New Look For Fair Grounds
Potter County commissioners plan to repaint the Tri State Fair Park fence and grand stand, seeking advertising space on the fence with the State Fair Association. Rex Baxter of the fair association will report progress at the next meeting. Work on cleaning the infield trash continues and planting wheat is discussed to improve the grounds before the fair. Jack Swan, Precinct 3 commissioner, comments on aims.
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Tri-State Fair Park
Potter County Commissioners Court
State Fair Association
Rex Baxter
Fai Association
Fair Association
City Budget Proposes 6.5 Percent Wage Increase
City Manager N V Moss says the new general fund budget for 1948 49 totals 1 482 122 with a 1 30 tax rate on the 100 valuation. The plan adds eight firemen four motorcycle patrolmen four boat officers and trash workers while boosting wages about 65 percent of total salary expenditures. Major raises include police base from 180 to 190 per month and trash workers 10 more per month. fire chief up 25. Meus unchanged at 750.
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Phopou Wong Wunapee
Oman
N. V. Moss
Tne
General Fund
L&s
Ami
Commission
Moss
Mith
Meus
Burks
Texans Close Senate Fight With Narrow Stevenson Lead
In Texas 306 vote edge near close in the U S Senate race as 253 counties report 492 755 for Stevenson and 492 449 for Johnson with 96 votes gained since noon. Johnson warns of slurs while Stevenson denounces bloc votes and both men urge full precinct returns before official certification September 14.
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Associated Press
United Press
Coke Stevenson
Lyndon Johnson
Texas Election Bureau Today
Stevenson
Johnson
Borden
Texas
W. Lee O'Daniel
Pappy
Duval County
Port Worth
Stevene
Army Seeks 10 000 Draftees for November Induction
The Army requested 10 000 draftees to be inducted in November. The first peacetime draft call comes from the munitions board through the Selective Service system. Navy and Air Force expect no draftees this fiscal year, and all inductees will join the Army after state quotas are set.
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Army
Washington
Selective Service
Munitions Board
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of
Defense Forrestal
SSS
Louis
Pratt Wen
Umar Pradley
Selective Service National
Meir
United States
America
Sunny Skies And Heat on Weather Menu
The forecast calls for high daytime temperatures and sunny skies in Ama nilla with Monday 92 degrees and Tuesday 93 degrees. Nights will be cool, and Sunday’s high reached 91 with a 60 degree low. English Field observers report 0.2 inches of rain Sunday, the only shower on the high plains, while August rainfall totals run 5.18 inches since Aug 1 and year-to-date is 18.33 inches, 3.03 inches above normal.
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Amanilla
H.C. Winburn
US Weather Bureau
English Field
High Plains
Winburn
Amarillo Men of 25 Reluctant but Ready
Randall County and Amarillo conduct the second peacetime draft registration for men aged 25 born after August 30 1922. Veterans like Jess Allen Ritter and Archiver of Chicago line up at Municipal Auditorium as civilians register with lines of 25 year olds, while others travel to Canyon for registration at Lindsey Motor Company.
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Amarillo
Jess Allen Ritter
Fannin
Archiver
Chicago
Municipal Auditorium
P. E. Holzkamper
Neches
Fox
Garfield E. Turner
North East Eighth
Navy
Frank Farris
East Twell
Naval Reserve
Farris
West Texas State College
Canyon
Randall County
Lindsey Motor Company
Tony Prichard
Randall County Selective Service Board
Hutch Burgess Wins News Tip Prize for Horse Incident
Hutch Burgess of 1604 North East Eighth won first prize five dollars in the News Tip contest for a report about a girl who fell from a horse and was trampled. Fred Gray, 1317 Bellaire, took second with his tip about a man cut by ice from an upstairs store accident. Mrs S W Matthewson, Route 2 Box 489, earned third for her story on killing a giant centipede with a mop.
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Hutch
Burgess
North East Eighth
Mr. Burgess
Fred Gray
Bellaire
Mae Dean Fern
West Sixth
Gladys _ Jones
Maryland
C. A
TB Tests Begin Tuesday in Amarillo at Public Service Building
A two week free tuberculosis screening starts Tuesday at the Southwestern Public Service Company building at Fifth and Polk. Mayor Lawrence Hagg leads the first participants with city workers, firefighters and police to follow. The process uses chest X-ray photos taken while fully clothed, with follow up X-rays for shadows. tests are provided by the State Health Department and promoted by the Potter County Medical Society.
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Southwestern Public Service Company
Fifth and Polk
Amarillo
Lawrence Hagg
Hell
Tuberculosis Committee
The
Potter County Medical Society
State Health Department
Spy King case sparks contempt questions in hearings
Federal hearing rooms echoed with charges against John McDowell asserting Nixon's contempt recommendation. Chambers described Peters as head of an underground spy apparatus within the U S government since 1934, while Peters invoked Fifth Amendment protection as investigators pressed for nationality and affiliation details amid sensational testimony.
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Eeee Un-American Activities
Red Nixon
California
Whittaker Chambers
Rker
New York
John McDowell
Pennsy
Peters
Washington
Robert E. Stripling
House
Communist Party International
Negroes Beat, Rob Watchman Second Time in Eight Days
John Meyer a 60 year old night watchman was attacked by two colored men Sunday night and again eight days earlier. He suffered scalp wounds and a crushed hand and was found Monday by his employer Joe Siegel of Amarillo Junk Company at 308 Jackson Street. The assailants asked for money and Meyer said he had two cents. Meyer's injuries were treated at North Texas Hospital.
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John Meyer
Meyer
Joe Siegel Ynner
Amarillo Junk Company
Westex Pine Company
Jackson
North Texas
Siegel
Fourth
Lee Watchman
Myers Motor Co
Chivaier-Pirme
Weather synopsis Amarillo and vicinity forecast brief
The Amarillo area expects sunny to partly cloudy skies with warm daytime temperatures through Tuesday and cooler nights. West Texas sees scattered thunderstorms by Tuesday afternoon, with little temperature change. New Mexico has scattered late day storms and otherwise fair weather through Tuesday. Record shows 24 hour high 91 and low 80. Seven Wire Kitchen Cabinets Pain a fee orn Maynara Lor Co.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
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