Mexia High loses accreditation sparks community questions
The Mexia school district faces questions after the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools revoked accreditation. The December board meeting will address why the action occurred, its impact on education, and steps toward possible reaccreditation, amid calls for better school funding and citizen involvement. Also, Ernie Deane notes Pearl Harbor’s 12th anniversary and shifting postwar alliances in a broader reflection.
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Mexia
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Mexia High School
Southern Association
Supreme Court Opens Hearings on School Segregation
The Supreme Court begins historic two day hearings on racial segregation in public schools led by NAACP attorneys Spottswood Robinson III and Thurgood Marshall. John W. Davis defends segregation as Chief Justice Warren oversees a pivotal session likely to shape 21 states with about 12.5 million children in separate schools.
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Supreme Court
Spottswood Robinson III
Richmond
Thurgood Marshall
New York
National Association For the Advancementment of Colored People
High Court
John W. Davis
Robinson
Earl Warren
Mr. Warren
Supreme ‘Court
Dred Scott
State School Visit by Mrs Tarleton Highlights Mexia Progress
Mrs. Lawrence Tarleton of Fort Worth toured Mexia State School with Supt Vernon Jones and others. She expressed satisfaction with the permanent construction program and noted the institution has come a long way. She discussed progress with local Chamber of Commerce members and reiterated the board's ongoing study of conditions in 22 state institutions in Texas.
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Lawrence Tarleton
Fort Worth
Board For
Texas Hospitals and Special School
Mexia
Tarleton
Vernon Jones
Mer. Thurman Kerr
Herbert Martin
Mexia Chamber of Commerce State
C. E. Carter
Raymond Dillard
Howard Mace
Ernie Deane
Martin
State Board
Texas
Rites Held Today In Port Arthur For Mexia Resident
Funeral services were held in Port Arthur for Mrs. W. D. Mondey a 79 year old resident of Mexia who died Saturday afternoon. She lived at 208 East Titus street while visiting relatives in Port Arthur. Survived by two daughters Jewell Millard and Ester Smith and a son Billy Mondey plus four sisters. Burial followed in Port Arthur.
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W. D
Cora Bell) Mondey
Mexia
Mondey
East Titus Street
Jewell Millard
Ester Smith
Sweetwater
Billy Mondey
J. K. McCraw
Annie Smith
Faye Hendrix
Ruth McCosslin
Bullard
Two Airmen Die in Auto Crash Near Lubbo Standley
A 33 year old Cushing Oklahoma Air Force officer and another airman were killed Sunday night in a two vehicle crash 11 miles west of Lubbo. The victims were Lt Harold E. Key 19 Wichita Falls and Standley of Cushing. The car collided with a truck.
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Cushing
Okla
Air Force
Lubbee
Funeral services set for Tom Morgan Sr at Coolidge
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Sandy Methodist church in Coolidge for Tom Morgan Sr., 90, longtime Lime Stone County resident who died in Fort Worth. Burial will follow at Sandy Negro Cemetery. he is survived by five daughters and five sons, plus a sister, 21 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
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Coolidge
Tom Morgan Sr
Limestone County
Fort Worth
J. F. Muse
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Sandy Negro Cemetery
Dorsey- Keatts
Morgan
Mexia
Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
Clara Henderson
Rotenna Carter
Beatrice Medlock
Odessa Pinkard
Mildred Cotton
Dallas
Tillman
Willis
Delano
Calif
Roosevelt
Hobbe
N. M
Tom
James
Pampa
Oma Sparks
White hints at gubernatorial run at Texas Farmers Union
Agriculture Commissioner John C White suggested he may seek the governorship in a 1954 Democratic primary speech to the Texas Farmers Union. He attacked cross filing and criticized Republican farm policy while noting his refusal to be cross filed. The GOP pushed for a statewide primary, citing Shivers era results.
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John C. White
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Texas’ Cross
Mr. White
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Alain Shivers
Agriculture Commissioner
Austin
Carlos Watson
Brownsville
State Executive Committee
Shivers
Maryville Citizens Oppose Kidnaper Burial Plan
Maryville Missouri residents oppose burying Carl Austin Hall beside Bonnie Heady in the family cemetery at Clearmont. County Prosecutor Gene Thompson warned he may seek court action to prevent the burial in the U S 71 area amid local bitterness over the Bobby Greenlease case. Hall and Heady are to die December 18 in the gas chamber for the ransom kidnapping and related charges.
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Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown
Gene Thompson
Missouri
Hall
Bobby Greenlease
U. S. 71
Heady
Jefferson City
Clearmont
Bobby Greenleage
Bonnie Heady
Blood donor drive meeting for Central Texas
Local organizations and citizens gather at Gibbs Memorial Library tonight at 7 p.m. to boost public participation in the Red Cross blood donor program. Gend Womack will preside as representatives discuss strategies and outreach.
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Red Cross
Central
Texas
Gend Womack
Texas farm prices fall 14 percent from last year
Mid November prices in Texas were steady from October but 14 percent lower than a year earlier. Hogs and chickens fell. most livestock rose, with beef cattle up 80 cents and calves up $1. Cotton slipped to 29.8 cents per pound as sweet potatoes dropped 30 cents per bushel.
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Austin
Texas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Dempsey and Estelle Auguste End Engagement
New York reports Estelle Auguste, heiress and backer of Jack Dempsey, dropped plans to wed after a quarrel over a letter inviting Kirk Douglas to the Florida ceremony. Auguste cited differing points of view as the cause of the split.
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New York
Estelle Auguste
Jack Dempsey
Mr. Dempsey
Kirk Douglas
Florida
Dempa Ecale
Texas Labor Defended In Red Hearing
A three day Texas Industrial Commission hearing into Red infiltration in Texas industry ended with CIO officials denying Communist influence over the Port Arthur strike. Fred C. Pieper argued wage and working conditions were the issue, while Attorney General Shepperd asserted orders from Moscow aimed to infiltrate key Texas industries.
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Texas
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Communist Party
CIO
Texas Industrial Commission
Port Arthur
C. E. Fulgham
Lubbock
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Fred C. Pieper
Washington, D. C
Porth Arthur
Office Workers of America
Pieper
William J. Harris
Dallas
Texas Federation of Labor
AFL
John Ben Shepperd
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
International Fur and Leather Workers
Moscow
Mexican Film Star Honored In Death By US Movie Fans
Jorge Negrete, famed Mexican actor and singer, lay in state before a 10 000 mourners viewing at a Los Angeles area funeral. His body was flown to Mexico City aboard a special plane with his widow Maria Felix and family. He died after a liver ailment relapse at Cedars of Lebanon hospital just before a Los Angeles theater engagement.
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Jorge Negrete
Mexico
Los Angeles International
Mexico City
Maria Felix
Emilia
Consuelo Negrete Sarias
David
Jose Herrera
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Los Angeles
Oil men killed in car wreck near Henderson
Two oilfield workers died seven miles northwest of Henderson in an automobile crash. Victims were 22 year old Jack A. McCormick and 87 year old James Hollis Carnathan. they perished from broken necks when their car ran off a curve into a clay bank.
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Henderson
Jack A. McCormick
James Hollis Carnathan
Missing farmer’s wife and kids with convict remain at large
Clovis New Mexico authorities pursue fugitive Noyman Davenport who disappeared with 19 year old farmer’s wife Zoma Crosswhite and her two children after Davenport hid on the Crosswhite farm. Police question Crosswhite over four day delay reporting the disappearance. The family later appeared with Davenport’s relatives in Wichita Falls Texas.
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N. M
Noyman Davenport
Zoma
Crosswhite
Davenport
Myre
Granite
Ola
Reformatory
Wichita Falls
Pearl Harbor Observance Marks 12th Anniversary
The U S Navy held memorial services on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to honor the 1 100 sailors lost when Japan attacked the fleet twelve years earlier. The ceremony began at 7 55 a m Honolulu time, with wreaths placed on the Arizona mast by nine survivors and invited veterans and civic representatives attending.
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U. S. Pacific
Sweetheart Denies Part in Murders Of Friend's Family
CHICAGO UP The sweetheart of a young father held on suspicion of murdering his wife and three children says he promised to marry her if it took 20 years. Carol Amora 20 denied involvement but said she lived with Vincent Ciucci 28 nine months bore him a child and gave him about 1200 of a 2200 estate. The fire at the Ciucci home and grocery store began as a possible accident. The corpses of Anne 28 Virginia 8 Angeline 4 and Vincent 9 were found in the ruins after Ciucci cut and burned himself and gave the alarm. An autopsy showed each victim had been shot in the head. Coroner Walter McCarron called for an inquest.
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Chicago
Vincent Ciucci
Carol Amora
Ciucci
Anne
Virginia
Angeline
Vincent, Jr
Walter McCarron
Wells Planned West of Mexia in Honest Ridge Field
W. Lincoln and Dave Kelton of Corsicana announce drilling a 3000 foot well six miles west of Mexia in Honest Ridge. The No phonte Ward well will be 30 feet from the north and west lines of a 102 acre tract in the P Varela survey.
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W. Lincoln
Dave Kelton
Corsicana
Mexia
Cold Honest Ridge
Woodbine San
Nophonte Ward
P. Varela
Mild Weather Follows Cool Wave In Texas
Texas expected a return to mild weather after a cold front. Meanwhile a deadly tornado in Vicksburg, Mississippi killed 30 and left over 230 injured and 1200 homeless as debris and destruction were documented. The disaster prompted federal aid requests as officials assessed damaged apartments stores and industrial buildings.
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United Press
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Panhandle
Vicksburg
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Red Cross
H. L. Stevenson
Remy
Eisenhower
Bermuda
Hugh White
State Adjutant — General
el Paso
Lufkin
San Antonio
Salt Flat
South Plains
Mexia
Yugoslavia withdraws troops from Italian front
Belgrade reports Marshal Tito began withdrawing forces from the Italian fronts while confirming no proposals to the United States Britain or France on Trieste. Yugoslavia and Italy reached agreement on a simultaneous frontier withdrawal framed after the recent crisis.
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United States
Great Britain
France
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Italy
Missing diamonds hunted by FBI in air travel theft
The FBI is searching for two bags of diamonds and jewels valued at 100000 dollars missing on an air trip from Oklahoma City to Wichita Kansas. Jewel salesman T S Cooper declined to identify his firm or discuss details with reporters.
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FBI
Wichita
Kansas
T. S. Cooper
New York
Attack in Hanoi Outpost Sparks Heavy Fighting
Fragmentary report describes intense clashes near a Hanoi delta outpost with Communist rebels. The aerial column and French forces reportedly faced heavy fire and attempted to suppress the attack while sustaining losses.
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Eea
Aryusa Ae
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