OPA Extension Won After Senate House Pact Vote
Congress approves a one year extension of wartime price controls by 255 to 94 vote and sends the bill to President Truman for signature before midnight. The measure gives Agriculture Secretary Anderson veto power over OPA orders and authority to green light meat slaughter and interstate sales under sanitary conditions.
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Washington
OPA
Congress
House
Senate House
White House
Truman
Kansas City
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary
First National Hikes Capital in Amarillo Bank
Virgil Patterson, president, announced changes in the capital structure of The First National Bank of Amarillo effective the day of the announcement. Capital rose from 500 900 to 560 000 via stock dividends, surplus jumped from 159 000 to 350 000, total capital and surplus now 910 000, with undivided profits and reserves over 350 000. Deposits exceeded 27 009 000, signaling healthy regional growth and the bank’s ability to handle more business.
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Virgil Patterson
First National Bank of
Amarillo
First National
Patterson
Dollar Day Brings Amarillo Shoppers Aglow For Independence Week
Shoppers in Amarillo face a grand Fourth as Dollar Day hits tomorrow with merchants offering numerous specials and clearance prices on vacation needs. The Sunday News Globe lists help ensure safe and sane shopping with printed advertisements for the event.
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Amarillo
Sunday News Globe
Imogene Stevens Pleads Not Guilty in Slaying Case
In New Canaan Connecticut on June 30 Imogene Stevens a 24 year old Texas girl appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to a charge connected with the pistol slaying of a Norwalk sailor. Bail was set at 50000 and the case is slated for the September term with trial likely in October.
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Imogene Stevens
New Canaan
Conn
Texas
Loren Willis
David Goldstein
Bridgeport
Stevens
Albert Kavacs
Norwalk
Maj
George R. Stevens
Paula
Carl Punderburg
Amarillo
Funderburg
Imogene
Mrs. Stevens
Georgie
J. 0. Dumas
Albert Kovacs
Truman Returns to Capital For Fateful Month
President Truman ends homecoming in Kansas City and plans to fly to Washington to submit the United Nations Charter to the Senate. He will meet Churchill and Stalin near Berlin for peace preliminaries as Europe charts a postwar course.
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Kansas City
Truman
Washington
Senate
Winston Chuchill
Marshal Stalin
Berlin
Europe
Yalta
Grandview
Marthe Truman
Independence
White House
Margaret
D. W. Wallace
Fairfax
Kaw
Truck Strike Halts New York Sunday Paper Delivery
In New York a truck strike by unionized delivery workers led to only a trickle of Sunday newspapers on city streets. Most drivers, claiming illness, did not report for work hours before a midnight strike. The union, claiming 2,000 members, had called the action affecting the five major Sunday papers with a usual circulation of 7.7 million.
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New York
Overseas Group Arrives at Camp Hood from Persian Gulf
The 346th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company arrives at Camp Hood after redeployment training. It is the first overseas unit to reach the post before transfer to the war against Japan.
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Camp Hood
346Th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company
Persian Gulf Command
Japan
Postmaster General picks and potential department reorganization
Speculation swirls as new postmaster general takes office tomorrow with Clinton P. Anderson Lewis B. Schwellenbach Tom C. Clark and Robert E Hannegan joining the administration. Byrnes may reorganize the State Department relying on William L Clayton and Bernard M Baruch.
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Clinton P. Anderson
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Tom C. Clark
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Byrnes
State Department
William L. Clayton
Bernard M Baruch
Roosevelt
Tri State Rodeo Opens With Record Crowd In Amarillo
The four day Tri-State Rodeo opens today at the fair grounds with a projected record crowd and a 2 PM show. About a hundred cowboys expected to participate. Sammy Baugh joins roping contests today with Euel Smith as Monday night feature.
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Tri-State Fairgrounds
Chamber of Commerce
Lynn Beutler
Sammy Baugh
Euel Smith
Clovis
N. M
Texas
Hell
Baugh
Owen Brazee
Raton
Sunny Nichols
Amarillo
John Lindsey
Hoyt Hefner
Wichita Falls
Reger Sisters
Woodward
Okla
Coyotes Trapped on Texas Tech Campus
Texas Technological College officials announced a government trapper has captured four coyotes on the 2,008 acre campus in Lubbock marking the only campus in America with active coyote trapping. Business Manager W. T. Gaston noted the size of the campus as among the nation’s largest. Pittsburgh Paints at Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co. 1200 W. 6th.
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Lubbock
Texas Technological College
America
W. T. Gaston
Tech
Pittsburgh Paints
Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co
Allied Fleet Bombards Balikpapan as Invasion Prep Rapidly Rezones
Allied and Japanese radio sources report heavy bombardment of Balikpapan in southeastern Borneo with a 50-ship sea force off the port and extensive air strikes. American air forces say 2200 tons of bombs dropped over 16 days. Japanese claims of invasion remain unconfirmed. US and Allied ground actions in Luzon and Formosa raids continue, with ships and aircraft targeting oil facilities, ports, and manufacturing sites across the region.
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Associated Press
Balikpapan
Borneo
Tokyo Radio
U. S
MacArthur
Balikapapan
Balika Papan
Formosa
Shanghai
Canton
China
Indo-China
Radio Tokyo
Lichow
United States
Japan
Okinawa
Amarillo Encourages Bond Purchases to Meet E Bond Quota
Potter County residents are urged to buy 184000 dollars in Series E War Bonds this week to hit the 2300000 dollar E Bond quota. County total so far stands at 1866652 dollars as national drive reports show wartime bond sales soaring beyond goals.
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Porter County
Guy Saunders
War Finance Committee
Narroll
Pottar
Federal Reserve Bank
Potter County
United Press
Washington
Treasury
C. D. Hoover
Lubbock
Amarillo
Braniff Airways
Mexico City
Hollywood
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The Weather Bureau reports fair conditions for Amarillo and vicinity with scattered afternoon cloudiness. West Texas will be partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with varying temperatures. record highs and lows noted, including yesterday's maximum 93 and minimum 65, and 24 hour precipitation of 0.27 inches ending at 4 PM. Sunrise at 6:36 AM, sunset 9:05 PM.
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Amarillo
Texas
Cadens Bull AM
Paris Radio Sets Big Three Date
Paris radio reports the Big Three meeting will open on July 9 in or near Berlin. The statement places the gathering in the near future amid Allied diplomacy.
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Paris
London
Berlin
Postwar economic charter outlined by Vinson
Washington June 30 Fred M. Vinson outlined a postwar economic charter stressing high wages lower taxes and public works He warned of rapid declines in munitions output followed by unemployment and called for raising the national minimum wage and expanding old age and unemployment benefits The plan also foresees a heavy air campaign against Japan with up to 10000 tons of bombs daily Autry Studio comment referenced.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Office of War Mobilization and
OWMA
Congress
Germany
Texans Increase Taxes on Cigarettes Liquor and Beer in June
A June report to the Texas state treasury shows higher revenue from cigarettes liquor and beer than a year earlier Cigarette taxes topped 1.097 million up 92 521 over June 1944 Liquor taxes brought in 815 132 up 273 341 and beer taxes 275 806 up 37 871 reflecting increased consumption across the state.
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Austin
Leaflets From Heaven Advertise San Jacinto Church
Leaflets floated to Amarillo late yesterday afternoon not from a Jap paper balloon but from a commercial aircraft. The handbills advertise religious activity of the San Jacinto Methodist Church.
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Amarillo
San Jacinto
Goodyear Plant Strikers Drafted Amid National Idle Count
Government crackdowns on striking Goodyear Tire workers in Akron Ohio followed by a record drop in idle workers to 34 000 nationwide Ohio Governor Lausche ordered immediate induction of 16 700 eligible Goodyear strikers War Labor Board threatened to revoke contract rights if work did not resume Chairman George Taylor said orders on maintenance check up shift premiums and vacations would be reviewed Detroit idle at 700 nearly vanished from the strike picture as 24 000 idle workers in the nation on June 19 rose to more than 91 000 by last Thursday
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Associated Press
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Selective Service
Goodyear
War Labor Board
Washington
George Taylor
Detroit
Shift of Troops In Reich Opens Paris Boundaries
Paris reports Allied commanders plan a staged troop realignment in Germany with British American and French forces moving toward final occupation zones by July 4. Berlin will be jointly occupied by Allied forces alongside the Soviet presence, with tentative boundaries historically outlined and subject to rapid completion.
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Paris
Russia
Germany
Berlin
United States
Ceremany
Luebeck
Elbe
Thuringia
U. S. 82Nd Airborne Division
Ministry of Information
Rheins
Saar
Rhenish Palatinate
Baden
Wurtemburg
Bavaria
Vorarlberg
Austria
France
Reich
Weimar
Coblenz
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James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Byrne
George Miltons
Kovacs
T. E. Steiber
Milton
Major Stevens
George
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Edward R. Stettinius
United Nations Organization
Cordell Hull
Chicago
Missourian
Spartanburg
Warm Springs
Labor
Coyote
Miri
Luzon
Baggao
Cagayan Province
Bolog
Montoc
Hokkaido
Kete
Navy Department
Tokyo
Okinoerabu Island
Kyushu
Nippon
U. S. 20Th Air Force
Kudumatsu
Honshu Island
Nimitz
Army Thunderbolts
Yellow Sea
S Weather Bureau
Autry
Draft Goodyear Plant
Russell Staty
Supreme Headquarters
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