Potter County to call liquor election at Nov. 10 meeting
Commissioners will decide at the November 10 regular meeting whether to call a liquor election in the county. Dr Neal Cannon filed petitions with about 1900 signatures. County Clerk Loren Jones reports 80 percent of names checked were qualified voters, surpassing the required 948, with some signatures not matching poll tax records.
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Texas Jaycee Leader Butler Tours Texas on Official Visit
Frank A. Butler Jr and A A Hyde arrived at English Field aboard a Pioneer aircraft to start a Texas Junior Chamber trip. Butler, elected in April and in office since July, plans luncheons and talks in Abilene Borger Perryton Dalhart and San Jacinto as the Jaycees push to bring the battleship Texas to a San Jacinto memorial berth. Butler notes 22000 miles already logged and jokes about home life with three daughters.
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Abilene
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Amarillo
Mr. Butler
Port Worth
Texas
Herring Hotel
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Perryton
Borger
Navy Yard
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Students to contest speeches during National Radio Week
Elimination contests for high school students in Amarillo take place this afternoon in schools. The event aims to showcase democracy advocacy under the theme I Speak for Democracy with final judging broadcast at 9:30 p.m. over station KFDA.
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St. Mary's Academy
Amarillo High School
Price College
KFDA
Voice
Amarillo
State of Texas
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Hermon Pipkin
Bill Kelly
Henry Blackburn
Appeals Court Denies Rehearing To Choinere Convicted Here
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overruled R. Choinere’s motion for a rehearing after his conviction for armed robbery. He was sentenced to five years for robbing the Ben Chilton Service Station at 749 North Fillmore. His home is listed as Detroit per jail records.
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Fillmore
Detroit
Mutual attraction and politics color royal turmoil
A fragment discusses a royal love affair and its consequences, noting an uncle’s history of a love affair costing him his job. It recalls a Tory government ten years earlier that deposed the king and sent him into exile abroad.
Cowboy Candy Maker Awaits 12 Million Parcel
Chicago reporter recounts Texas cowhand Lacy who expects a Mexico City parcel said to contain twelve million dollars from a will of Ray mond G. Clark. Probate documents name small legacies and a dubious charitable bequest to Bing Crosby as witnesses and heirs, with tax questions looming.
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Mexico City
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London
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Hollywood
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Poultry Ban Value Debated By Truman Aide and Cabinet
Food Conservation Chief Charles Luckman discussed dropping poultryless Thursdays from the grain-for-Europe drive with President Truman’s cabinet food committee. An Agriculture Department analysis weighed substituting a farm level grain saving plan for chickenless and turkeyless days. Luckman plans a telephone conference with his seven member executive committee before deciding on a formal meeting. Assistant Secretary Brannon predicted the committee would drop poultryless Thursdays within 24 hours.
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Truman
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Cabinet Committee
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Food Committee
Europe
Charles Brannon
Pittsburgh
Mexico Gives Senate Approval to Defense Pact
Mexico City reports the Mexican senate unanimously ratified the defense pact formed at Rio de Janeiro last month, formalizing Mexico's adhesion to the hemispheric treaty. The vote completed the ratification process and aligns Mexico with regional security commitments.
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Rio de Janeiro
Shangri la Moonshine Still Seized at Presidential Retreat
Treasury agents uncovered a large illegal whiskey operation at Shangri La on the Thurmont Maryland reservation near the Presidential retreat. The plant included a 100 gallon copper still ten 50 gallon mash fermenters and a 50 gallon condenser. The site was undetected because the retreat is virtually deserted when President Truman is away from the area.
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Soviet Leader Urges European Unity Against American Expansion
Zhdanov at the Poland conference warned against U.S. wartime policy to dominate other nations and urged European states to cooperate beyond capitalism or communism. He described the Soviet line as coexistence of two systems and said Moscow would work indefinitely with Europe to build reciprocal trade and resist what he called slave conditions.
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First Snow Predicted For Northwestern Kansas
Topeka Kansas forecasts indicate the first snow of the fall for northwest Kansas tonight as temperatures drop and a strong north wind blows. The US weather service warns of rain in northern counties by tomorrow with near freezing temps expected in the northwest as a cold front advances from the Rockies.
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Eisenhower to visit Kansas brothers and hometown
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower plans a Friday plane trip to Manhattan Kansas to see his brother Milton Eisenhower president of Kansas State College. He will also visit his hometown Abilene Kansas before returning to Washington Monday.
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Manhattan
Kan
Eisenhower
Abilene
Civil aviation talks seek highway reroute for airport extension
The Civil Aeronautics Administration and Texas Highway Department are negotiating a plan to re-route Highway 66 to allow expansion of the airport on the east side. The highway department previously refused the request at a recent conference.
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Texas Highway Department
Highway Department
Market Report Shows Mixed Trades Across Stocks Livestock
Merrill Lynch closes with modest gains in major indexes while Chicago livestock auctions report varied declines for hogs cows and steady to higher cattle prices. Hogs and cows slide while steers and heifers show mixed strength with light receipts signaling cautious demand.
Kansas City Livestock Prices Mixed on Oct 22
USDA market report from Kansas City shows cattle totals near 7 300 with calves 1 200. Good and choice grain fed steers sold early while cows remained active and higher by up to 25 cents. Hogs 1 600 mixed with declines. top at 27 75 for 200 300 lb. sows and stags also listed. Sheep 3 000 active with lambs and yearlings up to 50 cents higher.
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Moody, Formerly of Canadian, Dies
Funeral services for Tom Moody aged 72 will be held Friday in Los Angeles after he died Tuesday there. He was uncle of Robert R. Young, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and formerly operated cattle businesses in Canadian before moving to the West Coast. His grand-nephew Kenneth Young manages Pathe Enterprises in Hollywood.
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Los Angeles
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Kenneth Young
Pathe Enterprises
Hollywood
McGuinness Defends Film Critics in Wartime Debate
McGuinness recounts 1941 controversy over a film he says critics called a reflection on the Negro race. Names writers including Stewarts Hyde Kraft Collins Dassein and Ring Lardner Jr. he cites a Los Angeles Communist group the Thaddeus Stevens Club. He calls Mission to Moscow and North Star intellectual lend-lease propaganda.
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Hyde Kraft
Richard Collins
Jules Dassein
Ring Lardner, Jr
Los Angeles
Thaddeus Stevens
Eastus lunacy hearing ends with private placement decision
Clyde O. Eastus former US district attorney will be placed in a private Dallas institution after a disrupted Fort Worth lunacy hearing. Judge Kraft ordered custody and noted habeas corpus as the only route out. Eastus spoke to spectators and pressed for a writ while awaiting transfer.
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al Clyde
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Dick Blevins
Trains Collide Near Gladstone Injuring Twenty Four
An east bound Soo line passenger train and a Northern Pacific freight crash near Gladstone Minnesota injuring 24 five seriously. Sixteen taken to hospitals while eight treated at scene. Freight allegedly ignored a wait order and collided at speed as the passenger train arrived. Investigations to be opened by both railroads.
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Wallace Sees Eisenhower Winning Hands Down
Wallace said in Jerusalem that if Gen. Dwight Eisenhower ran for president in 1948 he would win hands down on either ticket. He predicted Eisenhower would be the Republican candidate and, with Harold Stassen, would carry most states against Truman, possibly even Missouri and all but the Southern states.
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Henry A. Wallace
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Harold Stassen
Truman
Missouri
Truman Refuses to Open Loyalty Files to House Panel
President Truman declined to disclose Civil Service Commission loyalty files to the House Expenditures Committee in a letter to Rep Hoffman. He said the records are kept confidential by the Civil Service Commission.
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House Expenditures Committee
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Michigan
France cabinet resignations shake Paris political scene
Paris October 22 1945 cabinet members submitted their resignations to Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier while he stayed in office. Ramadier indicated an intention to form a new government despite a grave economic situation and uncertainty about success.
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Paul Ramadier
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De Gaulle ally cabinet resigns amid rushed session
three days after De Gaulle victory observers said cabinet decision to quit aimed at aiding his return through Rally of the French People. Ramadier called national assembly into emergency session for next Tuesday as vacation ends November 12.
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France
Rally of the French People
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Ladd and Van Rooten Reunite in Paramount's Saigon
Alan Ladd and Luis van Rooten, famed hero and villain from Two Years Before the Mast, are reteamed by popular demand in acting capacities for Paramount Pictures Saigon.
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Luis van Rooten
Hero
Villian
Paramount
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