Poles Apart and Two Cities Tale in Texas Editorial
The Waco editor shares Harry Provenc e's piece comparing Amarillo and Galveston. It notes Amarillo's city hall meetings opening with weekly minister prayers versus Galveston's mayor pursuing civic vice reforms. The piece suggests sermons titled A Tale of Two Cities will highlight similar sins, with Amarillo not lacking.
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Izzard
Texas
Waco Tribune
Amarillo
Galveston
Guy Carlander
Waco
Harry Provence
Watch Returns After Rainy Day Loss and Reward
In a small neighborly tale, barber Dewey Gilliam helps Mrs. Gilliam recover her diamond decorated wrist watch lost in the Big Rain. A post office worker finds it on Eight Avenue, the Gilliams retrieve it at a finder’s home, and Mrs. Gilliam pays a $10 reward. The barber sunshine note ends with praise for good neighbors.
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Dewey
Mrs. Gilliam
First National Bank
Shamrock
Daily News
The
Gilliams
Eight Avenue
Bowie
Avondale School
A Miscellany of Quotes and Trivia From Wes Izard
A collection of quirks and notes from the era. Items include remarks on Grady Hazlewood tax bills, Dr. Carl Bates shirts and self laundering, Aaron Stern moonlighting for a Dallas shirt firm, Jim Thorpe's football refereeing quip, Parents Magazine tease, and Uranium energy facts.
Vaccine rollout eyed to reach nine million children
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele said a Salk vaccine supply may cover the second inoculation round for nine million schoolchildren before polio season peak. Dr James Shannon noted tighter safety standards. The plan envisions three shots, funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with initial focus on first and second graders.
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Washington
Leonard Scheele
Scheele
U.S. Public Health Service
James Shannon
National Institutes of Health
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Stays Mild With Scattered Thunder Showers
U S Weather Bureau reports panhandle and South Plains partly cloudy conditions with cooler Saturday and little change Sunday. Temperatures range from 50s to upper 80s, rainfall from scattered thundershowers, with no major changes expected across Western Texas.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
South Plains
Coverl
Texas
Half-Grown Hoppers Invading New Mexico
Portales New Mexico May 27 Special a horde of half grown grasshoppers estimated to cover four to six sections of Roosevelt County are sweeping southwest areas near Portales with about 50 insects per square yard They move southwestward from the Albert Tillinghast ranch toward the Lewis Cooper ranch as county agent W G Vinsant plans spraying at 60 cents per acre with ranchers paying 20 cents and a promise to spray if trouble grows
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Portales
N.M
Roosevelt County
Bivins Cold Water Cattle Co
W. G. Vinsant
Albert Tillinghast Ranch
Lewis Cooper Ranch
Elida
Kenna
Winsant
Eden Faces National Railway Strike Threat After Victory
Prime Minister Eden, buoyed by a large Commons majority, cancels a country house party and stays in London to tackle a looming nationwide railway strike set for midnight. Locomotive engineers and firemen push for higher pay while a dock workers dispute worsens. Eden holds a 70 minute Cabinet meeting and pledges to get on with the job.
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Eden
House of Commons
Labor
No. 10
Downing Street
Giles Faces Five More Indictments
Five new indictments were returned against former land Commissioner Bascom Giles by the Travis County grand jury. Brady rancher B. R. Sheffield is named as co-defendant in two counts each of felony theft and conspiracy to commit theft totaling 32,075. Sheffield also faces eight forgery charges. The cases stem from the Henry Rosenow Ranch land deal, 20 miles northeast of Bracketville in Kinney County.
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Bascom Giles
Travis County Grand Jury
Brady
B. R. Sheffield
Giles
Veterans Land Program
Sheffield
Henry Rosenow
Bracketville
Kinney County
Travis County
Bexar County
Fury follows brake failure on steep hill in San Francisco
A runaway Mayflower moving van without brakes plowed down Nob Hill near Chinatown killing seven people and injuring several others. Driver William McCandless, 50, of Davenport, Ind., died in the cab after the truck sped 80 to 100 mph through Clay Street and into parked cars. Witnesses described a hornless, blazing death ride with explosions and collapsing street furniture. Among the dead were patrolman Henry Eidler, 51, Barbara Serabonich, 55, Peter Federf, 71, Chew Shong, 34, William Ahuna, 34, and Lionel Stone of Burlingame, with two women injured. Co-driver Wayne Wolfe survived.
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Chinatown
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Hall of Justice
Indianapolis
William McCandless
Davenport
Clay Street
Henry Eidler
Barbara S. Serabonich
Peter E. Federf
Chew Shong
William L. Ahuna
Sll
Lionel Cope Stone
Burlingame
Calif
Ahuna
Mary
Wayne D. Wolfe
Littleton
Colo
Amarillo Stores and Banks to Close Memorial Day
Amarillo retail stores and banks will close Monday for Memorial Day. The Chamber of Commerce office also closes today and Monday and reopens Tuesday at 8 30 a.m. Merchants had voted months ago to observe the holiday by closing.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Retail Merchants Committee
Hazlewood's Tax Bill Passes Texas Senate
Texas Senate approved a Hazlewood bill raising 1 cent on beer gasoline and cigarettes in a 18 to 13 vote. The measure would fund state government for the next biennium, with the bill returning to the House for final approval amid a fierce debate over beer taxation.
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Margaret Mayer
Daily News
Austin
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Senate
Hazlewood
House
Texas
Udall Digging Out as Flood Hits Blackwell
A Kansas tornado disaster toll rises as Udall and Blackwell brace after twisters kill 114 across four states. Rescue efforts and red cross aid mount. Ike authorizes Civil Defense funds. Blackwell floods threaten evacuation and confirm 18 deaths, with hundreds injured and missing.
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Eisenhower
Fred Hall
Kansas
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Red Cross
Arkansas City
Kan
Oklahoma
Okla
Baseball scores from West Mexico and major leagues
In the West Mexico League Clovis defeated Ama 23 to 5. Plainview beat Pampa 5 to 4. Abilene 9 over Lubbock 0. Albuquerque 11 over El Paso 9. In the National League New York 3 Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 2. Milwaukee 7 Chicago 5. St Louis 7 Cincinnati 4. American League Detroit 1 Chicago 0. New York 6 Baltimore 2. Cleveland at Kansas City postponed by rain.
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el Paso
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Kansas City
Senate Banking Committee Rejects Public Housing Plan
The Senate Banking Committee rejected the administration public housing program and approved a large substitute plan four times bigger, while renewing the four billion dollar FHA housing loan program for one more year. The panel backed a 135,000 units per year for four years plus 1.35 billion for armed forces housing, totaling 540,000 units in four years. Senator Capehart urged overriding the committee to restore the administration plan, but the full committee backed the larger substitute on a 6 to 6 tie vote.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Capehart
R-Ind
Douglas
D-Ill
Senate
Sen
Lehman
D-Lib-Ny
Tornado sightings sweep three states after epidemic
Reports say new tornadoes touched down in Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma as part of a seven state outbreak. The Missouri patrol notes a tornado damaged four houses near Higginsville and no casualties were reported. Oklahoma and Kansas patrols logged additional sightings near Medford Osawatomie and Olathe before later breaking up.
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Blackwell
Okla
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Medford
Kansas Highway
Osawatomie
Kan
Harrisonville
Missouri Highway Patrol
Higginsville
Hillsdale
Kansas City
Kansas Highway Patrol
Olathe
Eisenhower asks Congress to liberalize 1953 Refugee Act
President Eisenhower urged Congress to reform the 1953 Refugee Relief Act and keep sanctuary traditions alive. He proposed 10 changes to speed admissions, including reallocating unused quotas, allowing welfare groups to guarantee jobs and housing, broadening act definitions, removing passport and two-year refugee history requirements, permitting nonunit family entries, and admitting tuberculosis cases. Senator Watkins called the proposals sound and likely to pass.
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Eisenhower
Congress
America
Sen
Watkins
Utah
Senate
Weather summary for Texas and Oklahoma towns in 1955
Weather report notes Amarillo had sunshine for 132 of 148 days in 1955. Comparative readings at 3 pm show Houston 26 mph windy and cloudy, Dallas 25 mph with 6 miles visibility partly cloudy, Oklahoma City clear. Amarillo 22 mph clear.
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Clarence P. Lemire
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