Widows of Vets Urged to Seek Higher Benefit Pay
The Veterans Administration warns 24 000 widows of veterans who died from service connected causes before 1957 must apply by July 1 1957 to receive higher death compensation retroactive to January 1 under the Survivor Benefits Act. About 80 000 widows nationwide have already applied and 104 000 are believed eligible.
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Robert W. Sisson
Veterans Administration
Lubbock
Texas
Sisson
Family visit highlights Texas trip to Childress
aCU Tes greets her mother Mrs Jerome Floyd and grandmother Mrs Cretia Morelock from Cortez Colorado. sister Mrs Keith Pettigrew and children Dianne and Ronnie from Durango Colorado. They tour Childress and praise the town. Jim Welch of the Goodyear Store takes vacation to Oklahoma to cut wheat. Russell Gross recovers from a piano mishap and a smoking incident. New deco rating at DeLuxe Barber Shop and Classic Beauty Shoppe. Polly Fulton extends speedy recovery.
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Jerome Floyd
Cretia Morelock
Cortez
Colo
Keith Pettigrew
Dianne
Ronnie
Durango
Texas
Childress
Jim Welch
Goodyear
Oklahoma
Now Is Good Time To Build Your Own Home
A. E. B. Howard of Childress Lumber Company urges homemakers to consider owning a home now under new FHA rules with small down payments. Rent payments can be applied to home payments, often lower than rent for similar homes. Details available at Childress Lumber Company corner Second Street and Avenue B Northeast.
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A. EB
Bro
Howard
Childress Lumber Company
Second Street
Avenue B
Cook
Te Money Down
Temperatures Chart Heat Wave Through Friday
The 24 hour period ending Friday at 11 4m recorded a high of 86 degrees at 2 p.m. Thursday and a low of 65 degrees around 5 and 6 a.m. Friday. The following temperatures continue the readings.
Truman says grandson looks like mother and father
Former President Harry S Truman and Mrs Truman viewed their day old grandson through a hospital nursery window. The baby, unnamed, was described as healthy with dark hair and blue eyes. Truman noted the child may resemble the mother and father as he grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Truman
Margaret
Doctor's Hospital
Trumans
Independence
E. Clifton Daniel Jr
Daniel
Reagan home a modern electronic palace in hills above Pacific
The Reagan residence is a modern glass and stone house in Pacific Palisades equipped for TV star life. It features room lighting controlled from the door, pink and yellow dining lights, a fuel free heating unit, cordless clock, three TVs, five Hi Fi sets, a swimming pool and an indoor atrium for starlit entertaining. The couple also owns a cooled wine closet and a notable hillside view toward Catalina Island. In a separate item, Robert Morris, 75, was hospitalized in Sioux Falls after a discovery of amutation with 2200 in cash found on his person.
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Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
Tom Mix
Pola Negri
Liberace
Dinah Shore
Lucille Ball
Ronald Kegoan
Pacific Paisades
Ocean
Catalina Island
Reagan
California
Nancy
General Electric
Cbs-Tv
Theatre Calendar at Palace and Gem
The Palace offers a weekly film lineup including The Iron Petticoat with Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn Sunday and Monday The Young Stranger with James MacArthur and Kim Hunter Tue Wed The Boss with John Payne Fri Sat Toward the Unknown with William Holden Sun Mon Julie with Doris Day Louis Jourdan Barry Sullivan Tue Wed The Second Greatest Sex with Jeanne Crain George Nader Thu Fri Good Bye My Lady with Walter Brennan Phil Harris Sat The Gem shows Boys Town with Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Sun Mon Girls On Probation Ronald Reagan Jane Bryan Fri Sat Juke Girl with Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Fri Sat A tip urges keeping waxed paper between photo records to prevent scratching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Tracy
Mickey Rooney
Ronald Reagan
Jane Bryan
Ann Sheridan
Negro Sergeant Kills Two Men at Fort Riley
Fort Riley Kansas reports a Black sergeant killed two soldiers with an M 1 rifle in rapid succession. 2nd Lt Jerry Humphrey 22 of Auburn Nebraska and MSgt Ralph Stilson 29 of Flatrock Michigan were shot in the chest. The suspect surrendered to the provost marshal after the killings and a board of officers was appointed to investigate.
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Fort Riley
Kan
Jerry Humphrey
Auburn
Neb
Ralph H. Stilson
Flatrock
Mich
Paul A. Barrier
Barrier
Humphrey
Company “B
Stilson
Richardson pushes back on land seizure for lake project
Oilman Richardson says he will consent to flooding only and not use of land for other purposes. He objects to government land taking he calls unauthorized and says he spoke with President Eisenhower, claiming engineers are taking land near Fort Worth without authority for a lake.
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Richardson
Eisenhower
Fort Worth
Foreign Aid Bill Aims at Development Loans
Senate Foreign Relations panel heard Gen. Lauris Norstad testify on Eisenhower's foreign aid request of 3.865 billion dollars and discussed a proposed development loan program to aid underdeveloped nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Atomic Radiation Subcommittee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lauris E. Norstad
Europe
Eisenhower
Teacher of Year says Johnny is being taught to read
Missouri teacher Mary Field Schwarz, 38, sharing the 1957 Teacher of the Year honor, defends reading instruction and asserts Johnny can read. She teaches 36 third graders in Independence in a renovated church. She and co winner Guy Bizzell visited Washington meeting President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon.
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Johnny
United Press
New York
Missouri
Mary Field Schwarz
Schwarz
Independence Mo
Truman
Bristol School
Independence
Guy Bizzell
Austin
Tex
U. S. Office of Education
McCall's Magaine
State Department of Education
Childress General Hospital Admits and Discharges
Annie Johnson admitted on Thursday. Mrs I D Russell admitted on Thursday. Mrs Clyde King admitted on Friday. Mrs Bill Elam admitted on Friday. Mrs FE Cooper discharged on Thursday. Rhonda Burchett discharged on Friday.
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Annie Johnson
I. D. Russell
Clyde King
Bill Elam
FE. Cooper
Rhonda Burchett
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Central Auto
507
Commerce
C. M. Graviey
By Clayton D. Floyd
Russell
Rus
Polly Fulton
Little Liz
Childress Lumber Co
Childress Sand & Gravel CO
Ave. D. Nw
Mitchell-Goodwin Lumber Company
Ave. A
Harry Mitchell
LLOYD
Lloyd’s
Gale
Avenue D
Call WE
J. W. Zuber
AUF
Sam Privitt
Dial
Northcutt
Lone Star
Doughnut Shop
Privitt
Avenue G
Sioux Falls
By Gay Pauley
Washington
Nixon
Emc
Cadillac
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