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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
6
The report notes Prime Minister Nehru commenting on Red China seeking U.S. involvement to ease tensions in the Far East. The text also mentions a brief descriptive fragment referencing clothing and appearance.
Nehru described no formal message from Beijing and said he relayed China's thinking to Eisenhower. He rejected calls to label Formosa as China and urged constructive UN action on Hungary while praising Soviet desire for peace.
Ka dar's martial law aims to curb bloody provocations in Salgotarian Tata bany a and other towns. Government radio reports door to door volunteer recruitment for crippled coal mines while 25 000 miners are needed to replace losses. Power shortages hinder factory output amid strikes and calls to shift industrial goals toward consumer goods.
A fragment notes two brothers killed with a worker in Floydada. One or both had resided there for several years and are survived by a wife.
Two former members of Naval Reserve Surface Division 887 in Lubbock visited the unit during its final drill session of 1956. Six high school students toured the Training Center by invitation of Lt. Cmdr. Joe T. Hardee as nine enlisted men underwent qualifications examinations for potential reserve officer candidate status.
A car on the Freeway in Los Angeles went out of control and crashed into a railing. Mrs. Carrie Louise Washington, 27, escaped unharmed from the wreckage and exclaimed she had broken a fingernail in the brief incident.
The Lubbock Little Theatre staged Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian-Carlo Menotti at 8 15 p m with 16 voice chorus and Tech Theater Orchestra. Mary Jane Hartley sung Amahl with clear tone while Don Armstrong and Robert Wham led Melchior and Balthazar. Kaspar was sung by Ross Cass and Richard Watkins played the Page with notable energy. Dances by Lynnita Jacobs and Mariana Wilson closed the program.
Judge Atwell ruled Dallas schools need not integrate immediately and noted the district is attempting to comply with the Supreme Court mandate. He emphasized the Negro population has equal opportunity and that ample time is needed, while NAACP attorney Durham pledged an appeal within 10 days.
Prof Orest Stephen Makar a leading geodesy and photogrammetry expert fled the United States with wife Alexandra Sofia after leaving his teaching post at St Louis University on August 31 and abandoning American citizenship. Intercepted by reporters in Moscow they described his status as one of the world’s top aerial photography authorities as they sought shelter behind the Iron Curtain.
Bent Harbor city officials hear Wilbert Smith complain of juvenile vandalism as his outdoor Christmas tree lights are stolen for the fifth year in a row. He says he resolves to skip lights but the spirit moves him to buy more each holiday season.
Ottawa reports the Royal Canadian Navy will commission the 19 000 ton Bonaventure aircraft carrier at Belfast Northern Ireland. Headquarters announced the ceremony date and location for Canada’s new naval capital ship.
In Santa Cruz California on December 19 a white handkerchief and an abandoned car were found in the search for 17 year old Clo Ann Wiegner who was abducted from her parents home in Daly City Monday night. Her husband 16 and an unnamed 35 year old man—identified as Jesse Eastman—are charged with assault with a deadly weapon auto theft and burglary. Wiegner and Eastman escaped Napa State Hospital before the abduction. A resident reported seeing the blue sedan with two men a young girl and a red haired woman in the car. she identified Wiegner as the younger man in a photo.
A record number of Lubbock residents are expected to call home for Christmas by long distance, with 6150 calls projected on Christmas Day, up from 5823 last year. Southwestern Bell manager J. B. Patton advised calling by number, using station-to-station lines, and obtaining out-of-town numbers in advance to speed connections. He noted holiday rates apply and station-to-station calls save time and money.
Reporter Ken Towery of the Austin American Statesman was asked to leave a state board session on hospitals and special schools and the budget board. Rep Frates Seeligson said the meeting was an executive session and that reporters could not talk freely. Sen Dorsey B Hardeman denied ordering a press ban and said he knew nothing of the closure.
A broad rain and snow event affected Tohoka Seminole Lovington N M and surrounding Texas towns. Totals included .40 inches at Post .2 inches at Plains Crosbyton Spur and San Saba County top readings near 1 45 inches Mineral Wells 2 30 inches Dallas 1 34 Fort Worth 1 44 and other locales. Officials called the rain a needed moisture boost despite subsoil shortages.
The drouth-battered Southwest received heavy rains and scattered storms with Ardmore Oklahoma reporting nearly two inches and Galveston Texas about 1.54 inches. Precipitation extended into the Midwest with freezing rain on highways and snow mixed in the Great Lakes region as East thaw began and fog hindered Gulf Coast shipping.
Liquor Control Board agents and a city patrolman conducted a double raid in the Negro section of Lubbock about 11 p.m. Wednesday arresting a 43-year-old man as he arrived at a residence in the 2300 block of Fir. In his 1948 sedan were four pints and one fifth of whisky, four half-pints of gin and three cans of malt liquor. A 39-year-old woman at the scene led officers to a house on Date Ave where 151 pints of whisky vodka and gin and 138 half-pints were found hidden behind a removable wall section along with seven fifths of whisky 108 cans of beer 106 cans of beer.
A gunman fired at neighbors the Bradleys wounding the wife critically and Bradley fatally. He wrested a weapon from the attacker before the suspect dropped him and held the Bradleys’ 4 year old daughter, Katherine, before fleeing. Police found two more victims, Fred Peterson and his son Roland, later that night in a nearby home.
Scotland Yard sleuth investigates the Morrell death scandal and charges against Dr. Adams grow. Dr. Adams faces 13 offenses including forgery and larceny after a long practice in Eastbourne. He appeared under guard as police filed new accusations amid fog-bound England.
President Nixon arrives in Vienna amid doubt over landing. meets 72 Hungarian refugees and inspects refugee camps. He receives $2 million UN funds and 1,600 pounds insulin plus $450,000 in checks from American volunteers. He plans talks with Austrian officials and UN official Lindt on refugee resettlement and US entry rules for the 21,500 in the program.
A giant airliner departs San Francisco tonight for Australia to repatriate 40 Olympic athletes who chose to stay in the free world after Melbourne. The group includes 35 Hungarians, four Romanians and one Czech returning before Christmas.
About 30 people attended a Shallow water Farmers Local Union meeting at the Shallow water Clubhouse Wednesday night with state leaders Alex Dickie and Richard Alexander addressing union organization and farm insurance. Ez dell Merrell is president of the Lubbock County Farmers Union. A 16 gauge shotgun valued at $100 was reported stolen from Jimmy L. Hansen’s trailer in the 2300 block of Auburn after Tuesday.
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