Heat Wave Claims 59 Lives Across Nation
A severe heat wave across the Midwest and Northeast pushes temperatures near 100 and triggers 59 deaths including 12 drownings and 47 prostrations as industries slow, workers lose shifts, and cities issue partial government and utility closures amid record calls to weather bureaus.
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It's Up to YOU Now for Potter Randall County Voting
Potter and Randall County residents vote Saturday with polling hours starting at 8 am. Potter County has 27 boxes and precinct No 1 includes three races. other Potter precincts include only the Senate and sheriff races. Randall County voters use Alice Landergin School. Bring poll tax receipt or exemption certificate or sign an affidavit if lost. Seniors over 60 outside Amarillo city limits and military exemptions may vote without documents. Military exemption details and ineligible military personnel are noted. Also liquor and beer stores close by 9 pm Saturday. Publisher Frank Gannett enters Highland Hospital for rest and checkup in Rochester.
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Alice Landergin
Senate
Amarillo
Texas
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Candidates The Election Eve Line in Texas Senate Runoff
The Texas Senate race nears its finale as Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson await Saturday’s results. Polls show a slim Johnson edge but Stevenson remains confident amid a large primary turnout and final appeals from both sides. Johnson celebrates his 40th birthday with a San Antonio rally. Stevenson campaigns in Austin with a statewide reach.
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Compilte
Texas
United States Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Austin
San Antonio
Dellas
Richardson
Crime Trail Extends to West Coast
Alton Chappell one of two brothers charged with the Fort Worth & Denver depot robbery at Claude has admitted a Portland Ore hijacking on Aug 7. He implicates an accomplice not his brother, R. B. Chappell, in Armstrong County jail at Claude. Texas Ranger Frank Probst said Alton, former Army, said he and another man robbed a Portland Safeway store, locked three employees in a walk in ice box, forced the manager to open a safe, and fled after Juneing the 30 minute wait. He reported leaving Letterman General Hospital Aug 6, rode to Portland, checked into a hotel, rented a car, and scoped the store before closing. See Crime Trail Page 20.
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Ranger
Letterman General Hospital
San Francisco
Cops Hunt Financier Charged in Death of Pal He Owed $100,000
A nationwide police hunt centers on financier Henry Morgan Brooks 61 of Greenwich Conn charged with killing his business partner Joseph R Watkins 53 of New York over a $100000 debt. Brooks fled after a Princeton Inn meeting and was later found dead in a Asbury Park hotel room with a gunshot wound.
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Pittsburgh
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X-Pando Corporation
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Corns Ache Weather Forecast Gent Postulate
New York August 27 A NY doctor states corns on feet can foretell rain. Cummings, state director of health for the Podiatry Society of New York, explains corns are skin cell masses pressing nerves. When air balance shifts, the painful area signals approaching rain.
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New York
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Podiatry Society of
Potter County Hospital Grant Approved after long fight
Potter County wins federal aid for a 100 bed addition to the hospital with a new heating plant and nurses home link. The county faced condemnation challenges to buy land for the site and must complete reports on operation as a teaching hospital. State and federal approvals now in hand, with local funds plus grant support.
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Weather notes and rainfall totals across the Texas panhandle
The report cites 1.44 inches of rain at Shamrock with scattered afternoon thundershowers expected in Amarillo and vicinity. Friday highs near 88, Saturday around 89, with lows in the 60s. Thursday's highs reached 86 and overnight lows around 64. Borger recorded strong winds and a thundershower with 55 inches of rain. Tornado-like clouds were seen over the city. Additional rains were logged in Perryton 1.17, Miami 0.62, Muleshoe 0.10, Pampa 0.65, Panhandle 0.22, Stratford 0.05, Guymon 1.16, Woodward 1.01.
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Borger
Jack Roberts
Shamrock
Perryton
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Pampa
Panhandie
Spearman
Stratford
Gage
Guyman
Woodward
Willtama-Boyce Agener
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
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New Mexico
Western powers resume Berlin talks with Stalin aid
Moscow August 27 Envoys held a seventh round of four power talks on the Berlin crisis. Molotov met US Britain and French representatives to push a path for future Germany. Western powers demand lifting the Soviet blockade and a unified Berlin currency under Allied supervision.
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Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Russia
Desert Rats Recall Axis Sally Voice As War Sapped Morale
In a Washington dispatch dated August 27, Don Whitehead recalls Axis Sally from Berlin whose voice and American music soothed Allied troops in North Africa. Soldiers at Halfaya Pass heard her lure then mocked the ads, later learning she was Mildred Gillars, a fatigued woman with a plain appearance.
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Washington
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Rommel
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Desert
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Hell Fire
BBC
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Jock
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Mildred Elizabeth Gillars
Mildred Elizabeth
Measles More Deadly to Child Than Polio in Amarillo
A rural physician warns parents that measles kill more children annually than polio, urging calm about polio while stressing the need for measles prevention. Doctors note advances in measles treatment reduce lasting harm, though vigilance remains essential.
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Norton Spryde
Amarillo
Polio guidance and weather guide this week
Physicians urge scientifically guided precautions to reduce polio risk while advising parents to follow general hygiene rules. The rain follows a warm spell with AMARILLO AND VICINITY forecast for partly cloudy skies and possible afternoon storms.
Building Boom Pushes Amarillo Permits Past Million
Amarillo issued permits for August nearing the million dollar mark with four days left. A six room frame residence at 1619 Austin was set to cost 7000 with J. M. Bass Jr as building contractor. A campus edition building valued about 347700 is the largest new structure, followed by a 140000 warehouse for Phillips Petroleum in Northeast Amarillo. The largest home permit is a 40000 stone and brick veneer at 2211 Harrison for Mr and Mrs E L Roberts.
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J. M. Bass, Jr
Amarillo
Phillips Petroleum Company
Amaalle
Harrison
Apa
E. L. Roberts
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