India Making Rapid Progress Amid Pakistan Struggles
J C Pace of Westminster College told Mexia Rotarians India is advancing rapidly while Pakistan struggles. Pace, a former Delhi missionary, reviewed India’s independence, partition, leaders like Nehru, and the role of Christians, irrigation, education, and media in India's growth.
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J. C. Pace
Westminster College
Mexia
Pakistan
Dean Pace
Delhi
Rotary Club
Britain
Subcontinent
Bengal
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Senators Call Justice Probe Into Coffee Price Rise
A Senate agriculture subcommittee asked the Justice Department to determine if there was foul play in the past year’s coffee price surge. It found no shortage but accused foreign speculation of driving costs and urged reforms including possible federal regulation of coffee speculation and scrutiny of loans to coffee counties.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Justice Department
U. S
Lone Star Gas Secures 85 Million Dollar Texas Deal
Lone Star Gas received an 85 million dollar loan from 22 institutions to retire debt and finance a five year expansion. Prudential Insurance led with 64 million dollars while Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Fort Worth banks shared the remainder.
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Texas
Dallas
Lone Star Gas Company
A. Muley
Ben Post
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Newark
Ulre
Pittsburgh
Fort Worth
Kerby TH Fisk
Prudential
Prudental
Banks Set Summer Hours in Mexia Start Monday
Farmers Sun and First National banks in Mexia adopt summer hours from June 10 to September 9. Weekday service ends at 2 pm and Saturday hours run from 9 am to noon.
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Mexia
Mexie
Farmers Sun
First National
Methodists Name Groesbeck Man as District Leader
UO Whitehurst of Groesbeck was named lay leader for the Corsicana district of the Central Texas Methodist conference. Associate district lay leaders named include J O Sessions of Kerens and W H Hayes of Corsicana. A Kansas tornado near McPherson injured several people and destroyed homes and farm buildings.
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Groesbeck
Fort Worth
UO. Whitehurst
Corsicana
Central
Kansas
Mcpherson
Kan
Caldwell Resigns as Jaycees President in Mexia
Don Caldwell Jr. resigned as Mexia Junior Chamber of Commerce president after 15 months, citing work travel. Gordon Tyner, named first vice president, becomes president and leads plans for highway markers and city projects. The group also reports progress on a gymnasium, Fourth of July programs, cleanup campaigns, and cotton consumption initiatives involving six counties.
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Jaycees
Tyner
Don Cauldwell Jr
Mexia Junior Chamber of Commerce
Gordon Tyner
Mr. Caldwell
Jaycee Vandar
Cauldwell
Ety Hall
Mexta
Brive
Johnny Nerve
Dayeves
Mex
Memis
James Stanford
Getlon
Cunter
Jan Dillon
Reed
Navarre
Freestatic
Fimestone
Falls
Stc- Lennan
Dillon
Malechal Cation Council
Harold Nussbaum
Nussbaum
Mr. Bracy
Mr. Dillon
J. B. Gilbert
Groesbeck Tomato and Cucumber Sheds Set to Open Monday
Groesbeck prepares for tomato and cucumber harvests with sheds already operating. Martin Plant will start Tuesday with crews and shifts from 9 to 3. Limestone County farmers anticipate improved yields but face blight and disease concerns.
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Martin
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Lilienthal urges freeing atomic research for American growth
David E. Lilienthal argues in Collier's for breaking the government monopoly on atomic energy and transferring the industrial atom to private enterprise. He says time is overdue for first industrial applications and warns continued control risks falling behind Soviet peacetime goals.
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David E. Lilienther
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Collier's Magazine
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Russia
Liienthal
Mr. Lilienthal
Arms Aid and Atomic Threats Stir Senate Hearings
In Senate testimony Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg warned Russia could soon launch an atomic attack in significant strength. Gen. Omar Bradley said U.S. forces are not yet ready for major war, but could deter attacks next year. W. Stuart Symington stressed limits of defense against advancing offensive weapons and highlighted long range missiles and guided weapons development.
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Hoyte. Vandenberg
Air Force
Senate
Russia
Vandenherst
Enid
Vandenberg
W. Stuart Symington
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bradley
U.S
United States
Pase
Symington
Senators
Plane's Survivors Claim Bomber Shot Itself Down
Survivors of a US Air Force B-29 in the North Sea crash say a gun turret defect caused a bullet to damage an outboard engine during gunnery practice. Captain Henry J. Walsh of Alton Illinois blamed the malfunction for the loss of the aircraft. Three other crew members’ bodies have been recovered. four remain missing.
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England
North Sea
Henry J. Walsh
Alton, II
Walsh
Landslide Traps 26 Japanese Workers. 26 Dead, 21 Injured
Rescue crews in Tokyo 100 miles from Tokyo-Nagano line struggled to save 26 Japanese railroad workers entombed by a landslide at Kumanodaira station. The disaster killed 26 others and seriously injured 21 as hundreds worked to recover victims. In other developments, Dean Acheson and opposition to his policy drew calls for removal. The Duke of Windsor revealed marriage pressures with Mrs. Simpson. At the University of Texas, John Saunders Chase became the first Negro admitted to the irradiationary all-white campus architecture class.
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Kumanodaira
Tokyo-Nagano
Austin
Texas
University of Texas
John Saunders Chase
U.S. Supreme Court
Chase
Hugh Lo McMath
School of Architecture
McMath
Mr. McMath
Ray Dies After Refusing Knowledge of Fort Worth Crime
Huntsville Texas United Press reports William Ruthes Ray 45 died in the electric chair six minutes after his execution began for the rape of a nine year old Fort Worth girl. He offered no further statement beyond claiming innocence and prayed for mercy on souls.
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Fort Worth
Huntsville
William Ruthes Ray
Texas State Penitentary
Tay
Calvary Baptist Ends History's Largest Bible School
Calvary Baptist vacation Bible School begun last Saturday will close with commencement at 7:30 Sunday evening. Rev. Tom Madden announced enrollment 135 and average attendance 120, marking the church's biggest VBS to date.
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Calvary
Kefauver Sees No National Crime Overload
Senate crime committee Chairman Estes Kefauver said he believes there is no national overload of crime. He noted preliminary investigations show several crime rings operating in the nation some intertwining and overlapping while others function separately.
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Ashingson
Estes Kefauver
Senate Crime Committee
Truman Calls Peace Aim Deep, Warns on Europe Aid
President Truman urged that halting arms and economic support to Western Europe would be disastrous. He spoke to 12,000 at Memorial Stadium, Missouri, saying continued foreign aid is needed in the long fight for world peace. Rain forced postponement of the honorary degree ceremony as the party moved inside.
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Dean
China
Poland
Truman
Mr. Acheson
McCarthy
Acheson
Columbia
Europe
Memorial Stadium
University of Missouri
Hit
Russia
St. Louis
United Nations
Cops H unt Skid Row for British Heir to Eight Million
Chicago police search Skid Row for Stanley William Walker 50 an Oxford graduate and heir to half of eight million dollars in English estate. Walker, a former British Army captain and Bank of England manager, came to the United States years ago. His family aside from a brother perished in the war in Liverpool.
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Chicago
Wirsel
Walker
Bank of England
Wheat crop forecast shows below average output
Washington bulletin reports the Agriculture department forecasts a wheat crop of 44.514 million bushels, below average for the season. The notice emphasizes reduced production expectations and provides the official forecast figures from the department.
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Agriculture Department
Vacation Message from The Mexia News
A note urging readers to keep current while away, offering paper delivery from the town they left, with a contact phone.
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