Methodist clergy reassignments across Paris and Bonham districts
North Texas Methodists announced pastor reassignments across Paris and Bonham areas. Rev Morphis and Rev Gill shift to First Methodist Bonham and Memorial Methodist churches, with several other moves including district superintendent changes and retirements in the Paris, Sherman, and Sulphur Springs districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nts
Fannin County
Sherman
J. P. Fleming
Don Culbertson
Leonards
E. Weaver
Ravenna
Paul Kapp
Savoy Circuit
Sam Smith
Max Martin
Ector
Ashley D. Jameson
Earl M. Jones
M. Hunt
Ladonia
Trompler
Bailey
Bryan
Pecan Gap
East Texas Chamber Sets Six Regional Meetings
The East Texas Chamber plans six regional meetings in June with new president Carrington to outline goals for the East Texas region. Officers directors and county chairmen will attend with six dates and cities including Palestine Marlin Beaumont Angleton and others as announced by Harrison and Harri val.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Temcher of Commerce
East Il
Paul Car Dulas
Hubert M. Harrival
Rcheon
War Chamber
Harrison
Sheriday
Marshall
Palestine
Marlin
Beaumont
Angleton
J.T. Sherman
O. le Norton
W. Hanka
Callan
Waco
J. L. Card- Faddin
A. Craft
Houston
Carrington
Conferrington
Texas
Planned cancer research center to open in Chicago
A new cancer research facility at the University of Chicago will begin operations soon. Officials say the hospital will house the first bile unit and materials cost is estimated at about 3,500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Aix-Story Hospital
University of Chica- Bear
IHC And Union Officials Reach Pact On Amended Contract
Inter national Harvester Company and union officials reach an amended two year contract affecting 27 000 workers at 11 farm equipment plants. The deal offers liberalized health and welfare plans at no extra cost and a pension option left to local unions. Wages see five cent raises for some Chicago area skilled trades. Union members must vote on the agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
International Harvester Company
United Farm Equipment Workers Union
Auburn
New York
Richmond
Indiana
Louisville
Kentucky
Canton
East Moline
Rock Falls
Rock Island
Hainois
Harvester
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Chrysler
Dial Phones to Be Installed for Rural Users Near Wolfe City
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co plans dial phone service for rural areas around Wolfe City. Coordinators survey residents within five miles, with plans to extend to nine miles on rural lines toward Hickory Creek Sulphur Creek R. W. Hampton farm Go ber Ladonia Dennis Pollard farm. District manager J C Ridgeway notes about 20 phones already installed and 100 more showing interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolfe City
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Dial
Hickory Creek
Sulphur Creek
R. W. Hampton Farm
Greenville Road
Gober
Ladonia
Dennis Pollard
J.C. Ridgeway
Liberal Party Is Winner in Japan
Tokyo June 5 The Liberal Party appears set to remain in power as 119 of 132 Upper House seats have been decided. The Liberals hold 60 seats while the Socialists win 31 and the Communists win no seats. The Liberal platform urged an early peace treaty with the West and opposition to Communists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Liberal Party
Fort Worth Livestock Markets Report
Fort Worth markets show cattle at 3600 head with steady to strong demand across classes. Slaughter steers 24 to 29, hogs 50 to 75 higher, calves 25 to 30 steady to good, stocker and feeder cattle 24 to 29, feeder pigs 16 to 37, and various weights of hogs and bulls trading through the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Damp Weather Forecast Hits Texas Farms and Cities
Light showers and cool air delay crop work in Fannin County while scattered thundershowers threaten today Texas wide. Odessa reports severe hail damage. Galveston, rainfall totals surge, and statewide temps range from 50s to mid-70s with widespread unsettled weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannin County
Bonham
United Press
Texas
Odessa
J. J. Wise
Galveston
Big Spring
San Angelo
Abilene
Junction
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Dallas
Austin
Waco
Tyler
Texarkana
United States Weather Bureau
Presidio
Brownsville
Operators of Six Shrimping Boats To Face Charges
Texas game wardens charged six shrimp boat operators with fishing without licenses off the gulf coast. Five were arrested at Freeport and one at Port O’Connor. All boats operated from Brownsville, with baits reportedly from other states, mostly Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Gulf Coast
Freeport
Port O'Connor
Brownsville
Louisiana
British Ship Shelled Off China in Alert to Port Arrival
Hong Kong reports a small British blockade runner shelled by a Chinese nationalist gunboat. Six Chinese passengers were killed and seven were injured. Captain James Skinner radioed that the Tei-ton steamer is damaged and seeks port in Jiang Kong tomorrow with ambulance and tug expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Hong Kong
Ers
James Skinner
Jiang Kong
BusCrash near Dallas Leaves 14 Safe Despite Fire
A Continental Trailways bus crashed into an underpass abutment near Dallas in morning rain, burst into flames after a gasoline tank exploded. Fourteen passengers survived. two hospitalized, one seriously. driver Jack Stevenson praised passengers as they evacuated through the front door. Negro soldier Herber Bigelow pinned in rear, rescued. nurse Adele Hatchett injured with possible rib fractures. Bus and baggage destroyed. loss over $20,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Contental Trailways
Jack Stevenson
Irving
Fort Worth
Herber Bigelow
Caswell Air Force Base
Stephenson
Bigelow
Adele Hatchett
San Angelo
Hidden wealth found in elderly Toledo woman's home
Authorities report an inventory of Mrs Anna Kerr's Toledo residence reveals hundreds of pounds of sugar and food, numerous clothing items, and $81,312 in small bills secreted among the goods. Neighbors believed she had little, but the estate shows substantial hidden assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Anna Kerr
Ohio
Assumes New Job in New Mexico
Miss Janis Carver, a Texas Tech graduate, left Lubbock for Alamogordo New Mexico where she has accepted a secretary position to the superintendent of the Alamogordo school. In Bonham she served as educational secretary at the First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janis Carver
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Alamagordo
New Mexico
Bonham
Miasy Carver
First Baptist Church
Supreme Court Rules Coast Lands Federal Domain and Segregation Ruling
The Supreme Court issued three major decisions. It sustained federal claims to submerged lands off Texas and Louisiana in separate rulings, traced to California’s three mile coastal belt, and an 8 to 0 ruling held that segregating Negroes in railroad dining cars violates the Interstate Commerce Act. The dining car ruling returns to a lower court for ICC action. Justice Burton stated a passenger with tickets entitling dining car use has right to use it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Texas
Louisiana
California
Southern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harold Burton
Grand Jury Convenes for Sixth District Court Term
The Sixth District Court grand jury met for the June term, empaneled under Judge A S Broadfoot. Foreman S A Bibby of Savoy and members from Bonham Honey Grove Leonard Whitewright and others will investigate cases submitted by County Attorney George Truett Avery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth District Court
George Truett Avery
A. S. Broadfoot
S. A. Bibby
Savoy
Foreman
J. W Hammack
Honey Grove
Dennes Bales
Bonham
A. B. Cain
Ladonia
Wadell
Turman
Gober
E. O Norris
Leonard
D. W. Bennethy
ER. McGee
Ector
Paul Bowen
Whitewright
Rt 3
R W. Reed
Trenton
A. L. Merrill
Telephone
Dorsett Stewart
Negro
Snuff Company Bombed Again in Memphis Factory Attacked
MEMPHIS Tenn June 5 The American Snuff Company plant suffered a new bombing last night shattering glass on all four floors and tearing masonry with no casualties reported A nightwatchman says a small bomb was tossed from a nearby railroad track and exploded outside the building A prior blast on May 26 destroyed cases of snuff and broke windows amid ongoing CIO United Steel Workers strike now 145 days old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
CIO
United Steel Workers
Steel Storm Cellar Put on Display
Box Brothers display a new heavy steel storm cellar with space for a six meter to stand erect a cot and canned goods shelves. The waterproof design is claimed to be long lasting by Bill Box of the local welding firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Box Brothers
Les
Bill Box
Choice Moore Named President Bonhi Exes Association
Choice Moore, from the 1927 Bonhi class, was elected president of the Bonham High School Exes Association at a Saturday evening general election after the Exes program. Other officers named include John Meade as vice president and Mrs. H. S. Cole as second vice president, with John Bacon Saunders as treasurer and several directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choice Moore
Bonhi Exes Association
Bonhi
Bonham High School
Exes Association
Exes
Dwight Hackley
Association
John Meade
H. 8. Cole
John Bacon Saunders
Lynwood Massey
Brad Nunnelee
Buster Cole
Bondi
Bonham Ramblers
Buck Spurlock
Martha Nevill Bybee
Edward Grant
Richmond
Virginia
Aper House
Chinese Reds Blame U. S. for Sinkiang Revolt
The Chinese Communist radio accuses the United States of backing a large anti Red revolt in Sinkiang Province last month. It names former United States Vice-Consul Douglas MacKiernan as organizer and says Communist forces crushed the revolt by eliminating 14 000 rebels.
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Priping
United States
Sinkiang Province
United State
Douglas MacKiernan
Death Note Reports Paris Child Lucien Luquenel
Paris papers note the death of a six year old boy in a report that also mentions the boy took his first bath. The cause of death is unclear in the surviving copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lucien Luquenel
Weather summary for Bonham and East Tenas region
Mostly cloudy with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow will be cloudy to partly cloudy and slightly warmer with a low near 60. Winds will be east to southeast along the coast with no significant temperature changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonham
East Tenas
Case March Promises Utopia and Old Age Pensions Debate
Canton Texas June 5 The gubernatorial candidate Case March pledges a utopian shift for Texas seniors and vows to sign no legislation until voters decide on raising the 35 million old age assistance ceiling He criticizes Governor Allen Shivers record and says he will campaign for a favorable vote to lift the cap while attacking the Shivers administration as blocking voter action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Texas
UPD
Law School
Covernor Allen Shivers
March
Mauna Loa Lava Flows Toward Ocean
A lava stream from Mauna Loa advances toward the ocean, threatening shoreline areas. Observers note continuing eruptions and rising lava activity as geologists monitor the flow path and potential contact with sea water.
Seventeen New Men Added To Texas Game Warden Force
Seventeen new wardens join Texas Game Warden Service raising total wardens to the largest in state history. They completed training at Texas A and M and will be paired with veterans. About forty wardens patrol the Gulf Coast, leaving roughly 130 to cover 254 counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Vaive
Oyster
SION
Texas A and M
Howard Dodgen
Gulf Coast
McCarthy Charges Face Fresh Senate Criticism
The State Department cites McCarthy remarks as immature while Acheson testifies on foreign aid and Marshall Plan funds. Truman signs three and a quarter billion for foreign recovery and appoints Henry Grady as ambassador to Iran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Greece
Henry Grady
John Wiley
Iran
Wiley
Bantam Breeders Plan Summer Show At Bonham Location
Red River Bantam Breeders Association selects Bonham as site for a one day summer Promotion Show. Members from Paris Madid Shermin and five Texas Oklahoma counties attend. Invitations go to breeders nearby. admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonham
Red River Bantam Breeders Association
Tom Gray
8Th
Madid Shermin
Paris
Benham
Texas
Oklahoma
Bellmore family tormented by prank calls and deliveries
Mr and Mrs Charles Palmer of Bellmore New York report three days of harassment from a caller with a pleasant musical voice. Deliveries of a funeral wreath 500 gallons of fuel oil and large food orders were made by phone. Auto mechanics movers and taxi drivers visited their home. Police are investigating the persistent prank.
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Charles Palmer
Bellmore
New York
Palmers
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