U S Owes Life To B 36 Twining Tells Chamber
Gen Nathan F Twining Air Force Chief of Staff told a Waco chamber audience that the United States owes its very existence to the B 36 intercontinental bomber once labeled a billion dollar blunder He said the big plane and the B 47 deter aggression and helped prevent a world war He noted nuclear reactor flights and predicted the all jet B 52 would replace the B 36 while cautioning that Communist production and quality lead remain concerns
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Waco
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
United States
Twining
Chamber of Commerce
Twiniie
U.S
Canadian Magician Breaks Houdini Under Water Record
In New York a Canadian magician known as The Amazing Ranch was lowered into a hotel pool in a steel coffin and resurfaced after one hour 33 minutes, claiming to have broken Houdini’s underwater record set in 1926 at the Shelton Hotel pool.
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New York
Harry Houdini
Bills
Shelton Hotel
Houdini
North Carolina takes Negro students quietly at UNC Chapel Hill
In Chapel Hill three Negro undergraduates, Leroy and Ralph Frazier and John Lewis Brandon, entered UNC amid little campus disruption. Though federal court orders had opened the undergraduate door since 1951, segregation persists in housing. Dean Fred Weaver says admissions are normal and no special treatment is given.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina
Leroy
Ralph Frazier
John Lewis Brandon
Southern University
University of Alabama
Autherine Lucy
Tuscaloosa
John Brandon
Ralph
North Carolina College
Durham
Brandon
University
L. B. Frazier Sr
White University
U. S. Supreme Court
William B. Rodman
Frazier Brothers
Fred Weaver
Weaver
Funeral Rites Held for Catherine McGraw at Nazarene Church
Funeral services were held at 2 p m in Ryan Nazarene church for Mrs Catherine Fenton McGraw 91 of Fort Worth Texas with burial in Ryan Cemetery. She died Monday at her Fort Worth home and was born November 27 1864 in Greeney County Kentucky. Survivors include three daughters Lillie Grimmett Weatherford Goldie Bracy Archer City and Gertie Phillips Cleburne and four sons Clyde Fort Worth Neal San Ysidro Salif Roy Gunnison and Glenn Mecca. Bearers were Homer Petterson Ab Wagoner Dudley Gusert Andrew Willis Lee Snyder and Joe Carter.
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Comanche
Catherine Fenton McGraw
Fort Worth
Tex
Nazarene Church
Ryan
Boydston
McGraw
Waurika
Greeney County
Lillie Grimmett
Weatherford
Goldie Bracy
Archer City
Gertie Phillips
Cleburne
Clyde
Neal
San Ysidro
Salif
Roy
Gunnison
Colo
Glenn
Mecca
Calif
Homer Petterson
Ab Wagoner
Dudley Gusert
Andrew Willis
Lee Snyder
Joe Carter
Development Group To Hold Meeting At Tipton Today
The North Texas Southern Oklahoma Development Association will convene in Tipton at the Rural Electrification building at 10 a.m. Over 15 cities are expected to be represented. Officers include Tab Dowlen of Temple as president, Mark High of Bowie as first vice president, Glen MaGee of Waurika as second vice president, and Coleman Williams of Wichita Falls as secretary treasurer.
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Tipton
North Texas-Southern Oklahoma Development Association
Keyes Carson
Rural Electrification
Tab Dowlen
Temple
Mark High
Bowie
Tex
Glen MaGee
Waurika
Coleman _ Williams
Wichita Falls
Boxcars To Fly Huge Snow Plows To New Mexico
Ardmore Okla UP two C 119 Flying Boxcars of the 463rd Troop Carrier Wing left Ardmore Air Force Base for Long Beach Calif to pick up two 13000 pound snow plows for deliver to Clovis New Mexico The first plane took off at 1227 a m the second followed two hours later Pilots were 1st Lt William E Stewart Jr and Lt Lamon Marcum The mission is 7 hours 20 minutes each way and the crew will return to Clovis after loading The move was ordered by Brig Gen Cecil H Childre base commander Clovis was snowed in after a weekend Southwest blizzard
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Ardmore
Okla
463Rd
Ardmore Air Force Base
Long Beach
Calif
Clovis
N.M
William E. Stewart Jr
Corsicana
Tex
Lamon Marcum
Olla
Ark
Francis Satterly
Cecil H. Childre
Brownwood
Oil Workers Win Wage Increases
The Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union AFL CIO has reached a new contract with Magnolia Petroleum Co providing wage raises of 15 to 18 cents an hour. The agreement adds a 6 percent general raise for all employees and boosts night shift premium pay to eight cents and overnight shift to 16 cents.
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Denver
the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Magnolia
Socony-Mobil Petroleum Co
New Yorker Elected President of National Lutheran Council
Dr. F. Eppling Reinartz of New York was elected president of the National Lutheran Council at its annual Minneapolis meeting. Other officers include Rev. Dr. Norman A. Menter of Detroit as vice president and Dr. Raymond A. Olson of Minneapolis as secretary. Fred C. Eggerstedt of Richmond Hill was re elected treasurer.
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Minneapolis
F. Eppling Reinartz
New York
National Lutheran Council
Norman A. Menter
Detroit
American Lutheran Church
Raymond A. Olson
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Fred C. Eggerstedt
United Lutheran Church
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North Carolina
Wolverton Electric Co
Currell
Currell Lumber Co
City TV
Carpenter’s
McCord
C Avenue
C. F. McGraw
Jack Griffin
Mercury
Buster Wyatt
New Mexico
Geena Tel
Lcs
Uike
OCAW
W. Dale Pollock
Bell
New Yorker
Fitch
South Second Lawton
Answeet
Pacific Finance
Pacific Finance Zen
Doug Humphreys
Mgr
SEARS
Harmony House
Melmac
Malibu
Kenmore
Gore
Lawton, Okla
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