City crews clear 78 loads of trash in record effort
Amarillo trash collectors lifted 78 truckloads from alleys yesterday, one more than the previous day as extra men and trucks operated. J Milburn reports 65 garbage container tops sold since yesterday, and the city barn received another load. tops will cost $1. A spraying plan with DDT and a fogging machine is being prepared for better alley conditions by early next week. Residents are asked to cooperate in sorting trash, garbage, and tree trimmings for easier handling.
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J. Milburn
West Fourth
Milburn
Amarillo
Holy Land Retains Jitters Amid Armistice Quiet
An uneasy peace grips Palestine as sirens wail in Tel Aviv and gunfire rings in Jerusalem. The four week armistice and embargo began at midnight as UN mediator Folke Bernadotte seeks a partition solution. Both sides report sporadic clashes, with last minute bombing around Damascus and Latrun amid disputed truce observance.
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Associated Press
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Texas
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Damascus
Latrun
Tel Aviv- Jerusalem
Arab Legion
Trans-Jordarid
Holy City
Teruissiam Eienatch
County Hospital Aid Hopes Receive Boost
County's bid for federal assistance to expand Northwest Texas Hospital gains momentum as Congress passes an appropriation bill to Truman. The county seeks 375000 in federal aid to fund main hospital addition, nurses home, laundry and related facilities per architect estimates.
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Northwest
Texas Hospital
Congress
Truman
Stal
E. Ol Nurses
Guy Carlander
Man Sets Home Afire and Fires at Police in Baytown
A 75-year-old man identified as A. T. Tidman claimed he was mad at the government and started a fire in his Baytown home. He fired a 16 shot small caliber rifle at police and firemen as they responded, narrowly missing several officers. He barricaded himself inside until capture and said pension cuts prompted the act to prevent relatives from obtaining his belongings.
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Baytown
A. T. Tidman
Art Lintleman
Lintleman
Tidman
H. E. McKee
McKee
Hottest Day Forecast Across West Texas
Weather bureau forecasts show the hottest day of the year with highs around 95 degrees this afternoon. The West Texas five day outlook predicts 2 to 5 degrees above normal, with scattered thundershowers mainly Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Amarillo Clarendon report meager rainfall yesterday, while Childress saw 0.03 inches.
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Mercury
P. W. Reynolds
English Field Weather Bureau
West Texas
Amarillo
Clarendon
Childress
Police Chief's Office Takes On Gala Hue
The office of Police Chief Sid Harper is festively decorated as preparations move forward for the Texas Police Association annual convention. Officials report prizes donated by local merchants to boost attendance at business sessions, with 75 prizes already pledged and more expected from attending chiefs.
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Mel
Sid Harper
Texas Police Association
Seismological Observatory Opens at Texas Tech
The new seismological observatory at Texas Tech College is now in operation. Officials say it is the only one of its kind between St. Louis Missouri and Tucson Arizona. In a separate item, Antonio Espinosa de Las Monteros resigns as Mexican ambassador to the United States in Mexico City.
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Lubbock
Texas Tech College
St. Louis
Tucson Ariz
Mexico City
Antonio Espinosa de Las Monteros
United States
Weather update for Samariel o and Vicinity Idaho system
Pale hot conditions persist this afternoon tonight and Saturday with widely scattered thundershowers Saturday afternoon West Texas remains partly cloudy with a few scattered thundershowers Not much temperature change New Mexico reports widely scattered showers and thunderstorms in the north portion today Otherwise fair through Saturday Highs around 94 degrees in the past 24 hours and 62 degrees at noon 85 degrees current precipitation data unavailable remains incomplete
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Samarielo
Texas
New Mexico
DeCourcy Nominated for Ambassadorship
Amaros career man William E DeCourcy chief of the foreign service inspection corps in Washington has been nominated by President Truman as ambassador to Haiti to succeed Harold H Tittmann Jr Tittmann is set for Peru Prentice Cooper resigned DeCourcy is brother to Mrs Estelle Scott and Mrs Ralph Kenniston His career began as a clerk in 1918 and he has served in Europe and South Africa most recently in Naples in the consular service known as Earl DeCourcy in Amarillo
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Amaros
Wanam
DeCourcy
Truman
Foreign Service Inspection Corps
Washington, DC
Haiti
Harold H. Tittmann, Jr
St. Louis
Tittmann
Peru
Prentice Cooper
Estelle Scott
West Eleventh
Ralph Kenniston
Amarillo
Colorado Springs
Denver
South Africa
Cape Ofg Good Hope
Foreign Service
Naples
William E. DeCourcy
Earl DeCourcy
Race for First Wheat Is a Tie in Potter County
Two farmers from Pullman area, Floyd Thomas and John Bichsel, delivered first loads of 1948 wheat to Pullman Wheat Growers elevator. A tie was declared for premium payments of 10 cents per bushel. Loads were wet with moisture about 17% and 13.6%. Harvests averaged roughly 5 bushels per acre on early Triumph beds.
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Pullman
Amarillo
Potter County
Floyd Thomas
John Bichsel
Pullman Wheat Growers, Inc
Thomas
Bichsel
Triumph
Danish Ship Kjobenhavn Sinks After Mine Hit
The Danish passenger ship Kjobenhavn struck a drifting mine in the Kattegat and sank within 10 minutes off the Jutland coast. About 400 to 450 aboard. 125 to 175 missing. Five bodies recovered. 273 survivors counted. Rescue efforts involving Frigga, fishing boats, tanker, and schooner. Authorities warn mine danger may persist for years.
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Copenhagen
Kjobenhavn
Kattegat
Jutland
Aalborg
United Steamship Company
Kiobenhavn
Frigga
Hals
Allborg
Nav
Johannes Petersen
Petersen
Eanea
Two Texans Die in Farm Plane Crash near Earth
In Lamb County near Earth a Piper Cub crashed into a farm combine during takeoff, killing Waldo Drake 27 and Jim Bob Wood 22. Drake held a private license, Wood had over 200 hours. both from Earth. Witnesses cited unusual engine sound as the craft burned, bodies found pinned in the wreckage upside down. The plane had been purchased weeks earlier by Earth Flying Club members.
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Kermit Waters
Childress County
Earth
Welington Hunter Farm
Woods
Earth Flying Club
Drake
Wood
Springlake
House votes to admit homeless Europeans to US
Bulletin from Washington reports the House voted to admit about 202,000 homeless Europeans to the United States over the next two years. The decision opens a wartime era refugee pathway extending through the period, with implementation to follow congressional approval and administration guidelines.
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Washington
House
United States
Taft Attacks Truman in Slanderfest at Philadelphia
Sen. Robert A. Taft blasted President Truman before the Union League in Philadelphia accusing him of aiding totalitarian supporters and discrediting Congress. He decried a centralized bureaucracy and warned of a regimented nation as Truman campaigns for flood control funds and GOP convention jockeying continues with Indiana delegations and Dewey sentiment shaping the race.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Truman
Congress
Union League
Philadelphia
Taft
Institution of
Columbia River
Far West
Dew
Los Angeles
True Men For Trumen
Initial Rose Society Show Opens in Amarillo
Doors opened at 2 pm for the Amarillo Rose Society's first show in the Cry Sal Ballroom at the Herring Hotel. Judges include Mrs. Morris Smith, Mrs. H. C. Zentz, and Mrs. Dean Thomas. A lecture on rose culture will follow at 8 pm. About 25 rose varieties entered. awards honor blue ribbons in arrangement and bloom quality. The Loewenstern gold trophy is awarded, and a public contest names twelve rose varieties with a prize for the top entry.
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W. D. Sides
Crockett
B. V. Blackwell
Harrison
Amarillo
Herting Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Q Vadol Robb
Amarillo Rose Society
Cry Sal
Herring Hotel
Morris Smith
Guyman
Okla
Oklahoma Association of Garden Clubs
H.C. Zentz
Goodwell
Panhandle
Oklahoma Garden Clubs
Dean Thomas
Goodwell Garden Club
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