Bob Hope to Attend Amarillo Welcome at Airport Field
Bob Hope and Pep Squad arrive by air at Amarillo Army Air Field tomorrow afternoon. Amarillo High School band will play Thanks for the Memory as Hope lands. Will Rogers Range Riders flank the reception while KGNC broadcasts the event.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Panhandle
Bob Hope and Company
NBC
Amarillo
Army Side
English Field
Hope
Will Rogers
Vera Vague
Comedienne
Jeri Sullivan
Desi Arnaz
Jerry Colonna
Clark Dennis
Wen- Gell Niles
KGNC
Paramount Theater
Miss Sullivan
Dennis
Paramount
Municipal Auditorium
Boys Ranch
Presidential Family Cancels Plans to Attend Mother’s Illness
In Grandview Missouri the Truman family scrapped engagements as President Truman keeps vigil at his gravely ill mother Mrs. Truman. Miss Margaret Truman postponed her concert debut tour while notes from Brig Gen Wallace Graham said no material change in her condition. The president’s condition and plans remained uncertain as the family stayed at the Little Yellow Cottage.
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Wire
Washington
Pittsburgh
Miss Truman
Mr. Truman
E. Truman
Wallace Graham
Mother Truman
Charles G. Ross
Grandview
Truman
Margaret Truman
TWA
Plans for Margaret Truman concert tour progress amid family illness
The Margaret Truman tour conference notes concerts proceed after the illness of President's mother Mrs Martha E Truman. Amarillo show set for May 28 through Panhandle Concert Bureau with box office reservations. Ticket prices range from 3.60 to 1.20 for students.
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Margaret Truman
Pittsburgh
Martha E. Truman
Miss Truman
Amarillo
Panhandle
Grandview
East Ninth
Weather Outlook For Amarillo And Vicinity
Clear mornings give way to partly cloudy skies with widely scattered thundershowers in the late afternoons and early evenings today and Tuesday. Mild temperatures continue in West Texas with scattered thundershowers mainly away from El Paso and Big Bend. New Mexico sees partly cloudy afternoons cooler northeast portions late today, with a 24 hour high around 80, while overall readings rest near mid 70s.
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Amarillo
West Texas
el Paso
Big Bend
New Mexico
Freedom of Press Upheld in Court Convictions Reversed
The Supreme Court reversed contempt of court convictions against Corpus Christi editors and a reporter from the Caller Times. Justice Douglas wrote the 6 to 3 opinion, with dissenting and concurring opinions by other justices. The case stemmed from May and June 1945 coverage criticizing a local lease-breaking case and judge Browning.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Corpus Christi
William Oo. Douglas
Fred M. Vinson
Justic Felix Frankfurter
Frank Murphy
Robert H. Jackson
Conway C. Craig
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Bob McCracken
Tom Mulvany
Nueces
Joe D. Browning
Browning
McCracken
Texas
Stanley F. Reed
Douglas
Wheat prices to stay high says Merrill lynch broker
Joseph P. Henican Jr a partner in charge of commodities for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Beane says prices will remain high at least one more season. He heads a 20 member economic pulse team touring the nation to gauge the outlook. Henican cites world grain surplus depletion and fertilizer shortages as reasons for sustained high levels and notes temporary price dips during harvests. The Merrill Lynch survey of the firm’s 95 offices aims for completion in three weeks.
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Joseph P. Henican, Jr
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Henican
Brokera Economic
Russia
Mr. Henican
United States
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
G. R. Coleman
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Youth of Russia Outnumbers American Youth
Dr. Homer P. Rainey president elect of Stephens College said in St. Louis that Russia’s youth under 25 outnumbers American youth nearly four to one. He warned American youth will compete with Russia for world leadership and spoke at Delmar Baptist Church and Third Baptist Church.
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ST. Louis
Homer P. Rainey
Stephens College
Columbia
Russia
Rainey
University of Texas
Delmar Baptist Church
Third Baptist Church
Fire injures 47 in Texas City harbor blaze
A gasoline fire at the Pan Massachusetts tanker and nearby dock in Texas City injured 47 seamen and damaged the Pan American Refinery dock. Crew members jumped overboard for safety as flames burned for hours. two tugboat workers were critically burned.
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Texas City
Pan Massachusetts
Volunteer Fire Department
Richard Clarke
Texas
W. L
Ladish
Pan American Refinery Company
Pan American
Yeggs' Safe-Crackers Target Walsh Food Stores
Police report two Easter weekend safes at Walsh Food Store No 3 and No 2, with losses totaling over 1000 dollars. A 3 by 2 1/2 foot safe was moved to a meat cooler at No 3 where the temperature was kept between 36 and 40 degrees. Investigators say amateurs likely cracked the safe, noting the removed handle and torn door. A second burglary at Brown's Grocery will be investigated as boxes of 22 caliber shells were found missing.
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Walsh Food
West Eighteenth
Brown's
Rio Grande
Police car falls into open manhole in Forest Park
In St Louis on May 19 the patrol car driven by Police Sgt. John E Rooney and officer John V Cunniff drove into an open manhole at Grand and Jefferson drives in Forest Park after the radio ordered them to investigate. The right front wheel became stuck in the opening.
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Johnny
ST. Louis
John E. Rooney
John V. Cunniff
Grand and Jefferson Drives
Forest Park
Power line snaps on New York bound train
Two unidentified passengers were treated for cuts and sent home after an overhead power line whipped through five windows of a left side coach on a New York bound New Haven Hartford train between Mt Vernon and 12th Street. Five people were cut by glass. only two needed medical attention as passengers dove to avoid splinters when the brakeman urged them to lie down.
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New York
Manhattan
New Haven
Hartford
Mt. Vernon
12Th Street
Actress Lucile Gleason Dies in Hollywood at 59
Mrs Lucile Webster Gleason wife of actor James Gleason dies at 59 found in bed at home from heart disease. She was a stage and screen actress and died in her sleep in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Lucile Webster Gleason
James Gleason
Janice Hoggins Wins News Tip First Prize
A feature about a boy who mistook a firecracker for a cigarette and suffered minor injuries won News Tip first prize of $5, with Janice Hoggins credited for the tip. Prizes of $3 and $2 went to Doc Vermillion for tornado reports north of Hereford and Ides DeLoach for a major hailstorm at Pampa.
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Janice Hoggins
Spring
Panhandle
Doc Vermillion
North Mirror
Globe News
Hereford
Ides DeLoach
Fillmore
Pampa
Robert Graham
North East
Phillips Shutdown Persists as Workers Return to Borger Plants
The Borger area sees a slow return to work as about 500 Phillips Petroleum employees and others resume duties amid a 19 day strike by the union operating engineers. Pickets flank six closed plants while officials report no immediate restart of production and no smoke at Phillips or Bonavista plants. Government conciliators are due this week as contract talks continue.
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Borger
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips
Bonavista
Huber
Norman Perkins
T. L. Cubbage
National Labor Relations Board
More Moisture Due Today and Tomorrow
The weatherman predicts scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers today and tomorrow. Rain totals reported across the Panhandle include Amarillo .56 inches and Miami .79 inches. hail damaged few structures near Pantex Village and Vega with 2 inch stones, while larger stones broke car glass and roofs.
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Miami
Panhandle
Adrian
Claude
Crosbyton
Follett
Lubbock
Memphis
Plainview
Canyon
Amarillo
English Field
Pantex Village
Vega
Dumas
Some Phones Still Silent
Striking Western Electric installation workers reestablish picket lines curtailing telephone service in several areas. In New Jersey main exchanges were heavily picketed while Illinois saw curtailment. New York workers crossed lines. ACEW with 20,000 members ordered resumed picketing pending negotiations. Amarillo offices operated normally. officials had no word on Western Electric plans.
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Washington
Western Electric Company
New Jersey
Bell Telephone Company
Estrabrunis
Bktisaa
Illinois
New York
Association of Communication Equipment Workers
ACEW
Ernest Weaver
Western Electric Union
Amarillo
Southwestern Bell
The
Telephone Company
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Katharine Fox
Telephone Workers Union
Western Electric
A. W. Thomas
Truman presses Congress for national health insurance plan
President Truman asked Congress to enact a federal health and disability insurance program with immediate attention. He framed sickness insurance as the missing pillar of national social insurance, calling for expanded public health services, research funding, and more hospitals in rural areas. The message, drafted with help from staff in Grandview, Missouri, frames national health insurance as essential to welfare.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Kansas City
Charles G. Ross
Grandview
Martha Truman
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