Family Farm Remains Core Of U S Agriculture
Op-Ed by Ov I da Martin argues family-type farms stay central despite debates over big farms. Census data show 4.8 million farms with 73 77 percent family labor in 1910 and about 77 percent in May this year, while hired hands declined from 3.323 million in 1919 to 2.976 million last month.
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OVIDA
Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Wayne Farming
Census Bureau
Bhont
Averaz
Averace Farms
Subway Union Chief Calms Strike Fears
NEW YORK June 16 1p A union leader promises to obey court orders and ease fears of a second citywide subway strike The Transit Authority sought an injunction to prevent a repeat of Thursday’s tie up and to restrain the MBA from striking again The MBA leadership had warned of a strike next Wednesday and the court ordered the union to show cause Monday why it should not be restrained
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New York
Theodore Loos
Motormen’s Benevolent Assa
MBA
Subway
Million
Four Days Of Activity Planned American Business Club Convention
Approximately 483 attendees will converge for the National American Business Club Convention in Lubbock beginning Monday. The four day program blends business sessions with social events for men women children under 12 and teens, including Western Day rodeo parade barbecue and ABC Boys Club Rodeo. Notable speakers include Jett Williams and Cayce Moore with awards luncheon Thursday capped by a president's dinner and dance.
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G. H. Nelson
Jef
Lubbock
American Business Club
G. A. Nystel
Acre
ABC
Preston Johnston
Vistors
Texas Tech
ABC Boys’ Club
Municipal Coliseum
At & P
Caprock Hotel
Aus
Bernie Howl
Bill Eyre
Jett Williams
Chickasha
Oklo
Cayce Moore
Johnston
Pat Henry
Chester Marston
Mackenzie State Park
Prairie Dog Town
Thelma Wilson
Gene Pittman
Virginia Cauley
Ophelia Cocanoucher
Edna Watkins
Dorothy Graves
Bob Rose
ABC Dames
Jimmie Johnston
Brooksie Nystel
Reds Invite West To See Troop Removal
Berlin June 16 Reuters dispatch says the Soviet Union formally invited Allied chiefs of staff in West Germany to witness the withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany. Lt Gen N Pav chief of staff of Soviet forces in Germany extended invites to American French and other forces. He has not yet heard from Britain.
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West Germany
East Germany
West Weennesra Fay
N. Pav
Sacer
Germany
Heidelberg
U.S. Army
ADN
Garth Jones Named To Succeed So Byers In Austin Bureau
AP announces Garth Jones of Dallas will take over as state editor in Austin, succeeding Bo Byers who leaves the Capitol bureau after 19 years. Jones joins correspondent Dave Cheavens in July and has 16 years with AP plus prior wartime service.
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Garth Jones
So Byers
Austin
Dallas
Associated Press
Bo Byers
Byers
Captol
Syers, Pickel and Winn
Jones
Texas
Dave Cheavens
Abilene
Bride-To-Be’s Escape From Forced Marriage in Texas Court
In Lubbock at Justice of the Peace George H. McCleskey’s court a 23-year-old groom-to-be and a girl under 18 caused a disturbance during a nuptial ceremony. The bride confessed she never wanted to marry and had been forced to obtain a license. The groom was charged with disturbing the court and faces a court martial at Reese Air Force Base. the bride left unwed and relieved.
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George H. McCleskey
Lubbock
McCleskey
Stepa
Reese Air Force Base Air Police
Reese
Garza County approves interdistrict school transfers for 1956 57
Garza County Board of Education approved interdistrict transfers for the 1956 57 year led by County Superintendent Dean A. Robinson. The plan moves 101 white and 24 Negro students to Post schools from districts including Close City Southland Graham Grassburr Gamelia and others with tuition charges set at 92.40 for whites and 71.19 for Negro students.
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POST
Garza County
Dusticeburg
Gamelia
Graham
Close
California Ballroom Burns Down in Arson Blaze
California Ballroom, a long time landmark in northern California known as the capital of western dance, owned by Bob Wills of Amarillo Texas, was destroyed by a fire believed to be arson. Fire Chief Gene Desimond of the Citrus Heights department reported the blaze.
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California
Bob Wills Burns
Sacramento
Wils Point
Bob Walls
Amarillo
Tex
Gene Desimond
Citrus Heights
Oklahoma cattlemen report Russia trip views on peace and work
A group of 21 Oklahoma farmers and ranchers returning from a five week tour abroad recount that Russians desire peace and admire farm methods at the Agricultural Academy in Moscow. They describe hard labor, crude equipment, and drab farming life while noting gender roles in labor and the presence of peace doves in public displays. Dalmatian dogs are born pure white and gain spots with age.
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New York Uy
Russia
Jean Neustadt
Ardmore
Clarence W Burch
Mill Creek
Academy
Moscow
Agricultural Academy
Guymon
Negro Navy man dies in Russian roulette incident
Aviation Machinist Mate 3C Sam Lee Dean, stationed at Kingsville NAS, killed himself playing Russian roulette at his girlfriend Ruthie Mae Stokes home. Coroner Pat Gunn reported Dean spun a .38 pistol firing five of six chambers before the gun fired.
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Lorpus Christi
Tex
Sammy Lee Dean
Kingsville Naval Air Station
Pat Gunn
Dean
Ruthie Mae Stokes
Former Hitler Aide Strasser Plans New Neo Nazi Party
Frankfurt dispatch reports Otto Strasser, once linked to Hitler, to meet with a small group of right wing politicians on Sunday to launch a neo Nazi party. The plan is described as a political experiment with no postwar success yet. in 1949 a neo Nazi group won five Bundestag seats, but all four remaining delegates left or were expelled, and by 1953 no candidates were elected.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Otto Strasser
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