Senate votes to halt aid to France Italy by year end
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a unanimous vote, orders an end to all U S military aid to France and Italy by December 31 unless they ratify the European Defense Pact or an acceptable alternative. The panel also backs consulting with Congress on policy if Red China joins the UN and notes aid in transit would stop within six months if no pact is ratified.
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International News Service
Ylashington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
France
Italy
Alexander Smith
RNJ
State Department
Knowland
Congress
Ican
Smith
Both Remarried Dead Soldier Wife Reunited
Newport News report tells how Wayne Ferguson and Donald Eugene Tinkle believed each other dead after a rodeo accident. Each had remarried. Ferguson later raised two children with an Air Force husband, while Tinkle, stationed at Fort Eustis, had divorced in Nevada. A chance newsroom reunion confirmed the couple’s bond and led to an onlookers’ note of joy.
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Associated Press
Newport News
Newport News Daily Press
Poanoke
Monday
Tinkle
Roanoke
Camden
Murder Charges After Amarillo Jail Death
Walter H. Wilson 24 died from injuries after a fellow prisoner kicked him in the Amarillo city jail. James M. Gollihugh of Amarillo is charged with murder in connection with the death. Prisoners said Wilson, of Gregory, was kicked in the mouth or chin and fell, hitting the concrete floor.
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Amarillo
Tex
Walter H. Wilson
James M. Gollihugh
Wilson
Gregory
Yarborough Attacks Shivers Over Hidalgo Land Deal
Ralph Yarborough claimed Gov. Allan Shivers uses a smoke screen to hide Hidalgo land fraud concerns and says outsiders fund the Yarborough campaign. He accused Shivers of false charges and highlighted a Rio Grande Valley land sale profit while Shivers defends the deal as legitimate and nonpartisan. Yarborough vowed Texans are his bosses and promised more disclosures.
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Associated Press
Antonio
Ralph Yarborough
Allan Shivers
Insurance Commission
Hidalgo
Yarborough
Shivers
Imade
Texas
Woodville
East Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Hitches And All Groom Still Held By Marital Knot
In Hutchinson Kansas on July 10 Mr and Mrs Bill Dennis exchanged vows despite delays. The groom forgot the license requiring a special after hours trip by the probate judge. The pastor fell ill and the assistant pastor took over.
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Associated Press
Hutchinson
Kan
Bill Dennis
Dennis
Bridgegroom
International agriculture leaders visit Lubbock for irrigation study
Twenty six leaders from eleven nations will tour Lubbock August 14 to 21 under the U S Department of Agriculture and land grant college program. The group will study irrigation on the South Plains and visit Experiment Station Texas Tech and Tech Farms. The visit includes engineers from Thailand Costa Rica China Brazil Egypt Iran Uruguay Yugoslavia Greece Italy and Turkey with orientation on regional farming practices.
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Lubbock
G. E. Giesecke
Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Department of Agriculture and
Land-Grant Colleges
South Plains
Thailand
Costa PT Wente Sis Agricultural Leade
Rica
China
Brazil
Egypt
Iran
Uruguay
Yugoslavia
Greece
Italy
Turkey
United States
Texas Tech
Tech
Andy Adam
Texas A&m College
Traffic Jam Brought by Storm Stranded Navy Helicopter
Traffic in Spartanburg South Carolina clogged streets Friday as a Navy helicopter piloted through a thunderstorm landed at a street intersection. The pilot said poor visibility forced the landing in the center of the intersection.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Navy
Radio TV Programs and Oil News Highlights
The edition outlines radio and television programs on page 10 plus South Plains Oil News on page 14 and Area Agriculture News on page 7. It notes section placements across the paper including page 4.
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Rradio
South Plains Oil News
Area Agriculture News
Two Party Primaries Move Toward Final Week in Lubbock
In Lubbock campaign activity heats as the first dual Texas primaries approach. Ralph Yarborough and Dudley T. Dougherty visit the area with J. J. Holmes and C T. Johnson also having earlier stops. GOP turnout is expected to be light with talk of a poor man’s primary and Democratic turnout predicted around 15,000 in the county. Dennis cites about 60 percent of the 23,497 eligible voters.
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C. W. Ratliff
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Ralph Yarborough
Austin
Dudley T. Dougherty
Beeville
U.S
The
South Plains
J. J. Holmes
C T. Johnson
Texas
Lubbock County
Jonn J. Christmann
Repub
Lican
Allan Shivers
Robi. E. Dennis
Dennis
Floods Leave 50,000 Homeless Across Central Europe
Central Europe endures its worst floods in half a century. Prague's Troja Liben areas flood as Danube swells into Linz and farmland regions flood. Fourteen dead and many missing. Rescue crews, including American troops, assist across Austria Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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Vienna
Austria
Central Europe
Prague
Germany
Troja
Liben
Vitava
Moldau
Danube
Linz
Bombers Shot Down in Southwest Invasion
At least 15 enemy bombers penetrated the five state area guarded by the 34th Air Division and were intercepted and presumably shot down. Fakerland planes crossed New Mexico Arizona Colorado part of Utah and West Texas carrying poison gas A bombs germs and radioactive dust to be dropped on cities.
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Albulquerque
34Th Air Division
U.S. Air Force
Fakerland
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Utah
West Texas
Grieving Pup Keeps Vigil At Grasped Grave Of Young Master
Brownie the mongrel dog traveled 16 miles to guard and await the return of seven year old Raymond Sobieski Jr. He lay dying at the grave site and at the boy’s home, his paws cut from the long trek. The community notes the dog’s heartbreak and attempts to comfort him.
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United Press
Boyne City
Mich
Brownie
Raymond Sobieski Jr
Raymond Sr
Marell Abbey
Humane Society
Sobieski
Raymond
Lyle Gerrin
St. Francis Cemetery
Petoskey
Deer Lake
Vacationers Attention Demand The Avalanche Or Journal
Vacationers are urged to request circulation department service for uninterrupted newspaper delivery while away. Read on vacation to ensure you don’t miss the Avalanche or Journal edition.
Natives Flee Hanoi as Vietminh advance alarms citizens
Indochina July 10. Hanoi people rush south to escape the Red menace as Vietminh forces advance and French reports say four more outposts overrun. U S Consul Turner Camron warned Americans with no urgent business to leave while planes remain available. Evacuation plans are in place though not disclosed.
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Forrest Edwards Han
Indochina
South
Ho Chi Minh
Turner Camron
Minh
U. S
Hanoi
U.S
Camron
Letter Carriers End Meet Here
L N Presley of Fort Worth was elected president of the Texas State Association of Letter Carriers at the close of the 57th annual convention. Mrs Lera McCulley of Wichita Falls was elected president of the Auxiliary. Other officers include Dennis R Lee Paris vice president Frank Eddleman Lubbock secretary and S H Hawkes San Antonio treasurer. El Paso chosen as 1955 convention site with June 30 to July 2 tentative. Headquarters Hotel Lubbock. Memorial service planned for five See POSTMEN Page 8.
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L. N. Presley
Fort Worth
Texas State Association of Letter Carrers
Lera McCulley
Wichita Falls
Dennis R. Lee
Paris
Frank Eddleman
Lubbock
S. H. Hawkes
San Antonio
Rayoma Presley
Edna Bone
Amarillo
Sarah Moran
Waco
Mayme Seay
Dallas
Ava Bryant
Abilene
el Paso
Hotel Lubbock
Dora Carson
National Women’s Auxiliary
Armittie Ellerman
Glendale
Calif
National Auxiliary
Thornton backs flexible supports plan top issue in campaign
Bolton Landing New York July 10 The farm policy debate centers on flexible price supports and a 2 dollar wheat level as top political issue Gov Dan Thornton of Colorado says Eisenhower remains popular but GOP doubts grow He notes Nixon will substitute for a canceled Eisenhower speech and Dewey avoids political comment Senators Anderson criticizes a new farm bill and Eisenhower signs a 1 billion surplus foods disposal bill for overseas aid
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Douglas B. Cornell
Bolton Landing
N.Y
Dan Thornton
Colorado
Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Thornton
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
iAs
Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
Truman
Farm Policy
Atom Plant Workers Are Back On Jobs Near Paducah
The AEC strike at the Paducah Kentucky atomic energy project ends as CIO workers vote 329 to 96 to return to work. President Eisenhower abandons plans for Taft Hartley injunction after a back to work deal brokered by Secretary Mitchell and CIO President Reuther. Oak Ridge workers also resume duties after midnight.
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Washington
Eisenhower
CIO Atomic
Atomic Energy Project
Paducah
Mitchell
CIO
Walter Reuther
Oak Ridge, Tenn
West Texas gains growth spotlight in new data
Tech researchers in a Division of Business Administration handbook chart West Texas population shifts. The study notes 1950 population of 1,432,758, 28 percent growth in the last decade, concentrated in Lubbock area and oil irrigation zones, with 44 of 96 counties losing population and 30 percent of growth in 13 counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tech
Division of Business Administration
West Texas
Lubbock
Case backs bomb proof sea level canal across Central America
Senator Francis Case proposes a modern ship canal across Central America to replace the Panama Canal as outdated. He plans to study costs, consult the State Department, and introduce legislation for a border to border highway system alongside a bomb proof sea level canal.
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International News Service
Ashington
Francis Case
Resd
Panama Canal
Central America
South Dakota Republican
State Department
Case
Senate Military Construction Subcommittee
U. S
Senate
Weather map shows hot, fair for Lubbock area
Lubbock and vicinity expect fair hot conditions with a low around 68 and a high near 100. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph this afternoon. Official readings from the U S Weather Bureau show yesterday’s max 99 and min 68.
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Lubbock
U. S. Weather Bureau
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