Johnson Urges Fair Play At Convention
Lyndon B. Johnson called the Texas Democratic state convention to be a model of fair play while dodging questions on the fate of the Allan Shivers loyalists seated on the party’s state committee. He announced Dallas attorney Gerald Mann as keynote speaker and warned delegates to seat only legally elected representatives.
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Dallas
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Allan Shivers
Democratic Executive Committee
Johnson
Gerald Mann
Dallas Council On World Affairs
Washington
Johnson City
Tex
Texas
Democrats
Shivers
Production Cut By GMC Idles Auto Workers
General Motors trims production across divisions starting Monday and lays off 900 in the Pontiac and Fisher plants. Automotive News projects May output at 478,324 cars, 12.7 percent below April and far beneath the May 1955 peak. UAW Local 3 calls for immediate government aid for unemployed workers as figures await plant-by-plant totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Automotive News
Fisher Body
Cadillac
Harlow H. Curtice
Pontiac
Fisher
Mich
General Motors Central Office
Pat Quinn
Senior Class To Graduate Tuesday At Childress High
Childress High School will graduate 75 seniors in a ceremony at 8 p m tomorrow in the high school auditorium. Dr J O Haymes delivered the baccalaureate address last night. Roberta Hash played the Marche Pontificale as the processional. Harrell Collard offered the invocation and benediction. CHS choir under D P McNallen sang Let Us Break Bread Together and Alleluia with Sarah Rhodes on piano. Tanahausee March closed the program played by Miss Hash.
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Childress High School
J. O. Haymes
Roberta Hash
Harrell Collard
Church of Christ Here
Rites Wednesday For Edmon Ashley
Funeral services for Edmon Ashley age 55 will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at King Memorial Methodist Church led by Rev C R Copeland and other ministers. Burial will follow in Childress Cemetery under Newberry Funeral Home direction. He died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon at Childress General Hospital. Survivors include his widow Nellie two daughters one brother five sisters his mother Mrs Sally Ashley of Childress and six grandchildren.
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Edmon Ashley
King Memorial Methodist Church
C. R. Copeland
Sherman Ervin
Calvary Baptist Church
Clifton Tennison
First Baptist Church
Childress Cemetery
Newberry Funeral Home
Ashley
Childress General Hospital
Nellie
Sally Ashley
Childress
Florida primary heats up in Democratic race debate set
In Florida on Monday Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver campaigned ahead of the May 29 primary with a nationally televised debate at 8 p.m. est. The Oregon result gave Stevenson 16 convention votes and the Florida contest shapes the South’s vote battle. Hagerty previews a fall health issue for Eisenhower. Carroll Harriman pressures public power development. Continued on Page Six.
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Adlai Stevenson
Adlai
Tampa
Fla
Florida
Oregon
Sen. Estes Kefauver
NEA
Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Kefauver
Minnesota
South
Covention
California
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
New York
Averell Harriman
Senate Probes Foreign Aid Balances and Power Sale Suspicions
Senate Foreign Relations seeks exact unspent foreign aid funds as estimates place potential leftover totals around six to eleven billion dollars. A separate House staff report accuses Interior Undersecretaries of favoring private utilities over cooperatives in federal power sales. The Juvenile Delinquency panel warns pornography fuels a 500 million dollar annual racket and urges tougher laws.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joseph Campbell
Walter F. George
D-Ga
General Accounting Office
Campbell
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Government Operations
Clarence A. Davis
Fred G. Randahl
Senate
Ike Blamed For Army Air Force Feud In Defense Fight
Democratic critics blamed President Eisenhower for allowing a public squabble between the Army and Air Force over defense funding to escalate. Senators O Mahoney Kefauver and Jackson urged strong leadership and a quick resolution, while Defense Secretary Wilson faced censure for not uniting the services. Chairman Mahon, however, saw the feud as a healthy development.
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Washington
Democrats
Eisenhower
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
D. Wyo
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Henry M. Jackson
Charles E. Wilson
Army
Air Force
George P. Mahon
D-Tex
House Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Air Force condemns Nike missile approach amid Army defense ring
The Air Force issued a sweeping condemnation of the Nike anti aircraft system used by the Army to guard 18 target cities. Five major objections cited include inadequate tests, a prior rejection in 1945, inability to intercept current high speed high altitude bombers, the effectiveness of guided bombs, and the impractical substitution of Nike B for the existing launcher.
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New York
Air Force
New York Times
the Times
Washington
Nike
Anthony Seviere
Dispatch
Congress
Man in Billings Refuses Extradition in Credit Card Forgery Case
Jac Smith of Sweetwater, charged with forging 4500 on a Humble credit card, is jailed in Billings Montana. Wanted in over 30 states, he refused to sign extradition papers as Humble representative Steel Hill and Sheriff Gaylon B. Smith arranged his pickup. Smith reportedly used Jim Beard of Bryan’s card. the card was left at a station operated by Jae Smith.
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Jac Smith
Sweetwater
Humble
Billings
Mont
Smith
Gaylon B. Smith
Steel Hill
Eighth Grade Graduation Set For Friday Afternoon At School
Graduation exercises for eighth grade students of Junior High School are scheduled for 2 oclock Friday afternoon in the Junior High auditorium Principal J A Steed announced Honor graduates include Jimmy Evans Hugh Frith Jeff Jeffers Arline Key Marilyn Self Bill Selph Carol Trammell and Mezzillia Thorn ton with averages from 98 8 to 96 6 The graduating class list features many familiar names and continues on Page Two.
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J. A. Steed
Steed
Jimmy Evans
Hugh Frith
Jeff Jeffers
Arline Key
Marilyn Self
Bill Selph
Carol Trammell
Mezzillia Thornton
Sidney Aldridge
Bobby Andrews
Barbara Bartlett
Ann Buckley
Darrell Wayne Burrows
Lynda Juan Caradine
Sarah Ann Chapman
Dean Cheatheam
John Clements
Velma Ruth Cochran
Janice Collins
Beverly Copeland
Linda Jo Copelin
Katherine Brenda Crain
Anthony Wayne Crone
John Thomas
Hydrogen Bomb Airdrop Demonstrates US Nuclear Might
An official report details the first air drop of a hydrogen bomb by the United States from AB-52 B-52 forces toward Bikini Atoll. The test produced an enormous fireball and radioactivity measurements indicate a successful detonation with cloud movement over the ocean and Bikini operations resuming. Officials asserted precise bombing and instrumentation ensured accurate results and noted minimal contamination.
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Joseph L. Myler
UAS
MT. Mckinley
Kwajaleinik
United States
Hanlon
Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll
Bikini
Civil Defense
Supreme Court upholds federal union shop ruling for railroads
The Supreme Court unanimously held federal Union Shop provisions in the railroad industry prevail over state right to work laws. Justice Douglas said mandatory financial support for the labor union is within Congress commerce power and does not violate the First or Fifth Amendments. The ruling preserves union shop in railroads nationwide though Taft Hartley rules remain for other sectors.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Union Pacific
Nebraska Supreme Court
Nebraska
Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
South Dakota
Utah
Alabama
Georgia
Iowa
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nevada
North Carolina
North Dakota
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Disciplinary Action Reported In Frogman Case
London newspaper reports Prime Minister Eden ordered disciplinary actions against three intelligence officers over the disappearance of Cmdr. Lionel Crabb. The officers were reassigned, the saga deemed closed, and secrecy tightened on future operations.
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Frogman
London
Anthony Eden
The
Daily Express
Eden
the Express
Cmdr
Lionel
Buster) Crabb
Crabb
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Britain
James Roosevelt Silent On Marriage Rumor
Los Angeles reports say Congressman James Roosevelt faces divorce final in June and may marry Anita Owen of Detroit. Roosevelt refused to comment stating private life is not for him to discuss and did not deny or confirm the rumor.
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Los Angeles
James Roosevelt
Calif
Romelle Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Anita Owen
Detroit
Gladys Irene Owens
Washington
Raids in Algeria Kill 17 Moslems in Village Slaughter
Anti French rebels struck an east Algerian village five miles east of Philippeville. Seventeen royal Moslems were killed along with six women and seven children. Rebels targeted supposed traitors in a Sunday punitive raid amid widespread unrest in the Constantine region. French officials report growing fear after sixteen months of insurrection and note continuing rebel violence and vengeance against suspected supporters.
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Algiers
Philippeville
Constantine
Soumman Valley
Juveniles Nabbed After Tire Shot During Hardeman County Chase
Two 15 and 16 year old youths from Longview were arrested after a police chase that began in Childress and ended when a car tire was shot, leading to their detention by Hardeman County officials after a reported gasoline theft in Quanah. Officers Joe Ricks and Eugene Taylor pursued the fleeing vehicle.
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Longview
Childress
Quanah
Joe Ricks
Eugene Taylor
Hardeman County
Poage Attacks Senate Farm Bill Surplus Provisions
Rep. W. R. Poage charged that two Senate-passed farm bill provisions would raise grain surpluses and depress prices for cattle hogs chickens and eggs. He urged Senate negotiators to drop the wheat feeding and 8 percent supports measures while House plans for 16 percent boosts with acreage limits. Secretary Benson postponed a farm belt tour to Iowa and Nebraska to observe final action.
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Washington
ULP
House
W. R. Poage
Tex
Senate
Poage
Suia
Ezra T. Benson
Eisenhower
Benson
Iowa
Nebraska
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GMC
American Broadcasting Co
Ike
USAF
Man
Jerry Hunt
A. J. Johnson, Jr
Linda Johnson
Patsy Ann Jones
Perry King
Thomas Kirkland
Johnny Longbine
Ellen Lott
Betty Martin
Charlie Mashburn
Bryan McBrayer
Sue McClendon
Robert McConnell
Bar- Continued
Bardier
Adm
B. Hall Hanlon
Atomic Task Force
Childress County
Moore Grain Company
Franklin Smotherman
Smotherman
Sam Moore
Hill and Eatherly Grain Company
Artie Key
Kirkland
CBCD
Sim Vaughn
Hill and Eatherly
Union Pacific Railroad
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Secret Service
Algeria
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