Rains Bring Flash Floods Yet Drought Persists in Texas
Weather across Texas produced spotty heavy downpours with flash floods in western regions while federal soil experts warn the drought remains in its fourth year in parts of the state. Louis P. Merrill of the Soil Conservation Service notes rains help crops and stock but stresses longer sustained rainfall is needed to end the drought.
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Fort Worth
Tex.s
Texas
Louis P. Merrill
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Merrill
Texas Panhandle
Wellington
Pampa
Jericho
Lefors
Amarillo
Agenyamo Ae
Polio Campaign Expands to New Danger Spots
The drive to prevent polio with gamma globulin expands in Michigan and Virginia Tennessee border towns. Over 100000 children inoculated this year across Montgomery and Decatur areas. mass injections begin at Marquette Bristol area with 15000 children targeted to curb rising outbreaks.
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United Press
Michigan
Dixie
Montgomery
Ala
Decatur
Ill
Marquette
Mich
Bristol
Tenn
James Suter
Washington County
Virginia
Virginia- Tennessee
Department of Defense
C.c
Caldwell County
N. C
Ben Douglas Sworn In as C and D Board Director
Ben Douglas of Charlotte was sworn in as director of the State Department of Conservation and Development to succeed George Ross. Associate Justice E B Denny administered the oath in Gov Umstead's office during a ceremony attended by about 25 well wishers. Douglas, former Charlotte mayor and State Highway commissioner, was appointed by Gov Umstead who named 13 C and D Board members with two more to be appointed before the Morehead City meeting. Edwin Gill was scheduled to be sworn in as state treasurer to succeed Brandon Hodges. The governor and other state officials attended to congratulate Douglas and the new board members named and reappointed.
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Raleigh
Ben Douglas
Charlotte
State Department of Conservation and Development
George Ross
E. B. Denny
Umstead
Douglas
C&o Board
Morehead City
Edwin Gill
Brandon Hodges
Champion Paper and Fibre ‘Co
Canton
Gill
Corpo
Internal Revenue
North Carolina
C&Éd
Miles J. Smith
Salisbury
J. Damtoft
Asheville
Independence Signers To Be Honored July 4
The memories of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence will be honored this year in the states that formed the original 13 colonies. Ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. on July 4 with about 75 percent of graves observed. Connecticut started the practice last year and it expands this year under the National Sons of the American Revolution and other societies.
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New London
Conn
Connecticut
National Sons of the American Revolution
Vinegar Warms Teakettle To Loosen Deposits
A basic kitchen tip notes that warming vinegar in a teakettle helps loosen hard mineral deposits that commonly form on these pots and kettles.
Navy board opens inquiry into fatal transport plane crash
A Navy inquiry began into the crash of an R4Q Fairchild Packet transport near Whiting Field Florida that killed 37 Naval ROTC students and four crew. Only five aboard survived and three remain critical. Grounding of R4Q aircraft continued until investigators rule out further risk.
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Whiting Field
Fla
Navy Board of Inquiry
Navy
Auxilliary
Pensacola Naval Air Station Hospital
Here
Marine Corps
Tito's dog Tiger sires two wolf pups in Belgrade
Belgrade reports Tito the marshal of World War II fame lost his loyal dog Tiger a husky German police dog. Before death Tiger ensured Tito's protection stays with the family by mating with a full blooded wolf last year resulting in two wolf pups with Tiger as sire.
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Belgrade
Josip Broz Tito
The shrew named as fiercest animal on earth
A claim that the tiny shrew is the fiercest animal, capable of attacking animals up to twice its size and consuming its own weight in meat every three hours. A historical note mentions a party of six men and several women who rowed 10 days along the Miami River from Cincinnati to Day ton Ohio, where they established a settlement in 1796.
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Miami
Cincinnati
Dayton
Russia Opens New Front in Cold War Trade Drive
United Press reports Russia expanding its economic pressure in the Cold War with three new trade deals last week involving France Greece and the Netherlands. France pledges to trade nearly 69 million dollars in year one while Russia supplies coal oil grain and metals. Other deals include China Czechoslovakia and Poland with Britain India and Sri Lanka also connected to Moscow's commerce push.
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Russia
United States
China
France
Greece
Netherlands
Argentina
Red China
Czechoslovakia
Peiping
India
Ceylon
Seven Die After North Carolina Wreck Near Raeford
Elmon W Lassiter 56 of Smithfield dies after a truck collides with a car carrying five teenage Raeford youths on Highway 15A. Fennius Olive 30 of Smithfield also dies. A mass funeral was held for the five youths Billy Joe Clark 14 Robert Neal Currie 16 James William Blue 17 John Archie Blue 14 and Robert East erling 17. Coroner plans an inquest into the crash.
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Raeford
N. C
Elmon W. Lassiter
Rt. 3
Smithfield
Here
Highway 15A
Fennius Alfonzo Olive
Rt. 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Billy Joe Clark
Luther Clark
Robert Neal Currie
Lowland Currie
James William Blue
John Archie Blue
Arch Blue
Robert Easterling
James C. Lentz
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R. J. Pyle
Kathy
Jackie
Priscilla
Pyle
C&d Board
Hugh Ne
Wilmington
Scroop W. Enloe Jr
Oars S. Allen
Durham
B. Austin
Jefferson
Charles H. Jenkins
Aulander
C&d
Amos Kearns
High Point
Cecil Morris
Atlantic
Robert M. Hanes
Winston-Salem
Carl Buchan Jr
North Wilkesboro
Max Watson
Independence
Naval Board
Tito
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Memphis
Norfolk
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Airport Terminal
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America
Ford America
Phil Newsom
United Press Foreign News
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Potomac
English Motor CO
Washington ST
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