08 Jul 1948
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
1
Eugene Miller a 49 year old former Texas state senator and representative, mortally wounded at his Parker County farm, dies after naming a political enemy as his killer. Police report Miller spoke of threats and a motive linked to his campaign.
Soviet occupation produces new rationing for Berlin with power and transit limits. Western sectors endure reduced electricity to four hours in morning and two in evening. Elevators, street cars, and subsystems to be curtailed. American British and French forces restricted to specific daily windows. The move follows Allied friction as Soviet authorities challenge orders from the American military government.
A fragmented wartime era report shows Negro groups pressing for a robust civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform. They urge action to end lynching mob violence, ban poll taxes, and desegregate armed services, education, and transportation.
McGrath plans talks with Democratic leaders before the convention to keep Roosevelt and others aligned with President Truman. He will meet privately with James Roosevelt and seek to head off efforts to draft Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower has stated he cannot take a nomination.
The Gay Twineties Square Dance Club hosts a night of squares and rounds at the Sports Arena and Pair Grounds to raise money for a high school choir’s trip to New York. Admission is $1 per couple, funds go to cover a $3000 shortfall for the trip, and 82 singers aim to attend Lions International Convention.
A revised schedule delays the Am aria Summer school band concert series to Thursday nights at 8:10 in Sam Houston Park through August 5. Jack Haas, Junior League summer park program director, says the 90 member Clyde One Golden Sandstorm band will perform five times as part of the park music program with no admission charge. The public is invited.
National Labor Relations Board attorneys will seek a court order this afternoon as the miners dispute intensifies. Washington reports indicate the White House says talks between management and labor representatives continue amid the sepsis to theRal a wording unclear in the broadcast.
City auditor I. C. Lilly announced that department heads must submit their budget requests by July 18. The deadline gives Lilly about a month and a half to prepare the budget for the coming fiscal year before it is filed for public inspection starting September 1.
A murder charge with malice is filed against Richard W. Mc Gee 24 formerly of Pampa in the slaying of Allston 42 a Lubbock businessman yesterday afternoon. Mc Gee is the subject of a statewide manhunt after being last seen in Brownfield where he cashed a $10 check under the She Weather name of his mother. Officers traced a telephone call to the bus station but no bus was taken out of Brownfield.
A public notice invites attendance at a reception with details partially garbled. The fragment mentions morning timing and an unspecified gathering, with limited readable names and places. Further context is unreadable.
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