Mean looking trick mule Pancho joins Pate’s stable in Amarillo
Jess Pate, city purchaser, recently acquired Pancho the 700 pound trick mule from the Shrine Circus. Pancho, about 10 years old, is a charmer with a white forequarters and black mane, performing tricks such as cake walking and shaking hands. Pate plans better quarters and keeps Pancho busy daily at the city pound.
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Pancho Villa
Jess Pate
Pancho
Jess
Limestone County
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Shrine Circus
Polack Brothers Circus
Costa Rican student earns architecture degree at Texas Tech
Jorge Padilla, who arrived from Costa Rica with minimal English, completed a five year architecture program at Texas Technological College in Lubbock. He worked throughout to pay his expenses and now returns home to Alajuela. His design for the campus museum was adopted by the college board. He praises Americans and reflects on his education.
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Carr
Costa Rica
Texas
Jorge Padilla
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Padilla
Texas Tech
Jorge
Pafila
Alajuela
Tech
Texans Fightin Mood Reports Rise In Aggravated Assault
In Austin on June 11 1948 the State Department of Public Safety reports a 29 percent rise in aggravated assault in the first quarter versus 1947. Overall crime fell 23.7 percent. Rural aggravated assault up 25.3 percent. urban areas 2500+ down 13.5 percent. Murder and homicide up 53 percent in urban areas but down 27.7 percent in rural areas.
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Austin
State Department of Public Safety
West Texas State College grid team to enlist Navy Reserve
The West Texas State College football team from Canyon will have 25 players sworn into Navy Reserve duty tonight at the US Naval Reserve Training Center at Ninth and Rusk. Gus Miller, the college athletic director, handles the enlistment process.
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US Naval Reserve Training Center
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Rusk
Gus Miller
Five Killed Two Injured in Isle of Man Plane Crash
A Birmingham bound plane with seven aboard was found near a West Coast village on the Isle of Man. Five people died and two were injured. among those aboard were three women, a seven year old child, three other passengers and the pilot. Initial reports did not clarify the pilot’s status.
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Isle of Man
Douglas Idle
Birmingham
Claims We're Eating for The Doctors
Kilgore food expert Paul Sampson urges the Kilgore Rotary Club that most foods harm health. He derides custard, vinegar dressings, and cake as dangerous, links improper eating to gas and heart issues, and urges salads with lemon juice, no baking powder, and sugar reduction. He hopes to live long, citing his grandfather and current vigor at 71.
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William C. Barnard
Associated Press
Paul Sampson
Kilgore
Sampson
Trio Rewarded for Finding Mail Pouch and 235000
AILANIA June 11 Three Stonewall Georgia residents D S Simmons T T Bradberry and Jean Wall each received 500 rewards from the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank for locating a mail pouch containing 235 000 that fell from a train near Stonewall two months earlier. The pouch shipped from Washington to the Federal Reserve Bank in Houston. Additional rewards from postal authorities raised the total to 2700 dollars for the trio.
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Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Stonewall
Atlanta
D. S. Simmons
T. T. Bradberry
Jean Wall
Washington
Federal Reserve Bank
Houston
Houston Taxi Strike Reaches 41st Day Amid Stalled Talks
Houston’s taxicab strike marked its 41st day as operators and union leaders resume “continuous” wage talks. Attorney Charles T. Pritchard Jr. said talks are daily but no agreement yet. About 250 cabs remained idle, with roughly a quarter in service.
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Houston
Charles T. Pritchard
Pritchard
Boy Lived on Borrowed Blood In Kings County Hospital
Louis a 12 year old with Cooleys anemia endures frequent transfusions with blood from his father and strangers. Doctors note Red Cross supplies keep him alive as researchers seek a cure. Louis plans a future in farming and sports while fighting fatigue and recurring hospital stays.
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Louis
Kings County
Cooley
Harvey Gallance
American Red Cross
Brooklyn
France
Unconquered and I Love Trouble Film Lineup
The calendar lists Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard in Unconquered and Donald Duel in I Love Trouble with Fran Spotone and Janet Bia. It also notes March of Time and a cartoon, Esquire program at 7:33 950 PM, plus Budd Abbott and Lou Costello in The Noose Hangs High, a Footlight Show, California Pirbrand with Adrian Booth Pluto Cartoon, and Chapter 1d of The Visit 2. Also Wayne in Mystery Mountain, Noveltoon, and news show starting at 9:00 PM with various features.
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Gary Cooper
Paulette Goddard
Donald Duel
Franspotone
Janet Bia
Esquire
Hanes Hish
Budd Abbot
Lou Costrello
California
Pirebrand
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Booth
Pluto Cartoon
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