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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1948
Page
2
A long local column features reader letters and notes on city affairs. Amarillo residents protest taxes and dirt, urge cleanup, praise Judge Gee, and urge civic action. The piece blends humor, public spirited commentary, and letters about grandfathers and car gifts.
The page lists stock market quotations from Merrill Lynch and several firms, plus livestock prices from Kansas area markets. It notes cattle and hog prices, with bids and ranges for steers, heifers, cows, and bulls, and reports on hogs and lambs at Chicago and Omaha markets.
A Lockney Texas appeal describes a fundraising effort for a local leukemia patient. The boy, at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, faces a grim prognosis of three to six months. townspeople have raised about 260 dollars to help with medical bills while donors respond to the crisis.
Mrs Smith recalls a deadly night as a tornado ripped through farms near Needham disrupting travel and flooding roads. The storm cellar collapsed at Shook Thomas’s property, a porch was lost on a new house, and an orchard was blown out. Baby Judy waded through waist high water while neighbors sheltered nearby. The family fled to a neighbor’s house as rains turned dirt roads into streams.
Police recovered a 1947 Dodge sedan stolen from John R. Tropst of 1617 Hughes. The car was found in the yard of Bivins School after being started by wiring around the ignition lock and stolen before noon yesterday.
Marvin Uorusey recently returned from ikl oma and faced two fast trials in 47th District Court. In the forgery case, Riley was convicted and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. He was also tried on robbery by assault for beating and robbing W. R. Ruffner, the night jailer. A second trial on assault with intent to murder followed, linked to the jail break. He was arrested last week at Chickasha, Ohio, and brought back by Sheriff Bill Adams.
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