Jingling Bros Circus Shines in Amarillo Park Show
More than 4000 people attended the Jingling Bros Bay Rum Barley Circus at Sam Houston Park. The outdoor show opened at 8 15 PM with 300 entertainers including clowns dancers singers and tumblers in 35 acts. Maverick Club boys wowed the crowd with tumbling while young trampoline artists added to the park circus atmosphere. Children came from Amarillo city playgrounds as the performance was postponed from Friday due to a train issue.
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Jingling Bros
Bay-Rum & Barley
Ae Circus
Sam Houston
Maverick Club For Boys
Amarillo
Amarillo Soldiers Return on San Francisco Transit
In San Francisco 400 Army veterans including 91 rotation trooops and 11 enlistee reserves arrived after a 12 hour early dock due to a soldier's illness. Lt Raymond Beau docked ahead of schedule for M Sgt Esiah Watkins of Washington DC who was hospitalized after an internal hemorrhage suffered en route from Korea. Texans named include Cpl Charles W Laundry Amarillo Rt 3 Cpl Willie F Wheeler Crosbyton Rt 1 Sfc Robert L Williams Lockney and Cpl William A Debus Littlefield.
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San Francisco
Texas
Raymond Beaudoin
Esiah Watkins
Washington
Army
Charles W. Laundry
Rt. 3
Amarillo
Willie F. Wheeler
Rt. 1
Crosbyton
Sfc
Robert L. Williams Lockney
William A. Debus
Littleeld
Night Baseball Lighting Levels Vary by Intensity
The intensity of artificial light used for night baseball games varies from about 5 percent to 20 percent that of daylight.
Fire system finally linked to city water at Green Hospital
Directors at Robert B. Green Hospital moved to protect the building after discovering the fire-fighting system had run for 35 years isolated from a main. Workmen found the line extended four feet underground and unused. A $400 appropriation was approved to connect the system to the water line.
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San Antonio
Robert B. Green Hospital
Nine year old kills foster mother in Missouri
In Cable Ridge, Camdenton, Missouri, a 9 year old boy admitted firing three 22 caliber rifle shots at his foster mother, 54 year old Mrs Everett Ray, after she struck him with a razor strap. Neighbors found the body as the boy claimed it was an accident. Authorities expect charges to be filed.
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Camdenton
Ozark Hills
Charles Baughman
Hugh Phillips
Everett Ray
Phillips
Charlies
Mrs. Ray
Charles
E. L. Libby
Tom Baughman
Libby
J V Robinson Taken by Death in Panhandle
James Vance Robinson 63, Carson County farmer and Panhandle Grain Co owner, died at home from a heart attack. Survived by his wife, five children, mother, nine grandchildren, two brothers, four sisters. Funeral held under Poston Funeral Home Panhandle.
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Panhandle
James Vance Robinson
Carson County
Mr. Robinson
Lark
Panhandle Grain Company
Groom Baptist Church
Woodmen of the World
Masonic Lodges
O. D. Smith
Bill Hammers
Pat Robinson
Hereford
J. W. Robinson, Jr
Vega
Frank Robinson
P. H. Robinson
Wichita Falls
Poston Funeral Home of
Old Maid’s Day Celebrated in Denton
In Denton on August 15, the second annual Old Maid’s Day was proclaimed by the mayor. Miss Dorothy Babb of North Texas State College organized the event with free films corsages and programs for spinsters. The movement includes women of all ages and even Miss Jennie Tanner of Dallas age 82 plus supports the idea.
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Denton
Dorothy Babb
North Texas State College
Jennie Tanner
Dallas
TV Station Bans Mattress Act
A Houston TV station KPRC TV barred a one minute commercial showing a man and his wife in bed promoting a king sized mattress. The film featured real couple Mr and Mrs Joe Hoover. Pastor A B English of Shepherd Drive Methodist Church viewed the spot and found no objection, but KPRC TV refused to risk offending viewers.
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Houston
Kprctv
Joe Hoover
A. B. English
Shepherd Drive Methodist Church
Kprc-Tv
Bert Mitchell
Maggie and Nellie Towns Near Cherokee Preserve
Maggie and Nellie are towns in North Carolina near the Cherokee Indian Reservation at the eastern gate to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Maggie
Nellie
North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Defense housing bill moves ahead in House
The $1.7 billion defense housing bill edged toward final approval in the House. Key amendments by Rep Walcott faced close votes on credit restrictions and government project limits, while Spence sought to remove government authority over schools. The measure expands mortgage insurance by 1.5 billion and allocates hundreds of millions for public housing, community facilities, prefab loans, and site acquisitions.
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Washington
Walcott
Michigan
Wolcott
Spence
Kentucky
Polio Victim Robert Hopper in Grave Condition
Robert A Hopper 34 a partner in Western Fence Company 2505 East Third remained serious at Veterans Hospital at noon today He was taken to hospital yesterday in an iron lung Friends said he became ill Monday Hopper was Potter County s seventh polio victim this year City Health Department reported 16 polio treatments in Amarillo hospitals this year nine from out of town Hopper came here about a year ago to join Western Fence Company In the fall water holes near White Sands New Mexico turn red Chemists attribute the color to sulphur loving bacteria
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Robert A. Hopper
Veterans Hospital
Mr. Hopper
Western Fence Company
East Third
Hopper
Potter County
City Health Department
Amarillo
White Sands
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Amarillo Man
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J. V. Robinson
Floyd V. Studer
American United Safe Insurance Company
G36
Amarilie Gidg
Amarilie Fexas
Polk
Montgomery Ward
Globe News
William J. Hegedus, M.D
West
Aidit
Reppert Lumber CO
SIG
Harrison
Double Gunn Bros
Gunn
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