Texas Senate runoff vote count inches toward result
The Texas Election Bureau tallies last Saturday runoff results with 163 counties reported. John son leads Stevenson by about 58 votes at noon and narrows to nine by 6 p.m. in latest unofficial totals. An official canvass Sept. 13 in Fort Worth will name the winner and possible FBI inquiry into alleged irregularities is noted.
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Texas Election Bureau
U.S. Senate
P.m
Jong
Stevenson
Bob Johnson
Election Bureau
Johnson
Galveston
Lubbock
Starr
New Orleans Suffers Gulf Storm Damage but No Fatalities Reported
A gulf hurricane with 75 mph winds struck near New Orleans causing minor damage estimated under 100000. Signs and plate glass broke in the business district while several stores closed. Residential areas saw some frame homes wrecked and uprooted trees. nearly seven inches of rain flooded streets and Lake Pontchartrain water topped seawalls at Bucktown. About 2000 residents evacuated to shelters. boats sunk or damaged. Weather eased by late morning with sun returning.
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Bo Te
Associated Press
New Orleans
Louisiana
deLesseps Morrison Esti
Lake Pontchartrain
Bucktown
Jefferson Parish
Raveral
Bathor
Il Gr
Grand Isle
Four Beach Campe
Lubbock Schools Prepare for Tuesday Opening
Superintendent R W Matthews forecasts enrollment growth across 19 Lubbock public schools with two sites incomplete and rural route students urged to enroll at nearest school. Officials expect regional transfers after early enrollment checks, cafeterias to open Tuesday.
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Lubbock
J. T. Hutchinson
Ee Oe
R. W. Matthews
Matthews
George R. Bean
K. Carter
Schuman Seeks New French Government Formation
Schuman proposes forming a new French government and may also serve as foreign minister. The report notes efforts to stabilize ministries amid political changes and includes an aside about crystal coasters and a modest ad line for King’s Adv.
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Schuman SH
Tech Officials Assume Posts at Texas Tech
Dr. D. M. Wiggins and Dr. Edward N. Jones begin duties as Texas Tech president and first vice president. They meet to learn needs and outline early talks. Wiggins pursues engagements in Seagraves and Lubbock while preparing public appearances in September.
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D. M Wiggins
Texas Technological College
Edward N. Jones
Jones
Anna Burt Gibson
Wiggins
Opal Dixon
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Rotary
Seagraves
American Business Club
Hilton Hotel
Rotary Club
Little Lee Tech
Three Die In Wichita Falls Boardinghouse Fire
Three people perished in a Wichita Falls boardinghouse fire. Justice of the Peace Coll Mocl Duard Castleberry identified the victims as a 51 year old man and a woman who died trying to reach the hall telephones to raise the alarm, while a 10 year old daughter accompanying her mother also perished.
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Wichita Falls
Justice of the Peace
Duard Castleberry
Thurmond to Visit Lubbock for States' Rights Rally
Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina will arrive in Lubbock Thursday with Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas and a delegation of about 18 others for a major States' Rights rally. The party lands at 3:30 p.m. and stays at the Hilton. Local meetings, a dinner, and a keynote address are planned, with Thurmond likely to speak at the rally and another Texas stop announced for the same trip.
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OV. J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Lubbock
Gov. Thurmond
Ben Laney
Arkansas
States’ Rights
National Committee of the
Southern Demo Group
South Plains
John Lee Smith
Smith
Municipal
Hilton Hotel
Thompand
Houston
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Thurmond
Texas
Grain Storage Problem Aired At Courthouse Meeting
A county meeting at the courthouse Saturday afternoon examined grain storage needs for the government loan program. County agent D W Sherrill and PMA official Walter Y Wells said public storage is limited and only about two in ten farmers here have on farm storage. They urged farmer owned facilities funded by the storage price difference and noted cooperation from lending agencies.
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A. B. Slagle
Avalanche-Journal
D. W. Sherrill
Walter Y. Wells
PMA
Sherrill
Labor Day Observance Planned With Parade and Dinner
Labor Day events are set for Monday with a colorful parade along Broadway to Avenue Q followed by a noon meal at Mackenzie State Park pits. Carpenters Local 1884 is coordinating arrangements, Judge Kilmer Corbin of Lamesa will give the keynote, and entertainment including a string band is planned with a 9 p.m. dance at the Lubbock Supper Club.
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Avenue Q
Mackenzie State Park
Carpenters
Kilmer Corbin
Lamesa
Datson
State Senate
W. M
Lubbock
Mantz wins Bendix air race third time in 18 years
Paul Mantz of the movies won the Bendix cross country race for the third time, finishing the 2045 mile course from Long Beach to Cleveland with an average speed of 447.980 mph. Linton B. Carney placed second and Jacqueline Cochran finished third, with Edmund Lunken fourth in the only foreign plane in the field.
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Cleveland
Paul Mantz
Long Beach
Calif
Linton B. Carney
Houston
Mantz
Jacqueline Cochran
Edmund 7. Lunken
Cincinnati
Ohio
Allies propose two rail links to Berlin under western control
Western Allies reportedly offered to restore double tracking on the Berlin Marienborn and Berlin Obistelde lines if the second tracks are internationalized and placed under exclusive western control. The move aims to end the Soviet blockade of Berlin's western sectors, while currency talks stall over guarantees of four power control and acceptance of the east mark.
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Omer Anderson
Berlin
West
Die Neue Zeitung
U. S
Germany
Berlin- Marienborn
Labor Outlook Dark Amid Coast Strike Wave
On Labor Day weekend a West Coast maritime strike and New York City teamster walkout sparked a broader labor tension. Within 48 hours 16,000 CIO Oil Workers left nine California refineries, with little settlement progress reported.
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Washington
West Coast
AFL Teamsters
New York City
Cio-Oil
California
Rev Fred Lambert Injured In Car Train Collision
The Lubbock pastor Rev Fred Lambert 38 of Eastside Baptist was seriously injured when his car was struck by a freight train at Avenue A crossing north of Fifteenth Street. He remained unconscious at Lubbock Memorial Hospital with brain concussion and possible skull fracture after the 1 52 p m crash.
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R. O. Christesson
Lubbock
Fred Lambert
Eastside Baptist Church
Fifteenth Street
Avenue A
Lubbock Memorial Hospital
Lambert
D. O. Christesson
Slaton
Santa Fe
C. B. Tefertiller
Clovis
Lubbock Memorial Hospial
Rix Funeral Home
Gomez
Texas
Mary Gayle
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
Broadway
Ave. Q
Robert M. Adair
Lillie McKinzie Burlison
Burlison
Nineteenth Street
Winners Named In Various Events At Sudan Fall Festival
Sudan celebrates fall with a parade of floats bands horsemen and contests as part of its third annual Fall Festival over two days. The Tuesday Study Club awarded first place in the float contest featuring Festival Queen Freeda West and attendants Ann Pennington Leota Vincent Ottajean Wiseman Maxine Wiseman and Charlsie Roark.
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Sudan
Study Club of
Freeda West
Ann Pennington
Leota Vincent
Ottajean Wiseman
Maxine Wiseman
Charlsie Roark
Mie Prats
Miss Apple
Ottajean
Johnson Gains 50 Votes Here
The Stevenson forces hired a professional accountant to guard the official canvass of August 28 ballots in Lubbock county. Johnson gained 50 more votes than in the unofficial tally, with Johnson 284 to Stevenson 115 in a key box. The county final showed Johnson 6445 and Stevenson 3218 in the Senate race.
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Stevenson
Lubbock
Lyndon Johnson
U. S. Senate
East Slaton
Johnson
Coke Stevenson
Austin
Lubbock County
Avalanche-Journal
Cowdray and Pratas
Ade and C
Harris
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