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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1953
Page
1
Nationwide holiday deaths top 190 with 124 in crashes and 38 drownings. Texas reports 10 fatalities as safety officials urge caution on homeward trips. Two fatal crashes and a heavy toll across the region mark the Memorial Day weekend.
Memorial Day dawns over a Korean war hospital as an American soldier dies quietly under a khaki blanket near a nameless village. A captain, mortally wounded, whispers you didn't have to do it as ambulances and helicopters mark a subdued rite in a bleak, windless dawn.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a previously unscheduled detonation near Yucca Flat for Monday morning to verify research results. The blast may be the most powerful of 31 U.S. nuclear tests this spring, set on the southern Nevada desert before dawn to conclude the series.
The trial of Jack Killingsworth, 29, a Sundown schoolteacher, starts at 1 30 p m Tuesday in Judge Victor Lindsey's court. A special jury of 150 is summoned. Victim Richard McChristial, 37, an agricultural teacher, was shot 12 times while rehearsing a play titled The Dance of Death for Meet the Body.
London buzzes with crowds ahead of Elizabeth II coronation on Tuesday at Westminster Abbey. The queen retreats to Buckingham Palace for rest and study as 900 guests, including Gen. George C. Marshall, gather at Hatfield House for a party honoring Elizabeth I’s memory.
Senator Aiken says government agencies may craft new measures to handle a large wheat surplus and avert a price drop. He cites potential grants, reduced prices, or loans to friendly nations and hints at exporting millions of bushels to Pakistan and other countries.
The Harris Brothers supermarket in Fort Worth was robbed of $600 to $1,000 at pistol point on Saturday by a red haired bandit. Store manager M. R. Reese fired seven shots at the fleeing car, believing some bullets struck. Oklahoma City police broadcast a ho ist alarm as suspects were thought to be Oklahomans. Jerry Eakins, a clerk, witnessed the hold up.
4 H contest winners are announced in the farm section. A disaster plan is revised in the South Plains Farm News. Trade urges for farm products are discussed. Sunday church news appears in section five with radio and TV program notes.
A Memorial Day ceremony in Lubbock honored veterans from all wars at the grave of Pfe. Harvey L. Chambles, killed in Korea in 1952. The program featured the Reese Air Force Base Band, a memorial address by Chaplain A. A. Katt, a firing squad volley, taps, and floral placements by local service groups.
A Coast Guard plane found the Canadian bomber missing since Tuesday with 10 men aboard. The Canadian Air Force said there were no apparent signs of survivors, and the wreckage was located in timbered mountains 42 miles south of North Bend Oregon.
Memorial Day observances across the United States and allied nations paid tribute to veterans and fallen soldiers. President Eisenhower visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington while West Point cadets held services. Parades occurred in New York and other cities, and Capt. Manuel J Fernandez Jr. returned from Korea to a tearful welcome from his mother and handshake from his father.
A two car garage and storage room at the rear of the John D. Haygood residence on 1920 Ave. N caught fire Saturday night. About $3,000 of office furniture belonging to Haygood Office Supply Co. was damaged by smoke and water. Firemen extinguished the fire before the garage was destroyed. Cause is undetermined.
President Eisenhower orders a National Security Council meeting for Monday to hear a report from Secretary Dulles and Mutual Security Director Stassen on their trip to the Middle East region and its security implications.
President Eisenhower met with top policy makers in Washington on May 30 to discuss a Korean truce crisis that could fracture Allied command and jeopardize any chance for a settlement. The session aimed to chart a decisive course amid warnings and competing views from defense and diplomacy officials.
The President, Dulles, Wilson and Gen Collins press for unity to end Korea conflict. Dulles returns from a 20 day tour of the Middle East and South Asia as Seoul signals possible independent action if UN armistice terms are signed. Sen Wiley and Eisenhower urged Allied unity while Pyun Yung Tai threatens to pull divisions from UN command.
United Nations forces repelled a heavy Communist attack on Capitol Hill and a second assault near a ROK main line position as fighting continued across the front. B 29s bombed a Red storage area north of western front outposts lost by American and Turkish troops above Seoul. Heavy rains persist and Fifth Air Force units dropped over 500000 pounds of explosives on Carson Vegas and Elko outposts.
A freight end car derailed on Water Street in Angaster Pennsylvania smashing 17 parked cars and damaging homes fire escapes and meters in a three block spree before jumping back onto the tracks. A citizen sleeping on the tracks was brushed aside by the locomotive and suffered minor injuries. Police investigations traced the bizarre incident to a local delivery run near Penn Square at 12 45 a.m.
South Korea and allied forces press for truce terms while President Syngman Rhee warns the war will continue until Chinese troops are removed. He opposes any armistice not unifying Korea and ejecting Red forces, amid a recess in Panmunjom talks.
The South Plains sees hot, partly cloudy, windy conditions with a low near 63 and a daytime high in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph bring no moisture. A United Press dispatch notes tornado warnings in upper Wisconsin after deadly twisters in the Dakotas.
Regional weather summary notes precipitation and temperature changes over a 24 hour period ending last night. Observations include highs and lows across locales, with general patterns of precipitation moving through the area.
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