Waddy Week Promises Rodeos Dances in Panhandle Parade
Plans unfold for Waddy Week in Rock Island with a Friday 8 PM rodeo at Tri-State Fairgrounds directed by Beutler Brothers Elk City Oklahoma. Week features parades dances Jimmy Wakely and Hill Billy Playboys 60 cent children 1.65 adults 2.50 boxes.
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Rock Island Depot
Panhandle
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Beutler Brothers
Elk City
Okla
Rodeo Corral
Jimmy Wakely
Hollywood
Jack King
Hill Billy Playboys
Range Riders
Polk
New Titles Debut at Amarillo Public Library
Public Library announces several new books joining the Amarillo collection led by Presidents on Parade a comprehensive US history with portraits of presidents spouses birthplaces and careers The librarian Miss Green also highlights On Active Service in Peace and War by Henry L Stimson and The Nazarovs by Markousha Fischer as an ambitious Russian saga among other new titles including Divorce Won t Help World Without Visa It s All in the Family The Flames of Rundell The Coconut Wireless The Common Life World on My Doorstep Story of the Negro The Federalists and Play Production
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Public Library
Alice Green
Miss Green
Hirst D. Milhellen
Milton Kaplan
United States
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
Nazarovs
Markousha Fischer
Moscow
Edmund Bergler
Bergler
Jean Mal
Rundell
Coconut Wireless
Ray Franklin Kauffman
Georgia Harkness
Harriet FE. Davis
Anna Bontemps
Leonard D. White
Milton Smith
Teachers Urged To Check Pupils Against Disease
College Station June 24 UP close cooperation between classroom teachers and the family physician is urged as the first line of defense in controlling communicable diseases among children. Dr C F Moore Jr of the State Health Department spoke to delegates at the 23rd annual meeting of school supervisors at Texas A M College urging immediate reporting of illness rather than waiting to identify a specific disease.
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College Station
C. F. Moore, Jr
State Health Department
Texas A & M College
Maverick Boys Club Expands Youth Program in Amarillo
The Maverick Boys Club in Amarillo grows to 500 new honorary members as Kids Inc and the American Business Club push a city-wide youth program. Members may join any amount monthly to fund a new headquarters and expanded activities for 3000 local youths. C. T. Davis and Jim Brown lead efforts with Nard Cazzell chairing membership.
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Maverick Boys Coup
Amarillo
Amario
Maverick Boys Club
Ama
Kids, Inc
Maverick Club
Amaillo
American Business Club
Maverick Club Kids, Inc
Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce
C. T. Davis
Jim Brown
Nard Cazzell
Third
Grant
Two Questioned in Fatal Traffic Wreck
Hillsboro officers questioned two youths today over a fatal traffic wreck south of Hillsboro that injured a couple, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Scott, fatally. The Scotts’ car carried a Kansas City address via a wife’s purse card. registration papers were issued in Boerne Texas. Three cars were involved. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Tichavsky of Itasca and their child suffered non fatal injuries. the two boys were unhurt.
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Hillsboro
James W. Scott
Scott
Boerne
Tex
Brooklyn Ave
Kansas City
Louis Tichavsky
Itasca
Man Arrested for Cursing Held In Shooting of Negro Policeman
A 49 year old Houston man faces two assault to murder charges in the shooting of two Negro policemen, Melvin Davis Harrison and Obadiah Hearld, peppered with birdshot as they walked a beat. Davis had been arrested weeks earlier for using abusive language. The officers suffered wounds to arms and legs.
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Houston
Melvin Davis Harrison
Obadiah Hearld
Davis
Convention Voices Not Conventional in Philadelphia Parade
The 1948 GOP convention funneled 14 000 voices into a weary march for their seven choices. Delegates shed coats and shoes as confetti littered the hall while Taft Dewey MacArthur Stassen and Warren were debated.
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Philadelphia
People
Thomas E. Dewey
Taft
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Tom Dewey
Warren
Stassen
Bald
Unclear speech heard after event prompts questions
Transcript fragment shows two voices reacting to a speech with one asking what was said and the other replying they could not hear clearly. The readable portion offers limited context about the event or speaker.
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Rks
Beutler
Bulls
Judge Bean Court
Exchange Club
Houston Houston
Paul Cross
Virgil Best
Cross
Morris Douglass
Muleshoe Lions Club
N.S. Griggs & Sons
Fillmore
Eighth
Robert Anthony
ABC
Chicago
Amrilla
Anthony
Don McNeill
News-Globe
Eicon
Twin
Vandenberg
MacArtur
Gov
Earl Warren
MR. Means
Omocen
Joe Pisano
Dublin
Dr. Vincents
O'Brien
Ates
Chelate
John
Ven
Beauty Shop
Fetice
jBenty Exhy Phoppes
A Polk
Caeien
Tebles
Peioes
Joyne
West
Aya A New
Pullout Broiler
Robert Shaw
Phillips
Solid Chambrays
Woven Ginghams
Pastel Voises
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