Texas Democrats face two year party split in primaries
The Avalonhea Journal reports on Texas Democrats seeking to chart the party’s course through upcoming primaries. The key divides are between liberal, party loyalty advocates and states rights factions led by Shivers, with six candidates vying to succeed him. Three ballot referendums on school integration interposition and anti intermarriage stir further battle lines as moderates push for gradual desegregation.
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Raymond Holbrook
Associated Press
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
National Organization
Shivers
Keadhy Johnson
Chicago
Democratic Executive Committee
Ralph Yarborough
Austin
Johnson
Sen
Price Daniel
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Oil
Daniel
W. Lee O’daniel
House
Reuben Senterfitt
J. Tivetts Haley
Veterans Land Loan
Texas Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
South
Curtis Hill
Dallas
John Ben Shepperd
Robert Gargill
Loneview Citizens’ Council
Uvalde
Kliebert
Bexar
San Antonio
William S. Thomas Rites Set Monday
Funeral services for William S. Thomas 78 of Hale Center will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Hale Center Church of Christ with Bill Brown and Albert Trent officiating. A retired farmer, he died at 6 15 a.m. Saturday in a Lubbock convalescent home after a long illness. He was born May 12 1876 in Benton Arkansas and moved to Hale Center in 1925. Survivors include a daughter Mrs Otis Cahill Redmond Oregon two sons J C Deritter La and Glenn Hale Center two brothers Ed Denton John Benton Ark six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. The body will lie in state at Lemons Funeral Home. burial is in Cooper Creek Cemetery near Denton. Mrs Thomas died in 1945 and is buried there. In a three day period British warships have paid visits to 11 ports in Spain.
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Trent
Thomas
Lubbock
Benton, Ark
Hale Center
Church of Christ
Otis Cahill
Redmond
Ore
J. C
Denton
John
Benton
Ark
Lemons Funeral
Cooper Creek
Cooper Creek Cemetery
Burlington Railroad Farm Ranch Tour Cancelled
The six day Burlington farm and ranch tour in northern Colorado is cancelled for this year. Robert L. Hoyt from Burlington Fort Worth announced the decision on Saturday. The tour, set to run from today through Friday, was cancelled because too many Texas farmers could not leave their farms and businesses. Officials said the tour may resume in 1957.
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Burlington Railroad
Colorado
Robert L. Hoyt
Burlington
Fort Worth
Texas
No-Roach Insecticide Promises Months of Protection
An ad promoting Johnston’s Super No-Roach claims a white viscous formula that dries to an odorless coating, repelling cockroaches ants and other pests for months. Instructions urge applying along cupboards, baseboards, window sills, and ant trails with a brush.
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Johnston
Hemphill-Wells
Furr Foods
Piggly Wiggly A.G
United Save Way
Clark's
Stovall
Walgreen
John Halsey
South Plains Drugs
Behrens, Davis & Humphries
Kimball Gro
Gaston Johnston Corp
N.Y.C
Two-Week-Old Boy Develops Early Tooth
The two week old son of Mr and Mrs T E Nelson 4915 Cedar has a small front lower tooth. Mrs Nelson says the tooth first appeared at one week. A Lubbock pedodontist notes early tooth development is rare but not unheard of and that supernumerary teeth may appear. The infant may soon show another tooth as well. The father works at Pioneer Gas Co.
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T. E. Nelson
Cedar
T. F E. Jr
Nelson
Lubbock
Pioneer Gas Co
Local Officers and Families Visit as Reunions Planned at Mackenzie Park
Lt Cmdr Leon Blair visiting Lubbock with parents and sister before returning to Paris. About 500 attend Taylor Jones County reunion at Mackenzie State Park starting 9:30 a.m. today with picnic lunch to follow. Also noted are Mackenzie Lodge speaker Victor S. Smith, and a Wilbarger Hardeman Foard County reunion set for Aug 5 with basket lunches.
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Leon B. Blair
Paris
France
Lubbock
George W. Blair
10Th St
Marion Leftwith
27Th St
Cmdr
Blair
United States
Washington, D.C
Ile
Taylor-Jones County
Mackenzie State Park
J. P. Hodges
Taylor and Jones Counties
Collingsworth County
Tom Campbell
Lee O'Neal
31St St
E. W. Jones
20Th St
Victor S. Smith
Masonic
Mackenzie Lodge
F.C. Odorizzi
Wilbarger, Hardeman and
Foard County
Flon
Pogue
County Republicans Name Precinct Delegates In Lubbock
Lubbock County Republicans held precinct meetings Saturday to select a county chairman and name delegates to the August 4 county convention. Results will be mailed to John J. Christmann next week. former Mayor Murrell Tripp was seen as a likely chairman candidate.
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Lubbock
John J. Christmann
Christmann
Murrell Tripp
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28Th St
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Wichita Falls
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Judith Frances
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Z. TL. Stevens
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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