New Year's Holiday Death Toll Drops From Christmas Peak
The AP reports 401 violent deaths during the New Year holiday period ending Monday, with 253 traffic fatalities, 52 fires, and 95 in miscellaneous accidents. Texas led states with 58 deaths, including 30 traffic fatalities, as weather helped limit highway tolls. A list by state shows fatalities across the country, while the Old Range Rider offers a $100 prize plan for 1950 New Year resolutions judged by a cross section of citizens.
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Stabs Wife Then Commits death by own action
In Clarksville Texas authorities report Mr and Mrs Q W Brookshire found dead at Avery home. Mrs Brookshire 48 died of stab wounds while Brookshire’s body lay in a cistern. Justice of the Peace says he stabbed his wife then hanged himself with weights around his neck. Their 15 year old son Jimmy discovered the bodies after spending the night away. Brookshire recently returned from Wichita Falls state hospital.
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Body Recovered From Ship Channel In Galveston
The body of Lewis Ragusin a 42 year old Port O Connor man was pulled from the Galveston ship channel yesterday. Police said the body showed signs of being in the water for over a week and wharf workers recalled no sighting since Christmas Eve.
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Grandmother Dies After Nightgown Fire in Corpus Christi
Mrs. Anselma Camancho, 80, was burned to death when her match lit her nylon nightgown. A grandson smothered the blaze with a blanket after she screamed, but she died an hour later at the hospital.
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Anselma Camancho
Bankers split on inflation outlook in 1950
Washington report polls U S bankers showing city lenders expect at least three more months of inflation due to government spending and a veterans insurance dividend while rural bankers foresee continued disinflation from falling farm prices. A third anticipate little beyond March and warn wage hikes could hurt the economy.
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Snyder Plans New Airport Near City Limits
Snyder, Jan 3. County commissioners announced plans to begin construction of a new Scurry County airport northwest of the oil-booming city, with construction to start immediately.
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Scurry County
Patients Can Appeal Doctor's Orders Now
Indianaplis reports a new grievance committee of the Indiana State Medical Association will hear patient complaints about medical service and fees. The five past presidents will review evidence and refer cases to county medical societies or the state association for action.
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Five Story Plunge Leaves Him Bruised
Harvey Karl Butsky a 37 year old Detroit tourist fell from a fifth floor window at the Hotel Presidente in Havana on New Year’s Eve. He struck a restaurant roof breaking his fall and sustained only slight injuries. His wife Dorothy Wallace of Arlington Texas was treated for shock.
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City Garbage Dept Catches Up After Holidays
H R Smith city director of public works says the waste department is caught up with work since Christmas. Crews worked overtime to haul away holiday surplus. Two new trucks, ordered two months ago, due mid month after delays from the steel strike.
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One Killed Four Hurt in Collision East of Alvarado
A two car crash on Highway 67 four miles east of Alvarado killed 72 year old C. S. Steward of Alvarado and lightly injured four others. The impact involved Guy B. Huff 50 and Oleta Huff both of Alvarado with Mas and Mrs John Murphy of San Antonio en route home from Dallas Cotton Bowl. All injured were hospitalized.
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Rogers to Attend Austin Meetings
Chas. M. Rogers, superintendent of schools, left yesterday for Austin to attend the Surplus Food Immodities School Lunch Room Association meeting and the School Administrator's Conference tomorrow evening. The following day he will join the Texas State Conference on Teachers' Education and plans to return to Amarillo Saturday.
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Low Ceiling Cited in Plane Crash Killing Fort Bliss Soldiers
A CAA investigator attributed the fatal crash near Lubbock Municipal Airport to a low ceiling. The rented plane carried two Fort Bliss soldiers, James E. Paul of Shawnee Oklahoma, and Fred W. Bennett of Wheatland near Oklahoma City. Weather was unfavorable despite orders from a CAA representative. No mechanical failure was found. The craft crashed into cotton bales, exploded, and burned.
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Storm Warning Issued for Gulf Small Craft Route
The weather bureau posted a Gulf of Mexico small craft warning from Brownsville to Morgan City Louisiana. Hoisted at noon today the advisory foresees southerly winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour this afternoon and tonight with a shift to 25 to 35 miles per hour on Wednesday.
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Famed actor Emil Jannings dies in sleep
Vienna reports Emil Jannings, Hollywood’s first Oscar winner for The Way of All Flesh, died peacefully at 62 in his sleep after a liver cancer illness. He will be buried Friday at St. Wolfgang. a barge will transport his body across Lake Wolfgang from Zinkenbach to the burial site in the American zone. He rose to fame in German cinema, starred in The Street of Sin and Sins of the Fathers, and later returned to Germany as talkies emerged. He reportedly hated Hitler but found renewed success under the Nazi regime before departing to his homeland.
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Rice Stadium Job Picketed
Pickets formed a line around Rice Institute's new 70 000 seat stadium in Houston as Brown & Root used foreign non union labor. The Houston Building Trades Council said the dispute centers on a closed shop demand and aims to continue until an agreement is reached.
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Church Meeting Opens Thursday Panhandle Pentecostal Holiness conference set
The Panhandle district conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church will convene Thursday night at 7 45 at the church on 800 Cleveland and run through Saturday with sessions and special speakers. A Friday youth rally at 7 45 and a Saturday business session led by superintendent J M Lemon. Rev C R Howard says meetings are open to the public.
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J. M. Lemon
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New 1950 Dodge Line To Be Shown By Hedgecoke
Hedgecoke Motor Co announces the 1950 Dodge lineup with 10 body styles and two wheel bases. New features include longer rear fenders larger rear tread, increased rear window area, chrome trim, restyled dash, and optional Gyro Matic transmission. Diplomat model to debut later this month with six interiors including a convertiblelike six seat coupe and traditional Meadowbrook and Wayfarer variants.
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Amarillo Community Chest to honor outgoing officers luncheon
The board of directors of member agencies of the Amarillo Community Chest will sponsor a luncheon on Tuesday January 10 at the YWCA 501 Lincoln to honor outgoing officers of the Chest. The Daily News calendar earlier listed the luncheon for today noon.
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