Kids Incorporated fuels Amarillo youth sports boom
Frank A. Goidsoe Jr. outlines Kids Incorporated the city wide program serving about 3000 boys aged 6 to 14 with football softball and basketball. it costs around 10000 annually relies on volunteers and civic support and has expanded from the Maverick Club to cover all neighborhoods including tech village canyon and boys ranch.
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Frank A. Goidsoe, JR
Kids Incorporated
Amarillo
America
Maverick Club
Tech Village
Canyon
Boys
Goodwell
Okla
Gold Sox
Tri-State Fair Park
Bob Seeds
Amarillo Gold Sox
Women's Junior Welfare League
Sandies
Maverick Intermediates
Cal Farley
Ralph Dykeman
R. A. Boyter
Dykeman
Homer Stewart
Harley Gordon
Tom Murphy
Brother Ligouri
James Kile
Edsel Buchanan
C. A. Ellis
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas winds and temps
Weather report notes Monday and Monday night partly cloudy with northwesterly winds 25 to 35 mph and gusts, dust likely in West Texas. Temperatures range from the mid 40s to the upper 70s with sunrise at 7 11 and sunset at 6 46. Russell Stationery Co.
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Amarillo
Texas
Pecos Valley
Lee
Oakes
Sunrine
Fat Stock Show Under Way In Amarillo
Saturday night bath rounds out grooming for many bovine beauties at the Amarillo Fat Stock Show. Floyd Calliham of Conway works on a J. B. Tabor Hereford bull, wearing a slicker as he soaps and rinses the animal chained to a fence to keep spectators from interference.
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Amarillo
Floyd Calliham
Conway
J. B. Tabor
Calliham
Opening Day at Amarillo Exposition and Fat Stock Show
The Amarillo Exposition and Fat Stock Show opens at 8 this morning for four days at the Tri-State Fair Grounds. Cattle judging leads with the get of sire class at 1 pm and herd bulls nearby. Pig judging starts at 9:30 with Homer Brumley of Hereford placing entries. quarter horses classify at 3 pm.
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Amarillo
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Herb Hogan
Homer Brumley
Hereford
Panhandle Livestock Holds First Meeting Since 1941 in Amarillo
The Panhandle Livestock Association convenes at the Amarillo Hotel at 11 AM for its first meeting since 1941. Calf sales begin at 10 AM in the Western Stock Yards pavilion with 96 club calves placed by the classification committee and 156 calves remaining in show.
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Panhandle Livestock Association
Amarillo
Western Stock Yards
Jack Roach
Paul Lawson
Joe Gamble
Hugh Clearman
Hereford
Joe Hatton
Spearman
Walter Grist
Lamch
New Zealand
Don Donathan
Doomed GI's Escape Fails
The U S Eighth Army provost marshal reported that Pfc. Joseph F E Hirswa sentenced to death for slaving two Japanese civilians fled Yokohama stockade but was captured within an hour in a room with a Japanese woman in a known house of prostitution.
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Yokohama
U.S. Eighth Army
Joseph FE. Hirswa
Yokohama Army Stockade
GM Rejects Arbitration in Major Auto Strike
General Motors refused arbitration on the 103 day strike and proposed a secret vote among 175 000 strikers to decide if they want to return to work The union accused GM of fearing arbitration and of undermining democratic union processes The two sides clashed over wage increases and final arbitration rulings while other labor disputes involving General Electric Westinghouse AT and T and 800 000 workers nationwide continued to unfold In Texas about 11 000 telephone workers voted 8 to 1 to join a nationwide strike set for Thursday.
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Associated Press
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
National Labor Relations Board
R. J. Thomas
General Motors
Thomas
Ford Workers
Chrysler
Truman
Harry W. Anderson
General Electric
New York
Westinghouse
American Telephone and Telegraph Workers
Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers
Dallas
Texas
Ray Hackney
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Hannegan Presses Housing Plan as Congress Looms Vote
In Washington, Robert Hannegan urged Democratic House members to support the veterans housing bill amid Republican opposition. Bowles and Wyatt warned of dire consequences for rent control, wages, and housing if funds are cut, as officials rally veterans to Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Congress
Robert Hannegan
Truman
Economic High Command
Hannegan
House
Bowles
Chester Bowles
Gougers
Ington
American Veterans Committee
Capitol Hill
Wyatt
Paul Porter
W. Willard Wirtz
National Wage Stabilization Board
John D. Small
High Command
House Appropriations Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
Senate
Civilian Production Administration
Dollar Day Sparks Biggest Amarillo Crowd For 1946
March winds bring Dollar Day and Fat Stock Show opening to Amarillo drawing larger shoppers than prior years. Merchants offer special bargains as previews appear in the Sunday News Globe while Australian war brides in San Francisco shorten skirts to keep pace with American fashion aboard the Monterey.
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Amarillo
Sunday News Globe
San Francisco
Monterey
German Girls Invited to Stay in U S Forces Compound
A British girl in Stars and Stripes accuses German girls of living with American officers inside the Frankfurt headquarters compound. Chaplains and GIs react, citing looseness and discipline issues. The barbed wire enclave houses I G Farben buildings and billets with signed guest registers.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Stars and Stripes Today
U.S
L. Curtis Tiernan
Kansas City
Europe
I. G. Farben Industrie
War Department
World Churches Urge Turn From Self Will to God’s Way
Geneva March 3 World Council of Churches meeting ends with a message urging mankind to abandon self will and seek God’s law to avert atomic war. The committee asks Big Five to unite for justice mercy and a new world order while warning against vengeance and urging Jewish-Christian cooperation. Americans proposed a commission on international relations with Dulles Niebuhr Oldham and Oxnam among others.
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Geneva
Provisional Committee
World Council of Churches
Big Five
Ministry of Reconciliation
Christ
Christian Church
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Reinhold Niebuhr
Union of Theological Seminary
George Ashton Oldham
Episcopal
Albany
G. Bromley Oxnam
Federal Council of Churches
27 Die In American Airlines Plane Crash Near San Diego
A flagship listed 27 aboard perished when the American Airlines transport struck a rugged 6,000 foot peak about 45 miles east of San Diego near the Mexican border. Sheriff Bert Strand said 21 bodies were found burned beyond recognition, with infants among victims.
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San Diego
Cal
American Airlines
Here
Bert Strand
Los Angeles
Dallas
el Centro
Imperial Valley
Sheriff Strand
Navy
Coast Guard
Chester Gunn
Army Will Use More Negroes in Postwar Units
The War Department unveiled a plan to increase Negro manpower in the peacetime regular Army and future wars. It calls for Negro units no larger than an infantry regiment, about 2,700 men, with integration in white units on similar tasks. The policy supports both combat and service roles and allows qualified Negro officers to join Regular Army under standard officer criteria. Women may be included in a broader Negro base postwar.
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Washington
War Department
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