Thunderstorms Boost Plains Crops Across Panhandle
Storms drench the Panhandle with scattered totals led by McLean at 1.55 inches and Amarillo at .52. Heavy rain and thunder abated, hail minimal, and a Higgins home escaped damage as residents sought shelter. Temperatures cooled to 57 and will rise. rain should soak the ground for grasslands and crops. Local outages occurred in Hereford and other towns with brief power interruptions.
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Panhandle Plains
Higgins
Amarillo
Third Avenue
Jackson West
H. C. Winburn
US Weather Bureau
McLean
Silverton
Plainview
Spearman
Stratford
Dalhart
Adrian
Tucumcari
Guyman
Pampa
Clarendon
Memphis
Tracea
Hereford
Dimmitt
Miami
Muleshoe
Santa Fe
Etter
Dumas
Happy
Tulsa
Canyon
Kress
Hale Center
Abernathy
Floydada
Lockney
Lubbock
Olton
Johnson opens rally tour with Panhandle stop and plans
Senate hopeful Lyndon B. Johnson arrives after an Austin radio address to speak at a 7:30 p.m. rally on the courthouse lawn with an 8 p.m. talk broadcast over KGNC Amarillo and KFYO Lubbock. He meets Panhandle editors at the Herring Hotel at 5:30 p.m. and has prior engagements with the Junior Chamber in Pampa and Borger, stressing preparedness, steel and oil growth, and cautious remarks on arms to Arabs or Israelites.
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Austin
Johnson
Couruhouse Lawn
KGNC
Amarilo
KFYO
Lubbock
Panhandle Press
Herring Hotel
The
Panhandle
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Pampa
Borger
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Pearl Harbor
Israel
United States
Russia
Atomic Energy Committee
Split in Ranks Of Jester Bloc Looms Today
Three Texas Democratic factions press for control ahead of the presidential convention. Gov Beauford Jester supporters back an uninstructed Texas delegation while Albert Sydney Johnson looms as Tyson rival. States rights seek a referendum on civil rights, pro Truman forces plan to win at the convention.
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Brownwood
Texas
Democrats
Beauford H. Jester
Tom Tyson
Corsicana
Albert Sydney Johnson
Dallas
Tyson
States’ Rights
Truman
Jester
Sayig
South
FEPC
Texas Regular Party
Farm hand to face charges after Hereford shooting
Hereford area a farm hand from Oklahoma is expected to be charged with shooting Tom Rowe of Anton once in the barn about three miles north of Hereford. Rowe, 35, remained in very critical condition at Deaf Smith County Hospital after receiving multiple transfusions and potentially facing amputation of a badly mangled leg. Deputies say the suspect turned himself in to the Neal Young sheriff’s office yesterday afternoon with his brother’s urging.
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Hereford
Tom Rowe
Anton
Deaf Smith County Hospital
Rowe
Neal Young
Pauls Valley
Okla
Sheriff's Office
Woman 90 Plans Marriage To 37 Year-Old Suitor
Mrs Elize Murray of Brushton New York says she is over 90 and will wed Clarence McGee 37 once blood tests required by state law confirm. The bride, who lost a leg in a 20 year old accident in which two of her children died, recalls a first marriage to Charles Murray at age 14.
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Brushton
Elize Murray
Clarence McGee
New York State
Murray
Syracuse Post- Standard
James Murray
Winon
Father
McGee
ancGee
Charles Murray
Clarence
Convict Dies as Freedom Nears at Chillicothe Reformatory
Earl Anderson a 21 year old parole violator died in the arms of guards minutes before he would have been released. He slumped from a struggle over a bulge in his pant leg while resisting search. Warden Schilder noted the possibility of coded poems and songs, while investigators reviewed the motive. Anderson, from Calumet City Illinois, had been sentenced at 15 for mail theft and paroled in 1943.
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Chillicothe, CO
Federal Reformatory
Earl Anderson
L. Clark Schilder
Chicago
Willy Anderson
Anderson
Schilder
Calumet City
Tll
National Training School
Washington, DC
Chillicothe Reformatory
Strike Crippled Bus Line Plans Three Runs to Amarillo
Striking drivers crippled a Lubbock Amarillo bus service with three early runs planned from Lubbock to Amarillo today. Vehicles damaged include two buses already hit by rocks and one driver beaten. Authorities promise protection and a district court hearing on a temporary restraining order tomorrow.
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Amarillo
Lubbock
Texas Rangers
Levens
Ama- Tillo
Transportation Company
Wichita Falls
Hubert McElroy
Abernathy
Plains Chevrolet
Mr. Farmer
Carlsbad
Truce Deadline Set Wednesday in Palestine Fighting
United Nations Security Council extends cease fire deadline to Wednesday noon EST after Syrian and Egyptian requests. Arabs reportedly to respond after meetings in Amman, while fighting persists in Jerusalem and surrounding areas. Reports claim Ramat Rebel captured by Arab forces with a Jewish enclave still holding a dining hall.
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Cairo
Egypt
United Nations Security Council
Palestine
Council
Lake Success
Israel
Faris el Khoury
Syria
Amman
Trans-Jordan
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Arab High Command
Ramat
Bethlehem
Haganah
Senate panel backs exemption for World Bank securities
The Senate Banking Committee approved a bill to exempt securities issued by the International Bank from the Securities Act and the National Bank Act.
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World Bank
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
The
International Bank
National Bank Act
Former Kress Woman Wins Queen for a Day Prize Tour
Mrs. J. G. Campbell, formerly Kathryn Snell of Kress, won Mutual Network's Queen for a Day contest with a 25 word entry. She earns a month long trailer caravan tour, a Bermuda trip, a new car and more, sharing the win with her family from Zapata near Lorado.
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J. G. Campbell
Kathryn Snell
Kress
American Cancer Society
What Am I Saying WOMEN By Frank Moncan
A humorous remark attributed to Ambrose Bierce about women follows a pun on ease of pickup and danger of dropping. The piece ends with a sales cue to see Plains Chevrolet before buying a new truck, addressed to farmers.
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Frank Moncan
Ambrose Bierce
N. ¥. Post Corp., Inc
Plains
Mr. Farmer
Man and Wife Die in Plunge From Hotel
Chicago authorities report a ninth story plunge killed Harry Grundy 49 former Christian County state's attorney and his wife Laurena 48. Grundy suffered from long standing mood fits and was taken to a north side hotel for hospitalization. The couple fell to the sidewalk in front of the Commonwealth Hotel at 2757 Pine Grove Avenue after breaking through a window pane and screen. No struggle or witnesses were found.
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Harry Grundy
Christian County
Laurena
Albert Hoffman
Grundy
Taylorsville, Ill
North Side
Commonwealth
Amarillo Clubs and City Events Schedule Today
Today in Amarillo 10:00 AM Chamber of Commerce Development Committee meets at chamber offices with members and guests. Noon Lions Club Herring Hotel, members and guests. Noon North Amarillo Kiwanis Bennett Hall Seventh and North Buchanan, members and guests. Noon Amarillo Real Estate Board Herring Hotel, members. 2:00 PM City Commission meets City Hall, public. 3:45 PM Khiva Shrine Circus Municipal Auditorium second performance 8:15 PM, public. 6:00 PM Amarillo 20 30 Club cancels regular meeting for ball game Knights of Columbus Seventeenth and Crockett. 8:00 PM Political rally Courthouse lawn Lyndon B Johnson speaker. 8:30 PM St Anthony’s Hospital School of Nursing commencement exercises Cathedral Hall by invitation. See High Plains Today Page 2. A zipper notebook will please the erad complete selections at Russells.
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Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Knights of Columbus
Seventeenth and Crockett
Courthouse Lawn
Lyndon B. Johnson
St. Anthony's Hospital School of Nursing
Cathedral Hall
High Plains
Polack Bros Shrine Circus Opens Seven Day Run
The Polack Bros Shrine Circus begins tonight at 8:15 in Municipal Auditorium for a seven day engagement with two matinees daily at 3:45 and 2:15 on Wednesdays, featuring 30 displays of aerialists animals and novelty acts led by performers and act names such as Emil Pallenberg's trained elephants Miss Malikova high wire and the Great Barton. Khiva Shrine Temple sponsors the event with proceeds benefiting uniformed groups. reserved seats are sold at Cretney Drug Store and through the week.
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Europe
America
Polack Bros. Shrine Circus
Municipal Auditorium
Polack Bros
Cheerful Gardner
Emil Pallenberg
Wonder Bears
Madam Maree
Rudy Docky
Jorgen M. Christiansen
Black Liberty Horse
Miss Malikova
Billy Barton
Irma
Rio
del Rae
Barton
Adriana
Charley
Ray Wilbert
Nita
Pepi
Dime Wilson
Kinko
Gene Randow
Charles Post
Khiva Shrine Temple
Cretney Drug Store
Weather summary for Amarillo and nearby regions
The daily forecast shows cloudy morning turning partly cloudy and warmer in the afternoon. West Texas expects partly cloudy skies with isolated showers and thundershowers Tuesday, cooler in Pecos Valley East, and warmer in the Panhandle and South Plains on Wednesday. New Mexico forecasts partly cloudy Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms, cooler in the southeast, highs mainly 70 to 90.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Os Bass
Fox
Amarillo Choir Seeks Funds For New York Trip
The Amarillo High School A Cappella Choir seeks $10,000 for a trip to New York City for Lions International events and radio shows. Donations totaling $3,365.88 have been received including a $5 check from Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wilbanks of Spearman.
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Amarillo High School
New York
News-Globe
J. D. Wilbanks
Spearman
Julia Dean Evans
Panhandle
New York City
News- Globe
Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers Association
District Lions Club
Brownfield Lions Club
Perman Onan Ean Etna
D. Rogers
Tom Leics
Plains Chevrolet Co
Farmer
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