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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1948
Page
20
London notes a cigarette shortage spurring many Britons to quit. Readers share methods from gin substitutions to subconscious mind tricks. Anecdotes include a 66 year old smoker and a Scotsman praising calm practice, while others claim quitting is easy with one-time resolve as installment buying resurges in London.
Miss Lea Cook of Amarillo sues Earl Bull and Castro County cattle trucker and the Amarillo Bus Company after a spring traffic wreck on Washington Street. The 108th District Court action seeks damages for lost earnings, medical costs, and injuries from the bus truck collision at Hayden Street crossing Thirty sixth Avenue.
Western and northern European voters shift away from Communism after the Cominform era. Denmark, Holland, Sweden show losses totaling over 250000 votes and 17 seats. Finland’s Popular Democratic League allies also shed seats. Liberal gains rise, Swedish results lead with a landslide.
In Borger a 38 year old man Frank Womack and a woman face charges of statutory rape for a 14 year old girl who is held as a juvenile delinquent. Edgar Womack faces adultery. All four are jailed in Hutchinson County with $2000 bonds set.
Negotiations between Amarillo city officials and Amarillo Gas Company began to supply natural gas to Amarillo Field. City Manager N V Moss and Herb Budke, president of the gas company, met in Mosss office. The current Cities Service Company contract for gas to the municipally owned Amarillo Field may be terminated as the Army ends its training role.
Converted warplanes will be used in a new service between Madras and New Delhi in India, signaling a shift to civilian operations from military aircraft. The move aims to boost domestic air travel and strengthen regional connectivity.
Foreign desk report says Communist forces ring three Nationalist army groups totaling about 110000 near Nanking, with a fourth trapped earlier. Nationalists retreat from towns near Peiping as aviation gasoline and munitions burn in Peiping's south field. Madame Chiang Kai-shek faces the challenge of securing U.S. aid as President Truman plans talks and a proposed 16 million dollars for Palestine refugees. The U.N. will protect South Korea from Russian threats as North Korea's 200000-strong army is cited. In Berlin, Western officials report a major political split as 1330820 votes favor reformist leadership under Ernst Reuter. A separate local labor dispute over steel-for-building work ends with injunctions and ongoing union talks.
A Rainbow Trout from Denver and another from the Gulf arrive at Terry's Marine Grill for dinner tonight. The fish on the plate were in a Colorado stream or the Gulf only hours earlier, highlighting the freshness of flying fish.
The appeal in the Stephenson v. Amarillo Building and General Trades Union injunction suit proceeds as John Merchant, attorney for the unions, completes the appeal brief. Judge W. E. Gee granted a permanent injunction barring unions from picketing the Tri-State Fair Park Livestock Exhibition Building construction site, with the transcript filed in the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals.
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