Huge Expansion Plan Approved by Odessa Chamber
Odessa Chamber of Commerce directors approve a $90,000 expansion to boost annual budget from 47,193 to 59,750 and grow membership from 632 to 1,000. New departments, staff, and a year round campaign are planned with groups by industry to organize dues increases and campaign activities.
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Evelyn Rogers
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
J. Walker Qwens
Owens
Chamber
Odessa
Hoe
United States Chamber of Commerce
Ernie Schur
Better Business Bureau
Republicans Fear Budget Funds Shortfall Under Ike
Washington Republicans report difficulty in raising funds as some major contributors resist the administration’s budget. Meade Alcorn says Eisenhower downplays the issue, pledging no alternative to the $71.8 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year. Party leaders, aiming to rally support, stress unity while noting possible budget strains.
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Washington
Republican High Command
Whater
Meade Alcorn
GOP
National Committee
Alcorn
White House
Congress
Eisenhower
Smoking and Death Linked in Large American Study
New York report on a four year American Cancer Society study of 182000 male smokers and non-smokers shows higher mortality from all causes among smokers. Death rates rise in proportion to the amount smoked, with heavy users at greater risk.
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New York
American Cancer Society
Smokers Show Higher Death Rates in Medical Study
A report by Drs. S. Cayley Hammond and Paria Hora at the American Medical Association meeting presents a statistical tract linking smoking to higher death rates. It notes smokers have markedly higher deaths from lung cancer, heart disease, and lung conditions over five years compared with non-smokers, with risk rising with daily consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sud
Taree Ames
Daniel Urges Water Program As Texas Need
Gov. Price Daniel urged Texas chambers of commerce to back two constitutional amendments approved by the last Legislature. One creates a 200 million dollar bond program for water conservation. the other allows state advertising to recruit industry. He spoke in a radio television address and noted plans for crime and highway death reduction, with lawmakers to revisit the measures in a special session.
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Mineral Wells
Tex
Price Daniel
Chambers of Commerce S
Daniel
Texas Chambers [of Commerce Managers
Texas
College Stays in Brownwood at Midlard Location Debate
Howard Payne College trustees in Brownwood voted unanimously against relocating the Baptist college to Midland. The decision followed Brownwood leaders pledging a sustaining fund drive of about 120,000 to support the college, which has been in Brownwood for 67 years with 40 of 53 trustees attending.
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San Angelo
Tex
Howard Payne Colege
Brownwood
Midlard
The
Baptist College
Howard Payne College
W. S. McBirrnie
San Antonio
McBirnie
Texas Baptist Christian Education
Midland
Howard Payne
Guy C. Newman
Germany Probes Death March Fatalities In Army Training
Germany orders a high level inquiry into the deaths of 19 army recruits during a march into a river area near Kempten. Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss arrives to oversee the investigation as volunteers aid rescue and relief efforts along the riverbank where a deadly incident killed 15 recruits.
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Red Cross
Son Follows Beck Example Won't Talk
Washington The Senate Rackets Committee ordered contempt charges against Dave Beck Jr and his nephew Joseph McEvoy after fruitless questioning on their relations with the Teamsters ring In Seattle witnesses invoked the Fifth Amendment shielding themselves from answering whether Beck Jr received salaries and expenses from union funds The investigation centers on transfers to Becks firm and a Budweiser distributorship linked to his father and court action results in possible contempt proceedings against the young Beck and McEvoy.
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Junior
Dave Beck Jr
Teamsters
Dann Beck
Senata Labor
Washington
John L. MeClellan
Ashe Senate
Congress
Ac- Unn
Dave Beck
McClellan
Joseph McEvoy
Beck
Kennedy
Pee Dave Sr
Nation
Shefferman
Norman Gessert
Stil
McEvoy
Robert F
Verschueren Sr
Dave Jr
Seattle
Wash
Beck Jr
Imay
Teamsters Union
Lumina
Answier
Dave
Japa
Ibux
Beck Tax Evasion Plea Ahead on Fatome Case
Beck, linked to the Federation Union, enters a plea on 12 counts of evasion. The embattled leader faces the first day before US District Judge Gary, with trial dates and terms to follow.
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Tatoma
Wark
Lave Beck
Fesmeters Unimn
Dev
Gary
Jay
Japs Get Right To Try GI For Woman's Death
United States officials press for a trial in the death of a woman linked to a civilian death. The Pentagon and State Department discuss response measures as Congress debates the case.
Family Row at Seminole Gathering Leads to Warrants
In Collier County deputies arrested four McKinte Osceola brothers after a Seminole corn dance clash left one man battered and bound. The wounded man, a self described pro visive figure, charged his brothers with attack amid a tribal gathering. Bonds set at $509 as authorities pursued warrants for Doug Howard John and William McKinte.
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Miami
Everglades
Here
Doug
Howard
John
Willliam McKinte
Osceola
Mike Oxceo
Doug Hendry
Collier
Mike
Texas May rainfall varies with record driest and wettest locales
May brought torrential rains to much of Texas but several areas saw below normal totals. Climatologist Hoye Dunham notes the upper coast extreme east and south regions plus south and west of Midland were below average, while Bel Rio San Angelo Abilene Wichita Fort Worth and Dallas posted record May rainfall. Dallas exceeded normal yearly totals for the first five months of 1957, while Del Rio and Alpine surpassed annual normals earlier.
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Beaumont
Dallas
del Rio
McLarty Begins Land Fraud Term
McLarty arrives at a lengthy prec days to await service of terms tied to veterans land scandals. McLarty pleaded guilty at Currini and was sentenced to nineteen fifty years, now serving terms for conviction.
Further Storm Warnings Widen Flood Alerts in Texas and Oklahoma
Flood warnings extended across Texas and Oklahoma as reservoirs spilled into swollen rivers. Forecasts warned of new flooding on the Colorado River in Texas and the Red River region near Arkansas and Louisiana. Tornadoes and thunderstorms were predicted across the Red River watershed with continued rain expected through Wednesday.
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Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma
U.S. Weather Bureau
Colorado River
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Tulsa
Okla
Red River
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texoma
Tepeuma
Fort Worth
Suul
Artie Guy
Tex
Faleton
Ark
Colorado
Weather Bureau
Wichita Falls
Midland
Fox
Lufkin
Tyler
Civil Defense
Tandhaga
Wichita River
Keene
Alvarado
Gentle Rains Persist Across Permian Basin Weather Update
The Permian Basin sees continued gentle rain with cloud cover and occasional showers through Wednesday. Weather services report varying rainfall amounts from Rankin to Monahans, with heaviest fall near Rankin about 0.6 inch after midnight and widespread drizzle in Monahans, McCamey, Fort Stockton, and Andrews.
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Permian
Texas Eleetste Service Company
Otessa
Ate
Midland
Monstina
Wink
TESCO
Sprakerry
Rankin
Monahans
McCamey
Fort Stockton
Andrews
Defense Opens In AF Trial At Lackland Base
In San Antonio the defense begins its case in the special court martial of A2C William Roberts Jr., a former Lackland drill instructor. Witnesses testified recruits faced harsh treatment and one airman died amid heat exhaustion and a kidney ailment two days after an incident linked by witnesses. Roberts is not accused of causing the death.
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San Antonio
Tex. P
William Roberts Jr
Lackland Air Force Base
Roberts
ABC
Alvin F. Frost Jr
A.3
Donald Wasserman
Hasic
Robert Disenbagter
New York City
Key West
Fla
Disenbacher
Andrews Car In Fatal Crash Near Brady
Earl Vick, 45, of Actin died in a head on collision yesterday along with his wife Lucile, 49, who succumbed hours later. Pavel Pate, 36, and Lense McNyangai, both passengers from Midkid and Andrews, suffered injuries. another occupant, City Got, 16, was seriously hurt.
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Brady
Earl Vick
Actin
Lucile
Pavel Pate
Midkid
Tex
City
Lense McCnyngai
Andrews
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Jena
Galerian
Ramsey
Bea Ramsey
Paso Robles
Leslie Yrso
Otheer
State Senate
Germany
Detiuniea Prinvived
Vitea Deminatie
Entaserage
Gerne
Stee Yka Fonte Pathe
Greta Cranes
Tolen
Eerine
Wihapis
Putin
Japan
Daley
Wilco
Watt Coe
Anne
Girard
Stoen
Jim
Ersei
Sertingie
Permian Basin
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