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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1954
Page
3
Meade Kansas June 28 Leonard Pohl a local farmer is being treated in the Meade hospital following a farm accident. Hospital officials say his condition is stable with injuries not considered life threatening.
Pohl was injured Tuesday night after crawling from a grain bin, sliding down the granary wall, and being struck by a rake handle that penetrated his body. Family members and his father Ed Pohl were present. He underwent three hours of surgery and four transfusions and remains in serious but hopeful condition.
The high lights of the annual Memorial Day race at Indianapolis Speedway will be shown on KGNC TV tonight at 10 PM. The film was made by Amarillo resident Dewey Ashcroft who attends the speed classic each year and will narrate.
First application to operate an ambulance service in Amarillo was filed yesterday under the new city ordinance. Homer Ewton, former employee of Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home and former Randall County deputy sheriff, is the applicant. A public hearing before the city commission is required, processing may take about 10 days, and until a permit is issued Amarillo funeral homes will continue to provide ambulance service.
A brief notice states that hens’ eggs hatched after being kept at the correct temperature for 21 days. The advertisement likely promotes poultry or farming equipment.
Senate Banking Committee outlined alleged windfall profits totaling hundreds of millions from government insured apartment projects built to ease postwar housing shortages. McKenna cited 27 large deals including Shirley-Duke Apartments in Alexandria and Investors Diversified Services. profits arose from inflating costs and matching rents to loan amounts. Areas highlighted include New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Texas and the South.
Mrs Emma Augusta Ballew of Amarillo died at Northwest Texas Hospital at about 6 20 AM aged 80 She was born October 1 1873 in Missouri and leaves three sons W E and E A Ballew Amarillo and E M Ballew Long Beach CA a daughter Mrs Clyde Taulby Fayetteville AR a brother A B Cook Dallas a sister Mrs Sam Lewis Comanche 17 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren Funeral services were held at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church at 2 PM with Rev Roy B Flippo and burial followed in Goshen Cemetery Fayetteville under Moore Funeral Home direction and cremation at Burn Shaws.
Jack Benny and his Variety Revue stopped in Amarillo for about 20 minutes aboard a private car on Texas Zephyr No. 2 en route from Dallas to Portland. They had just finished a two week engagement at the State Fair Auditorium in Dallas before continuing to Denver and then to Oregon.
Sealed bids to be received by the design and construction division of the State Board of Control in Austin Texas until 10:00 A M on July 19 1954 for a chain link fence and concrete retaining wall at the Gene Howe Wildlife Management Area seven miles northeast of Canadian Texas Plans and specifications available from the Board of Control Bids must follow state procedures.
About 200 ram charges capable of shattering small firearms were stolen from a construction shack near a new Canyon elementary school. Sheriff L. B. Johnston warned risk to anyone mistaking them for blank cartridges. The break in is suspected to involve youths.
Houston report says Stan ley Vanek aged 23 died at Jefferson Davis hospital after a 58 foot scaffold fall at the Sam Houston Coliseum. The incident marked the fourth death from the accident.
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