Dighton News Highlights Weekend Visits and Moves
Dighton residents and relatives gather across towns over the weekend with travels to Dodge City Wichita and Garden City. The Alex Schwartz family relocated to a new home as Max Bradstreet joins cadets in Wichita. Several out of town guests visited Dighton families including Frantz Davis Dickinson and Suttles relatives.
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Dighton
Fred
Uppendahl
Macksville
H. B. Haney
Los Angeles
Wosie
Stoffer
Rex Bradstreet
Dodge City
Leon
Spence
Don
John Elting
Jim Russel Wenit
Elting
John.Murphy
Marienthal
Kansas
Don Hutch
George Suttles
Joe Dickinson
Russel’ « Fallis
Hutchinson
Frank McMillen
Gardens City
Mel
Bob Wilkens
Pontene
Alex Schwartz Jr
Schwarttzes
Max Bradstreet
Wichita
Waldo, Bradstreet
Max
Jon Dickinson
Dightom
Russel Fallis
Mev
Carl Davis
Fairbanks
Alaska
B.cudavis
Frank Frantz
Claude Morris
Eee
Thomas
Brakes Fail On Sydney Brisbane Express Wreck
The Sydney to Brisbane express crashed into a Brisbane station as brakes failed on the final tile of a 600 mile run. Engineer Michael Keane was found slumped in his seat clutching the brake lever and repeating No air brakes. About 100 people were injured, with sixteen still in hospital.
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Brisbane Australia
Brisbane
Sydney
Michael Keane
NAACP Warns Democrats Over Education Aid Policy
The NAACP opens its 48th convention in Detroit urging opposition to federal aid for public schools and construction while backing civil rights reform and controlled federal spending. Delegates condemn the Southern wing for blocking measures and endorse Eisenhower era budgets with cautions on military and foreign aid.
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Oki
Weape
NAACP
WAS
Iit
Way
Tomor
Republican National Federation
Eisenhower
Jerrie Kent
Johnson City
Reece
Yugoslavia
Ili
Sapporo
Japan
Akagira
Dallas police ordered to quit unlocking cars except emergencies
Police chief Car Hanson issued a memo directing patrolmen to refer owners locked out of their cars to locksmiths, after local locksmiths complained police often unlocked vehicles without charge. The practice involves a small tool slipping through a vent window to gain entry, restricted to emergencies or serious inconvenience.
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Dallas
Elgin Crull
Hanson
Workplace shakeup and theater hires ripple through state
Reported upheaval tangles civil service loyalty with partisan pressure as Camp and White face job uncertainty while new theater cast members arrive at Starlight Theater. Brodrick hints at Democratic sympathy and threatens resignations or fines, with White recounting pressure and a Republican label. Eager newcomers Keel and Wright join Miss Light in South Ska casting, and Nelie-Forbush reprises a Broadway role after many performances.
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Hares
Civil Services
Cassip Wriday
Furth
Brodrick
Hieaeeaia
Reen Brodrick
Weie
Aes
Angas Crryu
Starlight Theater
Ewan Keel
Martha Wright
Eakt
Ska Keel
Sbage
Emile
Miss Light
iNelie— Forbush
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Lee Toadvine
Tribune
Wilbur Jenkins
Englewood
Calif
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Mis
Hugh Rivenburg
Herman Haag
Carole Johnson
Toe Johnsons
Tacklyman
Leon Davyottiwere
Scott ‘City
Clarence Smith
Ihid
Vaughn Sewand
Scott City
C. E. Burdick
Plaingris
iGeorge Kelly
Healy
Albert. Miller of
St. John
R. B. Gunther
Fred Miller
Detroit
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Democratic Party
Atacomte
Tadit Harley
Civil Rightsitign
Sid Masonne
Lamesa
Henry T. Wade
Slossville
Kas
Here
Wade
Lee Roy Seay
Midland
Tex
Ade
Ehicle Dept
Lynn Brodrick
Camp
White
Uded
Gtal
KOTEX
California
Peck
Franks
Specia
China
Free Wheatland China
Garden City
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