Pulse of Dixie Skips Beat on Race Situation
Amarillo editor Fred Post travels en route to Montgomery to assess race tensions in the Deep South. He records conversations about integration and segregation, cites incidents at the University of Arkansas and Amarillo College, and plans a multipart report for his readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pulse of Dixie
Fred Post
Sunday News Globe
Montgomery
Ala
Deep South
Amarillo
Daily News
Heart of Dixie
Fort Smith
Ark
Alabama
University of Arkansas
Good Agricultural and Mechanical College
Bryns
Amarillo College
U. S. Supreme Court
Mississippi
Georgia
Canyon-Rim Stadium Planned for Buffaloes
West Texas State plans a 20 000 seat football stadium in a natural horseshoe canyon two miles north of the campus. The site near Canyon Hill on the Amarillo Canyon highway offers easy access via an overpass and expressesway alignment. President James P. Cornette cites reduced traffic and ample parking as key benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday News-Globe
Canyon
James P. Cornette
West Texas State College
WTSC
Cornette
Henry Sears
Hereford
Board of
Regents of
Texas State Teachers Colleges
Macon O. Carder
Amarillo
College Farm
West Texas State
Canyon Hill
Amarillo Canyon Highway
Sta
Production extends Laketon Field with oil strike
Holly Uranium Company No. 1 W. C. Heuston in Laketon Field recovered 1,420 feet of oil on a drillstem test. The well lies in section 120, block M-2, near Phillips No. 1 Witmore, which showed five gas pay zones in the upper granite wash and a gas show in the lower wash at 10,000 feet. Drillstem test ran 10,054 to 10,106 feet. gas surfaced in eight minutes, gauge 310,000 feet. oil and salt water recoveries recorded. Continuous logging followed as drilling continued.
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Laketon
Gray County
Holly Uranium Company No
W. C
Granite Wash
Heuston
Gate Admission Planned at Amarillo Fat Stock Show
The Tri-State Fair and Stock Show Assn executive committee approved a 50 cent gate admission for Amarillo's 30th Fat Stock Show, the first charge in the show's history. The 1957 event runs January 21-25, with the Fat Stock Show Rodeo opening January 19 for seven days. A $5,000 Hereford Breeders Assn donation will fund cattle pens, and a textiles exhibit returns alongside culinary and textiles divisions for 1957.
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Amarillo
Tri-State
Hereford Breeders Assn
E H
Stock Show Assn
Commuvnes
Birs
Edith Bellett
Herb Budke
Bellett
Rex Baxter
Delbert Dalby
John Boyce
John Fullingim
W. M. Gouldy
Tragic Truck Crash Kills City Boy During Family Picnic
A 6-year-old, Jim Charles Damon, wandered from a family outing and was struck and killed by a southbound truck on U S Highway 287 ten miles north of Amarillo. Edwin R Reed, the driver, swerved to avoid the boy and was injured as his truck rolled. The child’s family and a state patrolman describe a sudden, tragic incident. funeral arrangements are pending.
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U. S. Highway 287
Amarillo
Jim Charles Damon
Olson C. Damon
St. Anthony's Hospital
Edwin R. Reed
Ralls
Damon
Amarillo Creek
Jim
Reed
Cap Brothers
Polk
Fort Worth & Denver Railroad
Texline
Emari Drue
Bertille
Hellen Ann
Johnny
Roy Speck
Altus
Okla
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Amarillo Sees 62 Sunny Days In 70 For 1956
Weather notes show Amarillo recording 62 days of sun in a 70 day period in 1956. Comparative readings list wind at 3 30 p m and visibility with sky conditions near KGNC TV COLORCAST.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Seopevee
Loudy
Kgnc-Tv
BB gun blast ends in burglary at Hereford home
Herbert Haseloff family watched TV as 10 year old Robert fired a BB gun outside. A door slammed a car fled, valuables including a chair, ceramic figurines and two silver table service sets were found missing, later two men were arrested and held in county jail for burglary investigation.
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Hereford
Herbert Haseloff
Robert Haseloff
Robert
Daniel Speaks to Texans From Dallas Monday Eve
Senator Price Daniel plans to announce his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Monday night in Dallas. The event is positioned as a major political moment with wide attention from residents and media in Washington reports.
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Daniel
Dallas
Washington, D. C
Price Daniel
Texas
Weather and travel notes for Amarillo and Panhandle region
Mostly fair but colder Sunday and Monday with diminishing winds. Temperatures show a Sunday high near 36 and a low around 23 in the Amarillo area. Partly cloudy, windy, and colder Sunday night into Monday morning with a warmer Monday afternoon. Sunrise at 7:04 am. The text also includes unrelated item about a political trip by Daniel to Dallas to vote on farm bill amendments and a forthcoming gubernatorial candidacy announcement.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Washington
Dallas
Senate
Daniel
Ensurance Broker Shot in Newark Slaying Attempt
Louis Saperstein the 49 year old Newark insurance broker was shot four times in a car by a gunman who fled with four accomplices. A woman identified as Mrs. Marie Benson Bayonne Library employee narrowly escaped injury. Police call the attack an effort to silence Saperstein over cooperation with authorities.
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Newark
N. J
Louis Saperstein
Saperstein
Marie Benson
Bayonne
Bayonne Public
New York
New York Asst. Dist. Atty
Alfred J. Scotti
Midwest Snowbound as Storm Paralyzes Plains
A major snowstorm and Arctic cold sweep the Midwest shutting stores and suspending bus service. South Dakota and Minnesota report 12 to 24 inches of snow with drifting while winds reach 35 to 45 mph, halting travel between Mitchell and Sioux Falls.
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Plains
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Mitchell
S. D
Sioux Falls
8. D
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By Fred Post
C. F. Bryns
The
Southwest American and
Times-Record
Fort
Race State
Arkansas
POST
Downstate
Canyon-Rim Stadium
Buffaloes
Hargar Gasserene
Martha Mason
Denver
Western National
Fort Worth
Southwestern
By Bascom N. Timmons
Hedgecoke's
C. Park
Drake
Midwest
Associated Press
Redgecoke's
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