Texan Is Really Running the Navy
Vernon Texan Bob Anderson Secretary of the Navy is praised by Time Magazine for taking command of the department and running it effectively. He reportedly fired Rear Admiral Homer Wallin after a warning, reflecting Eisenhower era efforts to transfer defense policy control to civilian leaders and the President.
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Bob Anderson
Vernon, Tex
Secretary of the Navy
Time Magazine
Department
Navy
Time
Anderson
Texan
Homer Wallin
Bureau of Ships
Why Primrose? Cause of old folks in a 1953 party
Readers wonder why the Primrose Party for seniors is named after primroses. The letter notes many primrose species with little link to aging except Eve ning Primrose, and observes aging as years, not condition, with a playful jab at porch rocking and draft worries.
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Senior Golf Association
TV Sets Surpass Automobiles in 1953 Output
In 1953 production of television sets topped motor vehicles at seven million units, while Chicago houses more TV sets than bath tubs. The letter column includes opinions on radio music, band programs, and a Las Vegas gaming guide, reflecting local tastes and public sentiment.
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Chicago
Bath
C. H. Ozmer
Spearman
Robert W. Orr
Firemen Stop Oklahoma Robbery Bandits at Elk City Motel
Three suspects from Atchison Kan were captured by two Elk City firefighters after a midnight holdup at Shady Rest Courts on Route 66. Police recovered five guns from the car. about $150 in cash and two pistols were taken. The robbers, initially mistaken for police, were described as disappointed by the stop.
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Oklahoma
Elk City Motel
Jack Smith
Daily News
Elk City
Okla
Aug
Atchison, Kan
Shady Rest Courts
Bill Hastings
Highway 66
Shady Rest
Hastings
Carroll Tisdal
Leonard Murdock
Julius Pierce
Ed Pecnosky
Eisenhower Reports Six Month Progress Amid Ongoing Challenges
President Eisenhower spoke to the nation outlining six months of administration despite not solving all national problems. He warned of continued trials and dangers ahead, emphasized a guiding purpose to strengthen all people in freedom and peace, and defended Congress actions as deliberate and necessary. He defended delaying tax cuts to protect the debt and highlighted efforts to curb government spending and stabilize the budget while noting foreign policy focuses, including Korea.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Fisenhower
Congress
60 000 Break Red Blockade In Food Rush
Berlin reports a large breach of the Soviet blockades as 60 000 East Germans from five Russian-occupied provinces join 70 000 from East Berlin and suburbs in breaching the West Berlin food blockade. Desertions surge. total yearly desertions reach 2,606 as Otto Nitschke faces political fallout over a US food loan freeze.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Berlin
People's Police
Otto Grotewohl
Otto Nitschke
81 Americans on Way to Freedom from Panmunjom
The third day of the post armistice exchange at Panmunjom freed 81 Americans along with 25 British 25 Turks 12 Filipinos 7 Colombians and 250 South Koreans. Prisoners leapt from Communist truck beds to Korean soil amid sunlit reunions. Many were gaunt or ill with tuberculosis influenza and malnutrition.
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Panmunjom
Edward R. Achee
Detroit
Baseball scores West Texas New Mexico League games
Scores from Amarillo at Lubbock Reeves and Abilene rivals six games. Panhandle teams Pampa and Albuquerque split a doubleheader with 9 and 4 runs. Brooklyn, Milwaukee, New York and Chicago postable NL totals. St Louis dominates Pittsburgh 27 0. Cincinnati weakens as Raffensberger and King combine for losses.
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Waden
Erskine
Campanella
Spahn
Crandall
Brookly
Milwaukee
Labine
Meyer
Walker
Buhl
Liddle
Cooper
New York
Chicago
Grissom
Corwin
Hearn
Wilhelm
Noble
Hacker
Church
Simpson
Willis
Leonard
McCullough
Sawatski
Philadelphia
ST. Louis
Simmons and Lopata
Haddix and
Rice
Pittsburgh
OLI
Cincinnati
Lindell
LaPalme
Sandlock
Raffensberger
King
Seminick
Second National Title for Baxter
One hurt in plane crash near Amarillo. Thomas B. Penn 50 of Perryton, piloting a ferrying flight, escaped serious injury after a crash about 6 45 PM near the American Smelting and Refining plant. Penn suffered facial lacerations, possible fractured nose, and arm and leg bruises but was reported in good condition at Northwest Texas hospital. He was conscious at the scene and en route to the hospital by Griggs Ambulance, after starting from Tradewind Airport and flying from Odessa to Perryton.
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Bill Cherry
Thomas B. Penn
Perryton
American Smelting and Refining Company
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Hospital
Penn
Griggs Ambulance
Northwest
Penn Flying Service
Tradewind
Odessa
Tom Muncy
Local Club Activities Include Dances and Meetings
Noon hour events list varied gatherings across Amarillo with the American Business Club at the Her ring Hotel and the Amarillo Bar Association, followed by the Amarillo Exchange Club and a Scouters Ladies Round Table outing at Camp Harrington. Evening programs include a USO Dance at the Air Force Base, a Chess and Checker Club gathering at the Elks Lodge, and a Texas State Guard armory session.
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American Business Club
Herring
Amarillo Bar Association
Amarillo Exchange Club
Don D. Harrington
Amarillo Air Force Base
Elks Lodge
Texas State Guard
Guard Armory
Soldier freed from POW camp seeks Marilyn Monroe photo
In FREEDOM VILLAGE on August 6 a shy American soldier, just released after three years as a prisoner in China, entered the Red Cross recreation room. He nervously browsed magazines and, in a hushed voice, asked worker Winfrid Eley to show him a picture of Marilyn Monroe.
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Freedom Village
Red Cross
Winfrid Eley
Lansing
Mich
Marilyn Monroe
Full Arsenal Urged If Reds Break Truce
Gen Mark W Clark at a Pentagon news conference said that if the Communists break the Korean truce he would favor using any and every weapon in the U S arsenal to strike back. He did not specify atomic weapons but implied they could be involved. He noted limited hope for POWs and said he was directed to obtain and sign the armistice.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
Mark W. Clark
Korea
Clark
Far East
Pentagon
Mili
One Slain in Three Riots As Gates Open
KOJE ISLAND Korea Friday August 7 AP United Nations guards used rifle fire tear gas and vomiting gas to quell three riots by about 12 000 North Korean prisoners as their compounds were emptied for the big armistice exchange One prisoner was killed and four wounded in the first riot others stopped with gas only No Allied casualties reported Riot leaders allegedly sought to save face amid surrender to UN forces with reprisals from their Communist masters Others involved included 70 000 prisoners at the camp and guards faced barricades during the first clash.
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Koje Island
Korea
United Nations
U.N. Prisoner of War Command
Eye of Freedom
Southeast
U. N
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity expect fair weather with mild temperatures Friday and Saturday. Extremes today 68 to 90. West Texas overall fair with scattered late afternoon and evening showers possible and little temperature change.
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Amarillo
Texas
Six Die in Oklahoma Bus Crash Near Hydro
A Greyhound bus and a car pulling a house trailer collided on an incline near Hydro Oklahoma, plunging into a creek. Six people died and 35 were injured, with victims from Oklahoma and nine other states plus Canada. The bus departed Amarillo at 1 am en route to Oklahoma City when the crash occurred at dawn. The trailer's occupant was Manuel F E Wilkey of Springfield Illinois. his wife and child died.
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Oklahoma
Manuel FE. Wilkey
Springfield
Ill
Wilkey
Susie Webster
Joplin
Jack Parris
McAlester
Okla
W. F. Brady
P. A. Ferguson
el Reno
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Canada
Amarillo
Tex
Oklahoma City
Art Cordry
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Associated Press
Hydro
Greyhound
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