Amarillo Leaders Back Expressway Plan Support from Jenkins Ricks Maguire
Former Amarillo mayor Joe Jenkins and businessmen Robert Ricks and Mickey Maguire voiced strong backing for an expressway bond issue on May 11. Jenkins urged bold action for Amarillo to stay a major Texas city, while Ricks praised state engineers and Maguire cited Caprock Addition interests amid routing concerns.
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Gwen Rire
Joe Jenkins
Robert Ricks
Mickey Maguire
Canyon Highway
West Thirty-Sixth
Amarillo
Texas
Jenkins
Commissioners Courts
Potter and
Randall Counties
State Highway Department
of Texas
Storm Rips Oklahoma Meeker Area Killing, Injuring Dozens
A mammoth storm swept Oklahoma from noon to midnight causing two deaths and at least 48 injuries. Meeker suffered severe damage with 25 to 30 homes and the high school hit. a bus was flipped and passengers trapped. Other towns reporting casualties include Grandfield Tipton Pawnee Wetumka and Snyder with widespread destruction across multiple counties.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Meeker
Here
U.S. 62
Grandfield
Tipton
Pawnee
Wetumka
Snyder
Dale
Washita
Sasakwa
Coalgate Warwick
Wellston
Ponca City
Tulsa
Randlett
McAlester
Cedar Grove
Sparks
Weather Bureau
Hollis
Kingfisher
Pawhuska
Warwick
Prague Pawnee
Saskwa Dale
Colgate
Bill Scherler
Five Hurt in Train Collision Near Childress
Five people were injured when trains collided near Childress. The derailment disrupted service with about five hours of delays. The freight train’s tail section detached while heading toward a siding at Kirkland, eight miles east.
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Childress
Fort Worth & Denver
Here
Fort Worth
Kirkland
Six Story Petroleum Building to Rise at 800 Tyler
Construction on a new six story Petroleum Building at 800 Tyler is slated to begin in about nine weeks. J C Penney Co will occupy the basement and two floors. Financing is in place with Massachusetts Mutual and major tenants signed. The Ramco firm is rushing plans for Inwood Construction Co will be the general contractor. The project plans allow four extra floors if demand rises. Texas investors led by Dave Rubin back the building on land owned by the Fuqua Trust.
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Thomas H. Thompson
Sunday News-Globe Business
Tyler
Mickey Maguire
Ricks-Maguire
J. C. Penney Co
Park
Massachusetts Mutual
Maguire
Ramco Company, Inc
Dallas
Inwood Construction Co
Texas
Dave Rubin
Amarillo Oil
J.C. Penney Co
Fedway Department
First National Bank
The
Fuqua Trust
Petroleum Building
Weather Summary for Amarillo in 1954
The record notes Amarillo had sun on 113 of 121 days in 1954. Readings at 3 PM showed winds around 25 MPH with partly cloudy skies, visibility 15 miles. Nearby Okla City reported 18 MPH with cloudy conditions.
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Amarillo
AB Eeveteere
Okla
Changes Likely in McCarthy Staff After Army Inquiry
McCarthy faces possible staff shakeup as the Army inquiry looms. Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr may depart depending on the outcome while James Juliana and other aides come under scrutiny for actions during televised hearings.
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Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Army
Wisconsin
David Schine
McCarthy
Stevens
Roy M. Cohn
Cohn
Francis P. Carr
New York
FBI
Carr
James Juliana
Col
Jack Bradley
McGuire Air Force Base
Schine
Juliana
Ray H. Jenkins
Determine the smallest horse wins 80th Kentucky Derby
Determine the smallest horse in the field ran fastest in the stretch to win the 80th Kentucky Derby beating Hasty Road by a length and a half. The grey colt became the first grey Derby winner and earned $102,050 from a 17-horse field on a fast track in Louisville.
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Louisville
Determine
Star of California
Turf World
Hasty Road
Hasseyampa
Goyama
Deter
Mine
Goyamo
Ray York
Correlation
Admiral Porter
Lea O’ Erin
Baseball Scores From League Play Across Two Circuits
National League games saw Cincinnati top Brooklyn 7 to 6 in 11 innings while Philadelphia defeated Milwaukee 4 to 3 in 10 innings and St Louis edged Pittsburgh 5 to 4 in 10. Chicago beat New York 4 to 3. In the American League, Cleveland routed New York 10 to 2. Chicago beat Boston 3 to 0. Philadelphia won 2 to 1 over Baltimore in 10 innings. Detroit defeated Washington 6 to 1. West Texas-New Mexico reports all games postponed.
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Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Pittshareh
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Boston
Baltimore
Detroit
Washington
Weather summary for Amarillo and vicinity
Decreasing cloudiness and colder today with diminishing winds. Freezing temperatures this morning with a low of 80. Partly cloudy and warmer a high today.
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Amarillo
Vietminh Launch Third General Attack on Dien Bien Phu
Bulletin from Hanoi reports the Vietminh have launched their third general attack against the Dien Bien Phu fortress as French high command confirms the move. The dispatch is dated May 2 and places the action in Indochina amid ongoing siege operations.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Panhandle Telephone Pioneers pick beauty entrant for May event
Panhandle telephone workers selected Jo Ann Stephens to represent the Panhandle Club of Telephone Pioneers of America in a beauty contest at the convention May 14 16 in San Antonio. W C Whitecotton notes about 20 groups in the state will send entrants and about 35 locals from the Panhandle area will attend, with members showing long service records including many with over 20 years and some over 40 years in telephone work.
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Pioneer Telephone Workers of the
Whitecotton
Anchorage Daily editor pays courtesy call on President
Robert Atwood editor and publisher of the Anchorage Daily News Anchorage Alaska paid a courtesy call on President Eisenhower Saturday.
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Washington
Robert Atwood
Anchorage Daily
Anchorage
Alaska
Eisenhower
Dollar Day Frenzy Opens Amarillo Stores
Shoppers from distant areas will rush to Amarillo tomorrow as stores open for Dollar Day, the climax of Greater Amarillo Days that proclaims Amarillo the spending city in America. Read the Dollar Day ads in this edition of The Amarillo Sunday News Globe.
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Amarillo
America
Globe
Amarillo Youth Wins National Trampoline Championship
Robert Elliott of Amarillo earned the national trampoline title at San Fernando California competing for the Maverick Boys Club under Ralph Dykeman. The 15 year old high school student has a history of regional titles including top finishes in the South Western AAU and Texas AAU circuits.
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Robert Elliott
Amarillo
San Fernando
Cal
Maverick Boys Club
Elliott
W. " Elliott
Alabama
Maverick Club
Ralph Dykeman
Chhampion
Chicago
Edsell Buchanan
University of Michigan
Jo Tim Way
Nord’s
California
Navy Calls for Doctors in First Draft Induction
Washington May 1 The Navy issued its first draft call for physicians summoning 7 480 doctors for June and July entries, signaling a broad mobilization within the medical corps.
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NAVY
Washington
Tornadoes Leave Texas Oklahoma in Widespread Destruction
The Associated Press reports tornadoes raked Texas and Oklahoma leaving two dead in Grandfield Oklahoma and injuries in several towns including Pawnee Tipton and Vernon. Six tornadoes touched down within a 20 mile radius near Vernon with homes farms and vehicles damaged and warnings of more tornado activity into Sunday.
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Associated Press
Texas
Oklahoma
Grandfield
Okla
Pawnee
Panhandle
Vernon
Tex
Petrolia
Randlett
Hines, Crowell
Elliott
Paul Schur
Weather Bureau
Cold Front Brings Varied Weather Across Panhandle
Yesterday in the Golden Spread featured erratic conditions with snow flurries fog drizzle and balmy spells. Amarillo saw a high near 66 then a sharp drop and cold winds with predicted subfreezing temperatures last night and lingering snow flurries today as a cold front moved east from a Tucumcari center. Tornado warnings were issued for the southeastern Panhandle and parts of the South Plains as a low pressure moved eastward.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
South Plains
West Texas
Upper Panhandle
Lower Panhandle
The
Weather Bureau
Tucumcari
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Zane E. Smith
Carlsbad
Don Farley
Wichita Falls
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Herring Hotel
US Weather Bureau
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Donald Ray Nease
Nease
Miller
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