Pampa and Borger Stay In 1-AAAA District
In Odessa on December 12 the executive committee unanimously re elected Pampa and Borger to remain members of District 1-AAAA for the 1954-55 school year. Officials cited enrollment projections and travel considerations while supporters argued for continued inclusion in the Little Southwest Conference.
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Cryer
Wreckage Found After Ten-Day Search For Jet
Wreckage of a T 33 jet was found ten days after it vanished during a routine training flight. Civil Air Patrol officers Capt J A Carlisle and Cadet Capt Joe Spears located scattered debris two miles north of the Canadian river and 23 miles northwest of Amarillo. The plane crashed December 2, after two Perrin Air Force Base officers bailed out. Lt Col Milton Johnson reached a ranch nearby while Capt Ray W Henderson was missing until found later. A guard will be placed at the site and the wreckage moved Monday.
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Amarillo
Civil Air Patrol
J. A. Carlisle
North East
Sherman
Milton Johnson
Cross Bar Ranch
Ray W. Henderson
Ady
H. B. Rust
Amarillo Air Force Base
Carlisle
Kefauver Seeks Senate Probe of GM Tank Contract
Tennessee Senator Kefauver urged a Senate investigation into a 200 million dollar defense contract with General Motors for exclusive M-48 tank production. He warned the deal concentrates power in one industry and may shrink the defense production base, urging hearings before finalization.
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Kefauver
Tennessee
Senate
General Motors Corp
Senate Armed Services Committee
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Armed Services Committee
Stevens
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
John Slezak
Army
Slezak
Adlai Strikes At Poison of Fear in Talk
Adlai E Stevenson told Democrats in Philadelphia that four fears—depression communism self and freedom itself—have replaced four freedoms and fear is poison He urged a crusade against the Communist conspiracy without Communist methods and critiqued Eisenhower and McCarthy while praising Roosevelt and liberty.
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Philadelphia
Adlai EF. Stevenson
Illinois
GOP
Stevenson
Democratic Partyv
Atto
Browne
Robbery at Clovis Grocery Breaks In After Hours
A masked intruder forced entry through a broken front door at The Country Store in Clovis and stole an undetermined amount of cash. Police reported the store, owned by Mr and Mrs G A Patterson, is the third Clovis grocery hit in six weeks with several accomplices possibly involved.
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West Grand
G. A. Patterson
Ollie Damron
McCarthy shifts hearings to New York on espionage probe
Senator McCarthy as chairman of the Senate Investigations subcommittee moves four days of hearings from Washington to New York City starting Monday. He says the probe concerns Air Force leads found during a prior Army Signal Corps espionage investigation at Ft Monmouth. He notes Air Force personnel in Rome Syracuse and Griffiss AFB. He denies an Air Force or FBI snitch role and mentions Project Lincoln at MIT under scrutiny for subversion. He also comments on Lehman and McCarthyism and reports no Montgomery Alabama findings.
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Indiana
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Lincoln
Air Force of National Defense
Boston
Project Lincoln
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Cambridge
Montgomery
Ala
State Board of Examiners
Lehman
Russians base view of atomic pool gains cautious support
Washington reports Moscow softened tone toward Eisenhower plan for an international pool of atomic energy for peaceful uses. Soviet Foreign Office said they would give serious consideration to the president's proposals while U. S. officials noted the attitude could still be posturing.
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Canada
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U. S
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Americans face stark choice in Korean prisoner repatriation
PANMUNJOM Sunday Indian command said eight anti Communist North Korean prisoners were segregated for slayings in a prison clash over repatriation. The list includes 22 Americans and one British Marine holding to the Communist world, with interviews set by the U N Command starting Monday. Four Texas soldiers named: Adams Corsicana Batchelor Kermit Douglas San Angelo Griggs Jacksonville.
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Reds
Royal Marine
U.N
Neutral Zone
Texas
Howard G. Adams
Corsicana
Claude J. Batchelor
Kermit
Rufus O. Douglas
San Angelo
Lewie W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Warm weather returns after chilly start across Texas
After a low of 19 degrees Friday morning temperatures rise to an expected 53 by Sunday afternoon with clear skies. Yesterday's high reached 52 degrees. West Texas will see fair skies and warmer conditions Sunday with night lows 22 to 30. Light snow fell for about two hours near Junction in Kimble County as a low pressure system moved inland from the Gulf.
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West Texas
Junction
Tex
Kimble County
San Antonio
Gulf
Texas
Reds suspend Korean peace talks after Dean walkout
US envoy Arthur Dean walked out of a five hour session after Pyongyang called his conduct perfidy and Washington warned the talks were recessed indefinitely. The incident followed weeks of wrangling and raised questions about the possibility of a Korean peace conference.
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Arthur Dean
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Reds
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Pyongyang
Washington
State Department
Huang Hua
Kidnap Pair Serene As Execution Nears
Jefferson City Missouri December 12 UP Kidnap killers Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady are set to die in the Missouri gas chamber at 12 01 a m Wednesday in the latest swift justice after luring six year old Bobby Greenlease from a Kansas City school and killing him within an hour The woman Bonnie Heady will be the first woman to pay the supreme penalty for kidnaping in Missouri and Hall is to be executed despite their calm demeanor as their bodies will be shrouded in plastic similar to the grave cover used for Bobby in Bonnie Heady's yard
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Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Heady
Missouri Gas
Bobby Greenlease
Kansas City
Bobby
Bonnie
St. Joseph
Heady
United States
Missouri
Carl Hall
Shakespeare
Crossfiling by GOP Draws Fire in Texas
Dallas December report quotes Democratic state chairman Wallace Savage calling GOP crossfiling illegal and pledging vigorous action. Savage says running in both parties’ primaries implies abusing Democratic trust and notes Texas law bans participation in both primaries on the same day.
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Husband Is Too Perfect So Wife Deserts Him
Frederick Steeg, a 24 year old Baltimore steel worker, obtained a divorce on abandonment grounds. He married a Seneca South Carolina woman on May 30 1952 and was served a four page letter from his wife apologizing for not loving him and advising him not to be too good to his next wife.
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Frederick Steeg
Seneca
Freddie
Christy
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