47 Drive Of Chest Launches In Amarillo Campaign
The 1947 Amarillo Community Chest opens with a breakfast in the Herring Hotel where 300 solicitors begin a 10 day drive to raise 179500 for 16 social and welfare agencies. Dr W H Alexander spoke. Virgil Patterson and Jim Reynolds led ceremonies. slogan Everyone Gives, Everybody Benefits.
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Community Chest Funds
Herring Hotel
Big Gifts
W. H. Alexander
First Christian Church
Oklahoma City
Crystal Ballroom
Alexander
Amarillo
Virgil Patterson
Amarillo Diphtheria Cases Rise With Quarantine
The city reports three current diphtheria cases with five deaths nationwide in the year. Quarantined is Jimmie Forrest Galvin, 4, at 1102 East Eleventh, bringing Amarillo’s year total to 15. Also quarantined are Clarence Brewer, 7, of 1300 East Fifteenth, and J L Skaggs Jr., at 1701 East Tenth.
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Amarillo
Jimmie Forrest Galvin
East Eleventh
Clarence Brewer
C. A. Brewer
East Fifteenth
J. L. Skaggs
East Tenth
Police Question Suspect In Death of Rodeo Clown
Port Worth authorities questioned a 24 year old man after the fatal shooting of rodeo clown Richard Lee Fulkerson 23. Fulkerson was shot after leaving a cafe in the stockyards district. He was nephew of Jasbo Fulk freon a noted rodeo figure.
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Port Worth
Richard Lee Fulkerson
Rodeo
Pulkerson
Jasbo Fulkfreon
Rodeo T
City to vote Friday on ban of objects dropped from hotel windows
Kansas City officials move to outlaw dropping water sacks and other items from hotel windows after a beer bottle struck a resident during a recess convention severe injury, aiming for action at Friday council meeting.
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Kansas City
Nazis Begin March To Gallows On Midnight Time
News describes the pending executions of eleven Nazi leaders including Goering and von Ribbentrop at midnight amid secrecy. Talks note their last hours, with most reading the Bible, Rosenberg alone differing, and mentions of possible burial or cremation and religious reflections.
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Alfred Rosenberg
Adolf Hitler
Nuprnberg
Goering
Alfred Jodl
Hans Frank
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Rosenberg
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Meat dealers lift spirits as Truman decontrols beef
In Amarillo markets this morning, butchers and managers welcomed Truman’s decontrol of meat prices, signaling a potential beef surplus within weeks and a slower pork recovery possibly stretching into year end. Dealers expect high prices to ease with beef supplies rising first.
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Amarillo
Truman
Healiawad Amarilla
Wild bidding drives Amarillo cattle prices to record highs
Cattle futures surged as Amarillo Livestock market opened with $2 to $3 per hundredweight gains across all butcher cattle. A roan cow from R L McComb Vega hit $25.25 cwt, weight 1 040 pounds, total $262. Wilbur Taylor of Taylors Market Canaon led the top bid. Hog bids reached $11 above yesterday, but regional sales remained weak with no deals at the Amarillo office. A non scheduled sale is planned tomorrow to move stock.
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David Basco
Amarillo
R. L. McComb
Vega
Wilbur Taylor
Taylor
Canyon
McComb
Amarillo Live Stock Auction Co
Panhandle Livestock Commission Co
E. C. Quigley
Cudahy Packing Co. Mart
Panhandle
Apology To Reds Is Mild Apology To Reds Is Mild
The State Department said it deeply regrets any discourtesy shown to Russian Ambassador Nikolai Novikov by U S customs officials in New York. An investigation found no evidence of intentional breach of diplomatic etiquette. The embassy had protested that Novikov was detained over an hour at LaGuardia Field on Oct 4 and received no usual courtesies.
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U.P
State Department
Nikolai Novikov
U. S
New York
Department
Novikov
LaGuardia Field
Paris
Canyon
J. A. Hill
West Texas State College
Windy Nicklaus
Colorado College
RED Sox
Moses
Pesky
Dickson
DiMaggio
Williams
Moore
Schoendienst
York
Musial
Slaughter
Doerr
Kurowski
Moslem League Joins Interim Indian Government
In New Delhi on October 15 Vice Roy Lord Wavell announced the Moslem League would join the interim Indian government and named five members to take cabinet seats.
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New Delhi
Lord Wavell
Yugoslavia Walks Out of Paris Peace Conference
Yugoslavia boycotted the final Paris Peace Conference meeting claiming it acted unjustly on issues vital to Yugoslavia. Edward Kardelj warned that decisions on the Italian treaty could not be signed without changes, while U S Secretary of State James Byrnes urged unity and pledged support for conference recommendations with two thirds approval.
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Paris
U.P
Yugoslavia
Edward Kardelj
Luxembourg Palace
Kardelj
Council of Foreign Ministers
U. S
James F. Byrnes
United States
Russia
America
Byrnes
Selection of Jim Thomas Murder Trial Jury Begun
A 144 member venire is being examined in Sweetwater as prosecutors and defense seek a jury for Jim Thomas’s murder trial. Thomas faces death penalty after a prior Dawson County conviction was overturned and moved on venue. Dr Roy Hunt and his wife were found slain at their Littlefield home on October 26 1943.
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Sweetwater
Jim Thomas
Roy Hunt
Littlefield
Thomas
Dawson County
Father of Jack Benny Dies of Heart Attack
Mayer Kubelsky the 77 year old father of Jack Benny died of heart disease at his daughter's home after six years of ill health in Chicago. He was a longtime comedian in radio and film circles.
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Chicago
Mayer Kubelsky
Jack Benny
Florence Fenchell
Thief With Hangover Gives Back $42,000
John Rice, 44, oil worker, confessed to taking a envelope containing $42,000, life savings of Carl Dittman. He and two friends spent part of the money before deputies recovered most funds and Rice pledged repayment. If he kept the money he would buy a home and bank the rest.
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Houston
John Rice
Rice
Carl Dittman
Goose Creek
Erwin Jeffries
James Mitchell
Sheriff’s
Dittman
Guardian of U S Mails Ends Career
Amarillo news remembers Pat the patriotic dog who guarded the nation’s mail at Rock Island depot and Fort Worth & Denver stations. Pat died after being poisoned by a rat while on rounds with a San Jacinto sub-post office delivery. The longtime railroad and U S Mail service dog was celebrated for his quiet devotion.
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Pat
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Rock Island Depot
Rock Island
Fort Worth
Denver
Mirror theft puzzles courthouse sweep
The sheriff's office reports a missing large mirror from the men's wash room on the courthouse’s first floor. The mirror, 2 feet by 6 feet and in a custom ary place this morning, was found missing shortly after the janitor entered the room after noon today.
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Sheriff’s Office
Weather outlook for Amarillo and surrounding regions
Increasing cloudiness this afternoon with scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight and Wednesday. West Texas expects more clouds and showers from Del Rio to Pecos Valley and Panhandle. New Mexico shows widely scattered mountain showers, otherwise fair, with a 72 degree high and 52 low. Dry lumber ad from John Maynard Lumber Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
del Rio Eagle Pass
Pecos Valley
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
West Portion
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Texas
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JayCee
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Boston
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Eddie Johnson
Johnson
Amario Tent & Awning Co
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Dr. Hill
WTSC
U.S
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
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