Kountz Receives Suspended Sentence for Burglary
William Logan Kountz, 41, received a two year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a April 17 burglary of Maddox Drug Store at 500 Taylor. Entry was gained by smashing a front door. officers traced a blood trail to a hotel room where the suspect, who had a hand wound, was found. A note adds the cotton boll weevil's first appearance in Colombia.
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William Logan Kountz
Kountz
Maddox Drug Store
Taylor
Konitz
Dependable security through Christian Science text
Call today for priceless assurance as readers turn to Mary Baker Eddy’s With Key to the Scriptures. Sincere study shows how to seek practical peace by turning to God and trusting in Him, echoing the Bible promise from Isaiah 26 3.
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God
Ranger Wins First Place for Amarillo College Publication
Ranger topped the junior college division at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association meet held at Sul Ross State College. Editor Carolyn Tillman, a sophomore, led the bi weekly paper. Amarillo College also earned first in junior college advertising, Mary Helen Bufkin as advertising manager won first in junior college advertising contests. Eddie Henderson, a sophomore, took first in a short story. the college earned a third in general competition and a third in annuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Ranger
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Sul Ross
State College
Carolyn Tillman
Mary Helen Bufkin
Amarillo College
Eddie Henderson
April Building Totals Set New 1951 Record
April building activity led with 276 new home permits and 2,630,070 dollars in permits, breaking the 1951 construction total. May saw 48 Seale Company permits for North Highland projects totaling 192,000 dollars, bringing year to date to 9,166,967 dollars. Largest monthly permit was 250,000 dollars for an Amarillo National Bank addition.
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May
Seale Company
North Highland
Manhattan
Nelson
Seale
Amarillo National Bank
Extend Ceiling On Car Prices
Washington May 1 The government extended indefinitely the current ceiling prices on passenger automobiles and ordered manufacturers to reduce charges for cars delivered without a spare tire and tube. OPS said the fifth tire rules apply based on Dec 1 1950 charges, with standard or paid tire amounts used to set a new dealer net price and a retail ceiling adjustment forthcoming.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization Order
National Production Authority
OPS
Cattle Trader Odus Smith Dies in Fort Worth
Odus Smith, 67, general manager of John Clay & Co., livestock brokers, died in Fort Worth after emergency surgery ten days earlier. He led the firm for 25 years and served on the Fort Worth Livestock Association board of directors. Funeral services are set for tomorrow with burial in Gordon, Palo Pinto County.
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Fort Worth
Odus Smith
John Clay & Co
Gordon
Palo Pinto County
Fort
Alaska Highway: 1523 Miles, 113 Million Dollar Project
The Alaska Highway, built during World War II, stretches 1,523 miles in Alaska. It cost 113,824,220 dollars, required 233 bridges, and employed 18,659 men. The road remains 36 feet wide with a traveled surface 28 feet across.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Sandie Band To Carlsbad Concert Trip Teased
Amarillo High School's Golden Sandstorm Band will travel by bus to Carlsbad for a Friday morning concert at Carlsbad High School auditorium. The trip includes a Thursday evening dance by the Sandie Swingsters, a Caverns visit after the concert, and chaperones listed. Next week new leadership will shift Band director roles at the Rattan and White Music Company.
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Amarillo High School
Carlsbad
Carlsbad High School
Sandie
Carlsbad Band
Carlsbad Caverns
A. L. Chilcote
Charles Emmons
C. J. Bradford
Clyde Rowe
Weather Outlook The Big Blow Will Continue
Windy and cool conditions persist this afternoon and tonight with warming temperatures expected tomorrow. Measurable rainfall yesterday was scant, about .05 inches at Childress and .04 inches at Gage Oklahoma, while Amarillo recorded only a trace. Weatherman H C Winburn provided the forecast.
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Childress
Gage
Oklo
Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
Weatherman
Five Day Weather Outlook With Widespread Showers Likely
Southwesterly winds 30 to 35 mph are expected today. Temperatures to average about 3 degrees below normal over the next five days with light rainfall from scattered showers. Yesterday's high 67 and low 40. Tomorrow's high around 79 and low near 41.
Victim of 49 Gunplay Dies in Car Crash
Henry Gien Hynds Jr aged 32, shot two years earlier by Albert Chessher, died in a car crash near Memphis. His wife, from Birmingham, was seriously injured. Hynds belonged to a White Deer Texas family. Chessher had been convicted of assault to murder and given three to 21 years.
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Memphis
Tenn
Henry Gien Hynds, Jr
Here
Birmingham
Hynds
White Deer
Tex
Albert Chessher
Atlanta
Chessher
Hyynds
Australian unions hit record members in 1950 fourth quarter
Membership in Australian trade unions rose to 839,136 in the last quarter of 1950, the highest figure ever recorded in the country.
Lions Elect Boyd Meador Governor in Hereford
Boyd Meador of McLean is elected governor of Lions Club District 2T 1 at a Hereford luncheon closing the three day convention. He defeated Milton Morris of Canyon and succeeds outgoing leaders as international directors Elmer Stewart and Earl Baumann briefed attendees.
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Hereford
Boyd Meador
McLean
Lions Club
Meador
McLean Lions Club
Milton Morris
Canyon
Elmer E. Stewart
Earl D. Baumann
Stewart
Baumann
Marshall Harvey
Marlow C. Fisher
Hereford Lions Club
Betty Cole Given Five Year Suspended Sentence in Forgery Case
Betty Cole, 21, pleaded guilty in 47th District Court to forging a $20 check. The court suspended the sentence for five years, with her address listed as 714 North Wilson, and the crime dated March 14 at an Amarillo grocery.
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Betty Cole
47Th District Court
North Wilson
Amarillo
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Science and Health
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
9Th Avenue
Allied
Globe
Allied Youth Group
Co-Workers
Polk Street Methodist Church
National Treasury
Allied Youth
Jerry Ramsey
Center
Carole Grape
Toby Wise
Bobby Hibbs
Gerber
Coffee Folger’s
TIDE
Abe
Gge
J. W. Johnson
Jack Adams Market
Tyler
Globe-News
Clary
Taylor Hene
Lions
Raines
West Texas Boot & Shoe Shop
East 7Th
Thes
Kansas City
Los Angeles
POLK
Servel
the Cosmopolitan, Inc
Taylor Street
V. L. Taylor & Company
West
6Th Street
Borger New Keith
Consolidated Appliances, Inc.—Distributors
Dalhart Allender’s
Dimmitter & Equipment Co
Dumas Boxwell Bros
Furniture
Dumas Butane Gas Co
Farwell the Furniture Mart
Floydada Foote Butane & Appliance
Friona Blanton Butane Groom Witt Builders Supply
Grover Universal Oil Company
Hereford Commercial Oil Co
Littlefield
Ray’s Butane Appliance
Matador Freeman Thacker Butane
Memphis Household Supply Co
Muleshoe
Muleshoe Liquefied Gas Co
OLTON
Olton Butane Co
Paducah Powell Butane & Appliance
Panhandle Panhandle Hardware Co
Perryton
Perryton Liquefied Gas Co
Plainview Hardware Co
RG A. L. Wylie & Son
Plainview Collins
Quitaque
J. B. Baird
Roaring Springs
Thacker Supply Co
Silverton Allard’s Butane Co
Spearman
R. E. Lee Oil Co
Spring Lake
Watson Bros. Butane Stratford van B
Boston
Texline
Ohn
Childress Plumbing @& ee Co
Hugh Krow
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