Gaza border fighting erupts as truce efforts falter
Heavy artillery and mortar fire raged along the Gaza demarcation line between Egypt and Israel. UN truce supervisor Maj. Gen. Burns appealed for firm ceasefire answers by 5 p.m. Sunday, while Israel signaled acceptance of the plan amid warnings of self defense if hostilities continue.
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Gaza
Egypt
Israel
E. L. M. Burns
Palestine Arabe
Khan Yunis
Bloodier Labor Day weekend on South Plains roads
One of the region's deadliest weekends as Grim oll reports nine fatalities and many injuries in traffic crashes across the South Plains through midnight Saturday. Four people died near Muleshoe and others in Whitharral Lamesa and east of Lubbock, with two more critically injured and several seriously hurt.
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Farm Rd
Acuff
Lubbock
Plainview
Kenneth May
Avalanche-Journal
Ine
South Plains
Muleshoe
Whitharral
Lamesa
James Obert Littlepage
Alvin A. Brock
William E. Bently
Nellie Turner Bently
Snyder
Thad Leon Jones
Johnny Garza
McAllen
H. G. Ferguson Jr
Littlefield
Tommy Clay Anders
Thomas Quintmon Neal Jr
Levelland
Ora Bentley Brock
Littlepage
Farm Road
Selah Jonesh
Methodist Hospital
Lamesa General Hospital
Adam Ramirez
San Antonio
U. S. 82
Idalou
Man Is Found Shot On O'Donnell Street
Moody Gibson about 40 was wounded in the right shoulder by a single blast from a 12 gauge shotgun. Officers found him about 10 p m lying in the street in front of the O Donnell home of R O Brown his father in law. He was taken to Lamesa General Hospital for treatment.
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O'Donnell
Moody Gibson
Gibson
R. O. Brown
Lamesa General Hospital
Lubbock
Craig
Bavior Ave
Florence Craig
Farher
Juke E. Withers
Stalemate in UN disarmament talks between East and West
In the first round of five nation subcommittee talks at the United Nations, East and West held firm on basic differences. The United States pushes to adopt President Eisenhower's proposal for exchanging military inspection teams with the Soviet Union while Moscow demands full discussion of its May 10 disarmament plan. The talks remain closed doors as a Bus Four Foreign Ministers meeting in Geneva looms.
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Geneva
U.N
Fisenhower
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Britain
Moscow
Hatever
Labor Day Observance Signals Start of Fall Rush
Labor Day marks the shift to fall as many work and school routines begin. Retail stores stay open in Lubbock Plains and no citywide observance or parade is planned while banks post holiday closings. Federal offices close including post offices with mail handling only for outgoing mail and boxes serving inbound mail. Reese AFB resumes flights Tuesday after a Friday closure and base units stress highway safety as personnel travel over the long weekend.
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Plains
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U.S. District Court Clerk
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Veterans Administration
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Reese Air Force Base
Reese
Eight Day Cavalcade Of Homes Show Opens In Lubbock
NAHB officials praise the exhibit as the Lubbock Home Builders Association presents the Cavalcade of Homes on 47th Street between Memphis and Nashville avenues. The show runs from 2 p.m. today until 10 p.m. daily through Sunday September 11.
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Lubbock Home Builders Assn
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Memphis
Nashville
Stevenson Scores Spending Might Run If Asked To
Two El Paso radio men quoted former Gov. Coke Stevenson saying he would run again if asked. Ray Miller and Joe Roddy of KELP said Stevenson spoke at a Bear Creek banquet near Junction, noting Texas’ rising costs and tax bills since leaving Austin. The report ends with a prompt to See STEVENSON Page 12 and shift to other feature about a home show.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Paso
Coke R. Stevenson
Ray Miller
Joe Roddy
KELP
Stevenson
Bear Creek
Junction
Austin
Comic Dictionary Etiquette Art of Doing the Wrong Thing
A brief entry in the South Plains Farm News comic dictionary notes etiquette as the art of knowing the right way to do the wrong thing. The item appears on pages 4 and 5 in section 6.
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South Plains Farm News
Snyder Man Feared Drowned At Lake
Snyder oil field operator C. FE. Knight is feared drowned after his boat capsized at Lake J. B. Thomas southwest of Snyder on or about 6 pm. Firemen and officers joined a search. Knight was last seen near the spot where another swimmer drowned earlier this summer while James C. Barnett, water skier, reported Knight piloted the boat before he was thrown and did not reappear.
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Lake
J. B. Thomas
Here
C. FE. Knight
Snyder Oil Field Company
Knight
James C. Barnett
Barnett
Rites Held Here For Dr Overton
Dr M C Overton 77 a pioneer physician died after months of illness. He retired from practice June 6 after 54 years of service serving the South Plains. Funeral services at the First Methodist Church drew about 1000 mourners as friends viewed the bronze casket before the ceremony.
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Lubbock
South Plains
M. C. Overton
First Methodist Church
Overton
One 800 mile satellites and 600 rockets planned
Washington reports that US scientists propose satellites in 1957 or 1958 that may reach 800 miles and circle Earth. As many as 600 rockets could launch in the same period as part of a global Geophysical Year effort to study the upper atmosphere.
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Ashington
U.S
International Geophysical Year
Texas Records 20 Fatalities In Labor Day Toll
The Associated Press reports a nationwide Labor Day toll rising sharply with 131 traffic deaths by midnight CST. Texas accounts for at least 20 fatalities, 14 of them in traffic cases including nine in the Lubbock area. Names and places include Dallas wife of Marion Kay Gorman, 16 year old Edna Frusha of Merryville and others near Jasper Uvalde Waco and Maud. The National Safety Council notes the swift rise in deaths. Page 12.
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Associated Press
Texas
Lubbock
Marion F Kay Gorman
Dallas
Edna Frusha
Merryville
Jasper
Espinosa Incarnacio
Uvalde
Saturay
M. Set
Alvin L. Skinner
Fort Hood
Waco
W. T. Lyle
Atlanta
Tex
Weather map forecast for Lubbock and vicinity
Fair and partly cloudy with little temperature change. An early low of 58 degrees and a high of 95 expected. Southeast winds from 10 to 20 mph.
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Lubbock
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