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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1948
Page
2
Daily stock quotations show varied movement with Railroads and Utilities easing after modest gains. Merrill Lynch and Co lists prices and changes for a broad array of listings, including Allis Chalmers and Humble Oil.
Chicago livestock market report from June 25 notes higher bids across hogs cattle and sheep with top prices listed. Hogs up to 26 50 per cwt and 400 lb sows around 22 50 to 24 00. Cattle including choice steers steady with cows 28 00 plus. calves light demand. Sheep of good and choice quality steady around 29.00. Financials show continued liquidation and grain data pending.
The note details seven break ins in the same west side area within three nights. Victims live between the 1800 block of Pierce Buchanan and the 1900 block of Fillmore. The same tactics are used in each crime. A pattern emerges around the neighborhood as investigators pursue leads.
Mr Moore, a longtime Amarillo police records clerk, was rushed to Denver after a Friday morning accident near Amarillo. The event was reported by Tom Kruser, manager of Radio Station KDDD in Dumas, who notified Miss Geraldine Moore, daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Moore, by long distance call.
Allied officials report the Soviet commander at Marienborn said freight shipments to Berlin from the west could resume Monday. The move ends a blockade aimed at pressuring Western powers from the German capital and could avert starvation for about two and a half million Germans in western Berlin zones.
Weather notes list rainfall from Amarillo area stations and nearby locales with traces to .50 inches. Reports include Clarendon Follett Pampa Roswell and others with varied totals. Forecasters expect continued thin showers and warm highs near 90 degrees through Saturday under cloudy skies.
Police investigated a robbery near the Crown Substation on Polk Street. Victims Willmering reported three men armed with .45 pistols bound by wires from a construction site. The trio, described as a white heavyset man and two others, may have waited in a partially finished residence before the Willmerings arrived.
Workmen began placing a wide concrete section at Eighth and Georgia to eliminate a dangerous dip in Amarillo streets. The project will smooth the incline and improve safety for passing vehicles as crews widen and flatten the curve.
Washington reports that six weeks to establish about 4 000 local Selective Service boards could push first draftees into uniform by late September under the new 18 through 25 draft act signed by President Truman. enlistment of 18 year olds to begin soon with one year active service then six years reserve.
Burglars wrecked music machines and other coin operated devices at the C. W. Urwin cafe and tavern on Highway 287. About 25 dollars were taken. The break in was found when the cafe opened this morning a mile north of River Road School.
Washington June 25 John L Lewis and the soft coal industry except steel companies signed a new wage agreement. The pact becomes effective July 1 and provides a Sunday wage increase for each union employee and a 10 cent ton increase in operator contributions to the union welfare and retirement fund totaling 20 cents a ton. Also in Washington June 25 the United States protests to Yugoslavia over the 1 day detention of five American soldiers who swam in the Trieste zone and seeks their early release.
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