Amarillo High football drills and upcoming game notes
The 1948 Amarillo High School football team began week two of practice at Butler Field with morning drills and a Michigan formation shift. The opener is three weeks away against Childress in Sandieville, with Don Ezeli’s Bobcats expected to push the Sandies. The Globe-News will award a wrist watch to the team’s most valuable player this season, a tradition dating to 1943.
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Amarillo
Butler Field
Michigan
Childress Bobcats
Sandieville
Don Ezeli
Rupert Taylor
Maxor Drug
Golden Sandie
Randall Clavy
Pampa
Harvesters
Clay
University of Texas
Globe-News
Denny Willis
Harland Collins
Brian Rusk
Richard Mixon
Guy Owens
Dwight Hoskins
Associated Press
Jabbo Watson
Burre
Collins
Lubbock
All-State Football Cast Across Sandie History
A list of Sandie greats and all state contenders from 1923 to 1937 is recalled, noting players like Thompson Mauldin Sweeney Cochrane and Harlow. The narrative highlights standout performances, wartime losses, and coaching praise while citing various positions and teams.
Odds Makers Set Flag Prices and Sports Ties
A feature from Amarillo notes a school board member’s sports interest rooted in boxing and wrestling. It recalls Cory Detton, Buddy Wilkinson, and Fluff Meyer as local sports figures, plus memories of college all stars vs Bears, and past Texas sports names and results from 1915 through 1942.
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Amarillo
Cory Detton
Buddy Wilkinson
Fluff Meyer
Detton
Wilkinson
Meyer
Mode
Mike Gibbons
New Orleans
Havana
Jack Jackson
Jess Willard
Gibbon
Atom Strikers May Find Jobs Filled
At Los Alamos New Mexico on August 23 unionized maintenance workers refused to work over hiring of 115 non union men by Brown Root Construction. Union leader J D Quails urged staying out until a settlement. the stoppage was labeled a serious threat to the atomic weapons program with federal mediator Frank Ashe attempting to resolve differences.
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Los Alamos
Atomic Energy
AFL
Brown Root Construction Co
Houston
Frank J. Ashe
San Francisco
Washington
Brown Root
J. D. Quails
Atomic Energy Commission
Pioneer's Sales Staff Meets Here
Pioneer Air Lines sales representatives from Texas and New Mexico are meeting in Amarillo for a three day concentrated campaign. Amarillo traffic and sales leaders E L Coggins Jr and Eugene Themmel oversee arrangements while Lewis Zafran coordinates sales. Amarillo now has four daily flights to Texas and New Mexico cities and back. Pioneer began Amarillo service on August 1 1945 on a 6.83 mile system serving five cities, now expanding to 23 more across a 2200 mile network.
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Pioneer Air Lines
Texas
New Mexico
Amarillo
Bernadotte to Propose Israel Recognition at UN
Stockholm Aug 23 Reliable sources said Count Folke Bernadotte UN mediator for Palestine will propose to the UN General Assembly in Paris next month that the existence of the Jewish state of Israel be recognized officially. He will submit several settlement plans to the General Assembly with recognition of Israel in all of them.
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Stockholm
U.P
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Palestine
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Israel
Bernadotte
Holy Land
General Assembly
Bookmakers rate Braves Dodgers and Cardinals tied for pennant
Broadway bookmakers assign 11 to 5 odds to each of the Braves Dodgers and Cardinals for the National League title as Boston leads and both leagues see shifting danger signals. Cleveland opens favored in the American League at even money with the Athletics at 2 to 1. Southworth notes St Louis as a tougher foe than Brooklyn while praising the Dodgers youth and speed.
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Jack Cuddy
New York
Braves
Dodgers
Cardinals
Boston
Billy Southworth
Burt Shotton
Pittsburgh
Giants
Pirates
Cleveland
Indians
White Sox
Athletics
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Bostonians
Southworth
Twin 17 year old brothers held in Houston kidnaping
Two Missouri City teens tied to a Houston kidnapping and robbery were jailed after they and an accomplice abducted two Houston high school boys and their dates. The victims Millard Peeples and Wiley Koehn were robbed in Hermann Park and forced to surrender watches and cash before the suspects fled in a recovered car.
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Houston
U.P
Bothers
Missouri City Brothers
Walker County Sheriff's Deputies
New Waverly
Red
Millard Peeples
Wiley Koehn
Hermann Park
Bellville
Stumpville
Death Takes Father of J. A. McGuire
J. H. McGuire aged 71 died of a heart attack at home in Westminster California on Saturday. He was the father of J. A. McGuire who works for the Texas Company Refinery. The family left for California Sunday morning.
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J. H. McGuire
J. A. McGuire
North Hayes
Westminster
Cal
RAF Pilot Praises Soviet Hospitality After Forced Landing
RAF pilot Peter Jordan, after a week in the Soviet zone following a forced landing, reported he was well treated by the Russians. He quipped that Russian-style cooking disagreed with him, noting vodka was part of breakfast. He spoke from Lubeck on his return to base.
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Luebeck
Germany
Peter Jordan
Quote on noble future from Thomas Dreier
A quote asserts that lacking a noble and successful past does not prevent a noble and successful future. The remark by Thomas Dreier emphasizes personal potential beyond history.
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Thomas Dreier
Shile Captures Handicap Golf Tourney Victory
H B Shile posts a net 61 to win Amarillo Country Club Weekend Handicap Golf Tournament. Others in low net: Lou Pearce 76 11 65 Herb Willborn 80 14 66 John Satterstrom 87 21 66. John Munn wins low gross with 49. Floyd Richards takes high gross at 109.
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HK. B. Shile
Amarillo
Lou Pearce
Herb Willborn
John Satterstrom
John Munn
Floyd Richards
Will Name Texas Softball Champ
SAN ANGELO Aug 23 Ragsdale San Angelo and Blue bonnet of Lubbock will decide the Texas Softball League championship this week. They meet in the final round of the Shaugnessy playoff at dates to be decided later. Ragsdale beat Baldridge of Lubbock 6 3 3 2 in the first round of the Shaugnessy playoff last week and Bluebonnet eliminated Mona Hans 5 2 7 4.
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San Angelo
Ragsdale
Bluebonnet
Lubbock
Shaugnessy
Baldridge
Monahans
Reschedule Hearings On City Ordinances
Long postponed second readings of several city ordinances are set for Tuesday night before the city commission at 7 30 in City Hall. The measures include a plumbing code amendment an electrical code amendment and a civil service personnel classification ordinance. Bids will be opened for about 9000 feet of copper pipe for Memorial Park sprinkler system bounded by Washington Jackson Twenty fourth and Twenty eighth streets.
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Memorial Park
Washington, Jackson
Twenty-eighth
Cliff Thompson Wins Ross Rogers Course Weekend Sweep
Cliff Thompson fired a net 61 to lead the field by four strokes in the Ross Rogers Golf Course Weekend Sweepstakes. Other winners posted totals across a range of scores with names including Thurman Gholston, John Stockton, Ray McPherson, and Cliff Rogers among many top finishers.
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Cliff Thompson
Thurman Gholston
John Stockton
Ray McPherson
Morris Loewenstern
Dale Andrews
George Stout
Cecil Smith
S. T. Munhall
Cliff Rogers
R. V. Marshall
D. R. Burnett
R. L Posey
Bud Ammons
J. G. Risley
Louis Merry
Amarillo Reservists Join Navy Caribbean Cruise
Three Amarillo Naval Reservists serve aboard destroyer vessels on a two week Caribbean cruise. Lee W. Rehmeyer Don P. Rogers and Richard L. Batten are stationed at 1616 Monroe 901 North Pierce and 905 Bowie respectively. They expect to return to Amarillo on Saturday Sept 4.
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Amarillo Naval
Caribbean
Lee W. Rehmeyer
Monroe
Don P. Rogers
North Pierce
Richard L. Batten
Bowie
Amarillo
Pro Chuck Klein To Give Weekly Driving Exhibition
Pro Chuck Klein will give his weekly free driving exhibition Monday night at the City View Driving Range. The Ross Rogers Course professional will be on hand at 8 o'clock.
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Chuck Klein
City View
Ross Rogers
Emerson on Power Through Action and Duty
The quote states that natural law grants power only to those who perform the required action. It implies that effort, not intention alone, yields capability and strength.
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Emerson
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Harold King
Bob Clesson
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Red Goodwin
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al Foster
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Odessa High School
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George Sisler
St. Louis Browns
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Claude Fox
Bharley
Empire Manufacturing Com
Ralph D. Davis
JOE Brown Package Store
N. Fillmore
Radcliff Supply CO
O. K. Cleaners
Woody
Cooper Lumber Company
Irar
Murday-Cooper
Fillmore
Sth & Parker
VEW Club
Amarillo Tent & Awning CO. Inc
II & Adami
Chicago Bears
Chicago
Bob Crues
Gold Sox
Gus Muller
West Texas State
Miller
Texas Wesleyan
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Pete Reiser
Ted Williams
Bill Flenniken
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Oklahoma City
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Atom
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Citizens Finance Service CO
TYLER
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