New Year Celebrations Fill Amarillo With Nightclub and Church Events
All Out for New Year's Welcome Amarillo outlines a busy program of Midnight shows watch parties and religious services tonight. Banks offices and nonessential services close tomorrow while many businesses remain open. Highlights include watch night at Turner Citadel Salvation Army headquarters, services at First Assembly of God and Trinity Lutheran Church, and multiple New Year festivities at local clubs. Radio stations plan all night coverage with special salvos and midnight theater programs at Paramount State Leon Rex and Star Theaters.
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Amarillo
Turner Citadel
Salvation Army
van Buren
Fred Cherb
Assembly of God Church
North East Eighth
Pierce
Trinity Lutheran Church
Tiano
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Manana
Nso
VPW
Eighth
Parker
John Maynard Lor Co
Dallas
Nat
Georgia
North East
Murry
Club Victoria
Avalon Club
Aviatrix
Rainbow Gardens
Terry's Marine Grill
KGNC
KVAI
KFDA
Paramount
State, Leon
Rex
Star
Veil Details In Carpenters Union Cases
Reports from Carpenters Hall last night and this morning offer a partial view of disciplinary actions within the Carpenters union. Kenneth Cox and George Enoch declined to identify charged members, citing internal policy. Named cases involve Ed Boone, Ray Weatherly, and Thomas E Martin, all connected to the Livestock Building at Tri-State Fair Grounds amid ongoing labor tensions.
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Carpenters Hall
West Seventh
National Carpenters Organization
Kenneth Cox
George Enoch
Ed Boone
East Tenth
Ray Weatherly
Thomas E Martin
Osage
Nt Tri-State
Amarillo Builds Stadium At Tri State Fair Park
School board president Dick Bivins says Amarillo's new football stadium will likely be built at Tri State Fair Park with strong public support. A Monday meeting will decide the site, with the public invited to 7:30 pm in the administration offices.
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Amarillo
Dick Bivins
Tri-State Fair Park
Bivins
Johnson
Lawrence Fiagy
Mr. Bivins
Commissioners Court
Shei Atret
John Peterson
Trirt Association
Fair Park
Lawrence Hagg
East Tenth
N. V. Moss
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Grand Avenue
Twenty-seventh
Dallas
Grand
Fair Grounds
East Third
East See
Stadium
Less Whitaker Trio Crime Trail Ends in East Texas
An Amarillo burglary case leads to Tyler where three men Charles Oliver Corn 36, and his brother Jimmy Corn 32 with E O Breshears 53 are jailed on burglary charges. They admit 17 Oklahoma and Texas break ins including Patterson and McClure and a 1941 Ford, with loot valued around 1500 dollars. Authorities say more charges follow as burglaries in Cherokee Cherokee Gregg counties and Anadarko Cement Apache are linked.
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Less Whitaker
Potter County
Sclance
Whitaker
Williama
Amarillo
Tyler
Oklahoma
Texas
Charles Oliver Corn
Old
Jacksonville
Missouri
Jimmy Corn
E. O. Breshears
Smith County
Cherokee County
Gregg County
Turner
J. L. King
Patterson
McClure
West Sixth
Patterson and
Vernon
Anadarko
Cement
Apache
Schell-Munday
Congress Ends Quick Adjourning Session See See Congress Page 2
The 80th Congress adjourned at 1 28 p m CST marking the handover to a Democratic run body. The Senate and House dissolved after minor committee reports extending the Hoover Commission 60 days and a 30 day extension for the small business panel. Senate Democrats prepared to form new leadership as Truman met with party leaders.
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Senate
Congress
House
Truman
Seston
Heines
Hoover Commission
Murray
Montana
Democrats
Cavalcade of 1948 Presented by the Globe
The Globe presents a 30 minute News Parade of 1948 featuring the ten top national stories and the ten top local stories of the year. The program, prepared by United Press editors, airs at 9 30 o clock.
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THE
GLOBE
United Press
Asan
Overpass Talks Set With City and Rock Island Directors
Mayor Lawrence Hagg announced overpass talks will resume next month with city officials and Rock Island Railroad directors for a West Eighth Street overpass. The railroad offered 50 000 to a 200 000 project while the city seeks 97 000 from the railroad. The overpass would span the railroad at West 8th Street.
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Sweeters
Rock Island Railroad
West Eighth
Lawrence Hagg
New York
Chicago
N. V. Moss
Westyth_and
Weather notes for Amarillo region and West Texas
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon and tonight with cooler daytime temperatures. Saturday brings partly cloudy and warmer conditions in Amarillo and West Texas. New Mexico sees light rain and snow in western high elevations with warmer south portions today. Highs around 50 and lows near 21. Meyers Motor Co Chrysler-Pontiac.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Meyers Motor Co
Chrysier
Lynch's Contract Faces School Board
The district discusses the contract of Lynch, head football coach of the Sandies, with school board president Mr. Lynch and Mr. Bivins noting the action mirrors discussions held for other teachers. Lynch’s contract expires this year amid talk of a coaching position in Beaumont after a state finals run.
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Lynch
Howora Uyuen
Rille High School
Disco Board
Bivins
Dick Bivins
Te Sandie
Beaumont
Sandies
Amarillo’s 1948 top news stories set year’s pace
Tragedy dominates Amarillo’s list with a July 15 warehouse fire at Phil Four and ips Petroleum causing over 12,000 dollars in losses and nine deaths. Other items include the Thomas Dinner House fire, the Amarillo Inn blaze, a major vandalism case, juvenile detention efforts, the Golden Sandstorm football bid, Bob Crues’ homer record, and the Wortham lie detector test amid murder cases.
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Nashville
Waco
Bob Crues
Wortham
Major Amarillo stories recap including bank burglary and Brinkley case
A compiled list highlights 1948 Amarillo crimes and trials. Bank burglary nets about 13000 dollars during Christmas. O L Brinkley acquitted in the Brinkley murder case. Other items include the Willmering and Tennyson cases, the Potter County jail escape, and the Freedom Train campaign ranking in a local poll.
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Sheriff's Department
Big Rory
American National Bank
O. L. Brinkley Mutter
Brinkley
O. L. Brinkley
Joseph Michael Getz
Grand Jury
Yestern
Tennyson
Willmering
Jesse P. Tennyson
Mnslay Zouch
Jackson
Fanin
Dick Ruffner
Airborne Post Holes Voted Windiest Story of the Year
Burlington Liars Club, Inc awards L. W. Tupper of Patricia Alberta the top lie for 1948 with a tale of 2000 post holes blown loose by a northwester. Edward S. Krikae of Comstock Nebraska earns honorable mention for a cyclone that lifts a mower and horses, then is cut in two to save a farm.
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Alberta
Canada
Burlington Liars Club, Inc
L. W. Tupper
Patricia
Tupper
Edward S. Krikae
Comstock
Neb
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Moore-Poston
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Phil Darnall
Opera
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East Fifth Street
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San Jacinto Addition
Washington Street
Washington
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Kerlin Research
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Sories
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Come
Florence Begay
Canlon
Freedom Train
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