Shiner Wins Optimists Speech Contest in Atlantic City
Larry E. Shiner, 15, Topeka, Kan., won the Optimists International oratorical contest in Atlantic City on June 26, earning a $1,000 scholarship. Current officials include George O. Browne of Indianapolis as president, Raymond Watt of El Paso as VP, Raleigh P. Nall of Los Angeles, Lawrence J. Gibbons of Philadelphia, Ralph Stephenson of Moline, and Russell F. Meyer of St. Louis re-elected secretary.
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Atlantic City
U P
Larry E. Shiner
Topeka
Kan
Optimists International
George O. Browne
Indianapolis
Franklin A. Steinke
Washington
Raymond Watt
el Paso
Raleigh P. Nall
Los Angeles
Lawrence J. Gibbons
Philadelphia
Ralph Stephenson
Moline
Russell F. Meyer
St. Louis
Ohm Named for German Physicist George Ohm
The unit of resistance in electricity, the ohm, is named after George Simon Ohm who formulated the law of electrical resistance in 1826.
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Ohm
George Sumon Ohm
Carburetor Tests Delayed Till July
The A C Russell carburetor demonstration near Amarillo was postponed to mid July after inventor A C Russell suffered a heat stroke at his Shawnee Oklahoma home. Mrs Russell says he should be well enough by July to resume the demonstration started at Thompson Park last Saturday.
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A. C. Russell
W. M. Gouldy
Amarillo
Earl Allmand
Chamber of Commerce
Shawnee
Oklo
Garden trellis from chicken wire supports pea growth
In gardening practice, narrow chicken wire fencing can be stretched to create a trellis for peas to climb.
Father of the Bride Holds Over at Paramount Theater
Held over by popular demand, the comedy stars Spencer Tracy Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Bennett. It has drawn record crowds since opening Friday at the Paramount Theater and will run through Thursday.
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Paramount Theater
Spencer Tracy
Elizabeth Taylor
Joan Bennett
Paramount
Will Provides Trip To Havana For 12 Relatives
NORRISTOWN Pa June 26 Victor Ritter a furniture dealer left nearly 4000 to send his 12 nieces and nephews to Havana Cuba in his will Any legatee who declines the cruise forfeits their share in his 45000 estate Ritter believed cash would be spent quickly while the cruise would preserve the memory of him and his gift and the idea was explained by the decedent’s brother Wilson Ritter Carrollis Pa
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Norristown
Victor Ritter
Ritter
East Greenville
Havana
Cuba
Victor
Wilson
Carlisle
Fermin Watts Child Dies at Six Months
Francis Watts six month old son of Mr and Mrs Fermin Watts of 1300 Cleveland died Sunday in St Anthony s Hospital He was born December 9 Survivors include three brothers Jimmy Joe and Freddy The family attends the Catholic Church Funeral arrangements are to be announced by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.
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Francis Watts
Fermin Watts
Cleveland
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Jimmy
Joe
Freddy
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Polio Victim Uses Three Iron Lungs in Transfer
Jerry Jean Ennis, a 15 year old from Donna, traveled from Donna to Houston for care at the new Houston Polio Center. She had spent two months in an iron lung at Grandview Hospital, then wore a portable respirator aboard an ambulance, and was moved to an Emerson respirator in a baggage car of the Southern Pacific.
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Edinurg
Tex
Houston
Donna
Jerry Jean Ennis
Charles Ennis
Jerry Jean
Grandview Hospital
Southern Pacific
Emerson
Escaping Convict Wounded by Guard
In Sugar Land on June 26 a 29 year old life term convict from Bowie County named Clarence J. Hawkins fleeing a prison baseball game dived through a fence gap. A guard ordered him to halt and shot him in the back as he fled, the jail administrator saying the guard acted within his rights.
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Sugar Land
U.P
Clarence J. Hawkins
Bowie County
O. B. Ellis
Walter Paschall
Hawkins
Dallas to gain two new hotels competing with Statler
Sheraton Hotels president says plan to build a 650 room Dallas hotel will proceed despite Statler Hotels and Cosmopolitan Hotels 800 room project. Hotel Adolphus to add 520 rooms. Dallas Chamber welcomes competition but not replacement. Henderson: Dallas could use two hotels and plans are being drawn.
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Boston
Sheraton Hotels
Ernest Henderson
Dallas
Statler Hotels
Cosmopolitan Hotel Corp
Adolphus
Statler
Cosmopolitan Group
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Sheraton
Henderson
United Press
Rebuffs Rescuers Drowns in Buffalo Bayou
Marello Jacinto 29 dived into Buffalo Bayou Sunday and, refusing help from two passers-by, swam to the middle of the stream and sank. Leo Townsend and Ray Hamby tried to assist. Jacinto swam to midstream before drowning. His body was recovered 15 minutes later and Justice of the Peace Thomas M. Maes ruled death by own action.
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Houston
Camarello Jacinto
Buffalo Bayou
Leo Townsend
Townsend
Ray Hamby
Jacinto
Justice of the Peace
Thomas M. Maes
4 Year Old Succeeds Where Doctors Failed
Washington report recounts how 4-year-old Joan Anderson, with chronic kidney disease, contracted measles after her 4-year-old cousin Kenneth Anderson did. Doctors had failed twice to immunize her, deeming it hopeless, but Kenny’s illness appeared to cure Joan's condition as measles spread to her.
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Washington
Joan Anderson
Joan
Kenneth Anderson
Kenny
Shoe Shine Boy Charged in Theft
Walter P. Larson, 24, a shoe shine parlor operator who speaks five languages, pleaded guilty in Fitchburg district court to larceny of 344 dollars from a finance company. The case was continued to July 1. Police say he forged his brother in law Army Capt. Charles R. Pemrose of Leominister after being refused a loan in his own name to fund an invention emergency button he could clasp on a shirt with a flick of the wrist.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Walter P. Larson
Aubrey Z. Goodfellow
Larson
Army
Charles R. Pemrose
Leominister
LA Would Boost Tax on Drinks
Los Angeles officials move to a tipplers tax with a five percent levy on spirits products. If adopted, the plan aims to raise about seven million dollars annually, up from seven hundred thousand under the existing one half percent liquor tax. Councilman Don A. Allen opposes and warned opponents may challenge it in court.
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Los Angeles
Don A. Allen
Red Skelton Plays Three Generations in Watch the Birdie
Red Skelton explains in Los Angeles that in the film Watch the Birdie he acts as three different men across generations. He jokes they all talk to each other while he rehearses scenes. Photography is also his favorite hobby.
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Los Angeles
Red Skelton
Red
Bridge Collapse Derailed Cotton Belt Freight Train
In Mt. Pleasant Texas on June 26 a Cotton Belt freight train derailed when a bridge over the Sulphur River near Naples collapsed. Eighteen cars left the tracks, none injured, after a strap around a pole car broke and poles struck the bridge. Yardmaster Grant Baldwin in Texarkana said the accident caused the failure.
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MT. Pleasant
Tex
Naples
Here
Grant Baldwin
Texarkana
Boat Smashes Hydroplane Record On Lake Washington
Seattle June 26 The speedboat Slo-Mo-Shun IV powered by 1500 horsepower roared to 160.3235 mph over the measured mile on Lake Washington to break the hydroplane record of 141.74 mph set in 1939 by Sir Malcolm Campbell. Owner Pilot Stanley S Sayres steered the craft on its first attempt setting a new world mark.
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Seattle
Lake Washington
Stanley S. Sayres
Sir Malcom Campbell
Lake Coneston
England
Food Prices in 1888 Gaming Market Record
In 1888 prices for foodstuffs in gaming show potatoes at 75 cents to $1 per hundredweight beef and mutton six to eight cents per pound bacon and lard 10 to 12 cents a pound and chicken 18 to 20 cents a pound.
Monogrammed linens pattern offer from Amarillo Globe News
Alice Brooks Young couples will like these monogrammed linens as gifts. Pattern 7206 provides 12 motifs about 4x5 inches with easy charts and directions for crochet and knitting. Send twenty cents to Amarillo Globe News for pattern 7206 and Alice Brooks Needlework catalogue with illustrations and a free pattern.
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Amarillo Globe News
Household Arts Dept
P.O
Old
Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Alice Brooks
Three Way Wedding Is Family Affair
A grandmother aged 64, her daughter 34, and granddaughter 16 honeymooned after a triple wedding ceremony in Los Angeles. The grandmother Mrs May Forgy wed Jesse H Taylor 170 Saturday night, the daughter Mrs Merle Thomas wed Spencer Ramsdell 29, and granddaughter Darlene Kelly married Ralph Lester 17.
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Los Angeles
May Forgy
Jesse H. Taylor
Merle Thomas
Spencer Ramsdell
Darlene Kelly
Ralph Lester
Louisiana Protects Alligator Trade From Outsiders
Louisiana passes a near unanimous bill to halt exports of live alligators and to ban killing or capturing alligators under three feet. Rep. E J Grizzaffi cites Florida buying baby alligators for marsh restocking as motive. The measure moves to the State Senate.
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E. J. Grizzaffi
Florida
State Senate
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West 7Th St
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Castleberry Drug CO
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