Youth Center fund drive nears $25,000 goal in Amarillo
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club president Connie Hood reports more than 20 mail contributions to furnish the Amarillo Youth Center swimming pool. Notable gifts include $50 from A. A. Cartlidge and $25 from Amarillo Tent & Awning, with total mail receipts rising to $216 toward the $25,000 target as construction idle days continue amid a city-wide building shutdown.
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San Jacinto
Connie Hood
Palo Duro Ice
Jack Smith
Kathleen Holland
Judy Blackburn
Beth Blackburn
Gae Blackburn
Halstrand McKinney
Jack Gusler
Amarillo Tent & Awning
D. L. McDonald
Mr. Hood
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club
Pantex Lad Hiking Fame Went Lost Yet Found At Home
A seven year old boy, Mickey Kelley of Pantex Village, vanished after missing the school bus and wandered about Amarillo for hours. Police and parents organized a search until he reappeared at home around 8 30 PM riding in on a gasoline truck. He described walking home after failing to catch his mother at the school and following bus lines toward his neighborhood. He crossed railroad tracks and passed Municipal Field before diverting toward English Field and Pantex Village aided by a passing truck driver.
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Mickey
Polk Street
North Fillmore
North East Eighth
Municipal Field
Oklahoma City Highway
Amarillo
English Field
Pantex Village
Anti-Tank Mine Found On Busy Brooklyn Street
A plastic drum shaped anti tank mine was discovered on Van Sindersen Avenue near a pillar of the Fourteenth Street elevated line by maintenance man John Campbell. Police bomb squad rendered it harmless and ruled out immediate danger to Brownsville and nearby traffic amid sabotage and souvenir-collector theories.
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New York
Brooklyn
John Campbell
Fourteenth Street
van Sindersen Avenue
Campbell
Brownsville
Pardon Us Lady Pajamas Showing at Breakfast
Mrs Myrtle Shaw reports Mrs Kate Stidger hurried to a breakfast honoring Rebekah officials. In a rush she arrived with the bottom half of her pajamas still on, then swiftly removed them and carried on with dignity.
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Myrtle Shaw
North Grant
Kate Stidger
Houston
Rebekah
Mrs. Stidger
Winburn Reports Weather Swings Amid Cold and Colds
Chief forecaster H C Winburn notes a warm day with 61 degree high and a 34 degree low, as Panhandle clouds part and South Plains receive a late rain. He battles spring cold and staff shortages at English Field station while panels track moisture across West and South Texas.
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H. C. Winburn
Panhandle
South Plains
Lubbock
Winburn
Midland
West Texas
The
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The forecast calls for continued high thin cloudiness this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. West Texas mostly cloudy with occasional rain in all areas except the Panhandle. Warmer this afternoon and tonight with slight warmth in the Panhandle and South Plains. Wednesday partly to mostly cloudy with some rain from the Pecos Valley eastward. New Mexico shows scattered showers in the southeast this afternoon otherwise fair. High 54, low 31, noon 5.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Wheat futures surge past 3 dollars on Chicago Board of Trade
March wheat prices jumped to the 3 dollar mark amid news of potential Spring wheat deliveries to aid millers. Traders faced tighter margins as government talks with Kansas City interests and CCC influenced supplies and prices.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Kansas City
Commodity Credit Corporation
March Wheat
Great Lakes Navigation
March
Chicago Board of Trade
Texas Senate approves labor bill and traffic code
AUSTIN March 18 The Texas legislature passed its first labor regulating bill and a uniform statewide traffic code. The labor measure bans picketing of light gas and water utilities whether private or state owned to the extent that it could interrupt service.
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Austin
Senate
Texas
Resolution on Closed Shop Fails in Texas House
A proposed constitutional amendment to ban the closed shop fell 14 votes short of passage in the Texas House. The measure, backed by civic groups and the Texas Safety Association, would have imposed penalties for damaging utility property and required uniform traffic provisions across the state. The bill passed the Senate by voice vote, while Sen. T. C. Chadick abstained due to his official ties with an electrical cooperative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
T. C. Chadick
Quitman
Texas Safety Association
State Department of Safety
Memorial at Temple for 36th Division Proposed
A Texas House bill by Rep. Lamar Zivley proposes a $400000 memorial at Temple to honor the 36th Infantry Division. The plan would form a 27 member commission to oversee construction including an auditorium, offices for the 36th Division Association and a WWI and WWII relics museum.
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Austin
Temple
36Th Infantry Division
Lamar Zivley
36Th Division Association
Houston to Host 1948 IOOF Rebekah Joint Convention
Houston was chosen to host the 107th session of the IOOF and Rebekah Assembly in Municipal Auditorium with about 3500 delegates including W J Whitworth of Matador and Rev A F Loftin of Estelline attending. Installations planned for this afternoon conclude the session and departures begin soon after.
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Myrtle Russell
Electra
May Self
Terrell
LOOF
Rebekah Assembly
Peveto
Rebekahs
South Texas
Municipal Auditorium
Houston
The
Odd Fellows
William J. T. Ford
Noble Grand
IOOF
Lone Star Lodge No. 1
S. M. Williams
Dallas
Mike Peveto
Texas
Corsicana
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of Texas
Rebekah
Clarence E. Woods
Lubbock
Frank R. Rundell
Austin
Lem Wray
Waxahachie
J. W. Hampton
T. F. Aston
Sherman
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Louise Reinicke
Rebekah Assembly of Texas
Gene Lawless
Fl Paso
Bessie Carter
San Angelo
Berta H. Porter
Fort Worth
W. J. Whitworth
Matador
Mr. Whitworth
Motley County
Randall Whitworth
First State Bank of
Noble Whitworth
Bruner Drug Company
Amarillo
A. F. Loftin
Estelline
Sam Malone
Spearman
China Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chief Faces Resignation Threat
In Nanking on March 18 the foreign minister Wang Shih-chief threatened to resign after the Kuomintang central executive committee launched a sharp attack accusing him of a weak kneed, impotent policy toward Russia.
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Nanking
U.P
China
Wang Shih
Kuomintang
Central Executive Committee
Russia
Durant founder of General Motors dies at 85
William C. Durant, veteran financier and founder of General Motors in 1908, died in New York at age 85 after a five year illness. He left behind his wife Catherine Lederer, a nurse, and a career that began with a Flint carriage shop in 1886, rising to control GM in 1915 before bankruptcy troubles in 1936.
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New York
William C. Durant
General Motors Corp
Catherine Lederer
Gunga Din
Durant
J. Dallas Dort
Flint
Mich
David Buick
Buick
Autlomo
Durant and the Rise and Fall of General Motors Pioneer
Durant built a car empire by buying techniques and firms including Cadillac Oldsmobile Oak Pontiac and Chevrolet. He regained GM control in 1915 but stock crashes in 1920 and later the 1929 crash wiped out most of his assets. He was named to the automotive hall of fame last May but could not attend due to illness.
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Cadillac
Oldsmobile
Oak
Pontiac
Rapid Truck
Catercar
General Motors Company
Durant
Ford Motor Co
General Motors
Chevrolet
General Motors Corp
Durant-Dart
Durant, Star, Print
Automotive Hall of Fame
Lewis Expected To Bow to High Court
Washington March 18 The Supreme Court urged John L. Lewis to cancel his April 1 soft coal strike within a week to avoid contempt and keep coal production steady through June 30. The UMW faces reduced fines of 700000 after initial 3500000 penalty as part of the court order.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Dex
High Court
Western powers rebuke Molotov over reparations claim
Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin rejected Molotovs charge that 10 billion dollars in reparations were taken from the western zones. The session grew tense as Bidault urged continued controls and reparations limits while backing Germany paying for food.
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Moscow
Marshall
Georges Bidault
France
Ruhr
Rhineland
Saar
Germany
Bidault
Stal
Ca Eal
Germa
Europe
Molotov
Resignation of State Board of Control Chairman
Carlos Ashley resigned as chairman of the State Board of Control, notifying Gov. Beauford H. Jester. He cited commitment to his legal career and ranching and will leave the post effective May 1, after being appointed to fill a vacancy from last fall.
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Austin
Carlos Ashley
State Board of Control
Beauford H. Jester
Ashley
Board of Control
Coke Stevenson
Weaver H. Baker
Dunlap Named as Internal Revenue Nominee Rumor
Dallas Times Herald reports close observers predict Senator Connally will urge John B. Dunlap, current assistant collector, for the post of collector of internal revenue as Herbert E. Arnold withdraws his nomination for permanent collector.
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Dallas
Dallas Times Herald
Connally
John B. Dunlap
Internal Revenue
Herbert E. Arnold
Vandenberg Attacks Bipartisan Greece Turkey Policy Plan
Senate critic Vandenberg warns bipartisan foreign policy risks decay if party managers dictate aid to Greece and Turkey. Eaton outlines Truman aid bill granting up to 400 million for loans and military support, with conditions on access, reporting, and nontransfer. Secretary Forrestal promotes unified armed forces to back foreign policy.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Greece
Turkey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Gael Sullivan
Democratic National Committee
Carroll Reece
Republcan
Sullivan
Reece
Truman
J. Rep. Eaton
New Jersey
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eaton
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mediterranean
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U. S
Connally
Texas
Texan
Amarillo Wheat Rises as Market Sees Broad Upward Turn
Amarillo wheat opened at 2.70 per bushel amid a nationwide market upturn driven by government purchase policy and midwest traders. Demand stays tight as Panhandle supplies dwindle and wholesale flour costs rise, signaling broader inflation in groceries.
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Amarillo
Chicago
Panhandle
Child Dies After Whipping For Not Eating Cereal
In Lawton Oklahoma Mrs. Harvey E Baker faces a first degree manslaughter charge in the death of her 1 year old stepson Harvey E Baker Jr less than an hour after a mulberry switch whipping for not eating his cereal. The child bumped his head and collapsed after further punishment and died at a hospital. The boy’s sister Gloria Jean said he had been whipped previously.
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Lawton
Okla
Harvey E. Baker
Justice Court
Gloria Jean Baker
Young Harvey
Ethel Cheney
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Thomas Thompson
Associated General Contractors
Texas Panhandle Home Builders Association
General Contractors
Home Builders
J. E. Nicholson
Building Trades Council
General Contractors Association and
Common Labor
K. S. Reynolds
McAlister Development Co
Home Builders Group
Home Builders and General Contractors
Trades Council
Construction General Labor
Athens
Pantex Lad
Hansa Fern Enhnanl
Mickey Kelley
W. E. Kelley
McKinney Sc
John Maynard Lbr
Neely
Greenhill-Lowndes
Lasurance
Bulletin
Ohio
Rebekah Officials
Globe
Woodfin
Margaret Salsgiver
McAllen
Emma Lou Hariman
Grand Forks
N. D
Rekakah Assemblies
Tive
Williams
Duran
High
Internal Revenue Post
Maroc Army Air Field
Cal
America
Russell Staty, Co
Taylor
Slaps
Jefferson
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