Farley Store Sold to Goodrich. Ranch Work Continues
Cal Farley sells his Fourth and Fillmore store to Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company set to operate April 28 as a general department store. Farleys shift focus to Boys Ranch at Tas cosa and Kids Inc in Amarillo. Farley built a financing and welfare network for boys, promoting wrestling, Rotary service, and Boys Ranch.
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Lewis
Cal Farley
Fourth and
Fillmore
Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company
Cal
Mrs. Farley
Boys Ranch
Tascosa
Kids, Inc
Amarillo
Pecos
Rotary Club
Europe
South America
Globe and News
Farley
Maverick Club For Boys
Aine Amen Kids, Inc
A For Boys
Anna
Mrs. Parley
Rotary
Farleys
Gene
Gene Tunney
Bruce Harriman
Boston
Mass
Minnesota
Army
France
Combat Engineers
Paris
Charlie Paddock
Tunney
Col
David Goodrich
Goodrich Company
Dutch Mantell
Globe-News
Mantell
Dutch
Goodrich
KGNC
Parley
Southwest
Willard Lean
WLW
Cincinnati
Stutterin
Sam
Julian Bivins
Dimmitt
Saturday Evening Post
MGM
Denver Post
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
Amarillo and vicinity will be clear to partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with strong south winds 30 to 35 mph and mild temperatures. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies with showers east of Pecos Valley this afternoon and early tonight and little temperature change. New Mexico reports partly cloudy conditions with scattered snow flurries in the northern mountains and light showers in lower elevations this afternoon, again little temperature change. high around 63, low 40, noon 61 for the 24 hours ending 6:30 AM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
News Tip Contest Winners Named at The Globe News
R C Clark won first prize five dollars in The Globe News News Tip contest for reporting a Pantex bus mystery later found on its proper route. W W York earned three dollars for reporting a meanest man tale about a thief digging up a forsythia near a gas meter. Mrs G P Robertson took two dollars for a story about a sleepy boy missing a day after napping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Clark
W. W. York
G. P. Robertson
North East Eighth
Burglary, thefts linked to Walsh Food Store heist weekend
Weekend crime spree nets about 2500 dollars in property, cash and checks. Walsh Food Store No 2 on Line suffers a nearly 2000 dollar burglary. A purse snatch targets Mrs A B Smith of East Eighth Street. A Stewart Nursery tractor is reported stolen. Safe opened by force found two miles north on a dirt road. Police timing notes 12 10 this morning.
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Walsh Food
A. B. Smith
East Eighth
Stewart Nursery and Floral Company
Walsh Food Store
Gem Lake
Burglary at Food Store Yields Cash and Checks
Detectives report theft of 2500 from Sunday sale with 981.50 cash and 879.61 in checks and notes five unreturned checks valued up to 41 each. Checks worth 805.03 recovered. entry via broken steel back door into bakery area. Safe moved about 60 feet to loading platform. possible loading into vehicle. Walsh appeals for missing check owners. Also a purse snatching near 8 PM involving Mrs Smith and Mrs J I Meek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Walsh
Purse Snatchers Take Mrs Meek’s Wallet and Valuables
Two teenage youths grabbed the purse from Mrs. Meek as she walked by. Items missing include $40 in cash a $54 government check a lapel watch valued at $30 and a necklace worth $15. A garden tractor belonging to Stewart Nursery and Floral Co 112 West Sixteenth was taken from 2216 Ong yard work. The tractor valued at 500 is a 3 4 horsepower gasoline engine unit weighing 800 to 1000 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Hobart
Strike Silences Non-Dial Phones Across Nation
About 350000 telephone workers walked out coast to coast today halting most long distance and local non dial service. NFTW officials spurned a last minute delay urged by Labor Secretary Schwellenbach, saying the delay proposal was too late and the strike was already set to begin. Carlton Werkau called the walkout too large for a postponement.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Carlton Werkau
NFTW
Striking Workers Demand Higher Pay as Nationwide Walkout Continues
Strikers push for a 12 weekly raise amid a government report placing average pay at 43.19 weekly. The union seeks shop and other concessions while President Truman monitors the crisis. Federal conciliators struggle to broker a settlement as the first countrywide strike in U. S. history unfolds nationwide. Dial services and major networks largely remain intact. Labor officials fear further disruption if automation systems fail.
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Truman
Labor Department
U. S
325 Off Jobs at Local Exchange
About 325 workers from Southwestern Bell Telephone and Western Electric struck, halting nonemergency long distance calls while local dial service remains, with emergency calls to doctors, hospitals, police, and fire stations allowed. The strike highlights wage contrasts since 1939 and 1941, with union claims of real pay declines versus company statements of higher basic raises. The walkout spans multiple Panhandle towns and marks a second recent absence by telephone operators during sympathy actions for Odessa workers.
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Thomas Thompson
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Western Electric Company
A. O. Thomas
Telephone Company
Thomas
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
St. Louis
Katherine Fox
Telephone’ Workers Union
Texas
Panhandle
Pampa
Borger
Plainview
Canadian
Shamrock
Canyon
Hereford
Tulsa
Floydada
Odessa
Gromyko renews demand for immediate atomic ban at UN
The Soviet deputy foreign minister told the United Nations Commission on conventional armaments that Russia demands the United States scrap atomic bombs now and back a general disarmament slash. He urged a convention banning atomic weapons as a step toward peace and UN confidence, saying no progress on international control of atomic energy is possible without such a ban.
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Lake Success
N. X
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
United States
United Nations Commission
Gromyko
U. N
UNO
Forty Injured In Gotham Limited Wreck At Columbia City
The Gotham Limited of the Pennsylvania Rail Road struck a switch obstruction and derailed in a Columbia City residential area. Forty people were injured, six remained at Fort Wayne's St. Joseph's Hospital, all others treated and released. No deaths reported. The train was en route to New York and slowed for a standing freight before 13 of 15 cars jumped the track at 12:34 A M.
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Columbia City
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Crack Gotham Limited
St. Joseph's Hospital
Fort Wayne
New York
Plea for Clemency Rejected in Underground Member Case
The supreme court in Jerusalem rejected a plea to overturn the death sentence of Dov Bela Gruner, a 33 year old Jewish underground member and former British army veteran. The appeal, filed by Tel Aviv’s Jewish community, follows Britain's Privy Council refusal to hear Gruner’s uncle’s appeal. Gruner maintains he is a prisoner of war and should be treated as such.
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Jerusalem
Fiue Supreme Court
Dov Bela Gruner
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Privy Council
London
Britain
Gruner
Radio Trouble May Delay Reynolds' Global Flight
Newark airport officials said the around-the-world flight by Milton Reynolds may depart tonight but the radio operator reported multiple short circuits in the communications gear. At least two days were estimated to fix the electrical problems.
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Newark
N. J
Chicago
Milton Reynolds
Safety Strike Idles Soft Coal Pits Across Nation
The United Mine Workers suspend nearly all work in soft coal fields during a memorial shutdown for 111 miners killed in Centralia Illinois. Ohio and other districts report widespread idle mines while few workplaces, including two Union Pacific mines in Wyoming, are deemed safe. Government inspection timelines loom as unions press for safety before resuming production.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
Lewis
Vereang Vimamotl Vue Iau
Centralia
Ohio
Thomas Price
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Illinois
Progressive Mine Workers Union
UMW
Union Pacific Coal Company
Wyoming
Paraguay Revolt Encircles Asuncion As Rebels Spread
Asuncion faced near encirclement as rebel bands spread from north to south during Holy Week lull. Government forces under General Higinio Morinigo sought aid from Uruguay Brazil and Argentina, though officials claimed neutrality. Public opinion favored the rebels, dampening hopes for external intervention.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Higinio Morinigo
Uruguay
Brazil
Argentina
Morinigo
Midwestern Floods Recede After Severe Weekend Storms
The worst spring floods in years subsided in the Midwest as winds dropped and skies cleared. About 15,000 people were isolated or left homeless, with Michigan towns flooded and Mt. Clemens nearly half its population marooned. Storms left at least 13 dead across several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.
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United Press
Middlewest
Michigan
Mt. Clemens
Midwest
Oklahoma
Kansas
Indiana
Ilinois
Locomotives Available at War Assets Office Today
Philadelphia April 7. War Assets Administration lists 21 locomotives including five Diesel engines and 23 500 locomotive parts available for sale or transfer at local offices today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
The
War Assets Administration
Tri-State Fair to Erect Sports Arena and Exhibit Building
The Tri-State Fair Park will award Litle and Hill Construction a 111,861 dollar contract to build a 160 by 130 foot reinforced concrete and steel arena with cinder block walls. The center will host a basketball court and bleachers for over 4 000, with 5 000 capacity for boxing and wrestling. The facility, designed by J Roy Smith, includes showers, lockers, storage, offices, concessions, restrooms, and a 22 foot ceiling, to be near the fair’s Merchants Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Timmons
Tri-State Fair Park
Litle and Hill Construction Company
J. Roy Smith
County rejects seating for Tri-State Fair exhibit space
County commissioners expect several thousand dollars annually from exhibit use as the entire floor space will serve as display area. Earlier Dory Detton offered $15000 a year for a lease, while Lid and Hill bid much lower than the next bid. Bids total ranged up to 125897 with construction time estimates between 150 and 200 calendar days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dory Detton
Lid and Hill Company
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Globe
J. Howard Miller
Nordyke
News
C. E. Pickett
East Eleventh
Donald Ellis
St. Mary's Academy
Barbara Wiseman
Madison
George Thrasher
Emmi Agnslee
North West Fifth
Charlene Meier
Lipscomb
Alta Hasslee
North Taylor
Pat Wixony
Route 1
A. R. Harner
Spring
Vincent Gildey
Pierce
Carl Cederholm
Polk
J. W. Edwards
Lamar
Bert Spray
East Tenth
Walsh
Reynolds’ Global
Kgnc E. A. Regal Co
John Maynard
Midwest Kloods
Roller Palace
Sixth and
Jefferson
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes—Insurance
Voice of
Firestone
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