Blowout Flips Car One Dead Two Injured
A rear tire blowout near Amarillo on Highway 66 at 7:30 AM sent a car rolling. Henry Mathews 24 was killed and his wife Catherine 23 and their three sons were injured. the family was en route from Pacoima to visit Birmingham. Mrs Mathews’s brother and wife rode in a separate car ahead.
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Amarillo
Henry Mathews
Pacoima
Catherine Mathews
Gary
Henry Mathews, Jr
Ernest
Northwest
Texas
Mathews
Birmingham
Ala
Winfield Marshall
Cobalt Bomb May Be Next
A British nuclear scientist warned that a cobalt bomb could be the next step in weapons, potentially wiping out humanity in a single strike. The idea would use cobalt dust to contaminate large areas for years, with about 10 000 tons of cobalt proposed to create global fallout.
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London
Body found after 12 day search at Boys Ranch
An eight year old boy, Jimmy Seaton Geaton, was found dead five miles northwest of the Boys Ranch after a 12 day search. Cal Farley and ranch staff located the body as sheriff deputies and the acting coroner investigated the death likely from exposure. Bobby Ford was found earlier after separation during the search.
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James Logan
Jimmy” Geaton
Kermit
California
Bobby Ford
Roswell
Jimmy
Channing
Cal Farley
Oldham
Day Thompson
John van Meter
Lee Minner
van Meter
Farley
Nickles
Jimmy Seaton
Marguerite Moore
Midland
Calvin Joe
Seaton
Adenauer Aims At War Again Says Malenkov
Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov accused Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of steering Germany toward a new war in a Moscow address to East German leaders. He claimed the Bonn government resists a peace treaty and seeks conflict with Western and Eastern Europe in the lead up to West German elections.
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London
Georgi Malenkov
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Malenkov
Moscow
Kremlin
Adenauer
Bonn
Europe
Stalin
Farley
Bobby Ford
John Nickles
Bivins
Turner Ranches
Bobby
Boy's Ranch
Tascosaco
Mrs Rose Goldstein Seriously Ill In Northwest Texas Hospital
Mrs Rose Goldstein of 2105 Julian is seriously ill at Northwest Texas Hospital. She is mother of Mrs Ben Altman. Also listed are Mrs Sol Levitt 1522 Milam Mrs Gene Braunig 1015 West 33rd and Lt A M Ormond 2105 Julian who has just returned from Korea.
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Rose Goldstein
Julian
Texas
Ben Altman
Sol Levitt
Milam
Gene Braunig
West
A. M. Ormond
Korea
Panhandle Kennel Club Ring Procedure Class Event
The Panhandle Kennel Club hosts a ring procedure class at Memorial Park at 5:30 PM. Members and attendees will observe and practice ring etiquette and judging techniques during the session.
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Panhandle Kennel Club
Memorial Park
Civilian Returns From Korea Facing Air Force Trial
Pittsburgh steelworker Robert W. Toth, 21, arrived in Washington to challenge the Air Force move to arrest him overseas for a murder case in Korea. He will seek a habeas corpus hearing September 1 in U. S. District Court, with Bolling Air Force Base custody pending.
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Washington
Robert W. Toth
Pittsburgh
Air Force
Korea
Netti Mertz
Audrey Toth
Toth
Bolling Air Force Base
U. S
Military Justice
Bong Soon Kill
George Schreiber
Thomas L. Kinder
Associated Press
Nettie Mertz
Washington, DC
14th Floor Death Leap Thwarted
Navy veteran Sidney Herman, 23, dangled for more than 13 hours on a 14th floor Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital ledge in Brooklyn. Firemen and clinicians planned nets and a dramatic two-man trapeze leap from the 15th floor as thousands watched and urged him down.
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New York
Sidney Herman
Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital
Brooklyn
Herman
Harvey Kay
Baseball box score snippet with multiple teams and players
A dense box score fragment lists lines across leagues with numerous players and inning tallies. Names such as Gibson Morris Reeves Gorkis Lambrinos Santos Bauhofer Henderson Williams and Lambrinos appear alongside team abbreviations and partial scores.
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Plainview
Borger
Arthur and
Claahan
Garrett Miller
Belinsky
Kelcher
Goff
Hoeckendorf Abilene
Amarillo
Gibson
Webster
Morris
Reeves
Gorkis
Lakind
Lubbock
Clovis
Galey
Schindier
Mitchell
Reguera
Benites Pampa
Albuquerque
Santos
Bauhofer S
Lauters
Jordan
Henderson
Williams
Lambrinos
KGNC-TV Starts Regular Broadcasts From New Tower
KGNC-TV will begin regular broadcasts from a 833 foot tall tower at 2 45 PM Monday. Dozens of high plains communities can receive KGNC television for the first time as the interim system is replaced. Test patterns have aired between 1 and 6 AM with reception reported as clear to excellent from Dalhart to Tucumcari and beyond.
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KGNC
Bill Torrey
Radio and Television
Kgnc-Tv
High Plains
Federal Communications Commission
Tucumcari
Clovis
Canadian
Wellington
Dalhart
Neal Hutton
Caylor Caddell
Joe Allender
Charles Law
Tom Kruser
First National Bank
First National
Texas league offers mediation in Bell strike dispute
The Texas League of Municipalities proposed a fact finding board to aid Bell and the CIO CWA in negotiations over the six state strike. Mayor Jim Wright of Weatherford sent letters to Bell’s Walter Prehn and CWA CIO director T E Webb proposing mediation as talks resume in St Louis.
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Texas League of Municipalities
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Jim Wright
Weatherford
League
Bell
CIO Communications Workers of America
Wright
Walter Prehn
Dallas
Texas
T. E. Webb
Cwa-Cio
Prehn
Family motive drives Guymon theater holdup
A slender man with a Luger robbed the 54 Drive-In Theater box office of about $250 late Friday. He forced owner Bill Long and employee Leonard Matzek into Long’s car, then released them on a country road. Police set roadblocks after Miss Betty Long alerted authorities. the suspect, about 35, brown clothing, fled in a borrowed car, leaving a $500 billfold untouched.
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Don Albright
Sunday News-Globe
Guymon
Okla
Bill Long
Leonard Matzek
Long
Matzek
Metzek
Charles Rogers
Betty Long
Miss Long
Rogers
Jim Tucker
Tucker
150 More Yankees Reach Freedom From Red Prison Camps
At Panmunjom the Communists released 150 Americans and said 150 more would be sent home tomorrow along with 250 South Koreans. Returning prisoners, many Puerto Ricans, cheered as others shouted and cursed at North Korean officers.
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Panmunjom
United Nations Command
Republic of Korea
Red Northland
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