White House denies claim US military weakness vs Reds
White House Press Secretary James Hagerty rejected reports that the United States is militarily weak compared with Russia. He said Gaither report findings are opposite to such claims and noted the president will address military posture in the State of the Union.
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White House
U.S
Gettysburg
United States
Russia
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Gaither Committee
Washington Post
Times Herald
Jonger Hagerty
Gaither
Congress
Galther
Johnson Committee
Senate Preparedness
U. S
Transplant Fails To Save Life At Peter Bent Brigham
A 15 year old girl, Delores Huskey of DeSoto Missouri, dies at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a twin kidney transplant. Nep nephritis attacked the transplanted kidney four months after surgery, four days after their 15th birthday. Another twin transplant death, Jimmy Foster of Pocatello Idaho, occurred December 8 at the same hospital.
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Boston
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Delores Huskey
DeSoto
Doris
Irls
Pocatello
Idaho
Jimmy Foster
Jerry
Amarillo Man Dies Of Heart Attack Saturday
Bryan Baker aged 60 an instructor at Amarillo Air Force Base died of a heart attack at 8 30 p m Saturday at his mother in law s home Mrs T J Stanford Sr while visiting in Chil dress Funeral arrangements are in complete burial expected in Dallas per New berry Funeral Home Survivors include Ada his widow a son Charles Baker of Dallas two sisters Mrs Horace Carswell of Fort Worth and Miss Edna Baker of Tolar Texas and two brothers Claude of Granbury and Travis of San Angelo
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Bryan Baker
Amarillo Air Force Base
T. J. Stanford
Bakers
Childress
Dallas
Newberry Funeral Home
Ada
Charles Baker
Horace Carswell
Fort Worth
Edna Baker
Tolar
Texas
Claude
Granbury
Travis
San Angelo
Former Resident Marie Weatherley Dies in Lubbock
Marie Inez Weatherley 43, a former Childress area resident, died Saturday in a Lubbock hospital. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p.m. at First Methodist Church in Childress with Rev. Knight and Rev. Davidson. Burial in Childress Cemetery. She was born August 15, 1914 in Childress and later lived in New Home near Lubbock. Survivors include her husband Finis Weatherley two children Joy and Jackie, her parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murray, two brothers J D Murray and Bill Murray, and sister Mrs Irene Weatherly.
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Marie Inez Weatherley
Lubbock
First Methodist Church
Childress
Robert Knight
Rollo Davidson
Newberry Funeral Home
Childress, Mrs. Weatherley Moved To New Home, Near Lubbock
Methodist Church
Finis Weatherley
New Home
Joy Weatherley
Jackie Weatherley
Robert Murray
J. D. Murray
Hart
Bill Murray
Irene Weatherley
Amarillo
Amarillo Smelter Worker Arrested For Bank Robbery
Amarillo 23 year old smelter worker Charles Edward Prien was arrested in San Diego in connection with a $32,000 burglary of the First National Bank of Amarillo. The money was recovered at Prien’s Amarillo home and he will be arraigned in California before likely being returned for trial.
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Amarillo
Tex
San Diego
Calif
First National Bank of
FBI
Charles Edward Prien
Billy Joe Faust
Charles Weeks
Dallas
Prien
Tree
Weeks
Faust
West Texas State College
West Texas
Texas brace for another cold snap Monday
A cold front swept through Texas Saturday followed by a deeper trough along the Rockies. forecasters warned of another cold spell Monday. Temperatures ranged from 22 degrees in Amarillo to 54 in the afternoon, with Dalhart dropping to 17 before rising to 50. Coastal rain fell, Beaumont 1.23 inches, Galveston .20, Houston .02. Winds were set to increase Sunday across West Texas and North Central Texas as the deepening low-pressure trough shifts east.
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Panhandle
Mercury
Amarillo
Dalhart
Texas
Beaumont
Galveston
Houston
West Texas
Rockies
Two Men Accused of Financing Communism Move Hotels
Max Shlafrock aged 48 and Sam Novick aged 60, charged with funding Communist activities in Mexico, have shifted hotels in Nuevo Laredo but remain under guard and are forbidden to leave the city.
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Nuevo Laredo
Mex
Max Shlafrock
Sam Novick
Mexico
Secret Session Called On Defense Chiefs By House Committee
The House Armed Services Committee will convene defense chiefs in closed session to review national security matters ahead of the new defense budget and missile programs. Administration witnesses begin January 10 as the panel plans entirely secret hearings to disclose the full story at one time.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Defense
Russia
House
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Russians Continue To Fire Atomic Bombs
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that Russia fired an atomic bomb at its usual test site in Siberia. The AEC described the shot as a continuing Soviet nuclear weapons test, relayed to news agencies in a brief statement.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
AEC
Siberia
Five Major Crimes Per Minute In 1957 Says Hoover
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reports Americans committed over five major crimes per minute in 1957, a rate above 7 500 per day and total major crimes around 2 756 000 a year. He cites rising property crimes and 600 racketeering and Taft Hartley act violations amid Senate investigations. Final 1957 crime tabulations to be released next spring.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
William P. Rogers
Communist Party
Senate
Killers May Try To Make Contact
FBI in Charlotte says two Washington double murder fugitives Henry Overton and Wayne Carpenter may seek contact in the area. Overton, 44, is described as a diabetic needing 15 insulin units daily and lacking his supply. Police warn druggists to watch for insulin purchases.
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Charlotte
N. C
Washington
FBI
Henry Clay Overton
Wayne Carpenter
Overton
M. P. Chiles
Underground Explosion Kills 11 Miners at Amonate Mine
Eleven miners died and fourteen were saved after a gas explosion at Pocahontas Fuel Co mine No 31 near the Virginia West Virginia border. About 175 other workers fled to safety. A four way probe was launched by the FBI Burea of Mines West Virginia Department of Mines United Mine Workers and Pocahontas Fuel Co.
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Amonate
Amonate Mine No. 31
Pocahontas Fue. Co
West Virginia
Virginia
Bluefield
Ruiged
Harman B Perry
North Tazewell
James KR. Rutherford
Warrior Mine
Lloyd KE. West
Freeman
W. Va
Arnold W. Young
Newhall
Amos
Harrison
Young
Elbert Sparks
Woodrow Evans
W. A. Fullerton
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Pocahontas
Bishop
U. S
Frankfort
Federal Bureau of Mines
West Virgina
Department store buying up 1% in 1957 in 1st District
Dallas report shows department store buying in the First Federal Reserve District rose about one percent in 1957 compared with 1956 but declined sharply toward the year end.
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Dallas
Federal Reserve District
GOP claims of out to get Reuther roil Senate inquiry
Sen. Pat McNamara charged that some GOP members aim to undermine the UAW and Walter P. Reuther, saying the drive amounts to an obsession. He cited a planned closed-door meeting and criticized committee counsel John McGovern’s handling of the probe into labor disputes with Keller Co. The dispute follows Reuther’s complaint over anti labor bias. In a separate notice, a Texan head on collision near Talty killed 52 year old Clifton man Sanders Prinston Jorgenson and injured five others.
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Washington
Pat McNamara
Senate
McNamara
John N. McClellan
Dark
John McGovern
Reuther
McClellan
McGovern
UAW
Keller Co
Kohler
Wil McNamara
Geal
AFL
Curtis
Mundt
Irving M. Ives
N. Y
Taly, Tex
Clifton
Sanders Prinston Jorgenson
Waxahachie
Arctic Cold Brings Subzero Temperatures and Flood Fears
Blistering arctic air sweeps into the nation driving temperatures to zero and below as floodwaters threaten southern Illinois lowlands. The Wabash River floods highways near Mount Carmel and Princeton while East Carmel evacuates families. Strong cold grips Midwest states with near zero readings in Wisconsin and Iowa and 20 below in North Dakota and Minnesota. Grand Forks records 10 below as Florida basks at 80.
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Gulf States
Ilinois
Little Wabash
Mount Carmel
Princeton
Ind
East Carmel
Florida
Promises Of 1958 Political Year Prompt Poll Tax Plan
The Index surveys local officeholders and drafts for 1958 elections. It urges a $1.75 poll tax before January 31 and reports no current talks to legalize liquor sales in Childress County. State and district officials discuss re election plans, with several expressing intent to seek second terms as campaigns begin.
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Childress
Pearl Ward
Andy Rogers
Rogers
John T. Forbis
Will
Texas Holiday Deaths Reach 130 Amid Weekend Crashes
A surge in holiday fatalities pushed Texas toll to 130 as Operation Deathwatch runs through New Year. A San Antonio car train crash killed five of six occupants. other deaths include a Nederland child struck, a Gainesville wreck, and a Cedar Valley hunting death.
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Texas
United Press and Department of Public Safety
DPS
San Antonio
Katy
Merigus Joseph Giles
Nederland
Tommy Winger
Gainesville
Winger
South Valley View
Sanders Prinston Jorgenson
Clifton
Tex
O D Ple ming Dies Of Heart Attack At 74
O D Pleming 74 died at Rotan hospital at 4 p m Saturday while en route home from Midland with his son. He had lived in this community since 1914, came from Rockwood Tennessee. Survived by son W J Pleming of Childress and daughter Mrs Ola May Downs of San Francisco. Funeral arrangements by Newberry Funeral Home.
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O. D. Pleming
Rotan
Mr. Pleming
Midland
Newberry Funeral Home
Pleming
Rockwood
Tenn
First Methodist Church
W. J. Pleming
Childress
Ola May Downs
San Francisco
Calif
Mrs Rollo Davidson's Father Dies After Surgery
J. C. Garrett age 81, father of Mrs. Rollo Davidson of Childress, died early Saturday after emergency surgery in Cross Plains. Services and burial were set for today in Cross Plains with Dr. E. E. White leading morning services in Rev. Davidson's absence.
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J. C. Garrett
Rollo Davidson
Childress
Cross Plains
E. E. White
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Cedar Bluff
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Falls Creek
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William R. Amos
Gilmer FE
Monk
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Blufeld
Jay Evans
West University Place
Stewart Lumpkin
David Coe
Lumpkin
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GOP
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