DAM PROSPECTS BRIGHT
The report says Amarillo shows its brightest dam prospects in four years with strong potential developments and favorable conditions for future projects.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1948
Page
1
Dam on Canadian River under study by Amarillo group
Amarillo officials and representatives from New Mexico Oklahoma and federal bodies push a basin wide plan for a Canadian River dam. Bill Warne outlines five steps including Tri State water compact support and municipal water purchase plans. Legislation may enable a basin wide program with cross state water usage and new funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Hagg
Amarillo
McCarty
Representatves
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Sachs
Mr McCarty
Lubbock
Panhandle
Army Engineers
Washington
Col
E. V. Spence
Texas Board of Water Engineers
Beauford
Washington, DC
Congress
Wame
Midwest Storm Paralyses Kansas Towns And 80 MPH Winds
The season's worst blizzard sweeps the Midwest with heavy snow rain and 80 mph winds in Kansas delaying trains closing roads and knocking out telephone circuits. Towns like Garden City Goodland and Dodge City faced outages while crews worked to repair lines and clear drifts as lines of cargo and passengers were slowed. Nearby states report coldest readings with Fraser Colorado at 9 below zero and widespread visibility deterioration across the region.
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Kansas
Atlantic
Oklahoma
New York
Fraser
Colo
Big Piney
Wyo
Sinclair
Trinidad
Pueblo
Garden City
Goodland
Dodge City
High Plains
Great Bend
Wichita
Hutchinson
Creed Dotson
Food Company
Here
Liberal
Kan
Edwin Lillich
Sublete
Telephone Company
Salina
Midwest
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Santa Fe
Amarillo
Super Chief
el Capitan
Kinsley
Training School Gridders Escape After End Run
Deleon five team members of Comet EEE from Cotecville State Training School eluded their teammates by slipping to the shower room and fleeing through a window after an end run attempt last night. Ereay ieee Se Comyn High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deleon
Wuh
Comet Eee
Cotecville
Ereay Ieee Se Comyn High School
Millionaire Winds Parking Fines as Bargain in Houston
Wealthy oilman Wesley W. West paid $1,000 in parking fines over eight months to keep his Cadillac in the bus zone near the Sterling Building. Police noted the scheme eased traffic delays on busy days, while fines funded department tills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Millonaire
Wesley W. West
W. P. Haley
Sterling Building
Uuar Sone
Barney Friery
Inspector Haley
West
Haley
Aner Nouston Pouve
Woman Held in 3 Poisonings
Fort Worth authorities charge Ada Bilbrey 51 with murder in the strychnine deaths of her husband G C Bilbrey 56 and her daughter Dorothea Duke 37 plus son in law Richard M Duke 31. Police began with the February death of Dorothea Duke listed as acute heart attack and later the October 28 death of G C Bilbrey followed by the Duke death 45 minutes later.
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Fort Worth
Ada Bilbrey
North Side
Port Worth
Vets Push Vote Rights for Land-Resident Fort Des Moines Vets
Washington radios report that two Iowa Republicans Senator Wilson and Representative Cunningham pushed a bill this year to grant voting rights to 1,100 veterans who were disfranchised because they live on government military land at Fort Des Moines.
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Washington
Iowa
Foxworth Rites Set In Dallas
Funeral services for W. L. Foxworth of Dallas president of Foxworth Galbraith yards, who died after a brief illness, will be held tomorrow at 11 in Sparkman Brand Funeral Chapel. Tobey Galbraith and John Armstrong head to Dallas. burial at Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery. Foxworth Galbraith yards span Texas New Mexico Arizona California. firm founded 1904. Foxworth survived by wife and three grandchildren. District manager says all yards will close tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Foxworth
Dallas
Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Yards
Sparkman-Brand
Tobey Galbraith
Amarillo
John Armstrong
Foxworth-Galbraith
H. W. Galbraith
Polk
Foxworth
Armstrong
Hillcrest Memorial
Dalhart
Galbraith
J. C. Galbraith
Paso
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Concord
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
Brisk Winds Persist as Amarillo Sees Gusts and Damages
Strong winds up to 35 mph continued in Amarillo this morning while the Panhandle surveyed yesterday’s wind storm damage. The outlook calls for more gusty winds this afternoon and warmer temperatures tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle
H. C. Winburn
US Weather Bureau
English
Polk Street
Southwestern Public Service
Enw
UN General Assembly Rejects Russian Arms Reduction Plan
The United Nations General Assembly rejected a Russian proposal to cut the armed forces of the U S Russia Britain France and China by one third in one year. Western backed plan to pursue arms reductions and regulations was approved. The Russian demand for immediate abolition of the atomic bomb failed as did attempts to apply the plan to Tran Curtais and other Soviet allied states.
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Associated Press
United Nations General Assembly
United States
Russia
Britain
France
China
John Foster Dulles
Tran Curtais
Poland
Yugoslavisianla
Bulgaria
Chiang Kai-shek
Wife agrees to housekeeper role after divorce bid
Beatrice Borla 35 agrees to return home as her husband Charles 38’s housekeeper with her own room and joint ownership of a $17 000 bank account while not resuming a marital relationship. The couple share two children and the judge approved the arrangement dismissing the divorce suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Beatrice Borla
Charles
Borla
Robert
Tom
Union Man Quits Job At Arena
Labor troubles persist at the Livestock Exhibition Building project at Tri-State Park. A carpenter foreman quit after reporting for work Wednesday afternoon and was visited by the county car penters leader that night. Two more union carpenters resigned while others refused to work citing weather delays. Four of the original five quit, including a long time county employee moved to other county work. Five more carpenters met with County Engineer Frank Harrison but declined to work until decisions with P A Almquist are resolved. An alternate crew of five including a foreman plans to start when weather improves. The contractors say county em ployees now handle recent departures and Ira Stephenson retains the demolition job. Stephenson’s county contract covers dismantling two large Dalbert Army Air Base hangars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-State Pair Park
Carpenters
Frank Harrison
P. A. Almquist
Parr
Harrison
Ira Stephenson
Stephenson
Dalbert Army Air Piess
ARENA
Mid East Monarchs Shed Wives Their Children Are All Girls
Egyptian King Farouk and Queen Farida end a 10 year marriage amid a claim of God’s will and a daughterless line of succession. Iran’s Empress Fawzia, sister to Farouk, is divorced due to health concerns from Teheran climate, with both nations stressing continued friendly ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Iran
Farouk
Farida
Fawzia
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Tran
Shah
Mohamed Reza Pahlavi
Actress Keeps Singing After Hair Catches Fire On Stage
Dorothy Sarnoff, star of Magdalene, refuses to break for fire on stage as a floodlight blast ignites her hair during act two. John Raitt smothers the blaze, while Sarnoff finishes the performance. She loses about one and a half inches of hair with no serious damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Sarnoff
Miss Sarnoff
John Raitt
Riatt
Weather Outlook Across Amarillo Regions Today
The Amarillo area forecasts fair weather this afternoon tonight and Saturday with warmer daytime temperatures. Overnight lows range from 26 to 32 degrees with Del Rio Eagle Pass area slightly above freezing. New Mexico warns of warmth through Saturday with highs near 35 and lows around 26.
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Amarillo and
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