Davy Crockett items spark legal clash and sales boom
Davy Crockett themed merchandise soars with an estimated 100 million in two months sales across clothing and toys. Lawsuits surge as Baltimore firm claims exclusive rights to the Davy Crockett label, while Disney presses to halt unlicensed reproductions and countersuit firms like Rudin & Roth. Courts weigh trademark validity and abandonment claims as retailers face infringement actions.
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Barbara Bundschu
New- York
Davy
Crockett
Hornets Nest
Alamo
Walt Disney
Disney
Baltimore
Trademan
Davy Crackett, Produersmaty
Disney ‘Organization
Davy Crockett
Crm
Morey
Hannah Schwartz
Davy Crockett Enterprises,Inc
New York
Rudin & Roth
Fimore
Schwartz
Sears
Roebuck & Co
W. T. Grant Co
Texas Farmers Wait For Soaked Soil To Dry
Texas farmers monitor five weeks of light to moderate rains as soils stay saturated. USDA weekly crop and weather bulletin notes downpours washed fields across cross timbers, low rolling plains, and northern plateaus. Cotton and sorghum stands damaged by crusting may be replanted while subsoil moisture improves prospects for cotton feed crops and summer pastures.
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Austin
US. Department of Agriculture
Cross Timbers
Blacklands
USDA
Lower Valley
trans-Pecos
High Plains
Elderly couple to be charged in three police killings
In Ocala Florida authorities plan to arraign Edward Lindley seventy eight and his wife Bertha seventy on first degree murder charges for the weekend gun battle that killed Sheriff’s Deputy M Tuck and Officer Rob Wooten and wounded Deputy W G Ergle Jr and Assistant Police Chief M Tuck. The pair resisted arrest at their brick home after hours of gunfire by about 30 officers. The state seeks grand jury indictment with premeditated murder as the guiding charge.
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Ocala
Fla
D. R. Smith
Edward Samuel” Lindley
Bertha
Indiana
A. T. Buie
Buie
Lindley
Rob Wooten
Curtis Youngblood
M. ©. Tuck
W. G. Ergle Jr
State publishes 1954 Texas traffic accident tabulation
Austin DPS releases The Keys booklet with tables and charts on 1954 motor vehicle accidents. It cites 24,31 killed in 2,017 fatal crashes and 26,826,323,473 miles driven in Texas, plus 102,726 injured and $141,788,750 economic loss. The piece stresses Law Observance and Motoring Courtesy as essential keys to safety.
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Austin
Homer Garrison JE
Texas Department of Public Safety
Statistical Division
Public Safety Education
DPS
N. K. Woerner
Texas
Soviet-Yugoslav Future Bright Says Red Envoy
A Soviet embassy official in Belgrade said relations with Yugoslavia look bright, signaling long term goals despite no immediate results from talks. Krushchev and Bulganin retreated to Tito's Brioni villa after a week of meetings, with Belgrade noting Yugoslav coolness to Soviet overtures.
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Pelgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Kremlin
Marshal Tito
Communist Party
Nikita Krushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Tito
Brioni
Belgrade
Prophecy Comes True As Cohn Named Acting Mayor
Seventeen years after a high school report linked David S. Cohn to mayoral ambitions, he was appointed acting mayor. The move positions him to guide city affairs through the interim period while a formal decision is sought.
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David S. Cohn
Bool
Identical Twin Brothers Discharged After Same Surgery
Davenport report notes Merle Metzger aged 65 and his twin brother, both long-time partners in work and life, were released from the hospital the same day following identical stomach ailment surgeries.
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Davenport
Bar
Merle
Metzger
Bridge Collapse Ends Lengthy Reconstruction Debate
Officials had argued over rebuilding a bridge for years when a collapse abruptly ended the debate. The incident leaves questions about future safety and infrastructure decisions in the area.
They'd Better Wreck This .22 Rifle
In Buffalo Wyoming Denis Harriet 14 was wounded in the back by a bullet from a .22 caliber rifle that had accidentally discharged. The rifle had been sold three years earlier to a neighbor whose son was hunting with it when a ricochet struck Denis, the same gun involved in the prior incident.
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Buffalo
Dénis Harriet
Denis
False Teeth Worries Met By PASTEETH Powder
An advertisement describes FASTEETH powder as a non acidic alkaline product that helps prevent loose false teeth from slipping or wobbling. It promises a pleasant sensation of added comfort and security without gummy taste, claiming teeth stay in place when eating, talking, or laughing.
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Gil
Davy. Crockett
B'Ars
Modest Auto
San Francisco
Felice
Odessa Chiropractic
Harold Williams
W. DeFee
John F. Cainer
Baytown
del Monte Hotel
Sonotone of
Houston
Fannin Street
Houston, Texas
Penney
Burlington Mills
Silkalene
Bates’ Discipline
Wolf River
Harland
Owen
International
Rayen
Amie
Piel Valaere
Dacron
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the Cafe
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