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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1957
Page
6
University of Texas will sell Sugar Bowl tickets through Tuesday December 17. Ticket prices are six dollars each with twenty five cents for mailing. Ticket office can handle all orders received by the deadline. Ticket Manager Al Lundstedt announced today.
Crane High School senior Charlotte Caskey won first place in a beauty contest with 24 contestants before about 1,000 spectators Saturday night. Second went to Sandra Box, third to Joyce Woody. Master of ceremonies was Larry Stiger, with Inez Keith Elmore directing. Contestants included Sharon Middlebrook, Doris Dean, Dell Snyder, Elaine Plate, Pat Edwards, Nina Gayle Barr, Ruby Smith, Patty Knnell, and others. judges were Bill Lee, Tom Williams, and Harvey A. Lee of Odessa.
Belgrade reports several arrests of people linked to Yugoslav political refugees abroad. Yugopres s named three former prewar Social Democrat Party members Aleksandar Pavlovic Bogdan Krekic and Dragoslav Stranjakovic as suspects in continuing treacherous Chetnik activities seeking support abroad.
Rosella Aunier a 15 year old from Kentucky survived six days without food after disappearing from East Point. Found in an unheated Prestonsburg roadside market she is being treated at Children's Hospital Louisville as doctors assess tissue viability in frostbitten feet and legs.
The Ector County Grand Jury will convene at 9 a.m. Monday to review about 30 cases brought by District Attorney George Fowler. Jurors include Harold C. Clark Hugh Green James S. Key T B Harris Jr D Kirk Hopkins James W Dorris Jack Tripp J W Breeden R B Saxe A K Barlow W G Kirklin and William T H Edwards.
A 32 year old Odessa mother Mignon Gilbert was admitted to Medical Center Hospital with abdominal injury and head laceration after a four car crash at 12th and Nabors Lane. Her son Guy 10 and husband Lewis 27 sustained facial injuries and abrasions. both treated and released. Police estimated over $2000 damage. Sally D McLaughlin escaped injury. Gilbert sedan hit broadside then struck a parked car and another vehicle. Earlier Friday a 21 year old Odessa schoolteacher’s 1957 sedan collided with a truck on East Second, causing heavy damage to a building. no serious injuries, all treated at the hospital.
MOSCOW, Dec. 14 (UP) The Soviet Union abolished four government ministries in a continued administrative shakeup. The Presidium dissolved the Aviation Industry, Radio Technical Industry and Shipbuilding Industry ministries and replaced them with four state committees under the Soviet Council of Ministers. The change follows Khrushchev's February program and a May Supreme Soviet modification, reversing part of that decision while retaining defense production ministries.
Five major milk firms were ordered to appear in federal court to answer a request for an injunction against price fixing after a million dollar damage suit was filed in Dallas. The suit, filed by Beverly Hills Dairy owner Louie A. Teague, names Borden Co., Cabell Mini Market, Metzger Dairies, Oak Farm Dairies and Foremost Dairies. Foremost announced a 6 cent per half gallon price increase next Tuesday. No immediate comment from the firms.
Four victims recovered from a private plane crash that buried itself in a coastal swamp near St. Marys Georgia as salvage crews airlifted bodies from the wreck. The flight from a Miami Pittsburgh football game carried four men in their twenties from Pittsburg and Finleyville. Police say the craft likely lost a wing, with the wing found about a mile from the site.
Det Sgt Clan T Miles 37 is promoted to temporary lieutenant and acting night boss of Odessa police detective division for the Christmas holiday shift. The promotion ends a vacancy after a conference between Police Chief Jess Cariker and Det Capt Al Smithers. Miles, a three year Odessa veteran, lives with his wife and five sons on South Brough ton and is a former CID man from Goldthwaite.
Moscow reports two Soviet space plans named Boomerang and LVM to reach the moon, with forecasts from A Bakulev and P Isakov predicting lunar contact within five to ten years. Boomerang envisions a 10 day semielliptical lunar trip, while LVM outlines a three stage moon conquest. The piece notes concerns over human survivability in rocket flights and cites Laika’s Sputnik II flight as context.
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