From Football Coaching to Latin She Puts Heart in Teaching
Mrs Mildred Miner stands out in Amarillo schools during summer school at Elizabeth Nixon Junior High. The longtime educator has moved from football coaching to Latin and leads popular over classes, becoming possibly the only woman coach of a winning team in the district.
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Globe
Mildred Miner
David Rasco
Amarillo
Central
Elizabeth Nixson
Miner
Caesar
Nee
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Liberty
Old Country
Mrs. Miner
Mrs. Miner Ends Long Teaching Career in Amarillo
Veteran educator Mrs. Miner, a longtime football coach and Latin instructor at Elizabeth Nixson, retires after 20 years in Amarillo. Her career began in 1909 near Liberty Missouri and included stints in four states.
Insurance Pledge Offers Hospitalization Coverage
Breckburn Shaw Life Insurance Co offers the best coverage and pays hospitalization bills. Phone 2-3234.
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Breckburn-Shaw Life Insurance Co
Plains highways seal coated in state contract
The State Highway Department awarded Warren and Purtell Inc of Lubbock a 98 566 bid to seal coat 123 14 miles of Panhandle roads. The project covers state federal and farm highways in Potter Moore Hartley Deaf Smith Oldham Gray and Dallam counties including Highways 51 273 119 136 66 60 and 54 from various endpoints. Seal coating uses asphalt and crushed rock to protect pavements from water intrusion.
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Panhandle
Warren and Purtell, Inc
Lubbock
State Highway Department
Potter
Moore
Hartley
Deaf Smith
Oldham
Gray
Dallam
Channing
Dalhart
Okla
Lefors
McLean
Dumas
Sunray
New Mexico Line
Caprock
Pampa
Roberts County
Chamberlain
Sherman County
Warren and Purtell
Weather Outlook For Amarillo And Nearby Regions
The forecast shows fair conditions this afternoon tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures today and a warming trend Friday. Partly cloudy skies persist across West Texas with warmer readings Friday and in Panhandle and South Plains tonight, and much colder in Del Rio Eagle Pass area tonight. New Mexico expects partly cloudy conditions this afternoon with fair tonight and Friday and cooler conditions in the south and east this afternoon. The high for the past 24 hours was 80 and the low 36 with noon at 51.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
Continental Divide
Reach Accord on Labor Bill Reached by Conferees
Congressional conferees reached final accord on a compromise labor bill to curb strikes and union activity. The draft drops a contested food processor exclusion, sets a five member NLRB, bans the closed shop, allows injunctions for national paralysis strikes, and creates a new federal mediation agency. A separate section limits standbys and restricts mass picketing. A child’s drowning in a Pa. yard accompanies the report.
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Washington
NLRB
Taft
House
Senate
White House
Truman
Congress
Federal Mediation Agency
Labor Department
Health and Welfare
Tax Bill Passed Between Senate and House Conferees
Conferees reach agreement on a four billion dollar annual income tax cut effective July 1 with 30 percent reductions for low incomes and 10.5 to 30 percent brackets for higher earners. The measure awaits final action in both chambers and a possible presidential decision by Truman who hinted opposition to tax cuts.
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Washington
Senate
House
Milliken
Colorado
Truman
Millikin
Barkley
White House
House Appropriations Committee cuts War Department budget
The House Appropriations Committee voted to reduce War Department funding by 475.8 million dollars, 8.3 percent, for the fiscal year starting July 1, with fears the cuts would weaken the Army and occupation programs. The panel aims for 1,070,000 personnel and promises payroll savings of over 293 million.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Army and War Department
Truman
Robert P. Patterson
Ballots Stolen in Kansas City Vault Theft
Police say safecrackers brought in from another city blew a courthouse vault and stole ballots and records from 32 of 255 precincts in the Fifth District. Federal and state investigators join the probe as attorney general orders a full FBI review to probe alleged fraud in the August Democratic primary.
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Kansas City
U.P
Fifth Congressional District
Roger C. Slaughter
Tom Clark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phil Donnelly
St. Louis
Clarence Raisbeck
War Plants Kept On Standby Status
The War Department plans to keep 43 war plants in standby status for quick use in a national emergency. Undersecretary Kenneth C. Royall told a House subcommittee the Army will retain title to 29 ordnance plants 13 chemical plants and one quartermaster corps station. The listing includes Dickson gun plant Houston Lone Star Ordinance Plant Texarkana Tex.
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Washington
War Department
Kenneth C. Royall
House
Army
Quartermaster Corps
Dickson
Houston
Longhorn
Marshall
Lone Star
Texarkana
Tex
Methodists Choose General Delegates at Northwest Texas Conference
Laymen completed their quota for the general conference in Boston while clerical delegates fell one short. Four lay delegates were elected, with two clerical delegates named. Bishop Selecman urged churches to meet their Crusade for Christ pledges as overall Methodism reported gains in offerings.
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Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Boston
Mass
al Asad Taoes
Civecu Wuey
James M. Willson
Floydada Lumberman
Tom Ellzey
Perryton
R. B. Bryant
West Texas
Ray Nichols
Vernon
J. O. Haymes
Lubbock
O. W. Carter
Abilene
E. D. Landreth
Amarillo
Ference
Central Conference
Wayne Cook
Roscoe
Abraham
Charlies E. Fike
S. Pranklin Weir
Selecman
Crusade For Christ
Harold G. Cooke
McMurry College
Conference Board of Temperance
Methodists
Boosters Of Clovis Greeted Amarillo Delegation
A bus load of Clovis Pioneer Day boosters arrived in Amarillo at noon. Mayor Hagy and Virgil Patterson greeted them, and a police escort led the group to Sixth and Polk. The visit included a bid to attend Clovis Fortieth Anniversary events and a June rodeo.
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Clovis Pioneer Day
Amarillo
Sixth
Polk
Opal Fox
Sunshine State
Lawrence Hagy
Virgil Patterson
Chamber of Commerce
Clovis
Santa Fe
Hagy
Los Angeles
R. B. McAllister
Jack Eichenberger
Lloyd Franklin
Fred Phelps
Don Griffith
Griffith
Curry County Mounted Patrol
Bovina
Ambarger
Hereford
Canyon
San Jon
Narc Visa
Tucumcari
Santa Rosa
New Mexico
Sally Shuttleworth
KICA
Panhandle
President Truman Returns to Capital After Kansas City Visit
President Truman flew into Washington from Grandview Missouri where his ailing 94 year old mother Mrs Martha Truman had shown some improvement. He landed at National Airport at 12 09 PM CST after a Kansas City leg and was met by Secretary Snyder and White House aides. Mrs Truman and their daughter Margaret were present.
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Washington
Truman
Martha Truman
Grandview
National Airport
Kansas City
Allies Create All German Economic Council for Reconstruction
Berlin May 29 Britain and the United States formed an all German economic council to direct reconstruction in the Anglo American zones. Gen Lucius D Clay and Lt Gen Brian Robertson announced the council will act under approval of the Allied military governments.
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Berlin
Britain
United States
Lucius D. Clay
Brian Robertson
Reds Demand Millions of Tons of Scrap Metal From Germans
Berlin reports Franz Neumann of the Social Democratic Party said the Soviet military administration demanded two million tons of scrap metal from the eastern zone and Berlin for 1947. He stated 1,200 workers would be used in the collection and warned the scrap was needed despite German poverty.
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Berlin
Franz Neumann
Social Democratic Party
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