Flood Death Toll Tops 150 as New Tragedies Emerge
Northeast floods kill at least 150 with dozens still missing. In Pennsylvania a camp with 46 women and children was wiped out, nine survivors found, 31 bodies recovered near East Stroudsburg. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Delaware and Rhode Island totals rise. Rescue crews report food and shelter shortages in Winsted as damage spreads.
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Hartford
Conn
Pococono Mountain
Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg
Connecticut
Mas
Winsted
Airman undecided on marital woes in divorce bid
Chil d Meadows California airman Py Daniel C Schmidt says he may reconcile with his twice wed wife Ana despite charging her as an unfit mother in a divorce suit. The former prisoner who learned his wife remarried while he was in a Red Chinese jail refuses to commit to withdrawing the action, hinting only that a possibility exists. He avoids publicity and remains with Una's mother as the case continues.
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Childs Meadows
Calif
Daniel C. Schmidt
Ana
Schmidt
Enoch Arden
Una
Walter
Cowart Hearing Delayed One Week
SAN FRANCISCO UP A pre trial hearing for William Cowart on charges of aiding the enemy as a prisoner of war in Korea has been postponed a week to allow consultation with civilian attorney Donald A. Clark of Monticello Arkansas. Fellow defendants Otho Bell of Hillsboro Mississippi and Lewis Griggs of Jacksonville Texas are slated for hearings. Bell’s may occur Monday and Griggs the following week.
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San Francisco
William Cowart
North Korea
Sixth Army
Donald A. Clark
Monticello
Ark
Cowart
Otho Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
Lewis Griggs
Jacksoville
Tex
China
Bell
Griggs
Constable to Issue Tickets Not Warnings
Constable O C Hammitt announced only warnings will end and tickets will be issued on Avenue F Highway 287 after repeated speeding complaints from residents and businesses. He said he has bent over backward with youth but will enforce traffic laws more strictly.
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O. C. Hammitt
Avenue F
Highway 287
Hammitt
Back to School Edition Highlights Local Schools Ads
The Index publishes its annual Back to School edition with items on Childress schools and school themed merchant ads. Mary and Jim will begin another nine months term in school, reflecting the community’s return to classrooms.
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Childress
Mary
Jim
Britain Wonders About Romance On Eve Of Princess Birthday
Princess Margaret, at a church bazaar on the eve of her 25th birthday, fell and twisted her ankle as she left the Abergelbie Castle event. She smiled to calm spectators, but limped briefly en route to her car while her rumored suitor Peter Townsend reportedly enjoyed a win in Belgium.
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Balmoral
Castle
Scotland
Margaret
Elizabeth
Peter Townsend
Belgium
Abergelbie Castle
Civil Defense Halts Looters in Flooded New Jersey
Civil defense officials and police mobilized to stop looters in motorboats amid New Jersey's worst floods. A 60-man volunteer auxiliary police squad joined 23 patrols along the Delaware River in Warren County from Carpentersville to Foul Rift Station as Gov Meyner seeks federal disaster designation.
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Trenton
Delaware River
Warren County
Robert B. Meyner
Eisenhow
Washington
New Jersey
Rode Island
Civil Defense
John Bodine
Carpentersville
Foul Rift Station
Weather Bureau
Citizens Group Names Officers
A citizens opposition group to legalized liquor in Childress announced officers and committees led by E. A. Sanders as president and J. B. Johnson as vice president. About 200 people attended the session where the Childress County Civic Loyalty League was adopted with sections for publicity education prayer visitation and voting.
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Childress
R. A. Yarbrough
E. A.sanders
J. B. Johnson
W. I. Hughes
Joe King
J. K. Givens
C. V Jones
Yarbrough
F. A. Story
Bud Adams
Earl Hackler
J. C. Smith
Jack Gibbs
M. H. Conn
E. L. Bolden
E. L. Hann
Les Brummett
J. V. Loven
Merritt Durfey
Fay Eatherly
Cecil Pryor
Roe Smith
T. A. Shahan
W. V. Adams
I. H. West
Ned Garrison
Russell V Jones
H. W. Shirley
R. B. Austin
Childress County
Civic Loyalty League
Minor Accidents Reported Here Thursday Friday
Two accidents reported by city police occur on Main Street and Farm to Market Road 268. Kenneth Ferguson cited for failure to yield when backing into Lucnda Baird’s car. damages about 175 to Ferguson and 75 to Baird. Durwood Kirby rear ended by Barnett on Fm 268. Barnett’s car sustains major damage. No tickets for Kirby. Billy Sanders rides motor scooter hit at Fifth and Fen by Vera Renfro. Sanders ticketed for no operator’s license and Renfro for turning a corner. Investigators stated.
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Main Street
Kenneth Ferguson
Lucnda Baird
Singer
Texas
Ferguson
Baird
Henry W. Barnett
Childress
Durwood W. Kirby
Avenue S
Barnett
Kirby
Billy Sanders
Avenue F Ne
Vera Renfro
Avenue E Nw
Sanders
Korean mobs strike in fresh protests against truce inspectors
In Seoul and coastal areas on Saturday South Korean mobs attacked Korean workers employed by Americans. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds. At Kunsan base and Kangnung port demonstrations escalated as President Rhee urged peaceful protest against Polish and Czech truce inspectors.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Fifth Air Force
Kunsan
Air Force
Kangnung
UN Believes Airmen Alive In Red Korea
Panmunjom Korea UN military command said two American airmen shot down over Korea may be alive and will press the Communists to hand them back. Lt Guy H Bumpass Jr and Capt Charles W Brown identified by the Air Force as crew of a light trainer T-6 crashed in Communist territory.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations Military Command
Air Force
Washington
Guy H. Bumpass Jr. Piclet
Jackson
Miss
Charles W Brown
West Louisville
United Nations
Military Armistice Commission
Texas Schools Told To Go Slow On Integration
A Texas legal committee warned districts they risk losing Gilmer-Aikin funds if they rush to desegregate. The panel noted the US Supreme Court has not ruled directly on integration and urged boards to pause before acting. A test case in Big Spring may clarify funding decisions.
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Texas
Austin
Allan Shivers
Earnest E. Sanders
Fort Worth
Texas Advisory Committee On
United States Supreme Court
Gilmer-Aikin
Supreme Court
John Ben Shepperd
US Supreme Court
Big Spring
State Board of Education
Three More Americans To Be Released By Soviet Union
The State Department announced that three Americans Pvt Wilfred Cumish Amesbury Massachusetts Pvt Murray Fields Bayside New York and Frederick Charles Hopkins whose home and background were not traced will be released by the Soviet Union. The timing and location were not specified. The department is urgent ly pursuing the case of William G Baumeister a flying officer shot down over Burma in 1944 who may be in a Soviet slave labor camp according to Austrian prisoners.
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Soviet Union
Washington
Russia
State Department
Wilfred Cumish
Amesbury
Mass
Murray Fields
Bayside
N. Y
Frederick Charles Hopkins
William G. Baumeister
Eisenhower
Meagher
Baumeister
Cornish
Hopkins
Chiang Kai Shek aide resigns amid spy ring probe
Chiang Kai Shek accepts the resignation of Gen Sun Li Jen as an admission of negligence in a Communist spy ring within Nationalist forces. Maj Kou Ting Lang is charged with operating the ring in military camps. Sun, a Purdue and VMI graduate, was once a top Nationalist commander and ally.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Sun Li- Jen
Sun
Kou Ting-Liang
Kou
Kou Ting- Lang
Purdue
VMI
Virginia Military Institute
Purdue University
Russia Promises A Reactors To Communist Nations
At the United Nations atomic conference in Geneva the Soviet Union pledged new atomic reactors and nuclear fuels to China and satellite states and said it would consider aid to some non Communist countries. Lavrishchev announced a vast nuclear aid plan detailing supplies of tritium and other materials, while reaffirming support for a follow up atoms for peace conference. Albania was noted as being snubbed.
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Geneva
Russia
China
Eisenhower
A. L[porishchev
Ussr
Lavrishchev
Albania
Britain Agrees To Delay Red China UN Membership
Britain and the United States agreed to postpone consideration of Communist China's admission to the United Nations General Assembly until next year. Sources said opening the issue now could be harmful and that Peiping’s entry is not ripe.
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London
Britain
United States
United Nations General Assembly
China
Peiping
Rioting Sweeps French North Africa On Anniversary
Nationalist unrest flared across Algeria and Morocco on the second anniversary of the exile of the Moroccan sultan. In Constantine and Atlas regions French forces clashed with rebel bands while street clashes and civilian casualties mounted. Reports from Rabat and Tetuan indicate hundreds dead or wounded among Europeans and Moroccans as crowds demanded the sultan's return.
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Algiers
Atlas Mountains
Protectorate
Morocco
Rabat
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Middle Atlas Mountains
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Tetuan
Saanish
Bruce Reported In Improved Condition
L. V. Bruce owner of Bruce Motor Company is reported improved in a Kansas hospital after injuries from an auto accident. He was returning from a business meeting in Kansas City and friends expect him to be brought back to Childress this week. the full extent of injuries was not reported.
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L. V. Bruce
Bruce Motor Company
Kansas
Bruce
Kansas City
Childress
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