Ten Fannin County communities to be honored Monday
Ten Fannin county communities will be honored at the Community Awards Program in Honey Grove for work in the rural improvement contest co sponsored by two public utilities and the Texas A M Extension Service. Mulberry tied for first and will receive the state prize and district awards.
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Fannin County
Texas A&m Extension Service
National Guard
Honey Grove
Texas Power and Light Co
Community Public Service Co
Mulberry
R. E. Patterson
Texas A&m College
John Hutchinson
Mulberry Club
Dean Patterson
Hutchison
Bassett Watson
Dallas
Bennett L. Smith
Fort Worth
Allen's Point
Dial
Nunnelee
J. D. Butler
Bonham Agri-Business Committee
Lannius
Allen's Chapel
Ravenna
Bartley Woods
Selfs
Edhube
Tom Joyce Cunningham
Moore
Reagan Brown
Extension Service
Bob Milford
Dial Club
County Council
E. G. McClure, Jr
Frank Welch
Honey Grove Chamber of Commerce
Eldon Donaldson
Lloyd Skinner
Allen’s Point Club
Allen Bowman
Bob O16
Telephone Club
Bonham Marks Sixty Six Years of Texas Power and Light
A Bonham nostalgic look celebrates the Texas Power and Light Co. and its 66 years serving Bonham and surrounding Texas towns. The piece recalls 1950s ice storms that halted power, the quick deployment of emergency generators for water, hospitals, and the Daily Favorite, and linemen restoring service round the clock. It notes continued reliability improvements and invites readers to appreciate electricity behind everyday uses.
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Delco
Bonhamites
Texas Power and Light Co
Bonham
Texas
Water Department
Coralec Industries Forms Subsidiary for Swimm Aaa Bee France Market
Coralec Industries, a subsidiary of E. L. Bruce Co., announced it formed a subsidiary to market and install Swimm Aaa Bee in France. The move aims to expand the group’s reach in the swimming pool industry, with Coralec as a major player in the field.
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New York
UPI
Coralec Industries
E. L. Bruce Co
France
Carelecer
Suncet Pools
Vicer
Los Angeles
Gow Cierms
Texas power firms merge to form new regional utility
Fifty years ago Texas power and light and Beakham and Gel and other local utilities in six Texas counties began the company that evolved into the present regional utility.
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Texas Power
Lighcom
Beakham & Gel Company
Texas Co
Dynamite Blast Destroyed Continental 707 Plane
CAB experts confirm a dynamite explosion ripped apart a Continental Airlines 707 on May 22 killing all 45 aboard. FBI found a Kansan, Thomas G Doty, bought explosives before boarding. Investigators believe a saboteur placed a fuse in a lavatory receptacle and detonated the device mid flight. Doty faced armed charges in Kansas City as the plane departed from Chicago en route to Iowa.
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Doty
Wie
Geneva Fratey
DeRose to Build New Factory in Chambersburg
DeRose Industries breaks ground for a mobile home plant on 15 acre site in Chambersburg Pennsylvania. The 54000 square feet facility aims for September operation and will produce Rem brandt Victor Supreme Mobile homes and the DeRose Traveller. Existing plant at Jones Field Bonham remains in operation.
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DeRose Industries, Inc
Chambersburg
Rembrandt
Victor
Victor and Supreme Mobile Homes
DeRose Traveller
Chambersburg, Pa
Jones Field
Bonham
County Agent Demonstrates 4-H Record Book Contest
County Agent Wayne Cranfill gave a demonstration on the 4-H record book contest for the County-at-Large 4-H club meeting in the REA office Tuesday. Afterward the group discussed plans for farm safety week. Earl Johnson, former club president and now a college student, visited the club.
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Wayne Cranfill
Rea
Earl Johnnson
Rusk urges Russians to approve limited disarmament plan
Secretary of State Dean Rusk appealed to the Soviet Union to accept a disarmament agreement with limited inspection to ensure compliance. He warned that secrecy is a dangerous anachronism in a nuclear age and urged nations to curb own arms races, citing India and Pakistan over Kashmir and UN debates. Rusk urged a UN meeting where states state what they will contribute to disarmament and criticized Moscow for rejecting international oversight.
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Concord
N. H
UPI
Dean Rusk
Russia
Soviet Union
Rusk
New Hampshire Council On World Affairs
United States
United Nations
U. S
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
U S Firms Plan Ireland Oil Drilling Near Dublin
Three U S oil companies Continental Oil Ambassador Oil and Ohio Oil announce joint plans to start exploratory drilling in Ireland near Dublin in August. It will be Ireland's first test for oil or gas, under a 27 000 square mile concession for 20 years.
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Houston
UPI
U.S
Republic of Ireland
Dublin
Ireland
Continental Oil Company
Ambassador Oil Corporation
Ohio Oil Company
Irish Republic
School board faces injunction over rehire of fired teacher
Justice Department sues to halt Greene County School Board from hiring anyone to fill Mrs Talbert’s teaching position until a full hearing on charges of intimidation and voter registration interference. The case connects to a separate suit against a county registrar. Talbert, a Greene County teacher and graduate, says board actions were aimed at chilling African American citizens seeking to register. The board met in Leakesville and influenced by pressures linked to state governance duties.
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Backson
Leakesville
Mississippi
George County
Mere
Tal
Greene County
Gre
Tolbert
Flight Engineers Call Selective Strike Against Major Airlines
The Flight Engineers Association votes a selective strike against Eastern Air Lines Pan American World Airways or Trans World Airlines affecting 1760 engineers over the third man in the cockpit and crew duties. President Kennedy urged arbitration but union plans late night announcements with lines to be struck.
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Washington
UPI
Flight Engineers Association
U. &Adetines
Kennedy
Eastern Aire Lines
Pan American World Aireways
Trans World Airlines
Weilhout
White House
Laker
Goldberg
Ing
Pan American and Eastern
Byrne
Union Public Relat
Kesnenet
West Berlin to Hold Rally Marking 1953 June 17 Uprising
West Berliners plan a June 21 memorial rally before the city hall expected to draw 100000. Adenauer travels in a U S military aircraft as East Berlin holds a mass meeting of 2300 delegates amid ongoing division. Police report tracer bullets from a VOPO unit but no West Berlin gunfire.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Berlin
Wall
Adenauer
U.S
VOPO
People’s Police
Zoning Change Approved for Center Street Clinic
Bonham city commission approved second reading of an ordinance changing North Center Street lot zoning from the highest dwelling class to permit a clinic. The one tract only is affected. others remain under the higher zoning. Dr. James E. Fite and Dr. Jack R. Vinson sought the change, facing opposition from several residents who warned of lowered property values and traffic. The planned clinic would operate 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with paved parking.
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Bonham City Commission
North Center Street
James, E. Fite
Jack R. Vi
Truman Atkins
Als Thomas
J. D. Hopkins
J. R. Kent
Charles Keene
City Commission
Moody
Aubrey McAlister
Gladys May
Fite
Dr. Vinson
Six More Negroes Sent to Hyannis
The segregationsist Capital Citizens Council in Little Rock sent six additional African Americans to Hyannis Massachusetts raising the total to 54. The group included three men two women and a 17 month old girl with travel costs of 256 dollars and five dollars each for spending money. Amis Guthridge council president said the six were friends of Richard Corrett who left Monday and wanted to go Thursday but funds were lacking.
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Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Capital Citizens Council
Hyannis
Mass
Cape Cod
Amis Guthridge
Richard Corrett
Unexcelied Chemical to Sell Oneida Paper Stake
Unexcelied Chemical Corp said it will sell its 38.3 percent interest in Oneida Paper Products Inc for more than 2 million dollars to a group led by another Oneida stockholder.
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New York
UPI
Unexcelied Chemical Corp
Oneida Paper Products, Inc
Oneida
Bonham Forecast Sees Rain Absence Despite Brief Sky Start
Weather notes from Bonham indicate no rain in the forecast despite a brief clearing sky. Forecasters warn residents to expect variable clouds and cool temperatures across the day.
Kennedy praises dedicated public servants to summer job students
President Kennedy tells college students visiting Washington for summer work that government workers serve the public and are not clock-watchers. He urges them to spread the idea of government service and counter prejudice when they return home. The remarks come during a seminar for the students.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Onehrouda
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