Storm Wrecks Planes At Pyote Air Base
Storm winds up to 100 mph damaged nearly 100 planes at Pyote Air Force Base in West Texas. C-46 transports suffered major damage while several B-29s were damaged as crews prepared for flight. A flood and lightning caused power outages. no injuries reported.
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Associated Press
Pyote
Marfa
West Texas
Pyote Air Force Base
Highland Fair Grounds
Mar
Everett Phillips
Hutchinson
Kan
Benin
Government to raise short term interest to curb inflation
Washington reports the Treasury will pay higher interest on short term securities starting Sept 15 replacing 1 percent certificates with 1 1/2 percent issues. The move, paired with new Fed credit controls, aims to discourage consumer borrowing and ease inflation pressures.
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Washington
Snyder
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Body of Lt Fleming From Pampa Carried From Alps
Italian Alpine troops move the body of Lt Wesley B. Fleming of Pampa down a 9,000 foot Alpine slope toward Milan after a November 28 crash of an Army 47 transport. Four of 23 aboard identified. Fleming’s family noted.
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Yampa
Wesley B. Fleming
Pampa
Alps
Italy
Milan
Associated Press
Fleming
News Dispatch
Hopkins
Amarillo
Air Corps
E. J. Fleming
Abram S. Atkins
Sperryville
Harmon Newell
Kermit
Marie T. Hahn
Ards- NY
War Department
Heavenly Show Due Tonight Perseid Meteors Seen From Perseus
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight with 50 to 70 meteors per hour possible in clear skies. Meteors originate from Tuttle's comet debris and appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, visible after 9 pm Texas time, with the peak expected Wednesday night and a dawn shower Thursday.
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Tuttle
Robert R. Cole
Hayden Planetarium
Consteljon Perseus
Texas
Cole
Constellation
Perseus
Visit to relatives ends in two car collision
Eroy McGuire of Follett visited Iola relatives and collided yesterday with a car driven by Leonard Wood of Savonburg. Wood suffered three broken ribs. Judge J D Bennett fined McGuire ten dollars for failure to yield the right of way. The judge is also a relative.
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Iola
Kan
Eroy
McGuire
Follett
Leonard A. Wood
Savonburg
Wood
J.D. Bennett
Justice of the Peace Court
No Relief In Sight for Amarillo Heat Wave
The weatherman warned of no relief this week as temperatures climbed. H C Winburn of English Field projected a 96 degree high Tuesday and 97 on Wednesday with a low of 69 Tuesday night after a 93 degree Monday.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
US Weather Bureau
English Field
Stalin Outlines Six-Point Plan for West Talks
London sources quote Soviet Prime Minister Stalin presenting six discussion points for postwar German problems. The aims cover economic unity, future political system, Soviet Ruhr role, withdrawal of occupiers, currency, and recognition of Poland’s western frontiers. A Russian delegate pledged participation in the 1952 Olympics if invited.
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Zucie Warsawy Today
London
Stalin
Kremlin
Ruhr
Poland
Agriculture Department Boosts Corn Crop Estimate
The Agriculture Department raised its forecast for this year's corn harvest to 3,506,363,000 bushels in the latest bulletin. Separately, the Progressive Party convention in Dallas voted to picket the Dixiecrats rally in Houston tomorrow night.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Dallas
Progressive Party
Dixiecrats
Houston
Ecreen
Joan Maynara
Lor. O
W. Sth
Truman signs housing bill amid GOP criticism
President Truman signed the Republican sponsored housing bill but faulted Congress for neglecting urgent housing needs. He blasted the Taft Ebender Wagner measure as emasculated while noting the bill would still offer limited help to those living in urban and rural slums.
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Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
House Banking Committee
Washington
Truman
Congress
Cab Driver Verifies Attack Victim Tale
A taxi driver who refused to pick up an Amarillo woman on a Sunday night corroborates her account of being attacked and robbed. Authorities say she hailed the driver at North East Eighth and Buchanan seeking police station transport after her husband reported a robbery of about $3,000 in jewelry from three strangers. The driver’s account matches the woman's statements, and police are investigating.
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Amarillo
North East Eighth
Buchanan
Amarillo Daily News
Tobin Promises Answer Soon On Secretary of Labor Job
Maurice J. Tobin told President Truman he will decide within days whether to accept the appointment as Secretary of Labor. Truman nominated the former Massachusetts governor for the post, after Senate adjourned. Tobin met with the President for about 30 minutes in Washington. Also noted is a Dallas Houston incident: Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. Moncrief of Dallas were killed in a traffic accident near Cypress.
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Tobin
Secretary of
Labor
Washington
Maurice J. Tobin
Trude
Truman
Massachusetts
Senate
Dallas
Houston
Clifford B. Moncrief
Cypress
Weather summary for Amarillo Texas region
Continued high daytime temperatures with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and Wednesday. Partly cloudy conditions across Texas with scattered showers in the afternoon and evening. New Mexico reports partly cloudy afternoons and evenings with scattered thunderstorms in the east portion. High 93, low 65 for the 24 hour period ending 6:30 AM.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Tome
Child Juanita Simonds Killed In Amarillo Car Crash
Juanita Simonds a child from the Chansler Weymouth ranch north of Amarillo died after a southbound car struck her on North Fillmore near 900 block. Ernest L. Causey 25 of near Stinnett drove the car and stayed to aid. The accident occurred about 12 35 PM Monday as she crossed the street with her mother and grandparents. Funeral set for Thursday at Blackburn Shaw Chapel with burial in Llano Cemetery.
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Juanita Simonds
North Fillmore
North Fill
Morntaine Amarillo
North East Eighth
St. Anthony's
North John Hospital
Juanita
Jenney May Simonds
Chansler Weymouth
Amarillo
Fred Simonds
Ernest L. Causey
Stinnett
Junita
Mr. Causey
Jack Denny
North East Sixth
Simonds
Blackburn-Shaw
Llano
A. E. Wilson
Buchanan Street Baptist Church
Joe Simonds
Amaril
Amarillo Buys 300 Parking Meters From Kar Park Corp
The city awards a bid of 60 per meter to Kar Park Corp of Cincinnati for 300 new meters worth 18 000. Delivery is set for July 20 to 30 with some units to be installed along West Sixth and downtown after a motorcycle crash on San Jacinto Boulevard injures a young man.
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CMY Corfers
Karpark Corporation
Cincinnati
Ohio
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Tax Board Lowers 13 Assessments in City School District
The joint city school board of equalization heard protests on property tax assessments Monday and Tuesday morning, with 36 protests filed and 19 resulting in total deductions of 87 745 on the tax rolls. The six member panel, divided into two groups, met at the Junior High School, with most hearings orderly as the boards increased city and school district evaluations by about 15 million and 12 million dollars respectively.
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City-School Board of Equalization
L. C. Nesbitt
R.G
Gusnto
Hugo Loewenstern
as_P. V. Alexander
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High School
Boards of Equalization
Amarillo Wet Bank
Mrs Lahoma Pringle Wins News Tip Prize
Complete and first information concerning a truck car collision near Borger in which four Amarillo people were injured put Mrs. Lahoma Pringle at the head of the prize winning news tipsters last week. She will receive 5 dollars as first place winner. Other tips were provided by several residents including Mrs. Ruby Davis and Mrs. Ciel Bagett. The humorous item about an Illinois tourist who arrived in Amarillo and thought she was in the capital of Austin won third place.
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Consumer Credit Program
Snyder
Borger
Amarillo
Lahoma Pringle
Mississippi
Pringle
Ruby Davis
Biltmo
Coutts
North East
Austin
Globe-News
R. T. Mons
East Twenty-second
Mis
Wichita
OM. Palmer
North Johnson
Ray Miller
Harrison
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