Extension Granted for Wartime Price Controls
Congress approves a one year extension of wartime price controls by a 253 to 94 vote. President Truman to sign the bill in Kansas City before the deadline. legislation adds three amendments giving the agriculture secretary veto power over OPA orders, authority to permit extensive meat slaughter for interstate commerce, and require profits for beef, lamb, and pork processors.
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Washington
OPA
Congress
House
Senate House
White House
Truman
Kansas City
Clinton P. Anderson
Food Front
Anderson
Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary
Sal
First National Hikes Capital Amid Growth in Amarillo Bank
Virgil Patterson, president, announced capital structure changes at The First National Bank of Amarillo effective Saturday. Capital rose to 560,000 with stock issue, surplus grew to 390,000, making total capital and surplus 1,000,000. Undivided profits and reserves stood at 350,000. Deposits exceeded 2,700,000 signaling healthy regional growth.
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Virgil Patterson
First National Bank of
Amarillo
First National Tas
First National
Patterson
Satsur Gay
Dollar Day Deals Light Up Amarillo Shoppers
The Amarillo Sunday News Globe notes a Grand Fourth of July week with Dollar Day sales tomorrow. Participating merchants offer specials and clearance prices to meet vacation needs while urging safe and sane shopping and a compiled ad list in the edition.
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Amarillo
Sunday News Globe
Imogene Stevens Pleads Not Guilty in Slaying Case
Imogene Stevens, a 24 year old Texas girl, pleaded not guilty today in New Canaan Conn to a charge of manslaughter in the pistol slaying of Sailor Albert Kavacs of Norwalk. Bail set at 50000, attorney David Goldstein confirmed.
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Imogene Stevens
New Canaan
Conn
Inona
Texas
Loren
David Goldstein
Stevens
Albert Kavacs
Norwalk
Overseas unit arrives at Camp Hood after redeployment
The 4671 Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company, fresh from the Persian Gulf Command, arrives at Camp Hood to begin training before shipment to the war against Japan. This marks the first overseas unit to travel here for redeployment preparations.
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Camp Hood
Gti
Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company
Persian Gulf Command
Japan
Rodeo Week Features Sammy Baugh Roping Contest
Amarillo hosts rodeo events with Sammy Baugh, All American football star, roping against Fuel Smith of Clovis. Baugh arrives with Owen Brazee and Sunny Nichols. Rodeo lineup includes bull dogging, bull riding, trick riding, roping, and clown acts from Wichita Falls and Woodward. Performances scheduled two this afternoon, 8 p m Monday night, 8 p m Tuesday night, and 2 p m and 8 p m on Wednesday.
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Leven Beatier
Sammy Baugh
Fuel Smith
Clovis
N. M
Texas
Baugh
Owen Brazee
Raton
Sunny Nichols
Amarillo
John Lindsey
Hoyt Hefner
Wichita Falls
Roger Sisters
Woodward
Okla
Tech campus trap mirrors largest U S university concerns
A garbled report notes a trap incident on a 2008 acre Tech campus tied to a government scheme. It mentions four captured covotes and a business manager named W. YT in a context of campus size and national standing.
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America
W. YT
Aston
Tech
Invasion Preparations Reported By Tokyo Radio
Japanese broadcasts yesterday claimed an Allied fleet pounded Balikpapan as a prelude to invasion with 42 ships and heavy air blows. American air forces hit Balikpapan targets with over 2800 tons of bombs over 16 days while Allied units pushed on in Luzon and Formosa.
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Associated Press
Balikpapan
Borneo
Tokyo Radio
Gnehinn Wenn
U. S
MacArthur
Balikapapan
Balik- Papan
Formosa
Shanghai
Canton
China
Indo-China
Radio Tokyo
Lichow
United States
Japan
Okinawa
Kete
Navy Department
Tokyo
Okinoerabu Island
Kyushu
Nippon
U. S. 20Th Air Force
Kudumatsu
Honshu Island
Nimitz
Army Thunderbolts
Postwar Economic Charter Outlined by Vinson
Fred M. Vinson, head of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, outlined a postwar economic charter in Washington noting high wages and broader social benefits while warning of rapid drops in munitions output and a rise in unemployment. He proposed raising the national minimum wage and expanding old-age and unemployment benefits, and said Americans would face a continued weapons drive with a plan to drop as much as 10 000 tons of bombs on Japan in a single day.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
OWMA
Congress
Germany
Amarillo Seeks E Bond Quota In Final Week
Potter County must raise 184000 in Series E Bonds this week to beat the E Bond quota of 2300000. Guy Saunders says a push could push purchases above the top with payroll deductions and federal sources. National totals show War Loan sales at a dazzling level with 22.21 billion dollars raised. Mrs. C. D. Hoover, winner in the Victory Bond Flight, heads home from Lubbock today.
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Potter County
Guy Saunders
War Finance Committee
Potter
Federal Reserve and Ciivil
United Press
Washington
Treasury
C. D. Hoover
Lubbock
Amarillo
Braniff Airways
Mexico City
Hollywood
Weather Summary For Amarillo And West Texas
Amarillo area sees fair Sunday and Sunday night with scattered afternoon cloudiness. West Texas partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with highs near 74 to 82 and lows around 64 to 86. Record and daily high temperatures noted. precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 PM showing trace amounts. Sunrise at 6:36 AM and sunset at 9:05 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Ilance
Bo Ae Sa
Paris Radio Sets Big Three Date
Paris radio reports the Big Three meeting opens July 9 near Berlin with the leaders of the United States Britain and the Soviet Union expected to attend.
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Paris
London
Berlin
Photographs Live Forever Autry Studio
Studio advertises photograph services with contact lines Photographs Live Forever Autry Studio 116 EF 4th phone 2 1922 offering portrait and studio work with printed listings in a period newspaper style.
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Autry
Texans Increase Cigarette Liquor Beer Taxes In June
A June report to the Texas state treasury shows higher tax receipts from cigarettes, liquor, and beer than a year earlier. Cigarette tax income totaled 1,097,118 dollars, up 92,521. liquor taxes brought in 815,132 dollars, up 273,341. and beer taxes yielded 215,806 dollars, up 37,871.
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Austin
U.P
State Treasury
Leaflets From Heaven Advertise San Jacinto Church
Handbills dropped from a commercial flight over Amarillo promoted religious activity of the San Jacinto Methodist Church. Though bearing wartime propaganda suspicions, the leaflets originated from an ecclesiastical source and floated toward the city yesterday afternoon.
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Amarillo
San Jacinto
Goodyear Plant Strikers Drafted as Idle Workers Fall
The government moved to induct eligible Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company strikers in Akron Ohio as the total idle workers dropped to 34 000, the lowest in ten days. The War Labor Board threatened to withdraw contract rights if work did not resume. Governor Lausche ordered immediate call ups for 16 700 strikers amid maintenance and shift concerns. Detroit reported 700 idle workers as national totals fluctuated around 24 000 to 91 000 in recent days.
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Associated Press
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Selective Service
Goodyear
War Labor Board
Washington
George Taylor
Detroit
Distinctive Printing and Lithographing Highlighted
Russell Staty showcased distinctive printing and lithographing work around the mill era era ca. highlighting craft, craftmanship and regional printing skills.
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Russell Staty
Allies map postwar German occupation zones in Berlin
Official statements outline zones for British American French and Soviet control in postwar Germany with joint Berlin occupation to follow by July 4. Plans detail Soviet eastern Reich half and western zones for the Western Allies and a French southern corridor through Baden and Rhineland Palatinate.
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Russia
Germany
Berlin
United States
Ceremany
Luebeck
Elbe River
Thuringia
U. S. 82Nd Airborne Division
French
Ministry of Information
Rheins
Saar
Rhenish Palatinate
Baden
Weimar
Coblenz
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Stelber
Milton
Faith Coombs
Major Stevens
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Georgie
Imogene
Paula
Rasete Cnty, Tome
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Cagayan Province
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Draft Goodyear Plant
Trin Reich Gate
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