City Chooses Route for Highway 66 Reopening
City and Potter County officials indicate tentative plan to keep US 66 on North East Eighth and extend it west to join the current route near Veterans Hospital. Mayor Lee Hagy says county, state, and federal funds will finance the project with right of way from property owners along North East Eighth and North West Eighth avenues.
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Hagy
North East Eighth
North West Eighth
Veterans Hospital
Wees
Eighth Avenue
Amarillo
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
RJ. Potts
Harlingen
Texas Good Roads Association
Hagg
Amar
Northwest Eighth
East Tenth
Highway Department
Island Railroad
Highway 66
Amar Plan
Illo
High Demos Stomp Republican Platform No. Salvation in West Texas and More
A compilation of brief items reports Roy R Warren of Texarkana seeking horned toads for a demonstration in Amarillo, a radar study to track hurricanes at Dow Chemical in Freeport, a prank incident in Ashby, and sharp Democratic criticisms of the 1948 Republican platform over agriculture labor and civil rights. It notes Ickes urging federal control of tidelands and a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting in Memphis to build a new home.
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Amarillo
West
Texas
Houston
Weather Bureau
EA. Farrell
Dow Chemical Company
Dow
Freeport
Washington
Republican Party
Congress
Charles P. Brannan
Philadelphia
Republican Congress
Brannan
GOP PLC
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
McCormack
John E Rankin
Mississippi
Harold L. Ickes
Roosevelt
Truman
Henry Cabot Lodge
Platform Committee
Ickes
Albert B. Fall
Harding
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Memphis
Galveston Officials Clash Over Vice Crackdown
Galveston County officials faced a deadline after County Attorney Sherwood Brown Jr issued an ultimatum to Sheriff Frank L Biaggne to resume action against gambling and vice. Brown warned he would intervene if deputies did not act by noon, citing the sheriff’s blame on others for poor prosecutions.
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Walveston
Galveston County
Sherwood Brown, Jr
Sheriff's Department
Brown
Frank L. Biaggne
Biaggne
Texas firm to build two oil refineries in Bolivia
Houston June reports M. H. Engineering will build two oil refineries for Bolivia's Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos. Equipment for the project will begin moving through Port Houston within a few weeks as work starts on the government oil monopoly project.
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Texas Engineering
Bolivia
Houston
M. H. Engineering
Foster
Port Houston
Barrow
Yacimientos Peroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos
Paralyzing Epidemic Spreads Across 50 New York Counties
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reports 427 cases of infantile paralysis from Jan 1 to June 12, up from 63 the previous year. Hardest hit include Willacy Nueces Harris Galveston and Bell counties with outbreaks starting in Hidalgo. The article notes seed stock from Andrew and Zephyr oat Mil may be unavailable to the public until 1980.
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New York
National Foundation For
Foundation
Willacy
Nueces
Harris
Houston
Galveston
Bell
Hidalgo
Andrew and Zephyr
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Lee Hagy
High Demos
Roy R. Warren
Texarkana, Tex
Llobe
Seu
Arthur Murray
Nour
Justin Boots
WADDY
Justin
Justin “Gyp
City
Rio Grande Valley
Cameron County
Resina
Amarillo Window Cleaning CO
Western
Holmes & Edwards
Lovely LaDy
Shackelford East
Dallas Medial College
Senate
Southwestern the Medical College
Dallas
Lars Ae
Kline
Siz
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