Lubbock Bee champion on Washington trip after spelling bee
Sheila Cline of Lubbock Avalanche-Journal spelling bee champion returns home after a week in Washington. She met dignitaries including the Vice President and Senate leaders, learned about future trips for champions, and placed 44th in the national spelling bee.
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Opal Dixon
Avalanche-Journal
Washington
United States
Capitol
Senate
Johnson
Taft
Martha Washington
Mount Vernon
George Mahon
Sheila Cline
Lubbock
Mr. Webster
New York
Funk and Wagnalls
Sheila
South Plains
Mexican Troops Patrol Merida to Halt Student Protests
Federal troops patrolled Merida on May 23 to stop a wave of student demonstrations that injured at least 50 people and caused over 100000 in damage. Police and soldiers faced clashes in a downtown plaza with 10 officers and one soldier among the injured. More than 200 people were arrested for questioning as protests pressed Governor Tomas Marentes.
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Mexico
Yucatan
Tomas Marentes
Marentes
Detroit writer Fred Cousins dies en route to coronation
Fred Cousins, 45, Detroit News feature writer, died at the American Hospital in Paris after being taken there from an onward trip with his wife Rose to cover Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. The death occurred early Saturday following an illness last Friday.
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Fred Cousins
Detroit News
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Cong. Mahon
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Winnie Davis
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Gaulbert Demel
J. L. Unger
Lewis
Shreveport
Jackson
Chattanooga
Richmond
Williamsburg
St. Louis
Seth Muse
Thief Steals Shoes From Sleeping Man on Porch
Birmingham reports a thief stole Fred Jackson's shoes from his feet and a wrist watch while he slept on a friend's porch Thursday night. Jackson notified police, describing the passerby as unknown and taking place in a residential area.
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Birmingham
Fred Jackson
Air Guided Search Seeks Bandit Trio
Officers guided by three low flying aircraft searched Union county forests and arroyos for three gunmen who robbed the Nara Visa bank of 1001 dollars. The pursuit shifted toward the Texas Panhandle as authorities suspected cross border movement. A Dalhart deputy trio was found manning a roadblock after failing to report in.
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Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
Texas
Plot to dynamite river channel uncovered near Texarkana
Sheriff W E Davis reports an apparent but unsuccessful plot to dynamite a new channel for the Red River near Texarkana. Sixty dynamite sticks with a fuse roll were found near a trench east of Valley Gin as the river, which forms the Miller and La Fayette County boundary, risked endangering a road and levee banks.
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W.E. Davis
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LaFayette Counties
USDA Purchases Frozen Beef For School Lunch Programs
The Agriculture Department announces 71,000 pounds of bone less frozen beef to be donated to school lunch programs and other nonprofits, at just under 40 cents per pound. It also purchased 150,000 pounds of frozen carcass beef for export to Greece at 25.4 cents per pound.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Greece
NAM presses June 30 expiry of excess profits tax
On May 23 1946 the National Association of Manufacturers announced it would seek expiration of the excess profits tax on June 30. Chairman William Grede stated the plan in a letter to members.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
William Grede
Awards Presented To Cooper Students
Cooper School honored 66 students at Awards Night in the school gym. Scholastic awards went to top year grades with listings by grade and student names including Erresti Ramon Walter White Shambeck Cooper Luker Ehler Moore Ellison Mullins Patterson Garrett Clark Huff Bradshaw Richardson Meyer etc. Perfect attendance certificates were given to a long list of recipients, and medals recognized achievements in various subjects and activities including citizenship council athletics farming spelling library and valedictorian salutatorian honors.
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Patsy Shambeck
Gale Jeffcoat
Miss Reynolds
Mary Louise Shambeck
Owen Peterson
Jo Ann Granger
Brenda Jeffcoat
Jeanette Roberts
Laroyce Loveless
Roe Huff
Jan Allen
Patsy Prisk
June Nelson
Miss . Raymond
Patsy O'Briant
Lloyd Hagens
Harold Flournoy
Floyd Brownfield
Cherry Trees To Get Chilly Start
NORMAN OKLA May 23 Neighbors watched Dixie Smith plant cherry tree seeds by freezing them in ice cubes. She explained the seeds were to be planted this season and that a forgotten fall planting led to using the ice to cool the seeds.
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Norman
Okla
Dixie Smith
Dixie
Olton student elected third vice president of state FHA group
Gayle Silcott of Olton was elected third vice president of the state Future Homemakers of America at the San Antonio convention. She previously served as an FHA officer and earns a trip to the national FHA Convention in Columbus, Ohio, on July 1.
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Olton
Gayle Silcott
Olton High School
State Future Homemakers of America Association
San Antonio
Silcott
FHA
FFA
Columbus
Ocean Trip Ends Early for Ketch Pair
William Eng and his wife Keiko began a 25 000 mile westbound voyage from Yokohama to New York aboard a 30 foot ketch with two crew. A storm near Okinawa forced a return and seasickness by Keiko ends their journey with a vow to avoid the ocean again.
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Yokohama
Japan
William Eng
Keiko
New York
Okinawa
Estimated U.S. oil well drilling cost at forty five thousand
The recorded estimate places the average expense to drill a single oil well in the United States at $45,000. This figure reflects industry costing for exploration and drilling operations during the period.
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