US to reopen wartime Tripoli Libya air base for Middle East flights
The United States Air Force announced the reopening of the Mellaha air field near Tripoli to service planes bound for the Middle East. Lt Gen Curtis LeMay inspected the field and plans to work with French and British officials as US routes expand toward Greece amid Greek anti guerrilla actions.
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London
United States Air Force
Tripoli
Libya
Mediterranean
Greece
Italy
Air Force
Middle East
Air Transport Command
Karachi
North Africa
Curtis Lemay
Mander
Europe
Tripoli Field
Wiesbaden
Morocco
United States
Athens
Foreign Office
Britain
Mellaha
New Rubber Developed At Borger
Jan. 14 report states GR S rubber from Borger Texas will enter production. Developed from synthetic rubber research, it is produced at very low temperatures between zero and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Two large plants are nearing completion in Borger and Baton Rouge. Early data suggest tread quality may rival natural rubber and could shift market dependence away from price.
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Borger
Tex
Synthetic Rubber
US Office of Rubber Reserve
John P. Coe
US Rubber Co
Chemical Engineers Club of Washington
TS Rubber Co
Copelymer Corp
Baton Rouge
Truman urges labor to back tax cuts and curb inflation
President outlines 1948 goals including 3 percent output gain and jobs for 59 million, calls for higher corporation taxes to finance an individual income tax cut, warns against runaway prices, and presses federal support for education health insurance Social Security. He emphasizes restraint and regulatory measures to sustain growth while avoiding recession.
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Truman
Federa
Parm
Council of Economic Advisers
Women speakers inject a feminine view at Farmers Union meet
Mrs. Frank Overturf Amarillo educational director and Mrs Dora Haines Washington DC REA official brought women’s perspective to Amarillo Texas Farmers Union state convention. They outlined educational efforts short courses and REA electricity network reaching 46 states as the two day event continued with talks by E Huff and R M Boswell among others.
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Frank Overturf
Amarillo
Texas Farmers Union
Dora Haines
Washington, DC
Rural Electrification Administration
Farmers Union
Overturf
The
Farm Union
REA
Haines
E. Huff
National Farmers Union
Farmers Union Insurance Companies
Huff
James G. Patton
Patton
R. M. Boswell
Association of Soil Conservation Supervisors
Protest Against More Highway Liquor Outlets in Potter County
A hearing is set for Monday morning January 19 in Potter County Court on the license application of Mrs. R. C. Gray for a tavern 30 miles east of Amarillo on Route 66. Sheriff Bill Adams protests any new on highways outside Amarillo, noting existing outlets suffice. Gray already holds a beer and wine license for The Iceberg on Highway 287, and the Hi Hat tavern project faces opposition amid prior legal issues at Horseshoe Night Club.
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Bill Adams
Potter County
R. C. Gray
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Highway 66
Ernest O. Northcutt
Frank Woods
Gray
Child Loses Billfold on East Amarillo Bus
Student Bonnie Jo Knotts reports losing a brown billfold on the East Amarillo bus Friday morning. She asks the finder to keep the money and return the billfold, which contains her name and a Christmas gift from her aunt.
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Amarillo
Bonnie Jo Knotts
Quail Season Closes At Sunset Friday
The 1947 48 Texas quail hunting season ends at sunset Friday marking the close of the season according to state game officials.
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Texas
Houston Freezing Weather Hits Area as Temperature Dips
Houston area recorded its first freezing weather of the new year with the thermometer at 29 degrees shortly before 6 this morning. The cold snap marked the season’s first freezing reading for the region.
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Houston
U.P
Amarilloans Recall Singing From California Redwood Tree
Insurance man W H Rainey paid a poll tax in the Amarillo courthouse and met Bowen Cox deputy county clerk. He recalled singing The Eyes of Texas with Cox from a California redwood during a Shrine convention in San Francisco last year. A guide led a tour group to an acoustically perfect spot and nine volunteers joined in.
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W. H. Rainey
Bowen Cox
Cox
Texas
California
Shrine
San Francisco
General Graham remains White House physician
Washington January 14 Brig Gen Wallace H Graham's status as White House physician is unchanged the White House said. Press secretary Charles G Ross said there is no change in General Graham's status amid disclosures he made a profit in commodity speculations to a congressional committee.
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Washington
Wallace H. Graham
White House
Charles G. Ross
Graham
Ross
Workers Clear Wreckage In Fast Texas Rail Crash
In Hughes Springs Texas a work train collided with an extra freight train at a siding. Traffic was to resume today after crews cleared wreckage. Conductor J D Nix of Greenville lost a leg. engineer L A Bray Jr of Greenville sustained minor injuries.
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Hughes Springs
Tex
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
J.D. Nix
Greenville
L. A. Bray, Jr
Film Star Weds In London Registry Office
Film star David Niven and Mrs Hijordis Tersmeden wed at Kensington Registry Office in London. The bride was formerly a Stockholm mannequin and the couple announced the wedding today.
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London
David Niven
Hijordis Tersmeden
Stockholm
Kensington Registry
Markets Kansas City Livestock Report January 14
Kansas City livestock trade slow and bearish with cattle quantities around 5200 and hogs at 4500. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to weak, cows and bulls lower. choice vealers and calves mixed. prices noted for native steers, heifers, cows, and vealers. Chicago follow up shows hogs steady to higher with good batch prices around 28 dollars for 180 to 240 pounds.
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Kansas City
USDA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Cullum and Moore tied to Farm Products Company inquiry
The subcommittee led by Sen. Homer Ferguson probes the Farm Products Company linked to Cullum and Moore. Moore asserts a joint, equal- powers partnership with Cullum with no other officers and notes the firm has been idle since CCC extended to foreign purchases.
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Cullum
Farm Products Company
Moore
Duke Cullum
Commodity Credit Corporation
Thomas
Edith
Edith Thomas
Oklahoma
Agriculture Department
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Cullum-Moore
Capitol Hill
J. B. Hutson
Hutson
CCC
Senate
Survivors of Burned Army Transport Reach Halifax
The Union Victory with 27 survivors from the fire struck Army transport Joseph V. Connolly arrived at Halifax. Twenty four survivors were to be flown to New York and three seriously injured were hospitalized. The 7,176 ton ship was first U S vessel to return World War II dead from Europe.
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Halifax
Union Victory
Joseph V. Connolly
New York
Weer
Connolly
Europe
Weather Warmth Returns to Amarillo this Week
Mr. Winburn reports Amarillo will see fair skies and a rising thermometer. Today's high in the high forties and tomorrow's in the fifties reflect a return to warmer conditions after a recent cold snap. Last night’s low of 17 degrees was the coldest in several days.
J C Penney cow crowned butterfat champion in 365 days
Fore most Royal's Rose, a 3-year-old Guernsey owned by J. C. Penney, is named the world butterfat champion by the American Guernsey Cattle club. The cow produced 994 pounds of butterfat in the 365 days ending yesterday, equal to 1,242 pounds of butter.
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New York
Royal's Rose
Guernsey
J. C. Penney
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Steel production hits Peacetime high in week
New York reports steel output this week reaches a peacetime peak. The Iron Age weekly estimates an annual rate of 89,500,000 tons, signaling strong demand and robust industrial activity.
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New York
Iron Age
National Metalworking Weekly
Italian Banking Strike Ends as Banks Reopen
Italian banks, strike-bound since December 31, reopened on January 14 after a settlement averted a broader nationwide walkout by the Italian General Confederation of Labor. The move ends weeks of disruption and restores normal banking operations.
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Rome
Italian General Confederation of Labor
Amarillo approves long range road plan with belt line and radial streets
The plan outlines a belt line route from North Eighth and Georgia to Grand Avenue and East Tenth Expressway through Amarillo with radial streets including Third Sixth Seventh Eighth Van Buren Tyler Polk Fillmore Buchanan Southwestern Boulevard and Crosstown avenues. The city aims to keep costs down by securing right of way while DeWitt Greer proposes six to eight million dollars for state highway work.
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North Eighth
Georgia
Thirty-sixth
Grand Avenue
Fort Worth
Denver
Ninth Avenue
Roberts Street
Grand
Third Avenue
Eighth
van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Fillmore
Buchanan
Southwestern
Wolflin
Milam
North Third
Fifteenth
Washington
Travis
Western Avenue
Arthur
Ridgemere-Ross
Williams
DeWitt Greer
Greer
Highway Department
Amarillo
Planning and Zoning Commission
Revival of Firecracker Making In Rural China Sparks Debate
A fragment notes a revival of the household industry of making firecrackers in China. It mentions the extensive right of way for a proposed project and hints at tensions between development and traditional practices.
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China
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Farmers’ Union
MR. Tack
Billie Mae Gray
William Gray
Okla
W. A. Gray
W. G. Talbott
Manly
von W Ack
Redwood
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Ner & Beane Prey
Merican Smelt & Ref
Our & Cot
Endix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Aqi Ene Steel
Braniff Airways
Briggs Mig
Budd Mig Herter
Burroughs
Nvestment
Continental Motors
Curtiss Tinental Oil Co
Deere & Co Wright
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
General Motors
Gillette Rager
Attre
Goodye
Chicago Board of
Financial Industrial Fund
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Siness
Deason
Palestine
Damascus
Syria
Ahmed Sharabati
Sharabati
L. C. Pope Distributing CO
Washington &T
Blackburn-Shaw
Piztace
Empire Manufacturing CO
Ara
Arra
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