Iraan Youth Clyde Teal Jr. Dies in Accident Near Iraan
Clyde E Teal Jr an 18 year old Iraan youth died after being struck while hitchhiking on Highway 51 Crockett County TheAirmen who found him believe he was hit by moving equipment on a truck The case is treated as accidental with no robbery motive noted Survivors include parents Mrs Clyde Teal Sr sister Mrs V D Morris and four brothers Funeral services set at First Baptist Church Iraan with burial in Menard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iraan
Clyde Teal, Jr
Highway 51
Crockett County
Gene Eckols
Upton County
Bob Ball
Big Lake
W. E. Earnest
Bob Consort
Junction
Frank Lindsey
Lraan
Clyde E. Teal, Jr
Justice of the Peace
O. H. Coleman
Teal
U. S. Air Force
Big Spring Air Force Base
Charles Bristow
Roald Merkins
Albert Ahrens
Piney
Air Force
Rom San Angelo
Abilene
Clyde Feal, Sr
V. D. Morris
Midland
Alfred Elmore
David
James
First Baptist Church
Menard
Jack Stanton
Jerry Gooch
Eugene Cummins
Henry Holder
Jim Pat Alford
James Blumentritt
Farmers of America
Mexico Blacklists 26 WT Counties
Twenty six West Texas counties including Ector are on Mexico's blacklist for alleged discrimination against Mexican Nationalists. The West Texas Chamber of Commerce urged county leaders to write to the Mexican consul to seek removal by showing opposition to discrimination and a commitment to reform. Counties named include Bosque Brown Burnet Comanche Coleman Clay Crane Coryell Denton Eastland Ector Erath Gillespie Hamilton Hockley Lampasas Jalano Meuwennan Menard Mills San Saba Somervell Tarrant Winkler Wichita Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas
Ector
Mexico
Fabor
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Bosque
Brown
Boy Dies After 20 Millimeter Shell Explodes
In San Antonio on August 14 a 10 year old Negro boy named Wilbur douse was killed when a 20 millimeter shell he was banging against the sprocket of his bicycle exploded in his hands. He died at a local hospital. The source notes the boy had found the shell but its origin is unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Wilbur Douse
Eisenhower declines Truman White House briefing invitation
Denver August 14 Ike Eisenhower Republican nominee politely rejects a White House briefing on the foreign situation. In a telegram he says communications should be known to all Americans and attending would be unwise and cause public confusion. He notes he was not invited until after Adlai Stevenson visited Washington and argues he must remain free to analyze administration policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
White House
Eisenhower
GOP
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Stevenson
Washington
Allied Forces
Europe
Trial Begins In Poisoning Of Small Girl
In Wetumpka Alabama nurse Mrs Earle Dennison faces two murder charges in arsenic deaths of her two year old niece Shirley Diana Weldon and her sister Polly Ann Weldon both died within years of each other Dennison attempted suicide in jail delaying the start of the case She allegedly admitted giving Shirley a poisoned drink and collecting life insurance totaling six thousand dollars with parents noting the suspicious deaths
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetumpka
Ala
Earle Dennison
Oakley Melton
Shirley Diana Weldon
Shirley
Polly Ann
Shirley Diana
Dennison
Lester Holley
C. J. Rehling
O. G. Weldon
Sheriff Holley
Stevenson Urges States to Curb Federal Drift at Illinois Rally
Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson condemns centralized government and urges states to handle nonessential tasks locally. He defends Illinois record and targets Hoover and Eisenhower while touting state and local governance as dikes against Washington. An Odessa child, Eva Phillips, remains missing from a Rio Courts trailer home sparking an extensive search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevenson
Odessa
Illinois
Washington
Uncle Sam
District of Columbia
Eisenhower
CIO poised to back Stevenson in presidential race
Washington AP reports CIO President Philip Murray indicated the Executive Board will likely address official support for Adlai Stevenson in the day long session with a possible statement before nightfall. Eisenhower has not bid for CIO conferences, though he reportedly contacted AFL official Doherty to discuss GOP mail service promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIO
Adlai Stevenson
Philip Murray
Murray
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
AFL
William C. Doherty
Denver
Doherty
AFL Letters Carriers Union
Political Action Committee
Mexican Football Coach among last bus crash victims
WACO Aug 14 A Mexican football coach Salvador Salvana Lugo may be the final victim among 28 killed in the two bus collision near Waco ten days earlier Civil Defense Director James Le Blond said officials from Instituto Technologico de Monterrey report Lugo has been missing since Aug 2 en route to Fort Worth for the Texas High School Coaching School His family and a Mexican professor travel with dental charts to assist ID If Lugo is confirmed as victim 128 the identification work ends The scene's charred wreckage left many bodies unrecognizable and delayed IDs including Henry Ivory and LeRoy Harris confirmed by dental charts and prior blindness from shotgun pellets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Salvador Salvana Lugo
Here
Civil Defense
James LeBlond
LeBlond
Instituto Technologico de Monterrey
Monterrey
Mexico
Lugo
Fort Worth
Texas
Henry Stanley Ivory
Dallas
Blind Veterans Convene for World Peace Campaign
Several hundred ex servicemen who were blinded on the battlefield meet in San Francisco to launch a worldwide peace campaign. They represent 1,800 blinded veterans and attend the Blinded Veterans Association seventh annual convention. A resolution urges nations to agree on a path to world peace and committees draft proposals to ease tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Blinded Veterans Association
Eden Weds Churchill’s Niece in Civil Ceremony
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden married Clarissa Churchill at Caxton Hall in London in a brief civil ceremony. Prime Minister Winston Churchill witnessed the union with traffic and crowd scenes as Eden and Clarissa, daughter of Churchill's late brother, tied the knot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anthony Eden
Clarissa Churchill
Winston Churchill
Caxton Hall
Eden
Beatrice Beckett
New York City
Sir Timothy Eden
Randolph Churchill
Jet Crashes at Newark Airport Leave No Injuries
An -84 Thunderjet crashed Wednesday at Newark airport, the first since the field reopened two months ago after major renovations. Pilot Earl Cane of Babylon New York crawled from the wreck uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J. Ave
Newark Airport
Hion Dollar Field
Earl Cane
Babylon
N. Y
Mexican polio drug eyed for U S embassy case
A Mexican public health drug was considered for Barry Bishop Jr. the 20 year old son of the U S Embassy press attache in Mexico City. He was critically ill and paralyzed in a Houston hospital as Texas polio cases rose and deaths increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Mexico City
Barry Bishop Jr
Houston
Washington
Dallas Morning News
Bishop
Mexico
Texas
George W. Cox
Pharmacy Officers Flection Scheduled
Fort Worth editors report the Texas Pharmaceutical Association will elect officers at the closing sessions of its 1953 convention. Gaile Huckabee, a Fort Worth pharmacist, was named queen of the meeting. L. W. Schleuse, Frank Reese, and W. F. Gridley named to top posts, with auxiliary officers also installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Gaile Huckabee
L. W. Schleuse
San Antonio
University of Texas College of Pharmacy Alumni Association
Frank Reese
Houston
W. F. Gridlevy
Austin
Pharmaceutical Association
W. E. Geigg
Dallas
E. P. Akin
Willard Simmons
Texarkana
R. J. Janecek
David Smith
August Heat Wave Grips Wide Regions and Tornadoes
A heat wave across Texas and other regions hits a 13th day with 100 degree plus heat. Temperatures climb into the 80s and 90s in the Rockies and Great Plains while Kansas swelters. Cooler coastal Pacific Northwest air moves in as tornadoes damage farms in Eastern Nebraska injuring at least six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
Rockies
Great Plains
Kansas
Midwest
Pacific Northwest
Plains
Nebraska
Brazoria County judge race heads to trial
In Angleton on August 14 the Brazoria County judge contest from the July 26 primary goes to trial tomorrow. Candidates Jack Harrison and Kenneth Bing dispute the outcome with Bing leading Harrison by about live votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazoria
Angleton
Jack Harrison
Kenneth Bing
Bing
Harrison
Odessa Doctors Back Hospital Expansion Plan
Odessa physicians publicly back a proposed $875,000 bond issue to expand Medical Center Hospital adding about 100 beds and private rooms. They cite ACA guidelines and past boiler-room damage, noting current capacity falls short for 225 to 270 beds county needs in case of emergency. Dr James W. Rainer spoke for the medical staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Medical Center Hospital
Ector County
American Hospital Association
A.H.A
New London
James W. Rainer
Massey and Moore Sentenced in Post Office Burglary Case
Jessie William Massey of Dallas received a five year sentence while Johnny Ray Moore of Odessa got two years after pleading guilty to an attempted post office burglary in federal court. The men were charged after a July 21 unsuccessful attempt to crack a safe in the Fort Worth post office section of a drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Jessie William Massey
Johnny Ray Moore
Odessa
Fort Worth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ihe
Springfield
Ill
Wachinatan
PSL
Andy Fenton
Eva Lois Phillips
Rio Courts
East Second St
C. H. Phillips
Powell Guthrie Engine Service, Inc
Andrews Hwy
Aston
Fenton
Marsha
Buddy
Eva
Phillips
Churchill
The
Polly Anderson
Mabank
Kaufman County
Parkland Hospital
Allen Anderson
Parkland
Anderson
Dallas County
West Texas Polio Center
Plainview
Tte
al Forney
Forney
Cox
L. D. Farragut
Harris County Health Unit
Fred K. Laurentz
Houston City
Albert Drenkabel
John J. Bunting
Young Bishop
Bunting
Comanche County
Hansford
Pecos
Winkler
Franklin
Tarrant County
Bexar
Nueces
el Paso
Taylor
Grayson
Jefferson
McLennan
Tom Green
Hopkins
Martin
Smith
Bowie
Kaufman
Motley
Travis
Val Verde
Brazeria
Collin
Dickens
Gonzales
Gregg
Hardin
Hockley
Jim Wells
Lampasas
Limestone
Marverick
Millis
Navarro
Reeves
Refugio
San Patrice
Upshur
Webb
Wharton
Wichita
Wilson
Wood
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!