Auto trek from Lubbock to Quanah sparks 1906 tale
A Quanah Tribune Chief item recalls Misses Alley riding 90 miles by auto from Lubbock to Quanah to register at Polytechnic College. The tale notes Lubbock as distant from a railhead and highlights early Plains automobiling and regional travel changes.
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Lubbock
America
J. A. Alley
Misses Alley
Polytechnic College
Lubbock County
United States
Alley
Plains of
Texas
Kenneth R. Jenkins
Weather Bureau
Tribune
Mr. Jenkins
That and This Bascom Timmons Book About Jesse Jones
Wes Izard recalls Bascom Timmons final 414 page book on Jesse Jones and notes Hoover’s claim about his 1948 Republican convention speech with Tim in the Cow Palace press section. He reflects on the aging press corps and the Billy the Kid Rodeo celebration in Three Rivers New Mexico.
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Jesse Jones
Tim
Hoover
Cow Palace
Nixon
Arthur Krock
The
New York Times
Dave Lawrence
U. S. News & World Report
Washington
Three Rivers
N. M
Billy the Kid
Brooklyn
Enrollment Abandoned in Mansfield High School Row
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attorney L. Clifford Davis said enrollment of Negro students at Mansfield High School has been halted for now due to threats of violence from a mob. Earlier, Rev. C. W. Clark a Fort Worth priest who tried to calm the angering crowd was rescued by a Texas Ranger as taunts and chaos grew at the scene.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Mansfield High School
L. Clifford Davis
Texas
C. W. Clark
St. Timothy’s Church
Fort Worth
Bandits Rob Five Poker Players Near Atoka
Five businessmen playing poker in a private cabin near Atoka Oklahoma were robbed of 3000 dollars by two masked men, according to the Highway Patrol. Names of the losers were not released.
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Atoka
Okla
Here
Highway Patrol
Tennessee Tensions Rise at Clinton High Reopening
In Clinton area Oliver Springs crowds urged to march on Clinton after Clinton High School reopened with militia presence. Only a fraction of white students and most of the Negro pupils attended amid ongoing rioting and arrests following a white man’s wounding. Police reported 15 white detainees in custody. Negroes’ location kept undisclosed.
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Clinton, Tenn
Oliver Springs
Clinton High School
Here
National Guard
Clinton
Fred Giles
Anderson County
British war correspondent William Courtenay visits Amarillo
William Courtenay famed British war and aviation correspondent is guest of the U S Air Force in Amarillo. He will speak on airpower's global role at a base dinner tonight after arriving from Oklahoma City. He began as a WWI foot soldier and earned his pilot wings in 1917 with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Cyprus
Malaya
Egypt
Canal
William Courtenay
Palestine
Amarillo
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Courtenay
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Mediterranean
U. S. Air Force
Army
8Th Cavalry Regiment
Oklahoma City
Amarillo School Enrollment Rises on First Day
On the opening day of the fall term Amarillo public schools enrolled 19 918 students, up 1 115 from September 1955. New schools shifted student counts with Avondale down 121 and Olsen Park up 49, Humphreys Highland down 136 and Lawndale up 241, Forest Hills down 51 and Eastridge up 75, Coronado down 35 and Paramount Terrace up 165. Horace shows a 180 decrease.
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Chas. M. Rogers
Rogers
Avondale
Olsen Park
Humphrey’s Highland
Lawndale
Humphrey
Highland
Forest Hills
Eastridge
Coronado
Paramount Terrace
Horace
Nixon’s Father Dies at Home in Whittier
Frank A. Nixon, 77, died at 8:25 p.m. after a 13 day battle. Vice President Richard Nixon traveled from a friend's home to be with the family. Mrs. Hannah Nixon, 71, held his hand during his passing. Frank Nixon had arranged his own funeral services.
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I. N. Kraushaar
Baseball Scores Cold Dre Pododdd American League
Boston 7 Washington 6 in 12 innings. Cincinnati 4 Milwaukee 2 in 10 innings. Detroit 11 Chicago 4. New York 4 Philadelphia 2. Only games scheduled.
Menzies' Humor Good After Nasser
Cairo report says President Nasser and a five nation mission held a 1 hour 45 minute session on Suez Canal control in a cooperative mood. Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies emerged in good humor, stating they had not yet begun to attack each other.
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Suez Canal
Robert G. Menzies
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Dulles
Partly cloudy for Panhandle and South Plains alongside cooler turn
The forecast from the U S Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy conditions on Wednesday and Thursday across the Panhandle and South Plains with little temperature change. Temps near 83 are expected with sunrise at 6 22 a m.
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Panhandle
South Plains
South Piaing
Talim
Weather Summary for Amarillo 1956 Quietly Sunny Year
Amarillo logged sun on 235 days of 247 in 1956 with variable wind and visibility. Readings at 3 pm show Houston 12 mph wind 10 miles, Dallas 7 mph 15 miles, Oklahoma City 11 mph 15 miles, Amarillo 21 mph 145 miles, all partly to mostly cloudy.
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Amarillo
Tuemien
Houston
Dallas
Okla
City
Eisenhower formally launches re election campaign at Gettysburg
President Eisenhower prepares to start his re election drive with a September 12 speech to campaign workers at his Gettysburg Pennsylvania farm. Democratic rival Adlai Stevenson heads to Los Angeles for a major Legion speech as Hagerty accuses Democrats of exploiting misery for politics.
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Gettysburg
White House
Adlai Stevenson
Chicago
Los Angeles
James C. Hagerty
New York Times
Stevenson
Hagerty
The
Times
Clayton Fritchey
Paul Butler
Nixon
Cockroach Mistakes Scholars Shamed By English Lass
Anne Bunting a 19 year old schoolgirl from Sheffield lectured the British Society for the Advancement of Science on errors about the American cockroach Periplaneta Americana. She condemned how textbooks mislead and urged correction of mistakes in published works.
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Sheffield
England
Anne Bunting
British Society For the Advancement of Science
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