Eye New Plan For Financing Canadian Dam
Amarillo City Commission voted to continue studying Bureau of Reclamation plans for a Canadian River Dam and repayment by the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority. The action followed a revised plan and informal drafts of a repayment contract between the authority and the government.
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Paul Timmons
Daily News
Amarillo
Commission
Canadian River Authority
Plainview
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
Panhandle
South Plains
Pampa
Borger
Lubbock
Levelland
Brownfield
Slaton
Tahoka
Lamesa
O'Donnell
Gray
Amarillo 7 V Vicinity Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy and warm with isolated afternoon thundershowers through Thursday and Friday. Low Wednesday night around 63, high Thursday near 95. Panhandle and South Plains also expect partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms but no major weather events reported.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
South Plains
Defense seeks mistrial in Giles theft case over disputed testimony
Giles defense attorney Clint C. Small Sr. asks for a mistrial citing inflammatory testimony by state witness Sam McCollum in the Bascom Giles theft trial. Judge Charles Betts overruled the motion, striking some questions and answers but the dispute persists.
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Austin
Bascom Giles
Clint C. Small Sr
Charles O. Betts
Small
Travis County
Bradyland Promoter Case Involves Powers Farm Testimony
Giles faces trial for allegedly stealing 6800 from the state in a veterans land deal tied to the Rosenow ranch in Kinney County. Witness McCollum testified about a telephone exchange with promoter Sheffield and discussed a Powers farm transaction in Dimmitt County, which defense counsel argued was irrelevant to the charge. The judge overruled motions to strike McCollum’s testimony and instructed a juror disregard regarding the Powers land deal.
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Les Procter
Sam McCollum
Giles
McCollum
Small
L. V. Ruffin
Bradyland
Sheffield
Powers Farm
Brady
Milas
Anetin
B. R. Sheffield
Mee Atean
Collum
Butley
Powers Ranch
Veterans Land
Rosenow
Kinney County
New Angles Pursued In Missing Wife Case
Plainview July 13 Sheriff Ted Andrews says no near term solution in the disappearance of 21 year old Mrs C W Bill Phares on May 4. New leads appear but most prove false. Rangers Raymond Waters and Raz Rentfro are quietly pursuing the case as they review two new angles.
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New Angles
Tex Keirsey
Daily News
Plainview
Ted Andrews
C. W
Bill) Phares
Raymond Waters
Raz’ Rentfro
White House Asked to Suspend SEC Hearings on Dixon Yates
SEC chairman J Sinclair Armstrong testified that the White House requested suspending hearings on the Dixon Yates contract at a pivotal moment last month. He said Sherman Adams, Eisenhower aide, made the request, while Adams denied discussing other matters. The testimony tied to potential delays affecting Adolphe Wenzell and Duncan Linsley, with implications for a $6 million TVA transmission line.
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Washington
J. Sinclair Armstrong
Securities & Exchange Commission
White House
SEC
Dixon-Yates
Armstrong
Senate
Sher
Man Adams
Eisenhower
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Subcommittee
Atty
Brownell
Kefauver
Adams
West Memphis
Ark
Adolphe H. Wenzell
Wenzell
First Boston Corp
Duncan R. Linsley
Financial House
First Boston
Dulles Heads to Big Four Talks in Geneva Session
Secretary of State Dulles flew to the Big Four Geneva summit and voiced eye to eye unity among the Western powers. He said the conference aims to identify future issues and establish procedures to reach solutions with the Soviet Union, stressing it is a beginning rather than a final decision.
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Washington
State Dulles
Dulles
Soviet Union
West Texas New Mexico League Scores
Amarillo 22 Abilene 14. Lubbock 9 El Paso 4. Albuquerque 2 4. Pampa 0 2. Plainview 3 12. Clovis 4 8. American League no games scheduled national League.
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West Texas-New Mexico
Amarillo
Abilene
Lubbock
el Paso
Albuquerque
Pampa
Plainview
Clovis
Woman Convicted in Draft-Dodge Advice Case
Mrs. Lucille S. Miller of Brattleboro Vermont, 45, was found guilty by a federal jury on 18 counts of advising nine young men to evade the draft. The verdict came after about an hour of deliberation following a three day trial. Bail set at 1000 dollars for sentencing August 8, with possible penalties up to 5 years and 10 thousand dollars fine per count.
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Brattleboro, Vt
Lucille S. Miller
Miller
Ernest W. Gibson
Newsmen
Gibson
U.S. Atty
Louis G. Whitcomb
29 Lost as Ship Sinks Off Veracruz Mexico
A 145 ton coastal passenger boat La Flecha sank in the Gulf of Campeche near Veracruz. 3 bodies recovered, 26 missing, about 87 believed rescued. The ship bound for Progreso carried far more aboard than listed amid stormy seas and high waves.
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Veracruz
Mexico
Gulf of
Campeche
Yucatan Peninsula
Progreso
Coast Guard
Farm Worker Confesses to Abduction and Rape Case
Audrey Brandt, 42, a farm worker from LaPorte City Iowa, confessed after nine hours of questioning to abducting and raping a Sioux City girl whose body was found near Joplin Missouri. Authorities said the confession aligns with known facts though some details were incoherent and extradition awaits further investigation.
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Joplin
John Showers
Audrey Brandt
Laporte City
Lowa
Sioux City
Iowa
Showers
Brandt
Donna Sue Davis
Joseph Thornton
FBI
Thornton
Folsom Advances to Cabinet Job Vacated by Mrs Hobby
In Washington on July 13 1953 Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby resigns as secretary of health education and welfare effective Aug 1 President Eisenhower names Marion B Folsom to succeed her Folsom aims to extend social security to self employed and professionals Reportedly H Chapman Rose to move up as undersecretary of the Treasury Rose is 48 a lawyer
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folsom
Hobby
Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Health, Education and Welfare
Eisenhower
Marion B. Folsom
the Treasury
H. Chapman Rose
Cleveland
Rose
William P. Hobby
Texas
White House
Treasury
Humphrey
Associated Press
Texas Supreme Court Rules Bank Deposits Taxable Property
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that money on deposit in banks is subject to personal property tax. The decision supports two Harris County taxpayers, the Whelans, in a 1950–1952 delinquent tax case and reversal of lower court rulings. Officials warn deposits could flee banks if taxed.
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Austin
State Supreme Court
The
League of Texas Municipalities
Harris County
D. E
R. J. Whelan
State of
Texas
Whelans
Harrison County
Harrison
Supreme Court
E. E. McAndams
League of Texas
Weather Summary for Amarillo 1955 Day Readings
Weather report notes Amarillo had sun 177 of 194 days in 1955 with 3 pm readings showing partly cloudy conditions in Houston Dallas Oklahoma City and Amarillo. Winds around 11 to 12 MPH with clear or partly cloudy skies.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okla
City
Helicopter Crashes in Downtown Manhattan
A helicopter taking off from a 17 story building roof in downtown Manhattan crashed after a 30 foot power cable fouled the rotor. The pilot and a Port Authority photographer aboard were badly injured and rescued as the craft tipped over to a 15th floor setback after smashing against a 16th floor block.
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New York
Manhattan
Block Square
New York Authority
16Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Employes
Port Authority
Building Answers Due in Golden Spread Cities
The Daily News previews Friday Page 1 coverage answering which city is the buildingest in the Golden Spread and how much Plains residents have spent on new houses commercial buildings schools and churches in the last 18 months.
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Golden Spread
Daily News
Address by Chief on TV and Radio Friday
President Eisenhower will speak Friday about the Geneva Big Four conference. KGNC-TV will air the address at 6 15 p m and all Amarillo network radio stations will carry the speech. KFDA KAMQ and KLYN air at 7 15 p m KGNC rebroadcasts at 9 15 p m.
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Eisenhower
Geneva
Kgnc-Tv
Amarillo
KFDA
KAMQ
KLYN
KGNC
Farm hand dies after pickup trap near Hereford
Eugene Brimmage aged 20 from Arkansas was found dead under a overturned pickup on a farm 17 miles northeast of Hereford. Investigators believe he used a .22 pistol to kill himself as help arrived after the truck pinned him following a mud spill while he worked the irrigation ditch. Authorities sought his mother Mrs Ware of Houston, Ark.
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Hereford
Eugene Brimmage
Robert Hickman
Hickman
Brimmage
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Bureau of Reclamation
Don Burnett
Bureau
Fred Gray
Department of Interior
L. F. Wiley
Burnett
Giles Attorney
Mr. Sheffield
KGNCT
Martha Mason
Aeaees A
Roger W. Babson
Rts
Cesses
1 Ware
Houston, Ark
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