Bribery Case To Be Studied By Potter County Grand Jury
The Potter County Grand Jury will examine a bribery case involving former juvenile official Jack Grant who resigned after being charged with accepting a bribe from seven men charged with obtaining liquor raid protection. No indictments were returned in last week’s session. Further study is planned at Thursday’s meeting with officials noting no new developments.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Jack Grant
Liquor Control Board
W. W. Lamkin
Mark Lamkin
Vernon Slape
Clarence Jackson
Sylvester Wilson
Ralph Lowe
T. B. Freeman
Thursdday
District Attorney's Office
Amarillo
Kink in Texas car inspections debated at Panhandle meeting
Panhandle garagemen and Texas Department of Public Safety convened to address the new Motor Vehicle Inspection Act. They agreed to practical steps to raise vehicle standards before spring registration, with 25 cent per dollar inspection fees and 30 to 45 days for windshield stickers. Patrolman Alan Johnson will approve inspection stations starting next Monday.
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Panhandle
Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas
Public Safety Department
Alan Johnson
Austin
Tri- State Fairgrounds
Pennsylvania
Johnson
City Amends Air Terminal Use Contract with Air Force
Amarillo city commissioners scheduled to sign a revised contract with the United States for Air Force use of Amarillo Air Terminal and Amarillo Air Force Base. The deal, signed earlier, grants exclusive base use for $1 per year with joint landing field use and shared maintenance costs split proportionally between city and government.
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Amarillo
United States
Amarillo Air Terminal
Amarillo Air Force Base
Air Force Base
Auto Association finds yearly mileage declines after year one
The Automobile Manufacturers Association reports tests showing the average car travels 12,260 miles in its first year, with mileage dropping each successive year. In 1950, 1937 model cars averaged only 5,890 miles.
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The
Automobile Manufacturers ‘Association
Model for a New London Plan Shown by ICA
Londoners may see a streamlined metropolis with overhead traffic routes vast vistas and underground parking in a paper model exhibition titled London an adventure in town planning. Konrad Smigielski and 20 students presented five years of work backed by Sir Patrick Abercombie and Professor W G Holford proposing pedestrian avenues redesigned West End linked Trafalgar and Leicester Squares three level Piccadilly Circus Eros spared and a London Montparnasse by the Thames with skyscrapers beside St Pauls Cathedral Soho rebuilt with new culinary and film industry centers.
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London
Konrad W. Smigielski
Polish University College
Smigielski
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Patrick Abercombie
W. G. Holford
Ewan Phillips
Institute
K. A. Kapolka
Heart of London
West End
Trafalgar Square
Leicester Square
Piccadilly Circus
London Montparnasse
Thames
Chelsea
Strand
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Soho
Parking Ordinance Set For First Reading On East Tenth
City commission met to consider a parking ordinance banning angle parking on East Tenth Avenue from Fillmore Street to Birmingham. State Highway Department requires the measure for the East Tenth widening and the new underpass project with a deeper four lane structure and a divided roadway for four moving lanes and two parallel parking lanes.
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East Tenth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Birmingham
City Commission
Texas State Highway Department
Waitress Recovers Wallet After Diner Burglary
A waitress found Ralph W. Smith's wallet abandoned in the Shelton diner. Burglars had entered and stolen the cash register with the wallet inside before he could return.
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Indianapolis
Ralph Ww. ‘Smith
Shelton
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