City panel rejects courtesy tickets for out-of-town parkers
Amarillo city commissioners rejected a plan to issue courtesy tickets to visitors parked in violation of meters. They said license numbers do not reliably identify Amarillo cars and noted many cars are registered elsewhere. Merchants argued tickets burden out-of-town customers. The panel also passed first reading to ease North East Eighth Avenue setback rules and accepted bids for clay tile sewer pipe and street sign standards.
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Amarillo
Retail Merchants Committee
Panhandle
Loren Young
Commission
Moss
North East Eighth Avenue
Clowe & Cowan
Approval of Lawn Terrace Unit No 1 plat amendment
The commission approved Lawn Terrace Unit No 1 after Lowell Mundy and G W Maguire amended the plat following a resident complaint in adjacent additions. Several routine matters were transacted.
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Lawn Terrace
Lowell Munday
G. W. Maguire
Grass seed shipment to Israel from Amarillo firm
The Great Plains Seed Company in Amarillo sent two 16 pound samples of big bluestem and little bluestem to Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture. The wholesale house in New York ordered the seeds for Israel, aiming to find semi arid pasture grasses. The Amarillo firm offered samples gratis and covered postage.
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Israel
Amarillo
Minister of Agriculture For
New York
Great Plains Seed Company
East Tenth
Panhandle
Hugh G. Porterfield
Mrs. J. M. Gordon Rites in Lubbock
Rites honoring Mrs. J. M. Gordon were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Lubbock with Dr. J. M. Lewis officiating. Burial followed in Lubbock Cemetery. Mrs. Gordon, mother of W. H. Gordon of Amarillo public schools, died Sunday. she leaves husband J. M. Gordon and three sons Maurice Gordon Ardmore Oklahoma Gerald Gordon Colorado City and Rev Lynn Gray Gordon Fawn Grove Pennsylvania a daughter Mrs Hector MacKay Littlefield and five grandchildren.
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J. M. Gordon
First Presbyterian Church
Lubbock
J. M. Lewis
Gordon
W. H. Gordon
Forest
Amarillo Public Schools
Texas Technological College
Maurice Gordon
Ardmore
Pleads Guilty to Burglary Charge
Carl Shirrill aged 30 of 819 North East Seventl pleaded guilty in 47th District Court to burglary and received a two year penitentiary term. He admitted taking about $60 from wall music boxes during the Feb 11 Fay's Case break in at 2400 Fast Third. Deputies said he led them to a spot 12 miles south of Canyon where the broken machines were dumped under a culvert.
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Carl Shirrill
North East
Seventl
47Th District Court
Shirrill
Fay
Canyon
Utilities Company Sells 400 000 Shares in Dallas Firm
Texas Utilities Company of Dallas sold 400000 shares of common stock raising 9708000. A 14 member syndicate bid 24 27 net per share in competitive bidding. Proceeds fund purchases of common stock in Dallas Power & Light, Texas Power & Light, and Texas Electric Service. Viscount Craigavon and wife welcome three children named Janitha Jacaranda and Janric since 1940.
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Dallas
Texas Utilities Company of Dallas
Dallas Power & Light Co
Texas Power & Light Co
Texas Electric Service Co
Dr D M Wiggins to Speak at YMCA Dinner
Dr. D M Wiggins president of Texas Technological College will keynote the YMCA annual dinner at 7 tomorrow night in the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel replacing ill E Stanton Turner. The event open to the public with reservations 225 through the YMCA office 514 Taylor.
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YMCA
Herring Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
D. M. Wiggins
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Dr. Wiggins
E. Stanton Turner
Tulsa
H. O. Willborn
Ymca Board of Directors
Taylor
McCrary Still Unconscious After Auto Crash
Willie McCrary aged 18 remains unconscious at Northwest Texas Hospital with slightly improved but critical condition after a Sunday afternoon crash on Highway 217 east of Canyon. Teammate Tom McWilliams, 16, was discharged. Bobby McCrary and Eddie Chattin, both 16, remain hospitalized with multiple fractures. Mrs. George Thornton, 1215 Florida, is treated at St Anthony's for a con cnect fracture and fractured ribs.
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Willie McCrary
Travis
Northwest Texas
Young McCrary
Highway
Canyon
Tom McWilliams
Bobby McCrary
Willie
Northwest Texas Hospital
Eddie Chattin
West
George ©. Thornton
Florida
St. Anthony's Hospital
GOP Women's Club Meeting Set in Panhandle
The Republican Women's Club will hold its first monthly meeting at 2 PM Monday March 27 in Room 203 Herring Hotel. Mrs. W C Kenyon president invites all Panhandle Republican women. The program includes officer installation and an address by Mrs Walter Harang Kentucky State Federation president. Officers include Mrs Arthur W Ball vice president Mrs J Robert McNaghten secretary and Mrs Woods Coffee treasurer.
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Republican Women's Club
Herring Hotel
W. C. Kenyon
Panhandle
Walter Harang
Kentucky State Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
Arthur W. Ball
J. Robert McNaghten
Woods Coffee
Kenyon
John M. Hester Rites Arranged
Funeral services for John M. Hester 59 year old Stratford stock farmer will be held at 3 oclock Thursday afternoon in Stratford Baptist Church Reverend Upchurch pastor. He died yesterday in Northwest Texas Hospital Amarillo and the body is in state at the home of his daughter Mrs John Steel near Stratford Survivors include another daughter Mrs Bill Allen Stratford and a son Dwight Hester Stratford Auto dealers in Tijuana Mexico offer immediate delivery of any model for nothing down and up to two years to complete payment.
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Stratford
John M. Hester
Stratford Stock Farmer
Stratford Baptist Church
Upchurch
Hester
Sherman County
Northwest Texas
Amarillo
John Steel
Steel
Bill Allen
Dwight Hester
Tiajuana
Mexico
Damage suit filed over boy burns in Hereford incident
Robert Barnhart of Hereford files for $14,000 damages in 108th District Court on behalf of his six year old son Jimmy Barnhart against Robert R. Lindsey of Hereford and Jack Stafford of Borger. Plaintiffs allege Jimmy burned his leg on February 9 1949 after striking a match and open gasoline in a tractor shed near Hereford causing injury and medical costs. The suit seeks $4,000 for Robert Barnhart and $10,000 for Jimmy Barnhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barnhart
Hereford
Jimmy
Robert R. Lindsey
Jack Stafford
Borger
Jimmy Barnhart
108Th District Court
Pleads Guilty In Plane Theft Case
Robert Pryor Jr of Tulsa pleaded guilty in Danville Illinois to transporting a plane stolen at Amarillo across state lines under the Dyer Act. Indicted earlier and his case postponed to April 10 as federal probation officers investigate. The missing plane belonged to Leslie D. Atterberry of 306 North Buchanan.
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Robert Pryor, Jr
Tulsa
Okia
Danville
Ill
Amarillo
Pryor
Leslie D. Atterberry
North
Buchanan
Zanzibar Holds Under Fifty Thousand Livestock Estimate
Zanzibar officials estimate the island’s animal population, including cattle goats donkeys and sheep, at under 50 000. They note imports totaling about 15 000 head annually are necessary to meet demand and sustain the herds.
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Zanzibar
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Stanley Blackburn
Dean White
Winford Gattis
Rane West Texas Boot & Shoe Shop
Gantet
Canada
Taylor St
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Britain
Viscount Craigavon
Janitha
Jacaranda
Janric
Tech Prexy
Wiggins
el Paso
Texas School of Mines
Texas Tech
High Plains
McCrary
GOP
Globe-News
Bustin
Kuner
Spring Sale
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Geek Ap
Country Club
Old St. Joe
Goetz Brewing CO
St. Joseph, Mo
Kansas City, Mo
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Magnesia
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Floyd V. Studer
American United Life Insurance Company
Amarillo Bldg
Amarillo, Texas
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