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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
3
Amarillo Welding and Machine Works at 217 North Polk suffered break in by amateur burglars who towed a heavy safe 40 feet to a rear loading room and sawed hinges while attempts at office safe failed. Night patrolmen Wheatly and Carter spotted burglars who fled.
Sweetwater city commissioners awarded the Oak Creek Dam project to low bidder Harry Campbell of Fort Worth for 300,653 dollars. Construction is to begin soon as part of updating the city water system.
Antonio Alberando of Buenos Aires halted his non stop 203 mile river endurance attempt in Argentina's Parana and Plata rivers after covering 178 miles in 60 hours.
Wade Whitsett, 103, becomes a colonel on Gov. Allan Shivers staff in Bonham during ceremonies. Gen. Clayton P. Kerr, commander of the 49th Armored Division combat command, Texas National Guard, participates and notes Whitsett as one of Texas’s three Confederate veterans still living.
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