Connie Brings Four-Motor Connie to Amarillo Airport
Reporter notes Connie the airliner lands Sunday night at Amarillo as TWA starts four motor Constellation service east to west over the area. Local crowd of 250 greets Connie and demands more terminal space while architect Rittenberry drafts plans for a western-styled expansion.
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Connie
TWA
E. O. Cocke
Amarillo
Mr. Cocke
New York
Paris
Frankfurt
Zurich
Rome
Cairo
Braniff
Dallas
Denver
Rittenberry
Congressmen Tour Panhandle Plants and Dodgers Talk
A group of nine Brooklyn congressmen join a Texas Panhandle tour led by Keogh and Harris. TOM WOODWARD notes the Borger area industrial concentration while Wincy Weinberg buys a knife after a rattlesnake tale. Keogh touts the Dodgers’ chances as Harris recalls east to Texas immigration legends.
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Panhandle
Tom Woodward
Lexington
West Virginia
Borger-Phillips-Bonavista Triangle
Jone Prairie
Rattlesnake Rule Sparks Humor On Golf Club Card
A bulletin board note at the Bisbee Arizona Golf Club lists a ground rule allowing a ball within one club length of a rattlesnake to be moved two club lengths without penalty. A handwritten margin remark adds humor. The clipping ends with a quip about government spending and a byline.
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Bisbee, Ariz
Tobey Urges Telephone Service Cut for Bookmakers
New Hampshire Republican Tobey told a telephone company witness to cut gamblers’ phones unless gambling operations stop. Clyde S. Bailey of the United States Independent Telephone Association replied that he would deprive them of service instantly if possible. Tobey charged today that abetting gamblers by certain individuals continues to grow.
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Rips Gaming
Uing
Tobey
New Hampshire
Clyde S. Bailey
United States Independent Telephone Association
Frank Erickson
South Plains Bids Farewell to Chilean Leader
LUBBOCK May 1 Thousands greet Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile as he visits the South Plains to observe regional agriculture and petroleum growth. A thundershower delayed his plane The Sacred Cow causing a pause in the farewell program at Texas Tech stadium. He and his party waited in drizzle before departing for New Orleans.
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Daily News
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Chile
George P. Livermore
Lubbock
South Plains
C. L. Crews
W. A. Avant
New Deal
Lubbeck
Hgent Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Truman
Texas Panhandle
Texas Technological College
New Orleans
Five More Champs Enter National Spelling Bee
Five county champions were certified for the National Spelling Bee in West Texas. Readings list JANE ROSE DOUGLAS? Wait. Peggy Lou Boat is Grover’s seventh grader, Royce Powell and Hereford rivals, Stanley Couch from Turkey School, and Donna Swink from Perryton. The event runs next Saturday at Amarillo High School Auditorium with a banquet at the Herring Hotel that evening.
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Jane Rose
Canyon
Randall County
Donna Swink
Perryton
Ochiltree
Royce Powell
Hereford
Deaf Smith County
Stanley Couch
Turkey School
Hall County
Peggy Lou Boat
Grover
Hansford
West Texas
The
News-Globe
Peggy Lou
A. R. Bort
Barbara Jean Bort
Hansford County
Stanley
Rebecca Smith
Memphis
Weshington
Royce
Edwin Schroeder
Hereford Central
Anita Ponder
David Stanton
Hereford Junior High
Deaf Smith
Amarillo High School
Moisture Dips Across Panhandle and South Plains
Light rain fell in southeastern Panhandle and on the South Plains with Childress at .25 inch and Lubbock at .06 inch. Forecast shows only slight drizzle overnight and partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures. Amarillo readings expected from 47 to 79 degrees.
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Panhandle
South Plains
P. W. Reynolds
US Weather Bureau
Amarillo Air Terminal
Childress
Lubbock
Amarillo
Florida Primary Tests Truman Era Support in Senate Fight
The Associated Press notes Sen. Claude Pepper fights for his political life in a pivotal Florida primary today seen as an early gauge of the Truman program. Four states vote that Tuesday with Alabama Democrats diverging over party leadership and Ohio Democrats contesting a Senate nomination while Indiana hosts scattered House races.
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Associated Press
Claude Pepper
Florida
Alabama
Senate
Ohio
Indiana
Smathers Battles Pepper in Florida Senate Race
The political clash centers on Rep. George Smathers challenging Sen. Pepper for a Florida seat as 1,006,650 voters register for a high turnout in a three Senate, 49 House, and two governor races. Pepper touts Fair Deal loyalty while Smathers attacks Truman programs and links Pepper to Red-front groups.
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Senate
House
Governors
George Smathers
Pepper
Smathers
FEPC
Grain and Feed Dealers Launch Convention Here
Ray Bowden of the National Association of Grain and Feed Dealers will deliver the principal address at the 34th Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers Association convention opening at 9 30 in the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel Amarillo. Dr D M Wiggins Texas Technological College will speak Wednesday.
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Ray Bowden
National Association of Grain and Feed Dealers
Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers Association
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
Leon Hill
San Jacinto Baptist Church
Gene Klein
M. Henderson
Farwell
H. B. Lindley
Tulia
R. L. McClellan
Spearman
Joe Ee Morris
Amarillo
O. D. Dinwiddie
Hart
Earl Riffe
Stratford
J. A. Pitman
Hereford
L. V. Nelson
Claude
H. J. Hughes
Panhandle
Amarillo Country Club
Country Club
D. M. Wiggins
Texas Technological College
Sniping Noted at State Level on Canadian River Dam Plans
Thomas Thompson reports rising criticism at state level over the Canadian River Dam project. Fort Worth engineer Marvin C. Nichols criticized Reclamation Bureau reports and control of water supplies, while Rex B. Baxter and Jay Taylor defend federal involvement and municipal water studies. Nichols leads Freeze and Nichols, a major Southwest engineering firm.
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Thomas Thompson
The
Daily News
Coleman Water
Marvin C. Nichols
Fort Worth
Texas Water Conservation Association
Reclamation Bureau
Texas
Bureau
Bureau of Reclamation
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Canadian River Dam
Canadian River Dam Federal Legislative Committee
Nichols
Washington
Watkins
Rex B. Baxter
Federal Legislative Committee
North
South Plains
Corps of Engineers
Taylor
Baxter
Howard Robbins
West Texas
Freeze and Nichols
May Day Demonstrations in Berlin Mark Largest Rally
Berlin witnessed rival May Day rallies across the East West border with about 750000 on the West side. Police kept violence to a minimum as clashes occurred in some native areas near Johannesburg South Africa where thirteen natives died.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Socialist International
Paris
Brandenburg Gate
Hitler
Unter den Linden
Ernst Reuter
Picketing Averted Ends Phone Strike
About 10 000 Western Electric installers ended their week long walkout four hours before the deadline. Pickets around Strategic telephone exchanges were called off after a 15 hour bargaining session with federal mediators present. Wage talks resumed between Western Electric and Division 6 of the CIO Communications Workers of America, which had begun the strike last Monday against the Bell system.
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New York
Western Electric
Division 6
CIO Communications Workers of America
Bell System
Ernest Weaver
Absentee Voting Deadline Today in 18th District
The last day for absentee voting in the May 6 special congressional elections is today. In Potter County 202 ballots had been cast by yesterday afternoon according to County Clerk Loren Jones, with absentee voting also active in the remaining 27 counties of the district.
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Potter County
Loren Jones
18Th
Hardy Proprietor Fends Off Robber Costs Him Money
Gus B. Manolis, 52, owner of a West Sixth Avenue liquor store, fought with a gunman during a nighttime break in. He suffered facial and head lacerations but the intruder fled, losing the money he planned to take, and Manolis may have damaged the robber’s eye. He was treated privately.
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West Sixth Avenue
Gus B. Manolis
West Thirteenth
Ng Eee
Manolis
Moonrise and fishing tips in Almanac style notes
The Daily News Almanac reports moonrise at 8:41 PM and a full moon on May 31. It notes fishing days and celestial hints with references to Amarillo skies, Bishopipper and Venus rise times, and a brief historical oddity about the African slave trade.
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Amarillo
Bastien
Ancothe
Venus
Amarillo civic meetings and events listed for today
Noon meetings for North Amarillo Kiwanis at Saratoga Cafe and Downtown Lions Club. City Commission at Municipal Auditorium 3 PM. 5 PM absentee ballot deadline in county clerk's office for special election. 7:30 PM concert by Marching Bere at Amer Church of Christ. 8 PM camera club and Toastmasters at various venues. SPEBSQSA Barber Shop and Guererele Club events listed among others in Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Palo Ane Baptists’ Association
Fairview Poneae Church
Saratoga
North Yalbones
Bere Chorus
Taste ‘Amer
Church of Christ
Camera Club
San the Heiress
Municipa Auditorium
Toastmasters
Amarillo Guererele Club
Spebsqsa
The Queen Wore Calico Old Timers Choose To Rule
The Old Timer's Association of the Oklahoma Panhandle selected Mrs. F. M. Vivian of Guymon as queen for Pioneer festivities on May 2. Born in Hamburg Iowa, she arrived in Ochiltree County at six weeks and grew up amid frontier lawless days before settlement and land openings along the Cherokee Strip and No Man's Land.
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Pioneer
Ann Tegtmeier
Daily News
Old-Timer’s Association of the
Oklahoma Panhandle
F. M. Vivian
Guymon
Jim Dennison
Ochiltree County
Hamburg
Iowa
Washington
No-Man’s- Land
Congress
Jim Dennisons
Oklahoma
Prisoner Is Recaptured in Oklahoma Escape
James EK Hoskins, one of two Negro inmates who fled Hall County jail last Wednesday, was recaptured this afternoon in Valliant Oklahoma near the Red River. Edgar Simpson remains at large as authorities seek leads from Hoskins. Hoskins, visiting a girlfriend, was arrested by McCurtain County deputies and jailed in Idabel. Bill Baten plans to transport Hoskins back to Memphis, expected Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Memphis
James EK. Hoskins
Hall County
Valliant
Okla
Red River
Edgar Simpson
Esca
Hoskins
McCurtain
Idabel
Bill Baten
Baten
Little Theater Final Play Opens Tonight
The Amarillo Little Theater presents its last 19th century drama The Heiress at Municipal Auditorium at 8:15 PM directed by Oma Link Rowley. Lead actors include Frances Lynn Townes Bob Coble and William Angus Moore with tickets on sale at White Kirk for 1.30 adults 0.60 students.
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Amarillo Little Theater
Municipal Auditorium
New York
Oma Link Rowley
Frances Lynn Townes
Bob Coble
Amarillo
William Angus Moore
West Texas State College
White & Kirk
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