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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1957

Page

2

McElroy Tours U S Divisions On German Soil

Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy conducted a rapid tour of NATO frontline units in West Germany. He met Gen Bruce Clark and planned visits to Seventh Army forces near Augsburg to view the 280 millimeter Honest John cannon and the Corporal missile. He indicated plans for NATO missile bases in Western Europe and an Anglo American agreement on bases in Britain, with Paris talks forthcoming.

Munich Germany Neil H. McElroy NATO West Germany McElroy West Berlin U.S Seventh Army Bruce Clark At & A.m Augsburg Paris Berlin Europe Britain

Sympathy Bus Strike Threatens New York Transport

New York City endures a three day subway strike with a new bus maintenance shutdown. A pipe strike on a Canarsie line train injured a passenger. About 600 bus maintenance workers joined 2,600 subway workers in sympathy, fueling a massive transit crisis and traffic chaos.

New York New York City Brooklyn BMT Canarsie Transit Transit Authority Subway

Rapid Passport Action In Lynn Averts Red China Case

Jessie Fecteau, newly naturalized in Boston, awaits a passport to visit her son Richard Fecteau, held prisoner in Red China since 1952. Richard, a civilian DEFENSE Department worker shot down over Asia, was sentenced by Red China as a spy to 20 years. Officials promise immediate passport dispatch.

Washington Passport Division Fecteau Japan Korea Defense Department Red Chinese

Johnson and nation discuss wartime mobilization in space race

Senate Leader Lyndon B. Johnson urged a full wartime mobilization to outrun Russia in satellites and missiles, calling for more money resources hours and even scrapping the 40 hour week. Rep Patterson urged a superaccelerated rocket and atomic weapons crash program. A Cape Canaveral Redstone test failed, highlighting U.S. lag in space efforts.

Washington -P Russia Senate Lyndon B. Johnson Texas Johnson Waxahachie Tex Dallas Middletown Aflcio Federation Atlantic City al G. Hayes The Machinists Union U.S Navy Cape Canaveral

Texas Faces Bitter Freeze with Dust and Fires

A severe arctic outbreak chills Texas as predawn readings hit 32 degrees at Dalhart and 25 to 31 in several cities. Winds up to 70 mph whip dust, spark cotton trailer fires in West Texas, with Graham-Holmes Gin at Wolfforth suffering major damage. High winds and cold extend statewide with more subzero lows forecast and small craft warnings along the coast.

Associated Press Texas Dalhart Junction Waco Abilene Dallas Salt Flat San Angelo Lufkin Longview Brownsville Lubbock Graham- Holmes Wolffort Tex Amarillo Alice Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin Great Lakes Kansas Missouri Illinois International Falls Minn

West Science Boosted By Nobel Winner

At the Nobel banquet in Stockholm Dr Chen Ning Yang and Dr Tsung Dao Lee, both American-trained Nationalist China citizens, declared science rooted in Western origins while sharing the 1937 physics prize. King Gustaf Adolf VI presided as diplomats and laureates gathered with other winners across chemistry literature medicine and peace prizes.

Tom Reedy Stockholm Sweden Gustaf Adolf VI Chen Ning Yang Yang Institute For Advanced Study Princeton N.J Tsung Dao Lee Columbia China United States Albert Camus France Alexander Todd Britain Daniel Bovet Italy Oslo Lester B. Pearson

Cotton Growers Approve Quotas By Big Margin

Texas farmers voted to continue marketing quotas and acreage allotments for upland cotton, with 36,943 for and 5,672 against across 247 counties. Rice growers in 23 counties approved controls 1,373 to 214, and Pecos El Paso area extra long staple cotton also approved 353 to 34. National totals: upland cotton 204,829 for 15,522 against. extra long staple 1 for 145 against. rice 4,945 for Sh against.

College Station Nd Cottos Texas Pecos el Paso Agriculture Department

Oklahoma Ranch Angu Sale Sets Bull Prices High

Oklahoma ranch Normac Angus Farms held its second annual bull sale six miles south of Poteau drawing buyers from nine states, including Oklahoma Texas Arkansas Louisiana Nebraska Kansas Georgia and South Dakota. A total of 104 bulls plus one half interest in another animal sold for 358 575 dollars with an average price of 854 dollars. The top bid was 4 5 per hundred for Lot Tea half-interest sold to Green Valley Farms Willis Texas.

Oklahoma City Green Valley Farms Willis, Tex

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