Rural Service to Improve Workmen Will Make Changes In Most Phones After Switchover
Rural telephone service for Bonham customers will switch to dial telephones with Type 80 instruments from Automatic Electric. Wiring changes after the cutover will cause two phones on a line to ring until fixed. Subscriptions at Bailey will be suspended Saturday afternoon during reconnection.
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J. A. Young
Bonham Farmer
Grady Price
Eft
Texas Telephone Co
Bonham
B. B. Griffith, Jr
The
Texas Telephone Com
Bailey
Baked Ham Supper to Aid Fire Station Roof Repairs
Volunteers at Savoy host a fund raising baked ham supper to fund roof doors and windows for the combined fire station and city hall. Serving begins at five and runs four hours with community women cooking and ample food for all. Thursday’s rain was welcomed by most, though farmers with cotton and corn fields faced delays.
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Savoy
John Avery
Dial
Weather Improves After Heavy Rain Across Bonham Area
Bonham area sees clear skies and cool air after a squall line drenched the county Thursday. Official Bonham rainfall 1.30 inches, with up to two inches in some spots. eastern county heavier. Temperatures fell to 59 overnight and rose to 63 by morning. cooler air expected to persist with Saturday warmer. Corn blown over but expected to recover. rainfall aids water tanks and overall farm conditions.
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Bonham
Salk Vaccine Aids All Age Groups
Chicago reporters say Salk anti polio vaccine works as well in infants and preschool children as in older youngsters. Doctors in the Journal of the American Medical Association say younger children should receive two and preferably three inoculations, based on a recent Michigan survey.
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Chicago
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Michigan
Four Pierce Brothers Reunite After 40 Years
Mr and Mrs H W Pierce hosted a reunion dinner at their Honham Rt 2 home where four Pierce brothers aged 83 77 75 and 71 gathered together for the first time in four decades. A fifth brother 90 from Bakersfield could not attend.
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H. W. Pierce
Honham
Rt. 2
Bakersfield
Calif
Pierce
Lamar County
Bonham
Rt 2
Weather for North Central Texas Turns Cooler
The forecast covers North Central Texas with fair conditions through tomorrow. Expect cooler temperatures this afternoon and tonight.
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Texas
Shivers Urges Congress Limit on Court Powers at Oil Meet
Dallas report: Undersecretary Herbert Hoover Jr and Texas Governor Allan Shivers lead speakers at the Interstate Oil Compact Commission session. Hoover warns oil imports will rise but urges domestic exploration. Shivers calls for immediate congressional action to curb the Supreme Court. Simms of New Mexico and Gary of Oklahoma stress industry patience and praise Oklahoma resources and notable natives.
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Dallas
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Allan Shivers
Texas
John F. Simms
New Mexico
Raymond Gary
Oklahoma
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Hoover
Shivers
Congress
Supreme Court
Simms
Washington
Gary
University of Oklahoma
New York Yankee
Mickey Mantle
Jim Shoulders
U. S
Oil Compact Commission
Benson launches tour amid Midwest drought strains
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson begins a station wagon tour of drought troubled farms in the Midwest and is met with farmer protests. Attorney General John Ben Shepperd announces a state wide legal committee to push a constitutional amendment granting states sole authority over their natural resources.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ezra T. Benson
Midwest
State Dept surprised by Russia on Berlin tapping claim
Washington reported the State Department expressing surprise that Moscow complained through diplomatic channels about a telephone tapping tunnel into Communist East Berlin.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
East Berlin
Farm prices to lift farmers' income above govt estimate
A Agriculture Department expert told the Senate Banking Committee rising farm prices will lift farmers' income above earlier government estimates for this year. The panel also approved legislation to authorize sale of the government owned tin smelter at Texas City Texas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate Banking Committee
Texas City
Tex
Cecil Birdwell Remains Improved After Hospital Stay
Cecil Birdwell was moved to his home at 232 Graham today from Allen Memorial Hospital where he had been for two weeks. His condition, due to a heart ailment, was reported as improved.
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Cecil Birdwell
Graham
Allen Memorial Hospital
Kefauver Loses Southern Support in Democratic Race
In California Kefauver and rival Adlai Stevenson campaign for 68 California convention votes amid Southern resistance. Southern leaders view Kefauver as a renegade and split over school desegregation colors the race as Negro voters loom large in the primary.
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Washington
Sen Estes Kefauver
South
Adlai S. Stevenson
California
Delvente
Stevenson
Supreme Court
Kefauver
Beggs Sees House Move to Log Punishments for Narcotics
Rep Hale Beggs predicts the House will approve a bill to increase penalties for narcotics smugglers and peddlers up to 40 years with no parole. The plan doubles narcotics bureau agents and expands search powers, while the Senate backs a death penalty option for heroin cases involving youths or repeated offenses.
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Washington
Llp
Hale Beggs
D.-La
House
Beggs
Federal
Senate
Ways & Means Committee
Fannin County High Seniors Preview Movie at Bonham Theatres
Graduates and their dates from Fannin County High School attend the second annual Sneak Preview at the American Theatre in Bonham. Manager Bob Euler notes the film is a popular unreleased picture intended for seniors and their dates, with the event starting at 11 p.m. Chaperones and sponsors are invited.
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Fannin County
Bob Euler
Fred Astaire
Bonham Theatres
Bonham Parly
Time of Day And Wake Up Calls to Be Discontinued
The Texas Telephone Company announced that with the switch to dial service in Lanham local manual operations will end. Secretarial services such as lane of day and morning call will be discontinued as the new system reduces the need for local operators.
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Lanham
Texas Telephone Company
Ural Darling Elected County Service Officer
Ural Darling 1220 North Center street in Bonham was named Fannin County Veterans Service Officer succeeding the late Earl E Turner. Darling a WWI veteran and former county clerk brings long local ties and prior VA and census work to the post.
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Ural Darling
North Center Street
Fannin County
Veterans Service
Earl E. Turner
Darling
James M
Rosa B. Darling
Bonham
Bonham High School
Bonham State Bank
Ife
Veterans Administration
Dallas
Aral Darling, Jr
Sherman
Perrin Afb
Aral Darlin
Raymond Bates
Honey Grove
Veterans Service Officer
Fannin County Commissioners' Court
Bonhamite Injured In Oklahoma Mishap
Butler, manager of the Bonham plant of Kraft Wood, suffered bruises when his pickup collided with a stalled truck on Route 85 three miles south of Junction, Oklahoma, during a heavy rainstorm. He received $9,200 in damages as the other vehicle failed to signal.
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Butler
Bonham
Kraft Wood
Jaatant Okla
Iuter
Beth Vai Vas
Movie passes awarded in Bonham theatre ads promotion
Last day sees 160 Daily Favorite subscribers win Movie passes by recalling the advertised pictures. The event runs two weeks linked to an American Theatre program, with Manager Bob Euler praising the promotion as top tier.
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Bonham Theatre
J W Cunningham
Etsy Saunders
Tom MacDonaldess
Orendulf
Howard I. Crider
Eugene Posey
Jess Macgourik
Juanita Walls Morris Ballew
Anne Harper
Haseen
American Theatre
Bob Euler
Warren Thad Murley to Receive Medical Degree
Warren Thad Murley Jr son of Mr and Mrs Thad Murley Sr of Bailey will receive a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas as one of 100 seniors. Murley is a Bailey High School graduate and completes medical studies Monday.
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Warren
Thad Murley Jr
Thad Murley
Bailey
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Toallas
Cement
Monday Murley
Bailey High School
Four Die as B 25 Bomber Crashes Near Denver
A crippled Air Force B 25 bomber crashed in a suburban residential section near Denver killing four of eight aboard. Four survivors, one a Women’s Air Force member, were hospitalized at Lowry Air Force Base. The plane had just left Lowry for Tyndall and radioed engine trouble two minutes after takeoff.
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Denver
Women’s Air Force
Lowry Air Force Base
McChord Air Force Base
Washington
Tyndall Air Force Base
Fla
Lowry
Tyndall
Arapahoe County
Local Daily Life Snippets Highlight Town Figures
A sequence of short vignettes shows Lee Morrow, Buster Cole, and Ted Biggers heading for coffee, Mike Chatter and his bicycle en route to school, Deets Dorough crossing the street, and Lloyd Tarver organizing books for the monthly reports. Sam Vaesar walks toward City Hall while Travis Currin and Kernl Malone engage in light activities. Friday in Benkaa is noted.
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W. Pierce
Lee Morrow
Buster Cole
Ted Biggers
Mike Chatter
Deets Dorough
Lioyd Tarver
Sam Vaesar
Travis Currin
Kernl Malone
Vriday la Benkaa
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