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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1954
Page
11
A local insurance firm announced the appointment of Soroes Bilton as head of the Odessa office. The executive brings decades of experience in life and property coverage and will oversee operations, client relations, and agency development.
Hollywood reports Screen Gems is prepping The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV film series for fall. The article retells Lee Duncan’s tale of Rin Tin Tin EV the descendant who followed the original Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that rose from World War I rescue to cinema stardom. It notes Duncan’s brief film history, triumphs at Warner Brothers, and the ongoing legacy with Rin Tin Tin IV and a young puppy groomed as a future TV star.
A group from Odessa flew and drove to Los Angeles to be at the bedside of Miss Mary Burroughs former Odessa insurance woman who is critically ill. Relatives including Mrs Riley Brooks J D O Michael and Mrs F L Burroughs with Addie Lee travel by air and car joined by Mr and Mrs Harvey Gabrel of Las Cruces and John Burroughs of Bertram and Mrs Joe Mead of Honeygrove Texas. Miss Burroughs lived in Odessa for several years before moving to California.
Six Permian Basin counties have approved special road taxes to fund farm to market and flood control projects since 1951. Comal County will vote on shifting 3 cents of the 30 cent levy to fund upstream flood control for Guadalupe river tributaries. Odessa area counties Andrews Gaines Crane Winkler and Yoakum have levied the full 30 cent tax, Pecos County 20 cents.
Police report two killed and two wounded after a violent attack on two hundred pilgrims seeking cures from a 60 year old Chinese priest, as they traveled about 50 miles north of Bangkok. The incident left the group robbed and shaken.
Betty Sheaf, 22, with a brittle bone disease that limits calcium storage finished high school at Stowe Township High. She had never been inside a school before and has endured over 100 bone fractures. Her grandmother educated her at home until a teacher visited twice weekly. She now types and hopes to work at home.
The Four County Singing Meet will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. More than 100 singers are expected and the public is invited. President B. B. Skelton announced Friday.
Manila government orders return to time at midnight Friday while parent teacher associations object to daylight saving as forcing children to wake early.
Friday features a 2:00 movie matinee, 3:30 birthday party and 4:00 Nora's Kitchen, with news at 4:55 and 5:00 Crusader Rabbit. Evening programs run from 7:00 Guffey's Guestbook to 10:15 Sports Desk, ending with The Late Show. Saturday lineup includes Big Game Hunt, Buster Crabbe Show, KMID Jamboree, Star Room, Boxing from New York, and Your Hit Parade concluding at 16:15 The Late Show.
A fragment references Mr Keen and Godfrey Digest in a mystery digest item. It mentions characters Keen and Godfrey but lacks clear event detail or context to determine a fuller story. The item appears as a brief newspaper tidbit from a crime or mystery column.
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