Charge Man In Hold-Up In Victory Theater
Eugene F E McMillan unemployed cook faces robbery by assault charges after a knife incident at the Victory Theater candy stand on Polk with $33.75 taken. A patrolman arrested him in the theater lobby as victim Charles Benefiel reported the threat and demand. Detectives say McMillan, 34, gave address 508 North Van Buren and recent return from Lubbock, with brief work at a local drive-in.
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Cook
McMillan
Charles Benefiel
Victory Theater
Polk
Benefiel
Bonita Wilkinson
J. L. King
North van Buren
King
Lubbock
Condition of two children still critical after Bushland underpass crash
Two children from the Elkins family remain in critical condition at Northwest Texas Hospital after a Saturday night crash that killed four. Rupert Nations, 11, and Jeanette Elkins, 3 months, are listed in critical condition. Mrs. Faye Elkins and Bill Campbell of Concord, Cal. are reported in good condition. Others injured have been discharged.
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Bushland
Northwest Texas Hospital
Rupert Nations
Jeanette Elkins
Faye Elkins
Bill Campbell
Concord
Cal
Elkins
Campbell
Oscar G. Nations, Sr
Oscar G. Nations, Jr
Nations
San Francisco
Lindsay
Permit Issued for Eight-Room Brick Veneer House
The city engineering department issued a building permit today for an eight room two story brick veneer residence at 3005 Ong with an attached garage. W A McCarty received the permit and L J Vogel holds the construction contract for the $28,000 project. Also approved today were permits for two five room brick veneer houses in the U Anchor Addition for the U Anchor Development Company at 1551 and 1560 Parr, each costing $7,750.
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Ong
City Engineering Department
W. A. McCarty
L. J. Vogel
Uanchor
Uanchor Development Company
Injures Shoulder In Fall on Ice
FE. P. Franklin, 62, of 823 Lipscomb, slipped on ice at Ninth and Polk after stepping from a bus. Taken to Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital by Boxwell Brothers ambulance, doctors report the shoulder not broken, with an X-ray planned.
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FE. P. Franklin
Lipscomb
Ninth and
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Franklin
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Boxwell Brothers
Unload Pipe for Water Department Expansion
City water department crews unloaded two carloads of cast iron pipe for expansion and improvement of the water distribution system. The pipe arrives under a contract recently awarded to United States Pipe and Foundry Company.
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City Water Department
US Pipe & Foundry Company
Plains Trailer Sales Ad Highlights Used Trailers
In 26-30 and 33 ft with bath. Eight bedrooms and a picture window. Eight good used trailers from 18 to 33 ft priced from 875 dollars. We take furniture. Low down payments. Plains Trailer Sales, 2 miles east of city limits on N. 8th and Highway 66. Phone 5526. P. O. Box 5156.
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Epee
Canyon Road
Spartan
Dailey
FT. Schulz
Birge
Dumas
Classified Fragments Include Cars and Help Wanted
Mixed ad snippets list a 40 Plymouth Coupe trade in with car details and location. Other lines seek two survey collectors for an old life insurance debit service with salary and commission terms. Also mentions a Bendix washer sale and a job call at a residence, with several addresses and phone numbers.
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Jordan Drive Inn
Pri
N. Johnson
Apey
West 10Th
Bendix
Monroe
Surgeons graft donated skin on burned girl's body
Eight year old Susan Latonick received a major operation at Binghamton City Hospital with 288 square inches of donated skin grafted to her burned torso. Six volunteers provided skin after 70 percent of her body burned when clothing caught fire from a gas stove on Thanksgiving Day. doctors call the procedure life saving and say she can live a normal life with further plastic surgery.
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Susan Latonick
Nils Nordstrom, Jr
Susan
Binghamton City Hospital
Texas
Nordstrom
Senator Johnson sends infant care pamphlet to Colorado father
Colorado resident Mark Harris replies angrily to Senator Edwin C. Johnson after receiving a government Infant Care pamphlet mailed from a defunct Military Affairs Committee envelope. Harris insists Congress has no business with his six week old daughter and demands the addressee be removed from the committee.
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Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Mark Harris
Englewood
Colo
Harrises
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Harris
Congress
Committee On
Burned Out Residents Receive Aid from Red Cross
Twelve residents made homeless by a fire at 1801 Buchanan are aided by Potter County Red Cross with food, rent, clothing, and bedding plus a $2,500 national disaster grant. Mrs. Ruth Smith reports relief for five families and notes housing secured for victims of both fires.
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Potter County
Red Cross
Ruth Smith
National Red Cross Disaster Fund
North-East Seventh
Dangerous man Rutledge faces appeal in Iowa case
Prosecutors call Dr. Robert C. Rutledge a most dangerous man as they file a lengthy answer to his Iowa Supreme Court appeal. Convicted May 28, 1949, of killing Byron C. Hattman, the St. Louis baby specialist was tracked from St. Louis to a Cedar Rapids hotel room. The reply argues the appeal is absurd and that any trial error favored leniency. Rutledge, living in Houston, remains free on a 40000 appeal bond after a year in prison.
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Des Moines
Iowa
U.P
Robert C. Rutledge
St. Louis
State Supreme Court
Rutledge
Byron C. Hattman
Hattman
Cedar Rapids
Robert L. Larson
Don Hise
Linn County
William Crissman
Crissman
Don Elderkin
Houston
May Name Dam for General Walker
TEMPLE Jan 3 The head of the state American Legion suggests the Belton Dam on the Leon River be named after Gen Walton H Walker a Belton native killed in a jeep accident in Korea State Legion Commander Bill Elkins wired US Senators Connally and Johnson and Rep Poage urging the project be named Walker Dam as a fitting tribute to his memory.
Filipinos Eye Red Menace
In Manila President Elpidio Quirino told an emergency council meeting that the United Nations defense line is moving farther south toward the Philippines and warned of growing communist aggression in Asia. Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo warned World War III could break out soon, especially if Russia deems the moment ripe or the United States conducts preventive war against Red China or Russia.
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Elpidio Quirino
Council of State
United Nations “Defense Line
Philippines
Korea
Carlos Romulo
United Nations General Assembly
Romulo
Russia
United States
Red China
Reds Cracking Wallace Says
Henry A Wallace warned at a Brooklyn Jewish Center forum that world Communism is cracking but will not collapse without a shove from enlightened capitalism. He said the movement will fall only when Communists and the common man see exploitation by a Russian privileged class, and the West proves it can lead the march into constructive channels. He also predicted a future China Russia split as Chinese dislike Russians more than other whites.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
Brooklyn Jewish Center Forum
Russia
Wallace
Progressive Party
United Nations
Korea
China
Stratocruiser Lands on Belly at London Airport
A Pan American Stratocruiser named Washington Clipper belly landed at London airport after wheel collapse and wing tip impact as it touched down. No passengers aboard. nine crew unharmed. Fire crews and ambulances stood by, but incident deemed non serious. The craft had previously landed at Hurn due to snow on London runways.
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London
Washington
Hurn
England
Expert on Russia Called to Capital
Paris dispatch reports Charles E. Bohlen minister at the US Embassy and a top Russia expert is called to Washington to confer with Secretary Acheson and other leaders on a US reply to a Soviet note proposing a four power meeting of foreign ministers.
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Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
Russia
Washington
Acheson
New Cake Server With Serrated Steel Blade
A fresh kitchen tool features a long stainless steel blade with a serrated edge to cut cakes while keeping their texture fluffy. The handle is a durable molded hard rubber for a sturdy grip.
Weather outlookadds warmth after snow blitz
The forecast calls for fair skies and milder temperatures tonight with increasing clouds and a warmer day tomorrow. A new cold air mass may drop lows in the Panhandle tomorrow night, but no precipitation is expected. Highs near 52 and lows around 2a are projected. snow cover is melting as conditions improve. Local reports show scattered moisture amounts across towns and varying snow depths from Lubbock to Tucumcari.
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Amarillo Air Terminal
Watts
Panhandle
J. M. Harris
Highway Department
Amarillo
Pampa
Perryton
Harris
Guymon
Okla
Gage
Hobart
Childress
Tucumcari
Dalhart
Suit filed for disability claim in Amarillo court
T. H. Howard filed a suit in 108th District Court against Security Mutual Casualty Company of Illinois seeking disability compensation. Howard alleges a fall on August 28 while employed by Swift & Company in Amarillo. He asks for 401 weeks of compensation at $25 weekly.
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108Th District
The
Security Mutual Casualty Company of
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Howard
Swift & Company
Amarillo
Smoldering wood triggers fire call at Nunn Building
A charred piece of wood wedged in a radiator vanes in the Nunn Building at Fifth and Polk smoke this morning. Firemen located it quickly with no flame or damage reported. G. D. Bowie, building agent, stated there was no further risk.
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Nunn
Fifth and Polk
G. D. Bowie
Execution halted for fifth time in Pickett case
Huntsville January 3 Ben Pickett 35 scheduled to die for rape faced another stay about two hours before execution. Governor’s office confirmed stay granted on Pardons Board recommendation citing new evidence appeals. Board member Lyle Harris said hearings in Austin next Monday. Pickett convicted of raping a 54 year old Houston woman in November 1948.
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Ben Pickett
Pickett
Austin
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Lyle C. Harris
Liberty County
Harris County
Harris
Houston
Rites Pending For Mrs. Wanda Donley
Funeral arrangements are being planned for Wanda Donley who died yesterday at her home 616 Cleveland age 24 after a long illness She was a member of the First Baptist Church Survivors include her husband John L Donley a Santa Fe railway employee her parents Mr and Mrs W H Dendy Amarillo a daughter Gloria Jean and three brothers Billy Barney and Roger Dendy all of Amarillo Funeral arrangements will be announced by N S Griggs & Sons Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
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First Baptist Church
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Santa Fe Railway
W. H. Dendy
Amarillo
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Billy
Barney
Roger Dendy
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Walter Rogers Is Sworn In To House Seat In Texas
Walter Rogers of Pampa was sworn in as a member of the House, solidifying the Texas delegation as Democratic. He succeeds Ben Guill, the lone Republican elected from Texas in two decades, after a brief term filled by a prior vacancy. Four of his six children attended on the floor, with his wife and friends in the gallery.
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Washington
Walter Rogers
Pampa
House
Texas
Congress
Rogers
Ben Guill
Guill
Eugene Worley
US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
John
Walter, Jr
Susan
Tommy
Robert
Mary Catherine
Frying and simmering yams a quarter inch slices
Peel and cut yams lengthwise into quarter inch slices. Brown both sides in hot fat. Reduce heat and cook slowly until tender throughout.
Rubber Tree Is Improved for Rubber Production
Rubber growers in the American tropics produce an artificial three way bud grafted tree that reaches 8 feet tall versus 60 feet for normal trees. It yields well, resists blight with a tough crown and leaves, and offers a new source of natural rubber despite leaf blight challenges.
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Mexico City
American Tropics
Cattle Smuggling From Holland Boosts Belgian Prices
The Hague reports cattle smuggled from Holland into Belgium fetch an extra 50 to 100 dollars per head, signaling cross border trafficking boosting local markets.
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Belgium
Hague
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