Pantex AEC officials to speak at Amarillo luncheon
Amarillo chamber of commerce hosts a noon luncheon with Walter Stagg project engineer for the AEC and R B Jewell resident manager for Silas Mason Company as guest speakers. They will report on project progress housing facilities for AEC and air base personnel and city needs. Townsend Douglas and L E Moyer Jr will also present committee reports at the Herring Hotel.
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Pantex Atomic Energy Commission
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Walter Stagg
AEC
R. B. Jewell
Silas Mason Company
Townsend Douglas
Agriculture and Livestock Committee
Chamber
L. E. Moyer, Jr
Civic Affairs Committee
Herring Hotel
Youth shoots street light to hide tree cutting plan
In Newburyport Massachusetts police questioned a youth who shot at a street light globe with a slingshot. He said his aim was to extinguish the light so no one would see him attempting to cut down a nearby tree to clear a driveway.
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Newburyport
Mass
Coronation crown marks Amarillo High orchestra banquet
Novelle Johnson, an Amarillo High School senior, was crowned queen of the AHS orchestra at the annual Dowell's Saratoga Cafe banquet. Ted Nicklaus praised her loyalty to the school orchestra, while Gena Devin earned outstanding member as concert master and received an ovation. Ted Nicklaus and John Gordon will attend a summer camp for state band members. Charles Emmons and Clyde Roller received gifts. several couples attended as special guests.
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Globe
Novelle Johnson
James H. Johnson
River Drive
Amarillo High School
Ted Nicklaus
W. W. Nicklaus
Taylor
Amarillo
AHS
Dowell
Saratoga Cafe
Gena Devin
John Gordon
New Signs Point to Amarillo Parks on Major Routes
The city park department yesterday erected 25 metal signs with light reflecting letters along highways and traffic thoroughfares to direct travelers to Amarillo parks. The signs, located mainly on tourist routes, aim to guide visitors efficiently.
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City Park Department
Amarillo
Mean thief costs Fort Worth man a hefty fine
In Fort Worth Texas Joseph Stultz was fined 100 dollars after a theft of a March of Dimes container containing two dollars. The District Attorney also serves as chairman of the county March of Dimes campaign.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Joseph Stultz
County March of Dimes Campaign
Bickerstaff Rites Tomorrow for 86-Year-Old Amarillo Man
Funeral services for Jackson William Bickerstaff 86 will be held tomorrow at 11 am in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Ralph Stone of Central Baptist officiating. Pallbearers are Gib Landis John Graves Paul Gaither John Merchant A L Huff and G M Spearman. Burial follows in Llano Cemetery. He died Sunday at home, 1206 West Eighth, after living in Amarillo 15 years and farming 30 years in Hall County. Survived by five sons W J Bickerstaff John Bickerstaff Lawrence Bickerstaff Ebb Bickerstaff Earl E Bickerstaff a daughter Maude Hill and 20 grandchildren.
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Jackson William Bickerstaff
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Ralph Stone
Central Baptist Church
Gib Landis
John Graves
Paul Gaither
John Merchant
A. L. Huff
G. M. Spearman
Llano
Mr. Bickerstaff
Suspect in slaying faces lie detector test in Texas
Robert West 36, of El Paso, identified as Julian Dixon, faces a lie detector test over the July 1948 Weatherford area murder of Eugene Miller. Dixon denies being near the scene. Parker County papers show his name, and he is an escapee from a Virginia prison. He and Clifford Serum, 20, South Bend, Ind., were charged in a hotel burglary in Shamrock on April 11.
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Parker County
Potter County
Robert West
el Paso
Texas Bureau
Julian Dixon
Eugene Miller
Weatherford
Louis Peoples
Dixon
Miller
Peoples
Virginia
Clifford Serum
South Bend
Ind
Shamrock
Train Dives Off Trestle Injuring Two Near Italy
An accident on the Missouri Pacific lines north of Italy in Ellis County sent 17 freight cars and a caboose tumbling from a trestle. Conductor E. C. Gillespie and H Cramer of Mart were hurt, with Cramer in serious condition. Both were hospitalized at Waxahachie. Detours used the M K T line while repairs charged ahead, expected to finish by noon.
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Fort Worth
Missouri Pacific
Italy
Ellis County
I&gn
E. C. Gillespie
H. ©. Cramer
Mart
Cramer
Waxahachie
Extension Granted for Price Chart Filings to May 30
The government granted 276,000 retail stores a 30 day extension to May 30 to file pricing charts for margin type price ceilings. OPS said many items were added to the regulation and retailers need time to reprice and file single charts covering all items.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
Office of Price Stabilization District
OPS
Fuller Still Holds Uncashed Governor Checks
Boston reports millionaire Alvan T. Fuller keeps uncashed checks totaling 80646 dollars earned during his Massachusetts governorship a quarter century ago. He never redeemed them.
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Boston
Alvan T. Fuller
Massachusetts
Open Presbytery Meeting In Dallas Tonight
The Dallas Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church opens its annual meeting tonight at the Southern Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Rev. Clarence E. Dodge says more than 40 churches from North and West Texas will be represented. Featured speaker at tonight's 7 30 opening is Dr. William B. Guerrant president of Austin College. Other speakers include Rev. Thomas W. Currie and Dr. Frank C. Brown with a continuous Wednesday session starting at 9 30 a m and concluding that evening.
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Dallas
First Presbyterian Church
Traffic Fatalities Reach High in 1950 United States
The year 1950 saw about 89,000 deaths from accidents in the United States with around 35,000 fatalities from traffic crashes, highlighting the era’s severe road danger and overall accident toll.
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United States
Sherman Judge Taken by Death
Federal Judge Randolph Bryant, 57, of Sherman, died after a heart attack on April 3 and hospital care since. The Texas judicial family includes his father David E. Bryant and grandfather who also served as judges on the US Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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Sherman
Randolph Bryant
Texas
Judge Bryant
David E. Bryant
Eastern District of Texas
Global food access below ten percent threshold
It has been estimated that less than 10 per cent of the population of the earth can obtain food to provide a diet acceptable to a modern dietician.
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Earth
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