Trains collide near Williams injuring fourteen
Fourteen women passengers were hurt when two Santa Fe trains collided ten miles east of Williams Arizona. Four cars derailed and a locomotive overturned. Service resumed after a temporary track was built. One patient remained in Williams Hospital with a head injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hull
Oklahoma City
J. B. Miller
Mountain View
Okla
A. B. Thompson
Clovis
Virginia Hernandez
Louise Gongora
Dallas
Amarillo Sets Rainfall Records In May Blaze Of Wet Weather
The weather bureau reports Amarillo's May total at 9.81 inches, the wettest month in 59 years, while Claude in Armstrong County recorded 17.63 inches for May, nearing the regional normal. The city also set new May, 24 hour, and monthly precipitation records, with 5.71 inches in a single day between May 15 and 16. Downtown gauge showed .82 inch last night as Claude flooded.
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Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Claude
Here
Armstrong County
Globe-News
Ninth
Harrison
Price War Sparks Happy Bargain Hunt Across NY Stores
New York shops Macy's and Gimbel's launched a price-cutting battle after a Supreme Court ruling loosened retail controls. Shoppers stormed aisles, prices dropped up to 40 percent, and rivals across the city followed the trend while touting free enterprise and heavy discounts. Local store personnel wore boutonnieres to ID customers amid the scramble.
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SFY Ever Evuvferly
New York
Macy’s
Gimbel’s
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Bronx
Macy
Dallas Golfer in Lead
Dallas pro Erwin Hardwicke fired 72 to lead the 31st Texas PGA Tour at Amarillo Country Club as rain washed out yesterday. Open Flight leader Sammy Reynolds posted 71, while Joe Lopez trailed by two in the PGA division with 74. many players remained on the course as the field started 18 holes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monk Owens
Erwin Hardwicke
Dallas
Texas Professional Golfers Association
Amarillo Country Club
Hardwicke
Sammy Reynolds
Wichita Falls
Joe Lopez
Little Ross Rogers
Woodrow Tucker
Cleburne
Marshall
Jimmy Whitcher
J. ©. Hardwicke
Red Bost
San Angelo
Gamewell
Homer Weidner
Gainesville Star Highlights Local Circus Performer Miss Lynch
Miss Margaret Jo Lynch a tight wire artist and goat act assistant for four years with the Gainesville Community Circus discusses her passion. The Texas Power and Light secretary travels with her sister Barbara and mother Mrs Jessie Lynch on the Amarillo leg. Producing clown F E Schmitz, Gainesville auto dealer, oversees clown acts. Two hour show begins at 8 pm at Tri-State Fair Park Pavilion with tickets 1.80 reserved 1.20 general. proceeds aid Crippled Children’s Council and South Amarillo Lions Club Youth Welfare Fund.
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Clobe
Margaret Jo Lynch
Gainesville
Warren Lowry
South
Amarillo
AL Louaillier
Lynch
Texas Power and Light Company
Miss Lynch
Barbara
Jessie Lynch
F. E. Schmitz
Schmitz
Tri-State Fair Park
Newton Drug
Kirk
Cresney Drug
Crippled Children’s Council
South Amarillo Lions Club Youth Welfare Fund
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas Regions
The US Weather Bureau reports considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight, cooler Saturday, and tops around 86 today with a 92 degree high yesterday. Panhandle outlook shows partly cloudy skies with moderate temperatures and thundershowers hindering outdoor activity today and Saturday. West Texas notes partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers today tonight and Saturday, cooler on Saturday. New Mexico also partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers mainly north and east portions.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
West Texas
South Plains
New Mexico
Color Line Erased At Wayland College
Plainview Texas June 1 Wayland College became the first college in Texas to admit Negroes on a non segregated basis. Dr J W Bill Marshall president of the Plainview Baptist school believes there will be no large enrollment of Negroes following the shattering of educational precedents. The race bar was lowered as result of action taken yesterday when a majority of the college board voted in favor of what Dr Marshall described as the Chris
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Plainview
Wayland College
Texas
J. W. “Bill” Marshall
Plainview Baptist School
Marshall
Wayland accepts Annie Taylor Negro instructor admission
The Wayland board voted in a closed session to admit Annie Taylor a 48 year old Negro school teacher from Floydada to take elementary teaching courses. The college noted several prior Negro applications but Taylor is the first to meet the standards.
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Annie Taylor
Floydada
Taylor
Wayland
Marshall
Lee Wayland
Robbery at San Francisco Grocery Gains $80 and Coffee
A young man entered Phillip Ortega's grocery and asked for coffee but left after learning the price. Forty-five minutes later he returned with a .32 caliber pistol and robbed Ortega of $80 and a pound of coffee.
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San Francisco
Phillip Ortega
Ortega
National and American League Baseball Schedule Tonight
National League games include Pittsburgh at New York, Cincinnati at Brooklyn, St. Louis at Philadelphia, and Chicago at Boston. American League matchups are New York at Detroit, Washington at Cleveland, Philadelphia at Chicago, and Boston at St. Louis.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Red Jets Battle US Planes Near Korean Front
Communist jets challenged American air power sweeping 110 miles from the Manchurian border to attack US bombers and fighters. Reds lost three planes, two over Pyongyang, amid broader UN ground gains along the 38th parallel as fronts reported tank and hill advances and a new bridgehead above Seoul.
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Tokyo
Korea
Manchurian
Reds
Pyongyang
United Nations
Fighth
Yanggu
Hwachon
Chorwon
Imijin River
Seoul
WAK
Draft Bill Approved Aims at Universal Military Training
The Senate approved a compromise bill extending the draft and setting groundwork for universal military training. It now moves to the House, lowers the minimum draft age to 18 and adds three months to service required of draftees.
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Washington
Senate
House
Tax deadlock holds Austin conference vote in doubt
The Texas House backed its conferees by a large margin as they reported no accord with Senate counterparts on a multi million dollar tax program, stalling progress in the state capital.
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Austin
U.P
House
Senate
Formosa
State Department
Binger resigns Vassar post cites matriarchy concerns
In a 16 page report to Vassar College trustees Dr. Carl Binger resigns as director of the Mary Conover Mellon Foundation citing a perceived matriarchy at the all female school. He criticizes lack of full time campus psychiatric work and notes 139 of 195 faculty are women with 19 of 27 departments led by women.
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Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
Carl Binger
Mary Conover Mellon
Vassar
Binger
Morris Hadley
Foundation
Tobey
New Hampshire
Republican
State Department
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Acheson
Senate
General MacArthur
Combined
Armed Services and Foreign Relations
Formosa
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Santa Fe
Macy's
US Weather Bureau
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes—Insurance
Truman
Grisis
Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Herbert Morrison
Britain
Henry F. Grady
Mossadeh
Mossadegh
Free World
Grady
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Khuzistan
Red Jets
Bulletin
Argue Formosa
Olver & Wiggins ‘Lumbar, Company
MacArthur
United States
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