region.
The summer's first free Star lite Theater presentation It's Spring will be staged today and Thursday at 8 30 p m in the open air theater in Ellwood Park. Directed by Vernon Vaughn and Jim Carter, this one hour variety show is sponsored by the City Park and Recreation Department with a cast including Jan Sue Williamson Gwen Combs Linda Sutton Frank Howard Jerry Hall Lois Carlson Shirley Dickson Jane Turner The Hi Fi s Three Hits and a Miss Jackie Coleman Jerry Hodge Albert Malacara Samuel Moore and Ann Brown.
Boston textile and real estate magnate Bernard Goldfine told Time that when problems arise you go to your congressman senator or governor for help. The interview notes his friendships with New England politicians and his pattern of supporting campaigns within his means.
Turkey will receive four 2 840 ton M class destroyers from the British Navy amid ongoing defense upgrades. The ships are designated to bolster Turkish naval capabilities and project regional power.
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