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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1951
Page
10
Absentee balloting opens tomorrow at the city secretary office in the Municipal Auditorium and runs until 5 PM on March 31. City elections take place April 3 with one contested race for mayor between incumbent Gene Klein and challenger Maurice Wogan, an Amarillo insurance man.
Commissioners discussed renting the horse barn at Tri State Fair Park for 1000 annually, from Amarillo trainer M Ja Curry who proposed 24 7 guarding. They asked for a formal contract. The court also sold an old fairgrounds house for 1000 13 to J W Welch Jr and approved 50 monthly rent for Ed Eubank the caretaker.
Two Amarillo youths aged 17 and 18 are in Potter County jail being questioned in a string of burglaries and thefts including an attempted airplane theft. County Juvenile Officer Jack Grant linked them to three other juveniles already treated for similar offenses. The pair, returned Saturday from California, face possible charges this afternoon for crimes including the Sandie Stadium concession stand burglary, Ruffin Grocery Store burglary, and an Amarillo beer tavern burglary. The juveniles reportedly tried to steal a light airplane at Tradewind Airport in January.
Amsterdam’s W P Jack Griswold was named Disc Jockey of the Week by a national publication. He welcomed the publicity but noted it comes a bit late as he serves in the Army in Korea.
Carl Livingston of Woodmen of the World and Alamosa Camp 505 have built a flag pole at the Preventorium. The WOW will present a new flag to preventorium children tomorrow at 5 30 PM if weather allows. Attendees include George W. Hine state manager and Troy Hawton consul commander.
The Ama rilo Civil Service Commission meeting tonight is postponed due to the absence of city personnel director Clifford Davis who is in Austin attending Texas Municipal Retirement System advisory committee sessions. Davis was recently appointed to the board by Governor Allan Shivers.
Five o clock Perry Mason leads into Live Like Mil a at five fifteen with Live Like Mil at five thirty and News Analysis Sparky Spa at five forty five presented as a broadcast schedule segment.
A nationwide police alert seeks six men tied to a theft ring last week with believed Southwest dispersal. Two more men face burglary charges with bonds set at 2000 dollars each for Noah E. Davis and Robert Ernest Simpson. Davis, 46, of Lincoln street, and Simpson, 24, of Monroe street, remain jailed. Charles Potter, 28, posted 2000 dollars after charge of receiving loot from a 5600 dollar Montgomery Ward burglary. Others in custody are Robert Smith, 23, Amarillo, and Duane Velebil, 21, Dumas East Eleventh Street.
Mr and Mrs James C Kirby Jr of 108 North Western were charged in federal court with transporting a fraudulent check in interstate commerce from Purcell Oklahoma to Fort Worth. Bond set at 500 dollars each at arraignment before the US commissioner.
A West Texas Chamber of Commerce session in Amarillo this afternoon brings Panhandle civic and educational leaders together. Fred H. Husbands of Abilene leads the event. The program aims to present free enterprise basics and good citizenship to students, with a second session for vocational guidance supervised by field representatives, targeting high school seniors within a 100 mile radius.
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