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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1948
Page
7
SPECIAL STAMP WASHINGTON July 20 (UPI) The post office department announced a commemorative stamp will be issued in November to honor the 100th anniversary of Fort Bliss Texas. OKAY TAX HIRE AUSTIN July 20 Austin voters yesterday approved a 45 cent tax increase for schools.
Julia Dean Evans directs Amarillo High School A Cappella Choir in a free public concert at the Municipal Auditorium at 8 p m Proceeds support sending the group to New York City for a Lions International Convention appearance.
City commissioners schedule final reading on a controversial plumbing code amendment after Tuesday talks led by City Manager N V Moss. Appliance dealers plan protests over a rule requiring a second water trap on washers with built in traps.
In Edinburg 20 month old polio triplets, first known trio to contract the disease, are reported doing well in recovery. Fostered girls from a Willacy County farm near Lyford Sebastian were brought to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis clinic where paralysis is not evident.
John Barrymore Jr aged 16 arrives in Los Angeles after a vacation with Dr John Vruwink and Dolores Costello. Police detained him at the Missing Persons Bureau at the request of his stepfather. He says he missed California and plans acting after graduation.
Houston July 20 three more persons indicted for offering sulphite treated meat as fresh. Morris Cohen of Keystone Packing Company named in two indictments. W M Thomas Piggy Wiggly market manager and William Emerson Emerson Meat Company named in one indictment each.
Senator Tom Connally plans return to Washington today after attending the funeral of his cousin Dr. H F Connally secretary of the state board of medical examiners who died Friday in Waco Texas near the city.
An ad claims INNER AID with 12 herbs cleanses bowels and organs, ending headaches pimples and rheumatic pain. It asserts dramatic personal transformation and urges purchase at drug stores.
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Kindred Leftwich were held at 3 30 p m Tuesday in Texico Methodist Church with burial in Farwell Cemetery. She died in Las Vegas New Mexico after living with her son since her husband C H Leftwichs death in 1924. A broken hip from a June fall led to a blood clot that caused her death. The Leftwich family moved from Amarillo to Farwell then Las Vegas where she lived with Jimmie Leftwich. She was a member of the Christian Church.
LONGVIEW July 20. Mer ritt Gibson of Longview leads the Texas states rights group says it was the Democrats who bolted in Philadelphia not us. He returned from the Dixiecrat convention in Birmingham where Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright were named as presidential and vice presidential nominees. The will of Texas should be decided in a second primary on presidential electors pledged to Truman and Barkley or to other electors.
Mrs Prances Schwan of 1916 Van Buren takes a month long trip to California visiting relatives in Los Angeles Long Beach and Santa Monica. She is affiliated with the Franklin Serum Company.
The phrase Siamese twins originated with Chang and Eng born in 1811 in Meklong Siam. The two brothers were joined at the chest and later became famous as a pair associated with Siam.
The Alamo Broadcasting Company operators of Station KABC and Bexar County District Attorney William N Hensley faced a $50 000 libel suit filed in 73rd District Court by state senate candidate W E Red Berry The suit centers on a July 15 political broadcast alleged as libelous and slanderous.
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