Evacuations After Record Rain Floods Houston Area
Hundreds of Houston residents fled as 10 inch rains swelled bayous and flooded homes in southwest and northwest districts. One man drowned in the San Jacinto flood, while Bray's Bayou crest began receding and forecasts suggested no further major trouble.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
E. A. Farrell
Harris County
R. C. Putney
U. S. Geological Survey
Bray's Bayou
Tony Lock
Hetfield Steel
San Jacinto
Storms Do Not Bring Deaths In Vast Hunter Rescue
Boise dispatch reports crews cleared roads into southern Idaho’s Minidoka forest freeing 3 000 hunters stranded since an early season snowfall. One woman missing in north Idaho. frostbite rare. Guards moved in as temperatures dropped to 21 degrees.
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Boise
Idaho
Minidoka Nations Forest
Minidoka Forest
A. Briggs
National Guard
Ggs
Twin Falls
Lois Reigost
Lake
Kootenai County
A. S. Moore
Sawtooth National Forest
Bear Valley
Lindsay Russell Dies At Home In Wilmington
Lindsay Russell 78 retired New York international lawyer died at home in Wilmington of a heart attack. He founded the Pilgrims Society of London and New York in 1901 and the Japan Society of New York in 1907, chaired the Council on Foreign Relations in 1918 19, and retired to Wilmington in 1930. He studied law under his uncle Daniel Russell former North Carolina governor and worked with Carter Hughes and Dwight McLaughlin Russell and Bullock. Funeral services will be at First Presbyterian church tomorrow. Survivors include daughter ny Russell Andrews, wife of Lee Richard S Andrews.
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Lindsay Russell
New York
Japan
Italy
Pilgrims Society of London
Japan Society of New York
Council On Foreign Relations
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Carter, Hughes and Dwight
McLaughlin
Russell and Bullock
Daniel
North Carolina
University of Michigan
Detroit
Alfred Russell
Michigan City
Detroit Bicycle Association
Europe
First Presbyterian Church
Ny Russell Andrews
Lee Richard S. Andrews
Drought and Flood Hit Western Europe as Autumn Dries and Deluges Rally
Reports from October describe England facing a severe water shortage with 15 day rainless spells and rationing while Italy endures floods causing 20 to 30 deaths and $15 million in damage. Potatoes are light but grapes plentiful, Rhine barges carry less cargo, and droughts drive wine prices down amid European harvests.
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Italy
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Europe
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British Waterworks Association
Derbyshire
Belgium
Calico Dog Poem for a Dying Boy
In Pittsburgh on October 8 a tale of a dying three year old, Tommy Arth, who asks for his worn calico dog. His mother Mrs Hazel Arth recalls his plea to bring the dog next visit, while his father Alex notes other toys fail to comfort him.
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Tommy Arth
Tommy
Hazel Arth
Alex
Yankees Rally Past Dodgers In Sixth World Series Game
The New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 6 to 4, pulling within one win of the series. Bobby Brown drove in three runs with a three-run triple as two big innings. Allie Reynolds shut down the Dodgers after relieving Ed Lopat, delivering 12 1 3 innings of close pitching.
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Brooklyn
New York Yankees
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Golden Boy
Bobby Brown
Lopat
Ed Lopat
Yankees
Allie Reynolds
Reynolds
Oklahoma
Yankee Stadium
Johnny Jorgensen
Allie
Poison target on scrub oak blamed for deer deaths in Alabama
Alabama conservation leader links scrub oak killing to a deer die off with about 500 deaths in the region and 107 carcasses found. North Carolina reports nearly 100 deaths in two weeks. Officials tested poison effects at Auburn with no clear harm. Critics warn wildlife food loss.
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Ala
Alabama
North Alabama
North Carolina
Wildlife Commission
Tevo
Fred Spaulding
Mobile County Wildlife and Conservation Association
Graham Hixon
Game and Fish Division
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Spaulding
Coal Talks To Be Resumed Next Wednesday In West Virginia
John L. Lewis and coal operators will resume bargaining in West Virginia next Wednesday to resolve a 20 day old mine strike. The steel strike looms, with a nationwide shutdown entering its second week and an estimated 250 million dollars in losses.
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Pittsburgh
Uncle Sam
John L. Lewis
America
Allied Industries
CIO
United Steelworkers
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Ten Thousand Jews Pray on Mount Zion Feast Day
More than 10,000 Jews entered through military barriers to pray on Mount Zion on the first day of Sukkot. They gathered at a small synagogue near the tomb of King David after the wailing wall fell inside Arab territory. An accidental wander into no man’s land prompted a warning shot from an Arab guard before the visitor returned to Jewish lines.
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Mount Zion
Tabernacles
Old City
David
No-Man's-Land
Crop reports this week to spur production controls
Washington reports that harvest time crop data due next week could push the government toward the broadest farm production controls since the war. Surpluses valued toward 4.5 billion dollars by 1950 harvest prompt attention to curbing output of cotton wheat corn tobacco peanuts flaxseed potatoes rice oats and possibly soybeans. Quotas likely on cotton and corn with referendums, while acreage allotments already constrain next year's wheat.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Agriculture Department
U S Congressmen Meet Franco at Madrid Talk
Five United States legislators met Generalissimo Francisco Franco at the Pardo Palace for over an hour to discuss world affairs. Senator Brewster and Representative Richards spoke separately with Franco while a group including Representatives Gregory Keogh and Poage later saw him. Brewster departed for New York after the interview, noting the talk focused on atomic energy and Franco’s interest in the Soviet atomic explosion.
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United States
Francisco Franco
U. S
Brewster
R-Me
Rep. Richards
D-Sc
Franco
Gregory
D-Ky
Keogh
College Football Scores From Recent Games
UNC beat South Carolina 28 to 18 while Navy defeated Duke 28 to 14. Georgetown edged Wake Forest 12 to 6. High Point College and Catawba both held to 0 or 6 points respectively. Army toppled Michigan 21 to 7. Notre Dame won 35 to 12 over Purdue. Georgia Tech 36 beat Williams? and VMI 0. UCLA 14 to 7 over Stanford. Elon 33 defeated ECTC 7.
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Clemson
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Texas
California
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Mississippi
Georgia Tech
Virginia
V.P.I
Two Nash County Schools Closed After Bus Tragedy
In Middlesex North Carolina on October 8 six of seven victims were buried after a school bus wreck near an ice track. Middlesex and Ferrells schools in Nash County District 10 will be closed indefinitely due to hazardous road conditions until safety measures are completed.
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Union Hope Missionary Baptist Church
Here
Judith Massey
Joanne
Carol Debnam
Robert Carter
Carol Julian
Shelby Jean Bryant
Bobby Lee Strickland
Rocky Cross Baptist Church
Julian W. O'Neal
Nash County
Ferrell
O'Neal
John Robinson
Spring Hope
R. E. Earp
Selma
T. J. McKim
Cabarrus County to honor gold discovery boy Conrad Reed
Cabarrus County plans a week long celebration recalling Conrad Reed age 12 who found a gold nugget in 1799 near Meadow Creek. The event features parades a beauty contest and speeches by state leaders including Governor Kerr Scott, reviving the county long mining memory.
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Oct
Cabarrus County
Conrad Reed
South Cabarrus
Reed
Meadow Creek
John
John Reed
Kerr Scott
Navy air arm to be cut and shifted to convoy duty
The House Armed Services Committee heard Navy officials warn that Pentagon cuts would halve naval aviation, leaving the fleet weakened. Captain Fred M. Trapnell testified the Banshee fighter could down the B 36 bomber, arguing for stronger naval air support amid a broader war strategy dispute.
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Pentagon
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Service Committee
Congress
Naval Aviation
Matthews
Defense Department
Air Force
Trapnell
Idaho Senator Dies In Capital
Idaho Senator Bert Henry Miller died of a heart attack in Washington at 70 while serving his first term in Congress. A former Idaho attorney general and supreme court justice, Miller had defeated Henry C. Dworshak in last year’s election. Funeral services will be held in Boise with memorials in the Senate.
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Bert Henry Miller
de Idaho
Idaho Supreme Court
Miller
Congress
Henry C. Dworshak
St. George
Utah
Brigham Young University
Cumberland University
Lebanon, Tenn
Idaho
Senate
Carolin Hopkins
St. Anthony
Lee S. Miller
James Halley, Jr
Boise
Sweet Briar Head Resigns To Write Religion Book
Miss Marsha B. Lucas resigns as president of Sweet Briar College to write a book on the philosophy of religion. She will step down next June after three weeks in Paris with UNESCO duties and plans to return to teaching later.
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Paris
Marsha B. Lucas
Sweet Briar College For Girls
le Havre
Te Emsbark
Mauretania
Lucas
Unesco
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