Candidates Try to Regain Voter Interest in Texas Runoff
Texas runoff campaigning enters final week as Sen. Price Daniel and Ralph Yarborough push for voter attention. Daniel tours Northeast Texas stressing support for Chicago nominees and drought relief plans, while Yarborough outlines a state drought law and visits Central Texas, Denton, and Dallas for campaign events.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Sen
Price Daniel
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Chicago
Daniel
National Democratic Party
Adlai Stevenson
Tidelands
Dwight Eisenhower
Stevenson
Clarksville
Mt Vernon
Mt Pleasant
Daingerfield
Pittsburg
Drouth
Yarborough
Tom Moore
Corpus Christi
Anti-Trust Department
Tam
Kefauver
Area Voters Stage South Plains Runoffs and Primaries
The region charts tight races in Garza Hockley Terry Dickens and Scurry counties with runoffs for sheriff and precinct seats. Crosby and Cochran counties feature tax assessor-collector and treasurer contests while Andrews and Lubbock counties eye local posts. Voters face statewide gubernatorial and attorney general noms with many races decided by small margins.
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Hockley
Terry
Dickens
Scurry
Crosby County
Cochran County
Andrews County
Lubbock County
Ottis Isom
L. C
Les) Derrick
Daniel
Yarborough
Austin
Wal
Will Wilson
Tom Moore
Ben Ramsey
A. M. Aikin
South Plains
J. Ray Martin
Wayland G. Hunt
Borden Counties
Bub) Hodge
Bill A. Crone
Pat R. Smith
J. N. Foster
G. D. Lewis
Hockley County
Weir Clem
Sundown
Woody Sullivan
Sullivan
Jack Morton
Dal Reid
O. W. Cook
Gail Ramage
Carl Rains
Garza County
Odean Cummings
T. H.talmage
Tipton
Percy Printz
Racy Robinson
B. F. (Boone) Evans
Scurry County
Homer Whisnand
Earl Abercrombie
Clarence Wade
T. B. Knight
L. L
Pat Moore
Whit Farmer
Terry County
Wl (Chick) Lee
James Fulford
Ao Wild Scramble
Tankerster
Ericks Herring
Clea B. Rogers
Dickens County
J. L. Koonsman
Homer D. Jackson
Abner Watson
Russell Williams
Senate
Smith
Cobb
J.C. Smith Jr
Wayne F. Wilson
Rites for Mrs. A L Toles at Lamesa Church
Funeral services for Mrs. A L Toles 71 who died at Lamesa General Hospital will be held at 1 pm Sunday at Higginbotham Funeral Home chapel. Rev Cecil West will officiate with burial in Lamesa Memorial Park. She was a Missouri native and member of the Church of God for 25 years. Survivors include her husband four sons a brother and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Runoff politics fill Andrews Dawson and surrounding counties with multiple county races described.
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Lamesa
A. L. Toles
Lamesa General Hospital
Higginbotham Funeral Home
Cecil West
Missouri
T. C
W. F
Trinity
J. L
Dallas
J. C
Pomona
Calif
Will Bennington
Quanah
Back To School Parade Winners In Downtown Lubbock
About 125 children participated in the Greater Downtown Lubbock Unlimited parade led by Reese Air Force Band. Mike and Pat Graham won grand prize a model schoolhouse on a wagon for their entry. Jerry Shipley won first prize in the unusual float contest Angela Strehli and Franklin Ashdown captured top pet and costume honors.
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Lubbock
Susan Reeves
39Th St
Jerry Shipley
42Nd St
Mike
Pat Graham
Harold R. Graham
49Th St
T's
Pat
G's
Franklin Ashdown
Donald Ashdown
Paula Huckabee
W. T. Milam
Milam
J. W. Loomis
Boy Scouts of America
Grady Knight
Lindsey
Clifton
Escaped Lamesa Trusty Recaptured in Big Spring Home
Ernest Edward Abbitt 24 a trusty at Dawson County jail was recaptured at his Big Spring home after walking off from a work gang this morning He is serving a sentence for negligent homicide and was tracked by police who believed he would return to join his wife at Big Spring Jap Chapman supervising trusts at the Dawson County Fair Grounds said Abbitt was sent to a grocery store at 10 am and did not return An alarm was turned in around noon
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Lamesa
Ernest Edward Abbitt
Dawson County
Big Spring
Abbitt
Jap Chapman
Dawson County Fair Grounds
Annual Reunion Set Saturday By Shallowater Class Of '48
The 1948 Shallowater High School graduating class holds its annual reunion Saturday at Mackenzie State Park at p.m. A basket lunch will be served. All class members, former room mothers and teachers are urged to attend.
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Shallowater High School
P.m
Mackenzie State Park
Carole Johnson Crush
Bonnie Stringer Cleavenger
Wyoma Thomas Burleson
Ann Vaughn Clark
Bonta Vance Thompson
Betty Davidson Waller
Betty Young Watkins
Scott Vaughn
Jimmy Clark
Robert Sport
David Hamblin
Joe Verle Pettier
Buddy Weber
Clyde Rucker
John Evans
Buell Wann
Jerry Putman
Lamesa to Host Funeral for Auto Dealer H L Bearden
Funeral services for Herman Leon Bearden 48 Lamesa automobile dealer found dead at home by his wife Sunday afternoon will be held at 3 PM Sunday in Higginbotham Funeral Home chapel. The Rev J Lloyd Mayhew of Lamesa First Methodist Church will officiate with burial at Lamesa Memorial Park.
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Lamesa
Herman Leon Bearden
Higginbotham Funeral Home
J. Lloyd Mayhew
Lamesa First Methodist Church
Lamesa Memorial Park
Funeral Rites Set Monday For Father Of Ropesville Merchant
Onesimo Riojas 88 year old father of Ralph Riojas operator of the Economy Drygoods store in Ropesville died at home at 10 45 am Funeral services will be at 9 am Monday in St Josephs Catholic Church Lubbock Grave side services follow at 4 pm Monday in Ropesville Cemetery Survivors include a son Benito of Eagle Pass and three grandchildren
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Ropresville
Onesimo Riojas
Ralph Riojas
Drsygoods
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Lubbock
Ropesville
McDonald Funeral Home
Benito
Eagle Pass
County adopts Dutch idea to curb highway littering
Brazoria County launches anti litter drive inspired by the Netherlands. Signs urge fines for littering, trash barrels are placed in service stations, and hotels give out a litter bag to departing motorists, aiming to keep streets and highways clean.
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Netherlands
Alvin
Tex
Pbrazovia
Britain Seeks UN Role While Dulles Meets Shepilov
Britain calls for a conference linked plan with UN oversight to manage the Suez crisis while Lloyd argues for swift army action after Nasser nationalized the canal. Dulles and Shepilov hold talks as Western nations push for a unanimous international framework and fair compensation for canal stockholders.
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Shepilov
Dmitri Shepilov
U. S
Lloyd
Britain
Suez Canal Co
Texas Democrats choose Stevenson Kefauver ticket in Texas
Texas delegates backed Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver for president and vice president amid a split in the Texas delegation. Johnson and Rayburn helped craft a platform aimed at appeasing the South on segregation, while Kennedy narrowly defeated Kefauver for the vice presidential slot.
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Eleeting Adlal Steenson
Estes Kefauver
Feaders
Byron Skelton
Temple
Frankie Randolph
Houston
Texas
Eisenhower
Johnson
Stevenson
Kefauver
John Kennedy
Massachusetts
Rayburn
Vann Skennedy
Corpus Christi
Max Brooks
Austin
Lubbock men jailed on liquor charges near Lamesa
LAMESA, Aug 18 Two Lubbock men and a Slaton resident are now in Dawson County jail on liquor charges. John Ponton Lara 30 of Lubbock was arrested 9 15 p m Friday 12 miles south of Lamesa for transportation of alcoholic beverages. Margarito C Valdez 24 of Slaton was picked up 11 20 Friday on U S Hwy 87 for the same offense. Claudio Ortiz 32 of Lubbock faces a driving while intoxicated charge after arrest five miles north of Lamesa shortly before 5 p m today.
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Lamesa
Lubbock
Dawson County
John Ponton Lara
Texas
Claudio Ortiz
Public service offer for a drugless healing method booklet
A 66 page illustrated pamphlet is available at no cost to readers. The book explains the causes of crippling conditions and describes a drugless healing method used for more than thirty five years.
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