$400 Million Measure to Aid Greece and Turkey Passes House
The House approved a 400 million dollar program to bolster Greece and Turkey against Communist influence by a 287 to 107 vote. The plan allows use of troops and military material, with Senate action pending minor changes. Debate cited Russia and wartime tensions, and the bill faced no roll call on a Holifield push to return it to committee. It now goes to the Senate, after which a conference may be needed.
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Freight Crews Back on Jobs in Amarillo Labor Dispute
Negotiations resumed in Amarillo after a brief timeout as Local 577 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters pressed for 20 cent an hour raises and shorter hours. Operators offered 10 percent raises to 85 90 cents for dock and pickup work with a 51 hour week. Union seeks 90 and 95 cents and 50 hour work weeks. About 75 workers affected with no strike planned for 30 days.
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Amarillo
Mike Slattery
Yellow Transit Company
Thomas Cartage Company
Riss & Company
Talon Motor Freight
Miller & Miller
Lee Way Freight
Strickland Transportation Company
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R. W. Whitley
Lee Way
Oklahoma City
Whitley
Slattery
Optimist Sessions Extended Indoor In Amarillo
Optimists adjust plans for the Seventh District meeting at Tri-State Fair Grounds moving indoors to Municipal Auditorium due to weather. Highlights include a boys oratorical contest with 25 clubs, several addresses by leaders from Amarillo Shreveport and Wichita Falls, and a banquet with H. L. Scott as installing officer.
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Municipal Auditorium
John Snider
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Herring Hotel
Herring
Chet Robertson
Amarillo Club
Virgil Patterson
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
John R. Chambers
Wichita Falls
John A. Richardson
Shreveport
Charles Stafford
Sanborn School
Amarillo Optimists
Old Tascosa
Paul Barlow
Barlow
Amarillo Country Club
H. L. Scott
Corpus Christi
Straw Toppers In Debut Today
The weather uncertain about all out cooperation in Straw Hat Day activities today. Amarillo merchants display attractive stocks of new straw hat styles for discriminating tastes. The weatherman joked he would keep such a hat in a cellophane cover if he wore one today.
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Amarillo
Navy 1948 Budget Cut Approved Tentatively
A House Appropriations subcommittee member disclosed that a 10 percent cut totaling 350 million dollars in the Navy's 1948 budget has been approved tentatively. The action comes as part of broader wartime reductions and faces further committee review.
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Navy
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Amarillo and West Texas Weather Outlook Saturday
Partly cloudy with warmer temperatures and scattered thundershowers in Amarillo and West Texas Saturday. Sunday will be partly cloudy with mild temperatures and a few widely scattered showers afternoon. Extended forecast shows above normal temperatures across Texas west of the Gulf with a cooling trend early next week and sunrises at 5 47 AM and sunsets at 7 39 PM.
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Gulf Plains
Probe Faults Texas Prison Farms Abuse Claims Report
A committee report by Rep. Sam Sellers faults Texas prison farms for brutality and inhumane conditions at Darrington Retrieve and Wynne Farms. It urges discharge of two farm managers and praises Goree and Sugarland facilities for women and inmates. The findings contrast with Huntsville main jail and note tear gas use and self mutilation as ongoing issues.
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Wynne Farms
Joe W. Gandy
Winnsboro
Gordon Davis
Waco
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Gilmer
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Bikini Targets Still Poisonous After Tests
Ten months after the Bikini atomic blasts, target ships remain unsafe for permanent occupancy. The Navy said most surviving vessels will be towed to Hawaii and the West Coast for study this summer, with decontamination efforts needed before crews could reside aboard. Officials noted populations in Pearl Harbor San Francisco and Bremerton are not at risk during the research.
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Daniel appoints aide as executive assistant attorney general
Price Daniel announced the appointment of Joe Green Hill as executive assistant attorney general today in Austin. The move names Hill to the senior legal post within the attorney general's office.
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Austin
Joe Greenhill
Price Daniel
Boy Told Feet Gone After Amputation in Hospital
In Chicago a six year old, Dale Richey, learns his legs were amputated after a gasoline blast. His father Howard explains the loss using a model plane and toy guns as the boy asks how he will walk again. The news was kept from his mother until after birth.
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Howard Richey
Dale Richey
Dale
Talks Over Walkout In Phillips Petroleum Strike
Negotiations continued in Borger in a 10 oclock session after a mass meeting was canceled. Local 351 will vote on any settlement offer as unions and management press for a preferential seniority clause. The strike has disrupted multiple Panhandle industries and led to reduced gas and carbon production in the region.
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Rigdon
Herbert Woods
Washington
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Ohio
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Bonavista
B. F. Goodrich
Hugh Burdette
Cabot Carbon Co
Pampa
Panhandle
Cabot Carbon
Burdette
Man Under Spell Hurled Coed On Rails. She Survives
Jack Didia 28, a salesman and veteran recently released from a mental hospital, grabbed Bertha Pataky 21 and hurled her onto the tracks. Passengers and trackmen stopped the train, saving her. Didia was beaten and jailed on felonious assault after police noted his vague admission of spells.
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Bertha Pataky
Brooklyn
Didia
University
Miss Pataky
Merwin Wolf
NYU
Bellevue Hospital
Demos Unwrap New Labor Bill in Senate Storm
In a tense Senate night session 11 Democrats led by Senator Murray of Montana introduced a full substitute for the union curbing bill. The proposal aligns with President Truman's labor suggestions and covers additional issues while administration involvement remains unconfirmed.
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Truman
Pepper
Florida
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Chavez
New Mexico
Green
Rhode Island
Kilgore
West Virginia
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
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Myers
One Way Traffic Plan in Front of Amarillo Post Office
Police designate first one way street in Amarillo to ease traffic bottlenecks. East Fifth between Taylor and Fillmore will allow west bound traffic only from Fillmore end. Angle parking allowed on both sides. Officers on duty until drivers adjust.
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Fillmore
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Willie Francis executed in second electric chair
Willie Francis was put to death in the electric chair in St. Martinville Louisiana after a lengthy appeals fight. The execution followed a prior failed attempt caused by a mechanical failure and involved witnesses including Claude Thomas, brother of the slain druggist. Francis faced the chair serenely and declined last words as 2700 volts were applied. Father Charles Hannigan attended him throughout.
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Phillips Closes Refinery Deal
The War Assets Administration announced the sale of a 100 octane gasoline refinery at Sweeny Texas to Alamo Refining Company for 13 100 000. The major stockholder is Phillips Petroleum Company with several Houston investors named. The refinery spans 508 acres with 30 buildings and a government cost of 26 252 187. The plant has a 25 060 barrel per day capacity and more than 200 jobs are expected in producing gasoline kerosene diesel and other products. The buyers plan to manufacture an improved automotive fuel.
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War Assets Administration
Sweeny
Texas
Alamo Refining Company
Alamo Company
Phillips Petroleum Company
Clayton N. Smith
Jack Blalock
Harry Grebe
E. P Doremus
Butcher-Arthur, Inc
Houston
J. S. Abercrombie Company
Harrison Oil Company
WAA
Mussolini's Son Clears Court Barrier to Argentine Residence
Judge Juan Cesar Romero Ibarra ruled that Vittorio Mussolini's March 29 entry into Argentina did not constitute a crime against state security. This decision clears the way for his plan to live and work in Argentina.
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Juan Cesar Romero Ibarra
Federal Court
Vittorio Mussolini
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