Local Option Vote Set For Nov 11 In Potter County
Potter County Commissioners Court will set the first local option election date since the early 1900s for 9 AM November 11. Voters from Bushland precincts 23 24 and 25 filed a petition with 80 signatures, 60 of whom were qualified, meeting the 10 percent of the last presidential vote requirement. The west county precincts will be affected by the vote.
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Potter County
Potter County Commissioners Court
Commissioners Court
Commissioners Precinct 3
Bushland
Joe Gray
Western Avenue
Pheasant Drops into Dob Robertson's Corn Stalks Visit
In Twin Falls Idaho on October 29 2 Dob Robertson hunted pheasants for two days with no success. He went to gather corn stalks for the American Legion Hall when a pheasant suddenly jumped from the stalks and landed in his hands.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Dob Robertson
American Legion
Little Theater Opens 1946 47 Season With I Remember Mama
Amarillo Little Theater starts its 1946 47 season tonight at 8 15 in Municipal Auditorium with John van Druten's Broadway hit I Remember Mama. The play is directed by Oma Link Rowley and asks patrons to be seated by curtain time.
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Amarillo
Unrest in Budapest After Championship Soccer Match
Budapest reports an anti Semitic disturbance Saturday after a national championship game left an undetermined number of people injured. Two individuals were arrested as authorities worked to restore order.
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Budapest
Chiang Kai-shek uses Dairen issue to pressure Soviets
Observers in Shanghai interpret Chiang Kai-shek’s push on Dairen as a quiet signal to the United Nations that Soviet troops remain in the free port. The 14 month Sino Soviet treaty had promised free port status for Dairen, and analysts speculate a peaceful Soviet withdrawal to Port Arthur could follow.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
Dairen
United Nations
Chiang
Peiping
Associated Press
Tom Masterson
Port Arthur
China
Shantung Peninsula
Amarillo Weather Coy Cold Front Teases Panhandle
Weather observers at English Field report a reluctant cold front flirting with the Panhandle, making several passes without full invasion. A few scattered showers are predicted tonight or Wednesday as another front heads toward the region in several days.
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General Panhandle
Train Strikes Truck Shoved Into Yard In Indiana
In Crawfordsville Indiana Lester Arthur Shelton 51 was driving a truck when a speeding passenger train hit it. The impact shoved the truck into a yard causing it to remain in gear and push back into the train. The vehicle bounced about a half block before disentangling. Shelton received minor injuries.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Lester Arthur Shelton
Shelton
Victim Identifies Suspect in Assault Near Wylie
A 16 year old Wylie girl identified a Mesquite man, 25, as the assailant who dragged her escort from a movie party van and assaulted her on a lonely road near Wylie. The incident echoes the Texarkana phantom killer cases under investigation.
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Wylie
Collin County
James A. Parker
Mesquite
Parker
Texarkana
Polly Ann Moore
Richard Griffin
Betty Jo Booker
Paul Martin
Virgil Starks
Mother Faces Court Charge For Beating Teacher
Fort Worth report says Mrs. Roy Andrews faced assault and battery charges after she confronted elementary principal Eula C. Nation over paddling her son Robert. Nation testified Andrews knocked her from her chair, broke her glasses, scratched and punched.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Roy Andrews
Robert
Eula C. Nation
Andrews
Square Dance Sell Out at Amarillo College Gym
Amarillo crowds fill 600 advance tickets for National Square Dance Contest at Amarillo College gym tonight at 7.30. No reserved seating. standing room only tickets on sale then. Judge Jim Clossin from El Paso and Burns Family String Band provide entertainment. 9 sets tonight with 3 finalists tomorrow night.
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Amarillo College
Grady Wilson
Arle Lara
Amarillo
Phillips
Heelandtoe
Jack Warren
Jim Clossin
el Paso
Southwest
Weather forecast for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Partly cloudy with a few widely scattered showers tonight and Wednesday, warm. West Texas shows similar conditions today through Wednesday. New Mexico expects clouds and showers in the mountains with little temperature change. High 80, low 59, noon 72. E A Regal Co Real estate and loans. Dry lumber promotion by John Maynard Lumber Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Stranglehold on Shipping Removed Ends major labor fights and Truman view
President Truman said a coal mine strike would be avoided by Nov 1 though government not agreeing to a new UMW contract. In New York the maritime and trucking strikes eased as unions reached agreements and shipments resumed, with longshoremen unloading sugar and drivers gaining 40 hour pay and vacation terms amid broad settlement signals. Washington mediation shows no progress in the Trans World Airlines pilots dispute.
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Truman
Interior
J. A. Krug
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
New York
Gulf Coast
APL, Masters, Mates and Pilots Union
East Gulf Coast
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Atlantic
APL Tearmsters Brotherhood
David Kaplan
Teamsters Union
Washington
Trans World Airlines
Churchill grills Commons on Russian troop deployment
Churchill asked in the House of Commons last week if 200 Russian divisions were on duty between the Baltic and Black Seas. He said Stalin’s reply to Hugh Baillie’s questions omitted heavy Soviet concentrations in the Leningrad and Odessa regions and did not include that former enemy state.
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House of Commons
Baltic
Black Seas
Stalin
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Leningrad
Odessa
Tion
Europe
Romania
Moscow
Tass
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Bulgaria
Poland
London
France
Scandinavia
West
Winston Churchill
Ussr
Vienna
Black Sea
Japan
Mediterranean
Soviet Leaders Clash Over War Losses Details
In a disputed exchange, officials argued over casualty figures with references to heavy Soviet concentrations in the Leningrad and Odessa regions. The debate highlighted disagreements on wartime losses and strategic impact.
Stalin Reasserts Stand on the Veto
Stalin states 60 divisions in the West and says the veto is not overworked. He answers 31 questions in an exclusive interview by telegrams between London and Moscow. He notes Yugoslavia’s dissatisfaction with the Italian peace treaty and hopes for peace accords among wartime allies.
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Hugh Baillie
United Press World
United Pres
London
U.P
Russia
West
United States
Marsal Stalin
Moscow
Russian Writer Sees No Likelihood of Another War
Boris Izakov a Moscow Pravda correspondent and veteran major with partisans in Leningrad speaks at the United Nations Hall in Flushing. He says Soviet troops respect Americans and attributes his survival to care from taken by nurses as German lines fell back. He expresses hope for peace and notes his 6-year-old son Igor has seen too much war.
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Boris Izakov
Moscow
Pravda
Leningrad
Izakov
United Nations
Igor
Father
Russia
Paris
UN Ears Tuned to Molotov
The United States said it would approach Russia directly to end the veto dispute amid Generalissimo Stalin’s defense of the veto. Secretary Warren R. Austin planned a private compromise with the five major powers, including Russia, as the UN assembly resumed debate and awaited Molotov’s expanded policy remarks.
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New York
United States
Russia
United Nations Assembly
Warren R. Austin
Stalin
Molotov
Rail crash near Flagstaff kills four men
Four men died and two were injured in an early morning collision of a train about 21 miles east of Flagstaff, Coconino County sheriff's office reported. The incident blocked the line and prompted inquiries into the wreck.
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Ariz
Here
Coconino County
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