U S probe into Tech firings set for Sept 23 24
Representative of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools will visit Lubbock September 23 24 to investigate the July firings of Texas Tech professors Byron Abernethy Herbert Greenberg and Per Stensland. Dean Charles S Davis will head the committee.
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Florida State University
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Herbert Greenberg
Per Stensland
Avalanche-Journal
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Richmond
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Abilene
Watkins
Litchhock
Storm Aids Batters Area Cotton Crop
South Plains farmers weigh benefits from steady rains while hail devastates Terry County crops. Brownfield reports 3.50 inches of rain and widespread hail damage in Hockley County. Two girls killed by lightning near Sweetwater and fires erupt in McLennan County barns. Waco cathedral struck as storms spread across Texas.
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Avalanche-Journal
Waco
Robbie Mitchell
Glenda Cowdray
Sweetwater
South Plains
Muleshoe
Lamesa
Clovis
N.M
Texas
McLennan County
Pecos River
East Texas
Gulf Coast
Terry County
Clavene
Oklahoma Flata
Hockley County
Bill Taylor
Levelland
Hockley Coun
W. R. Kimbrough
New Storm Debbie Aims Florida Coast As Carrie Remains Offshore
Tropical storm Debbie heads toward the northwest Florida coast with expected 50 mph winds as Hurricane Carrie stays offshore in the South Atlantic. The New Orleans weather bureau warns from Mobile to Tampa while Debbie nears land near Fort Walton Beach. Carrie remains about 1,500 miles east of San Juan with no land threat.
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Russian scientist claims nicotine-free tobacco created
G. S. Ilyin of the Bakh Institute for Biochemistry reported in Evening Moscow that tobacco plants were grafted onto tomato plant roots to produce nicotine-free tobacco. The claim was made in Moscow on September 7.
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Eisenhower Vetoes Postal and Civil Service Pay Increases
President Eisenhower vetoed two bills that would raise pay for more than 1.5 million workers, calling them inflationary. The White House estimates would cost $817 million annually and risk higher debt, with Congress passing the measures by large margins before adjournment.
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Georgia Second Colorado Girl Miss America by JOSEPH R. COYNE
Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur of Denver won Miss America 1958 in Atlantic City beating 50 contestants. Jody Shattuck of Atlanta was first runner up earning 3000 dollars. Mary Denner of Alva was second runner up with 2500 dollars. Lorna Anderson of Sacramento placed third and Dorothy Steiner of Boca Raton fourth. Van Derbur is daughter of Francis and Mrs Van Derbur and heads a life insurance company and mortuary.
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Boca Raton
Miss McKnight
Francis S. van Derbur
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Boy Hurt When Walks Through Glass Window at Store
Fred New McWhorter 15, injured after entering through a removed window opening and being struck by a second plate glass pane at a store on 4th Street and College Avenue. He was treated at West Texas Hospital for lacerations and abrasions and listed in fair condition.
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Leon McWhorter
Emory
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West Texas Hospital
South Plains cotton estimates boosted by rainfall
Cotton production forecasts for the South Plains rise to 22 000 to 34 000 bales above August 1 estimates. The gain mainly arises in the southern area due to timely August rains on dryland. The Lubbock Cotton Exchange and Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. differ on area coverage, yielding 1 636 000 bales across 20 counties or 1 688 000 bales with three additional counties Dickens Motley Howard.
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South Plains
Lubbock Cotton Exchange
Committee On Information and Statistics
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Dickens, Motley and Howard
Howard County
Bailey County
Hale County
Fire Kills Man in Snyder House Blaze
Snyder September 7 59 year old William Morgan Ballinger died in a large one story frame residence at 1211 28th St after flames consumed the home Neighbors and police rescued two other occupants Billy Cauble and John Brock who were found near a door and treated at Cogdell Memorial Hospital Ballinger's body remained at Bell Funeral Home with services pending The cause of the fire was not immediately determined
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Avalanche Journal
Snyder
William Morgan Ballinger
28Th St
Billy Cauble
John Brock
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Ballinger
Bell Funeral Home
Homer Godair
Cauble
Brock
Train Crash Kills 23 in Nozieres Brignon Area
A speeding Paris Nimes express derailed at a switch near Nozieres Brignon, 100 miles northwest of Marseilles. At least 23 killed and about 70 injured as four coaches, the locomotive, a mail car and a baggage car overturned. Police in Nimes feared the toll would rise.
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France
Nozieres
Brignon
Marseilles
Morning Panel Covers Tech Registration Plans
Editorial notes focus on panel discussions for tech registration across sections and pages. Individual page references indicate a broad overview of upcoming events and institutional aims within the publication.
Princess Margaret vows never to wed Townsend
The Sunday Pictorial claims Princess Margaret pledged not to marry anyone but Group Captain Peter Townsend. The front page states a pact was made to never wed, noting prior public rejection of Townsend’s proposal for duty to country.
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Peter
Eddy Gilmore
London
The
Sunday Pictorial
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Princess Margaret
Townsend
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Silly Counts Fill U S Pages From Census Book
The Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States 1957 tallies vast facts from 488,659,000 silver dollars in circulation to 60314 trillion miles of motor travel in 1955. It lists 383 million chickens and 61 billion eggs, plus 820 drive-in theaters in 1943 and 3755 in 1954.
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G. K. Hodenfield Ashington
United States
The
Census Bureau
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