Joe Jenkins Terminal: Amarillo’s Ranch Style Airport Idea
The piece credits former Mayor Joe Jenkins with proposing a ranch style terminal for Amarillo's airport in 1946. It recalls a windy April day when Jenkins advocated moving offices onto the field to reflect the West. The author urges naming the terminal after Jenkins.
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Joe Jenkins
Mayor Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Army Field
Kansas City
Cleveland
St. Louis
Wichita
Amarillo
Amarillo Notes Spark Civic Band Talk and Community Letters
Local items highlight a push for a civic band built around Amarillo College musicians led by HF Charles Kiker with backing from the Philharmonic and school board. Readers share concerns on education standards, while Parker Kennedy’s April visit to Amarillo draws attention alongside quips about priorities and local business ads.
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Charles Kiker
Amarillo College
Riker
Amarillo
Musicians’ Union
Philharmonic Orchestra
Kiker
Civic Pride
Truman brands McCarthy a Kremlin asset in harsh denouncement
President Truman blasted Senator McCarthy and allied Republicans for undermining bipartisan foreign policy in a fiery press conference. He announced swift admin changes including Frank Pace Jr. as Army secretary and Gordon Gray leaving to become UNC president, with other reshuffles to follow. He denied gaps in defense policy but warned against heightened danger.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Senator McCarthy
Wisconsin
Senate
United States
McCarthy
State Department
Kremlin
Frank Pace, Jr
Army
Gordon Gray
Gray
University of North Carolina
Air Force
W. Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
Frederick J. Lawton
Elmer Statts
Lawton
Thomas K. Finletter
ECA
London
Symington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Administration Back in Saddle in House Vote on Foreign Aid
The U S House rejected a Wint Smith amendment 154 to 103 to cut 150 million from next year’s fund and approved 100 million for South Korea economic aid. It also authorized spending about 100 million of leftover China aid funds and wrapped up sections on Europe Korea and China with 27 45 million for Arab refugee relief and Point Four program pending.
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Truman
Porter Addresses Oil Men's Meeting
Porter, president of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, spoke at the opening session of the American Petroleum Institute division meeting in Oklahoma City. He urged that petroleum has served the public well, noted industry trends since 1929, and defended state authority against federal control proposals while citing import concerns and price comparisons with coal.
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Daily News
Oklahoma City
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Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association
American Petroleum Institute
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Committee On Imports of the
Mid-Continent Association
National Petroleum Council
American Business Club
Herring Hotel
Amarillo
Convicted arsonist admits setting Belle Vista sanatorium fire
Nicholas Verna of Upper Darby Pa a 36 year old convicted arsonist admitted to starting last nights blaze at the Belle Vista Sanatorium He confessed after a three hour grilling saying nine inmates died some strapped to iron cots in barred rooms At least 60 injured including firemen nurses and patients Verna was arrested at Valley Forge General Hospital after the fire and had prior arson convictions in Delaware County and for eight fires in the Crozer Building in Philadelphia
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Belle Vista
Charles Taylor
Andrew J. White
Springfield Township
Nicholas Verna
Upper Darby
Taylor
Verna
Valley Forge General Hospital
Phoenixville
Delaware County
White
Crozer
Greatest growth in cities in Tri-State area outlined
The Daily News charts city population trends from the 1950 census preview, highlighting the Big Five Pampa Borger Clovis Amarillo Plainview. It notes about a 93 000 gain in the area with Clovis and Plainview near 100 percent increases since 1940 and Amarillo around 90 percent, based on meter and housing methods.
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Tri-State Empire
David Rasco
Daily News
Corps of
Tri-State
Pampa
Borger
Clovis
Amarillo
Plainview
Chamber of Commerce
Red Wedgeworth
Wedgeworth
Joe Cooley
Borger Chamber of Commerce
Phillips
Bunavista
Census Taker Will Keep You Tied Up 20 Minutes or Less
Census supervisor Walter Shaller said the 17th decennial census starts tomorrow and will wrap up in about three weeks. Farmers face 332 questions while city residents answer a shorter set. one person in five gets deeper inquiries about residence, birthplaces, and education. further sampling targets income and family fertility details.
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Gordon Tompkins, JR
Walter Shaller
Shaller
Uncle Sam
Iowa coed strangling witness admits homicidal impulses
Robert E. Bednasek testified about the December death of Margaret Anne Jackson at a campus rooming house. Prosecutors pressed him on homicidal impulses revealed during a October psychology exam and a later truth serum session before his trial.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
Cidal
University of Iowa
Margaret Anne “Gee-Gee” Jackson
Edward F. Rate
Bednasek
Margaret Anne Jackson
Drunkards Trade Blood for Liquor in Skid Row
Los Angeles reports reveal charity patients with low blood counts after selling blood to commercial banks for four dollars a pint to buy liquor. Dr Phoebus Berman of General Hospital cites a patient who admitted selling five pints in one month, noting a three month legal interval.
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Skid Row
Phoebus Berman
General Hospital
Unidentified Sub Is Object of Big Hunt
An unidentified submarine reported off the northern California coast sparked the Navy to mount its most intensive sub hunt since World War II. Vice Admiral Murray ordered search planes and a destroyer from San Francisco to probe the area near Trinidad Harbor about 280 miles north of San Francisco. A Navy flyer and a fishing-boat skipper sighted the sub just outside the three mile limit, prompting a cautious coastal search.
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George D. Murray
Western Sea Frontier
San Francisco Bay
Trinidad Harbor
Eureka
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