Harvest Speeds In Texas County
Harvest progress in Texas County indicates half the eight million bushel wheat crop may be gathered by week’s start. Custom cutters work 850,000 seeded acres with gypsy combiners meeting demand. County yields around 17 bushels per acre, slightly below last year and above the ten year average, with test weights 64 pounds early and 61 to 62 pounds since rains. Protein runs 10 to 11.2 percent. Farmers cautious on estimates but some fields exceed 40 bushels per acre and rumors place a 60 bushel patch near Hardesty.
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Guymon
Texas County
Hardesty
Wheat Harvest Reaches Full Momentum in Texas Panhandle
Harvest in North Panhandle and South Plains counties moves rapidly with hundreds of laborers hired daily. Offices in Amarillo and other cities coordinate referrals for combine operators and truck drivers, offering $8 per day plus room and board. Progress reports show varied completion percentages across counties, with no current shortages but potential staffing needs in 10 days.
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North Panhandle
South Plains
Childress
Tulsa
Plainview
Lubbock
Vernon
Stamford
Wichita Falls
Abilene
State Control
Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Texas Employment Commission
North Plains
Don Hawkins
Seventh
van Buren
Hawkins
Collingsworth
Donley and
Hall
Donley
Roberts and Hemphill
Wheeler
Hutchinson
Hansford
Ochiltree
Lipscomb
Dallam
Moore
Sherman
Hartley
Carson
Armstrong
Deaf Smith
Randall
Hale
Floyd
Swisher
Briscoe
Castro
Clovis
New Mexico
Tucumcari
Oklahoma
Federal Reserve Loans Rise to 14.245 Billion in Week
The Federal Reserve board said loans by member banks in leading cities increased 93 million dollars for the week ended June 16. The total of commercial industrial and agricultural loans reached 14.245 billion dollars.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Take Your Choice The Bishop Decrees
Bishop John J. Swint in Wheeling confirms he will excommunicate any Catholic girl in the Wheeling diocese who enters a beauty contest. He denounces beauty pageants as pagan and immoral and cites Miss Gertrude Bedway’s withdrawal from an upcoming contest as confirmation of his stance.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John J. Swint
Gertrude Bedway
Bedway
Northeastern Conservatory of Music
Texan Delegation Seeks Taft Support At Convention
Texas Republicans at the Republican National Convention press for Taft's nomination. R B Creager of Brownsville a national committeeman spends hours with Taft and Stassen forces as Dewey and Stassen backers watch. Initial roll shows Taft 30 votes, Dewey 2, Stassen 1.
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Philadelphia
Taft
R. B. Creager
Brownsville
Stassen
Dewey
Texas
Harold E. Stassen
Creager
Five Die in Shamrock Area Three Way Crash
A three way automobile crash near Shamrock left five dead including 17 year old Doris Burson and 35 year old Winnie Flynt. Others killed were Othella Burson and Edna Burson with related fatalities and multiple relatives hospitalized in critical condition. Joint funeral services were held for Mrs. Flynt and Charles Flynt, with Doris Burson’s funeral pending.
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Shamrock
Doris Burson
Winnie Faye Flynt
Clovis
Othella Burson
Haskell
Edna Mae Burson
Charles Flynt
Theo Burson
Dan Burson
Shamrock Hospital
Amasa Flynt
Mary Flynt
June Wood
Testimony Against Kawakita Describes POW Pressures
Los Angeles reports former Army Sgt. Ralph Montgomery testified in the Kawakita treason trial. He recalled orders to march double time around a Honshu prison camp after POWs completed quotas. He named Sgt. George S. Simpson and Sgt. David Carrier as coerced to run following the rest.
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Los Angeles
Tomoya Kawakita
Army
Ralph Montgomery
Honshu
Kawakita
Montgomery
George S. Simpson
Chanute Field
David Carrier
Corpus Christi
Tex
Once Over Lightly by Walter Seigenthaler
Daylight saving time confuses the narrator as he wakes earlier to do things sooner, while later the piece jabs at the futility of insuring a lost article.
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Walter Seigenthaler
Farm Worker Injured in Fall near Plainview
In Plainview on Tuesday night E B Lemons 61 of Soper Oklahoma was critically injured after falling from a flat bed truck on a curve. Driver C W Byars said brakes failed and Lemons suffered two skull fractures with little hope for recovery at the hospital.
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Plainview
E. B. Lemons
Soper
Okla
C. W. Byars
Lemons
Merchant's Wife Dies in Philadelphia at 77
Mrs Ellis A Gimbel Sr wife of Gim bel Brothers chairman died after long illness at her home in Philadelphia at age 77. Burma to issue 12 stamps in July to mark killing of its leaders in 1947.
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Merchant
Philadelphia
Ellis A. Gimbel, Sr
Gimbel Brothers
Burma
Death in Auto Crash Shocks Woodward Mooreland Area
Texas County Sheriff Guy Mercer notified Marion Dodge to inform him of his brother Harley Dodge's death in an auto accident between Woodward and Mooreland. Dodge was found as a passenger in a car where another occupant was severely injured.
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Guymon
Marion Dodge
Texas
Guy Mercer
Dodge
Harley Dodge
Woodward
Mooreland
Mercer
Dalhart Polo Players Invited to Ft Bliss Tournament
Col Ray N Lewis deputy commander of Ft Bliss invited Dalhart polo players to a November tournament marking the fort's 100th anniversary. Polo Club manager Wally Adkins aims to send two teams, one for high goal and one for low goal play.
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Dalhart
Ray N. Lewis
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Wally Adkins
Coal Situation Looks Hopeful
A presidential inquiry board reported progress toward a new coal contract and asked for a 24 hour extension to review the situation. Chairman David Cole said negotiations initiated by the board look promising and a time extension is being prepared with a White House approval anticipated from President Truman.
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Washington
Presidential Inquiry Board
David Cole
White House
Truman
Cole
Labor groups urge Congress call into special session on housing bill
The AFL CIO and 24 other organizations including labor religious and farm groups wired national Republican leaders in Philadelphia urging Congress to convene a special session to act on the Taft Ellender Wagner housing bill.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
Philadelphia
Congress
Texan Named Director Atlantic City Election Victory
Rufus C. Starnes of Abilene Texas defeated S. C. Stenbjem of Caledonia Minnesota to become a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Retail Grocers. City boys in England organize to help farmers during the harvest.
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TEXAN
Atlantic City
Rufus C. Starnes
Abilene
Tex
S. C. Stenbjem
Caledonia
Minn
National Association of Retail Grocers
England
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