Big Golf Guns of Mexico and Texas Begin Firing at Noon
The Amarillo Country Club hosts the first official team matches between top Mexican professionals and Texas rivals led by Byron Nelson and Olin Dutra. Nine pros per side compete in doubles match play with a trophy from President Miguel Aleman.
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Daily News
Byron Nelson
Olin Dutra
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
Texas
Amarillo
Nelson
Dutra
Powell
Amarillo Country Club
Republic of Mexico
Teycac
Alamo
Chapultepec
Roanoke
Gray Olin Dutra
Raymond Gafford
Juan Neri
Gafford
Northwood Country Club
Dallas
Gatford
Neri
Club de
Breckenridge
Sam Schneider
Houston
Agustin Belmont
Mexico City
Edmundo Salas
Elroy Marti
Graham Ross
Margarito Solis
Monterrey
Amado Martinez
Puebla
George Ausbach
L. W. Roland
Fort Worth
Texas Pga
Luciano Gomez
Juan Castorena
Saltillo
Ausbach
Salas
el Golfista Mexicano
Aleman
Escalante
Brownsville Country Club
Mexico Pga
Woods
Belmont
Solis
Martinez
Irons
Gomez
Castorena
Del E. Webb Low Bidder For 11 Air Base Buildings
The Del E. Webb Construction Company was named apparent low bidder for 11 mess halls and admin buildings at Amarillo Air Force Base with base bid of 3 894 204 dollars and alternate 3 870 152. Four bidders competed. Lambie and Moss of Amarillo among them. Bid opening occurred at Tulsa Corps of Engineers office. next bids set for two bachelor officer quarters and later electrical and steam distribution projects. Memorial Day observances noted with offices closed and a memorial service planned at Memorial Park in Amarillo featuring Rev. Pritchard and local groups.
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del E. Webb Construction Company
Amarillo Air Force Base
Webb
Corps of Engineers
Tulsa
R. H. Holmes
Webbs
Jon
del E. Webb Company
Amarillo
Panhandle
Memorial Park
Twenty-fourth
Washington
Francis W. Pritchard
First Presbyterian Church
Amarillo Veterans Council
Amarillo Ministerial Alliance
Parks and Recreation
Vandenberg urges giant Air Force to deter war before 1954
General Vandenberg told Senate committees that the United States cannot have adequate military security before 1954. He warned of a future danger and argued for a strong Air Force capable of destroying Russian industry and the Soviet air force if war comes. He downplayed immediate security but stressed a bold buildup to counter growing Soviet power. He opposed Red China entering the United Nations and endorsed Formosa as strategically valuable.
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Washington
Hoyt Vandenberg
United States
Air Force
Vandenberg
Senator Long
Louisiana
Defense Mobilization
Charles E. Wilson
Sandenberg
Russia
Adm
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs
MacArthur
United Nations
Formosa
Knowland
California
Joint Chiefs
Cincfe
Korea
High Temperatures Easing Off Across Panhandle
A cooling trend reduces today’s heat after a 88 degree peak yesterday. US Weather Bureau meteorologist K R Jenkins cites a weak cool front that moved through the Panhandle yesterday morning. Thundershowers were reported in parts of the Panhandle and South Plains with sprinkles in Amarillo and Clayton New Mexico. Northerly winds at 12 to 15 mph marked most of yesterday.
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K. R. Jenkins
US Weather Bureau
Jenkins
Panhandle
South Plains
Clayton
Lubbock
Big Spring
Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Remodeling Slated For Pantex Plant
Los Alamos May 29. Remodeling and construction totaling 250 000 to 500 000 dollars is planned by the Atomic Energy Commission at the Pantex plant in Amarillo. Plans and specs will be ready June 5 bids open July 17 at the Hei Ying Hotel. Two new masonry buildings will be built and existing structures renovated. Silas Mason Co. of Amarillo is the architect engineer.
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Los Alamos
Atomic Energy Commission
Pantex
Amarillo
AEC
Silas Mason Co
Burglary Duo Rob Liberty Package Store Again
A peroxide blonde and her male companion robbed Liberty Package Store at 3806 West Sixth, taking about $64 from two cash registers and a wristwatch. Police describe the woman as 5 feet 5 inches, 130 pounds with black hair showing peroxide roots. the man as 5 feet 9 inches, 145 pounds with dark wavy hair. The incident followed a May 9 robbery at gunpoint of $91, with same couple suspected.
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Liberty Package
West Sixth
Eniine
Weather synopsis and historic notes from Amarillo almanac
Fair and cooler Wednesday with 59 to 80 degree range. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies and isolated thundershowers in Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico partly cloudy with widely scattered storms and cooler eastern sections. Central temps yesterday ranged from 66 to 88 with sunrise at 5:34 AM and sunset at 7:54 PM. 40 years ago Indianapolis opened the first 500 mile race at Marmon. moonrise and celestial notes for Amarillo skies noted.
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US Weather Bureau
Amarillo
West
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Indianapolis Speedway
Ray Harroun
Venus
South Koreans Drive 26 Miles Beyond 38th on Eastern Coast
Allied forces pushed 26 miles into North Korea on the east central front capturing Kansong 26 miles north of the 38th parallel and securing high ground near Hwachon dam. US tank units blocked progress near Inje as North Korean and Chinese forces retreat and regroup along a 125 mile front.
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Tokyo
North Korea
East Central
Kansong
Hwachon Dam
Hwachon Reservoir
Inje
Stan Carter
Eighth Army
38Th Paral
Yanggu
38Th Parallel
Coast Road
Inflation Clips Defense Budget Costs Across Military Stockpiles
Secretary of Defense Marshall told Congress inflation costs American taxpayers about seven billion dollars yearly in buying guns tanks and planes. He backed a two year extension and expansion of the 1950 Defense Production Act to curb inflation.
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Washington
Marshall
Congress
Office of Price Stabilization
Atlantic Seaboard
Michael di Salle
Charles FE. Wilson
America
Wes Izzard Out With Cold at The Globe News
Publisher and editor Wes Izzard is confined to his home at 2805 Lipscomb with a bad cold and will be out of the office for several days.
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Wes Izzard
The
Globe News
Lipscomb
Explosion traps coal miners at Easington pit
Easington England May 29 eighty1 coal miners were trapped by a gas filled explosion in a labyrinth of tunnels. Fifteen miners and one rescue worker were known dead and about 66 remained underground. Rescue efforts faced poisonous gas and blocked passages as teams worked toward the trapped men with respirators and oxygen. Relatives gathered at the pit head as engineers warned hope was diminishing.
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Easington
England
Fern Emme
Sa Es
Prices Fall in New York Stores Amid Price War
New York shops slashed prices up to 10 percent after a Supreme Court ruling freed stores from fixed price laws. Macy’s led with 6 percent cuts on thousands of items, while Gimbels said it would meet all prices. Rain kept shoppers away as merchants signaled they would hold lines if possible.
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New York
Associated Press
Macys
Three convicts recaptured after tunnel escape from prison farm
In Houston on May 29 three inmates at Wayne Prison Farm tunnelled from a cell window and, after six hours underground, were recaptured within hours. Bill Burden of Amarillo and Robert Strother of Waco were taken in Houston as John Wesley Zetsche of Dallas was seized in Huntsville. Burden, Strother, and Zetsche faced robbery murder burglary terms. The escape involved abducting a couple near Conroe, exchanging clothes, and a pistol visible theft before officers tracked them.
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Houston
U.pi
Wayne
Bill Burden
Amarillo
Robert Spencer Strother
Waco
John Wesley Zetsche
Dallas
Burden
Strother
Zetsche
Huntsville
J. C. Hall
Jewett
Conroe
Hall
Flight Over North Pole in Simple 10 Hour Run
Capt Charles Blair landed at Ladd Air Force Base after a single engine Mustang flight from Bardu to Fairbanks completing a North Pole crossing in 10 hours 29 minutes. He described the trip as very simple with a headwind from Norway and no icing despite temperatures dropping to 25 degrees below zero.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Charles Blair
Ladd Air Force Base
Texas
North Pole
Bardu
Blair
New York City
Norway
Amarillo Events Daylong Calendar Across City Venues
Noontime listings show a busy day in Amarillo with the 31st Texas PGA Tournament at Amarillo Country Club and a GM diesel locomotive exhibit at FW and D Station. Municipal women golfers meet at Ross Rogers Course, and several community and hospital events occur through the afternoon and evening.
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Amarillo Country Club
General Motors
Fw&d
Ross Rogers
West Seventh
68Tird Air Force Reserve Squadron
Naval Reserve Armory
Council of Veterans Organizations
Memorial Park
Twenth-fourth
Washington
Talk About Football in Japan with 45th Division Coach
In Sapporo Japan 1947, Lt Truman L Johnson of Thabel Okla Stinnett Tex coached Stinnett girl Frankie Groves in a 13 6 loss to Groom Tex. Johnson presides over 45th Division athletic programs while Col James B Bratton praises morale and diverse recruits from multiple states.
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Japan
Groom-Stinnett
Truman L. Johnson
180Th Infantry Regiment
Thabel
Okla
Stinnett
Tex
Stinnett High School
Frankie Groves
Groom
Johnson
Frankie
Lieutenant Johnson
Fort Towson
James B. Bratton
McAlester
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Carolinas
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Daily News Almanac
Gulf Plains
Buvina
Olver & Wiggins Lumber Company
1200 West
Calvin Hammer
St. Mary's Academy
Cathedral Hall
Pecey Lou Snyder
Ama- Fillo College
Frank King
Sapporo
45Th Division
Oklahoma National Guard
Hokkaido
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