Rayburn Regrets Dem Convention Action On Caucus Noms
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Lyndon Johnson voiced surprise and regret over the State Democratic Convention for not honoring district caucus nominations for executive committee posts. They cited assurances from Governor Price Daniel's representatives and criticized the rejection of caucus nominees from Waco and San Antonio after a roll call demand.
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House
Sam Rayburn
Lloyd Croslin
Price Daniel
San Antonio
Rayburn
Sen. Johnson
Democratic Executive Committee
SDEC
Waco
Hal Woodward
Coleman
Crickets Invading Homes Prompts Control Advice
County Agent Gen Graves outlines cricket migration, damage, and home treatment options. Chlorinate sprays and dusts of chlordane dieldrin or heptachlor are discussed for indoor use, with caution that complete control isn’t guaranteed during heavy migrations. Also notes street markers on Center Street funded by the Bonham Lions Club through house-number sales.
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Graves
Center Street
Bonham Lions Club
Center
Farmersville Boy Stabbed Friday Night in Leonard
An 18 year old Farmersville high school student identified as W S Roberts was stabbed in the abdomen by a 15 year old friend during an argument after the Leonard Farmersville football game. He received blood transfusions before surgery and remained in critical condition at a Bonham hospital Friday night. The 15 year old was taken to Fannin County jail for questioning and released to his parents Saturday morning. Further inquiries were planned Monday as witnesses returned for additional questioning.
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Farmersville
Bonham Hospital
Leonard
Tibby Wright
W S Roberts
Wright
Leonard-Farmersville
Wade Morris
Fannin County
Bonham
UF Directors to Meet Monday For 1958 Drive Plans
Directors of the Greater Bon ham United Fund will hold a 4 PM Monday meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to begin plans for the 1959 fund solicitation. Ray Peeler Jr as chairman urged full attendance as the board prepares to receive agency requests and announce the total budget after the meeting.
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Greater Bonham United Fund
Ray Peeler, Jr
the United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Peeler
Hurryup Ordered On Large Rocket
The Defense Department ordered rapid construction of a rocket booster with 1,500,000 pounds of thrust, more than eight times current power. Officials say it could place large payloads in orbit and might enable sending humans to orbit or to the moon from Cape Canaveral launch sites.
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Washington
Defense Department
Department
Cape Canaveral Flat
Earth
Moon
Traffic restricted to 45 mph on State Highway 78
A 45 mph maximum is in force on State Highway 78 from Bonham to Lowell's Bluff bridge due to work by contractor R W McKinney of Nacogdoches. One lane will carry traffic on widening bridges and shoulders used for base mixing. Completion aims within 150 working days. 75 workers employed.
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Bonham
Lowell's Bluff Bridge
Red River
Texas Highway Commissson
R. W. MckKinney
Nacogdoches
Joe C. Clark
Highway Department
Clark
Brdge
Congress
McKinney
Russians Fail to Answer U S Note On Airmen Fate
The Soviet Foreign Ministry closed for the weekend without replying to a U S request for information on 11 airmen missing after the crash of a U S Air Force C 130 in Soviet Armenia. Washington pressed for wreckage access and bodies of six identified crew members, while the fate of the other 11 remained unclear. The crash occurred near Erevan after the plane was intercepted near the Turkish Soviet border during a radiowave study flight from Adana to Trabzon and back.
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Moscow
WPT
Foreign Ministry
Soviet
Armenia
Richard E. Davis
Davis
Erevan
Washington
Foreis
Turkey
United States
Russia
U. S
US Air Force
Weisbaden
Germany
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Air Force
Adana
Trabzend
Black Sea
Van
Lake van
Lake Vanis
Shutdown Will Face Court Test Sunday in Arkansas
Virginia weekend truce in the Little Rock school integration fight. Gov Faubus and the Department of Justice paused hostilities as courts loom. NAACP chief counsel Marshall awaits Justice Department moves before possible action. Special deputies mobilized. cross-burn incident under police watch. Central High to reopen with teachers ready.
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Little Rock Ark
Faubus
Little Rock
Department of Justice
New York
Thurgood Marshall
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Justice Department
T S
Arkansas State Poli
North Little Rock
Arkansas River
Litth Rock
Central High School
Virgil Blassem
Welaeand
Mental Patient Cleared in Staten Island Parental Slay
An 18 year old former mental patient in New York was cleared by authorities after confessing to stabbing his doctor and wife to death and then denying it in an all night police interview. Investigators questioned the couple's 13 year old son, who initially claimed he killed his parents on Sept 2 but later recanted. The district attorney said he could not determine which version to believe, as Melvin Dean Nimer Jr undergoes psychiatric tests at Bellevue Hospital to establish responsibility.
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New York
UPI
Staten Island
Melvin Dean Nimer Jr
Bellevue Hospital
17 Negro Students Seek to Register Saturday Morning
NAACP attorney Oliver Hill says 17 of 22 Negro students will seek admission to Warren County High in Virginia despite Governor Almonds massive resistance plan that closed the school. Judge Paul had ordered integration. state action moved to preserve whites’ access.
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Front Royal War P
Virginia
Lindsay Almonds
Warren County
Oliver Hill
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Almond
Hill
Gasque
John Paul
Warren High
The
NAACP
Paul
Hull
Countes
Bonham Area Weather Seen With Little Change Through Sunday
The US Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy skies with minimal temps in the mid 60s to mid 80s in Bonham through Sunday. Light shower activity occurred early Saturday but faded by dawn as boasted across North Central Texas.
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Bonham
US Weather Bureau
Texas
Delief Girl Named Miss Space of 1958
A 19 year old Dallas woman Suzanne Adame was crowned Miss Space of 1958 at the Air Force Association national convention in Dallas. The event runs Sept 2 to 28.
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Delief
Miss Space
Dallas
UPI
Igo
Air Force Association
Suzanne Adame
Ford Pressures UAW to Avert Walkout in Drive for Deal
Ford Motor announces recall of 17 000 workers this month if a contract is not reached before the Wednesday strike deadline. The move aims to avert a walkout as UAW negotiates with Ford and Chrysler after a weekend of meetings with General Motors and others.
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Ford
UAW
Detroipf
Ford Motor Mo
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Eisenhower letters Khrushchev on peace in Far East
President Eisenhower challenged Soviet Premier Khrushchev to prove he desires peace in the Far East by urging the Chinese Communists to cease shooting. The two word letter asked for a concrete gesture from Moscow to calm tensions.
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Newport
Roi
Tupi
Eissenhower
Nikita S Khrushchev
Far East
Eiscenhower
Khrushches
United States
Formosa Strait
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
State Department
Washington
Red China
Formosa
Warsaw
Poland
Jacob Dream
Wang Ping-nan
Communist shelling disrupts Quemoy supply ships
Formosa scene sees Communist artillery drive Nationalist convoys with American escorts away from Quemoy beaches, unloading halted after heavy bombardment. American and Nationalist officials report 12,678 shells fired in two days, with talks in Warsaw amid peace efforts and Eisenhower letter urging deescalation.
Collision Slightly Damages Cars on Cedar Street Corner
Cars driven by Jimmer Weldon Nicauls and Walter Wigston were slightly damaged in a late Friday collision at the corner of West 7th and Cedar streets. No injuries were reported.
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Jimmer Weldon Nicauls
South 6Th Street
Walter Wigston
Weat 7Th and
Cedar Streets
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Japan
LeMay
Yakota Air Base
Andrews Air Force Base
William FE. Eubanks, Jr
NEA Telephoto
Hurryup
U.S
Arkansas
Chrysler
Samuel G Karst
Brune
Air Force School of Aviation Medicine
Randolph Air Forcs
Lhe
Taipei
Quemoy Island
Crisi
Toglois
Lusse
Quemoy
Bom Udment
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Mininistry
Quemy Complex
China
Qumo
Amoy Ang
Puker
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Communist
New Kina
Amuy
Taiwan
Monderatus
Atun
Khrushcev
U S
Crina
Soviet Union
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