Pampa Pursues $900,000 Community Hotel Project
A Texas community program led by The Community Hotel Company of Pampa seeks $900,000 in stock and bonds to build a modern hotel with dining and convention facilities. The scheme involves The Hockenburg System and local business leaders. $400,000 already subscribed, $600,000 needed for safety to proceed.
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Golden Spread
Borger
Dumas
Fereford
Portales
Pampa
Southwest
Community Hotel Company of Pampa
Texas Corporation
Hockenburg System, Inc
Harrisburg
Amarillo
New Texhoma: proposed state cutting across four states
Prospectus from C Les Culp, chamber of commerce manager, outlines a plan for a new state named New Texhoma including parts of New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas. The map covers the Oklahoma Panhandle eastern New Mexico Hobbs and Lamesa area with eleven claimed advantages like ideal climate and two time zones.
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Clayton
C. Les Culp
Chamber of Commerce
Culp
New Texhoma
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
North Plains Wheat Shows Resilience Amid Dry Spell
Readable wheat on the North Plains looks modest but viable with a white Christmas possible to boost growth. Reports from fields between Hartley and Dumas describe moderate greenness amid the drought impression, while other elements note office signs offering dubious guidance and a blunt mindset from local observers.
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North Plains
Hartley and
Dumas
6th Fleet Watches Crisis From Mediterranean Front
In the Mediterranean, Nov 30, Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown warned of a volatile situation as the 6th Fleet conducts exercises. He described sitting on a volcano and warned of possible Pearl Harbor scenarios while denouncing Soviet provocations and submarine buildup.
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U.S. 6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Middle East
Pearl Harbor
Charles R. Brown
Russia
Brown
France accused of Anglo French Israeli buildup near Syria
Syria charged that France has stationed at least half a division of troops and about 100 planes in Israel in a joint buildup with Britain and Israel. Ambassador Zeineddine said the forces are near the Syrian border but out of UN observers’ reach. He cited arms imports from Czechoslovakia and warned of possible further defensive measures.
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United Nations
Syria
France
Israel
Farid Zeineddine
Dag Hammarskjold
Zeineddine
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Hammarskjold
Gas Station Man Gives 3c Stamps as Premiums
San Antonio service station operator began offering U S postage stamps as premiums today. With each dollar purchase, customers receive a 3 cent stamp. Jack Kelly explained that a $5 purchase yields five 3 cent stamps and called it a better deal than trading stamps requiring large purchases.
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San Antonio
Jack Kelly
U.N. Peace Patrol Begins Amid Frontline Tensions
Danish and Canadian troops in blue helmets move into no man s land along the Suez cease fire line. They establish lightly manned checkpoints and occupy a buffer zone 600 yards by 1000 yards west of the canal as Egyptian forces resist deeper advance.
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Escap
Egypt
U.N
Port Said
E. L. M. Burns
U. N
Cairo
Royal Canadian Engineers
No-Man’s-Land
Port Fuad
World Crises Discussed At Knife and Fork Club
The World Affairs Council at Amarillo College debated Syria, the Suez Canal Zone and Hungary with four national representatives. Camille Chautemps of France argued against Soviet influence, while Dr Amalak Ram Mehta and others blamed Western actions and power pacts for unrest and instability in the region.
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Loyal Gould
Amarillo College
World Affairs Council
Camille Chautemps
France
Arthur Webb
Washington, D.C
England
Amalak Ram Mehta
John C. Metcalfe
Syndi
Daily News
India
U.S
Amarillo Knife and Fork
John Metcalfe
Amolak Mehta
Teachers Strike: Illness Protest Halts Class in Fairview
In Fairview New Jersey thirty two teachers called in sick as a protest over pay with 12 reported for work. The board offered annual increases between two hundred and three hundred fifty dollars, far short of the requested one thousand. The current pay scale runs three thousand to five thousand four hundred for masters degree holders. KGNC TV Perry Como Show listed for seven p.m.
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Fairview
N.J.P
Fairview Board of Education
Fairview Federation of Teachers
Four Slayings Tied to Transient Driver in California
Police linked Stephen Nash, a 33 year old ex convict, to four knife slayings including a 10 year old boy found under a Santa Monica pier. Victims included Larry George Rice of Venice and John William Berg in Long Beach. A Sacramento man Floyd Leroy Barnett and an unidentified victim were also named in the case.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Robert Guggenmos
Stephen Nash
Los Angeles
Thad Brown
Nash
Larry George Rice
Venice
Larry
John William Berg
Long Beach
Berg
Sacramento
Floyd Leroy Barnett
Sacramento River
Barnett
Here
Fugitive Nash Linked to Oakland Slayings Case
Police report Nash confessed to driving the victim to Hayward then killing him on the return trip in December 1955. Detectives note Nash, an ex convict with a reportedly short trousers from Berg’s penthouse, gave inconsistent statements and claimed no hometown. He was moved to Los Angeles for questioning amid claims of prior Sacramento arrival and seven year grand theft sentence.
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Nash
Oakland
Calif
Hayward
Brown
Berg
Los Angeles
Gus
San Quentin
Guggenmos
Emergency Oil Shipments Ordered to Western Europe
President Eisenhower gave the signal to ship half a million barrels of oil daily to Western European nations facing shortages amid the Midwest crisis. He ordered standby emergency plans enacted after assurances Britain and France would withdraw troops from Egypt, with London reporting White House announcement.
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John Scali
Washington
Mov
Eisenhower
Midwest
Europe
Britain
France
Egypt
London
White House
Eisenhower Plans-Troop Withdrawals Surprise Move
Britain and France poised to pull back most troops by Christmas as Eisenhower's officials confirm a timetable will be announced Monday. The decision, kept secret until now, follows an emergency plan not to trigger until Britain discloses specifics.
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Britain
France
Eisenhower
Quail Season Opens Today in Texas
Quail hunting begins at sunrise today across Texas and runs through January 16. Prospects are fair to good per game department workers. Panhandle hours are sunrise to sunset with a daily limit of 10 birds and 20 in possession. Gun rules require three shells max in magazine and chamber. Hunters 17 or older must have a license outside their home county and obtain permission to hunt private property.
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Texas
Game Department
Panhandle
Central Airlines opens Amarillo to regional service today
Seven Amarillo men join a pre inaugural flight to Liberal Kansas to launch Central Airlines routes from Amarillo to Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado. The ceremony includes Myrna McDaniel Miss Amarillo 1956 and Mayor Art Jordan presenting a key to F E Howe.
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Amarillo
Liberal
Kans
Central
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
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U.S. Weather Bureau
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