Polio vaccine report awaited as experts delay mass inoculation
A panel of top scientists led by Surgeon General Scheele prepared a comprehensive Sunday statement on the Salk polio vaccine. They consider delaying nationwide inoculations by four to five weeks to recheck stocks and run further tests, with a 30 day monkey tissue study likely.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Jonas Salk
Pittsburgh
William H. Sebrell, Jr
National Institutes of Health
James A. Shannon
Public Health Service
Dulles Prepares to Reject Big Four Talks Lead by Molotov
reports say Secretary of State Dulles plans to oppose a British proposal for a Big Four summit with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower reportedly wants foreign ministers to meet first and set a strict European agenda excluding Far East issues. The talks come as Western nations organize the new Western European union with West Germany joining.
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U. S
John Foster Dulles
Russia
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Paris
Eisenhower
U.S
V. M. Molotov
West Germany
Atlantic Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Western Defense Alliance
Vienna
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Hobart Faith Prompted Rain Day Prompted by Mayor
In Hobart Oklahoma a rainstorm came after a citywide Rain Day push by Mayor Watkins and J R Bledsoe. Citizens wore rain coats or carried umbrellas on Saturday to show faith. The Weather Bureau recorded .44 inches before 6 30 pm. Dust storm reduced visibility to a quarter mile earlier that day.
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United Press
Obart
Okla
J. R. Bledsoe
Hobart
Weather Bureau
Bledsoe
Watkins
AMA Official Urges Calm On Polio Vaccination
Dr Dwight H Murray AMA trustee chairman advised the public to avoid hysteria as the polio vaccination program with Salk vaccine begins. He noted 1452 polio cases this year against 1976 last year and urged following a doctor’s advice before vaccinating a sick child and not condemning the vaccine despite rare post vaccination polio.
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American Medical Assn
Dwight H. Murray
Napa
Calif
AMA
Chicago
United States
Temple Digs Out Dust Chokes Areas After Storm
Temple and Bell County endured over a million dollars in damage as winds up to 80 mph lashed Central Texas. Digging crews worked while the Weather Bureau warned North Texas and the Fort Worth Dallas area of possible severe thunderstorms into Saturday night.
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Associated Press
Emple
Bell County
Texas
Temple
Weather Bureau
North Texas
Fort Worth-Dallas
Wichita Falls
Mineral Wells
Hamilton
Terrell
Clarksville
Childress
Cotulla
Graham
Denton
Austin
Abilene
San Antonio
Larry Ingram
Temple Telegram
Ingram
Mamie Bennett
Jimmy Rowan
Three-Day Texas City Managers Convention Opens Here
The Texas City Managers Association holds its spring meeting in Texas City starting today. City managers from across the state convene for three days of discussions and professional exchange led by Avalanche-Journal staff writer C. W. Ratliff.
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Texas City Managers
C. W. Ratliff
Avalanche-Journal
Escorl
Texas
Texas City Managers Association
Hiroshima Maidens Headed For New York For Care
Twenty five Hiroshima maidens aged 19 to 24 leave Honolulu aboard a US Air Force plane bound for Travis Field and then New York. The event includes an estimated 150 attendees at Caprock Hotel with doctors, city managers and sponsors attending sessions in Texas before continuing to New York for treatment.
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International News Service
San Francisco
Honolulu
New York
U. S. Air Force
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Travis Air Force Base
Caprock Hotel
Three Davy Crocketts at Dallas reunion in one batch
In Dallas a reunion Saturday brings three men nicknamed Davy Crocketts together. The event is pictured on the paper’s photo page. Ike holds a lead in a test poll against Adlai Stevenson and McCarthy.
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Davy Crocketts
Dallas
Ike
Adlai Stevenson
Sen. McCarthy
Beard Backers Sweep Irving School Board Victory
In Irving Texas on May 7 pro Beard backers won all seven seats in a decisive school board election. The anti Beard slate failed to win any post while vote totals were tightly clustered with the top and bottom finishers within about 17 votes. The ousted superintendent's reinstatement remains unlikely despite a pending State Education commissioner action.
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Irving
Tex
John L. Beard
John T. Andrews
Walter Hansen
W.E. Hodges
Russell Horn
R.C. Reese
G.J. Scott
Jack Williams
Beard
Atomic test to be held Monday at 6:05 a.m.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the 14th and final test in the current series will occur Monday at 6:05 a.m. Central Standard Time, weather permitting.
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Las Vegas
INS
Atomic Energy Commission
93 Degree Reading Ties Lubbock Heat Record
The city reached 93 degrees at 2 p m tying the May 7 1952 high for the date. Forecasters predicted cooler weather with a high near 84 later today. Skies were expected to be clear to partly cloudy with northeast to east winds 10 to 20 mph.
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Mercury
Lubbock
Winners Named In 4 H Judging At Texas Tech
More than 300 4 H members from 20 counties competed in district judging at Texas Tech to earn spots at the state Roundup in College Station next month. W H Jones led the boys and Mrs Aubrey Russell led the girls. Elvera Duerksen and Jerry Cain won public speaking. In girls events Scurry County team won share the fun with Margaret Clinkerbread Margaret Ann Martin and Carla Bryant. Hale County won shrub identification with Verna Ruth Liles Delores Duerksen Jean Snelling and J L King. Hale also claimed the electric.
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College Station
W. H. Jones
Aubrey Russell
Elvera Duerksen
Plainview
Jerry Cain
Tohoka
Scurry County
Margaret Clinkerbread
Margaret Ann Martin
Carla Bryant
Hale County
Verna Ruth Liles
Delores Duerksen
Jean Snelling
J. L. King
Statewide Visit Set to Open Texas Tour by Butler
National Democratic chairman Paul Butler will kick off a Texas tour June 14 at Lubbock with stops across East Central and South Texas and a Houston speech at a Young Democrats convention. A $20 fund raiser featuring Senator Estes Kefauver framed the push as a battle for control of the state party from Governor Allan Shivers. Ralph Yarborough presided as toastmaster at the dinner, while Robert E. Dennis noted Lubbock’s lack of advance scheduling details.
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Paul M. Butler
Indianapolis
Ind
Hall-a-Balloo
Butler
Lubbock
Ouston
Paul Butler
National Democratic
Texas
James Sewell
Corsicana
Texas Democratic Advisory Council
Young Democrats
Houston
Sewell
Allan Shivers
Ralph Yarborough
Shivers
Rayburn Democrats
Robert E. Dennis
Avalanche-Journal
Three Sharp Earthquakes Hit California Lake County Resort
Three sharp rolling earthquakes and nine after shocks rocked Lake County resort towns early Saturday. The shocks within about 1 1/2 hours cracked plaster, broke chimneys and toppled goods. no injuries were reported as residents fled to the streets after the strongest shock near Clear Lake Highlands and Lower Lake.
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Lakeport
Calif
Lake County
Clear Lake
Sheriff's Office
Clear Lake Highlands
Lower Lake
Texan turns desert into grazing land in Egypt
Bradford Knapp, a Texas Livestock expert, leads a Desert Institute and U S Operations Mission effort at Ras el Hekma to convert mined desert near WWII battlegrounds into 8000 acres of fenced grazing, introducing bermuda grass and Bedouin labor. The project buys time for reestablished irrigation and plant cover to restore a regional granary for Rome era.
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Erwin Rommel
Lord Montgomery
Egypt
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U.S. Operations Mission
Point Four
Bradford Knapp
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Knapp
Mother Nature
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Mediterranean
Judges Reverse Queen Contest in Emanuel County
Swainsboro Georgia May 7 protests erupted after Gov Marvin Griffin announced Sarah Ellen Phillips as farm queen instead of Janice Ridghill who had been chosen by three judges. Local clergy and officials expressed surprise saying they voted unanimously for Ridghill and accused someone of reversing their decision.
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Wainsboro, Ga
Marvin Griffin
Emanuel County
Swainsboro
Frederick E. Smith
First Baptist Church
Lyons
Sarah Ellen
Smith
Janice
Weather forecast for Lubbock area clears and cools
The Lubbock region will see clear to partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures with a morning low near 50 and a daytime high around 60. Winds will be northeast to east at 10 to 20 mph.
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Lubbock
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