Armistice Day Observance and Local Closures in Amarillo
Retail stores and wholesale houses will stay open while banks and all city county and federal offices close on Armistice Day. Amarillo schools will operate normally. Rev Lester Hill to give Memorial Day address at Veterans Hospital at 10 45 AM with veterans group commanders present. American Legion prepares 18th District convention decorations on Polk Street and urges merchants to display flags for Nov 11 1918.
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Amarillo
Chas. M. Rogers
Lester Hill
Veterans Hospital
Veterans
American Legion
18Th District Convention of the
Polk Street
Legion
Strife Over GOP Spoils Threatens Post Election Unity
Washington reports signs of intra party fighting as Republicans savor a landslide but scramble for top posts in the 80th Congress. Key battles focus on floor leader and Speakership with candidates Brown Halleck and Martin shaping the early jockeying. Budget taxes pricing and OPA fate top policy talks ahead of Jan 3 opening.
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Washington
Senate
House
Republican House
GOP
Knutson
Minnesota
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Martin
Clarence Brown
Ohio
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Brown
Habeck
Plains Roads Clear As Snow Wanes Across Panhandle
Transportation resumes with buses arriving in Amarillo while most routes reopen. Highway 287 north of Stratford remains partly impassable with one-way traffic possible. Weather warms to 58 today, 35 expected tonight as English Field notes no new moisture and life expectancy rises from 46 to 60 years between 1910 and 1935.
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Lizzards
Amarillo
Denver
Greyhound
U. S. Highway 287
Stratford
Continental Trailways
Trailways
Lamar
Colo
Sana Rosa
Albuquerque
Clovis
Panhandle
English Field
United States
Markets and livestock prices at Kansas City fair
US market report from Kansas City on November 7 shows cattle with 2,600 head traded and calves 600. Steers and heifers up to 50 cents higher, cows and bulls steady. bulk beef steers $19.00 to $23.00. Hogs 3,200 head, prices 50 to 60 cents higher, top $24.35. Lighter weights $23.00 to $24.35. Sheep 2,500 head, ewes strong, lambs above $23.50.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Chicago live market closes higher with Hogs Cattle Sheep
Hogs 13 000, market active with 50 to 75 cent gains and top at 23.75 for 180 to 300 lb bales. Cattle 7 000, calves 800, fed steers and yearlings steady to strong with most choice steers 29.00 to 32.00, beef cows 13.00 to 15.50. Sheep 7 000, slaughter lambs 50 to 75 cent higher with good to choice lambs 23.25 to 23.60 and ewes 8.50.
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Chicago
USDA
Local Property Transfers and Divorces in District Court
Warranty deeds list Julia Harvey and others transferring lots in Benton Highlands Belmont Park Annex Bivins Glenwood Denver Heights and McKinstry areas. District Court handles divorces for Byrd Byrd Lieberknecht. Marriage licenses issued to Martin Craven Conner Alford Rogers Smith McCandless Richardson.
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Julia Harvey
Bunyan Lilley
Benton Highlands
W. Davis
Hubert A. Wright
Belmont Park Annex
Miles Realty Co
J. O. White
Bivins
Margaret N. Shamblin
W. S. Biree
McKinstry, Gilvin & Williams
W. D. Monroe
Roy Mathes
Glenwood
J. H. Paul
Cecil G. Budd
Denver Heights
Paul E. Alstead
J. Frank Seney
Eva Jane Lemons
Holland Addition
Dorothy Louise Byrd
Harold Lewis Byrd
Ray T. Lieberknecht
Touchita Marie Lieberknecht
Teddy Arlington Martin
Viola Jeynell Craven
Gilbert C. Conner
Alice Morine Alford
S. P. Rogers
Willie Mae Smith
Jack Bartlett Fuller
Micheline Richignieux
Elder E. McCandless
Geraldine Ritter
Ray Graham
Norma Jean Richardson
French Girl Opens A Piano Door To New Life
Jack, a skilled pianist and arranger, plans to teach boogie woogie to a French girl named Annie aged 10, stepsister of Mickey, in a story about music and movement. Mickey is a former Paris performer with a French stepfather Andre Gucho, a singer with radio credits and plans to wax for a U S distributor.
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Annie
Mickey
Andre Gucho
Palace Theater
Paris
Unite States
Jack
Fagan Funeral Is Tomorrow
Samuel Turner Fagan pioneer Panhandle rancher and real estate dealer dies at 85. Funeral at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr. E. B. Fincher officiating. Burial Llano Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. noted long Panhandle residence since 1900, former Sherman County judge, rancher in Dallam County, active in real estate 1906–1913. Survived by two daughters, five sons, two sisters.
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Samuel Turner Fagan
W. T. Martin
Fred Pronger
Leslie Price
Laurence Ashley
W. H. Latham
W. H. McIntosh
H. L. Mauldin
Tom Jamison
Reese Jamison
Charles Kilgore
Charles Ware
Arthur Ware
R. C. Ware
Ben Smith
W. P. Strickland
R. C. Wilson
Otis Trulove
B. C. D. Bynum
Amarillo schools praised as strong in nation with evaluation plan
Dr Umstattd praised Amarillo's school system as among the finest in Texas and the nation while outlining an evaluation study. The process will examine curriculum guidance teaching methods administration pupil activities and facilities with 1100 items to review and a five year plan for final recommendations after test day. An India note mentions iron telegraph poles resisting white ants.
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Umstattd
Amarillo
Texas
Resignation Debate Split Among GOP Leaders and Senators
GOP National Chairman Reece calls the matter a personal issue for the President. Senator Guy Cordon of Oregon supports the proposal, while another Republican senator prefers not to step down to preserve check and balance. An unnamed Republican questions the move, fearing impact on government balance.
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Dent
GOP
Reece
Guy Cordon
Oregon
Kerr Rules Out Resigning Presidency for Republicans
Oklahoma Governor Kerr dismissed talk of President Truman resigning to hand control to Republicans. He doubted the Fulbright idea, saying it would not fit the American system. Kerr warned that voters will turn against Republicans in two years. Molotov paid a courtesy visit to Truman who had a head cold and stayed at the White House. Hannegan, Democratic National Chairman, was in Walter Reed for a physical. Seven percent of kindergarteners have faulty vision.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Robert S. Kerr
Truman
Kerr
U. S
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
England
Molotov
Hannegan
Washington
Missouri
White House
Charles G. Ross
Wallace Graham
GI University Ex-Chief Initiates Evaluation Study in Amarillo
Dr. J. G. Umstattd, head of the GI University at Biarritz, is in Amarillo to launch an 18 month evaluation of city junior and senior high schools. He will supervise the study as chairman of the Texas Study of Secondary Education group. The UT professor helped establish the Army school in France after meeting with faculty in 1945 and leading a large program that served about 11 000 GI students during its operation.
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Umstattd
Amarillo
Amarillo Globe
Texas
J. G. Umstattd
GI University
Biarritz
France
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Texas
Texas Study of
Washington, D. C
University of Bordeaux
Europe
Japan
Pacific
England
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