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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1954
Page
13
Detroit report surveys future safety ideas from radar to banked highways and seat belts. Engineers say driver focus remains key as experiments test tiredness sensors and alert buzzers while progressive cars gain tubeless tires and sealed beams to cut deaths from 15.9 to an expected 6.4 per 100 million miles.
Oklahoma residents are urged to heed a nationwide message for the 1955 auto license plates. The ad campaign stresses Visit Oklahoma but may fail if read only within the state.
Mrs. Alice Hathaway 75 died at People's Hospital Floydada after a long illness. Funeral services planned in Harmon Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Carr's Chapel Cemetery. She lived in Floyd County since 1905 and was survived by six brothers and two sisters. Her husband A A Hathaway died in 1918.
A Grayson County jury found Forrest Eugene Van derpool guilty of raping a 28 year old maid in a Denison rooming house. He received five years in prison. The defendant, 23, is from Elmira New York and had been released from Texas prison five days earlier after a Henderson rape conviction. The case followed a prior listing of mink skin notes.
A blast at a fireworks factory in Santa Maria, 20 miles north of Manila, killed 19 people and seriously injured 19 others. An investigation into the cause has begun.
The Texas Board of Water Engineers reports November rainfall statewide averaged 52 percent of normal at 1.10 inches. West of the Pecos saw only traces, Panhandle a puny 0.02 inch, while Northeast Texas recorded 2.96 inches. North Central Texas had 2.06 inches, about 114 percent of normal, as stream flows fell but later moderate runoff appeared in the Brazos basin.
In Austin Gov. Allan Shivers granted a nine day extension of emergency reprieve for Mrs Rebecca Doswell a Dallas oilwoman sentenced to life in 1952 for murdering her husband The extension approved by the State Pardons Board allows further medical treatment at St Pauls Hospital Dallas as three doctors report the condition unchanged and more treatment is needed.
Foreign Minister Shigemitsu outlined a program prioritizing cooperation with the United States and other non Communist nations over expanding trade with the Soviet Union and Red China. He said normal relations with Russia and China could be pursued without compromising ties to free nations, and that trade with communists may be limited for now while opportunities to expand remain welcomed.
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