New Air Mail Stamps and Service Announced
Amarillo Postmaster announces two new air mail stamps a 10 cent for South and Central America and a 15 cent for Europe Middle East. Stamps debut Aug 20 in New York and Aug 30 in Washington with home sale Sept 1. AM 8&2 route includes San Antonio Victoria Bay City Free Fort Stockton McCamey Sheffield San Angelo Coleman Brownwood Stephenville Fort Worth Dallas Corsicana Palestine Lufkin Houston. Bay City Freeport and some segments delayed due to airport facilities.
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Europe
Middle East
Amarillo
W. D. DeGrassi
Pan American Union
Washington
United States
New York
San Antonio
Victoria
Bay City Free
Hous
Fort Stockton
McCamey
Sheffield
McCamey Airport
San Angelo
Coleman
Brownwood
Stephenville
Fort Worth
Dallas
Corsicana
Palestine
Lufkin
Houston
Bay City
Freeport
McCamey-Sheffield
Air Mail Field
Railway Mail Service
Air Mail
Air Postal Transport
Stolen 1938 Nash Convertible From West Ninth Home
A 1938 Nash convertible car owned by M. H. Thomas of 1216 West Ninth was stolen from its parking spot overnight near the owner’s residence. Authorities seek information leading to recovery.
Three Amarillo Boys Face Burglary Trial in Hereford
Three Amarillo youths previously jailed for burglary were moved to Hereford yesterday for trial on new burglary charges. Named suspects are Robert Lincoln Jones, Buddy Richardson, and Billy Dendy, already convicted in Armstrong and Carson counties.
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Amarillo
Hereford
Robert Lincoln Jones
Buddy Richardson
Billy Dendy
Armstrong
Carson
Lockney Visitor Stays With Aunt in City
Mrs. Winona Allison of Lockney visited her aunt Mrs. Ruby Sumner at 1013 West Eleventh on Monday.
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Winona Allison of
Lockney
Ruby Sumner
West Eleventh
Atomic Commission Rules Earle Had No Radioactivity Access
OAK RIDGE Tenn Aug 19 Wilton Rhodes Earle whose Fort Worth death was linked to radioactivity did not have access to fissionable materials while employed at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp here the Atomic Energy Commission said last night Earle left here Sept 10 1946 and died last Friday He worked as a minor supervisor at the gaseous diffusion plant for production of U 235 for the government Officials said he was never exposed to radioactive materials In Fort Worth an autopsy listed death as liver failure due to exposure to radioactivity and a Geiger counter showed Gamma rays
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Wilton Rhodes Earle
Fort Worth
Tex
Atomic Energy Commission
Earle
The
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
Gieger
Navy Man Massie Wins Am-radio Privilege in Japan
Herbert L. Massie now with the radio division of the 13th Field Artillery Battalion in Japan is authorized by General Eichelberger to build and operate an amateur radio set. He expects to contact Amarillo from Kyushu, a distance of about 8000 miles. Massie, promoted to technician fourth grade, enlisted September 9 1946 at Roswell Field and trained at Fort Dix. He sailed for Japan in December. Previously, he worked for Amarillo Electric Co and ran an amateur station with his brother.
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Herbert L. Massie
Kyushu
Japan
W. J. Massie
West Eighth
Massie
Eichelberger
Amarillo
13Th Field Artillery Battalion
24Th
Army
Roswell Field
Signal Corps
Fort Dix
Navy
Amarillo Electric Company
Forms Underway for Top of City Water Storage Tank
Construction is 60 percent complete on the five million gallon underground water storage tank near the city pump station at Eighth and Bonham. Water department head N. V. Moss says the project progresses as crews prepare the concrete top. A new one million gallon overhead tank at West Sixth and Independence nears completion with painting the only remaining work.
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New City
Eighth
Bonham
N. V. Moss
Water Department
West Sixth
Independence
Moss
Taft-Hartley settlement seals union liability limits at IH
On August 13 1947 at Chicago United Auto Workers CIO and International Harvester signed an agreement aimed at fair settlement of union liability under Taft-Hartley. It limits union liability to matters within its control and demands prompt efforts to end wildcat strikes. It preserves grievance procedures and sets no liability for unions when contract breaches are handled under the contract remedies.
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Chicago
United Auto Workers
CIO
International Harvester Agreement
Congress
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Burleson
Reid’s
Georgia
Lockney Visitor
Atomic Commission
J. Obendorfer
Levine's
Wichita Falls
Ben Brookner
West Tenth
International Harvester
Uaw-Cio
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Springfield
Ohio
Evansville
Indiana
Melrose Park
Illinois
Pany
International Union
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