Permian Basin NGAA Meeting Highlights in Midland
Midland hosts the Third Annual Permian Basin Regional Meeting of the Natural Gas Association of America at Hotel Scharbauer. Sessions cover Communist Russia, refinery film, and safety topics with speakers from Midland El Paso Jal and Philadelphia. evening banquet planned. Austin reports a sharp state revenue downturn driven by oil production cuts and lower West Texas crude output, risking a deficit by end of the 1954-55 biennium, with potential $3.225 million TB hospital and $34 million prison/education spending impacts.
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Midland
Permian Basin
Natural Gas Association of America
Dallas
W. C. Ford
Houston
F. B. Applegate
Huntington Park
California
Permian
Austin
R. S. Calvert
Calvert
Texas
West Texas
Natural Gasoline Assn
Scharbauer
L. D. Lyons
W. W. Eggleston
W. L. Phillips
Odessa
Nanette Brown
Tests Scheduled For First Atom Artillery Shell
Washington reports the world’s first atomic artillery shell will be test fired in Nevada this spring by the Army’s 85 ton atomic cannon as part of the atomic test series starting March 17 at the Nevada proving ground. About 20 000 troops will participate in maneuvers during the tests.
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Washington
Nevada
Army
Nevada Proving Ground
Aberdeen
MD., Proving Ground
Frank C. Pace Jr
Morale High Senator Cites All Time High Morale
Senator McCarthy claims morale is at an all time high among really good Americans in the State Department. He argues his Voice of America inquiry has not demoralized the diplomatic service. Reporters note a gloom and pressure atmosphere among career workers wary of attacks. The Washington Post editorialized that morale has been shattered and Secretary of State Dulles appears as an inert tool of McCarthy.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate Permanent
State Department
Wisconsin Republican
Department
Voice of America
McCarthy
Washington Post
John Foser Duiles
Miss Revueltas
Joseph Minton
International Union of One and Smeller Workers Over
National Association of Actors At
Mexico City
Immigration Service
Kor Ae Revueltas
Officer Reassigned From Deputy to 19th Air Force
Brig. Gen. T. P. Gerrity who has been acting as Kelly and deputy commander of the Eighth Air Force at Carswell will resume his former post as commander of the 19th Air Force.
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Fort Worth
T. P. Gerrity
Kelly
Eighth Air Force
Carswell
Navy Patrol Plane Crashes in Atlantic. 10 Rescued
A Navy P2-B patrol plane crash landed in mid Atlantic amid 30 mph winds. Ten men aboard were rescued by the Coast Guard Cutter Coos Bay, four from water and six from an overturned raft. No injuries reported.
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Washington
Navy
mid-Atlantic
Coast Guard
Coast Bay
Beruda
Azores
Coos Bay
Atlantic
Thunderjets Decimate Communist Training Center in Manchuria
Fifth Air Force reports Thunderjets pound a large Communist training center at the Manchurian border, destroying 10 buildings and leaving the site in ruins and flames. Sabre jets hit a rail bridge area while Allied infantry repel seven attacks, with over 60 Communists killed including 35 from a Chinese patrol.
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Manchurian
Fifth Air Force
GOP Leader Faces Probe
Topeka Kansas lawmakers moved to investigate Republican National Chairman C Wesley Roberts over a $1000 fee from a state building sale. A legislative committee with subpoena powers was to be named and begin probe promptly after Gov Arn signed the bill.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
C. Wesley Roberts
Edward F. Arn
Roberts
Burglars Ransack Bar In Odessa
Thieves ransacked Bea's Bar at 1507 East Second on Thursday night taking about 50 dollars in silver. Two game machines and a cigarette machine were forced open after entry through a back window and a front door lock. Fifteen dollars in the cash register and an undisclosed juke box amount were left untouched.
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Bea’s
East Second
Dulles Seeks State Department Reform and Cooperation
Secretary of State Dulles outlined plans to reorganize the State Department over months and to pursue remedial action. He signaled willingness to cooperate with congressional investigations while defending actions taken since taking office, and addressed morale concerns amid McCarthy era criticism. He noted contact with top policy directors and pledged to defend sound, defensible policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dulles
State Department
Congressional
Truman
Department
Congress
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Parks Board Moves to Build Hotels at State Parks
A House vote killed Rep. Jack Fisk’s bill to bar hotel construction in state parks. Parks Board officials say plans for 100 room hotels at Inks Lake, Lake Texoma, and Possum Kingdom Lake aim for completion by summer 1954 with bonds to be issued soon. Skeptics argue the plan violates the state constitution. board officials say existing law permits it.
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Austin
Parks Board
Inks Lake
Burnet
Lake Texoma
Denison
Possum Kingdom Lake
Mineral Wells
Jack Fisk
Wharton
Attorney General's Office
Fisk
Associated Press
House
Senate
iHouse
Richard Stark
Gainesville
Park Board
Gordon Shearer
Possum Kingdom
Inks and
Texoma
Shearer
House Study of Measure Due Next Week
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved President Eisenhower's resolution condemning Soviet subjugation and violating wartime agreements. Action moves to the House next week with debate over stronger language and potential references to Truman and Roosevelt's roles in wartime accords. Senate scrutiny and possible revisions loom as Taft and Dulles gauge support.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
House
Eissenhower
Republican Committee
Truman
Roosevelt
Potsdam
Yalta
Tehran
Dulles
House Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen
Taft
R-O
Senate
Congress
Franklin ‘D. Roosevelt
Nixon Fund Report Highlights California Contributions
Pasadena lawyer Dana Smith, trustee of the Nixon senatorial fund, filed with Congress a report showing he handled 25 056 63 in contributions during Nixon's vice presidential campaign. The New York Post noted a fund total of 43 291 63 versus Nixon's earlier figure of 18 235. Bernard Brennan defended Nixon, while Nixon could not be reached for comment.
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Washington
Dana Smith
Pasadena
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
New York Post
Bernard Brennan
California
Nixon
Robert Ladd
Smith
Cost of Living Falls Slightly in January
The government reported a small drop in the cost of living for January marking the second straight month of decline. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the consumer price index fell two tenths of one percent as meat prices dropped 1.9 percent between mid-December and mid-January.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Missing vice trial witness appears on Jelke case
New York February 26 A surprise developed in the Minot F Mickey Jelke vice trial when Judge Valente announced a key missing witness was ready to testify after a late night call from Walter Winchell. Grace Appel arrived with Winchell and could testify for either side as prosecutors seek to limit Jelke's counts and potential sentence.
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New York
Minot F
Mickey Jelke
Francis L. Valente
Walter Winchell
Grace Appel
Valente
Winchell
Samuel Segal
Miss Appel
Pat Ward
Jelke
Sidney Steinnauer
Segal
Tombs
Joelke
Martin Benjamin
California
Vice
Richard Short
Irica Steel
Barbara Harmon
Virginia Dee
Pat Thompson
Plan to Return Youths Held In Van Horn
West Palm Beach officials moved to extradite two youths to Texas after the slaying of Fred W. Eldridge in a shallow grave near Van Horn. Bernard Pregler, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla., confessed to a robbery murder stating Maurice Walter Green, 24, of St. Paul, Minn., fired the fatal shots. Eldridge, 67, from Williamston, Michigan, was killed and his body found after Green allegedly posed as the victim and used his checkbook.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Texas
Fred W. Eldridge
Michigan
John
Kirk
Bernard Pregler
Tallahassee
Maurice Walter Green
St. Paul
Frezler
van Horn
Tex
Eldridge
Williamston
Mich
Green
Las Eldridge
Pregler
G.en
Soviet Silence Spurs Three Day U N Committee Break
Delegates at the United Nations Political Committee paused for a three day weekend as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky delayed reply to U S charges over Korea. The West pressed the Soviet Union to bear responsibility for prolonging or ending the war while Vishinsky avoided meetings after accepting Lodge Jr. challenge.
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United Nations
U. N
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. S
Korea
Soviet Union
Vishinsky
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
KPRC TV To Open New Plant March 29 In Houston
KPRC TV will start operating from its new $1 million plant on March 29, announced Jack Harris vice president of the Houston Post Co. in charge of the station. The opening date is two weeks earlier than originally planned. A specially designed antenna will be installed to boost power to 65 kilowatts.
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Houston
Kprc TV
Jack Harris
Houston ‘Post Co
Congressman's claim frames film as Russia's new weapon
El Paso reports Rosara Revueltas is held pending deportation for illegal entry and invalid passport, halting Salt of the Earth filming in Silver City New Mexico. Rep Donald Jackson labels the union financed project a deliberate bid to inflame racial hatred and destabilize U.S. cinema efforts.
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EL Paso
New Mexico
Rosara Revueltas
Bond
Donald‘Jackson
R-Calif), of the House Un-American Activities Committee
Russia
International
John Clark
Orville Larson
Charles Wilson
Maurice Travis
Silver City
N. M
Ade
Miss Revueltas
Gateway Hotel
Immigration Service
Minton
Ation
Jackson
Washington
United States
Plans Set for Odessa All College Night at High School
Odessa schedules its second annual All College Night drawing 30 college reps and 16 West Texas high schools. Universities from Louisiana to New Mexico will attend with W A Miller representing Corpus Christi University. Registration starts 6 30 p m with a 7 p m assembly and 30 minute conference blocks followed by a social hour and music by the Royal Serenaders.
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Odessa
West Texas
Louisiana
Corpus Christi University
Oklahoma University
New Mexico A&m
W. A. Miller
Ector County
University of Corpus Christi
Bowie
Royal Serenaders
Robert Maddox
Supt
W. T. Barrett
Pecos Man Killed By Automobile
Pecos officers hunted Friday for a light colored 1947 or 1948 Pontiac after it struck and killed R. C. Brewster 64 in downtown Pecos at 8 p m Thursday. Brewster died 1 25 a m Friday at a hospital. Witnesses said he was thrown onto the car and dragged about 20 feet. One man said the car ran a red light a block away and headed toward El Paso. Police said roadblocks were set near Van Horn and Monahans. The car likely bore New Mexico license plates with first three numbers 204.
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Pecos
R. C. Brewster
Brewster
D. R. Thompson
el Paso
Joe Hill
van Horn
Monahans
New Mexico
Hill
Kefauver Faces Senate On Tide Lands Control
Senator Kefauver plans testimony before the Senate Interior Committee to oppose a bill granting states title to submerged lands. He favors a commission study instead. Texas Florida and other states press for control beyond 3 miles, while the Supreme Court left the federal dominion undecided. Atty. Gen. Brownell backs state control and will testify.
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Washington
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Interior Committee
Congress
Supreme Court
California
Texas
Louisiana
U. S
Ralph W. Yarborough
Austin
Senate
Yarborough
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Gulf
Atty
Gen
Brownell
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Committee
Burglars Loot Pik-N-Totem Safe In Houston
Burglars broke into the Pik-N-Totem grocery Thursday night and carried away a 400 pound safe containing 1100 dollars in each and 400 dollars in checks. Police were notified Friday and the thieves also took 100 dollars from the leash register.
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Houston
Leash Register
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Proberry
Thomas H. Smith
American Oil Editor
Thunderjets
GOP
Ike
Nixon Fund
Tidelands
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