Big Lake Sees Major Building Boom In 1957
Big Lake Texas undergoes rapid growth with a 20 room hospital annex a nurse's home a courthouse annex and a library building plus a new restaurant and a nightclub converted into a church. Total around 400000 in projects includes Reagan County Memorial Hospital addition due Jan 1958 and a brick county courthouse annex with library offices and an auxiliary room. Bethel Baptist Church buys the Avalon Club to convert into a church as the Reagan County Livestock Show readies for Jan 8 1958 with 4-H and FFA participation underway.
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Reagan County Memorial Hospital
B&f Construction Co
San Angelo
Soell
Eethel Baptist Church
East City
Avalon Club
Bethel Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Ray Massey
Reagan County
Big Lake
Florida Citrus Ban Is Debated
Harlingen reporters note Florida citrus shipments facing an embargo after a freeze. Texas Citrus exec Austin Anson says 400 cars on Wednesday show the embargo is not effective, potentially cooling Texas demand. Other shippers argue 400 cars per day will not move the market. Lower Rio Grande sheds run at capacity with excess orders.
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Harlingen
Rio Grande Valley
Florida
Austin Anson
Texas Citrus and Vegetable Growers and Shippers Assn
Anson
Texas
Ansen
Florida Citrus Commission
M. W. Held
Mission
Dan Seitz
Pharr
Held
Blood Rejected, Youth Is Dead
In Kansas City a 19 year old, John Black Jr., died after his Jehovah’s Witness father refused a blood transfusion for a neck wound suffered in an accidental shooting by a friend. Doctors warned of likely death without the transfusion.
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Kansas City
John Black Jr
Black
Jehovah’s Witnesses
John
Grace
Resignation Accepted for Nevada President Stout
University of Nevada President Minard Stout submitted resignations effective June 1 and accepted a $12,500 offer to quit December 3. The offer came from the university regents after a 6-3 vote forcing his departure. Stout earns $17,500 annually.
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Reno
University of Nevada
Minard Stout
University
Stout
Finley Listed as District Mercury EM Contact
J. J. Finley identified as district merchant contact with EM 6 7011 and P O Box 1322.
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J. J. Finley
Dist. Mer
P.O. Box
Final NATO communique lists numerous points
Paris reports a NATO summit communique outlining steps beyond missile bases and warhead stockpiles. It calls for readiness to ease tensions, warns of communist subversion, supports freedom desires, urges broader global resource alignment, backs West Berlin security, supports Middle Eastern sovereignty, seeks African cooperation, notes Indonesia concerns, stresses better political consultation, pushes standardization of weapons, coordinates advanced weapon production, establishes a NATO science committee, and promotes cooperation with free world economic groups.
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Paris
NATO
Atlantic
Russia
West Berlin
Geneva
Germany
Middle Eastern
Stabil
Africa
Free World
Indonesia
NATO Council
Paul-Henri Spaak
Spaak
Rocket Missile Units Move to Ft Hood Police
Two rocket and missile battalions will move to Fort Hood around February 1. The Honest John equipped Field Artillery Rocket Battalion and the Corporal equipped Field Artillery Missiles Battalion will relocate from Fort Bliss El Paso. Both will join the 2nd Missile Command established at Fort Hood last March.
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FT. Hood
Sith Field Artillery
Honest John
FS Biss
el Paso
2Nd Missiles Command
Fi. Hood
Moon speech guess at Stanford sparks multilingual debate
At a Stanford science meeting 17 physicists from 10 nations debated what language the first man on the Moon would speak. M Levy of a university and L R B Eitan of Kings Congress in London offered views. A French panic and broken English were discussed as possibilities.
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Palo Alto
Tanmuage
Stanford University
M. Levy
France
L.R.B. Eitan
Kings Conegre
London
Tornado Toll Tops Fifteen Across Several States
Storm system unleashed more than twenty tornadoes across Illinois Missouri Arkansas and Indiana causing 15 deaths and 250 plus injuries. Thousands homeless and property damage ran into millions as weather systems shifted from the Great Plains to the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Alabama
All-Clear Weather Bureau
Missouri
Arkansas
Indiana
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
South Atlantic Coast
Foul Play Ruled Out In Drowning
CORPUS CHRISTI Peace Justice Johnny Roberts ruled out foul play in the drowning death of Mrs Eas ter Condrin 47 wife of a Teamsters Union organizer Her body was pulled from a muddy bag two weeks ago He said a verdict of death by own action or accidental death would be returned after reviewing 13 witness testimony Roberts found no indication of foul play Condrin's husband from San Antonio testified that she may have died due to dealings with someone to quit his union job His suspicions were checked by deputies whose testimony seemed without basis
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Corpus Christi
Johnny Roberts
Easter Condrin
Teamsters
Condrin
Roberts
W. E. Condrin
San Antonio
Near Blind Man Receives Salivary Gland Tear-Drain Operation
In Atlanta at Grady Memorial Hospital a six year old boy, David Daugherty, with dried tear glands and near blindness, underwent a rare operation. Surgeons connected a salivary duct to his eye to provide lubrication, yielding visible tears and improved eye comfort. A similar procedure may be performed on the other eye.
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Atlanta
David Daugherty
Daughern
Grady Memorial Hospial
Residents Face Two School Issue Votes In Districts
Boomne and Pleasant Valley districts will hold votes on two school measures. Boome voters face a $259,022 bond to finance at least three additional classrooms. Pleasant Valley asks whether to be annexed by Boerne School District, with details unclear in the fragment.
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Tolanep
Boomne
Pleasant Valley
Boome
Boerne
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West Texas
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Dormeyer
Dominion
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Knapp
Basie Griffith Tire
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FFA Club
E. O
Dusty" Nevills
Elbert Steele
Ted Carson
Teed Boyd
Don Liles
Bobby Pyeatt
F. H. Coates
R. L. McKinney
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Billy Boyd
Billy Snow
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Merry Christmas
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MA Ee
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Sten
Acard
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Odessa
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