Daniel and Yarborough Fight Tight Texas Governor Nomination
Texas voters narrow the governor race as Daniel leads Yarborough by about 5,000 votes with 254 of 254 counties reported. Rural areas favor Yarborough while Daniel leads in cities. last tallies show Daniel at 50.18 percent. Will Wilson wins the attorney general race. more results awaited.
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Austin
Robert Johnson
Texas Election Bureau
Election Bureau
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Yarborough
United States
Will Wilson
Tom Moore
Springer wins runoff for 94th district seat in Texas Legislature
Ted Springer, Amarillo printer, defeats Porter Oakes in a four-county runoff. Final vote 9,960 to 6,867 after a tight July primary. Springer will represent Carson Armstrong Randall and Potter counties when the legislature convenes in January. County results show Armstrong 51 to 152 for Oakes, Carson 701 to 0, Randall 2,705 to 1,720, Potter 6,203 to 4,445.
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Weather forecast for Amarillo area predicts fair weekend
The Weather Bureau reports Amarillo and vicinity will have fair skies Sunday and Monday with partly cloudy afternoons. Temperatures hold steady with lows around 61 and highs near 92.
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South Plains
Yarborough Repeats Potter County Victory In Governor Race
In Potter County, Judge Ralph Yarborough won the gubernatorial runoff with 5 959 votes to Price Daniel’s 5 382, reversing his 1954 July primary performance. Randall County totals favored Daniel, while Potter’s ballots boosted Wilson and Springer in other races.
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Sen
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Pappy) O’daniel
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Senator Yarborough Leads Texas Governor Race in Early Returns
Senator Ralph Yarborough built a 4405 vote lead in the Texas governor race with 33799 votes to 29394 for Price Daniel as unofficial returns from 28 counties were reported, with 24 counties tabulated.
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Regional primary results show regional leads and county totals
The report notes remaining uncounted votes in four counties while Yarborough leads with 17 counties in the region and Daniel carries 10 in the first primary. Panhandle voters favor Judge Will Wilson for attorney general with 37,362 to 22,701 for Tom Moore amid lighter July primary turnout. In Lubbock Preston Smith defeats Carroll Cobb for the Senate. incumbent Kilmer Corbin loses. Local precinct results list rollers for Wheeler and Collingsworth commissioners and Hale County races with vote tallies.
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Daniel Leads In Texas Governor Runoff Victory Expected
Bulletin from Liberty reports Price Daniel confident he has won the governorship as Governor Allan Shivers successor after the Texas primary. Dallas dispatch notes the Texas Election Bureau predicting Daniel's lead may hold with votes still out, making a Yarborough comeback unlikely. Austin cable cites Yarborough refusing to concede, insisting he will win.
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Houston
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Daniel
Liberty
Allan Shivers
Dallas
Robert Johnson
Texas Election Bureau
Ralph Yarborough
Austin
Oddities enliven election outside South Lawn School
Bobby Ballard seven talked with a card hawker for a candidate, then returned with a large cardboard box and began selling tickets from inside it. He shouted Tickets Get your tickets to the election here while offering the candidate's cards to passersby.
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Bowie
Hog calling contest delays Perryton election tally
In Perryton on August 25 politics paused for a hog calling contest at the North Plains Fair. At 9 p.m. only one of two vote boxes had finished while officials from the other precinct waited to complete the final count.
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Joe Smith Draws Write-In Vote in Precinct 12
Allan Early reports that a write-in vote for Joe Smith for Lieutenant Governor appeared in Precinct 12 at Bivins school during yesterday's second primary election. The ballot was invalidated after the voter scratched the party pledge, so the vote could not be counted.
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Joe
Daniel Hears Election Returns by Candlelight in Liberty
Senator Price Daniel sat at his brother Bill Daniel’s home in Liberty as a fuse blew and electricity cut, leaving 16 minutes without power while aides scrambled for candles and a portable radio. Photographers captured Daniel listening to the returns with a calalabra in view.
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Weather Summary for Amarillo 1956 Sequences
The report notes Amarillo had shone 225 days in 237 for 1956 with readings at 3 p.m. on Saturday showing mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions. Houston Dallas and Oklahoma City recorded similar wind and visibility readings with light to moderate winds and partly cloudy skies.
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Wright plans mile tall Illinois building in Chicago
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced plans for a mile high office tower to rise on Chicago’s lakefront near the Planetarium. The 510 story structure would house about 100000 workers and be called The Illinois with backing from Chicago elites. the project remains on drawing board.
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Baseball Scores and Rain Delays Across Leagues
In the Western League Amarillo at Albuquerque postponed due to rain. Lincoln 7, Des Moines 4. Topeka 13, Sioux City? Colorado Springs 11, Pueblo 3. In the American League Chicago 4, New York 2. Washington 8, Kansas City 4. Detroit 7, Baltimore 3. Boston 9, Cleveland 6. In the National League St Louis and Pittsburgh and Philadelphia 3. Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 2. New York 6, Chicago 9.
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Eisenhower Directs GOP as Stevenson Leads Democrats to Battle
From the White House Eisenhower coordinates Republican strategy while Adlai E. Stevenson plans a brisk national tour. Stevenson kicks off with a Labor Day Detroit speech after a Santa Fe stop, while GOP chairman Hall expects a tough, early September start. Stevenson vows direct voter contact. Nixon and Kefauver are named as key campaign sluggers. Eisenhower may begin slower with TV focus, then join the fight, likely by October.
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