Mayor’s demanding days forge mixed praise from Amarillo crowd
A feature on Mayor Lawrence Hagg reveals a tireless, hands-on leadership style. He says he will not run again but hints at a possible second term if encouraged. The piece lauds his honesty, business acumen, and crowd charm, noting Amarillo rests in "safe, solid hands" under his tenure. It also includes reader letters and local notices about a lost wallet, a family seeking housing, and local fish-kill concerns from a creek near the smelter.
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Lawrence Hagg
Irvin
Demosthenes
Amarillo
Dewey Reports Talk With Smelter Over Grounds Issue
Dewey says he spoke with the smelter about grounds affecting fish and notes water is being analyzed. Mr Ashcroft is raising cantaloupes as excellent as ever graced a dining room table.
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Dewey
Panhandle water tale and nostalgic kitchen memories
A speaker recalls vastly more water in the Panhandle, dirty hands after a ranch visit, and towels soaking up dirt. He reflects on childhood warnings about dirt on towels and wistfully notes no washing before bed due to barefoot days, while also recalling milk in bottles and a pan of oil with cream on bread as a favorite treat.
Debacle at North Carolina Sparks Betting On SMU Texas Clash
Friends of Blair Cherry downplay NC debacle while SMU is rated top in the nation. Betting favors Texas at Austin with many gamblers hoping for three points. New York hosts a hit ballad “The Ballad of the Billionaires” about Texas oil men. Napoleon quips on five minutes while Winchell mocks elevator death odds. A Brooklyn pet peeve calls feet dogs.
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Blair Cherry
North Carolina
SMU
United States
Texas
Austin
New York
Tax tale echoes camel in the tent metaphor
A business writer uses a parable about a camel entering a tent to illustrate how tax policy gradually expands influence. The piece traces progressive intrusion from nose to head to body, concluding with the owner entwined in the camel’s affairs as a caution about creeping fiscal power.
Blasdel Tells of Travels Over Europe
Amarillo trio and James G. Blasdel discuss the Marshall Plan during a 20 30 Club meeting at Herring Hotel. Blasdel recounted a three month Europe study visiting England, Holland, Belgium and France and described postwar production levels and how U S aid is allocated to stricken countries.
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Europe
Amarillo
Herring Hotel
James G. Blasdel
Blasdel
L. Sherwood Blasdel
Allen Early, Jr
England
Holland
Belgium
France
Mr. Blasdel
Germany
United States
Ple
Foster fined for liquor violation at Headquarters Drive-In
Johnny B. Foster, operator of the Headquarters Drive-In, was fined $100 and costs in county court after pleading guilty to liquor violation charges. He was charged with permitting his beer permit to be used for another’s benefit amid a recent drive-in partnership formation.
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Johnny B. Foster
Foster
Rites on Friday For C. G. Rogers
Funeral services for C. G. Rogers 77 of Phoenix Ariz former Amarillo cafe operator will be at 2 pm Friday in Boxwell Brothers Chapel Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Arrangements pending Body arrived from Phoenix by air Wednesday Rogers died Monday in a Phoenix hospital Survivors include two daughters three brothers three sisters and five grandchildren
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C. G. Rogers
Phoenix
Ariz
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Llano
Rogers
Arizona
J. H. McMehen
Sid Bridgeman
Renton
Wash
Frank
J. T
Fort Worth
Price
Springer, NM
R. M. Stone
Borger
Lucy Rippy
410
Rusk
Emma Barrett
Oklahoma City
Infant Lucia Bearden Dies at Amarillo Hospital
Lucia Lynn Bearden infant daughter of Clyde and Mrs Bearden 3002 Jackson died at 7 am Wednesday in Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Surviving are brother Larry maternal grandparents Otto and Mrs Williams of Dalhart and grandmother Ida Bearden of Dalhart.
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Lucia Lynn Bearden
Clyde Bearden
Jackson
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Larry
Otto Williams
Dalhart
Ida Bearden
Fair Park uses 300 gallons daily for 1949 preparation
County road machinery and trucks are fueled at about 300 gallons per day to ready the Tri-State Fair Park for the 1949 Tri-State Fair. County engineer Frank Harrison says trucks total about 4,000 miles daily. In operation are 13 dump trucks, one flat bed, three road maintainers, a tractor with carryall scraper, a caliche distributor, a front end loader and an elevating grader.
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Tri-State Fair
Frank Harrison
Fair Grounds
Ballot conflicts probe widens across Zapata county
At a federal hearing Zapata County Democratic chairwoman Mrs. Josefa Gutierrez testified that Precinct 3 returns are missing, placed on County Judge Bravo’s desk after canvass. Other precincts’ brown envelopes were produced. Similar hearings proceed in Alice, Jim Wells County, where Precinct 13 lists and tally sheets are missing and a ballot box was found empty.
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Zapata County
Democratic Executive Committee
Josefa M. Gutierrez
J. M. Burnett
T. Whitfield Davidson
Senate
Stevenson
Jim Welz
Duval
Zapata
W. R. Smith, Jr
Davidson
Alice
Jim Wells
Smith
Johnson
Porcupine Fish Break Free From Shark Stomach
Report notes that porcupine fish possess the ability to gnaw their way out of a shark’s stomach, enabling a dramatic escape from predation.
Special Jewish Services Set for Rosh Hashono Week
Special services will be held in 2 B'nai Israel to mark the start of Rosh Hashono. Rabbi Arthur Bluhm will announce the schedule for publication. The holiday begins at sundown Oct 3 for Reform Jews and Oct 4 for Orthodox and Conservative Jews, with two days observed by all.
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Arthur Bluhm
Tishri
Adam
Lukes
Tabernacles
Car Will Pay For Operation Opens Open House Story
Mrs John E Mayhan of 835 North Jackson says she would prefer the money from a 1949 Ford prize to paying for an operation as Walter Irvin Inc officials note she was absent from the open house event The couple hopes for health relief amid dark home and late night call in Bonham scene. RAYBURN SAYS FARMERS PROsPER US PRESS at Fannin County Fair notes soil conservation. Potter County OKs renewal of 1 a year lease for TX Highway Department warehouse at Tri State Fair Park January 1 planned expiry Nov 1
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Walter Irvin
Inc
John E. Mayhan
North Jackson
Ford
Mayhan
Globe News
Rayburn
Bonham
Sam Rayburn
Fannin County
Potter County
Texas Highway Department
Third and Grand
Tri-State Fair Park
Wallace Campaign Stops In Texas Amid Racial Issue Focus
Henry A. Wallace, Progressive Party candidate, flew to Houston to renew his anti-Jim Crow campaign in Texas. He spoke in Dallas with four public appearances and an unsegregated 900-person crowd at Yacht Club Bob's Barn, where deputies watched but enforcements were not used. Wallace attacked Truman on civil rights and criticized Sam Rayburn for opposing anti-poll tax and anti-lynching measures.
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Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Houston
Dallas
Texas
Lone Star
Yacht Club
Bob's Barn
Truman
House
Sam Rayburn
Little Is Named To Liquor Board
Gov. Beaufort H. Jester announced the resignation of Texas Liquor Control Board Chairman Fred H. Minor of Denton. Jack Little of Amarillo was named to replace Minor, with Summers A. Norman and Leonard B. Brown as the other members. Minor cited pressure of private business. Little’s term ends November 15, 1949. Little has served as representative in five legislatures.
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Austin
Beauford H. Jester
Texas Liquor Control Board
Fred H. Minor
Denton
Jack Little
Amarillo
Minor
Summers A. Norman
Rusk
Leonard B. Brown
Kerrville
Jester
Little
Walkout Closes Firestone Plant in Pottstown
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co plant at Pottstown was shut down by a walkout today, affecting about 2800 workers after the night shift did not report for duty. Spokesmen from the company and Local 336 CIO United Rubber Workers were unavailable for comment, and the cause of the shutdown was not known.
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Pottstown
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Warmer Weather To Greet Circus
The weatherman forecasts fine circus weather with clear skies. Walter Watts of the US Weather Bureau in English Field expects temperatures to rise to 80 on Thursday after a 73 degree high on Wednesday and a 45 degree low that night.
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Walter Watts
US Weather Bureau
English Field
Terratures
Watts
Panhandle
Lamarr Drops $200,000 Look Suit in Los Angeles
Hedy Lamarr's attorney Jerry Giesler filed a dismissal of the $200,000 damage suit against Look magazine in superior court. He gave no reason. The actress had claimed Look implied she underwent plastic surgery on her nose.
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Los Angeles
Hedy Lamarr
Look Magazine
Jerry Giesler
Superior
Look
Soviet planes buzz two U.S. supply aircraft over Berlin corridor
Nine Soviet fighter planes dangerously buzzed two American supply aircraft in a Soviet zone air corridor while delivering supplies to Berlin. American officials filed a written protest accusing violations of air safety rules and four power flying regulations amid repeated corridor incidents.
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Berlin
Dewey Speech Moves To National Campaign Rail
Governor aide Paul E. Lockwood said the scheduled 8:30 Texas Time broadcast would be one of Dewey’s most important campaign speeches. Dewey stressed the Russian threat and said the UN delegation in Paris is laboring to secure a peaceful settlement. He declared the United States stands united behind the UN.
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American Party
Walter Reuther
Republican Party
United States
Labor Party
England
Mr. Tack
Miss Boyce
NBC
Paul E. Lockwood
New York
Texas
Dewey
Missoula
Mont
Paris
Seven RAAF crew killed in Catalina crash near Lora Howe Island
Royal Australian Air Force says seven airmen died when a Catalina flying boat attempting an emergency landing at Lora Howe Island, 500 miles northeast of Sydney, crashed last night.
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Melbourne
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Lora Howe Island
Sydney
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Tack
Washington
Dewey Ashcroft
Mr. Tack Presents
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Marion Kunkel
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W. L. Lawson
Otto Kunkel
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