New Year Reflections Across Nations and U S News
Across nation a uneasy world welcomed 1956 with wishes for peace prosperity and health. Russians celebrated with Grandfather Frost and Red Square revelry while Moscow shoppers flocked to stores. Eisenhower planned a quiet New Year at Key West with Mrs Doud. Traffic safety measures reduced fatalities but the year opens with unresolved global and personal political questions.
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Grandfather Frost
Kermlin
Red Square
Moscow
Mamie Jenna
Eisenhower
Key West
Fla., Naval Base
John W. Doud
Denver
Washington
Hopper
Boom year seen for Lubbock and South Plains 1955 56 expansion
Area cities report from 30 towns to Avalanche Journal show about 60 to 65 million dollars in construction and new housing in 1955 with Lubbock leading at 27.7 million. Expect continued activity in 1956 as architects note a backlog of projects and area towns post near record totals.
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Kenneth May
Avalanche-Journal
Quth Plains
Lubbock
Andrews
Hobbs
N.M
City Celebrants Greet New Year in Lubbock
Throngs of celebrants packed hotels clubs and dance floors as Lubbock welcomed 1956. By 11 p.m. crowds neared capacity at dances including the Lubbock Country Club where 400 plus danced to Bernie Howell’s trio and about 200 at a teen dance. The Cotton Club hosted about 1,000 with the Western Swing Kings playing.
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Lubbock
Bernie Howell
Country Club
Cotton Club
Abernathy Infant Tops 1956 Baby Honors in the Plains
The first baby born in the South Plains in 1956 arrived at 12:00:50 a.m. in Abernathy at Dr. Robert M. DeLaney Clinic. The boy, weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bryant of Hale Center, narrowly beating a St. Mary’s Hospital contender at 12:01 a.m. Miss Jackie Lynn Roberts followed soon after, born to Mr. and Mrs. Merel Roberts of 112 Uvalde on the same night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Abernathy
St. Mary's Hospital
Robert M. DeLaney
Jack Bryant
Rt. 1
Hale Center
Jackie Lynn Roberts
Wone
Mearil Roberts
Uvalde
State files suit naming four Insurance Commission examiners
The state sues chief examiner Larry Blanchard Robert Butler assistant chief examiner William Noad and Lee Pfefferkorn plus 45 officers and others tied to the defunct General American Casualty Co of San Antonio for 366 4000 in a civil action filed Friday. The petition claims the examiners received gifts or favors from the firm involved in Texas insurance failures. The Insurance Commission suspended the named employees without pay or duties and pledged an immediate investigation using state resources including the attorney general's services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Blanchard
Robert Butler
William Noad
Lee Piefferkorz
General American Casualty Co
San Antonio
Texas
Insurance Commission
Blanchard
Austin
Butler
Commission
Noah
Dallas
Pfefferkorn
Lockhart
Garland Smith
Patrol Crackdown Trial: Cruiser Pursuit on U S 87
Patrolman Fred Marshall chases a green sedan through heavy traffic on U S 87 in a televised crackdown. The unmarked Ford Interceptor reaches 95 mph as the pursuit threads through multiple lanes, ending with the suspect briefly eluding capture before the narrative cuts to Page C2.
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Brill Wilkerson
Avalanche-Journal
HE Green
Edan
Unit 359
U. S. 87
Fred Marshall
Marshall
Fred
Atomic Air Armada Said Guarded Skies by US Fleet
Town Journal claims the United States maintains a visible intercontinental bomber fleet loaded with nuclear bombs. Officials in Washington say presidential authorization is needed to arm or deploy such aircraft, and no such order has been reported. The article says bombers hover 40 000 feet high with pre assigned targets, sourced from the Pentagon.
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Philadelphia
Town Journal Magaine
United States
National Magazine
Washington
Town Journal
Pentagon
Atom Air Armada
Congress Opens Tuesday in Today's Paper
The issue outlines section and page assignments across the paper with varied topics including editorials, radio and TV programs, oil news, farm news, church pages, and a comic dictionary. A humorous misprint defines failure as a man who comes grief by overestimating his own ability.
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Congress
Fdktorial
South Plaine Oil News
Ares Farm News
Church
Shrine Crush in Niigata Kills 112 on New Year
At Iyahiko Shrine in Niigata Japan thirty thousand New Year worshipers stampeding at midnight caused a wall collapse. Police recovered 112 bodies and reported dozens missing with seventy five injuries as the crush swept the crowd into daylight.
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Niigata
Japan
Iyahiko Shrine
Baby 1956 Found On Subway In New York
A 2 week old baby boy in a pink and white blanket was found on a northbound Lexington Avenue subway by waiter Martin Belanich. He alerted staff, a doctor and nurse cared for the infant at Beekman Downtown Hospital before the baby was taken to Foundling Hospital, as 1955 ends. The note in the bag read Bryan.
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New York
Martin Belanich
Lexington Avenue
Bryan
Belanich
Beekman
Foundling Hospital
Leader Says Geneva Spirit Not Buried
Soviet Premier Nicolai Bulganin speaks of keeping the Geneva spirit alive and suggests another summit could yield progress if major obstacles are overcome. He warns that the presence of the H bomb on both sides does not guarantee peace and reflects confidence tied to the Geneva summit.
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Geneva
OSCOW
Nicolai Bulganin
Bulganin
Rendezvous Raid Nets Liquor Confiscations in Lubbock
Liquor Control Board agents and a constable halted a daylight delivery at the 98th Street and Quirt Avenue rendezvous in south Lubbock. Two men were arrested, four cars seized, 141 fifths and 67 pints of whisky, 216 cans of beer and four fifths of gin were seized. Officers drew guns to stop a driver who surrendered with hands up. The load was described as intended for New Year’s Eve sales.
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Lubbock
Liquor Control Board
98Th St
Quirt Ave
South
Leon Bowman
E. L. Brewer
L. E. Boling
Bowman
Liquor Control
Zig Zag Russian Policy Leaves Washington Dizzy
Washington observers remain baffled by Bulganin Khrushchev statements as Soviet policy zigzags. Experts point to failed attempts at gaining Western acquiescence to permanent Soviet control of Eastern Europe, with Eisenhower signaling cautious response to the satellite nations. Page Z Zig-2% policy.
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Bulganin
Telenews
Hearst Metrozone News
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Moscow Radio
Geneva
Nikita ‘Khrushchev
Communist Party
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Eden
Faure
United States
Russia
John M. Hightowar Ashington
Nikolai Bulganin
Washington
Bulgarin
Nikita Khrushchev
Poland
Albania
Weather Map snapshot shows clear warm day in Lubbock area
Weather map notes for Lubbock and vicinity call for clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with a high near 63 degrees and low around 35. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph may produce some dust. several time stamps and city temperature readings from multiple stations are listed with highs and lows, humidity, sunrise and sunset times, and regional precipitation figures.
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Lubbock
Pal City
Pal Abilene
Paso
Houston
Amarillo
Dalles
Roswell
Deve
W. Falls
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Caprock Hotel
Donne
Lubbock Hotel
Great Plains Life
Bill Wilkerson
Luszlock
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