Parents of 3 youths aid police in theft cases
Amarillo police traced at least 25 thrill thefts and burglaries to three local schoolboys ages 15 17 and 18. Detectives credit parental cooperation for recovering goods and identifying losses from vehicles trucks and stores. Charges pending while police continue to investigate motive described as the thrill of theft.
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Amarillo
J. L. King
Jewel Food Company
North Osage
Will Martin
Mississippi
Hayden
F. M. Brasley
Hughes
Brasley
Hal Scarbrough
Washington
C. E. Mitchell
City Hall
Sid Harper
Captain King
Truman asks Congress for 11 billion defense budget
President Truman proposed an 11 025 billion defense budget for the year starting July 1 emphasizing more military aircraft and universal military training. Republicans criticized the plan as extravagant and beyond the nation's means with Styles Bridges leading the attack in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Styles Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
New Hampshire
Bridges
John Sparkman
Alabama
Air Force
Navy
Train Hits Plains Creamery Truck Injuring Two Men
Two Plains Creamery employees, Eugene Doyle Hazelwood and Floyd Miller Cason, were critically injured when their milk truck was struck by an east bound freight at Folsom Switch opposite English Field. The truck was demolished, and both men were rushed to St. Anthony's Hospital.
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Globe
Santa Fe
English Field
Plains Creamery
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Ray Ellison
Potter County
Folsom
Eugene Doyle Hazelwood
Pantex
Hazelwood
Cason
St. Anthony's Hospital
Blackburn-Shaw
Truman budget calls for big power, reclamation in southwest
President Truman urged Congress to build additional power transmission in the southwest with a 3 180 000 appropriation for the Southwestern Power Administration. He proposed raising rural electrification funds to 300 million and a 240 661 000 reclamation program for the next fiscal year with detailed project allocations.
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Washington
West
Southwest
Truman
Congress
Southwestern
Southwestern Power Administration
Surplus Forecast in New Budget by President Truman
President Truman sent Congress a record peacetime budget of 39.67 billion dollars. He forecast a 7.48 billion dollar surplus for the year ending June 30 and a two year total of 12.29 billion as he warned against tax cuts and lower revenue. He stressed war costs and international duties while outlining defense, Marshall Plan, social security, health insurance, and flood control boosts.
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Truman
Congress
Treasury
United States
Republican Congress
Europe
Senate
House
Marshall
National Defense
Air Force
Army
Navy
Niasion
Ike’s Mind Unchanged on Politics Says Army Chief
Washington dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks states Eisenhower has not altered his stance about avoiding politics. Texas City notes tanker Pan-American sails with first heating fuel shipment since refinery workers walked off Jan 1.
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Ike
Washington
Army
Floyd L. Parks
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Texas City
Pan-American
Galveston Bay
New York City
Pan-American Refining Company
State official Bayne Satterfield dies in Austin
Austin honors 58 year old Bayne Satterfield longtime state firemen pension commissioner who served eight years and died at his home early today.
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Austin
H. Bayne Satterfield
Mrs Fay Killough Dies at 37 in Amarillo Hospital
Mrs Fay Killough 37 wife of Panhandle rancher Alvis Killough died at 3 45 this morning in St Anthony s Hospital after a lingering stomach illness She was born in Hereford April 10 1910 and lived in Amarillo since 1917 A graduate of Amarillo High School she attended Stephens College She married in August 1929 and was active in the Amarillo Junior League Surviving are her husband a daughter Nell 17 her mother three sisters and three brothers Funeral arrangements are handled by Boxwell Brothers.
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Pay Killough
Alvis Killough
St. Anthony's Hospital
Killough
Panhandle
Amarillo
John Satterstrom
R. E. Watson
Houston
Cecil O'Brien
Pete O’brien
John O'Brien
Boxwell Brothers
Poll tax receipts rise as sales surge
Frank Hoyt the tax collector said sales are picking up with 226 receipts sold Saturday morning. The total since Oct 1 stands at about 5 500 receipts, signaling growing collection activity.
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Frank Hoyt
Grand jury to probe St Louis food prices milk costs
Attorney General Clark ordered a federal grand jury investigation into the food industry in St Louis. The panel will probe production distribution and high prices of milk in the St Louis metropolitan area.
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Washington
Clark
St. Louis
Justice Department
Robbins wins news tip contest with scaffold accident tip
W T Robbins of 1307 B Herman wins $5 for providing the best tip about a scaffold accident at a Sixth and Polk construction site where two men worked on a breaking scaffold and only one man was slightly injured. Second prize goes to Mrs. O S Craig for tipping about Donald O Connor performing on a Chicago radio program.
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W. T. Robbins
Herman
Robbins
Globe
Sixth
Polk
O. S. Craig
Buchanan
Donald O'Connor
Amarillo
Chicago
Bowie
Fire on Joseph V. Connolly Triggers Lifeboat Search
Coast Guard reports planes sight lifeboats after the Army transport Joseph V. Connolly caught fire and crew of 45 plus one passenger abandoned ship 900 miles east of New York. Morrison B. Waite reached last position but did not find lifeboats or wreckage amid 40 mph winds and showers. The ship carried about five thousand empty caskets en route to Antwerp. radio went out after fire spread.
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New York
Joseph V. Connolly
Europe
Antwerp
Coast Guard
Morrison B. Waite
Connolly
Waite
W York
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and colder this afternoon tonight and Tuesday. Lows around 20. West Texas partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with cold conditions. Low 20 to 28 in the Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico partly cloudy northeast with scattered snow flurries in the northeastern mountains this afternoon and tonight then fair Tuesday. Highs around 67, 25 at noon, 42 at 6:30 AM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Truman Says He Doesn’t Care Who Wins Election
In Pawtucket Rhode Island Sen. J Howard McGrath quoted President Truman as saying he does not care who is president again. He added Truman would be happy if his day brings the peace Roosevelt fought for and brotherly love he sought, remarks made at a testimonial dinner for Mayor Ambrose J McCoy.
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Truman
White House
J. Howard McGrath
Democratic National Committee
McGrath
United States
Franklin Roosevelt
Ambrose J. McCoy
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