Old Tack challenges critics over Amarillo population signs
In Amarillo disputes erupt over city population figures as Old Tack installs signs claiming 90,162 residents while highway department markers show the 1940 census of 51,656. Proponents cite new meter-based counts and recent growth. skeptics argue a tighter estimate closer to 90,000 remains unproven.
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Globe
Highway Department
James Lott
Fhe
Highway” Department
Bo Mr. Tack
Bull
Routhwestern Public Service Company
Feivoo
Gilstrap
Amarillo
Mr. Gilstrap
Lois Keith
North
Aldredge
Highway 66
Jess Rogers
Dallas-Fort Worth
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Federal Bureau of Census
Rillo
Fiery Death Flung On Boy In Pampa
John Hardy Manry eleven years old died after his clothing saturated with gasoline ignited while a jar of fuel was tossed near him. His brother Claude Odell also burned. both transported to Worley Hospital where John Hardy died at 10 30 last night. Father C E Manry said a neighbor and an unidentified man beat out the flames. Funeral services not yet set.
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Manry
Hunt
John Hardy
Clegg
Malcolm Wyatt
Wyatt
Claude Odell
Manrys
Dwight
Pampa
Jimmy Earl
Jack Arthur
Ernest Rocky
Doris Ione
Lydia Key
H. M.morris
Notes Results in War on Speeding Special Ni
City officials announce a wartime style drive against speeding in the last week of June. Police and traffic investigators record patrols, issuing citations and warnings to drivers along major avenues. Residents report mixed reactions as enforcement intensifies.
Columbia Receding Flood Crisis Wanes
Portland reports the Columbia River falling slowly ending a two week Pacific Northwest flood disaster. About 100000 people evacuated, 28 killed or drowned, and damages estimated at 80000000 across four states and British Columbia. River levels eased from 302 to 300 feet at Vancouver as the Willamette backwater decreased records show.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia
Pacific Northwest
States
British Columbia
Vancouver
Car Hits House Injures Rider at Fillmore Address
One person was taken to St Anthonys Hospital after a car struck the house at 1908 Fillmore around 12:30 PM. Jack Murff, 35, received emergency treatment for abrasions. Mrs J C Winn, occupant of the house, described a hard impact and damage including a broken pillar and a severely shaken well.
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St. Anhhony’s Hospital
Fillmore
Jack Murff
Abra- Sons
Murff
Plains Hotel
East Tenn
J. C. Winn
Noose for Nazi doctors landsberg executions mark war crimes
Seven German doctors and SS officers died on American gallows in Landsberg after conviction for brutal Nazi concentration camp experiments. Victims included camp inmates who endured high altitude, mustard gas, and sterilization tests. Gen Karl Brandt led the group, asserting Americans would not hang him. A second note mentions a mock B 29 attack by SAC at Andrews Field as part of postwar operations.
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Landsberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Howe Agriculture Committee
Soil Conservation
Washington Am
Supreme Court
Karl Brandt
Brandt
Hitler
Uneels
Taylor
Andrews Field
Selfridge Field
Strategic Air Command
Army Air Force bill advances in House for next year
Washington June 2 A second peacetime Army Air Force appropriation bill clears the House and goes to the Senate. The measure provides 6,509,939,000 for the two services for the new fiscal year beginning July 1 with a 346 to 2 vote. Opponents were Reps. Marcantonio and Isacson of the American Labor Party.
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House
Senate
Marcantonio
Isacson
American Labor Party
New York
Navy
Air Force
Appropriations Committee
United States
Mediterranean
Soviet Union
Europe
Adm
Louis F. Denfield
Naval Operations
Kearsage
Norfolk
Denfield
Germany
Trieste
Greece
Turkey
Marine Corps
Omar N. Bradley
Army Staff
Bulletin Delays Lewis Decision On Bargaining Order
Justice T Alan Goldsborough postponed a ruling until Friday on whether to compel John L Lewis to bargain with the Southern Coal Producers Association. The report notes the delay comes as the high court weighs the coal industry dispute.
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Lewis
Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Bovee Aeerey
White House Efforts Fail in Railroad Settlement Talks
In a prolonged dispute over pay and working rules, President Truman’s seizure of the railroads and a court order aimed to avert a threatened May 1 strike. Steelman, unions, and railroad management pursued talks with no clear agreement, while union leaders considered a picket of the President’s train if no deal by Thursday night.
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Robertson
Steelman
White House
Truman
A. J. Glover
Alvanley Johnston
Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Steel
Switcha
Chicago
West Coast
Glover
Radio
Amarilio
Sporadic Fighting Continues in Jerusalem and Palestine
Sporadic fighting persisted today in Jerusalem and other Palestine areas as UN peace talks stalled. Arab nations accepted UN armistice terms with explanations, asserting no lasting peace while Israel exists, while Israel held to assumptions including continued immigration of fighting age. The Arab reply left unclear if acceptance depended on UN agreement to their conditions.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
United Nations
Israel
Holy Land
Middleton 68 Dies. Amarillo Resident Funeral Pending
Drue L Middleton 68 died at Washington Center after a long illness. He lived in Amarillo 36 years, formerly with Magnolia Petroleum and later Santa Fe Railway. Survived by daughter Mrs G Ray Smith, son Clarence Middleton, six sisters and two brothers. Funeral arrangements are pending at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
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Drue L. Middleton
Washington Center
Forest
Middleton
Ada
Okla
John
W. Middleton
San Saba
Dodge City
Amarillo
Magnolia ¥ Petroleum Company
Beame
Santa
Norman
Lethe Barber
Boston
Johnnie Middleton
Miami
Alvin Middleton
Comanche
Oklo
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Weather Summary Amarillo and West Texas Notes
Weather report for Amarillo and vicinity: partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon tonight and Thursday with highs near 89 and a low around 58. West Texas remains partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in the Panhandle South Plains and upper Pecos Valley westward and little temperature change. Includes brief local commercial line about Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance and Jona Maynard Lor Co at 900 W. 5th.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos ‘Valley
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes-Insurance
Feee Jona Maynard Lor. Co
Sth
Houston Horse Meat Link Exposed to City Schools
Houston residents face a shocking horse meat scandal as a Houston Press exposé reveals horse meat fed to students in public school cafeterias. J M Sullenger of Select Meat Co claims up to 15 percent of city meat comes from a condemned plant and stresses widespread distribution through wholesalers and retailers.
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Houston Press
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Sullenger
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Grand Jury
Ballenger
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