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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1956
Page
8
French Premier Mollet urged a UN controlled arms embargo for the Middle East during a meeting with visiting American editors. He disputed French communist size claims, warned against Germany aligning with Russia, and criticized American aid for potential harm, stressing the importance of the manner of giving.
Hale District Court in Plainview will convene at 10 a.m. Monday for a criminal docket. Defendants include Lynn Hanna, charged with obtaining an automobile by a worthless check, who has prior guilty pleas in three counties and two four year terms for forgery. Ardmore Oklahoma suspects H B Watkins Jack Mitchell and Joe Smith face burglary charges in four Plainview firms. Rufus Hicks, ex parking meter collector, will be tried for misapplication of public funds. Other charges include passing worthless checks and child desertion.
Aaglar Tr Hagler must appear in Sulphur district court on April 2 to enter a plea in the slaying of an unidentified man whose charred body was found in a Murray county station wagon last October. The state plans to seek the death penalty. Hagler, a former Fort Worth asphalt company executive, says he was unconscious while with two men and denies knowledge of the events. If he pleads not guilty, trial is tentatively set for April 16. The case centers on an alleged insurance swindle.
Plainview March 24 Special Hale County Attorney Frank Gaston condemned parents who do not care about their children during the trial of a 16 year old Plainview youth on burglary charges. A juvenile court found the boy guilty and he was probationed to his parents until age 18. Ten youths, ages 12 to 17, face charges in a wave of burglaries and thefts involving 17 Plainview firms. Several may be committed to reform school if convicted. Gaston cited only two pairs of parents as caring, while some parents are resentful of police and authorities. He urged parental involvement and reform measures, warning that many youths evade supervision.
Police logged hubcap thefts from four vehicles the previous night on 24th Street Emory and Ave R with counts of four two and four. A tarpaulin over a cotton truck was cut and vandalism noted with paint dabbed on cars. A copper and brass stash was stolen from 1606 Erskine valued at 150 dollars. Officers found men detaining a suspect after a disturbance near 7th Street and Ave L. One 30 year old man faced disturbance charges. An unrelated line notes 80 percent of nonfarm Americans over 65 live in their own homes.
WICHITA FALLS March 24 District Attorney Jimmy Castledine president of the County and District Attorneys Association of Texas failed to appear for trial on a charge of being drunk in a public place. He forfeited a $10 bond posted after his arrest March 15 at a Wichita Falls drive in. The case ends for the corporation court though the Wichita County grand jury and the county Bar Association show interest and a grievance committee has met with a formal report prepared. District Judge Arthur Tipps said the grand jury reports.
More than 950 students from 18 schools competed in Levelland as Plainview High School mixed chorus won sweepstakes in AAA division for concert and sight reading. Levelland chorus took second in concert and first in sight reading. numerous other choirs placed across divisions. Individual first division solos listed from Plainview, Levelland, Brownfield, Slaton, and other schools.
A source notes the grand jury is very interested in the case and reports that the next grand jury session will be held on April 4. The statement underscores heightened scrutiny by jurors during the upcoming proceedings.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday for Lt Bobby Jennings 22 son of Mr and Mrs Noyce Jennings of 2610 31st St. drowned Tuesday when he parachuted from a plane and landed in the sea off Iceland. The Rev James Abernathy of Albuquerque and Rev Hubert Bratcher of St Johns Methodist Church will officiate at Trinity Baptist Church. Burial will be in Tech Memorial Park. Jennings was born in Plainview a Ralls High School graduate and attended Texas Tech before joining the Air Force He was commissioned last April and has been in Iceland since last October.
Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington called Secretary of State John Foster Dulles the original misguided missile in a speech prepared for a state rally in Brewer Maine. Snow disrupted travel, so the remarks were released as a statement.
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