End to Colombia Guerrilla War Reported in Surrender
In Bogota the four year guerrilla conflict against the Conservative government reportedly ends with the surrender of most insurgents. About 1,500 guerrillas surrendered this week in the Eastern Plains near Monterrey after negotiations begun last June following a coup that toppled Lauro Gomez. The fighting caused thousands of deaths and millions in damage.
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Richard G. Maslock
Bogota
Colombia
Alfredo Duarte Blum
Monterrey
Tauramena
el Spectador
Liberal Party
Laureand Gomez
Guadalupe Salcedo
Gomez
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Life Company Stocks Prove Big Gains For Investors
Life insurance firms posted strong capital gains with 17 companies averaging 47 percent stock value gains in 1952 and eight exceeding 75 percent. Dale R. Major of Life Underwriters, Inc. cites this as fuel for a plan to back a new life company serving oil and related industries. Prospectus offered free to Texas residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Life Company
Houston
Life
Dale R. Major
Life Underwriters, Inc
Texas
Funeral Rites For Electrocuted Sundown Worker Set
Funeral services for W. O. Buck Anderson, 46, Sundown, killed when a truck loaded with a rig touched a high line between Hobbs New Mexico and Seminole, will be held at 2 30 p m Sunday in Sundown likely at the high school auditorium. Burial in Levelland Cemetery. Survivors include wife, daughter Guinda Lynn, son Dean, five sisters and four brothers. The article also notes political and minor local items.
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Sundown
W. O
Buck) Anderson
Hobbs
N. M
Seminole
Levelland Cemetery
Price Funeral Home
Anderson
Odessa Rig Moving Company
Guinda Lynn
Dean
C. Hshree
L. B. Merton
Kentucky
H. M. Thomas
Dallas
A. S. Tucker
Trent
Joe Price
Midland
Walter Anderson
Levelland
A. D. Anderson
Farmington
C. L. Anderson
Munday
J. B. Anderson
High School Howdy Day Party Ends Night of Entertainment
About 1000 students attended Lub bock High School Howdy Day party in the auditorium. Emcee George Nelson aka ringmaster guided acts by vocalists baton twirlers pantomime declamation clowns dancers and guitar numbers. Robbie Blocker led the program with committee chairs handling decor publicity refreshments and games.
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Lubbock High School
George Nelson
Bill Pittman
Robbie Blocker
Rebecca Wilson
Sandra Dudley
Joan Bethany
Carol Jean Delaney
Sally Chance
James R. Geurin
A. F. Rasor
Bunche Credits UN With Preventing World War III
Nobel laureate Dr. Ralph J. Bunche told Washington that atomic war would have broken out long ago without the United Nations. He noted UN intervention in Korea and as AS P A president urged faith in the UN record while praising its courage to use force when necessary.
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Ralph J. Bunche
Washington
United Nations
International Organization
Bunche
American Political Science Association
Korea
City Commissioner Davis Invited to Defense Orientation Conference
City Commissioner L. E. Jack Davis of 17th Street is among about 65 U.S. civilian leaders invited by the Department of Defense to an orientation conference in late October to early November. The tour includes receptions at the Mayflower Hotel, Pentagon briefings, and demonstrations at Quantico, Eglin, Fort Benning, and Norfolk. Davis served as a World War I Air Corps officer, later a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and a former supply and maintenance director.
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L. E
Jack) Davis
17Th St
U.S
Department of Defense
Davis
Charles E. Wilson
Secretary of Defense
Washington
Mayflower Hotel
Pentagon
Army
Navy
Air Force
Quantico Marine Base
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Wilson
Fort Benning
U.S. Naval Base
Norfolk
Lubbock
Merle Houston
Chiago
Chicago
U.S. Air Corps
U.S. Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Police Chief McIINroe to Attend IACP Convention in Detroit
Police Chief Harold McIInroe left Saturday for Detroit to attend a week long convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Deputy Chief Leonard Blakney will lead the department in his absence. A 35 year old Idalou man Jose Bricino was placed under a 500 dollar bond after pleading innocent to driving while intoxicated with return date Oct 5. County Judge Robert J. en presided. Lubbock Service Organization remains closed with no set reopening date after July closure and September 15 expected reopening was not met.
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United Nations
N.Y
UN Committee On Contributions
U.S
Iron Curtain
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
International Organization
Russia
Britain
Harold McIinroe
Detroit
Mich
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Leonard Blakney
McInroe
Idalou
Jose Bricino
Inl
Robert J.en
Lubbock
LSO
Dexter Baker Gins First Bale Of Cotton At Sudan
Sudan reports its 1953 cotton first bale ginned at Watkins Gin for Dexter Baker of the O. O. Baker farm two miles north of town. The 480 pound bale with 850 pounds of seed was graded middling 15 16ths and valued at 338.59 dollars. Baker estimated a bale per acre on irrigated land planted April 26. Local merchants and the Sudan Chamber of Commerce awarded 150 dollars plus gin and Shannon Compress contributed scales. The bale was displayed this week in front of the First National Bank.
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Sudan
Watkins Gin
Dexter Baker
O. O. Baker
Leroy Cole
L. E. State Farm
Baker
Drew Watkins
Sudan Chamber of Commerce
Shannon Compress
First National Bank
No charges in death of Nancy Lenora Simmons
The State Highway Patrol says no charges will be filed in the death of Mrs. Nancy Lenora Simmons 63 who was struck by a car in front of her home one mile east of Brownsboro on State Highway 31 last night.
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Brownsboro
State Highway Patrol
Nancy Lenora Simmons
Son of ex Tahokan dies in jet crash near Las Vegas
Lt. Charles Haynes 24 son of Mr. and Mrs. Hope Haynes of Coalinga California formerly of Tahoka was killed when two Army jet planes collided during a landing near Las Vegas Nevada on August 20. He had received his wings July 16 and was stationed at Neilis Air Force Base for training. He is survived by his wife and parents and a sister and grandparents.
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Tahoka
Charles Haynes
Hope Haynes
Coalinga
Calif
Las Vegas
Nev
New Home
California
S Haynes
Young Haynes
Coalinga High School
Army Air Force
Neilis Air Force Base
Hoover St
Dale Buckalew
Santa Maria
John Haynes
Rising Star
Funeral Services For Mrs A E Frizzell Held Today
Funeral services for Mrs. A E Frizzell who died Friday at Plainview Hospital and Clinic were set for 3 p m Sunday at Lockney Baptist Church with Rev F B Bratham and assisting ministers from Amarillo and Plainview. Carter Funeral Home directed burial in Lockney Cemetery.
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A. E. Frizzell
Plainview
Plainview Hospital
Lockney Baptist Church
F. B. Bratham
Robert Lee Smith
Amarillo
Aaron Shaw
Plairview
Carter Funeral Home
Lockney Cemetery
Worker Killed in Dallas Construction Accident
Dallas iron worker 31 B A Hoops fell from a steel beam while climbing the new building framework and died yesterday.
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Dallas
A. B. Hoops
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Sen
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United Nation
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Byrnes
Keller Fair
High School
Howdy
The
United States
Palace of Fine Arts
Mexico City
Artur Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Sands of Time
Hannover
Germany
Desert Rats
Viscount Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
Worl
Nile
Montgomery
el Alamein
Defense
Underwood
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Underwood Leader
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