Barn Fire Destroys Bill Lasley Farm Structure Near Stratford
Fire early today destroyed a barn and its contents at the Bill Lasley farm twelve miles northeast of Stratford in Stevens community. Loss about 15000 dollars. Stratford and Texhoma fire crews saved Lasley home and nearby outbuildings as 90 calves escaped unharmed. Fire started unknown. alarm raised after motorist saw flames near Highway 54 about 3 30 this morning.
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Texhoma
Lasley
Walter Pendleton
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Heil
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Lasleys
Portales Man Begins Jail Term For In cest Offense
Portales, May 11. H F Jack Martin pleaded guilty to an in cest charge and starts a 20 to 235 year term at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. District Judge EF T Hensley Jr pronounced sentence after a court physician examined Martin's 13 year old daughter. Charges were brought by the girl's mother. Deputies Verner Jones and P F Turner transported him to the penitentiary. The Northern Ireland Marriage Council reported success in over half of its cases handled in the year.
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Verner Jones
P. F. Turner
State's Witnesses Testify in NM Mystery Death Hearing
In a Las Cruces preliminary hearing, state witnesses linked Jerry Nuzum to the 19 year old Ovida Coogler death. They described the discovery of a fragment of human flesh on Nuzum's car and outlined Coogler's disappearance and body found near Las Cruces.
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Daily News
New Mexico
Las Cruces
Jerry Nuzum
Ovida
Cricket" Coogler
Wlmnpu
Nuzum
Clovis
Pittsburgh
Charles Owen
el Paso
W. A. Sutherland
J. Benson Sewell
State of New Mexico
Walter Kegel
Santa Fe
Dist
W. T. Scoggins
White
Dwight W. Rife
Ash
Las Crures Airport Inn
Moran Fined and Jailed for Senate Perjury
James J. Moran once close to ex mayor William O Dwyer received the maximum five years in prison and a $2000 fine for lying to the Senate Crime Investigating Committee. Moran, aged 49, sought to conceal ties with Louis Weber Brooklyn numbers racket king, becoming the first conviction from the hearings in March.
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U.P
James J. Moran
William O'Dwyer
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Senate
United States
Moran
Louis Weber
Brooklyn
Showdown On Omnibus Tax Looms Over Session End
In Austin on May 11, legislators head toward a showdown on including Rep. Sewell’s natural gas pipeline tax in the omnibus tax bill. A conference committee may be instructed, with Senate leaders warning it could extend the session while critics oppose revenue sharing between counties and cities. Also note: Tasmanian movie theaters raise admission prices for the first time since 1926.
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House
Sewell
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Blooming Grove
R. A. Weinert
Seguin
Senate
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Services Today For Mrs. Coon
Private graveside rites for Mrs Katherine Coon pioneer of Moore and Dallam counties will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning on the Coon ranch near Dumas. Miss Clara Suter of Dalhart will read the service. Pallbearers include W O Culbertson Las Vegas NM Charles Woods Dalhart W H Coon Dalhart Dick Coon Amarillo Beauford Hubbard Burnet and Tom Record Dumas. Interment in a mausoleum on the ranch under Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Dumas. She died in Houston after a long illness. Immediate survivors are nephews and nieces.
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Katherine Coon
Moore
Dallam
Coon Ranch
Dumas
Clara Suter
W. O. Culbertson
Las Vegas
Charles Woods
W. H. Coon
Daljhart
Dick Coon
Amarillo
Beauford Hubbard
Burnet
Tom Record
Christian Science
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Coon
Richard Sanford
Dick’’ Coon
Rice
Houston
Leverett Rites Set at Childress
Sidney Carl Leverett 52 of Childress County died Thursday night of a heart attack. A World War I and II veteran he ran the Childress Typewriter Exchange for 17 years. Funeral Saturday at 10 at Central Christian Church with Rev. Frank Crow. burial in Childress Cemetery. Survivors include widow, son J Roy Leverett of Colorado City, sisters Mrs Sigloch Oklahoma City and Mrs Lewis Keck Cabazon CA, and brothers Roy Amarillo Jim Longview Elbert Willett CA.
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Childress County
Childress Typewriter Exchange
Central Christian Church
Frank Crow
Childress Cemetery
Newberry Funeral Home
J. Roy Leverett
Colorado City
Sigloch
Oklahoma City
Lewis Keck
Cabazon
Cal
Roy Leverett
Amarillo
Jim Leverett
Longview
Elbert Leverett
Willett
James M. Kimble Dies at 77 in Plainview
James Monroe Kimble of Plainview died Friday in Plainview Hospital after months of ill health. A Mississippi-born resident since 1935, he leaves a son in Napa, daughters in Plainview Amarillo and more, with funeral 2:30 p.m. Sunday at R. G. Wood Funeral Home Chapel and burial in Lakeview Cemetery near Floydada.
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James Monroe Kimble
James W. Kimble
Napa
Cal
Ruby Waggoner
Mary Rogers
Amarillo
W. G. Kimble
R. G. Wood
Harry C. Barlow Dies at Perryton
Harry Clifford Barlow 84 died this morning in Perryton Texas after living in Ochiltree County since 1907. He leaves his wife Hannah and five daughters four sons a sister 13 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services Monday at 3 p.m. at the First Methodist Church Perryton with burial in Ochiltree Cemetery. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home directed.
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Harry Clifford Barlow
Parryton
Ochiltree
Barlow
Hannah Barlow
J. D. Copeland
George Dietrich
FE. C. Barnes
Guy Cooper
Guy Gruver
Gruver
Robert
Harry
Alex
Leonard Barlow
First Methodist Church
Ochiltree Cemetery
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Crack Down on Strategic Goods Shipments
German and American authorities halted 4000 tons of steel rails bound for Hungary. The action followed U.S. senators pressuring John J. McCloy to explain why war materials from West Germany were not blocked from Soviet satellites.
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Germany
I“P
Hungary
United States
John J. McCloy
Russia
West Germany
Winds Hit Corpus Christi Causing Property Damage
Winds reaching 60 miles an hour struck Corpus Christi shortly before noon causing considerable property damage and disruption across the city.
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Corpus Christi
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