West shivers as the East swelters in January cold
Across the Panhandle and Oklahoma the night cooled to subzero levels with Dalhart at minus 8, Clayton NM minus 10, and Guymon Oklahoma seven below. Blizzard and ice storms battered the West while the East saw record highs for January. Weather warnings urged cautious travel and citrus belts faced a potential freeze as actives moved toward the Gulf Coast.
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GLOBE
Associated Press
Panhandie
North Pole
Amarillo
Dalhart
Panhandle
Clayton
Tri-State
Guymon
Okla
Tucumcari Boys Die In Fire
Two Tucumcari junior high students Leslie Ray Potts fourteen and Jimmy Don Willis fifteen died from burns in a clubhouse explosion late yesterday morning. Potts died at 3 35 p m and Willis about an hour later In hospital officials said the fiery blast likely involved black powder or TNT found by the boys during a hiking trip. The clubhouse scene near the Potts residence was a neighborhood gathering place. Burial plans for Willis may be in Cleveland Oklahoma where he formerly lived. The Potts family and Willis family survive with relatives in Wichita Kan Shreveport La and Oklahoma.
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Tucumcari
Leslie Ray Potts
Jimmy Don Willis
Doughty Funeral Home
Willis
Cleveland
Okla
Potts
Tucumcari Hospital
Houston Bragg
Potis
D. S. McKinney
Young Potts
Fred B. Potts
Charles Richard
Lillian Akers
Wichita
Kan
R. D. Parker
Shreveport
Dennis Willis
Tumcari
Davie Her
Emma Willis
Oklahoma
US Is Outgrowing Job Opportunities
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer says the United States cannot create enough jobs for a fast-growing population in 1949. He notes 58.7 million employed, 3.49 million unemployed in December, and non-farm job gains offset by farm declines. Labor security funds face strain from rising unemployment payments, with 1949 payments at a record 1.7 billion and 7.5 million beneficiaries.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Census Bureau
Robert C. Goodwin
Labor Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Goodwin
Aide Archer announces run for district attorney post
Branch T Archer Jr first assistant D A in Potter Randall Armstrong counties since Feb 1947 announces candidacy for the 47th Judicial District DA July 22 primary. Loyd King declines re election after two terms and says plans for next year are not definite.
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Branch T. Archer, Jr
47Th Judicial District
Archer
Dist
Loyd King
van Buren
Potter
Randall
Armstrong
Hansford
Amarillo
West Texas High School
Canyon
West Texas State College
University of Texas Law School
Perryton
Evangeline Baker
B. T. Archer
Beverly
Pe Ic
King
Beauford Jester
James G. Lumpkin
Sev
New India’s Leading Figures Visit Amarillo and Borger
Raja Hutheesing, once a lawyer turned politician then journalist, and Krishna Nehru, key Indian figures, speak at Knife and Fork Club in Amarillo tomorrow night. Madam Pandit, India's US ambassador and Gandhi biographer, accompanies them sharing their anti-imperial struggle.
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India
Raja Hutheesing
Krishna Nehru
Amarillo
Knife and Fork Club
Borger
Madam Pandit
United States
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Truman predicts $12,000 average income by 2000
President Truman outlines a vision of a $1 trillion national production by 2000 to lift the real income of the average American family to $12,000 or more. He cites continued growth, right policies, and a program of expanded Social Security, health care, and tax changes, while acknowledging large expenditures and uncertain budget timing.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Union
House
Long-Time Cattleman Ray DeBoice Dies in Amarillo
Ray DeBoice, longtime Panhandle cattleman tied to the Sneed ranch and Joe Sneed estate, died at 10 30 pm at his home 1508 West Thirteenth after a stroke. He ran away from Atlanta as a child to pursue western life in Amarillo and never left the Texas Panhandle, with early work for Western Union and summers spent with his grandfather J R Wheatley in Washington Street.
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Panhandle
Ray DeBoice
Amarillo
Mr. DeBoice
Sneed
Joe Sneed
West Thirteenth
J. R. Wheatley
Washington
Ray Wheatley
Atlanta
the Panhandle
Western Union
Manhood, Clerk in Amarillo and World War I Era Mention
A brief note recalls a man who worked as a Santa Fe clerk in Amarillo, visited Atlanta with his family in 1916, and lived through the World War I period, with a reference to the 1950 Dodge and Hedgecoke Motor Co at 416 West 6th.
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Amarillo
The
Santa Fe
Atlanta
France Ends Coffee Ration Ends Free Sale of Coffee in France
Paris report states France ended coffee rationing as a cabinet decision permits free sale of coffee. The move marks a shift in wartime controls as authorities end rationing in Paris and across the country.
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France
Paris
Beecham Arrives in London Wearing Gigantic Texas Hat
Sir Thomas Beecham, returning from an American tour, debuts a massive white Texas hat aboard the Queen Elizabeth. He vows to parade down Bond Street to show Londoners what a real hat looks like, insisting the Texas headwear is at least 15 to 20 gallons in size. The incident blends Anglo American cultural contrasts as the famed conductor makes a playful splash.
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Southampton
Eng
Thomas Beecham
London
Texas
Bond Street
Beecham
United States
Amarillo Bid For AEC Headquarters Draws Officials
Atomic Energy Commission leaders from Santa Fe, John Macy Jr. and James Hobart, toured Amarillo with Mayor Gene Klein and chamber executives to assess the city as a potential AEC administrative headquarters. They studied schools, churches, parks, housing, and site options, while Amarillo offered to build an office if needed. Other bidders include Santa Fe Albuquerque Denver Trinidad and Colorado Springs.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Santa Fe
AEC
John Macy, Jr
James Hobart
Gene Klein
Herb Budke
Chamber of Commerce
Rex B. Baxter
Amarillo
TWA
Los Alamos
Pavilion Picket Ban Upheld Unconstitutionally Infringes Right to Work
The 108th District Court and Seventh Court of Civil Appeals uphold an injunction against union picketing at the Pavilion livestock barn. The court voids part of the secondary picketing law, finding it conflicts with the Fourteenth Amendment and the anti closed shop right to work statute. Justice Hart notes the picketing aimed to compel discrimination in favor of union members.
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108Th District Court
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
General Labor Union
H. Ira Stephenson
Supreme Court of the United States
Stephenson
Xxx
Asociate
James P. Hart
Hart
District Court
Weather header for Amarillo and West Texas region
The report notes ongoing extreme cold across Amarillo and West Texas with subzero tonight, easing Thursday. It lists highs around 22 today and 56 yesterday morning, with widespread cold and light snow flurries in the Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico remains cold with a southeast wave. temperatures dip to 20s and below in northern mountains. See 1950 Dodge Hedgecoke Motor Co. for details.
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Gulf Coast
Texas
Panhandle
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo
Toda
West Texas
Federal Funds Granted For New Hospital Unit
Potter County gains federal aid for a 1.5 million dollar expansion at Northwest Texas Hospital. A five story medical unit, a hospital laundry, and nurses home expansion are approved with dollar for dollar county bond matching. About 230 beds will be added with possible 300 emergency capacity as plans proceed in Dallas and Amarillo meetings.
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Potter County
Northwest Texas Hospital
Harry Daily
Dallas
State Health Department
Daily
Gene Gordon
Guy Carlander
C. F. Fielden, Jr
William O’connell
O’connell
Dalelas
Amarillo
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