Western storms dump heavy rain and twisters across Texas Oklahoma
Severe thunderstorms lashed three states in the Southwest with up to seven inches of rain flooding streets. Tornado funnels were sighted in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. A twister unroofed barns near Hollis Oklahoma and crossed the town without injuries. Roads washed out two bridges on State Highway 256 near Memphis. Local residents battled waist deep water and boats were used to reach homes. Continuous showers were forecast for West and North Central Texas with lingering damage from Wednesday night storms.
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Upper
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Hollis
Okla
Texas
Ackerly
Tex
Mayfield
Memphis
Burl McClelland
Memphis Democrat
Hedley
McCelland
Lakeview
Woodrow Mullins
Childress
Wellington
Midland
Stevenson Attacks Administration Over Polio Vaccine
Adlai E. Stevenson criticized the Eisenhower administration for its handling of the polio vaccination program and insufficient funding for medical research. He spoke at a hospital dedication and urged a national health plan funded by the federal government, noting the urgency created by polio serum discoveries.
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NEW Yok —Jp
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
USC Reaffirms Bid To Shivers For Commencement
At USC the invitation to Texas Governor Allan Shivers to speak at the June 11 commencement is reaffirmed by President Fred D. Fagg Jr. despite student protests. The SC student Senate has opposed the choice for the speaker over Shivers' stance on segregation, while Fagg defends the governor as a leading young public figure.
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Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Allan Shivers
Texas
Shiver
Fred D. Fagg, Jr
Shivers
Fagg
University
Blockade Trouble Flares In Berlin
West Berlin officials charged that Eastern Communists have tightened the blockade by cutting elevated train telephone lines between West Berlin and the Soviet sector. They said railway cables linking stations were severed, endangering city and interzonal traffic and delaying crews reporting to headquarters as the remaining line becomes busy.
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Berlin
tPp
West Berlin
West
Childress County Davis TB Association to Meet Saturday
The Childress County Davis TB association will meet Saturday at 10 a.m. at City Hall per Mrs. F I Taylor. All members are urged to attend.
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Childress County
Davis TB Association
F. l. Taylor
Fliers' Families Reunite In Hawaii After Prison Release
Four American airmen freed from Chinese camps arrive at Hickman Field Hawaii with nine relatives. The Constellation lands ahead of schedule, carrying families who embrace the fliers in a long awaited reunion. Each airman gifts two orchid leis to loved ones as they reunite at Travis Air Force Base.
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Honolulu
Air Force Constellation
Hickman Field
Hong Kong
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Harold E. Fischer
Swea City
Iowa
Air Force
Judith Heller
Wynnewood
Edwin L. Heller
Heller
Giles Trial Set for July 5 in Austin Court
Former Land Commissioner Bascom Giles faces a theft charge tied to a veterans land program transaction with trial set for July 5 in 98th District Court. Separate forgery indictments against Brady land promoter B. R. Sheffield also set for July 5, with trials severed and Giles to be tried first.
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Veterans Land
Sheffield
Betts
Giles
Rogan
Clint Small Sr
Sever
Carlos Ashley
Llano
Travis County
Kinney County
Veterans Land Program
Sides Barn Destroyed By Twister Near Kirkland
A twister struck a farm one mile west and half a mile north of Kirkland damaging a barn and roof, with Ralph Sides and a hired hand witnessing the destruction. No livestock were harmed though feed and grain were lost. Rainfall reached one inch downtown, causing cotton field damage as County Agent Hafner notes broader county impact.
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Childress County
Kirkland
Jack Sides
Ralph Sides
Sides
Childress
W. E. Hafner
Khrushchev Signals Soviet Arms Build Up At Dinner
Yugoslav informant reports Khrushchev privately told President Tito to follow the Soviet example by concentrating on strengthening armed forces and armaments. The remark came at a Bled dinner amid ongoing talks on peace with no further details.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Russia
Khrushchev
Tito
Soviet Union
Bled
Yugosslavia
Ussr
Mason Leader Kincannon to Visit York Rite Masons
J L Kincannon Grand Master of Council Masons of Texas will visit Fort Stockton tonight at 8 o clock. The session takes place in the Masonic Hall and all chapter and council Masons are urged to attend as announced by Ben Hardison recorder.
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J. L. Kincannon
Fort Stockton
Council Masons
Texas
Ben Hardison
Masonic Hall
Coucil
Hardison
Budget-Balancing Tax Bill Favored by Conference Group
A joint conference committee recommended a $98 million budget-balancing tax bill to temper a beer levy hike and raise corporate taxes. The measure, aimed at reconciling House and Senate versions, retains a one cent cigaret tax and a per gallon gasoline increase while adding $57 million to general revenue and $41 million to highway funds. Two Senate provisions, gas pipelines under intangible tax and a token natural gas tax, were dropped.
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Austin
Ibp
Ottis Lock
Lufkin
Senate
House
Senate filibuster stalls bill to raise small loan cap
A minority block of Texas senators filibustered until 1:35 a m Thursday then adjourned with the chamber in control as debate on a constitutional amendment to remove the 10 per cent ceiling on small loans persisted. The House already approved the measure and if the Senate okays it will go to voters. The House version set the limit at 1500 dollars and the Senate trimmed it to 300 dollars, allowing rate setting below that. Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo sponsors the bill. Senator Arren McDonald of Tyler started the talkathon at 3:15 p m Wednesday, followed by Senator William Moore at 6:25 p m.
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Austin
Senate
House
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Hazlewood
Arren McDonald
Tyler
William Moore
Dallas Building Collapse Kills Three Injures Ten
A three story limestone building on Elm Street in downtown Dallas collapsed after rush hour, killing three in a bar and grill and injuring ten. Rescue teams freed Lloyd Cornett after six hours trapped beside a juke box. two firemen were hurt and a musician, Charles Morris, broke his collar bone while responding to the collapse.
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Dallas
Lloyd Cornett
Elm Street
Cornett
Charles N. Morris
Bernard Weiner
Parkland Hospital
Grannie Doss Sentenced Life For Murders
Tulsa report says Grandma Nannie Doss was sentenced to life for the murder of her fifth husband Sam Doss after pleading guilty. Judge Elmer Adams noted she could face further prosecution in other states for killings of prior husbands in Kansas North Carolina and Alabama. She confessed to poisoning husbands with arsenic and authorities suspect additional related deaths.
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Tulsa
Nannie Doss
Elmer Adams
Adams
Kansas
North
State Highway Department
Polio Week Report Sees 240 New Cases
US Public Health Service reports 240 new polio cases in the week ended May 28, slightly fewer than the prior week but the highest May total in five years. Total cases since January 1 reach 2,290, with April to May tolls at 1,226. 200,000 Salk shots released for immediate use amid vaccination program resumption.
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Washington
US Public Health Service
Pitman-Moore and
Wyeth Laboratories
Health Service
Ford and CIO Hold Secret Talks Amid Labor Pressure
Ford and CIO Auto Workers negotiators met in secret for four days of intensive talks aimed at a new contract before next Monday. Union President Walter Reuther warned a strike would follow if no agreement is reached. A wildcat stoppage occurred at Metuchen NJ as about 30 maintenance workers walked out early Thursday, with 1,900 more showing up to work to find pickets surrounding the Mercury plant.
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Detroit
Ford
CIO Auto
Walter Reuther
Metuchen
Reuther
Mercury
Air Force Nine Benefit Game Set At Childress
A charity baseball game for Kids Inc to feature Amarillo and Wichita Falls Air Base teams will be played Friday night June 10 at 8 o clock. Jaycees sponsor with proceeds to the program. George Ahern arranged the event. Tickets cost 50 cents adults 25 cents students. Gordon Grawley new Jaycees president presided at lunch.
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Kids, Inc
Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Jaycees
George Ahern
Jaycee
Air Force
Childress
Jaycee Club
Gordon Grawley
The
Bill Adams
Buddy Cordell
Leon
Runt) Burch
Gene Hodod
Louisiana Senators Call For Deep Cut In Foreign Aid Fund
Louisiana’s two Democratic Senators urged sharp cuts in President Eisenhower’s foreign aid program, proposing reductions up to 1 billion dollars. The Senate debated the 3.408 billion package funding economic and military aid to allies, with votes tied to amendments on loans versus grants. In other news, postal workers would gain an 8 percent pay raise as the House Post Office committee moved quickly on the bill. Financier Louis Wolfson faced a Senate Banking subcommittee probe into proxy fights and corporate control.
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Washington
Louisina
Eisenhower
Russell B. Long
Allen J. Ellender
Senate
U. S
Charles E. Pot
Ter
Long
Louis Wolfson
Senate Banking Subcommittee
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Henry Mayfield
Don Smith
KEYE
Perryton
Carrouzett
England
British Isles
King Cross
Anthony Eden
USC
TB Association
Hawaii
State Mason
Marshal Tito
Nikita Khrushchev
White Palace
Mittee
Stanton Stone
Freeport
House Revenue and Taxation
Grannie Doss
Ford and
CIO
Louisiana
House Post Office Committee
Tom Murray
Dtenn
Edward H. Rees
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