Shrine Hospital Survey Sought by Khiva Temple
Mrs. Gertrude Follendorf of San Francisco, head of Shrine nurses, was invited to Amarillo to survey hospital needs for crippled children. Bill Gilstrap announced Kendrick Fund plans to raise funds and Shriners Hospitals approved Khiva’s mission. The survey, spanning several states, would gauge area population and service reach.
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Gertrude Follendorf
San Francisco
Shrine Nurses
Amarillo Territory
Bill Gilstrap
Khiva Kendrick Fund
Perry Powell
Khiva Temple
Los Angeles
Board of Trustees
Shriners Hospitals For Crippled Children
Khiva
Gilstrap
Amarillo
Los
Angeles
Man Expresses Gratitude Moments After Exchange
A brief remark of thanks closed a rapid sequence of events as Mack replied. Earlier, less than two hours before, the situation unfolded with swift developments and prompt responses.
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Mack
Accused Killer Surrenders to Walter Winchell in New York
Benedetto Macri, 37, charged with the murder of union organizer William Sarge, turned himself in at a Manhattan police station after meeting on a secret lead with radio columnist Walter Winchell. Winchell, citing a prior pattern, claimed Macri agreed to surrender and named the Damon Runyan Cancer Fund as beneficiary of a $25,000 AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union reward.
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Walter Winchell
New York
Benedetto Macri
Winchell
William
Macri
Hattan
Amarillo
Great Plains
Mack
John “Scarface
Giusto
Damon Runyan
AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Surge
Louis “Lepke
Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing
See Winchell
Church Burglars Take New Amplifying System Last Night
North East Eighth and Pierce area church reported burglars entered through a north window stealing an amplifier and about 400 dollars from the church office after ransacking papers and books. Pastor Rev. E. R. Foster noted prior safe breaks, with no secure storage since then. A similar break at San Jacinto Methodist Church on West Sixth last Wednesday yielded 62 dollars.
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Les Mae
Wou Lunuren
North East Eighth
Pierce
E. R. Foster
San Jacinto Methodist Church
West Sixth
FHA Service Office Meets Builder Need
Amarillo gains an FHA service office as E. T. Stearns establishes operations led by C. P. Atwood. The Amarillo unit will process loan applications locally for 27 Panhandle counties, speeding cost estimates and appraisals and saving four to six days in FHA guarantees. The Lubbock office has a similar conversion to a service office.
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Amarillo
E. T. Stearns
Fort Worth
FHA
C. P. Atwood
Federal Building
Mr. Stearns
Amar
Weather brings heavy showers across plains with fires and wind
Storms drenched the High Plains with scattered showers and strong winds. In Amarillo downtown .15 inch moisture was recorded while the airport site logged .02. Lightning struck a North West Sixth Street pole and a Rock Island section house sparking a fire. volunteers shut off wiring. Vega and Perryton reported significant electrical activity and rainfall, with winds up to 50 mph. Several towns logged moisture totals from .16 to .80 inches as cooler, thundershowers move in tonight and a warmer, partly cloudy outlook for tomorrow.
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High Plains
Amarillo
Amarillo Air Terminal
North West Sixth
Polk
Tyler
Canyon
Canyon Highway
Russell Bowles
Four Corners
Dumas
T. B. Morgan
Mansfield Ranch
Vega
H. C. Winburn
Ivan Lovett
Perryton
Borger
Sanford
Claude
Clayton
Guymon
Okla
Hereford
Panhandle
Spearman
Stratford
Grover
Miami
Boise City
Winburn
Bookie gang leader pleads guilty to gambling charges
Frank Erickson, 54, head of a coast to coast bookmaker empire, pleads guilty to 60 counts including conspiracy and bookmaking. District Attorney Hogan seeks the stiffest sentence after a raid on his Park Avenue offices and a Senate subcommittee admission of a $12.5 million annual operation.
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New York
Frank Erickson
Pudgy
Special Sessions Court
Frank Hogan
Erickson
Sol Gelb
Nathan B. Perlman
Gelb
Hogan
Kson
Park Avenue
Senate
D A Posse s Legal Club in Will Case
In Pampa June 19 Dist Atty Tom Braly said extradition of defendants in the Mattie A Sebuts for g ory case will proceed as rapidly as possible but gave no action date. At least three of six defendants plan to fight extradition including Oklahoma State Sen Orval Grim and Lester B Thomas and I L Padgett. Grim posted fugitive bond after indictments by Lipscomb County grand jury. Clyde Grim bonded $5000 after appearing before District Judge Lewis M Goodrich. Vivian Guthrie and Samuel Roscoe Guthrie also indicted and contacted by Lee Will Case Page 6
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis County
Okla
Lipscomb County
Clyde Grim
Higgins
Lewis M. Goodrich
Vivian Guthrie
Edgewood
Samuel Roscoe
Ross” Guthrie
Cherryvale
Kan
Lipscomb Grand Jury
Lee Will Case
Atomic Board Is Renominated
President Truman renominated four current Atomic Energy Commission members Sumner Pike Gordon Dean Thomas Murray and Henry Smyth for new terms. Pike would lead as acting chairman until a permanent chair is chosen. Debate persists on a fifth member and permanent chairman.
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Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Sumner T. Pike
Maine
Gordon Dean
California
Thomas Murray
New York
Henry DeWolff Smyth
New Jersey
White House
Pike
Dean
Murray
Neighborly Way To Win 50 Prize In Amarillo
Four new Amarillo families will receive 50 dollars each during Get Acquainted Week starting June 25. The News-Globe awards 200 dollars total to four good neighbors who visit newcomers and pass the reward to the first two adults who call on them and explain Amarillo’s advantages. Mason King will know the addresses and deliver the funds Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
News-Globe
Mason King
Negroes Win School Suit Across Districts in Texas
The Texas case from Euless held that the district must provide and maintain public school facilities and education for resident Negro students substantially equal to white students. Trustees cannot close the Negro school or transfer all Negro students to Fort Worth. The ruling signals a statewide significance as a test pattern for about 1,165 districts in Texas and four other Southern states.
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Euless
Euless Board
Fort Worth Independent
Fort Worth
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Texas
Sergeant's Dog Plays Him False
In Battle Creek Michigan on June 19 Master Sgt Ervin C Wilder criticized a dog for taking his GI plates from his desk. The sergeant complained he is tired of soup as the dog trots away with the metal.
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Battle Creek
Mich
U.P
Ervin C. Wilder
Wilder
Mrs B C Chambers Wins News Tip Prize
Mrs B C Chambers wins $5 first prize in Globe News weekly News Tip contest after a swarm of bees chased her from the kitchen. J McCrary will receive $3 for a tip about a man falling from a window amid a local crime serial. other prizes awarded for various tips from numerous residents.
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B. C. Chambers
Chambers
East Fifteenth
Globe News
Petty
J. McCrary
Lincoln
Richard Johnson
North Cleveland
Franklin R. Farley
Tyler
Bill Neubauer
West Thirteenth
Johnson
North Cleve
Aubrey Fowler
Ala
Paul Harle
West Sixth
Ben Lane
Lipscomb
Patsy Saunders
Ong
M. S. Wise
North Polk
Billy Charles Sherrill
North West Fifth
Sally Ann Thomas
North McMasters
Ella Dye
Jackson
George S. M
North Harrison
R Waldrop
North Haves
Building permits top $1,200,000 for June
June building permit totals rose past $1.2 million with $1,188,175 by Saturday close and $9,750,000 for the year, surpassing last year’s August 1 figure. A $15,000 residence permit at 1019 Bowie issued to Dewey A. Hicks helped push the total over the threshold, with several smaller permits issued today.
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Bowie
Dewey A. Hicks
Chiang's Planes Raid Red Shipping
Nationalist Chinese warplanes attacked the Communist mainland coast, setting fire to two steamers and leaving a third capsizing. One ship loaded with Red troops was hit at the Min River mouth near Foochow Fujiang waters swarmed with swimming troops as the vessel listed.
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Taipei
Min River
Foochow
Fukien
Weather Bureau Forecast for Plains and Southwest
The Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy and warmer conditions with a high near 86 and a low around 62. Expect clear to partly cloudy skies today tonight and Tuesday with scattered thundershowers in the Panhandle South Plains and Pecos Valley moving eastward late today or tonight. New Mexico shows widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers Tuesday with generally fair and warm conditions.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Portheart
Candidates for County Offices Draw for Ballot Slots Tonight
Potter County holds 8 oclock ballot drawing at the county courtroom led by chairman Charles C. Gibson with fees to be assessed for campaign costs ahead of the July 22 filing deadline. Candidates surged with new names in county treasurer and other posts as the primary nears, including W. D. DeGrassi Ted Blackburn Janie Hodges Mike Thomas and Fred Short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Rasco
Potter County
Executive Committee
Charles C. Gibson
W. D. DeGrassi
Amarillo
Ted Blackburn
Janie Hodges
L. D. Heyser
Mike Thomas
Fred Shor
Bond Issue Up To Dallas Voters
Taxpayers vote tomorrow on a 14800000 bond issue to expand and improve Dallas water system. Mayor Wallace H. Savage urges approval as a necessity to avoid a water shortage in 1951.
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Dallas
Wallace H. Savage
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Salt Lake City
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Colorado
Arizona
Kansas
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Lubbock
Globe Staff
Toby
W. B. Mason, Jr
Nancy McGee
Cline
D. A. Posses Legal Club
Atomic Board
Neely-Greenhil-Lowndes
Olver & Wiggins Lbr. Co
West
Chiang
Red
US Weather Bureau
Justice of Peace
Short
Commissioners Court
Gen Jordan
Gideon
Cies
Pleasant Valley
Phil Almquist
C. B. Howard
W. M
Bill” Adams
Mark Galloway
Cas Johnson
Less Whitaker
Earl C. Cayton
J. L. Carter
Harry D. Bramblett
Harry E. Warren
Charles C. “Buck” Lowe
H. T. Simmons
H. Grady Wilson
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