Tax bill setback in Texas House stalls natural resources levy
In Austin on May 6 AP reports Rep. Woodrow Bean failed to advance his natural resources tax bill as a special order by a 77 to 53 House vote. The measure would raise about 13 to 14 million dollars annually on oil gas and sulfur, while a separate gas levy seeks 29 million. Bean pledged to bring the bill up on suspension next week amid debates over spending and funding needs.
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Austin
House
Woodrow Bean
Bean
Claud Gilmer
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Kilgore
McAllen
McLellan
Senate State Affairs Committee
Finmanace Committee
Gilmer
Senate Finance Subcommittee
Senate Finance Committee
Body of Man Found on Santa Fe Tracks Near Kings Mill
A badly mangled unidentified man was found between two Santa Fe tracks west of Kings Mill at 7:45 AM. He wore khaki clothing, stood about 5 6 and weighed 160 pounds, with three tattoo sets on each arm and a memorial tattoo on the right. The body is at Duenkel Carmichael Funeral Home. The incident prompted wide speculation amid a Phillips shutdown affecting 3,000 workers and a major union meeting in Borger with 1,100 members in attendance.
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Kings Mill
Clyde Williams
Panhandle
Pampa
Carson County
Williams
Duenkel-Carmichael Funeral Home
Phillips
Goodrich
Bonavista
Borger
Ltee
Joe Rigdon
Union
H. R. Shepherd
Showers Forecast After Hot Amarillo Afternoon
The Amarillo area faces another hot afternoon with widely scattered showers. Highs near 93, overnight 58, with tomorrow's forecast around 94. Rain totals reported include .28 inch at English Field and other Texas panhandle sites. a 40 mph gust caused a brief tornado scare linked to a smoke column from a train.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
English
Adrian
Childress
Crosbyton
Dimmitt
Dalhart
Memphis
Clayton
Pampa
Lubbock
Roswell
Panhandle
Winburn
Federal Judge Dismisses Eight Million Dollar Action
A federal suit by 800 Black former Brown Shipbuilding Co employees claiming racial discrimination and pay disparity was dismissed by Judge T. M. Kennerly for lack of federal jurisdiction. The ruling ends an eight million dollar action filed in Houston on May 6.
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Houston
Brown Shipbuilding Co
T. M. Kennerly
Cat found in cedar tree after neighborhood search
Nikki Ince's Persian cat went missing from 3915 San Jacinto last Thursday. A neighborhood search failed until a passerby spotted the cat hanging high in a cedar tree a block from home, tail entangled as the furry owner mourned.
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Nikki Ince
San Jacinto
Nikki
Old Tack
Optimistic Break in Southwestern Telephone Strike Nears
Negotiations on the Southwestern Bell wage dispute moved to St. Louis with the company dropping arbitration demand and promising a cash wage increase before week’s end. The union lowered its original 12 weekly rise, while federal conciliators called the talks the most important session yet in the long lines phase. Three other negotiations continue in St. Louis as regional talks influence a broader settlement.
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Ashington
Southwestern Telephone
Washington
St. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Anton Johnson
Here
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Illinois
Johnson
W. Ellison Chalmers
Western Electric Co
Long Lines
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Bob Hope Ticket Sale Starts Soon For Amarillo Benefit
Bob Hope ticket sales begin in Amarillo with $25 donations to Boys Ranch. Donations fund a Paramount broadcast seating at the Paramount and a second Pepsodent show at the Municipal Auditorium. All proceeds go to Boys Ranch. Hope brings troupe to aid the water system project.
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Bob Hope
Paramount Theater
Boys Ranch
NBC
Boys Ranch Committee
Cal Farley
Ted Taylor
Polly Parrott
Paramount
Hope
Municipal Auditorium
Amarillo
Jerry Colonna
The
Boy Falls From Tree. Sister Sustains Broken Leg
Sherrill McCown aged 6 fell six feet from a walnut tree yesterday in Ontario California. His sister Barbara 5 was in bed and suffered a broken leg. Sherrill escaped injury and landed on his sister. The brief item ends with unrelated ad text about insurance and skating.
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Ontario
Cal
Sherrill McCown
Barbara
Sherrill
All Leads Are False In Child Kidnaping
FT ATKINSON Wisconsin May 6 Authorities face a blank wall in tracing 8 year old Georgia Jean Weckler abducted five days ago. Father George W Weckler appeals on Chicago radio asking the kidnapper to have a conscience and return her safely. Police say no hot leads exist and rumor she is in a hospital is untrue. A $6200 reward stands for information leading to the arrest of the kidnapper.
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FT. Atkinson
Wis
Georgia Jean Weckler
George W. Weckler
Chicago
Egypt Threatens Legal Walkout From UN Palestine Debate
Egyptian delegate Mahmoud Hassan Pasha warned the General Assembly's political committee of a legal walkout from UN Palestine discussions if the assembly fails to hear groups acceptable to Cairo. He insisted the move is not a withdrawal, though juridically it is, and cited Egypt's nonrecognition of the Balfour declaration.
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Lake Success
N. Y
U.P
Egypt
United Nations
Palestine
General Assembly
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha
Hassan Pasha
Palestine Mandate
Soft Coal Talks Recessed Until May 15
Government sponsored contract discussions between soft coal producers and John L. Lewis United Mine Workers recessed today until May 15 with a report that progress has been made. Coal mines administrator N H Collision said there has been no breakdown in the conference and that neither party has made demands. Southern operators will attend the next meeting.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
N. H. Collision
Weather Summary for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Partly cloudy to cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with little temperature change. In West Texas partly cloudy with a few thundershowers in the Panhandle and South Plains. No important temperature change. New Mexico partly cloudy with scattered light thunder showers mainly north. Cooler northeast tonight and east Wednesday. Low tonight 40 to 50, 50 to 60 south. high Wednesday 75 to 85 north and east, 85 to 95 southwest. 24 hour highs 83, low 56, high 84. Precipitation 2g inch.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Hoon
Firing Squad for Kesselring Death Sentence in Italy
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was sentenced to death by a British military court in Venice for war crimes including the Ardeatine caves massacre and civilian deaths in 1944. The five man tribunal ordered his execution by shooting, with ratification possible by higher authority. He was transported from an Italian camp to the court, where locals booed as he was led away.
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Venice
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Kesselring
Ardeatine Caves
Rome
Eberhard von Mackensen
Kurt Maeltzer
Seventh Army
Albert
England
Germany
Ensen
Maeltzer
London
Latenser
Grand Canal
Mestre
Higgins Building Okayed After Tornado Damage
Dallas officials authorized 361 600 in commercial rebuilding in Higgins after a tornado. Emmet H Hiett director of the OHE district construction office announced 24 building permits were issued on the spot for nonhousing work.
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Dallas
Higgins
Emmet H. Hietz
OHE
Charles J. Hinckley
Hiett
Hinckley
Oklahoma
Texas
Grain Prices Out of Line Millers Told
CHICAGO May 6 President W P Bomar of the Millers National Federation said American flour consumption was at an all time low and grain prices were far above reasonable values He warned that the new crop year would bring more uncertainty and hazards as production declines and costs rise due to higher margins He blamed government cornering of the market for price boosts.
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Chicago
U.P
W. P. Bomar
The
Millers National Federation
Bomar
Fort Worth
Aggie Vets’ Drive for Funds Stalls at Texas A&M
COLLEGE STATION May 600 The Student campaign to raise money for continuing the fight between the Veterans Students Association and the Aggie administration bogged down with only 125 attendees at a meeting last night. President William S. Andrews had announced a dollar per member would be contributed and he said he was disappointed in turnout, expecting at least 2,000.
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College Station
Veterans Students Association At
Texas A&m
Aggie
Veterans Association
William S. Andrews
Amarillo
Andrews
Widespread infant Plague Claims Its 27th Victim
An outbreak of infant diarrhea in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey claimed its 27th victim, a 10-day-old Mary Ann Pleva of Emmaus, who died at Allentown General Hospital. Five other children were ill with gastroEnteritis in the same hospital, described as borderline and fair.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Mary Ann Pleva
Emmaus
Allentown
Pa) General Hospital
Piera
Sacred Heart Hospital
Boy Severely Injured in Tractor Accident Near Greenville
Four year old Tommy McLemore of Point Texas is hospitalized with severe injuries after his father inadvertently ran over him with a tractor as he slept at the end of a plowed field. The accident occurred while the father was turning at the end of the row. The boy suffered a badly cut lung and multiple bruises.
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Greenville
Tommy McLemore
A. L. McLemore
Point
Tex
Texas Prison Board Frees Inmate From Dog Training Decoy Duty
The Texas Prison Board granted an inmate relief from acting as a human decoy in bloodhound training after he suffered multiple dog bites. Board members described the decoy practice as a routine method, noting the decoy had been hospitalized with sores and that dogs are trained using human decoys to be effective.
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Texas Prison Board
T. N. Whitehurst
Beaumont
Harlem Farm No. 1
Whitehurst
Claude McCann
Victoria
D. W. Stokes
Snowplow incident lands driver in jail in Kenosha
In Kenosha on May 6 John Zieck a 38 year old truck driver sat in a jail cell after a night of drinking and an ultimatum to his wife led him to crash a 10 ton snow plow through the front of a tavern. Nine patrons fled as glass fell and bricks toppled. Mrs Zieck ordered another beer and the pair returned home, but Zieck faced multiple charges.
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Kenosha
Wis
John Zieck
Zieck
Stubblefield's Spring Bedspread Week In Stock
Stubblefield offers over 100 bedspread patterns including Chenilies Bates and Hobnatis with more than 1 000 spreads available during the spring event.
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Stubblefield
Chenilies, Bates & Hobnatis
Eyes Have Nine Lives Found In Henhouse Nest
In Medford Oregon on May 6 Mrs. Fred Lander checked her henhouse and found two newborn kittens beneath a clucking hen. The incident shows unexpected animal births in an ordinary setting.
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Medford
Ore
Fred Lander
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