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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1952
Page
3
A brief note describes a humorous animal illustration from Political Zoo by Clare Barnes Jr. The feature promotes the book and its timely political caricatures.
A review of Olympic history notes Jim Thorpe as perhaps the greatest all around athlete, winning pentathlon and decathlon titles in Stockholm. It recalls his later disqualification and compares Morris and Bausch in decathlon standings, while noting long Olympic traditions in 1500 meter events.
Amarillo student Walter Kellogg of the University of Oklahoma attends the ROTC summer camp as quartermaster. He is the son of Mr and Mrs C C Kellogg of 1618 Lipscomb. Globe-News Want Ads Get Results.
A reader writes to join the 1952 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club and asks for a stamped self addressed envelope to be sent the information.
Three Yugoslav students armed with revolvers hijacked a plane flying from Zagreb to Pola and diverted it to Foligno Italy. Police detained all aboard after villagers alerted authorities. 20 passengers remained on the craft while three hijackers sought asylum in Italy.
The page reports weekly disease case totals for 1951, far exceeding the five year median of 309. Texas led with 146 cases, up from 103. California 53 up from 40. Ohio 18 up from 7. New York 15 up from 5. Iowa 16 up from 8, marking most of the escalation.
Two naturalized Canadian citizens hijacked a Yugoslav Airlines jet with a gun to arrange the escape of their mother and 13 year old sister from Slavia after travel permits were denied.
The Public Health Service reported 421 cases of infantile paralysis last week, a 43 percent rise from the corrected 295 the prior week. The total more than doubled the 211 cases in the same week a year earlier.
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