Wall Street Stocks Mixed as Merrill Lynch Close
Closing stock quotations show mixed results with Industrials around 181.75 and railroads near 69.10. A broad list of names appears with varied gains and losses led by large firms like General Electric and Union Pacific, reflecting a fluctuating market.
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Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner and Beane
Wathebtan
Bee Geee
New York
Amarillo
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kennecott
Alaska
Juneau
Laclede Gas Lote
Allegheny
Lambert Co
Allegheny Lud
Lehigh Portid
Libby McN&l
Allied Stores
Allis Chalmers
Lockheed Aire
Amer Airlines
Loc's_mne
Amer
Montem Ward
Amer Tobacco
Motor Proc
Amer Woolen
Murray Corp
Omyane Laane
Anaconda Wr
Natl Auto Fibra Armour &Co
Natl Dairy Pr
Oliver Corp
Boeing Airpin
Packard S Motor
Bohn Alumnin
Borden Co
Borg Warner
Paramount Pe
Braniff Airway
G Penney
Bridgeport
Briggs Mig
Pennsiyy RR
Briggs &Strat
Dr. Pepper
Bucyrus Erie
Pepsi Cola
Budd Co
Phelps Dodge
Burroughs Adise
Philco Corp
Canada Dry
Phillips Petrol
Pittsby&Bolt
Carrier Corp
Celotex Corp
Corp
Certainteed Pr
K Olph Chesap & Ohio 37'2 Reo Motors 18! Chicago Corp 11%, Republic Avia
St Paul
Republic Steel
Ri&pac
Rexall Drug
Chrysler
Reynold Tobb Cit Financial
Richfi Ia
Colo Fuellron
Columbia G&e
Scaech
St Columbia
Generiey
Roebuc
South
Shamrk O&g
Consol Edison
Sharon Steel
Consol Vultee
Shell Union Oil
Simmons Co
Sinclair Oil
Socony
Vacm
Crane Co
Amer Gold
Crucible S
Porto Rico
Cuban “Ambus de South Pac
Curtiss Wright
Souhern Curtiss Wren
Sparks
Deer & Co
Spiegel Inc
del & Hudson
Square D Co
Distillers Corp
Doehler Jarvis
Gaspid
Calif
Ind
Dupont
Stand Oil NJ
Eagle Picher
Send
Mwore
Eastern Airlin
Palace Acd
Eaton Mfr
Symington
Erie Railroad
Texas Co
Farsworth Tv
Tex GulfProd
Federal
Tex GulfSulp
Tidewater
Perel Motor Anener
General Tirer
20Th CentFox
Illette Safety
Union Bag&p
Imble Bros
Union C&c
Glidden Co
Union Pacific
Goodall Sans
United Aircrft
Graham Paige
United Gas
Great Nrrpid
US Lines
Great W Sugar
US Rubber
Acerowne Co
US Steel
Summan Air
United Wall
Willys Overland
Iewell
Nick
Wilson & Co
Wood
T&t
Cosden Petrol
South Royalty
Superior
T&d
B&s
Utal
Idaho Se
Umble Oil
Wentworth M
Kaiser Fraser
Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Markets Report
Kansas City prices show cattle and calves largely steady with some declines for vealers and light calves. hogs active with steady to strong bids and top around 30.50. sheep and lambs opening bids lower but prices firming for yearlings and select slaughter lambs. Chicago figures indicate slower cattle trade, with good and choice steers steady to lower, heifers strong, and vealers down slightly. hogs and sows mixed, with lighter weights trading higher.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Jim Stephens Returns From Weeklong Colo Trip With Family
Jim Stephens and his family return from a weeklong vacation to Colorado. The city building spector noted the trip and summarized the family's travels and safe arrival home.
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Jim Stephens
Colo- 0
Civil Service Exams Open For Several Positions
The civil service commission announced tests for offices machine operators elevator operators mining engineers. Pay ranges from 2086 to 3727 for office machines 2350 to 3024 for elevators and 3727 to 6235 for mining engineers. Applications from H M Timmons civil service secretary Room 21 post office building.
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The
Civil Service Commission
H. M. Timmons
Civil Service
City Budget Details Revealed and Public Hearing Planned
The city outlines expenditures for general government public safety health and sanitation streets parks recreation and education and miscellaneous totaling several hundred thousand dollars. The tax rate is at the charter maximum of 1.30 per 100 with Amarillo valuations at 80 percent. A public hearing will precede the budget’s final adoption after a 30 day inspection period.
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Hagg
Katheryne Burwell
Amarillo
Twenty-Eight Reds Reported Slain Near Manila
A Manila Times dispatch reports 28 Hukbalahaps killed and 24 wounded in a two hour clash with Philippine constabulary units in Pampanga province about 60 miles north of Manila. The peasant commander escaped, leaving pamphlets and firearms at the field headquarters.
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Manila
Manila Times
Philippine Constabulary
Pampanga
Court Upholds Right To Snore
In Los Angeles on August 23 Deputy City Prosecutor Byron Gentry ruled that snoring is not a wilful disturbance of the peace. He found the neighbor’s snoring unconscious and beyond control, granting immunity to the snorer in the home.
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Los Angeles
Byron Gentry
Wilson FE. Carr
Gentry
Yeggs in Act Nabbed by Police in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati on August 23 police stopped two little girls and an 11 year old boy from attempting to crack a car sales office safe. Motorcycle Patrolman Albert Thiele found them pounding the safe with a hammer and an axe. They were handed to juvenile court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Automobiles Sales Company
Motorcycre
Albert Thiele
Thiele
Potter County Hospital Plans Forward for Federal Grant
The State Health Department requires final information for a 375,000 grant to Potter County for a Northwest Texas Hospital addition. County commissioners authorized the county judge to provide plot plans soil tests and other required data. Architect Guy Carlander of Amarillo designs the plans, with completion expected in months.
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State Health Department
Potter County
Northwest Texas Hospital
Austin
Guy Carlander
Amarillo
Yank Freed After Crossing Line in British Sector
Headen says he was careful inside the British sector but may have crossed the line. Taken to a German police station in the Soviet sector then transferred to a Soviet jail after identity checks. A courteous Russian officer questioned him and warned of reprimand if misidentification occurred. An English-speaking interpreter, a Russian girl with disordered hair, assisted.
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Headen
Fresh Outbreak of Forest Fires in East Texas
Fire fighters in East Texas battled 78 fires Sunday under hot August weather. Chief J. O. Burnside and Assistant Chief Bill Hartman sought help from Gov. Beauford Jester and a special Austin committee to address the wildfire surge. Intensified blazes were blamed on heat and suspected arson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Lufkin
J. O. Burnside
Bill Hartman
Beauford
Austin
City Orders 300 Parking Meters for Downtown and West Sixth
City Manager N. V. Moss announced an order for 300 additional parking meters. About 100 will be installed on West Sixth in San Jacinto, with the remaining 200 used to expand metered areas downtown.
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N. V. Moss
West Sixth
San Jacinto
Churchill Begins Six Week Stay in Aix en Provence
In Aix en Provence France on August 23 Winston Churchill signed the hotel register at the Roi Rene and prepared for a six week visit his first major rest after wartime duties.
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Churchill
France
Aix EN Provence
Winston Churchill
Hotel Roi Rene
Census reports cotton ginnings rise in 1948 crop
The Census Bureau reports 544 406 bales of 1948 crop cotton ginned before Aug 16. Round bales counted as half bales. This compares with 324 110 ginned by the same date last year and 285 222 two years ago.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Carter Motor Co Is Sold In Amarillo Transfer
Bob Fuller of the Bob Fuller Motor Co Lubbock announces the purchase of Carter Motor Co and Kaiser-Frazer distributorship in Amarillo. The firm will be renamed Bob Fuller Motor Co with Jack Carter retiring. Kaiser-Frazer interests extend to Lubbock San Angelo and Amarillo. No layoff for 28 employees.
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Carter Motor Co
Pierce
Bob Fuller
Bob Fuller Motor Co
Lubbock
Kaiser-Frazer Agency
Herring Hotel
Jack Carter
Kaiser-Frazer
San Ange's
Ahiler
J. H. Beasley
Mr. Carter
Panhandle
Fuller
Crandall Rites Set Thursday
Funeral services for Ralph Joseph Crandall age 40 will be held Thursday at 4 PM in Griggs & Sons Chapel with burial at Llano Cemetery. Crandall, a bellhop at an Amarillo hotel since April, was found dead by hanging at the Atlas Hotel. Justice of the Peace ruled death by own action. Survivors include his wife Ina, a son Love, two daughters Margaret and Marion in San Francisco, a brother Frank in Amarillo, and sisters Mrs. George Hook and Mrs. Roger Rosander.
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Ralph Joseph Crandall
North van Buren
Griggs & Sons
Llano
Crandall
Amarillo
Atlas
East Third
Justice of the Peace
Charlie Carder
Ina Crandall
Love
Margaret
Marion
San Francisco
Frank Crandall
George Hook
Roger Rosander
Former Pampa Pastor H. R. Whatley Dies at 60
Reverend H. R. Whatley longtime pastor of Pampa First Baptist from 1921 to 1925 died at Hendrix Memorial Hospital Abilene after six weeks illness. Born May 21 1888 in Blevins Texas he studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Funeral at First Baptist Haskell with burial Willow Cemetery Haskell. Survived by wife Elizabeth a daughter Wilma Adkins three sons Herman Calvin and Howard Whatley two sisters and a brother eight grandchildren.
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Blevins
Tex
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
First Baptist Church
Haskell
C. E. Lancaster
Sam Taylor
San Saba
W. H. Albertson
Brownwood
Willow Cemetery
Elizabeth Whatley
Wilma Adkins
Herman
Calvin Whatley
Pampa
Howard Whatley
Houston
Bertie White
Lois Richardson
Lometa
Arthur Whatley
Goldthwaite
Youths blamed for two recent local burglaries
Police connect two nearby thefts to a juvenile suspect. At Jewell Food Distributors 316 North Osage $15.75 in silver 100 pennies and a Ronson cigarette lighter were stolen through a ventilating fan access. Earlier Reds Hide and Wool Co 1900 North East Third suffered a window entry with twelve cigarette packs and several electric fuses taken.
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Ronson
Jewell Food Distributors
North Osage
Reds Hide and Wool Co
North East Third
Gun Victim Transferred To Veterans Hospital
Jack Holt a 22 year old man hospitalized Sunday for a shoulder gunshot wound has been moved from Northwest Texas Hospital to Veterans Hospital He was at 2200 Houston when the rifle discharged accidentally causing the injury and he was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital for initial treatment.
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Jack Holt
Veterans Hospital
Northwest Texas Hospital
Holt
Houston
Near
Northwest
City Seeks Bids for New Water Booster Pumps
City commissioners prepare to advertise for bids on switch gear and motor controls for an Eighth and Bonham pump station upgrade. N V Moss city manager will request bids for equipment for pumps with a maximum capacity of 15 million gallons per day. Joe Moss oversees the bid process.
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City Commission
Eighth and
Bonham
N. V. Moss
City Main
Joe Moss
Sewage Outfall Line Project Advances For Pasadena
Pasadena officials expect a mid September contract let for the first section of a new sewer outfall line running 2.2 miles to the disposal plant 92 miles away. The project aims to relieve frequent blowouts by upgrading 21 to 36 inch pipes, financed by a sewer revenue bond of about 1.5 million dollars with 0.25 million already spent on local lines.
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N. V. Moss
Moss
Mr. Moss
Knights of Columbus Softball Winners to Be Honored Dinner
Members of the Knights of Columbus softball team, Civic League trophy holders, will be honored at a dinner and dance in Cathedral Hall at 1110 Washington. Dr. L A Blumer arranges the banquet starting at 7 30. The trophy will be presented during the after dinner program, and dancing to Billy Bigg and his XIT Boys begins at 9. Other Civic League teams include Exchange Club, South Amarillo Lions, 20 30 Club San Jacinto Kiwanis and ABC Club.
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Knights of Columbus
Cathedral Hall
Washington
L. A. Blumer
Billy Bigg
Civic League
Exchange Club
South Amarillo Lions
San Jacinto Kiwanis
ABC Club
Highway 66 Association Directors Meet in Amarillo
The Texas unit of the Highway 66 Association plans a 7 30 p m directors meeting at the Amarillo Hotel. James T Haliburton Vega secretary treasurer announced the gathering Monday. President Tom Watson Wildorado will preside at the dinner meeting.
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Texas
Highway 66 Association
Amarillo
James T. Haliburton
Vega
Tom Watson
Wildorado
Ambulance Patient Escapes After Memphis Crash
At the scene of an ambulance crash in Memphis a patient jumped from the back of the damaged vehicle and vanished into the crowd as responders searched. The incident prompted a pursuit as authorities sought the missing patient identified as Helen M Neff.
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Memphis
New Economy Is China Course To End Crisis
AP Foreign Affairs analyst DeWitt MacKenzie recounts a conversation with Dr. Chen Li-fu, vice president of China's National Parliament, who argues economic reform must precede military victory. Chen proposes shifting policy to favor agriculture, long-term farmer loans, and a two-zone strategy across the Yangtze to separate and then reunite China under reform.
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China
Chen Li- Fu
Legislative Yuan
Chen
Dr. Chen
Yangtze River
Yangtze
NORITO Promises Quick Relief for Rheumatic Pain
Thousands of sufferers praise NORITO for rapid relief from rheumatism sciatica lumbago neuralgia and neuritis pains. The ad promises refund if the first three doses do not relieve the pain and urges readers to ask their druggist today.
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Norito
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Kansas City Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago Board of Trade
Colorado
News-Globe
MR. Tack
Judy Lois McMurtry
Raymond C. McMurtry
West Twelfth
Clifford McMurtry
Robert C. Jones
Tack
Yeggs
PR. Pinza
Momento
Mom
DR Pinza
Deon Gree
Kiei Ike
Pasadena
Cal
Theodore L. Syvertson
Joseph Wollert
Syvertson
Wollert
Pian Entertainment
Deason
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
BlackburnShaur Funeral Directors
Cohama
Cohama Fabrics
Rantahony
Polk
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