Dallas Swept by Heavy Rain Destroys Tracks and Kills
Heavy rain and winds battered northern Dallas County flooding towns and halting roads. A 40‑car Frisco freight train derailed at Farmer's Branch after tracks washed out. Two crewmen remain missing while a pedestrian and a person killed by a passing car are reported amid widespread flooding in Garland Carrollton and Vickery. Ten boat crews aided rescues as highways stayed blocked and farms flooded.
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Farmer's Branch
Tex
Dallas
Garland
Carrolton
Vickery Dallas
State Highway Patrol
State Highway Department
GOP Member Drive Kickoff Set Wednesday
A kickoff meeting for a Mid dletown and Lemon Township Republicans membership campaign is set for Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Manchester Hotel. Brack Little, president, says the drive runs until August 15 with all prospective members contacted. Committee leadership and other details will be announced. Eugene Danner and others hold GOP roles in the wards and lemon township.
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Middletown
Lemon Township
Manchester
GOP
Brack Little
Eugene Danner
Third Ward
Elmer Jewell
Alb Lan Morgan
Robert Miles
Fourth Ward
John W. Sullivan
Free Trieste Backs Italy In First Free Election
Trieste voters backed pro Italian candidates for 40 of 60 City Council seats in the city’s first free election in 27 years. Nationally, pro Italian parties led with 106,973 votes to 61,136 for independence or Yugoslav favored groups. Christian Democrats topped the pro Italian tally with 65,627 votes.
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Trieste, Free Territory
Triese
Italy
Free City
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Christian Democrats
Communist Party
Italo - Slav Popular Front
Marshal Tito
United Nations
Service promotion of Cpl David C Hoover at Barksdale AFB
Cpl David C Hoover of Middletown has been promoted to classification specialist in the personnel section at Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 3500th PTW, Barksdale Air Force Base Louisiana.
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Cpl
David C. Hoover
Middletown
3500Th Ptw
Barksdale Afb
Worry Clinic and Biblical Education Prompts
A column riffs on temperamental kings and biblical figures, urges reading the Bible from cover to cover, and notes Matthew through John shaped early colleges and churches. It mentions Dr Crane and a request for a psychological chart, plus a Britannica note on quarry blasts releasing up to 400000 tons of rock.
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YMCA
YWCA
CYC
Crane
Britannica
Middletown Fraternal and civic group meetings listed
City Briefs note an 8 pm Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting and 7:30 pm gatherings for VFW Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars Miami Valley Post Camera Club Local 112 UPA-CIO at Union Hall and Civic Association. Other events include Middletown Personnel Association 6:30 pm at Manchester Hotel and Sportsmen's Club 8 pm at the clubhouse plus Cancer Clinic 7 pm Middletown Hospital and North Middletown Fire Association 7 pm at North Middletown Fire House.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, Miami Valley Post
Post
Middletown Personnel Association
Manchester Hotel
Wednesday meetings of Legion and affiliates schedule
The American Legion holds a Wednesday membership meeting at the legion home at 7 30 p m. The Order of Ahepa meets at 8 p m at the YMCA. The Middletown Association of Life Underwriters convenes at noon at Forest Hills Club. Blythe Williams Post 231 American Legion conducts a weekly house committee and executive board meeting at 7 30 p m at the hall.
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The
American Legion
Legion
Middletown Association of Life
Forest Hills Club
House Committee
Blythe-Williams Post 231
Women Strike Over Odor at Tre Tre Garbage Plant
In Uniontown Pennsylvania 100 angry women picketed the city garbage disposal plant for three days over an odor they blamed on burning garbage. City officials agreed to level the dump with a bulldozer halt future dumping and start a rat extermination drive near the site. Charles Keighley Jr represented the protesters and accepted terms from Councilman A E Frankeis.
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Uniontown
Trate
Charles Keighley, Jr
A. E. Frankeis
Department of Health and Safety
Walburg Honored by Underwriters in Middletown
Harry A. Walburg, 86, active member of the Middletown Association of Fire and Casualty Underwriters, was honored at the group’s final session before summer recess held at LeGourdeville. He received a desk set. his career linked Middletown’s industrial growth, from P. J. Sorg Tobacco to Ray Cycle Co and later in insurance. Regular meetings resume September 12.
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Middletown
Walburg
P. J. Sorg Tobacco Company
Ray Cycle Co
Middletown Association of Fire and Casualty
William Snider
Ralph Grimes
C.G. Crist
LeSourdaville
Scientists Back AEC Competency and Export Policy
Nine Atomic Energy Commission scientific advisers told Congress the AEC has a sound forward looking program and praised management as competent. Oppenheimer defended isotope exports for research, noting no isotopes sent to Russia, some to Finland and Norway. Legal notices announce probate real estate action in Ohio with detailed heirs and dates.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Congressional Committee
AFC
Oppenheimer
Russia
Finland
Norway
Slayer Suspects Go Before Jury
In Irwinton Georgia two white men face a special all white grand jury over the lynching of Caleb Hill Jr. The 28 year old Negro's widow swore murder warrants. Dennis Lamar Purvis 37 a cafe operator and Malcolm Vivian Pierce 27 an electrician from McIntyre are charged with murder. Lt M H Spurlin said he is sure evidence will support indictments.
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Allen L. Gorrell
Braden-Sutphin Farms
Fort Myers
Florida
Raymond Gorrell
Rankin R. Gorrell
Lumley Avenue
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
Bessie B. Gorrell
Forrest D. Gorrell
Butler
Ohio
Middletown
Butler County
Allen L. Coe
Herbert S. Miller
Irwinton
Caleb Hill
Hill
Dennis Lamar Purvis
Malcolm Vivian Pierce
McIntyre
M. H. Spurlin
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Arrest at Swinton roadhouse leads to jail transfer
Hill was arrested at a Negro roadhouse near Swinton. During the arrest he seized Sheriff George Hatcher's pistol, but was subdued and jailed on the second floor of Hatcher's home. On return, the sheriff found his pistol missing and a white jail escape rumor cited two white men as having spirited Hill away, allegedly after taking keys from the kitchen table.
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Hill
Swinton
George Hatcher
Hatcher
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North Middletown Fire Association
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St. John’s
PTA
147Th Infantry
Tytus Ave
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Order of Ahepa
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Ralston
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