Green Light For Hospital Adds Northwest Texas Project
County Judge Eugene Jordan announced final approval from the Texas State Department of Health to begin construction of the Northwest Texas Hospital addition. Walter Wirtz Construction Company, the low bidder, may start soon with nearly 1.5 million dollars in work. Also notes a separate highway construction notice for a metal warehouse in Miami Texas with bids due December 8, 1950 and wage rate requirements.
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Northwest Texas Hospital
Eugene Jordan
Texas State Department of Health
Jordan
Walter Wirtz
Turkey
Britannica
Miami
Texas
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo
Texas Highway Commission
James G. Lott
Rites Tomorrow For Miss Gifford
Funeral services for Frances Elanor Gifford of Los Angeles formerly of Amarillo will be held at 10:30 a m tomorrow in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr Francis W Pritchard officiating Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Pallbearers are Raymond Wright J C Lilly C A Carpenter R B Nutt Jr Dick Williams and J L McCarty Gifford 32 was killed Friday night near Santa Monica in a traffic accident She was a Navy nurse during the war a UCLA graduate and public health nurse for Los Angeles Survivors include three sisters and five brothers apart from her parents
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Frances Elanor Gifford
Los Angeles
Amarillo
James O. Gifford
Tennessee
Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel
Francis W. Pritchard
First Presbyterian Church
Llano Cemetery
Raymond Wright
J. C. Lilly
C. A. Carpenter
R. B. Nutt, Jr
Dick Williams
Community aircraft aids Malmesbury weed spraying effort
Farmers in the rain sodden Malmesbury region of South Africa have pooled funds to purchase a community aircraft. The plane will be used to spray weed killers across their lands where tractor and heavy spraying equipment cannot operate.
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Malmesbury
South Africa
Parks on Trial In Shooting in Ellwood Park
W B Parks aged 44 stood trial in 47th District Court for assault with intent to murder in the July 19 Ellwood Park shooting that wounded R R Garner of Mesquite. Parks claimed self defense after an argument about rain crows and labor. Garner allegedly threatened with a knife.
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Ellwood Park
47Th District Court
W. B. Parks
Parks
R. R. Garner
Mesquite
Tex
Henry
Bishop
Potter County
Jail Breakers Sought Near Mountainair
Fort Sumner New Mexico guards pursue two escaped soldiers identified as Pfc Paul Beck and Cpl John Henry Cox after their jail break. The pair used stolen cars across Texas and New Mexico and fled west toward wild country near the Rio Grande. They boarded a train at Amarillo to Clovis and are now at large. A fourth car was reported stolen yesterday as officers track their movements.
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Fort Sumner
Mountainair
Amarillo
Clovis
Pfc
Paul Beck
Cayuga
Neb
Cpl
John Henry Cox
Mt. Vernon
Texas
New Mexico
Roy Skipworth
Rio Grande
Skipworth
Camp Hood
Fort Worth
Albuquerque
Boys fined for cruelty to rabbit in Cork race incident
Two boys in Cork were fined a total of $25 after a policeman witnessed Sean O Connell and Robert Walsh release a rabbit tied by its hind legs and torment it to sharpen a greyhound for a race. The youths claimed no intended cruelty, saying the rabbit’s death was to give the dog an edge for that evening’s track event.
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Cork
Eire
Sean O'Connell
Robert Walsh
Set High School Tests for Veterans at Amarillo High
World War II veterans who left school may take General Educational Development tests tomorrow and Thursday in Room 206 at Amarillo High School. The 10 hour exam runs 5:30 to 10:30 each night, with a $5 fee. Eligible veterans must show discharge papers and apply through Miss Minnie Feierabend.
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Amarillo High School
Minnie Feierabend
No Democrat Help From Aged Voter In North Grafton
In North Grafton Massachusetts 103 year old J Osgood Nichols declares he has always voted the straight Republican ticket and says Democrats cannot expect any assistance from him.
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Grafton
Mass
J. Osgood Nichols
Nichols
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Farm Association
Amarillo National Farm Loan Association
VFW Hall
Jess J. Hill
Bushland
A. E. Roark
Vega
E. E. Adams
Fred Cotton
Globe
Norman Wyatt Neece
Robert B. Neece
North East
Clydene Fouse
Robert
Forest Hill School
Roy
Miss Gifford
West
Folger
Folge & CO
Skipw
Sth
India
Northern Ireland
County Antrim
Gusure
Hartford Barfield
BCU
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Norden
Starlac
Ces
Marguerite Piazza
Au Legion of Ambers
Wwe
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