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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1955
Page
2
Luling Texas June 20 Up Robert Beal Jr 20 year old sophomore center on last fall s Howard Payne football team was killed Wednesday in an oil field accident at Luling Beal son of Mr and Mrs Robert Beal Sr of Luling became
Alexander Korneichuk, a Soviet delegate at the World Peace Congress in Helsinki, said the Soviet Union is willing to share atomic secrets with scientists from any nation that pursues nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The remarks came on the congress’s closing day.
Beal a Coleman high school alumnus, was employed by Travis Drilling Corp when he was pulled into a rotary table on the rig. The deceased had been between his sophomore and junior college years at the time of the accident.
Gov Allan Shivers sent the names of Gailen Hull and Harvey James to the Attorney General for consideration as Texas nominees for the Young American medals for bravery. The boys, 13 and 15, rescued five people after a boat capsized in the San Jacinto river.
Chief Warrant Officer Ivan M Bowles 35 of Perrin Air Force Base was killed when his car collided with a trailer truck on a bridge two miles south of Denison Texas. The truck driver Charles W Brown of Fort Worth was hospitalized with head injuries. Bowles is survived by his wife a son Thomas Marvin and a daughter Susan Kay and his parents.
Maj. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson of Dallas and his pilot, 1st Lt Jak M. Plemons of Fort Worth, survived a helicopter crash near North Fort Hood on a takeoff at about 108 feet. The power failed twice. the craft hit the ground, bounced once, then skid. Both men sustained only minor injuries.
Mrs HG Dulaney Jr and children Loretta and Mike traveled from Washington DC to Ector where they will reside for six to seven months. Mrs O Ballew and daughters accompany them while the husband serves in the Navy. They visit Mrs John Baker and other relatives as well.
A helicopter experienced a rough crash causing heavy damage but crew members escaped without serious injuries. Initial reports indicate a hard landing or impact near the landing zone with extensive structural damage to the craft.
Charles Lamb, a 32 year old escapee from Oklahoma State Prison at McAlester, was arrested in Port Lavaca after cashing a forged Oklahoma Highway Commission check. Lamb said the prison ring printed irrelevant checks and that members were life term inmates with "nothing to lose." Police Chief Sam Day planned further questioning, with Oklahoma officers expected to arrive Thursday.
Jim Bradshaw of the Shawnee News-Star files a $30,000 damage suit against Sheriff Jim Harrington alleging assault and false arrest on May 25. The action follows Harrington’s prior legal troubles, including liquor-violation convictions, an ouster suit, and a county offices investigation ordered by a Pottawatomie grand jury.
A Houston postal employee who criticized Gov. Allan Shivers in a Houston newspaper letter must serve a 90 day suspension. Phillip Young, chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, stated to Shivers the suspension of Curtis C. Wilson is the minimum penalty under the Hateh Act and must stand.
Mrs. Jeanne K. Davis confessed Wednesday that she wrote five thousand dollars in worthless checks using her husband s name in hopes he would learn of it and come back to Milwaukee.
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