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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1948
Page
3
Readers debate gin hand counts. The exact number of 10 card gin hands is 15,820,024,220 with about 60,403,728,840 eleven card hands if the dealer’s opponent is dealt. About 40 percent of 10 card hands contain one or more melds and odds shift with extra cards. values reflect card meld potential. David Fast is newly elected president of Hardesty Oklahoma 4-H club.
Danny and the Snow Man seek a tree more astonishing than the Wizard’s legendary Silver Tree Sleepy-Time Tree and Man Tree. They uproot a petrified stone tree, haul it home across Wasoon Valley, and face a perilous trek as the stone splits, dropping the tree into a vast lake.
A 20 block traffic jam in East Dallas yesterday evening drew five policemen briefly to manage congestion caused by a life size illuminated Nativity scene on H. W. Snowden’s front lawn. Thousands of motorists lined Streets to view the Christmas display.
The Soviet Union announced it will purchase 5.5 million pounds worth of electrical equipment from Britain, about 22.1 million dollars, in a cross border trade deal dated December 13.
Washington dispatch reports economists split on what a dollar is and how profits should be counted. Dr Louis Bean from the Agriculture Department calls economics inexact, while AFL and CIO representatives say prices are gouging buyers. The piece notes rising prices and debates over profit measurements amid congressional inquiry.
Pitts ton Township December report says two story Barry Public School lost all its fire escapes totaling about 60 feet of metal. Police chief Frank Swift hunts them down as a state inspector notes the law requires fire escapes and the board may call a special meeting to replace them.
London reports the death of Admiral Philip Wylie Dumas at his Brockham Surrey home. The World War I expert and naval aide to King George V in 1918 was 80 years old.
In Jerusalem December 13 authorities agreed safe passage for Christian pilgrims across both Jewish and Arab battle lines for the Christmas procession to Bethlehem. Col Moshe Dayan and Col Abdullah El Tel reached the accord under UN observer Col Roger Carleson. Last year the procession was nearly drowned by war preparations and few pilgrims joined.
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