Washington Humor and Lubbock Visit Featured in Texas Dispatches
A Washington newspaper mocks national trends including Washington women's hips and Texas Texas humor. The piece highlights Lubbock’s rapid growth and civic swagger, then a travel vignette shows Buck Wetherfield and Wally Boren in Lubbock praising the city’s cleanliness and local charm while meeting Mayor Clarence Bestwick in a brisk, brag-friendly portrait of civic life.
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Amarillo
Lubbock
Washington
Tex
Buck Wetherfield
Wally Boren
Buck
Wally
Puck
Boren
Texas
Charlie Guy
Daily Avalanche
Stock Averages and Livestock Trade Report
Market roundup shows stock averages around 181.92 with a 0.75 rise and railroads up 22. Utilities mixed amid a 800,000 sales figure. Kansas City cattle and calves trade slows as of March 6 with USDA notes from the livestock market.
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Amarillo
Uwusteiels
Renbeeseeesss Sons GD
Kansas City
USDA
Market Summary of Slaughter Cattle Hogs and Lambs
Slaughter cattle and calves mixed with light supplies and steady to weak prices. Steers mainly average to good grades $19.25 to $23.50, good to choice $24.50. Heifers and mixed yearlings largely $22.00 to $23.50, lightweight lots around $17.50 to $18.00. Cows $13.50 to $15.75. Dealers $23.00 to $27.00. Calves $18.00 to $21.00. Hogs 300 head, light receipts. 250–300 lb at $28.25 to $29.50, sows $25.50 to $27.50. Sheep 4,500. lambs $23.25 to $22.75 for good to choice pasture and ship outfits.
Chicago Livestock Prices Rally Amid Steady Cattle Sale
Chicago livestock report shows hogs up to 75 cents higher with tops near 29.50 for 180 to 250 lb, cattle at 20.50 to 26.00 for fed steers and yearlings, top 27.25 for 1,122 lb fed heifers, cows 12.75 to 15.25, and sheep around 24.25 for strictly good and choice western lambs.
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Chicago
USDA
Courthouse Records and District Court Docket Highlights
Warranty deeds filed for multiple property transfers including W H Gragge to J B Patterson Lot 2 Block 14 Country Club Terrace and S W Jones to Oscar Neal in Mary Gould Acres. District Court notes a divorce: Alice Cooper versus Henry Stamford Cooper. Marriage licenses issued for pairs including Ernest H Harp with Zola P Fog, and Stanley B Richter with Mary Reed.
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W. H. Gragge
J. B. Patterson
Country Club Terrace
James E. Aldridge, Jr
Jo Ann Aldridge
Washington Center
D. E. Covington
Marvin Mae
Holand
E. P. Jones
R. T. Tyler
Pleasant
Alice Cooper
Henry Stamford Cooper
Ernest H. Harp
Zola P. Fogg
Stanley B. Richter
Mary Reed
Jack Bradley
Dorothy Lou Johnston
Clifford J. Smith
Dorothy Faye Lankford
James William Wiggins
Betty Jo Dixon
Ivy L. Johnson
Hattie Jo Brooks
Riley Carver
Sylvia Lorrine Allison
Oscar R. Stidger
Joyce Smith
W. Glasgow
Rosalie Ehre
L. Rose
Mary Vivian Davis
Truman Urges Bipartisan Foreign Policy Support
President Truman declares continued bipartisan backing for U S foreign relations and a leader role for the people in an international order that protects peace and freedom. He champions a trade pattern where major decisions rest with private buyers and sellers under competitive, safeguarded conditions.
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Truman
Toast Toast Toast Toast Toast a Dining Car Toasting
A humorous piece vents about cold soggy toast on dining cars and lauds crisp buttered toast. It riffs on toast quality as a dining experience and ends with a playful recipe and a call to write to dining-car service.
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Gadget
Texas House Blocks Insurance Investment in Housing Projects
The Texas House rejected a senate bill by 8 to 45 to let insurers invest five percent of assets in housing projects. House amendments would extend to communities over 5,000 population and projects with 20+ families. Emergency measure submitted by former Gov. Coke R. Stevenson.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
House of Representatives
Senate
Alton J. York
Bryant
Dallas Blankenship
Dallas
Blankenship
Coke R. Stevenson
Hair Clipping Victim Asleep After Aspirin Claim
Mrs. O. E. Oliver of 100 North Bowyer said she was shaved by an intruder while asleep. She attributes the act to being dopey on aspirin taken for a bad cold and sleepless night. Police have not found the razor or the clipped hair.
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O. E. Oliver
North Bowyer
Ten Thousand Auto Licenses Still Unsold in Potter County
About 10,000 automobile licenses remain unsold in the Potter County tax collector's office. Roughly 3,000 plates have been sold since sales began February 17. Tax Collector Frank Hoyt urged motorists to purchase now as the rush nears.
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Potter County
Frank Hoyt
Bank Robber Hogs Money in Amarillo Heist
Edward Hamilton, an Amarillo man nicknamed Hogs, is jailed in Potter County awaiting arraignment on charges of stealing $11 from a porky savings bank at Knightons Drug Store and Cafe 422 West Third. City officers arrested him after the bank robbery.
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Edward Hamilton
Amarillo Negro
Potter County
Knighton
West Third
Hamilton
Lewis and Krug Clash Over Mine Contract and Contempt Case
The case centers on whether the Norris La Guardia Act applies to the government after it seized coal mines to end a strike. Lewis ordered miners to terminate the Spring contract, arguing it no longer applied, while Krug contended the contract stood. Judge Goldsborough ordered Lewis to withdraw the termination, but Lewis einem ignored the ruling and faced contempt.
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CIO
AFL
Lewis
Krug
U. S
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Americans spend about $200 per family on alcohol in 1946
In 1946 Americans allocated an average of about $200 per household to alcoholic beverages, reflecting consumer spending patterns during the postwar year.
United States protests Soviet interference in Hungary
The United States charged Russia with unjustified interference in Hungarian internal affairs and warned against Soviet measures that threaten Hungary's right to a government freely chosen by its people. The note, delivered to Moscow and copies sent to Britain and Budapest, preceded the Moscow conference.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Budapest
Hungary
Moscow
Marshall
Bela Kovacs
Congress
House
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Kovacs
Smallholders Party
State Department
Great Britain
Allied Control Council
Greece
Four Permits Total $40 200 in Week Built
Two commercial permits and two residential permits totaling 40 200 boosted the weekly building total to over 110 000. Commercial permits were issued to O T Stewart and B S McClendon for new stores and expansion. Residential permits went to D C Boyd and Mark Clommer for houses and garages.
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O. T. Stewart
West Sixteenth
B.S. McClendon
West Sixth
D. C. Boyd
Philadelphia
Mark Clommer
Lipscomb
Mathew E Heath Funeral Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mathew E Heath age 60 will be held at 4 tomorrow afternoon at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev Robert Smith of Fairview Baptist Church officiating Burial will follow in Llano Cemetery Pallbearers are C H Nunley Joe Voshalike H V Pointer Doc Pointer Tom Fife and W S Savage Heath died yesterday in a local hospital He had lived in Amarillo 18 years Survived by his wife three sons two daughters a brother and two grandchildren
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Mathew E. Heath
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Robert Smith
Fairview Baptist Church
Llano Cemetery
C. H. Nunley
Joe Voshalike
H. V. Pointer
Doc Pointer
Tom Fife
W. S. Savage
Heath
Capitol Battery Company
Plainview Funeral for Arnold Lomax
Arnold Lomax brother of Terry Lomax of Amarillo dies from injuries in an electric power line accident in Oceanside California. His body arrives in Plainview tomorrow morning for funeral services Saturday afternoon. he leaves a wife three sons a daughter and his father as survivors.
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Arnold Lomax
Terry Lomax
Amarillo
Plainview
Lomax
Oceanside
Cal
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