Elks Host Newspaper Week Opening in Amarillo
Fourth Estate members in the Panhandle will be guests of the Amarillo Elks for Newspaper Week opening observances. Public event Monday Oct 1 at Fillmore and Fifth. Dr J W Bill Marshall of Wayland College may address the gathering. Duke Nally arranging speaker. Special press invitations planned. Not superstition story follows.
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Panhandle
Elks
Amarillo
Tom Stalnaker
Leslie F. Smith
Elks Party
Fillmore
Duke Nally
J. W. “Bill” Marshall
Wayland College
Plainview
Weatherman Accuracy Questioned By Weather Bureau
Washington reports the weather bureau measured the weatherman's forecasts at 88.4 percent accuracy from nearly 10 thousand volunteer reports over four years. About 1,000 eyewitness observers contributed data across 18 states to test the claims.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Weatherman
Attlee Opens Campaign in Britain General Election
Prime Minister Attlee launched Labor's bid for the October 25 vote urging a choice between moving forward with Labor or regressing with Conservatives. Churchill and the Conservatives touted market gains as signs of potential Tory victory while candidates prepared for the 625-seat House of Commons race. Churchill, 77, urged electing a capable cabinet free of class warfare and doctrinal errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Attlee
Labor Party
Labor
Winston Churchill
Engineers Here for Reclamation Talks in Amarillo
A group of engineers led by former reclamation commissioner Harry W. Bashore arrived in Amarillo to plan a broad survey of the Arkansas White and Red River basins for the US Department of the Interior. The effort aims to support a Congress report by July 1, 1954, with input from five other federal departments and the Arkansas White Red River Basins Commission.
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Jerry Kolander
US Commissioner of Reclamation
Amarillo
Howard E. Robbins
Texas
Harry W. Bashore
Mitchell, Neb
Arkansas
White
Red River
US Department of the Interior
New Mexico
Colorado
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Missouri
Bashore
J. R. Iakisch
Denver
Charles 8. Hazen
Kalispell, Mont
Department of the Interior
C. L. Forsling
Albuquerqgue
Congress
Arkansas, White and Red River Basins Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Oscar L. Chapman
Bureau
Mario Lanza Buys An Oregon Ranch
Tenor Mario Lanza bought an 80 acre ranch on Elk Creek northeast of Medford Oregon. He decided to purchase while staying as a guest at Ginger Rogers Rogue River ranch near Shady Cove. He has been there weeks fishing and trying to lose weight for his next movie role.
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Medford
Ore
Mario Lanza
Elk Creek
Lanza
Ginger Rogers
Rogue River Ranch
Shady Cove
Boundary maps clarify High Plains District vote area
Maps were prepared in Amarillo to clarify High Plains Underground Water District No. 1 boundaries before the September 29 election. The unclear line lies along Amarillo’s west city limits to the Canadian River breaks near Veterans Hospital, prompting a request from Jim Gulek i e of the State Board of Water Engineers to remove voting confusion.
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Amarillo
High Plains
Potter County
Veterans Hospital
Jim Gulekie
State Board of Water Engineers
N. V. Moss
Potter County Map Section Near Amarillo Boundary
Fragmentary notice says a map of the Potter County area near the intersection with Amarillo’s west city limits was to be completed today, tracing the county south boundary north along the city edge and then Canadian River escarpment.
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Potter County
Amarillo
Sheriff Investigates Cabin thefts. Paris flood warning
Sheriff Archie McPhail led the probe into two summer cabin burglaries noting $300 in camping gear stolen including items from his own cabin. Paris flood warning cites the Pont de l Alma statue. when submerged, residents must move valuables from cellars.
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Wallace
Ida
Archie McPhail
Pont de l’Alma
Paris
Elmer Nickell Rites Tomorrow
Funeral services for Elmer C Nickell of Panhandle will be held tomorrow at 10 30 AM at Blackburn Shaw Memorial with Rev S Franklin Weir of the First Methodist Church Panhandle officiating Burial will be in Union WV Nickell 76 died Tuesday night in Northwest Texas Hospital after a two week illness He was a member of the Presbyterian Church Survivors include his wife two daughters a son two brothers three sisters an aunt and seven grandchildren
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Elmer C Nickell
Panhandle
Blackburn-Shaw
S. Franklin Weir
First Methodist Church
Union
Wva
Nickell
Northwest Texas
Presbyterian Church
McGowens Welcome Son Born in Saudi Arabia
John R. C. McGowen and Ingrid McGowen celebrate the birth of their second child Michael Thompson in Dhahran Saudi Arabia where McGowen works for Arabian American Oil. The couple met in Panama while connected to United Fruit. McGowen, an Amarillo High graduate, earned degrees at Texas A M. His sister also shares news of the newborn. Local theft report follows.
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John R. C. McGowen
Amarillo
United Nations
Michael Thompson
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Texas A&m College
Ingrid
Graybar Electric Company
R. L. Thompson
Fred Bailey
Polk
Good for His Age Bangor Man Plays Piano in Mittens
David L. Carver, 82, of Bangor Maine can play the piano while wearing heavy woolen mittens. The Falkland Islands Dependencies survey ship John Biscoe recently left Port Stanley on the first of this winter's voyages to British Antarctic territory.
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Bangor
UPIK
David L. Carver
Falkland Island Dependencies Survey
John Biscoe
Port Stanley
British Antarctic Territory
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New Haven
Ind
George B. Coon
Eva June Tucker
Leslie FE. Smith
Dr Pepper
Mitchell
Neb
LaGrange College
University of Missouri
University of Wyoming
Reclamation Services
North Platte
Wyoming
Nebraska
Yale
Oregon
Columbia River Basin
Grand Coulee
BRS
China
Gypsum Board
Robertshaw
AGA
Heation
Elmer Nickell
de. Pepper
DR. Pepper
Son
McGowens
Arabia
Spokane. Wash
Deason
Tata Ee
Sete Ous Coal Flat Pte
Ara Aes
Elec
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