Appointments Made by FW&DR Officials
Fort Worth and Denver Railway announces several personnel moves. A D Dodge becomes acting general agent based in Amarillo, moving from San Antonio where he held that post since 1950. J Kenneth Lamb succeeds Dodge in San Antonio as general agent. K B Peckenpaugh named traveling freight and passenger agent in Amarillo. Lamb, married with three children, led from Fort Worth in earlier roles.
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Fort Worth and Denver Railway
A. D. Dodge
Amarillo
Dodge
Fw&d
Wichita Falls
San Antonio
J. Kenneth Lamb
K. B. Peckenpaugh
Dallas
Lamb
Fort Worth
Farm bloc retreats on price support bill
House farm leaders move to compromise with President Eisenhower and Ezra Benson over price supports. The omnibus bill would let Benson set lower guarantees for rice and allow cotton and corn acreage increases in exchange for reduced supports. Cooley predicted committee action soon, noting concessions expected from both sides.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
House
Eisenhower
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
House Agriculture Committee
Benson
Harold D. Cooley
Dn.c
Cooley
Eisenhower signs jobless pay extension bill nationwide
President Eisenhower signed a law enabling the federal government to advance funds to states to extend unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits had expired. A $665.7 million supplemental request covers loans, administration, and Labor Department costs, with extensions retroactive to June 30 last year and a cut off of April 1, 1959.
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UPI
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Labor Department
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Senate
Dallas Airman Dies of Injuries
Dallas Airman Third Class Joseph Edward Turner an 18 year old from Dallas died at Valley Baptist Hospital of injuries from a Tuesday night auto crash which also injured another person Turner son of Mrs Daisy Lee Turner was being driven by Airman Second Class Russell Earl Belcher who was hospitalized at Harlingen Air Force Base with minor injuries
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Harlingen, Tex
UPI
Joseph Edward Turner
Dallas
Valley Baptist Hospital
Turner
Daisy Lee Turner
Russell Earl Belcher
Harlingen Air Force Base
Theft reported of Cadillac with $3700 in glove compartment
Irving Duffield a former Stroud Oklahoma resident now living in Marion Texas told police his Cadillac was stolen from a motel parking place during the night while he was in Tulsa to testify in a federal court trial. The car contained about $3700 in the glove compartment.
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Okla
Marion
Tex
Irving Duffield
Duffield
Training Plane in Landing Accident
Capital Airlines reported a DC training plane with an instructor and trainee aboard suffered a landing accident at Martinsburg WV airport. No details were released but both men were hospitalized.
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Washington
Capital Airlines
Martinsburg
W. Va
El Paso Mystery Letter Entered in Court Inquiry
El Paso authorities examined a letter said to be from W D Patterson as part of a court inquiry into the disappearance of a prominent El Paso couple who have been missing for 15 months. The letter from Laredo directed dividing the Patter son business among employees and was reviewed by a DPS handwriting expert.
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EL Paso, Tex
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el Paso
W. D. Patterson
W. D. Pattersons
Laredo
Patterson
Department of Public Safety
C. A. Cowan
Justice of the Peace Charlies Windberg
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K. B, Peckenpaugh
Vincent J. Burke
Truman
Fedway Fashions
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Genos
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Fedway’'s
Edway
Atlantic City
Pat
D. G. Kirkland
Duffy Sasser
Clovis, N. M
Kirkland
Sasser
Corns
Dr. Scholl
Charlie
Doan
Braselette
Fedway
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