Marilyn Monroe Picture Causes Court Action
A Los Angeles photographer was ordered to court after being charged with displaying a nude Marilyn Monroe calendar photo. Police seized one of the large prints from Phil Max’s Wilshire Boulevard shop after complaints from passersby. Max posted $500 bail and faces municipal court on the ordinance violation.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Wilshire Boulevard
Phil Max
Max
Monroe
West Texas Horsemeat Ring Becomes State Laughing Stock
The Texas State Health Department claimed it cracked a 20 county horsemeat ring tied to Kermit Provision Co owned by Tom Gordy. Investigations began after Border Patrol traced Mexican workers to Gordy and a raid yielded horsemeat samples. Gordy was convicted, fined $1,000 and jailed two years as the case unfolded across Pecos and San Elizario connections.
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West Texas
Texas State Health Department
Ments
Dist. Atty
John Dennison
Pecos
Austin
J. F. Lakey
State Food and Drug Bureau
State Health Department
TSHD
Lakey
Kermit Provision Company
Tom Gordy
Texas
Winkler
John Lee
Gordy
Comege Ln
San Elizario
Clint
Texas‘Mexico
Lee
Houston
Winkler County
H. C. Carman
Garland A. Immon
Kermit
U. S
Dog House Packing Company
Dennison
Earl Stewart
Stewart
Atty
Tornado Strikes East Texas Amid Severe Storms
A large tornado ripped through Southeast and East Texas causing extensive damage to homes and a school, with farms and fences ruined and power lines damaged. Rain, sleet, and hail spread across the state as a cold front dropped temperatures from the Panhandle to the Dallas area, with forecasts for a hard freeze Friday night.
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Permian Basin
Texas
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Panhandle
South Plains
West Texas
East Texas
Ferguson
Madisa County
Lovelady
Hopewell
Pine Hill
Carswell Afb
Fort Worth
Local Tax Office To Close Monday
On orders from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the local income tax office will be closed on Monday February 23 a legal holiday observing Washingtons birthday stated today by L H Giddens manager of the local office The staff had planned to be open Monday to aid residents in income tax returns but must close A tax representative had scheduled a Seminole meeting on Feb 23 and 24 but moved it to Feb 24 and 25 Seminole residents noted the change.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Washington
L. H. Giddens
Seminole
Floyd Hill Still Eludes Capture in Jail Break
Fort Worth dispatch reports Floyd Hill 41, longtime Alcatraz inmate, among 10 jail escapees still at large as of Friday. Seven others captured after high speed chases in Arkansas Texas and Louisiana. three were nabbed in each chase.
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Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Floyd Hill
Alcatraz
Glenn Crawford
Michael Kenneth Davis
Lonnie Baugh
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Ray Alvis Bayless
Manuel Hernandez
Lloyd D. Lesher
Nashville
Ark
Eee
Ying
W. A. Cesshier
Jack Jennings
Bayless
Starks
Deweyville
Tex
Gulf Coast
William P. Hill
Hotel (Hospital) Dieu
Beaumont
Fred H. Walters
Bobby Dean Baker
Newton County
Glenn Blackburn
Carroll Phillips
Compressor Blast Injures Three at Texas Plant
A boiler room blast at a Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America plant 15 miles southeast of Dumas Texas injured three workers. G. W. Moore of Borger and Marshall Gardner and Lloyd Logan of Texoma camp were taken to Moore County Hospital in serious but stable condition.
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Dumas
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Texas Panhandle
Moore County
G. W. Moore
Borger
Marshall Gardner
Lloyd Logan
Texoma
Moore
Senators Hear Alleged Collective Subversion Plot at Voice of America
Senators heard testimony about anti Communist references cut from Voice of America scripts and a Voice official urging a new employee to join a collectivist group and bear children outside marriage. Nancy Lenkeith testified she was fired and described propaganda aimed at France as harmful to the nation.
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Washington
Voice of America
Nancy Lenkeith
Voice
France
Mattthews
Odessa Officials Back Appointed Police Chief Cariker
An open letter from Odessa City officials and the Allied Industries Association opposes electing the police chief. They praise Jess Cariker as the best qualified for the top law enforcement post and caution election would disrupt policing. Heaton denies involvement with the petitions and seeks no political run.
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Odessa
Fred Gage
Allied Industries Association
J. J
Cubby) Heaton
Heaton
Jess Cariker
G. E. Shows
Babe Griffith
L. B. Cooper
Ed Costello
D. O
Boonegi
Ghiet Cari
Cariker
Eir
Texas
Legislators Hear Outcry Over Bills Shrinking Business
In Austin the chant you are going to legislate us out of business rings through the legislature as several bills threaten various trades. Optometrists real estate watchmakers and commercial fishing fight measures while hotel operators push back against park plans. The House weighs a parks bill on cabins limits and approves a second reading amid opposition from business groups.
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Austin
State Parks Board
Texas Optometrists
Judge Rules Against Automatic Marriage Expulsion in Sherman
District Judge Paul G. Peurifoy in Sherman voided the local rule expelling married students and ordered the reinstatement of Frank Dodd, 16, and his 17 year old wife Wanda Sue Atkinson. The ruling pauses the district’s enforcement and marks Texas’ first such court decision. The couple wed January 19 in Durant Oklahoma.
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Sherman
School Board
Dist
Paul G. Peurifoy
Dallas
Sherman School Board
Frank Dodd
Wanda
Sue Atkinson
Texas
Lewis Hall Jr
Sherman Board
Durant
Oklo
O. T. Atkinson
Unholy Mess In Serum Demand Seen In Houston
Houston health officer Dr. Fred Laurentz warned of an unholy mess as many residents seek gamma globulin GG to guard against polio. GG injections cost 35 to 50 dollars, with nationwide supply limited to about one million people.
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Houston
University For Pittsburgh
Fred Laurentz
Laurentz
S. P. Wilson
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Red Cross
University of Pittsburgh
Harris County
Three American Soldiers Die in Mistaken Bombing
The Eighth Army reports three U.S. soldiers killed and five wounded on February 2 after planes, likely Allied, dropped six bombs on a rear area near T‑Bone Hill. An investigation is under way. Names linked to Rockford Illinois indicate Pfc. Fred R. Johnson among the dead.
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Seoul
Korea
Eighth Army
U. S
Rockford
Ill
T-Bone Hill
Vivian Rathke
Detroit
Richard Timm
Pfc
Fred R. Johnson
Marine Corps
Frident
Roswell P. Rosengren
Mark Clark
Tokyo
Monahans Grand Jury Continues Beating Probe
Monahans special report says the grand jury resumes sessions to probe an alleged beating involving district clerk J. C. Avary and his wife Helen, accused of assaulting Velma Powell 22, a local telephone operator. Powell, a Korean War widow, was hospitalized three days after the late Saturday night incident.
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Monahans
Ward
Velma Powell
J. C. Avary
Helen
Avary
Avarys
Tom White
John Dennison
Pecos
Atty
White
Miss Powell
Cardinals Sold in St Louis Trade With Anheuser Busch
Fragmentary newspaper note reports St Louis Cardinals sold to Anheuser Busch for a 3 percent stake amid nations wide context. The line hints at a business deal involving a beer company and the team in a historic sale.
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ST. Louis
Anheuser-Busch, Inc
Sabrejets Hit North Korean Red Planes
Seoul reports American Sabre jets damaged two Communist MIG-15s as UN forces intensified air strikes over North Korea. The week’s toll reached 16 destroyed, five probably destroyed and 18 damaged, with First Lt. Grenz and 2nd Lt. Johnson credited.
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Seoul
Red Air Force
North Korea
Charles A. Grenz
Fairlawn
N.J
Samuel R. Johnson
Dallas
Tex
Kangso
Pyongyang
Court of Appeals rules baseball not within Sherman Act
In Cincinnati the Court of Appeals held baseball is a sport and not subject to Sherman Antitrust Law. The case involved Walter Kowalski and others challenging the baseball player reserve clause.
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Cincinnati
Salice
Court of Appeals
Stiee Beeushe Oechem Cortt
Walter Kowalski
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