Paving Project Planned to Palo Duro Park Route
Randall County Commissioners approve paving of Washington Street extension past Camp Don Harrington to Palo Duro Park. Work to begin next year includes bridge improvements at Happy Glen Crossing as part of the farm to market program. Voters approved a 30 cent ad valorem tax shift to road funds.
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Pavo Wash
Amarillo
Palo Dugo State Park
Happy
Palo Duro
Judge Slack
Randall
Pat Baker
C. Y. Johnson
Clarence Beckman
Guy Lott
Truman ties U S friendship to freeing jailed reporter
President Truman told Czechoslovak ambassador that only freeing AP reporter William N Oatis from jail in Prague could restore cordial US Czech relations. The brief exchange followed protests by about 50 Czech refugees. Masaryk’s 1948 death under house arrest looms in briefing notes.
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Washington
Truman
United States
William N. Oatis
Associated Press
Vladimir Prochazka
Czechovakia
Jan Masaryk
Joseph Short
Short
Qatis
Czechoslovakia
Masaryk
Reds
Prague
Republic of
Prochazka
Mr. Truman
White House
Prague envoy and pickets at White House over Oatis case
Czech envoy Prochazka met President Truman as pickets outside the White House demanded release of Oatis. Prochazka declined to discuss the case, saying the trial rests with the Czech court. He noted Truman spoke about relations between the two countries and planned a meeting with Secretary Acheson.
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Chazka
Oatis
Prague
Prochazka
Truman
Acheson
United States
White House
Beran
Czechoslovakia
Eva Josko
Eliska Hasek
Jura Slavik
Red Chinese and Korean War Claims at Kaesong
UN and Communist side exchange furious charges over a supposed air raid near Kaesong. North Korea led by Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh-huai accuse UN command of staging proof while Ridgway weighs reopening probes and possible conference moves.
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Kaesong
Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Kim
Peng
United Nations
Kim I Sung
North Korea
Peiping
Ridgway
Red
McCormick To Build $70,000 Residence
Amarillo building permit totals reach 1 047 632 as of August 1 with Jas L McCormick securing a 70 000 residence permit for 2801 Hughes a two story brick veneer home 70 by 101 feet including a 23 by 43 basement Several smaller permits were issued today.
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Amarillo
Jas. L. McCormick
Hughes
Governor Sets Date For Thanksgiving In Texas
Governor Shivers announced Thanksgiving Day in Texas will be November 22 this year aligning with the national holiday. The timing clashes with the UT–Texas A&M game on November 29, and the 1952 law making the last Thursday in November a holiday will not yet apply.
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Austin
Texas
Shivers
University of Texas-Texas A&m
Amarillo And Vicinity Weather Today And Wednesday
The Weather Bureau reports fair and warm conditions in Amarillo and vicinity with a high today of 93 degrees and a low of 68. Wednesday to be similar with a forecast high near 91 and a cooler end to the period. Scattered thundershowers are possible west of the Pecos Valley today.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
West Texas
Pecas
New Xico
Continental Divide
Colonel Furphy Takes Command at Pantex Plant Amarillo
Col. Foster L. Furphy arrives as Army Ordnance representative to supervise the operation contract with Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation at the Pantex AEC plant. He will be the only military on active duty, with a civilian staff, as AEC and Army Ordnance share supervision. His family moves to Amarillo as construction and rehabilitation continue for the multi million dollar project under Silas Mason Company guidance.
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Jerry Kolander
Pantex-Aec
Foster L. Furphy
Army Ordnance
Furphy
Kentucky
Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation
J. L. Davis
Army Ordnance Department
Tll
Kent
Annette
Washington, DC
R. E. Palmer
Elmira
Amarillo
Walter Stagg
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
R. H. Kellogg
Procter & Gamble
Nec
Prowl ers Hit Three Homes In Amarillo
Burglars struck in three San Jacinto and East Amarillo residences last night. They pried a screen, fished a handbag with a coin purse containing about $1, and left a billfold later found in the 500 block of Kentucky. Mrs. Shrum returned home about 10 45 PM alone after a movie.
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San Jacinto
Amarillo
A. J. Brown
Alabama
W. J. Shrum
Kentucky
Donne Bee
Gnaine Maria Lewis Neme
East Fifth
Shrum
Bandits grab $119 in New Mexico hold up
Globe correspondent Lillian Fondy reports two shabbily dressed robbers robbed the Southwestern Investment Company office in Tucumcari about 11 o clock this morning, escaping with 119 dollars in small bills. The office was attended by manager Don English and a customer, Mrs J B Donaldson, when the men entered. One suspect stood about 33, 5 feet 11 inches, 180 pounds.
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Globe
Tucumcari
Southwestern Investment Company
Don English
J. B. Donaldson
Crash Kills Pilot In Dalhart Ranch Plane Runway
Dalhart August 28 firefighter reports pilot Edwin L Elder 29 died after a plane taking off from a ranch airstrip crashed. Passenger Donald Ray Vincent 18 in critical condition at Loretta Hospital. Interstate Cadet owned by Elder, World War II veteran, investigation opened by Civil Aeronautics Authority. Witnesses include cowboys who dined with the men before flight.
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Dalhart
Donald Ray Vincent
Loretta
Matador Ranch
Edwin L. Elder
Dalhart Municipal
Channing
Elder
Vincent
Gene Collins
Elmer Burnett
Hartley County
Texas Highway
R. C. Johnson
Roger Loshee
Civil Aeronautic Authority
Michae
Laura
Finley
Ohio
Blackburn- Shaw
Roy Vinesent
Ranch
Strikers Stand Firm in Copper Wage Dispute
Denver August 28 nationwide strike by copper workers continues unless government presses industry to accept wage settlement. union leader John Clark says no WSB telegraph to return-to-work yet. WSB in Washington says it sent appeal after dispute to board. Defense says strike weakens mobilization. copper, zinc, lead, silver production hit. IUMMSW and 3,400 APL Metal Trades Union members involved. pay ranges from 1.31 to 1.62 per hour.
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Denver
John Clark
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Ind
Clark
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Washington
US Conciliation Service
Iummsw
CIO
APL Metal Trades Union
Utah
Tummsw
City weighs survey for tax revaluation
City considers a tax valuation survey to base assessments on more recent values. Requests for proposals went to several firms. Ehrenberg, sole bidder, has done surveys here before World War II and in 1946. The plan aims to provide higher tax values to expand bonded indebtedness and reflect current construction values.
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Ehrenberg Company
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