Grain and Livestock Markets Turn Higher on Sept Market Day
Merrill Lynch closes show gains across stock averages as grain prices mix on the Chicago Board of Trade. Kansas City cattle and hogs rise, with US buyers paying up for good weights and tight hog supplies lifting top quotes to near record levels. Chicago livestock follows with higher hogs and cattle led by 180 to 260 pound hogs at 29.00 to 29.60 and steady to higher cattle bids.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
USDA
Market Summary for Cattle and Sheep Auctions
Good and choice steers and yearlings sold to 2750 dollars with top per head around 32 to 35 dollars. Cows firm and bulls steady to lower, vealers firm at 25.50. Sheep bids light with native spring lambs around 25 dollars and two loads of yearlings held near 25 dollars.
Population forecasts revised upward to 1990 peak 164 million
Washington report updates US population projections based on 1945 census estimates. The revised Thompson Whelpton method raises the 1990 peak to 164 585 000 from 161 385 000 and shifts the 2000 projection to 163 312 000, reflecting wartime birth rate behavior.
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Washington
United States
Warren S. Thompson
P. K. Whelpton
Scripps Foundation For Research In
Thompson-Whelpton
Whelpton
Jacob S. Siegel
Hope T. Eldridge
US Census Bureau
Census Bureau
America
England
France
Charge Government Defrauded Under Nine War Contracts
Counsel E L Fisher of the General Accounting Office told a congressional committee that nine war contracts fraudulently obtained 3 006 515 from the government. The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp received 650 355 in the largest overpayment, while 2 925 689 was the largest total fraudulently obtained. Rep George H Bender called for a full inquiry into all government aircraft contracts.
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Washington
E. L. Fisher
General Accounting Office
Congressional Investigating Committee
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
Fisher
George H. Bender
Ohio
Republican
Gromyko Accuses U S of Sabotaging Atomic Plan
At Lake Success on September 10 Andrei Gromyko accused the United States of undermining efforts for international atomic control and trying to dictate terms. Frederick H. Osborn denied the charges as false. Action on the second United Nations atomic report was postponed to tomorrow.
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Lake Success
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
United States
Frederick H. Osborn
Gromyko
United Nations
Amarillo Aeroneers Reorganize Meeting Tonight
Amarillo Aeroneers a model airplane club will meet at 7 30 tonight in Senior High School for reorganization. Ollie Crawford aviation chairman of the Exchange Club sponsor of the organization called the meeting.
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Amarillo Aeroneers
Ollie Crawford
Aviation
Exchange Club
Radio Transmitting Equipment From America Reaches China
Radio transmitting gear from the United States is being installed in China as part of a technical exchange agreement. Officials say the setup aims to boost communications capability and support further industrial cooperation between the two nations.
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America
China
Veterans enroll in Amarillo College Vocational School programs
Forty five new veteran students register for combined welding and radio maintenance courses at Amarillo College Vocational School. Eligible veterans receive subsistence allowance tools and equipment from the Veterans Administration. A new director leads Amarillo Vocational School as they expand with more machinery and better instruction. Another registration is set for seven o'clock next Monday night at the Vocational Building.
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Amarillo College Vocational School
Sidney Wilson
M. Wilson
Veterans Administration
Amarillo Vocational School
Arillo College
State Department of Vocational Education
Wilson
Five Axis satellite peace treaties set for ratification
The British Foreign Office said the Allied peace treaties with Finland Bulgaria Romania Hungary and Italy would be ratified in Paris and Moscow on September 15. Instruments of ratification will be deposited in Paris with France and in Moscow at the Kremlin. Troop withdrawals within 90 days are to free Allied occupation forces where not needed for essential communications. Russia will withdraw from Bulgaria but keep lines of communication troops in Romania and Hungary.
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British Foreign Office
Paris
Moscow
Foreign Office
Russia
France
United States
Finland
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Kremlin
Germany
Austria
France offers Indochina transfer to Viet Namese under union terms
Paris reports Emile Bollaert the French high commissioner urged Indochina be governed by Viet Namese within the French union. He pledged no reprisals, offered a prisoner exchange, and said the deal must be accepted as a whole.
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Paris
France
Indochina
Emile Bollaert
Handong
Saigon
Republic
Bollaert
Three Die in Crossing Crash in Oklahoma City
A brother Grady E. Haley and his sisters Mrs. Floyd Waters and Mrs. Eddie Ethel Meany were killed when their car was struck by a Santa Fe switch engine at a crossing in Oklahoma City. The trio had been returning from Wills Point Texas after attending the funeral of Bob Haley and their parents live on a farm near Plainview.
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Santa Fe
Grady E. Haley
Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co
Moody O. Wallis
Crockett
Floyd Waters
Eddie Ethel Meany
Arcadia
Okla
Wills Point
Texas
Bob Haley
Plainview
Pauls Valley
Child's LD Call To Pope Cost Her Dad Only 35.60
Rita Banford an 11 year old girl phoned Vatican City to thank the Pope for a Hollywood Bowl concert. A Monsignor Carroll answered and promised to deliver the message. The family faced a 35.60 telephone bill and watched Rita’s calls closely.
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Los Angeles
Rita Banford
Vatican
Hollywood Bowl
Vatican City
America
Carroll
Rita
Frank Banford
Opera Star Licia Albanese to Sing in Amarillo Concert
Opera star Licia Albanese, a favorite from the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, will guest with the Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra on February 7. This marks her first public appearance since illness, following a Hollywood Bowl recital earlier in the month. She will perform a varied program of Russian, French, Italian art songs and American works.
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Amarillo
The
Metropolitan
Neptune’s ocean decree targets Truman during Equator crossing
Aboard the USS Missouri King Neptune indicts President Truman and his White House party as polliwogs in a mock ritual. Newsmen relay the order prescribing costumes for civilians aboard including Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret, as the equator crossing preparations unfold with a dunking tank and Neptune’s arrival.
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Chiang Kai-shek says China can ride out crisis without aid
Chiang Kai-shek told the Kuomintang executive committee that China can endure the current economic crisis for two more years without foreign assistance. He criticized financial authorities for overreliance on foreign loans and urged currency reforms after the war when assets were available to complete the plan.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Kuomintang
Government Party
China
Japanese Prison Camp Survivor Returns Home as Amarillo Officer
The article recounts Artereburn Tsuchiya's brutal wartime captivity and forced labor in a Japanese camp where he endured 12 hour shifts, beatings, and starvation. After liberation his weight fell from 150 to 90 pounds. He later served five years in the Army, was discharged in February 1946, and now works as an Amarillo police patrolman with a wife and infant son.
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Tsuchiya
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Air Reserve Planes To Reach Amarillo From Oklahoma City
A flight of two AT-6 training planes is due at English Field in Amarillo tomorrow at 9 AM from Tinker Field Oklahoma City. George McBride president of the local Army Air Reserve Association says the landing marks an experiment to log flight time for ex Army pilots. Major Morrison the association operations officer will fly one plane and attend a Friday night meeting at 47th District Court room at 8.
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Tinker Field
Oklahoma City
George McBride
Army Air Reserve Association
English Field
McBride
Air Corps
Air Reserve Association
Morrison
47Th District Court Room
Panhandle Firemen Reelect Henley as Secretary
Amarillo assistant chief Jim Henley was re elected secretary of the Panhandle Firemen's Association at the annual Memphis meeting. Members chose September 1948 in Pampa for the next gathering. other Amarillo attendees included Captain Jack Williams and assistants Red Stevens J B Brown Troy Gatlin Herbert Hunter and Carl Akins.
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Amarillo
Panhandle Firemen’s Association
Memphis
Pampa
Jack Williams
Red Stevens
J. B. Brown
Troy Gatlin
Herbert Hunter
Carl Akins
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