Dusty Gusts Challenge Amarillo Windy Day Sports Forecast
45 mph winds from the south to southwest whip Amarillo with dust and pink horizon. US Weather Bureau observer H C Winburn expects continued winds tonight and a cold, quick-moving storm center from Montana to brush the Panhandle tomorrow. He warns spectators and players at the Amarillo Odessa State quarterfinal game to expect blowing dust and winds up to 30 mph in Odessa with a slight temperature drop and a high around 55 tomorrow.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
US Weather Bureau
English Field
Montana
Panhandle
Winburn
Fair Names Leader for Tri State Fair
John K. Boyce elected president of the Tri State Fair after World War II. Delbert Dalby reelected secretary manager. Ross D. Rogers headed the nominating committee. Baxter reported a $48,155.54 treasury surplus and a $40,000 contingency reserve. Palomino horse show and All Girl Rodeo to be discontinued. Chamber of Commerce ties acknowledged. meeting at the Chamber offices.
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John K. Boyce
Association
Gene Klein
Chamber of Commerce
Baxter
Chamber
Battery theft wave hits South Plains and Tulsa cases
Thefts of junk and irrigation well batteries continue across the South Plains as two men face misdemeanor theft charges in Tulsa. S. M. Fowler and Walton Fowler are accused after attempting to sell used batteries in Amarillo. In Plainview, 33 old batteries and 600 pounds of copper wire were stolen from the Cecil Lebow junk yard, marking a second theft in three days, with similar battery thefts from farm pump sites noted along the irrigation region.
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South Plains
Tulsa
Swisher County
Hugh White
S. M. Fowler
Amarillo
Walton Fowler
Fowlers
Ted Andrews
Hale County
Plainview
Cecil Lebow
Lebow
Daffern
Andrews
Local Project Begins Monday in East Amarillo
Seale Company announces 300 low cost homes to be built in East Amarillo in 1949, part of a 7.2 million development. Fred M. Seale says 170 appraisals and loan commitments completed, 100 percent loan financing with $5850 sale price, and a spring shopping center start planned near Forest Hill School.
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East Amarillo
Seale Company
Fred M. Seale
Seale
Eral
North East Eighth
Forest Hill School
Ram
Price College
Ridgemere
Belmont Park
Amarillo
East
B 36 Flies Over Hawaii On Pearl Harbor Anniversary
Col. Thomas W. Blackburn disclosed that as many as 12 unidentified planes could enter Hawaii unchallenged in peacetime. A B 36 flew over Hawaii on the Pearl Harbor anniversary, reportedly undetected, prompting concern from Territorial Gov. Ingram M. Stainback. Blackburn said radar identifications were not challenged unless large flights or threats appeared, noting 21 radar sightings during the period.
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Honolulu
Thomas W. Blackburn
United States Air Force
Hawaii
Hawaiian
Air Force
Fort Worth
Pearl Harbor
Blackburn
Carswell Air Base
Islands
Ingram M. Stainback
Peyton Harrison
US Navy
Bering Sea
81St
Hubbard Hotel Blaze Displaces 150 In Chicago
An extra alarm fire drove more than 150 people from the Hubbard Hotel, a six story, 208 room building in Chicago. No fatalities occurred though a fire chief and a 61 year old man were overcome by smoke. Damage was placed at about 100 dollars by Fire Chief Anthony Lee, with the cause undetermined and believed to have started on the second floor.
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Chicago
Hubbard
Anthony Lee
Otto Dahl
Many Spinsters Are Losing by a Nose
Hollywood December 10 A plastic surgeon Dr Robert Alan Franklyn says in four years he reshaped the noses of 47 spinster women and all but one married afterward. He notes a man seeking matrimony looks at a woman’s nose before eyes or legs.
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Hollywood
Robert Alan Franklyn
Franklyn
Dr. Franklyn
Trial of Conley Postponed Again
Louis Bob Conley will not go on trial Tuesday in Boston. George McCarthy, attorney for Conley, announced the case was removed from the docket. A decision was expected on a motion to quash the indictment charging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. McCarthy seeks dismissal for inadequate description of the offense. Conley also faces Massachusetts state charges of assault with a dangerous weapon kidnapping his daughter and contempt of a custody order. No new trial dates were announced.
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Louis Bob Conley
Boston
George McCarthy
Conley
McCarthy
Amarillo
Massachusetts
Wreck Injures 18-Year-Old Motor Scooter Rider
Robert Brownell, 18, of 206 Fairmont, sustained a severely injured left leg when his motor scooter collided with a car at Line Avenue and Carolina Street at 12:45 PM. He was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital. car driver Kenneth Carroll, 34, West Tenth, was turning left onto Carolina. No major damage to the car. bike damage was extensive.
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Robert Brownell
Fairmont
Line Avenue
Kenneth Carroll
West Tenth
Carroll
Carolina
Young Brownell
Washington's Ghettoes For Negroes Denounced
A national civic committee denounces Washington housing and civil life as a segregation center. The 9 page illustrated report says segregation is more systematic today than a half century ago across housing jobs theaters restaurants churches parks and playgrounds. It laments that Horatio Alger with a colored face would be judged by skin in the capital today.
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Washington
America
Horatio Alger
Color Barrier Up At Dog Cemetery
The National Committee on Segregation in Washington reports a dog cemetery has erected a color bar against burial of dogs owned by colored people. The owner feared white customers would object, though he initially thought dogs would not. The committee notes a shift from earlier gains in access for Negroes to restaurants hotels and theaters in D C.
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Washington
National Committee On
Banquet Opens Push to End Gas Waste in Texas
Mayor Lawrence Hagg presided over a 250 plus turnout as General Thompson urged 25 oil fields to halt production until gas saved. The railroad commission pursues 16 lawsuits to curb waste, while noting past actions saved over a billion cubic feet daily. Thompson warned landowners and stockholders against propping wasteful practices and pledged ongoing courthouse actions to conserve gas.
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General Thompson
Railroad Commission
Thompson
Western Refinery Association
Fort Worth
George W. Dimock
North Texas Oil and Gas Association
Commission
Dimrock
Texas
Weather roundup for Amarillo and West Texas regions
Weather report notes strong winds this afternoon and tonight turning northerly by Saturday. Temperatures rise, then ease slightly. West Texas forecasts fair and warmer, with Panhandle and South Plains warmer tonight and Saturday. New Mexico sees partly cloudy skies today with warmer highs. 24 hour high 45 low 24. Fire insurance ad appears at end with contact number.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Deadline Dec 18 for Christmas Decoration Contest entries
The Globe News and Garden Club urge Amarillo residents to enter the Christmas Home Decoration Contest before December 18 to compete for 75 cash prizes totaling 605 dollars. Mason King notes widespread holiday lighting in Midwest cities like McCook Nebraska. postwar revival recalls Amarillo’s festive traditions before the war.
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Globe-News-Garden Club
Amarillo
Mason King
The
Globe News
Midwest
Mr. King
McCook
Life Magazine
Prowlers Loot Amarillo In Wide Ranging Thefts
Prowlers hit the jackpot in Amarillo last night with nearly $2,000 in loot including cash diamond rings a rifle a typewriter a saddle suitcases of clothing and other items. A purse with 109 in cash and two rings valued at 900 was taken from the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall where women prepared supper for a Kum-Dub Sunday School class. Other thefts included clothing from a Lincoln sedan near the Sports Arena and a Remington typewriter and a .22 rifle. A Colt pistol was stolen from Davis Washateria and a saddle disappeared from a pickup on West Sixth Avenue.
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Amarillo
Fellowship Hall
First Christian Church
Clyde H. Matthews
East Fifteenth
Bill Manning
Ada
Okla
Tri-State Fair Park
Manning
Davis Washateria
East Tenth
D. K
Child Killed by Car in Premont
A two year old girl, Ruby Ann Staten, daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanford Staten, was killed instantly when struck by a car in the street in front of her Premont home yesterday afternoon. The accident happened in Corpus Christi area. No further details provided.
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Corpus Christi
Ruby Ann Staten
Stanford Staten
Premont
County awaits union trial over carpenters at fair Building
Three carpenters James D Ward Shirley Sandage and Woodrow Watkins face expulsion trial by a carpenters local union tomorrow at Carpenters Hall over alleged violations tied to work on the Livestock Exhibition Building at the Tri State Fair Park. The trial affects whether union workmen may continue on the county project as high winds halted roof work today.
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Potter County
Tri-State Fair Park
Carpenters
Carpenters Hall
James D. Ward
Shirley Sandage
Woodrow Watkins
Jimmie Word
Watkins
Sandage
Fair Grounds
Word
Phil Almquist
M. E. Winberg
Photo studio sign leads patrons to Bellevue lunch
San Francisco item: photographer Bill Bard left a sign on his studio door inviting patrons to join him for lunch at the Bellevue. After the eleventh diner sat down and ordered, he removed the sign.
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San Francisco
Bill Bard
Bellevue
Llth
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