Editor praises Amarillo service station as town booster
Chas A Guy letters from The Avalanche Journal editor recount a cold morning near Twenty-fourth and Fillmore where a polite station attendant refused payment for air and tire check. He argues courteous local service helps travelers remember a city and urges Rex Baxter and the Chamber of Commerce to share the example widely to boost Amarillo as a welcoming, memorable stop.
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Chas. A. Guy
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Amarillo
Twenty-fourth
Fillmore
Fillmore Station
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
City approves 1.25M street program with overpass
Mayor Gene Klein announced a 1.25 million dollar city street improvement plan including an overpass on West Eighth Avenue, opening Eighth to Line Avenue, and widening major routes. The Rock Island Railroad will share costs for the Eighth Avenue overpass, with telegraphic acceptance sent today. Nine projects total, plus 250,000 for paving and resurfacing. bond election decision to be made by the city commission next Tuesday.
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Gene Klein
Eighth Avenue
Fillmore
Paul Timmons
Rock Island Railroad
Line Avenue
Klein
Fillmore Street
Texas Highway Department
Highway Department
Hayden Street
Western Street
West Eighth Avenue
West Third
Grand Street
Third Avenue
East Tenth Avenue
State Highway Department
Texan car thief halted after six state spree ends in Newton
Jefferson City dispatch reports 27-year-old Robert Douglas Davis of Lamesa Texas, tied to a car theft and bogus check spree across six states, was returned to Newton Iowa to face charges. Deputies say Davis used a stolen Amarillo car to travel to see a girl, then deposited a worthless $800 check to seed further bad checks. Sheriff Barber brought Davis back after he waived extradition.
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Jefferson City
Route 1
Lubbock
Cloud
Amarillo
Davis
Woody Riner
Riner
Ray E. Barber
Newton
Barber
Iowa
Minnesota
Doctor Charged In Mercy Death At Goffstown
In Goffstown New Hampshire a young doctor Dr Herman H Sander is charged with murdering cancer patient Mrs Abbie Barreto by injecting 10 cubic centimeters of air into her veins The charge cites the fatal injection as an act of mercy according to county solicitor officials The doctor sought bail and claimed no malice The case stems from hospital records noting the air injection and a medical referee confirmed the amount described in the charge
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Mercy
Goffstown
Herman H. Sander
Abbie Barreto
William H. Craig
Biron
Sander
Craig
Dr. Sander
Hillsboro County
Borreto
Robert E. Biron
Manchester
Dartmouth College
Alfred Poor
Abbie Borreto
William J. Starr
Two Boys Injured By Car In Amarillo
Two Amarillo youngsters were injured when a car struck them at the 3700 block of East Sixth shortly after 11 AM. Allen Jackson, 6, was hospitalized at Northwest Texas Hospital with injuries. Dennis Jackson, 6, and Gerald Lee Wescoat, 9, were treated for scrapes and a hip cut respectively. Police said William Thomas Pearce, 23, of 610 Bolton, drove west on East Sixth and aided the children.
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Amarillo
East Sixth
Allen Jackson
Frank B. Jackson
Northwest Texas Hospital
Gerald Lee Wescoat
Jackson Child
Blackburn-Shaw Ambulance
Gerald Lee
Dennis
William Thomas Pearce
Bolton
Pearce
Jackson
Serum Tenderizes Steaks on the Hoof
Amherst Mass December 30. Texas cattlemen may soon use a new serum that tenderizes beef on the hoof. Biologist Oscar E Schotte of Amherst College says two years of Texas experiments show the serum works when injected into old cattle just before slaughter.
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Amherst
Mass
U.P
Texas
Amherst College
Oscar E. Schotte
Bond Set at $10,000 for Young in Freeman Slaying
Donald Gene Young charged with murder with malice in the Oct 6 hold up death of Charles Lee Freeman was admitted to bond at $10,000 after a habeas corpus hearing in 47th District Court Judge Henry S Bishop set the bond McCarthy urged lighter penalties citing Dwight Hoskins conviction and 35 year sentence The state noted the Hoskins case suggested harsher outcomes Young remains jailed as bond not yet met The hearing included a Camp Dix request letter and telegram and a Miles City aunt testimony.
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Donald Gene Young
Charles Lee Freeman
47Th District
Henry S. Bishop
Young
George McCarthy
Donald Young
Dwight Hoskins
Hoskins
McCarthy
Paul Gaither
Camp Dix
Camp Kilmer
Freeman
Eunice Young
Miles City
Mont
Onn
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Mostly cloudy today with light rain or drizzle. Warmer today, cooler late Saturday, highs in the 60s. Precipitation around .09 inches. East of Pecos River, cloudy with rain possible, colder in Panhandle and South Plains Saturday. New Mexico eastern counties cloudy today with light rain near the east border. warmer east portion Saturday. Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Amarillo
Satuday
West Texas
Pecos River
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Navy shifts Asiatic power to block spread of Communism
The United States plans a vigorous Asia policy backed by a beefed up Seventh Task Fleet with the aircraft carrier Boxer and two destroyers to the Philippines basin. President Truman and strategists discuss a blueprint, with a possible Formosa mission to aid Chiang Kai-shek as tensions rise over Shanghai approaches and Chinese Nationalist actions.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Far East
Boxer
Philippines
Truman
National Security Council
Mr. Truman
State Department
China
Shanghai
H. J. Isbrandtsen
Isbrandtsen Line
Nationalis
Isbrandtsen
New York
Acheson
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Okinawa
State and
Defense Departments
Knowland
California
Chiang
Asia
Navy
Pacific
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
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Sixteenth Avenue
Doe
Associated Press
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Franklin
George Pia
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