Volunteers Save Orange From Sabine Flood
Fifteen thousand volunteers labored overnight to reinforce Orange levees with 250000 sandbags as the Sabine River crest failed to hit expected levels. Officials warned the danger remained critical but easing, with 125 families evacuated and aid sent from Ellington AFB.
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Orange
Tex
Sabine
H. E. Halleck
Army Engineers
Gultonco
Hallock
John W. Simmons
Sabine River Authority
Edmund Garcia
Orange Naval Station
Indian Lake
Texas
Louisiana
the Charles
Lake Charles
Calcasieu
Gulf
Weather Bureau
Ellington Air Force Base
Houston
Eddie Barker
The
Red Cross
A. J. McKenzie
Civil Defense
Orange County
High Point High School Band to Perform at City Lake Amphitheater
The High Point High School Band directed by David Carter will give a 3:30 p.m. concert at the city lake amphitheater. Twelve seniors perform their last band program before graduation. Beforehand the group will also play at a Memorial Day ceremony at a local cemetery.
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Tv Lake
High Point High School
David Carter
Royal Family Laughter and Beekeeping Moment at Windsor
An account recalls Sunday visits to the Royal Lodge chapel at Windsor with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and King George V, noting the family’s humor and restraint. A visiting preacher’s bald head attracts a bee that lands on his crown, while Princess Elizabeth and others conceal laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Lodge
Windsor
Francis Stone
Princess Elizabeth
George
Presbyterians Consider Merger At 165th General Assembly
Minneapolis hosts 1800 delegates May 28 to June 3 as the Presbyterian Church in the U S A weighs a merger with the Presbyterian Church of the U S and United Presbyterian Church. Each group must approve at three general assemblies and by two thirds of all presbyteries. opposition fears loss of identity in a larger union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
U.S.A
Presbyterian Church of the
U. S
United Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterians
Banker Takes On Stray Cows Ranger Role
George Clark, president of a Chattanooga bank, has begun his term as county ranger. The unpaid post requires rounding up stray cows, and Clark pledged that no lane is too long and no path too steep for him to retrieve any cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga, Tenn
George Clark
Clark
Bus lines president leaves hospital for home
H F Moore president of Consolidated Bus Lines Inc has left High Point Memorial Hospital and returned to his West Lexington Avenue home to convalesce after an illness.
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H. F. Moore
Consolidated Bus Lines, Inc
High Point Memorial Hospital
West Lexington Avenue
Chamber Officials Claim Changes Will Wreck Taft Hartley Act
The U S Chamber of Commerce accused Labor Secretary Durkin of proposing changes to Taft Hartley that would wreck the labor law. It cited a list of recommendations including legalizing the closed shop and ending mandatory injunctions against secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes. Durkin reportedly prepared recommendations for President Eisenhower, not yet made public.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Martin P. Durkin
White House
Durkin
Chamber
Taft-Hartley
Eisenhower
AFL Plumbers Union
Republcan
CIO
Smith
Paul H. Douglas
D-Til
Chamber of Commerce
National Labor Relations Board
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Udga
Mann's
Nancy Hill
Extreme
Pointer
Oth
Linda Groome
Larkin Kirkman
Wanna McAnally
Harriett Shelton
Enterprise
High
Elizabe Tuan
Margaret
Elizabeth
Ine
Optometrist
High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
FORD
Pecade
TVA
Tor
English Motor CO
Uta Aes
Faille
Penney
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