Sandie Relays and area baseball as season continues
The first annual Sandie Relays Saturday night will showcase top state track talent with qualified schoolboys, amid teams from Amarillo Odessa Lubbock and Phillips. Admission 75 cents adults 25 cents students. 8 p m start. The Gold Sox finish home stand vs Clovis Pioneers tonight with return not until May 6. Special golf and society notes follow with local names and a Hoagy Carmichael tribute.
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Gold Sox
Clovis Pioneers
State School Chief Arrives for Amarillo Meetings
Dr J W Edgar the state commissioner of education arrived in Amarillo to discuss education problems with school people and civic leaders. He will be honored at a dinner tonight at the Herring Hotel with about 30 leaders attending. Tomorrow he will meet Panhandle school superintendents and board members at a luncheon at the same hotel.
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J. W. Edgar
Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Panhandle
Venereal Disease Still a Problem Says Columbia Doctor
Dr. E Gurney Clark of Columbia University told the American Venereal Disease Association that syphilis caused 13000 deaths and led 66000 to mental institutions last year. He cautioned that optimism about control is premature and noted three million Americans have positive tests.
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Washington
United States
E. Gurney Clark
Columbia University
Clark
American Venereal Disease Association
College Band to Spearman Opens Spearman Parade
The Amarillo College Band with 32 members led by director Charles Riker will travel by chartered bus from Amarillo to Spearman for the annual celebration and rodeo. They depart at 7:30 AM and arrive in time to take part in the 10:30 opening parade.
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Amarillo
Green buckwheat leaves yield a drug called rutin
Researchers report that leaves and blossoms of green buckwheat can be processed into rutin a prospective medicinal compound. The finding notes rutin's potential health applications and outlines preliminary extraction steps.
Small Crowds Plague 18th District Rallys Amid Elections
In the 18th District race six candidates and two representatives drew about 150 people at a Amarillo Senior High forum. Candidates claim larger street crowds, but overall rallies are scarce, suggesting low voter interest and a potentially light election. Substantial campaigning occurred in Spearman and surrounding towns with multiple candidates touring.
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Amarillo Senior High Auditorium
North Randall County
Potter County
J. Blake Timmons
Ben Guill
Spearman
Walter E. Rogers
Pampa
Borger
Phillips
Buena Vista
Stratford
Grover
Etter
Turkey
Quitaque
Tulsa
Triplet Birth Follows Census Taker Call in Concord
In Concord Massachusetts Mrs David Glass gave birth to triplet daughters the day after the census taker visited the Glass home. Nearby the Arbuckle mountains in Oklahoma stretch over 300 square miles as one of the oldest ranges in the United States.
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Concord
Mass. U.P
Glass
David Glass
Arbuckle Mountain Range
United States
Oklahoma
Man Charged With Theft By False Pretext
District attorney's office filed theft by false pretext charges against Jerry Myers, about 23, for using a possibly bad $2,257 check to buy a light green 1950 Kaiser Traveler from Bob Fuller Motor Co. Myers gave Star Valley Nevada as his address. salesman said Myers claimed a joint bank account with his father Gerald Myers at Elko's Nevada Bank of Commerce. A warrant is issued for his arrest.
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Kaiser
Jerry Myers
Myers
Star Valley
Nev
Bob Fuller Motor Co
Pierce
Nevada Bank of Commerce
Elko
Elko Bank
Gerald Myers
Motor Company
Building Total Near Record in Amarillo April
Amarillo city records show April building total near a record with 2.55 million in permits for the month. City engineer Stanton M. Field notes year to date construction at 6.84 million and 1,302 permits issued. Major projects include Green Acres near West Plains Boulevard and West Haven Park with 144 duplex units, the latter outside city limits pending land inclusion.
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Amarillo
Stanton M. Field
Green Acres
West Plains Boulevard
West Haven Park
West Haven
Bill Schutts
Homer Maxey
Lubbock
Green Acres Corporation
Rites Saturday For W. T. Albert
Funeral services for W. T. Albert of Kingsville aged 50 will be held Saturday at 5 p m at Joy Texas. Albert was killed in a traffic accident near Kingsville yesterday and is survived by his widow Sadié Houston Albert a son Billie Albert brother J Truett Albert sister Mrs R B Adams and others. He was a former Sterns Rogers foreman and helped install Southwestern Public Service Company projects in Amarillo and was a Mason Shriner and Methodist parishioner. He grew up at Lelia Lake and lived in Kingsville for six years.
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W. T. Albert
Kingsville
J. Truett Albert
Independence
Carl Mayberry
Short
Joy
Tex
Albert
Mr. Albert
Childress
Lelia Lake
Amarillo
Sterns-Roger Manufacturing Company
Denver
Colo
Southwestern Public Service Company
Bivins
Methodist Church
Mayberry
Sadié Houston Albert
Billie Albert
O. Grady Albert
Houston
R. B. Adams
Oxley
Ark
Joan Blondell Seeks Divorce From Mike Todd in Las Vegas
Actress Joan Blondell arrives in Las Vegas to file divorce papers from producer Mike Todd. They wed July 4, 1947, and Blondell plans a cruelty allegation. Her daughter Ellen Powell and son Norman Powell accompany from Irvington New York. both children are from Blondell and Dick Powell.
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Las Vegas
Joan Blondell
Mike Todd
Miss Blondell
Ellen Powell
Irvington
Norman Powell
Dick Powell
June Allyson
Pope Defends Capitalism in Free Enterprise View
Pope Pius XII defended individual enterprise in business and free trade in Vatican City on April 27, arguing that capitalism supports personal initiative and economic growth.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Pennsylvania Carload Freight Share Highlighted
Pennsylvania originates one sixth and receives one eighth of all American carload freight, noted in a concise trade notice. The statement underscores the state’s role in rail freight distribution and its comparative share within the national system.
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Pennsylvania
Public etiquette column debates powder in public
A reader letter questions Emily Post's stance on women powdering their noses in public. Post defends discreet use of makeup, arguing public vanity is poor charm and that constant self advertisement harms romance. The exchange contrasts manners, influence, and perceptions of female elegance.
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China
Gloria Gorgeous
McNaught Syn Inc
Oil Strikers to Sue Texaco
Oil Workers International CIO seeks two million dollars in damages from Texaco for locking out union members at the Port Neches Texas refinery. OWI also seeks back wages from the lockout date and filed NLRB charges over Casper Wyoming plant actions.
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Denver
Colo
Oil Workers International, Cio
Texas Company
Texaco
Port Neches
Tex
International Union
O. A. Knight
Knight
National Labor Relations Board
Casper, Wyo
NLRB
Absentee Ballots Reported Cast in Potter County
Potter County Clerk Loren Jones said residents unable to vote in the May 6 congressional election have until next Tuesday to complete absentee ballots. By midmorning 114 absentee ballots had been cast, and 28 ballots had been mailed but not returned.
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Loren Jones
Potter County
Jones
Spanish American Club to Select Congressional Candidate
The Spanish American Club will meet at 2 PM Sunday at Dwight Morrow School 1600 Cleveland to choose a candidate to support in the May 6 special election. President Luciano Solano says the meeting will hear any person representing a candidate and will also discuss plans for a recreation place for children of the Spanish American community.
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Dwight Morrow
Cleveland
Congress
Luciano Solano
Commu
Plans to rebuild old structure at 1500 Cleve
Announcement invites all interested to participate in rebuilding the former meeting place of the Honorifica and the Cruz Azul associations at 1500 Cleve. The note calls for community involvement and outlines the project as a rebuilding effort.
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Nity
Cleve
Honorifica
Cruz Azul
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Neal Cannon
Bruce Autry
E. M. Blackburn, Jr
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Larry Garre
J. W. Higgins
Howard Robbins
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Ross Rogers
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J. R. Robinson
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E. H. Aderton
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Davis Medley
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Jim Dennis
Mary Beeman
H.C. Craig
Etta B Russell
Dwight Nance
R. L. Thompson
Thurman Gholston
Joe Witt
Globe News
Hoagy Carmichael
Georgia
Billboard
Jack Burton
Hoagland Carmichael
University of Indiana At Bloomington
Amarillo National Bank
Tri-State Area
Ronald Davis
Lions International
Davis
Friona
Bovina
Farwell
Dimmitt
KGNC
E. T. Burk
Shamrock
Burk
Altavene Clark
The
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Bob Lindsay
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Stinnett
Wellington
Memphis
Pete LaMaster
McLean
LeFors
Gray County
Talma Smith
C. Q. Smith
Oklahoma City University
Palm Beach
Draughon’s
Wichita Falls
Dallas
Jacobsen
Emily Post
Mrs. Post
N. M. Cooper
Fillmore St
Raines
West
Texas
East
Ite
Carstairs
Ralph and Russel Peck
Detroit, Michigan
HESE
Spe
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co., Inc
Louisville, KY
Globe-News
Diamond Shop
Schick
Gunn Bros
Polk
Space Maker
S&e
Harris
Re Ky York
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