Rain Here Is a Drip
Light rain fell over the area with Amarillo at .09 inch bringing monthly total to .30 and yearly total to 25.15 inches, 4.19 inches above normal. More light rain is forecast but not enough to end the dry spell. Temperatures remained mild with yesterday’s high 64 and low 47, while other towns reported varying precipitation.
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Amarillo
Tulsa
Clarendon
Tucumcari
Dalhart
Guymon
Lubbock
Childress
Perryton
Pampan Hangs Self in Jail
Calvin Smith Brumley aged 25 from Pampa hanged himself in Garfield County jail after a driving charge arrest by highway patrols. Identification was by drivers license. He tied a belt around the bed foot and his neck then laid down. Patrol has no further information.
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EMD
Okla
Calvin Smith Brumley
Pampa
Garfield County
Divorce Granted to Mrs Elvana Clark in 1949 Custody Awarded
District Clerk records in Pampa show Elvana Clark obtained a divorce from Calvin Smith Brumley on September 23, 1949 and was awarded custody of their child Phyllis Brumley. The papers were served in Hugoton Kaw. Cal Brumley of Tulsa Herald is not related.
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Brumley
Pampa
Dee Patterson
Elvana Clark
Calvin Smith Brumley
Phyllis Brumley
Hugoton
Kaw
Cal Brumley
Tulsa Herald
Globe News
Market Quotations From Amarillo Merrill Lynch Summary
The Amarillo Merrill Lynch office compiled third hour averages for 30 Industrials at 199.86 up 7, 29 Railroads at 62.64 down .07, and 15 Utilities at 41.24 up .04. A 12:30 New York Stock Market quotation list includes numerous tickers such as Alaska Juneau, Allied Stores, American Airlines, American Can, Bethlehem Steel, Boeing Airplane, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Exxon, General Electric, IBM, Loockheed, Pan Am, Phillips Petroleum, Republic Steel, Texaco, Union Oil, Westinghouse, and many others with varied price changes. the entries reflect broad market activity and individual stock movements as reported by Merrill Lynch in Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
New York
Air Reduction
Movor
Alaska Juneau
Murray Corp
Allegheny
Nash Kelvinez
Allied Stores
Panhand P&r Ti
Allis Chalmers
Paramount Pc
Amer Airlines
J C Penney
Amer Car&Fdy
Penn Pow&Lt
Amer Chain&Éc
Pennsylv RR
Amer Locomot
Pepsi Cola
Amer Power&l
Phelps Dodge
Amer Rad&ss
Philco Corp
Amer Roll Mill
Phillips Petrol
Amer Smelt&r
Pittsby&Bolt
Amer Fd.&St
Plymouth Oil
Amer Stove
Rexall Drug
Arch Top&sf
Reynold Tobb
Avco
Richfield Oil
Baldwin Loco
NatGas
Baltimore
North Pac RR
Barnsdall Oil
Ohio Oil
Bendix Aviata
Oliver Corp
Best. Foods
Packard Motor
Bethlehem Sil
Pan Am Airw
Blaw-Knox
Pan Est
Bliss Co
Natl Gypsum
Boeing
Natl Supply
Bohn Alumnin
Newport Indy
Borden Co
Borg Warner
North Au
Raniff Airway
Bridgeport
Sears Roebuck
Carrier Corp
Seiberling Rb
Case Co
Servel Inc
Caterpiller Tr
Shamrk O&g
Celotex Corp
Sharon Steel
Certainteed Pr
Shell Union Oil
Chesap & Ohio
Simmons Co
Chicago Corp
Sinclair Oil
CM St Paul
Socony Vacm
Chgo Ri&pac
So Amer Gold
Chrysler
Porto Rico Sg
CIT Financial
South Pac RR
Colo Fuel Iron
Southern Co
Columbia G&e
Southern Ry
Columbia Carb
Sparks
Spiegel Inc
Commer Salv
Square D Co
Consol Edison
Stand Brands
Consol Vultee
Stand Gaspid
Continent Bak
Stand Oil Calif
Continent Mot
Stand Oil NJ
Continent Oil
Sil
Spg
Crane Co
Stewart aWrn
Crucible Steel
Stone &Webst
Cuban AmSug
Studebaker
Curtiss Wright
Sunray Oil
Sunshine B
Swift & Co
Deer & Co Symington
del &Hudson
Texas Co
Distillers Corp
Doehler Jarvis
Tex Gulf
Dome Mines
Tex Gulf Sulp 69% Douglas Airer 70%S Tex Pac C&o
Tex Pac Landt
DuPont
Eagle Picher
Tidewater
Eastern Airlin
Erie
United Carbon
General Electrore United Corp
General Tirer
US Pipe &Fdry
Gillette Safety
UCS Rubber
Steel
Ridden Co
Goodall Sans
Walworth Co
Goodyear T& Arren Petro
Graham
Kca
Annecott
Humblerains Gasl
Kaiser Fraser
Lehigh Portid
la Land&Expl
Libby McN&l
Nail Bell Hess
Lockheed Airc
Ws Inc
Star
Pancoastal
Louise &Nash
Pantepec Oil
Mack Trucks
Ryan
Glenn Martin
Solar Aircraft
Sterling Inc
Superior T&d
United Lite
Wentworth M
Montgm Ward
Kansas City Livestock Market Report Summary
Kansas City market notes cattle 200 head calves 100 scattered sales steady. Cows various classes 11.50 to 15.50. Hogs 1200 head active, steady. 180-200 lb hogs 15.50 to 16.00. top 16.00. 230-270 lb hogs 15.00-16.50. sows 12.00-13.50. Sheep 2000, moderate activity. spring lambs 21.25 to 22.50. clipped lambs 21.00. ewes 11.50.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock Market Roundup for Hogs Cattle and calves
Chicago hogs totaling about 15,000 head showed a fairly active market with prices mostly steady to down 25 cents, lighter weights under 230 pounds steady, larger hogs around 14.75 to 16.25 for 180-260 pounds, and cows under 450 pounds at 11.50 to 12.75. Cattle offerings 1,200 with calves 200. choice steers and heifers largely unavailable. bulls up to 25 cents higher, others barely steady. medium to good steers and yearlings 20.80 to 28.00. heifers 19.00 to 24.00. beef cows 15.00 to 16.50. canners 12.50 to 14.50. sausage bulls 19.50 to 21.00. vealers 36.00 and down.
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Chicago
Williams Relieved of Dandruff Torment
Mrs Mary E Williams of Fort Worth Texas praises Baker's Hair Tonic and Lathernist Shampoo for curing dandruff and itchy scalp after trying many products. She reports one application stopped itching and the dandruff vanished, promising full refunds if not delighted.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Mary E. Williams
Flint St
Baker
Baker’s
Bakers
Adv
Man of the year Harold Medina named by editors
Harold Medina named 1949 Man of the Year by Associated Press editors for leading a year-long trial of 11 top US Communists in New York. Highlights include his firm control of disruption by defense counsel and key figures in politics industry science entertainment and labor.
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Sherry Bowen
New York
Associated Press
Harold Medina
Medina
Acheson
United States
Congress
Europe
Berlin
State Department
China
Ford
Murray
CIO
Bush
Carnegie Institution
Carnegie
US Defense
Merton
Kentucky
Siloe
Pinza
South Pacific
Tito Accused by Izvestia Overthrow Plot Exposed
Izvestia in Moscow accuses Yugoslavia's premier marshal Tito of attempting to overthrow Albania's government and claims 900000 Albanians in frontier Yugoslavia districts face wiping out by Tito rule.
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Moscow
Izvestia Today
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Albania
Izvestia
Tito
Rabbinic Talk on Genesis at Temple B'nai Israel
Rabbi Arthur Bluhm speaks tonight at 8 at Temple B'nai Israel on the subject Genesis. Friday evening Sabbath service is open to the public.
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Arthur Bluhm
Temple B’nai Israel
Itinerant Johannesburg Babysitters Targeted by Fraudsters
In Johannesburg itinerant individuals solicit charges by posing as baby sitters offering themselves for a bottle of wine as fee. They hand mothers a photographed image as a guarantee of honesty and integrity to secure identity in case anything is missing or mislaid.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Year’s quirkiest crimes headlined in travel insurers poll
Hartford report highlights odd thefts from 1949 including a $600 haul from a 750 pound New Orleans theater safe and a Kansas City seed and lawn mower caper. Other acts feature nine burglar alarms in Newark 23 alligators in Ocala and 17 manhole covers in Detroit. A pair of locomotives vanished from a California lumber camp and six million aspirin tablets worth 40 thousand dollars were stolen from a Dallas warehouse.
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Hartford
Conn
U.P
Underworld League
New Orleans
Kansas City
Travelers Insurance Companies
Newark
Ocala
Fla
Oakland
Cal
Detroit
St. Thomas
Ont
California
Dallas
Tex
Services Held For Mrs R D Smith
Mr and Mrs T A Cox and child ren 2029 Ong returned from Granbury after funeral services for his mother Mrs S D Smith age 73 who was killed when struck by a car on Monday Dec 19 Final rites were read on Wednesday Dec 21 Mr Cox works as a train dispatcher for the Santa Fe Railway Company
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T. A. Cox
Granbury
S. D. Smith
Immigrant Reception Camps Overcrowding in Israel Reaches New Peak
Overcrowding at Israel's immigrant reception camps hits new records as more arrivals strain facilities. Officials report cramped quarters, limited services, and growing challenges in housing and processing new evacuees and asylum seekers.
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Israel
Amarillo Schools Set to Resume Monday After Holidays
School pupils in Amarillo turn thoughts to returning to their classes after year end holidays. Charlies M. Rogers, superintendent of schools, said inquiries on resumption are already arriving. School will begin Monday Jan 2 at the regular time and Monday will be like any other school day.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Southwestern Bell
Southwestern Division 20
CIO Communications Workers
Federal Conciliation Service
Everett E. Cotter
Frank P. Lonergan
New York
Bell
Amarillo
Charlies M. Rogers
Soviets Claim Record Crop Yields Across Grains and Seeds
The Soviet government announced record crop yields for grain cotton hemp and sunflowers with 64 million more acres planted in 1949 than 1945. The grain harvest was the largest in the USSR's history and described as solving the grain problem.
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Moscow
Soviet Council of Ministers
Soviet Union
Doctor Vindication Hailed Over Mrs Borroto's Death
Dr Sander signs death certificate for Mrs Borroto who died two weeks after hospital admittance. Neighbors recall her severe weight loss from 140 to 80 pounds due to cancer. Death cites carcinoma of the large bowel and liver metastasis.
City Eyes Widening East Tenth Avenue Project
Streets department says the city plans to widen East Tenth Avenue. The notice outlines the major road expansion to ease traffic flow and improve safety, with work slated to begin after right of way acquisitions are completed.
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Tenth Avenue
City Plans Major Street Overhaul Across Several Avenues
City officials authorize bond funded street program improving West Sixth Avenue Washington Street and South Fillmore widening. Paving by state highway with curb and gutter by the city. Drainage work to drain areas near Northwest Texas Hospital with an estimated 150000 dollars. Bond funds redirect current street appropriations to retire bonds and support new paving projects.
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Birmingham Street
Highway Department
West Sixth Avenue
Forest Street
Avondale Street
South Fillmore
State Highway Department
South Fillmore Street
Thirty-Sixth Avenue
Cayon Highway
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Washington Street
Thirteenth
Sixteenth Avenues
Northwest Texas Hospital
West Eighth
West Seventh
West Sixth Avenues
West Third Avenue
Klein
Dr Charles Wolfson Opens General Medical Practice
Dr Charles Wolfson announces the opening of General Medical Practice offices at 605-B Carolina with phone 3-6912 in the Youth Center Blog. Hours are 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 by appointment.
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Carolina
City projects near exhaustion and debt limits in report
Mayor Klein notes city has appropriated 50000 for its share of paying costs with 36000 spent since October 1. He says the new issue stays within the legal bonded indebtedness limit of ten percent of tax values, 11750000, with 4996000 already outstanding, including about two million funded by water and sewer revenues.
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Klein
Water and Sewer Department
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