Rayburn to Speak at Cooper Dam Barbecue Oct 11
Rayburn will headline the Cooper dam barbecue on October 11 at the Delta county Country Club with honors for lawmakers who aided the dam project. Also invited are Lyndon B. Johnson and nearby district legislators. Event may move to Cooper High School if weather blocks outdoors. Tickets total 1,000 with price to be announced. Paris, Cooper, Texarkana, Dallas, and Sherman delegates plan to attend.
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Sam Rayburn
Cooper Dam
Delta County Country Club
Wright Patman
Texarkana
Lyndon B. Johnson
Louisiana
Arkansas
Rayburn
Patman
Chamber of Commerce
Cooper, Commerce
Paris
Dallas
Cooper High School
Lake Texoma
Horizon Club
Sherman
Bonham Residents Return From Six Week European Tour
Mrs Ray Peeler Sr and her daughter Virginia returned to Bonham after a six week tour of 15 European nations. They sailed from Quebec on June 9 with a tourist party guided by Dr A T DeRoot of Texas Christian University. They praised Switzerland Italy and Vienna and recalled a Toronto council session en route home.
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Ray Peeler
Virginia
Peeler
Quebec
Canada
A. T. DeRoot
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth
Mrs. Peeler
Switzerland
Italy
Vienna
Milk transport guidelines urge insulated box use
An insulated box, wood or metal, should be provided for milk that cannot be refrigerated immediately upon delivery to keep it safe and maintain quality until cooling is available.
Biggerstaff Assigned to Post at Lackland AFB
Master Sergeant Darrell R. Biggerstaff of Bonham has been assigned to the Headquarters Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio. He previously completed a three year Germany tour and served in China. He is the son of Mrs. Kate E. Biggerstaff and a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College in 1941. He and his wife and two daughters reside in San Antonio.
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Darrell R. Biggerstaff
Bonham
Headquarters
Air Fore
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Germany
China
Sgt. Biggerstaff
Kate E. Biggerstaff
10Th St
East Texas State Teachers College
Holly Street
Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center
Air Research and Development Command
Air Force
Gambling Crackdown Quietly Shuts Kemah Strip Games
Galveston August 22. Sheriff Biaggne said weekend orders from District Attorney Maarsene Johnson Jr closed mainland gambling along the Strip near Ixe mah while island gambling drew no action. Other mainland card games remain in operation as no complaints were received about island venues.
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Galveston
Frank Biaggne
Ixemah
Biaggne
Maarsene Johnson, Jr
Kemah
Johnson
Bonham Area Students Named as ETSTC Summer Degree Candidates
Twenty one Bonham area students are among 326 candidates for degrees at East Texans State Teachers College Commerce in the summer exercises set for Friday August 26 at Memorial Stadium. John B. Dunlap of Dallas will deliver the commencement address. Nine pursue master's degrees and twelve seek bachelor’s degrees in education, history, biology, business, and other fields.
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Bonham
East Texans State Teachers College
Commerce
Memorial Stadium
John B. Dunlap
First National Bank
Dallas
Annabel Beford
Whitewright
Alleen L. Tilger
Trenton
Gene Warthan
Blue Ridge
Flora C. Johnson
Honey Grove
Jerry Katherine Johnson
Leonard
Minnie Johnson
Wolfe City
Lloyd R. Kinard
Donald Lancaster
John Thomas Lancaster
Pecan Gap
Alfred Gene Lyles
Ivanhoe
Gus L. Manuel, Jr
Reba W Meade
Herman Wayne Musser
Virgie Clark Scheible
Doing Better Cotton Turning Out Better Than Expected
County Agent Zeke Green reports cotton yields improving beyond expectations. Heavy July rains boosted bolls, reducing the amount of snapped and picked cotton needed per bale and allowing farmers to make larger bales at the ginnery than in recent years.
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Zeke Green
Green
Secret six-nation atomic talks open in Geneva
In Geneva six nations the United States Britain France Russia Canada and Czechoslovakia met behind locked doors to study the technical uses of peaceful atomic energy. They discussed radioactive waste disposal and effects of radiation on current and future generations.
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Geneva
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Council Chamber
United Nations European
Non Secret Reports On Atomic Uses to Be Released
The Commerce Department announced that 961 non secret research reports on industrial uses of atomic energy will be released to the public under Eisenhower's atoms for peace program. About a third had limited circulation and will now be available through the office of technical services.
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Washington
Commerce Deparment
Eisenhower
Commerce
Sinclair Weeks
Office of Technical Services
Injured Airman to Be Returned By Reds Tuesday
North Korea agreed to return United Nations forces an injured American airman and the body of Captain Charles W Brown after a Military Armistice Commission meeting. The airman Guy H. Bumpass of Jackson Mississippi, injured by Red anti air fire, was said to be conscious with a cracked skull but in good mood.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
United Nations
Reds
Military Armistice Commission
Air Force
Guy H. Bumpass
Jackson
Miss
Charles W Brown
Louisville
Korisal
U. S. Air Force
Harlan C. Parks
South Korea
United Nations Command
Bumpass
Jung Kook Rok
Princess Margaret 25th Birthday Celebrated With Barbecue
Balmoral Castle Scotland August 22. Princess Margaret marked her 25th birthday with a barbecue on the castle grounds attended by a Scots nobleman's son. reports noted no gift from former suitor Group Captain Peter Townsend who is divorced and could not wed until after her birthday. The official observance included church, a moor picnic, and a sail on Loch Muick as crowds gathered at Balmoral.
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Balmoral Castle
Scotland
RAF
Peter Townsend
Margaret
Elizabeth 1
Britain
Townsend
Grathic Church
Loch Muick
Louisiana offers to sell its constitution for 3
The state of Louisiana reported a bound copy of its constitution with 564 pages and more than 325 amendments, plus a 137 page index, as part of a formal offer.
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Baton Rouge. la
State of
Louisiana
Rotary Governor To Visit Bonham Club Wednesday
Forrest E Roberts of Carthage governor of the 18th district of Rotary International will visit the Bonham Rotary club Wednesday at the noon meeting. He will confer with Dr L C Biggers and W P Duckett on club business. Roberts is a Texas A&M graduate and owner of Roberts Implement Company and Acros Ranch in Carthage.
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Forrest FE. Roberts
Carthage
Rotary International
Bonham Rotary Club
L. C. Biggers
Bonham Club
Roberts
Rotary Club of
Bonham
Rotary
Forrest I) Roberts
North Central Texas Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy through Tuesday with mostly afternoon and evening thundershowers. Temperatures expected to remain steady with little change.
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Texas
French Troops Wreck Eight Arab Villages
In North Africa French forces pressed campaigns to quell nationalist uprisings in Morocco and Algeria. Nine villages described as centers of revolt were destroyed while defenses evacuated women and children. Death toll estimates from weekend violence range to over 834, with reports varying by source.
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Algiers
Morocco
North African Empire
Raymond Duval
Alegria
North Africa
Algeria
Tunisia
Aixles-Bains
France
Edgar Faure
North
Africa
Constantine
Medias
16 Year Old Boy Returned Home by Police in St Louis
A 16 year old boy was picked up in Texas and returned to his father in St Louis by city officers. A bus fare money order arrived this morning and the boy boarded a bus just after noon for the trip home.
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St. Louis
Texas
Battleground States Set For 1956 Senate Fight
Republicans and Democrats stake out 14 to 20 states as major battlegrounds for control of the Senate in the 1956 elections. The Republicans face an uphill fight even with Ike on the ticket, holding more seats at stake and targeting Democratic holds in Missouri New York Oregon and Washington. Democrats plan to contest eight to a dozen GOP seats while defending in California Colorado Connecticut Idaho Illinois Maryland Ohio Pennsylvania and Utah.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
GOP
Vermont
New Hampshire
Kansas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Missouri
New York
Orgon
Kentucky
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Idaho
Ilinois
Maryland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Utah
Iowa
Indiana
Wisconsin
Arizona
Nevada
Oklahoma
Flony
Bonham Cotton Co Moves Safe From Office to New Plant
A large safe was lowered from the second floor of the Bonham Cotton Co by Clarence Chaffin using a Winch truck. The company, owned by John Arledge, relocates to the 300 block of Main street where new cotton classing facilities will be installed.
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Bonham Cotton Co
John Arledge
Main Street
Clarence Chaffin
Fear Death Toll May Reach 300 in Worst Disaster
From New York to Connecticut towns the disaster left mud flooded towns and decimated roads and utilities. The death toll rose through eight states with 21 confirmed early and fears of up to 300 as workers struggled to disinfect, purify water, and aid survivors amid widespread destruction and displacement.
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New York
Penania
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Delaware
Island
Connecticut
Torrington
Winsted
Conn
Thomas A. Haggerty
The
Winsted Citizen
Haggerty
American Brass Co
Eisenhower
Abraham Ribicoff
State Labor Department
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Daniel C. Schmidt
Red Bluff
Calif
Alice E. Davis
Tehama County
D. F. Ferguson
Schmidt
Una
Danny Jr
NEA Telephoto
Bill
Cotton
D.R. Biggerstaff
Lackland Afb
Bonham Area
ETSTC
U. S
Farmington
NEA
Forrest E. Roberts, Sr
Benham New Has
Bed Young
Dingag
Bill Leoke
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