Japan Faces Pressure Over Slow Motion Rearmament Plan
Tokyo dispatch details how Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida confronts a three sided push on rearmament. Rightists urge expansion while leftists resist. the U.S. requires a credible defense plan and aid, with constitutional limits and possible Diet dissolution looming.
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Robert
Tokyo
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
U. S
Yoshida
Kimura
National Safety Board
Department of Defense
Liberal Party
Ion
National Safety Corps
Army
Progressive Party
Shigemitsu
MSA
Soil Conservation Officials Push for Added Equipment in County
Lubbock County soil officials discussed the urgent need for more equipment for conservation practices at their monthly meeting. Dawkins described machinery options and possible new builds while awaiting State Board of Control approval and farmer demand data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock County
Board of Supervisors
Chas. R. Owens
C. D. Bradford
W. C. Beaty
G. W. Williams
E. W. McFarling
R. O. Kershner
F. W. Farris
Geo. Blackmon
Emmett Burford
F. C. Bishop
C. E. Jackson
Mrs. Jewel Dowden
Walter Butler
Mamie
Walker
Lubbock
Slaton
Edwin Merrell
Shallowater
John Pugh
Alton
Strickland
D. W. Sherrill
Allen King
Mars Project blueprint maps a decade-long voyage
Von Braun outlines a ten-rocket flotilla plan to reach Mars in three stages, using 6 million tons of fuel and a crew of at least 70. The voyage would take nearly three years with drones and cargo ships orbiting Earth and Mars, facing space hazards and homesickness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wernher von Braun
U.S. Army
Mars
von Braun
Earth
Martian
Atomic Planes Are Long Way Off
Nuclear engineers at the 1953 UC Berkeley conference said atomic powered aircraft will not be developed soon or at all. A GE engineer noted submarine reactors are efficient but heavy, urging reactors for planes weigh about one pound per shaft horsepower. High radiation risks to crew and public were cited as major obstacles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
A. Luebke
General Electric Co
Hunter Shot as Dove Season Opens in Rio Grande Valley
A hunter was shot yesterday during the Whitewing dove season opening in four Lower Rio Grande Valley counties. McAllen hospital staff refused to identify the hunter or disclose the injury severity.
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Mcallen
Rio Grande Valley
Shrine Circus Ends in Lamesa Draws 5500
Four Gill Gray Circus performances under the Suez Shrine Temple sponsorship attracted over 5500 attendees in Lamesa. Shrine chairman Jack Wattenbarger said every local school child received a free ticket and most attended the Friday or today shows. Merchants funded tickets later distributed as free passes to youngsters. The two night shows at Lobo Field drew the largest crowds, and Wattenbarger expects Shrine sponsorship to become an annual event.
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Lamesa
Gill Gray
Suez Shrine Temple
Jack Wattenbarger
Shrine Circus
Lobo Field
Wattenbarger
Shrine
Free Book On Arthritis And Rheumatism
An enlarged 44 page book titled Rheumatism is offered free by The Ball Clinic Excelsior Springs Missouri. It explains why drugs fail to cure and describes a non surgical non medical treatment with 33 years of proven success. No obligation. Write today to The Ball Clinic Dept S311.
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Ball Clinic
Dept
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Baptists' Retreat Ends at Floydada Three-Day Event
The Baptist Student Union retreat near Floydada concluded at noon with about 150 attendees including 60 Texas Tech students and representatives from Wayland College West Texas State College Eastern New Mexico University and Amarillo Junior College. Dr Carl Bates and panelists Dr J P Cornette Rev Ralph Reason Leon Harris and Hardy Clemons spoke on balancing activities with religious life as the Living Christ Must Reign theme guided the sessions.
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Floydada
Baptist Student Union
Baptist Assembly
Texas Tech
Wayland College
West Texas State College
Eastern New Mexico University
Amarillo Junior College
W. F. Howard
Dallas
J. P. Cornette
Ralph Reason
College Heights Baptist Church
Plainview
Leon Harris
Lubbock
Hardy Clemons
Christ
Carl ©. Bates
First Baptist Church
Amarillo
Gasoline truck crash kills two Baytown residents
A gasoline transport and a car collided about midnight Friday in Dayton killing C. L. Hughes 36 and Mrs. Charlie C. Stevens 36 both of Baytown. Truck driver Matthew Williams of Asherton was injured critically.
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Dayton
Tex
C. L. Hughes
Charlie C. Stevens
Baytown
Matthew Williams
Asherton
Columbus Sails Again Into the Atlantic Perils
A compact note recalls Columbus crossing the Atlantic in 1492 and hints at voyage ambitions for tomorrow. The fragment links exploration risks with a future ferry ride concept, signaling a reflective historical angle.
Ex Lamesa Farmer Dies Rites Pending
William Rufus Ellyson 83 retired farmer of Lamesa died at Cook Clinic Lubbock after five weeks illness. He lived in Lamesa 25 years. Survived by three sons Clyde C M and M M all of Lamesa three brothers Graves Joe Homer and four sisters and seven grandchildren. Services pending at Rix Funeral Home. Body shipped to Higginbotham Funeral Home Lamesa for services and burial.
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William Rufus Ellyson
Lamesa
Cook Clinic
Lubbock
Ellyson
Clyde
C. M
M. M
Graves
Birmingham
Ala
Joe
Parish
Homer
Rix Funeral Home
Higginbotham Funeral Home
Friona Farmer Produces Parmer County’s First 1953 Cotton Bale
Friona farmer J. L. Stowers produced Parmer County’s earliest cotton bale of 1953, grown near Friona and brought to the North Plains Gin. The bale, from a field two miles southeast of Friona, will be ginned Monday morning. Stowers previously moved from Lamb County, where he had produced a first bale. This marks the earliest cotton date in the county, which has little cotton acreage.
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Friona
Parmer County
J. L. Stowers
North Plains
Stowers
Lamb County
Three Ohioans Hurt As Store Portion Collapses
A 200-foot second story addition to a department store collapsed in Columbus injuring three people and demolishing five cars. Witnesses reported concrete blocks and mortar raining onto sidewalks and the street as debris fell.
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Columbus
Ohio
6,159 Persons Get Chest X Rays Here
A mobile X-ray unit at the Old Courthouse scanned 6159 people last week with 771 Friday and 721 Saturday. Technicians move to Texas Tech for 9 to 6 daily. Miss Virginia Greenwaldt thanked Lubbock residents. sponsors were Hub City Kiwanis Club and Lubbock County Tuberculosis Association.
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Texas Tech
Virginia Greenwaldt
Lubbock
Hub City
New Army Wrist Radio Picks Up 40 Mile Broadcasts
The Army announced a wrist radio that can receive broadcasts within a 40 mile radius. The light watch sized device measures 2 inches long 8 inches wide and 3 quarters of an inch thick with a hidden antenna and a cord to a receiver worn on the ear.
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New Army
Washington
Sept
Army
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Omaha, Nebrask
Arthur Godfrey
Baptists
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