Texas AP awards list honors for 1957 papers
Abilene Reporter-News wins first in under 75,000 public service category for reporting on county agent firings and Texas Tech professors closures. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal earns commendation in above 75,000 class for county government and Texas Tech coverage. San Antonio News tops overall, Dallas Times-Herald second. other papers receive honorable mentions and individual writer prizes.
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San Antonio
Abilene
Texas Tech
Lubbock
San Angelo
Times
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
San Antonio News
Texas Associated Press
Place Community Service Ar
APME
Avalanche-Journal
Cw, Ratlitt
Kenneth May
Bill Wilkerson
Johnny
May, Wilkerson
Floyd Wood
Jim Holleman
South Plains
Orion
Tohoka
George Beebe
Miami
Fla
Herald
Bill Burrus
San Antonio Express
Pat Riley
Sherman Democrat
Dick Peebles
Fred Lanner
Robert V. Johnson
Houston Fest
Credit Union Plans Meeting Here Today
J D Luton of the Texas Credit Union League will speak at the annual membership meeting of The Avalanche Journal Credit Union this afternoon. A 1957 share dividend will be declared and 1958 officers and supervisors elected, per president Kenneth May. The meeting starts at 2 PM in the Reddy Room at Southwestern Public Service Co. 10th St and Ave K. The credit union has over 180 members.
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J.D. Luton
Texas Credit Union League
Avalanche
Journal Credit Union
Kenneth May
Reddy Room
Southwestern Public Service Co
10Th St
Ave. K
Oficial
Tot Is Killed As Truck Overturns After Blow Out
Fort Stockton Texas Friday death reported for Magda Duinne Ledesma of Imperial Texas when her father's pickup overturned after a tire blew out. Thirteen others aboard, including nine Ledesma children, suffered only minor injuries.
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Tot
Fort Stockton
Tex
Magda Duinne Ledesm
Imperial, Tex
Eight Guns Stolen From Plainview Man's Collection
Eight firearms valued over 2000 dollars were reported stolen from Cliff Crowell residence in Plainview. The loot includes five rifles with telescopic sights and three engraved shotguns. Crowell, a jeweler, had amassed the collection over years. Police Chief Pelphrey said no arrests have been made.
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Lam View
Van
Cliff Crowell
Crowell
H. P. Pelphrey
Birth Of 65-Pound Hippo Surprises Indiana Zoo
In Vincennes Mesker Zoo a 65 pound hippo calf was born to mother Donna Day in a water tank shared with male Hippy Kley. Attendants noted hippos rarely mate in captivity and questioned the male's suitability as a sire amid no unusual changes to Donna's weight or form.
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Hippo
Indiana
Vansville
Ind
Mesker Zoo
Donna Day
Kley
Donna
Texas mayor aids Panmunjom truce site guests
PANMUNJOM Korea Jan 18 Maj Maurice A Fould of Lampasas Texas called mayor by GI stenographers and interpreters at the armistice site. He supervises messages to and from the communists and plans Allied Red meetings. Col Verne E Pate commander of the 199th Army detachment at Panmunjom. Queen Elizabeth II feverish but improved at Sandringham today staying indoors per doctor's orders.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Texas
Maurice A. Felld
Lampasas
Yim
Red
Fould
Verne E. Pate
Stuttgart
Ark
Sandringham
England
UN to Burn List of Hungarian Witnesses in Probe
The UN backed burning a secret list of eight anonymous Hungarian witnesses from the 1956 revolt inquiry. Povl Bang-Jensen, suspended in December, claims he will protect the witnesses’ names, while Hammarskjold and aide Cordier worry burning would harm UN secrecy. A separate Paris fire report notes Clarice Reed, 4, died from burns.
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United Nations
GenuDag Hammarsksola
Povl Bang-Jensen
Hammarskjold
Bang-Jensen
Hammarskiold
Andrew W. Cordier
Paris
Clarice Reed
New Drug Claims Stir Congress and FDA Watch
Washington reports a clash as lawmakers and federal agencies probe a flood of so called revolutionary remedies guiding public health. Officials caution that while penicillin and streptomycin prove effective some pills are mere quack devices. Modern medicines work but dangers loom from exaggerated claims and poor formulations.
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Roger OnceNeen
Washington, Jan
Capitol Hill
al American Medical Assn
Congress
Amer
Congressional
The
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Trade Commission
Post Office Department
George P. Laierick
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Larrick
U. S. Health Department
Woman who aided Marine killer gets 30 years
An 18 year old girl said her husband rescued her from prostitution and was convicted of aiding his murder of Marine Pvt. Larry M. Kirk. Circuit Judge Daniel Dalley sentenced Mely Jo Baker to 30 years as her husband Robert Baker received 99 years after confessing they robbed and killed the hitchhiking sailor on December 2 1956 in Pennsylvania.
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Salem
Daniel Dalley
Mi Y Jo
Baker
Robert
Wormleysburg
Larry M. Kirk
Winslow
Ind
Free Book Offer on Arthritis and Rheumatism
A promotional notice offers a free enlarged eight page book titled Arthritis Rheumatism. It claims non surgical treatment from 1919 and says sending for the book incurs no obligation. It provides The Ball Clinic Dept. 2311 A Excelsior Springs Missouri for requests.
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Ron
Excelsior
Missouri
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Reporter-News
Dallas Times-Herald
Dar
Houston Post
Dallas
Buces
Johnny Plaisted
Portland
Ore
Buggs
Credit Union Plans
Plainview Man
Old Colonial
Southwind
FDA
India
South America
South Africa
Maker Colony
College
Roomy
Harold Griffith
N. College
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