Texas Faces Deep Freeze As Snow Berths Roads
The 1946 end brings a Texas-wide cold snap with ice glazed highways and snow blocking routes from Pecos to Alpine. A fatal crash near Marlin claims Bradley C. Linthicum, 35, as patrols monitor slick lines. Dallas Fort Worth tangle snarled by icy streets and grounded air travel. Temperatures dip to near zero at Guadalupe Pass while states from Gulf coast to Panhandle endure gusty wet weather and widespread lows.
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Associated Press
Texas
Highway Department
Marlin
Bradley C. Linthicum
Linthicum
Pecos
van Horn
State Department of Public Safety
Public Safety
Homer Garrison
Guadalupe Pass
el Paso
State Highway Patrol
Joe Fletcher
Dallas
Fort Worth
Snowblanket Hits Texas Across Wide Region
Snow and icy roads spread from Dallas to Panhandle towns with several inches in Midland and Odessa and drifting snow in Southwest Texas cattlelands. Ranchers welcomed potential forage, while highways and interurbans faced slowdowns and closures from Fort Worth to Texarkana. Thousands delayed travel as freezing rain and sleet coated streets and bridges.
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Brownwood
Vernon
Midland
Texas
Wichita Falls
Hillsboro
Abilene-Pecos
Fort Worth
San Marcos
Highway Department
East Texas
Greenville
Mercury
Laredo
Odessa
Abilene
Sherman
Denton
Alto
Paris
Waco
Tyler
Marshall
Texarkana
Lufkin
Amarillo Sees Cold Spell With Subfreezing Temps
Amarillo and the Panhandle are the bright spot in Texas as extreme cold continues. The forecast calls for a third straight day below freezing with a low near 1 degree and a high around 29. A Lone Star gas pipeline explosion forced curtailments in Corsicana and other plants.
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Bonham
Corsicana
R. S. Reading
City Folk Prepare for New Year Festivities in Amarillo
Amarillo plans a busy New Year Eve with night club acts, films such as The Jolson Story and The Strange Woman, and stage shows at local theaters. Banks and offices close. postal services reduced. precinct officers sworn in at 1600 hours. Watch-night services listed for Polk Street Methodist Trinity Lutheran Amarillo Bible Bethel Missionary Baptist.
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Hubert Cole
Court House
Aviatrix
Amarillo Hotel
Rainbow Gardens
Amarillo Country Club
Amarillo
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
Nib Nolen
Paramount
Jolson
Larry Parks
Evelyn Keyes
al Jolson
Hedy Lamarr
Leon Theater
Jinx Falkenburg
Dave O’brien
Rex Theater
al Hesson
Rhythm Rangers
Texas Theater
Tornight
Texas Rangers
John Howard
Ellen Drew
Ernest Tubb
Grand Ole Opry Gang
Municipal Auditorium
Hanson Post No. 54
American Legion
Sol Levine
Jack Hayes
Polk Street Methodist Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Amarillo Bible Church
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Frank Peery
R. R. Young
Pampa
Education boards reshuffled by Texas governor
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson announced new terms and replacements on state education boards. Vernon D. Singleton will join the State Board of Education replacing Mace Stewart. Austin Long and Phil M. Stevenson re joined. Reappointments to the Texas State College for Women board include Mrs. Edwin T. Phillips and S. B. Whittenburg, with W. B. Hamblen named to succeed George S. Barron. Appointments take effect in January. further vacancies at A. and M. College and state teachers colleges remain to be filled.
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Houston
George S. Barron
Yoakum
Board of Education
Texas Women's College Board
Stevenson
A. & M. College
Board of Regents
State Welfare Board
Eighteen Wartime Laws Cleared From Statutes
President Truman ended the wartime period by proclaiming hostilities over at noon and wiping 18 emergency laws from the books while setting 33 others to expire in six months. He warned Congress to decide which emergency powers to keep or drop as peacetime begins.
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Washington
Congress
Mr. Truman
Army
Navy
War and Navy Departments
Pentagon
War Department
Truman
Combined Chiefs of Staffs
Wiley
Wisconsin
Senate
Charge Youth With Car Theft After Northwest Amarillo Chase
Bernard Newlin, held in the county jail under a $1,000 bond, is charged with car theft linked to a Sunday pursuit through Northwest Amarillo. Talmadge Murphy, 21, sought by police, left St Anthony's Hospital without notifying staff or officers after the crash. the stolen vehicle, from Auto Supply Co., was chased by Fitzpatrick and Sanders before overturning at North Hughes and North West Third.
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Bernard Newlin
Amarillo
Justice of the Peace
J. D. Cazzell
Talmadge Murphy
St. Anthony’s
William Fitzpatrick
Automotive Supply Company
Tyler
Fitzpatrick
R. L. Sanders
North Hughes
North West Third
Talmadge
Newlin
California
Amarillo Area Weather Clears Some With Cold Start
Mostly cloudy and continued cold today and tonight. Wednesday brings decreasing clouds and slightly warmer temperatures. The 24 hour high to 6:30 A M was 31 degrees with a low of 10 degrees.
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Pampa
Lubbock
Amarillo
Abilene
Big Spring
Wink
Wichita Falls
Rock Springs
Junction
Salt Falls
Texarkana
Waco
Austin
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Beaumont
Houston
Laredo
el Paso
Tyler
Dallas
Gainesville
Father spanks teen girl to sobriety in Boise
Boise police along with several officers responded to a drunken 17-year-old girl. The father was summoned and spanked her to sobriety while officers looked on and cheered. The incident occurred in Boise on December 31.
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Boise
Idaho
Truman Won’t Recommend General Tax Cut
White House sources say President Truman does not plan to propose a broad income tax reduction in the new Congress. He believes revenue must stay high to pay the national debt and that the public should pay taxes while times are good. Some reports of targeted relief for lower brackets are viewed skeptically due to potential billions in cost.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Texan Adjudged Biggest Liar by Burlington Club
Atanacio Garza of San Antonio won the world champion liar title for 1946 at the Burlington Liars' Club in Wisconsin. His Texas fishing tale about a stubborn fish captivated judges and earned him top honors among hundreds of entries.
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Burlington
Wis
Liars’ Club
Atanacio Garza
San Antonio
Garza
Groves Retires as Manhattan Project Chief Tonight
Maj. Gen. Leslie B. Groves, head of the Manhattan district for atomic energy and bomb work, retires from active duty with a formal transfer of the engineering district to the new Atomic Energy Commission to occur at midnight. He will be relieved of all project responsibilities.
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Washington
Leslie B. Groves
Army
Manhattan
New
Atomic Energy Commission
Groves
Success Desk Calendars in Various Sizes by Russell Staty
Russell Staty offers success desk calendars in multiple sizes through Russell Staty Co at 611 Taylor. Phone 2-1257 for orders and inquiries.
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Russell Staty. Co
Taylor
Eisenhower Said to Ready to Run If People Want Him
The Times-Herald reported Eisenhower, during holidays on a Miami fishing trip, said he would run for president in 1948 if the people want him to run. He spoke informally to unnamed friends. the article notes no identities.
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Washington
The
Times-Herald
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Miami
Demos Will Give Bilbo Clean Bill as Senate Move Looms
Democratic members of the special campaign investigating committee plan to tell the Senate no reason to bar Theodore Bilbo. Ellender Maybank and Thomas prepare a majority report. Bridges and Hickenlooper weigh minority stance as the panel meets. A separate note reports Bolivian tin producers withholding deliveries to the United States pending a new sales contract.
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Washington
Ellender
Louisiana
Special Campaign Investigating Committee
Senate
Theodore G. Wills
Davy Alvitl
Bilgo
Mississippi
Maybank
South Carolina
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Bilbo
Iowa
LA Paz
Bolivia
Eduardo Saenz Garcia
United States
OPA Status The Same
OPA legal experts say Truman’s termination of hostilities would not end remaining price and rationing roles. They note Congress must act to abolish sugar rationing rent control or price controls. The current price control act expires June 30 1947 unless Congress extends. Sugar rationing under the second war powers act expires March 31 unless extended by Congress.
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Washington
OPA
Truman
Congress
Nation's Tax Bill Reduced
President Truman's proclamation ending hostilities may automatically trim the 1947 tax bill by about 700 million dollars. Excises on liquor clothing furs jewelry and other items will be cut effective July 11. Liquor drops from 9 to 6 a proof gallon with further reductions on many consumer levies.
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Truman
Mr. Truman
Washington
Colin F. Stam
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
Congress
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