McKinney brothers rise from farmers to Santa Fe engineers
Wes Izzard notes S J and D R McKinney of Clovis as veteran passenger engineers on the Santa Fe Clovis Belén division. The piece recalls their boyhood wish upon the Lone Star Limited, their roles in the San Francisco Chief runs, and a day with Amarillo crew details including J H Newell and L Horton. Also glimpses California travel notes and a joke about entering the Suez Canal.
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McKinney
Greenville
Texas & Midland Railroad
McKinney Brothers
8Star Limited
Limited
McKinney Boys
S. J
S. J. McKinney
San Francisco
Belen
Clovis
D. R
Santa Fe
Clovis-Belen
C. J. Easton
C. D. Hobbs
L. D. Horton
Amarillo
L. Marvis
B. M. Smith
W. K. Fry
California
Richmond
Berkeley
Farm Prices Dip Sharply in August Report
The Agriculture Department said farm prices fell 3 percent in the month to Aug 15 the sharpest drop in months. Potatoes and other vegetables led declines while cotton fruit and poultry eased. Costs rose slightly leaving mid August farm returns at 82 percent of parity.
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Gaylord P. Godwin
Washington
Agriculture Department
Arop
Ind
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
True D. Morse
Weather snapshot shows Amarillo in 1956 readings
The report notes Amarillo had sun on 231 of 243 days in 1956. Comparative 3 pm readings list Houston Dallas and Oklahoma City with wind speeds around 15 to 20 MPH and mostly partly cloudy to cloudy conditions.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okia
City
Baseball Scores From Various Leagues
Western League games include Amarillo 4 11, Albuquerque 13, Lincoln 6, Sioux City 1, Des Moines 3, Topeka 1, Pueblo 10, eolorage Springs 9. American League results Cleveland 2 Chicago 0, Baltimore 13 Boston 6, New York 6 Washington 4, Detroit 6 Kansas City 1. National League Milwaukee 6 5, St Louis 5 3, Pittsburgh 6 Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 4 Chicago 3, Brooklyn 7 New York 3.
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Amarillo
Albuquerque
Lincoln
Sioux City
Des Moines
Topeka
Pueblo
Eolorage Springs
Cleveland
Chicago
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Washington
Detroit
Kansas City
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
U S Demands Pay For Downed Plane
The United States accuses Red China of an unjustified attack on a U S Navy patrol plane off the China coast. It demands compensation for the plane and its 16 crewmen, citing evidence the attack occurred in international waters and noting recovered wreckage suggests possible navigation error near Chinese shores.
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Washington
United States Tonight
Red China
U. S. Navy
China Coast
State and
Defense Departments
China
Navy
Albert P. Martin
Delta
Ohio
James William Ponsford
Long Beach
Calif
Shanghai
U.S
Japan
Formosa
Violence Flares as Suez Crisis Intensifies Across Med
Cairo reports a surge of clashes across the region as Britain and France mobilize forces. Egypt accuses Israel of raids killing soldiers while Cyprus faces new attacks from rebels. EOKA frees an inmate in Nicosia amid hospital gunfire that claims four lives. A British liner Himalaya suffers an unexplained explosion injuring one crewman as discussions in Cairo press for a UN linked international management of the canal.
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Cairo
Egypt
Britain
France
Middle East
Israel
Cyprus
U.N
EOKA
Nanan Eeergg
Nicosia
Polykarpos Hadjigeorghiu
Himelaya
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Australia
Middle Eastern
Segregation Leader Sentenced as Tennessee Mob Forms
In Clinton Tennessee an outsider jailed for contempt of federal court received a one year term amid a later mob scene led by Asa Carter from Birmingham and John Kasper from Washington. About 500 demonstrators blocked Main Street and forced doors, targeting integrated facilities and a passing Black motorists.
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Clinton
Tenn
Clinton High
Knoxville
Harrangue
Integrated
Michigan
Ohio
Anderson County
Asa Carter
Alabama ‘White Citizens Council
Birmingham
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice
National Assay For the Advancement of
Carter
John Kasper
Washington, D. C
Noxville
15 Year Term Is Assessed In Rape Case
A 41st District Court jur y deliberated ten minutes before sentencing Earl Dean Jeremiah to a 15 year prison term for raping a 23 year old Amarillo woman on a road near Pullman Switch on Jan 20. Jeremiah pleaded guilty after the state rested. He faced a minimum five year sentence under state law. The victim resisted, was struck, and later taken to her brother’s home. Photographs and witness testimony were presented. Jeremiah, 26, was a former smelter worker. Attorneys Jack Ferguson and S F Rose defended him. Wayne Bagley and Dist Atty Gib Howard prosecuted.
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Earl Dean Jeremiah
Amarillo
Jeremiah
Gib Howard
Pullman Switch
Jack Ferguson
S. F. Rose
Wayne Bagley
Atty. Howard
Weather
Weather Bureau
Eleven Believed Dead In Alaska Air Force Plane Crash
An Air Force weather reconnaissance B50 with 11 aboard crashed on a Susitna River island near Talkeetna. Nine hours after the crash nine were reported dead. all 11 are believed dead. Wreckage burned and strewn over a wide area as rescue teams arrived.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Air Force
Susitna
Talkeetna
71St Search and Rescue Squadron
58Th
Frielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
North Pole
Aleutians
Bering Sea
Alas
Alaska Peninsula
Three Panhandle Counties Named for Feed Grain Aid
Three Panhandle counties Potter Oldham and Randall receive designation for the Emergency Feed Grain Program. Farmers and ranchers may file payment petitions to supply feed for basic livestock herds, with applications accepted through October 31 1956.
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Panhandle
Ray Debenport
Farmers Home Administration
Potter
Oldham
Randall
FHA
Texas Dove Season Opens Today at Noon
Texas dove season begins at noon today and runs through October 17 with hunting from noon to sunset. Daily bag limit is 10 birds, or in possession. Hunters must carry a valid license when hunting outside their county of residence.
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Texas
Buffalo surplus to be sold for meat or pets
The government plans to sell 500 buffalo crowded in Fish and Wildlife Service reserves. Karl Kobes says the animals are not ideal for steaks or pets. Prices range from 120 to 150 dollars depending on size. Contact Kobes at the Federal Building.
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Buffalo
Fish and Wild Life Service
Karl Kobes
Amarillo
F&wLs
Kobes
Federal Building
Plainview Area Concerned Over Sleeping Sickness
A Texas health team will study rising encephalitis cases in Plainview and Hale Center after about 15 diagnoses this summer at the Plainview Hospital and Clinic. Doctors note the Culex Tarsalis mosquito transmits the disease and horses and migratory birds may spread it.
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Luron Brown
Randall G. Hoye
Plainview Hospital
Henry A. ‘Holle
Department of Health
Health Department
Heye
Hale Center
Dana Gai! Croft
Mr. and i
Transfers Ordered at Mansfield Amid 1960s Desegregation Tension
Gov Allan Shivers ordered transfers out of Mansfield high school to prevent violence after six Negro students sought enrollment in the all white school. Two Texas Rangers were sent to Mansfield as mobs gathered and registration paused at noon. The NAACP and federal court order backed desegregation, while Shivers blamed the NAACP and urged peace through transfers.
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RII Hn
Associated Press
Mansfield High School
Preston McGraw Mansfield
Tex
Allan Shivers
Shivers
Autherine Lucy
Alabama
U. S. Supreme Court
Lucy
Texas
Mansfield
O. C. Rawden
Rawden
Fort Worth
Texas Rangers
T. i Huffman
Joe Estes
Dallas
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
NAACP
Tennessee
Homer P. Garrison
Department of Public Safety
Schoal
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Izzard
AOTC
Pullman
J. H. Newell
San Joaquin Valley
Bakersfield
Barstow
West Coast
San Francisco Bay Area
Winburn
Jerry Cooley
Jackson Lake Lodge
Moran
Wyo
Cedric Adams
Nasser Sary
Wes Izzard
Ita
Tennyson Berry
Buffalo Stadium
Canyon
Suez
Nasser
United Nations
Robert G. Menzies
Ethiopia
Iran
Sweden
United States
Virgil Moore
U. S. State Department
London
U. Smbassy
Moore
South Plains
Plainview Area
Ues
Davis
Nathaniel Jackson
Charles Moody
Floyd Stevenson Moody
R. L. Huffman
Huffman
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