Zinc Firm Gets Nod es Expand
The American Smelting and Refining Company plans a multi million dollar sulfuric acid plant in Amarillo. A $2,716,000 certificate of necessity confirms expansion, with a zinc by product plant as rumored. The Defense Production Administration notes tax writeoff incentives accelerate private defense mobilization while AMSR awaits a survey to gauge competitiveness.
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Thomas Thompson
Washington
Defense Production Administration
E. J. Bruderlin
American Smelting and Refining Co
Poor’s
Industrial Service
Bureau of Mines
Youth Center Director Denies Quitting Says Hell Keep
Amarillo Youth Center director Les Kilgore today denied resigning amid reported plans to end his contract. He stated the San Jacinto Kiwanis Club sponsored role runs through December 31 and he will continue until then. Kilgore claimed no written resignation exists and he has not met the Youth Center committee. Petitions circulated urging Kilgore remain in place as other club leaders noted dissatisfaction.
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Les Kilgore
Amarillo
Kilgore
Ira Stephenson
San Jacinto Kiwanis
Stephenson
San Jacinto
Home With a Heart Aims to Find Foster Parents for Twins
Louise Evans profiles Mrs. J. C. Moore of Wheeler County as she searches Amarillo for a loving foster home for her 12 year old twin daughters both handicapped by cerebral palsy. Despite school board approval and access to Special Education services, the family needs a real home in Amarillo to ensure schooling and care, as hundreds of miles and interviews have shaped a long, hopeful journey. The girls, in the sixth grade, face daily challenges including different severities of limp.
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Amarillo
Special Education Department
Wheeler County
J. C. Moore
Potter County
McKinley
Anna
Moores
Moore
Sherry
Jerry Moore
Home Needed for Cerebral Palsy Therapy Twins
A Wheeler County family seeks a place for their twin daughters to access a cerebral palsy clinic in Amarillo this winter. The girls must stay near McKinley School to avoid long walks, while the parents remain on their farm. The story links the family to broader struggles of mothers during hard times and the hope clinics bring to disabled children.
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McKinley School
Moore
Wheeler County
Mother and Daughter Free on Bond in Slaying
In Pampa a mother Leona Sharp and her 15 year old daughter Margaret Sharp were released on bonds of 5000 and 1000 respectively after being charged in the rifle slaying of Charles Lee Wheeler 43 who lived at the Sharp tourist cabins 535 South Somerville Wheeler was killed Tuesday night by a .22 rifle in an alley behind the cabins Authorities found keys and coins at the scene where a scuffle had occurred Wheeler was shot three times once in the shoulder back and arm Margaret Sharp testified about the argument that led to the killing
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Pampa
Charles Lee Wheeler
Leona Sharp
Margaret Sharp
Wheeler
Mrs Sharp Relates Confused About Shooting Incident
Funeral plans for Wheel er are not yet finalized at Duenkel Carmichael Funeral Home. Survivors include his mother a son and two brothers.
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Duenkel- Carmichael Funeral Home
Path Cleared for New Cease Fire Negotiations
The report mixes cattle sale results from Baca Grant in Gunnison Colorado with a series of weather and military dispatches. It notes George Nance of Canyon, a Hereford breeder, paying 29000 for a five month old calf and 17500 for another in past auctions. The sale set records with 266 lots bringing 1117445, including a top 87000 bull. It then covers a Philadelphia gong about a car crash injuring a policeman, a Panhandle weather outlook, and finally a Tokyo note on Ridgway's move toward resuming Korean cease fire talks with the Communist leadership, with UN officials ready to proceed.
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George Nance
Canyon
Gunnison
Colo
Nance
Noe
Pulaski
Tenn
Baca Duke
Baca
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh-huai
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Kaesong
Ridgway
Ridgweay
Peiping
Parole Revoked for Brooklyn Bookmaker Harry Gross
Brooklyn Dist. Atty. Miles F. McDonald told a three judge special sessions court panel that Gross testimony would reveal police corruption top to bottom. The court revoked his parole and remanded him to jail, with sentencing set for Sept 27 on 66 counts of bookmaking and conspiracy. The maximum penalty is 68 years and a $33,500 fine.
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New York
Brooklyn
Miles F. McDonald
Harry Gross
McDonald
Gross
Kings County
Gambler Harry Gross Refusal Affects Bribery Probe
A long grand jury rackets investigation into Brooklyn police officers faced a setback as gambler Harry Gross refused to testify. The case, central to a 20 month probe, involved a district attorney staff of about 100, including a 50 man police squad, and has cost roughly $400,000 in effort and public funds.
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New York
Harry Gross
Brooklyn
Police Officers Freed After Bookmaking Bribery Case Collapse
Eighteen policemen accused of taking multi million dollar bribes from Gross were paroled to the district attorney’s custody when McDonald pleaded guilty to bookmaking charges. McDonald said he would seek grand jury minutes to show the offense's magnitude. Indictments of the officers were dismissed as McDonald admitted the case was wrecked by Gross's refusal to finger the defendants.
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McDonald
Special Sessions
Grand Jury
Gross
Baseball Scores and Schedule Notes From League Play
In a 2 2 tie Chicago and New York played as Rogovin and Sheely led the actions along with Masi Sain Ostrowski and Berra. St Louis visits Washington tonight while New York travels to Cincinnati and Brooklyn must wait as late fly scores miss the deadline. Fir 2x4 2x6 1x8 shiplap sold by Oliver Wiggins Lbr Co at 1200 West 6th.
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Chicago
New York
Rogovin
Sheely
Masi
Sain
Ostrowski
Berra
St. Louis
Washington
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Fir
Oiver & Wiggins Lbr. Co
West
Postal Money Orders are Not Folding Money
The article notes that bending folding tearing or mutilating new postal money order forms disrupts key punched processing machines. Postmaster Gordon Jordan warns such actions upset the Postal Service and its equipment, urging people to treat forms like government checks to avoid machine malfunctions.
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Fred Trip
Federal Reserve Bank
Dallas
Post Office Department
Gordon Jordan
Jordan
Truman Retains Faith in Boyle
President Truman voiced opposition to DNC officials or volunteers taking fees for aiding RFC loan connections but affirmed belief in Chairman William M. Boyle Jr. not taking any fees. He cited Boyle’s word and said others should help without business fees while awaiting Senate inquiry into American Lithoford Corporation payments to Boyle.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic National Committee
William M. Boyle, Jr
Boyle
American Lithoford Corporation
Doctors Visit King George VI in London
King George VI, diagnosed with a lung ailment, received another doctors visit in London on September 20. No medical bulletin was issued.
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London
George VI
McGee sanity hearing moves to Midland venue change
A venue change for Richard McGee’s sanity hearing was granted by Judge Victor Lindsey. The hearing will be held in Midland in Judge Hamilton’s 70th District Court after two prior rulings against venue change. McGee, sentenced to death for the 1948 killing of Lubbock grocer R L Alston, questioned the process during today’s brief session.
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Lubbock
Richard McGee
Victor Lindsey
R. W. Hamilton
Midland
McGee
R. L. Alston
Lindsey
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Globe
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