Angry trucker assaults mother and arson at family farm home
Dallas County Sheriff reports 22 year old Harry Lux attacked his mother with a pickup damaging the yard and porch and then drove to the house where he set a fire in an overstuffed chair. The Adel fire department extinguished the blaze. The parents were not seriously hurt and a lookout was issued for Lux on charges of attempted arson and assault with intent to commit great bodily injury.
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Dallas County
Evan Burger
Harry Lux
Here
Lux
Walter Lux
Harold Loose
Harry
Sheriff Burger
Burger
Young Lux
Adel. Ia
Tin Top Community Dedicates Caraway-Rhodes Hall
Dr. W R White of Baylor University urged Tin Top Texas residents to build peaceful communities as Caraway-Rhodes Hall, a native stone social center, was dedicated for local culture. The hall honors WWI dead Bryant Caraway Jr and Lonnie Clyde Rhodes. Tin Top spans Brazos River valley with 32 families.
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Tin Top
Texas
W. R. White
Baylor University
Tin Tip
White
Parker County
Bryant Caraway Jr
Lonnie Clyde Rhodes
Brazos River Valley
Literary Events Winners Named Across Region Three
Waco Wichita Falls Denton Quanah Temple and Gainesville led Class AA in Interscholastic League Region Three events with wins in girls and boys debate declamation junior and senior divisions and extemporaneous speech. Highland Park led Class AA news writing and editing while Waco topped team standings. Class A and B titles went to Mart and Buckner Home respectively with Fort Worth Olney and Teague also placing.
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Waco
Wichita Falls
Denton
Quanah
Temple
Gainesville
Jo Ann Sheehy
Ann Willis
Breckenridge
Roberta Faulkner
Rogene Faulkner
Bruce Crews
Melvin Ledbetter
Joe Dailey
James Ross
Pat Moyes
Charlene Lux
David Minton
Tommy Monroe
Paul Kellogg
Don Edmonde
Quenah
Sammy Merritt
Alita Waizig
Dana Hironymus
Sue Binnion
Bill Marshall
Troy Ellis
Pat Brice
Roger Faulkner
Jackie McKay
Martha Harlan
Highland Park High School
Cynthia Patrick
Weatherford
Highland Park
Denorah Evans
Olney High School
Teague
Olney
Mexia
Mapers
Ann Brightwell
Fort Worth
W. C
Graham calls for national repentance day in Boston
Evangelist Billy Graham addressed 40 000 people on Boston Common urging a national day of repentance and seeking God's forgiveness. He wrapped up a five day campaign against sin, amid light rain and intermittent sun as he appealed to President and Congress to declare the day.
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Boston
Boston Common
Billy Graham
North Carolina
Congress
Graham
Protestants Protest East German Teaching Decries Atheism
The Evangelical Church in the Russian Zone of East Germany accuses teachers of pressuring pupils to deny God and deny Christ. The declaration, read in Berlin and Brandenburg churches, cites intensified National Front recruitment and threats to conscience, jobs, and bread. Prime Minister Grotewohl calls the protest an attack on the constitution and republic.
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Evangelical
Germany
Evangelical Council For
Brandenburg
East
Evangelical Church
National Front
Church Council
Soviet Zone
Otto Dibelius
Otto Grotewohl
Evangelical Council
Christ
East Zone
Fisherman Crown Near Denison Dam
Cecil Cook, 27, of Anna, drowned when a boat capsized on the Red River below Denison Dam while helping run a trotline. John Grantland of Colbert Oklahoma and Ben Williams of Denison swam ashore. Cook's body was recovered and funeral plans are pending in McKinney. His death marks the 19th drowning in Lake Texoma and Red River since 1946. Survivors include his widow and two children.
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Cecil Cook
Anna
Red River
Denison Dam
John Grantland
Colbert
Okla
Ben Williams
McKinney
Cook
Lake Texoma
Gas Men To Convene Monday in Cowtown
Fort Worth hosts the 29th annual convention of the Natural Gasoline Association of America starting Monday for a three day session. More than 1 000 technicians engineers and executives attend with registration Monday morning and the first technical session that afternoon. The program balances technology and economics of the industry as the board of directors meets Monday morning.
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Fort Worth
Natural Gasoline Association of America
Board of Directors
Pioneer Border Family Members Rites Today
Funeral services will be held in Brownsville for Mrs. Isabel Yturria Garcia 78 a member of one of the original Texas border families. She died Saturday night. Her parents Francisco and Felicias Yturria held land grants along the Texas border from the king of Spain.
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Isabel Yturria Garcia
Francisco and
Felicias Yturria
Texas
Spain
Linda Suf Gossett Taylor
ANS
Linda Sue _ Gossett
Marvin Gossett
Taylor
Condra
R. Clark Calvert
First Methodist Church
Taylor City
Carroll Gossett
Tom Movosad
Caldwell
Bangs Rancher Elected President of Brown County Pioneers
Hugh Lee Alborn, a Bangs rancher, was elected president of the Brown County Pioneers Association at the annual reunion in Brownwood. Millard Romin es of Brownwood gave way as president and State Representative W. R. Chambers of May was chosen as first vice president.
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Brownwood
Hugh Lee Alborn
Bangs
Brown County Pioneers Association
Millard Romines
W. R. Chambers
May
Deaths and Funerals in Texas Locales
Multiple obituaries from Austin New Braunfels Taylor and nearby areas report deaths of Mrs. Addie Hodges Patterson 76 in Austin and Maria Wegner 36 in New Braunfels. Funeral details list Doep penschmidt and Weed-Corley homes with ministers, burial sites, and survivors.
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Addie Hodges Patterson
Weed-Corley
Marvin Vance
Memorial Park
Austin
Albert Hodges
Shiner
J. M. Hodges
Wharton
Mattie Hodges
Milburn McCalef
Gonzales
First Miss Japan tour to the United States announced
Fujiko Yamamoto of Kyoto has been chosen as the first Miss Japan. Tokyo says she will undertake a goodwill tour to the United States this summer. The selection focused on intellect and personality, with contestants wearing kimonos and limited vital statistics disclosed.
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Tokyo
United States
Fujiko Yamamoto
Kyoto
Japan
100 Whales Die on Stronsay Shore
Nearly 100 bottle nosed whales washed ashore in the Bay of Holland at Stronsay on Sunday as islanders watched in distress. The Orkney County council sought outside help to clear the beach but received no response. By nightfall the island's 700 residents gathered to witness the mass death and discuss the health implications. The whales were stranded after an unusually high tide on Saturday and a weak Sunday tide failed to refloat them.
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Orkney Islands
Bay of Holland
Stronsay
Orkney County Council
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