Amarillo Panhandle Contributes to Friendship Train Effort
Amarillo and nearby communities raise funds and cargo for the Friendship Train. Flour and wheat loaded at General Mills and Producers Grain, with seven carloads of food from Panhandle towns. The Santa Fe line will haul the eastbound train, with various cities contributing cash and goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Amarillo
Hartley
Vega
Grover
Santa Fe
Clovis
Perryton
White Deer
Herb Lewis
Charlie Gunn
Childress
Clarendon
Memphis
Borger
Stinnett
Stassen faces questions on tides oil ownership at Texas visit
Harold E Stassen held a press conference in Texas citing a need for a definite stance on tides and oil ownership He plans talks in Amarillo Lubbock and other Texas points around January 20 He noted a telegram from Col B Creager of Brownsville welcoming him and said he aims to win convention delegates while avoiding Michigan primary opposition He warned Russia mis calculated the US mood and cast doubt on Kremlin plans See STASSEN Page 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
California
Stassen
Panhandle
Amarillo
Lubbock
Col . B. Creager
Brownsville
Colonel Creager
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Mr. Stassen
Kremlin
United States
Lewis Nordyke
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Dallas
Minneapolis
New York
Press Conference Highlights Truman's Anti-Inflation Plan
Harold Stassen press event previews in which President Truman asks Congress for a sweeping anti-inflation package. He seeks price ceilings selective rationing and wage controls, export and transport controls, and stop-gap Europe aid totaling 597 million dollars. He outlined a 10 point program and urged quick action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Europe
House
Senate
Congress
Mr. Truman
James Shera Montgomery
Department of Agriculture
Moisture blanket lingers over Panhandle with light rain
Light rain drifted across the Panhandle in a broad moisture belt extending from the Gulf to Kansas, with Amarillo at .19 inches by 6:30 AM and Boise City reporting snow on the border. Temperatures stayed near freezing with a 48 degree maximum forecast for the afternoon and continued light precipitation into tomorrow morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
New Mexico
Boise City
Okla
Amarillo
Weather Bureau
West Texas
Gulf
Kansas
Oklahoma City
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Fort Worth
Fort Worth & Nver
Pampa
Guymon
Clayton
Tucumcari
Childress
Lubbock
Elk City
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
The bulletin reports partly cloudy skies with intermittent light rain tonight, ending by morning, then colder tomorrow. In West Texas, rain today and tonight with freezing temperatures in the Panhandle, followed by colder conditions Tuesday. New Mexico shows scattered light rain in lower elevations and mountain snow, with rising temperatures Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
East Portion
FHA Repair Loans. No Day ne. Oo John Marnerd umr.
Fragmentary notes mention repair loans and a person named John Marnerd with unclear details. No date or organization clearly identified. The text is too garbled to extract a concrete event or outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Do Dayne
John Marnerd
Counterfeit Ring Busted Near Jacksonville in $68,000 Seizure
Secret Service agents disclosed seizure of 68000 in bogus twenty dollar notes and the arrest of 13 persons in a counterfeit operation extending from New York to Miami. The report notes withhold of purses for Jake Lamotta and Billy Fox by the New York State Boxing Commission after their Madison Square Garden bout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Federal Reserve Bank
New York
Miami
Secret Service
Navy
U.P
New York State Boxing Commission Today
Jake Lamotta
Billy Fox
Madison Square Garden
August 1 Proposed as Date For Palestine Independence
Canada today suggested next August 1 as the date for termination of the British mandate over Palestine and the withdrawal of British troops with independence for the proposed Jewish and Arab states under the partition plan. The date was offered as a compromise to Britain's plan to complete troop withdrawals by August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
Canada
Palestine
Holy Land
Britain
Bomb scare prompts embassy staff evacuation in Rome
Soviet personnel hurriedly left the embassy after a bundle was found in the lounge. Giornale D'Italia reported that police found three bottles of beer in the package with a note saying These are not bombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Loung
Giornale D'Italia
Amarillo Hosts Texas Farm Bureau Convention Delegates
Amarillo hosts the 14th annual Texas Farm Bureau Federation convention with 23 member resolutions committee hearings on freight rates oil conservation and farm support. The afternoon program includes livestock producer issues moderated by Herman Aaberg with Joe Hatton of Amarillo listed among delegates.
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Amarillo
Texas F
Hergricultural
Herman Aaberg
American Farm Bureau Federation
Livestock Department
Joe Hatton
Panhancue
Texas
To Be Named Tax Assessor for Schools
Pete Kinkead will be elected Amarillo Independent School District tax assessor at tonight's board meeting. Horace Lindsay resigns as tax assessor. Kinkead will take the school tax post Dec 1 after a two week vacation. He previously worked in both city and county tax offices and in the school tax office in 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal Brumley
Amarillo Independent
Pete Kinkead
R. P. Parcells
Kinkead
Horace Lindsay
Perry Burks
Hubert Cole
Bourassa Wins News Tip Contest for Week
Pat Bourassa of 1311 Western won first prize of 5 dollars in the News Tip contest. A second prize of 3 dollars went to a story about two citizens who burglarized to burn a radio at Roger Harris furniture store. Elmer the Rooster helped Mrs. Floyd Hershinger win third prize of 2 dollars. Checks will be mailed to winners.
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Mary Gae Parr
George
Pat Bourassa
Roger Harris
Tabor Keeling
Lamar
Elmer the Rooster
Floyd Hershinger
Elmer
Andrew Bedwell
Houston
M. L. Bishop
Pierce
J. E. Sissom
R. G Solomon
Tradewind
Charles Putnam
Harrison
Richard Solomon
Tradewinds
Lou Ann Morman
Monroe
J. R. Wrather
West Seventh
Connie Duncan
Frank Taylor
Hazel Husted
North
Lincoln
Don Hadley
Alabama
Roy Motch
Wichita
Joan Ann Dudley
Troy Handlen
Fairfield
Joe Clayton
L. L. Bonner
Jefferson
Ben Pate
Sunset
H. C. Burgess
North Fast Fighth
Costs Only Nickel To Stretch Time
The article explains that damp cold weather slows parking meter clocks, allowing motorists to get more than an hour for a nickel. The extra time increases with lower temperatures and higher humidity as the meter mechanism slows in wet cold conditions.
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Gibobe
Woodfin Camp
Charley Gunn
Lions Club
Herring Hotel
The
Producers Grain Company Elevator
Exchange Club
Polk Street Methodist Church
Globe
J. Howard Miller
George Shannon
Harold E. Stassen
Washington
Minnacota
Norton Spayde
City Shoe Shop
Taylor
Christemas
Russell Stationery Co
Bulletins
Williams-Borre Agrener
Neely
Greenhill-Lowndes—Insurance
Herhere Broa
Tavior
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