Plains Digs Out After Year's Worst Duster
A Texas dust storm battered West Texas with gusts up to 88 mph and a tornado near Mayfield, killing at least one motorist in the Panhandle. The storm unroofed homes, toppled a sheriff's radio tower, and sparked prairie fires near Matador and Marshall. Temperatures cooled with scattered East Texas showers as the cool front moved in.
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United Press
Texas
West Texas
Gulf Coast
Amarillo
Mayfield
el Paso
Texas Panhandle
Sheriff's Department
East Texas
Marshall
Court House
Hallsville
Matador
Doug Meador
Matador Tribune
Meador
Peaceful Use Of A Power To Be Discussed
United States Russia and ten nations prepare to begin negotiations on an atoms for peace charter. Disputes will focus on Soviet veto in the Security Council while the United States favors a broader international role. Optimism exists that prin ciple can be agreed within two weeks despite potential breakdown over veto demand.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Atoms For Peace
Eisenhower
United Nations Security Council
Atoms For Peace Agency
UN General Assembly
Band Booster Meet Set At High School Monday
The Band Boosters Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the high school to discuss plans for the annual Jamboree and all members are urged to attend by the officers.
Two Bachelors Enter Leap Year Contest For Votes
Two bachelors appearing in the Leap Year Bachelor Contest solicit votes for the Most Popular Bachelor nomination. The winner earns a $5 prize with further prizes of $5 $3 and $2 for the top three old maid winners. The contest starts Wednesday February 29 with names pictures ads and complete rules to follow in The Index.
Rigid Price Support Backers Predict Narrow Victory
Backers of high rigid price supports for basic crops report a secret Senate poll showing a three to nine vote margin in their favor. The upcoming omnibus farm bill would set 90 percent parity for corn cotton peanuts and millable wheat with raised dairy supports a soil bank and dual parity for rice. Senator Aiken doubts the vote margin while Eisenhower would veto a high rigid price supports bill.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Soil Bank
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Administration Farm
Aiken
Ministers pledge support for nationwide sitdown day
Negro church leaders in Montgomery join ministers from four large cities in backing a March 28 Deliverance Day sitdown to protest bus segregation. Powell’s push draws pledges of cooperation from Columbus and Cincinnati and the New York area with Boston joining a 22 000 strong protest by ministers and laypeople.
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Montgomery
Ala — JP
Adam Clayton Powell
New York
Alabama
Department of Justice
Washington
White House
Ohio
Cincinnati
Boston
Walter O. Davis
Senior Career Day Planned by Local Chamber of Commerce
The Education committee of the Chamber of Commerce formed a sub committee led by James Cutcher to organize Senior Career Day and a Business Education Day where local businessmen will teach in schools. A Junior College in Childress was discussed but no action was taken.
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CBCD
Harrell Collard
Kenneth Fink
Charles Reynolds
James Cutcher
Childress
Scout Leaders Meet Here Tuesday Night
The Western District of Boy Scouts will hold its monthly meeting at city hall at 7 p m Tuesday. District Chairman Doug Jeffrey of Quanah has called the gathering and a Scoutmasters Roundtable will be held at the same time.
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Boy Scouts
Doug Jeffrey
Quanah
Scoutmasters
Korean Red List Short 22 Names
Communists handed a long list of missing Allied troops to UN command at Panmunjom. The 22 names shortfall compared with the UN tally of 2 698 missing includes 450 Americans 2 224 South Koreans and 46 others. No immediate explanation given and UN may study details before disclosure.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
Walter E. Moore
North Ko
Sheriff to Bring Smith to Waco Grand Jury
McLennan County District Attorney says sheriff will personally compel Gar land Smith former state insurance chairman to appear before the grand jury if he fails to answer a subpoena. Smith's illness delayed appearance as the jury investigates the collapsed US Trust and Guaranty Co.
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Waco
Garland Smith
State Insurance Commission
McLennan County Grand Jury
Tom Moore Jr
Austin
Moore
Smith
Grand Jury
US Trust & Guaranty Co
Change of Office Locations Planned by Commissioners Court
Locations of several courthouse offices will shift around the first of the month after a special Commissioners Court meeting on Friday. Justice of the Peace L C Elliott moves east to be just west of County School Superintendent Wade Kimbrough. H C Jarrell welfare officer moves from the Library to the old Justice of the Peace site. her new secretary necessitates more room. The Library will receive the entire bottom floor under the new arrangement.
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Commissioners Court
Justice of the Peace
L. C. Elliott
Wade Kimbrough
H. C. Jarrell
Justice of the Peace Office
Cub Scout Banquet Slated Tuesday Night
Cub Scout Pack No 61 hosts a Blue and Gold Banquet at 7 30 PM in the Community House with Elks Lodge sponsorship. Cubmaster James Ragsdale notes decorations by Cubs under Don Mathers, awards by District Scout Executive Class Rainwater, and Jamboree movies from Valley Forge last year.
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Cub Scout Pack No. 61
The
Elks Lodge
James Ragsdale
Don Mathers
Valley Forge
Spring Clean Up Campaign Discussed in Childress
A Civic Improvement Committee meeting in Childress discussed a Spring Clean-Up campaign and securing a water recirculator for the swimming pool. The group voted to secure price estimates, with Presley Wright presiding as chairman.
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Childress
Civic Improvement Committee
Presley Wright
Shivers Plans Thursday Announcement On 1950s Term Bid
Texas governor Allan Shivers indicated he will announce next Thursday whether to seek an unprecedented fourth term. He hints a States rights platform opposing forced school desegregation could win conservative Democratic support and align Texas with the Dixie bloc.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
Texas
Shivers
Dixie Bloc
National Democraticic Party
Johnson Predicts Strong Lobby Law From Probe
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson forecast a forthcoming bipartisan probe will yield a modern lobbying act. He said the law will curb influence peddlers while protecting citizens’ petition rights and will cover executive departments after hearings by a new eight member committee.
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Johnson
Washington
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Sen
Francis Case
R-Sd
Government Operations Committee
Senate Committee
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Adlai Attacks GOP Over Talk vs Action in Hartford Dinner
Adlai Stevenson told more than 1,000 at a Jackson Jefferson Day dinner in Hartford that the Eisenhower administration talks too much and does too little. He cited inconsistent policies on tax cuts, socialism, book burning, farm aid, Indo China intervention, arms shipments, and school segregation, urging that freedom requires universal voting, schooling, and work without barriers. He praised Supreme Court school desegregation decisions as upholding democracy's conscience.
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Hartford
Conn
Adlai- Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Indo-China
Supreme Court
Farmers Cooperative Gin declares large dividend
The Farmers Cooperative Gin paid dividends of 55020.25 at its annual meeting held Saturday afternoon at Childress High School. About 400 attended. Ernest Rea and J M Hackle were elected to the seven member board joining re elected Irbs Teauge J E Kelley W E Garrison W L Foster and John Glover who will meet Saturday to elect officers.
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Farmers Cooperative Gin
Childress High School
Ernest Rea
J. M. Hackle
Irbs Teauge
J. E. Kelley
W. E. Garrison
W. L. Foster
John Glover
Heart Fund Drive Slated Here Today
Volunteers from students and adults are to gather at the Fair Park Auditorium at 2 30 pm to complete the Heart Fund Drive in about an hour. County drive chairman Mrs Ernst Davis notes this will be the only drive this year and Beta Sigma Phi members will assist with assignments.
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Heart Fund
Fair Park
Ernst Davis
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
SIC Directors to Meet for Annual Stockholders Meeting
The Security Investment Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the First National Bank. The company owns the Hotel Childress. J. M. Crews is president.
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The
Security Investment Company
First National Bank
Childress
J. M. Crews
Richards Blasts State Dept Over Saudi Tank Shipment
James P. Richards, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, accuses the State Department of bungling the 18 US tanks sent to Saudi Arabia. He says the move hurt diplomacy, criticizes lack of consultation with House leaders, and notes the policy was agreed last year in exchange for military support.
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Washington
James P. Richards
House Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
Saudi Arabia
South Carolina Democrat
Middle East
Richars
United Press
House
Richards
United States
Bond sales start slow in Childress district
Bond sales for Series E and H in the Childress district began slowly in January, reaching 5.8 percent of the annual quota. Hall led with 8.3 percent, Dickens with 8.2, and Childress County totaled 16596 dollars. Stonewall 4.2, Motley 3.3, Cottle 2.1 percent. King and Kent had no sales. E. E. Smith chairs Childress county. Morris Higley district chair. Mrs. W. T. Ross district chairwoman.
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Childress
Hall
Dickens
Childress County
Stonewall
Motley
Cottle
King
Kent
E.E. Smith
Morris Higley
W. T. Ross
Sonny Sims Arrested On Liquor Violation
Alexander Sonny Sims was arrested Friday night by the sheriff's department and two Liquor Control Board representatives in a county raid. He was charged with illegal possession of liquor for resale after officers found five pints of wine and four half pints of gin. Sims posted bond of $1000 and appeared in county court Saturday afternoon.
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Alexander
Sonny” Sims
Childress
Sims
Sheriff's Department
Liquor Control Board
Communist Party Congress Winds Up Session in Moscow
The 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow ended at the Great Kremlin Palace with songs, speeches, and a secret ballot selecting 133 committee members and 122 candidates. Khrushchev and Bulganin were re elected. a new farm program mirrors American ideas, with local adaptation and milking cows twice daily.
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Communist Party Congress
Moscow
Communist Party
Kremlin Palace
Stalin
Party
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
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