Amarillo approves new traffic regulations and bus shuttle plan
The city commission raised North Fillmore Street speed to 45 mph aligning with Pleasant Valley rules and approved traffic controls around McKinley School including loading zones and no parking zones. It backed a shuttle bus along North East Eighth Avenue by the Amarillo Bus Company and awarded a 16 000 gallon gasoline contract to Gulf Oil at 15.03 cents per gallon.
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North Fillmore Street
Thompson Park
City Commission
Harold Miller
Pleasant Valley
McKinley School
Seventh
Adams
West Eighth Avenue
Wawhington Street
Eighth
Washington Street
Eighth Avenue
Bivins Street
Amarillo Bus Company
Gulf Oil Products Company
Shamrock Oil & Gas Corporation
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Louisiana Street
San Jacinto Park
Fifteenth Avenue
Robert E. Lee School
Mark T. Miles
Set
W. E. Sowell
Jim Collins
Men’s Club of
San Jacinto Mist Church
Board of Review
Board of Censorship
Steam Distribution Bids To Be Opened At Pantex Plant
Bids for a steam distribution system at the Pantex AEC Plant will be opened tomorrow afternoon at the Herring Hotel. Official estimates place the cost between 250000 and 500000 dollars, with openings at 2 o clock. Additional bid openings later this month include a public address system project estimated at 75000 dollars on August 28 and roads and site improvements estimated 250000 to 350000 dollars on August 30.
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Pantex Aec
Herring Hotel
First Girl Born In Family in 50 Years
In Little Rock Arkansas on August 22 an eight pound five ounce daughter named Juliana was born to Mr. and Mrs. Julian Smith. She is the first girl in the Smith family in 52 years, with Mrs. J O Smith the grandmother confirming the last girl was Claud Edwards’s sister in Benton.
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Little Rock
Ark
Julian Smith
Smith
J. O. Smith
Juliana
Claud Edwards
Benton, Ark
Tulia Woman Drowned Near Shawnee Lake
Elizabeth House, 16, wife of Glenn House of Tulia Route 1, drowned at Garrett's Lake near Shawnee Oxla. after a Picnic. Artificial respiration failed after an hour. She was daughter of J. J. McGahey Petersburg and survived by husband, parents, three brothers, a half-brother, two sisters. Body at Gaskells Funeral Home Shawnee.
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Mrs. House
George McGahey
Dallas
Bruce McGahey
Arizona
Richard McGahey
Petersburg
J. J. Welch
Shawnee
Joan Shirlock
Lillian McGahey
Gaskells
Amarillo Man in Artillery Serving with U N Forces
First Lt. Jack L. Briggs of Amarillo is serving with United Nations forces in Korea. Assigned to the 10th AAA Gun Battalion in Inchon since May, Briggs is a Coast Artillery officer and a World War II veteran who spent 38 months in the Pacific with Marines. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate and has a three year old daughter, Jacqueline Ann.
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Amarillo
United Nations
Korea
Jack L. Briggs
Sunset Terrace
John T. Godman
Borger
Briggs
Coast Artillery
Inchon
10Th
Pacific
Marines
University of Oklahoma At
Norman
Jacqueline Ann
Helps One Son Ignores Other Helps One Son Ignores Other
In Haverill Massachusetts a mother facing murder charges for both sons hired a lawyer for Charles Jr. while shunning Frank. She called Frank a two faced doublecrosser though both are accused in the Monfet insurance agent slaying.
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Haverill
Mass
Charles McNeil Sr
Alcide St. Onge
Charles Jr
Frank
Leo F. Monfet
Lawrence
Meeting of American Progressive Party National Committee
Pravda reports from Moscow say the national committee of the American Progressive Party met in Minneapolis last weekend and is pushing a “real policy of peace.” Also noted is the retirement of one of India's early Army cadets as a major general after joining in 1918.
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Moscow
Pravda Today
American Progressive Party
Minneapolis
India
Globe
Philco
Southwestern Appliance Co
Herring Hotel
Vern Kilby
Dulles
O. V. Eisey
Amarillo
Bob Lewis
Southwestern
Philee
Housekeeper Wanted and Child Care in Tiny Texas Home
Classified column item cluster lists a housekeeper needed for a small home with two young children, offering satisfactory wages, plus several other requests and notices including a care worker address in Fairlie Texas, a lost clothes claim, found shoe, baby sitting offers, and trade and ironing services. Contains multiple names and contact numbers.
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W. H. Click
Fairlie
Texas
Hunt County
Greenville
Kress
Tack
Sam Houston Park
Tyler
Florida
Lincoln
North Alabama
Sanborn
Literary Circle To Meet Tuesday at Mexican Inn
Members of the Mexican Literary Circle will meet next Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in the Mexican Inn at Sixth and Van Buren. Rev. Antonio Rodriguez will speak on The Discovery of America and the Antilles. Reservations are $1 each by calling 6 7789. The circle has about 35 members. Mario Cantu is president.
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Sixth
van Buren
Antonio Rodriguez
America
Antilles
Mario Cantu
Santa Fe Carloadings Decline Against 1950 Week
Santa Fe carloadings for the week ending Saturday totaled 23 467, down from 24 418 for the same week in 1950. Cars received from connections reached 13 233 against 12 907 in 1950. Total cars moved were 36 700 versus 37 325 in 1950. Santa Fe handled 34 288 cars in the preceding week of this year.
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Santa FE
Roy Hills Return From Mexico Trip
Mr and Mrs Roy P Hill Jr of Casper Wyoming visited the home of his parents at 210 Crestway Terrace after returning from an all expense trip to Mexico City. The trip was paid by Firestone Co where Hill manages a Casper store and earned the award for highest percentage sales quota achievement in the district including Colorado Wyoming and Nebraska. The Hills plan to stay about a week.
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Roy P. Hill, Jr
Casper, Wyo
Mr. Hill
Mrs
Roy Hill
Crestway Terrace
Mexico City
Firestone Company
Hill
Firestone
Casper
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Denver Heights and nearby deed transfers highlight courthouse actions
Courthouse records show warranty deeds for properties in Denver Heights and surrounding blocks including blocks 25 193 6 11 19 5 33 and subdivisions BIE D Forest Hill. Domestic court lists six divorce cases and several marriage licenses with couples named Scheffler Bardon Heath Sheedy Hill Pierson.
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R. L. Knowles
Amos W. Watson
Denver Heights
J. L. Henley
L. A. Coffey
Ga&s. W. R
Christine Gummett
Kathleen Castle
Robert M. Castle
Helen Beasley
T. D. Beasley
James Klyestine
Jeanne Klyestine
Violet A. Tomasello
Anthony J. Tomasello
Luther Oakes
Bertha May Oakes
Clarence Dave Scheffler
Eva Lee Bardon
Winson
Virgil Heath
Delva Louise Sheedy
Dan Hill
Jeannie Pierson
Spy Betrayal Ties to Arnold Linked Capture at West Point
Major John and a British soldier are identified as captors behind American lines who allegedly conspired with Benedict Arnold in 1780 to attack West Point. The man was later hanged as a spy in Tappan, New York, in a historical case linked to the infamous plot.
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John
West Point
Benedict Arnold
Tappan
N.Y
Bates To Get Honor Degree At Baylor Commencement
Reverend Carl E. Bates pastor of First Baptist Church will speak at Baylor University's summer commencement in Baylor Stadium at 7 30. He receives the honorary Doctor of Divinity, while Dr George J Mason of Dallas earns the honorary Doctor of Laws. Baylor reports 326 degree candidates and 142 master’s diplomas, totaling 1188 graduates for 1950 51. Nursing caps will be awarded to 27 women completing a year toward a nursing diploma, and 19 Air Force ROTC cadets will be commissioned as second lieutenants, bringing ROTC graduates to 55.
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Carl E. Bates
First Baptist Church
Baylor University
Baylor Stadium
Bates
W. R. White
Baylor
George J. Mason
Dallas
Associated Hospitals
Air Force Rotc
Air Force Reserve
Maj Gen Warren R Carter Leads Flying Training Air Force
Maj Gen Warren R Carter commands the nation’s Flying Training Air Force from headquarters in Waco.
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Warren R. Carter
Flying Training Air Force
Waco
Country Club Directors Meet in Amarillo Monthly Session
Amarillo Country Club directors held their regular monthly meeting last night with president Bob Crudgington presiding. They discussed routine business matters and reviewed club affairs and upcoming activities.
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Amarillo Country Club
Bob Crudgington
Truman to Meet Press at 3 PM Tomorrow
President Truman will hold a news conference at 3 PM tomorrow in Washington. The notice appears in Globe News Want Ads urging readers to seek results from classified listings.
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Globe-News
Truman
Washington
Globe News
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