Grandma Moses of Amarillo heads to ENMU at 83
Paralee Witt, 108 North East Eleventh, plans fall study at Eastern New Mexico University Portales. At 83 she is the oldest student, having painted since 1931 in watercolors and oils. She will drive a 1932 model car to Portales after saying she may go alone if her Portales granddaughter is late.
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News-Globe
Paralee Witt
North East Eleventh
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
North East
Grandma Moses
Amarillo
Eastern Mexico University
France
Break Hinted In Murder Case in Texas
Tense day in the Jake Floyd Jr murder plot case as Texas Rangers await a break. Alfredo Cervantes looms as third suspect amid new murder charges and habeas hearings for Mario Sapez and Nago Alaniz. Floyd Sr. says killers were imported from Mexico aiming at Judge Sam Reams and a Texas pol, but his son was slain by mistake.
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Buddy) Floyd Jr
Jim Wells
Alfredo Cervantes
Homer Dean
Spurgeon Bell
Houston
Mario Sapez
Nago Alaniz
Jake Floyd Sr
Sam Reams
Alaniz
Floyd
Mexico
Mass fainting at Natchez Neville high school game
Monroe Louisiana reports Principal Paul Neal described 165 Neville High Tigerettes fainting during a football game against Natchez High School in Natchez Mississippi. Dr James Barnes attributed overheating and excitement as the cause.
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Monroe
Paul Neal
Natchez
Miss
Natchez High School
Neville High
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Allgirl
Tigerettes
Natchez General Hospital
James Barnes
Abe
Eisenhower to launch 12 state Midwest campaign swing
General Dwight D. Eisenhower plans a 12 day campaign through the Midwest and top Democratic South states to build momentum for the November race. He stresses spirit over organization while Adlai Stevenson rests after a 7600 mile Northwest California Southwest trip and prepares for New England.
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Blood of Rival Fathers May Solve Paternity Suit
In Sioux City Iowa two men Wilmur Johnson and Glenn H Phillips claim paternity of a five year old boy. Blood tests were taken at the health department and results expected Monday for court use. The boy’s mother married Phillips after a divorce from Johnson and the child’s birth certificate named Johnson. Mrs Johnson died in a car crash last month prompting a habeas corpus bid to return the boy to Johnson.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Thether
Wilmur Johnson
Glenn H. Phillips
Johnson
Phillips
Sergeant Bluff
Dohneon
US Modernizes Its Air Fleet
The Air Force ordered at least 12 new jet fighters and bombers into production to replace front line planes. The line includes 11 production models and the latest F-101 designed to escort bombers. Boeing built the eight-jet B-52 heavy bomber, slated to replace the B-36 as America’s intercontinental bomber and atom bomb carrier. The B-36 flies about 435 mph and faces competition from a canceled B-60.
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Washington
Air Force
United Press
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St. Louis
Boeing
America
Harem Keeping Job Draws Doctors and Wives Abroad
Chicago report notes Woodward Medical Personnel Bureau seeks a couple for a $50,000 a year post caring for a king’s harem. Must be a young doctor and wife physician, with no children, identity of the country kept secret. Reactions flood in from London and Houston amid wide media coverage.
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Chicago
Woodward Medical Personnel Bureau
Dickson Woodward
Bureau
London
Houston
Tex
Planter
Bonham
Certification of New Party Is Challenged
In Austin on September 13 AP reports Texas Democrats battled in court over ballot placement for Eisenhower as a Democratic nominee. A district judge issued a temporary restraining order delaying certification of the new Texas Democratic Party, backed by Stevenson and Sparkman, to prevent two Democratic columns on the ballot.
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Stevenson
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Jack Roberts
Jack Ross
New Party
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Tom Sealy
Midland
University of Texas Regent
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Rayburn
Sealy
Amarillo
Army police encircle areas in hunt for three bank robbers
In Allentown and across the region state and local police with FBI agents form a wide blockade to trap three armed fugitives roaming northeastern Pennsylvania after escaping Lewisburg prison. Civil Air Patrol planes search foothills as officers admit no solid trace despite robberies and hostages. Maryland authorities join inland pursuit near Pen Mar as the manhunt widens.
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
FBI
Civil Air Patrol
Pocono Mountains
Alvin Karpis
John Dillinger
Lewisburg
Texas and Mexico League baseball scores update
Amarillo 8 Clovis 5 and Borger 6 Albuquerque 1 headlined. In National League New York 3 Cincinnati 2 and Boston 8 Pittsburgh 0 with St Louis 5 Brooklyn 2. American League New York 6 Chicago 5 and Boston 5 Cleveland 3. Texas League Dallas 11 Oklahoma City 3 while Oklahoma City trails 3-2 in the series. Weather forecast for Amarillo region calls for partly cloudy conditions Sunday and Monday with mild temps.
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Knife-Wielding Husband Arrested After Amatillo Slashing
The estranged husband Faye Chandler, 29, of Pampa, is held for investigation after allegedly slashing Merrick Merrick, 618 West Fifth, and Mrs. Lamoine Chandler, 30, in Merrick's home. Mrs. Chandler was later reported in fair condition at Northwest Texas Hospital.
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Lamoine Chandler
Northwest Texas
George
Merrick
West Fifth
National Firms Are Solicited in 1952 Red Feather Drive
National firms division workers in Amarillo contact about 225 local businesses as prospect cards go out ahead of the advance gifts division. Roy Bell chairs the national firms, Dan Hickey leads the branch house section, and Walter F. Sharp heads the retail section. The division aims for 25000, part of a 250000 chest goal supporting 22 agencies, with a 930 meeting at The Daily News and Globe Times conference room. Cortines named Mexico president elect after July 6 vote. takes office December 1.
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Sunday News Globe
Dan Hickey
Bell
Walter E. Sharp
National Films
Amarillo
United Red Feather
Yeste
Setishactory
National Firms
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