Prairie Dog Moves to Amarillo City Amid Golf Course View
A prairie dog nicknamed Fellow relocates to Amarillo near the Sunset Golf Course, forming a daily routine with J L Gober and facing growing urban hazards. Fellow snacks on vegetables and nuts, but reveals scars from pranksters and keeps wary watch for traffic and trains.
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Globe
Clifford Holt
Fellow
Amarillo
J. L. Gober
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High School
Panhandle
Rock Island
Hayden
J. L
Wages Lost In Strikes Across U S 1945 46
The American Economic Foundation estimates workers lost 998.64 million dollars in wages and 124 million man-days due to 1945 46 strikes. Major stoppages include soft coal miners 145 million wages and 2 billion production costs, and multiple unions with wide tolls in wages, sales, and output.
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New York
American Economic Foundation
Foundation
United Automobile Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
United Steel Workers
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers
Probers Hear Weird Tale of Bilbo Ride
Edward P. Terry former secretary to Senator Bilbo testified that A B Friend warned him last April that he would be killed if he disclosed what he knew about Bilbo. Friend was Bilbo’s war contractor and campaign manager.
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Washington
Edward P. Terry
A. B. Friend
Friend
Terry
Senate
Florida
Mississippi
Ferguson
Michigan Republican
Juniper Grove Baptist Church
Poplarville
Michael T. Morrissey
M. T. Reed
F. T. Newton
Santa Claus
Morrissey
Negro university funds and a bid for admission
Governor Stevenson announced a plan after a bi racial commission urged using statutory funds to support a Negro university. The report favors UT fund income while a Texas court case on Heman Sweatt’s law school admission looms with possible appeal.
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Lvucy
Stevenson
Mark McGee
Fort Forth
University of Texas Permanent School Fund
Sweatt
Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals
State Supreme Court
S. Supreme Court
Archer
Houston
Prairie View University
Levine's Department Store Hosts Amarillo Contract Station 1
The Amarillo post office opens Contract Station No. 1 in Levine's Department Store at 804 Polk with Louis Gold as clerk in charge. Miss Jimmie Haynes assists. the substation handles all mailing needs except bonds and will stay open after Christmas to serve the public. Postal trucks make four to five daily trips to collect parcels and letters.
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Globe
J. Howard Miller
W. D. DeGrassi
Amarillo
Levine
Jimmie Haynes
Louis Gold
United States Post Office
Levine’s
Polk
Levine's
DeGrassi
Chicago barber backs down on eyebrow trim for John L. Lewis
Sidney C. Martin a Chicago barber who had vowed to trim eyebrows if he ever met John L. Lewis faced the coal strike figure in Union Station shop chair No 7. He started to comply but relented after Lewis interrupted and challenged the stunt.
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Chicago
John L. Lewis
Sidney C. Martin
Martin
Union Station
Lewis
Razor
Amarillo Christmas Vacations From Area Schools
Amarillo College students begin Christmas vacation today giving them a head start on shopping. Public schools and St. Marys Academy dismiss Friday afternoon with 15 day breaks for public and St Marys and 16 days for Price College. Dismissal and reconvene dates are listed: Amarillo College Dec 17 to Jan 2, Price College Dec 20 to Jan 7, Public Schools Dec 20 to Jan 6, St Marys Academy Dec 20 to Jan 6.
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Amarillo College
Amarillo
Amarillo Public
St. Mary’s Academy
Price College
Guerrillas Surrender in Northern Greece
Official reports say more than 350 guerrillas surrendered in northern Greece over the last 48 hours. They fled from snowbound mountains where many of their comrades reportedly died from extreme cold and starvation.
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Athens
Greece
CIO Has Strike Notices Ready for 44 Steel Firms
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the CIO United Steelworkers considering 30 day strike notices against 44 major steel firms including Carnegie-Illinois Steel to back wage and demand talks. With contracts expiring Feb 15, notices could be filed around January 15 to pressure negotiations.
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CIO
Pittsburgh
U.P
United Steelworkers
Carnegie-Illinois Steel
Massacre in Chungli and wage talks plus a stolen Ford coach
Shun Pao reports that Chinese Communist troops briefly occupied Chungli and massacred about half of its 2,800 residents, with 400 bodies recovered and 200 in the city church. In labor news, the wage policy committee ponders talks with 44 firms to set a pattern for future bargaining, while CIO unions eye major electrical and auto industries. A 1940 Ford coach was stolen from Roy Baker on Canyon Road.
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Shanghai
U.P
Shun Pao
Kalgan
Chungli
Roy Baker
Canyon Road
Weather overview for Amarillo and West Texas today
The report notes fair skies and mild temperatures with warmer conditions expected Thursday. In West Texas and the Panhandle, clear to partly cloudy skies continue this afternoon and tonight with lows around 20 to 30 degrees. New Mexico sees fair weather today and Thursday with warmth in the eastern portion and a 34 degree high over 24 hours ending 6:30 AM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio
Eagle Pass
New Mexico
Printers Await Word From Union
Amarillo printers threaten walkout as International Typographical Union Local 525 seeks strike sanction from its Indianapolis headquarters. Negotiations over the wage contract expired November 11, with no new talks since the application for strike approval was filed.
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Amarillo
International Typographical Union Local No. 525
Indianapolis
Mrs Truman to Spend Christmas in Missouri with Daughter
The White House announced Mrs. Truman and her daughter Margaret will travel to Independence Missouri for the Christmas holidays. The President plans to join them there likely on Christmas Day with possible Missouri flight plans to follow.
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Washington
U.P
White House
Ten Students Die In Wreck At Newberry South Carolina
Eleven people are killed when a Southern Railroad train hits a crowded high school bus near Newberry South Carolina on December 17. Ten of the dead are students. bus driver Richard Sanders also dies. Dozens are injured and taken to Newberry County Hospital as authorities describe bodies scattered along the railroad right of way and the bus ripped in two. Police and rescue crews work amid shock and requests for blood donations and hot water bottles for the injured.
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Newberry
S. C
Southern Railroad
Ing
Newberry County Hospital
Richard Sanders
Consolidated High School
Silverstreet
Southern
John Livingstone
Man Makes Narrow Escape After Fourth Floor Jump
Hartford Connecticut December 18 William Maddon 22 quarrels with his mother and dives from a fourth floor window. He hits the ground rolls over twice then rises and walks away. Physicians at Hartford Hospital report only slight cuts to his head.
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Hartford, Conn
U.P
William Maddon
Hartford Hospital
Last Chance To Enter Yale Christmas Home Decorating Contest
Tonight is the deadline for the Christmas Home Decorating Contest with $365 in prizes. More than 50 entries have been received. judging begins tomorrow night and continues through Friday night. Winners will be announced in the Sunday News Globe with three prize classes including Homes Over Six Rooms and Under Six Rooms.
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Pearl Harbor
Globe News
Hugh Tolleson
Sunday News Globe
Paes
Gort Pe Ook Nike Wo Ce Ea Cose Ee
Devese Ae
Piret
Primk
Lubbock Sees 19 Degrees as Amarillo Sets Cold Records
Lubbock residents shivered at 19 degrees while Amarillo faced 22 degrees and marked a new seasonal low for the second day in a row. Forecast calls for a 44 degree high today and 26 degree low tonight with a 53 degree high tomorrow as southerly winds push in.
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Lubbock
Amarillo
Texas
Betty Grable Expecting Second Child Next Summer
Hollywood reports actress Betty Grable and husband Harry James expect a second child next summer. They already have daughter Victoria Elizabeth, born in March 1944.
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Hollywood
Betty Grable
Harry James
Victoria Elizabeth
Kremlin Frown Loosened as Neighbors Push Back
An AP analysis notes Iran moves to reclaim Azerbaijan amid waning Russian influence. Turkey pressures subversive elements as Greece’s insurgent groups claim autonomy goals, signaling a broader shift in Kremlin leverage and questions about why policy softens in the UN era.
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Turkey
Istanbul
Russia
Greece
Macedonia
Kremlin
U. N
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