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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1948
Page
16
A discussion on hand patterns in gin, explaining when to break up a matched set, break up a combination, or discard safely. It notes that patterns emerge after the discard stage and highlights the rare but strong option to knock. Copyright 1938 by Ose Jacobs.
A 22-year-old Wichita Falls woman, Mrs Lyndon Johnson, died four hours after giving birth to a healthy nine-pound girl in a Houston hospital. She had been diagnosed with polio, died in an iron lung after a brief viewing of her baby Mary Virginia. The city’s first polio fatality this year was Fred Buster, age five, in San Angelo, son of Mr and Mrs J D Buster.
Owner Jack Jackson filled Club Victoria last Saturday night with a packed audience standing for the floor show. A new lineup is planned this week with K Carter and his band plus dancing. The program also features Gib Martin and Nancy Jo Greef among listed performers and a long roster of guests including Kathleen Hoskins Cecil Ingram Bill Adams Norma Walker Gene Groom Brice Martha Neil Miner Pete Cornelius Joe Davidson Marthe Davidson and many others.
Two sailors from the North Plains serve aboard the USS Thuban in a Navy resupply mission to St. George Island near Dutch Harbor Alaska. Seaman L Cutler and Seaman Cecil Otto Hoeme are named along with their homes and family connections.
At least 13 people died violently in Texas over the weekend. Traffic crashes caused eight deaths, a woman was shot during a domestic dispute, and several incidents including a plane crash and a fall contributed to the total. Names and locations span Fort Worth Amarillo Corsicana Houston Dallas McCamey and Wortham, with victims ranging in age from teens to seventies. Smith acts as interim city manager during Moss’s Arkansas vacation.
Readers write in about the new Acoustic device, expressing thrill at its hearing aid quality. They report unprecedented tone clarity against a velvet quiet background, while manufacturers claim customers cannot imagine the device's impact until they hear it themselves.
Providence police reported John J. McLaughlin aged 19 confessed to stabbing his brother Thomas J H McLaughlin aged 22 during an argument over a girl they both loved. John said he grabbed a bread knife and chased Thomas to the street, mortally wounding him before collapsing amid a crowd. The incident ended with the mother fainting as witnesses gathered.
Pvt. Donald Berry son of John J. Berry 100 North Lamar completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Ord California After reassignment he will be transferred to the Parachute School at Fort Benning Georgia He entered service in March 1948 He is a former Senior High School student News Globe Want Ads Get Results.
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