Worker Accused Of Heavy Lifting In Warehouse
Kenneth Dobler, a forklift operator at Sears Roebuck in T. Louis, confessed to lifting about $6000 worth of goods since 1949. Stolen items include a furnace, a 30 gallon water heater, a 300 gallon septic tank, an electric range, copper tubing, soil pipe, fire brick, wall cabinets and 42 bundles of asphalt shingles. Dobler allegedly took a power mower home Monday and was charged with theft of the mower valued at $59.
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Ted
Sgt. Hahn
Hahn
Dobler
Abilene Woman Claims 34 Pound Loss With Barcentrate
Mrs Ray Morrow of 858 Jeanette Abilene Texas reports losing 34 pounds using Barcentrate. The ad claims availability at Texas druggists with low cost and a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails to show results. Over six million bottles sold in Texas in ten years.
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Ray Morrow
Jeanette
Abilene
Texas
Trial Begins in Benavides Tax Official Theft Case
In Fort Stockton testimony opened in the case of D. C. Chapa former tax assessor and collector of the Benavides school district charged with theft and embezzlement. The proceedings began yesterday afternoon as the trial got under way.
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Fort Stockton
Texis
D. C. Chapa
Benavides
British Teacher in Cyprus Killed in Limassol Shooting
Four Greek Cypriot gunmen killed a British school inspector in front of a Limassol school. A taxi driver was wounded as shoppers rushed to take cover. The inspector fired back before dying en route to a hospital after the attack.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Limassol
Cyprus Department of Education
Carpet Traffic Lanes Removed
Remove heavy wear from carpet by using Blue Lustre cleaner with a long handle brush. The product lifts colors and opens the nap for a uniform look, claiming one half gallon cleans three 9x12 rugs. 3300 Andrews Hi-Way.
Sorry College Is Over at 86 UCLA Grad
LOS ANGELES— John Bur goyne Ely, age 86, will receive a bachelor of arts in music at UCLA Saturday. Six of his seven children and four grandchildren plan to attend. Born February 10, 1870, in a log cabin in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, Ely completed high school in one term after eight months of grammar school, and earned all A’s and B’s in college.
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Los Angeles
John Burgoyne Ely
Ely
UCLA
Ely Was
Ozark Mountains
Arkansas
Senate Expands Health Bill to Fund Disease Research
The Senate approved a 2.372 billion dollar welfare and labor funding bill by voice vote, adding about 58 million to President Eisenhower’s request for ongoing cancer heart disease mental illness arthritis and other studies. The measure moves to conference with the House over NIH funding differences and other variances.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
House
National Institutes of Health
Jaycees Plan Independence Day Festival Details in Odessa
With under a month to go the Odessa Junior Chamber of Commerce pushes preparations for the Independence Day Festival. A stag party will finalize IDF plans, concessions at the midway are assigned, a volley ball league is forming, and a film about anti drinking titled Far From Alone is featured.
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Odessa
Bud Prince
Marvin Sherrell
Barry Fehlman
George Carter
Ray Spencer
A. L. Wallace
Ernie Jennings
Bob Nelson
J. B. McCrary
Jack Allen
March Coffield
Jay Denton
John Woodward
R. N. Voss
R. D. Harrison
Dick Lunn
Don Carter
Javycees
Jaycees
Bill Davis
Tear Down Wire on Austrian Border in Czechoslovakia
Police said today Czechoslovakia started tearing down its barbed wire barriers on the Austrian border following Hungary's example.
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Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Stassen Sees Curtain Become Rusty Screen
Harold E. Stassen outlines an Eisenhower doctrine aimed at peace in the H bomb era and a gradual loosening of the Soviet Iron Curtain to a rusty screen. He praises disarmament progress, cites the atoms for peace program, and calls for open skies verification and robust inspection as Moscow signals force reductions.
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Stassen
Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Rotary International
Russia
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Geneva
State Dulles
Uni
London
Soviet Union
Walter Leonard Pope Father of Odessa Woman Rites Set
Funeral services for Walter Leonard Pope 69 a retired farmer and former Colorado City resident were scheduled for 2 p m Wednesday at the Southside Church of Christ in Coahoma He died Monday in Big Spring where he had lived the past four years Survived by his widow three daughters six sons 13 grandchildren and Mrs Lucille Walker Burial is planned at Lone Wolf Cemetery.
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Walter Leonard Pope
Lucille Walker
Odessa
Southside
Church of Christ
Coahoma
Pope
Colorado City
Big Spring
Walker
Lone Wolf Cemetery
Smart Birds Help Farmer In Oklahoma
Ammon Owen reports a flock of inland gulls following his field plowing in Geary Oklahoma. The birds bottled up the worms from the turned furrows and returned the next morning to wait for more plowing.
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GEARY
Okla
Ammon Owen
Three Robbery Trials Will Be Tried Here
Three men indicted for armed robbery of the First National Bank of Sterling City are likely to be tried in the week of June 28 in the 70th District Court, Odessa. Percy Warren Wallace Moulton and Charles Peeples were moved here after jury delays. $7,800 was stolen and all were captured within hours. Judge Paul McCollum will oversee the trials with Odessa attorneys Guy McFarlin and Billy Barnes appointed to represent Peeples.
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First National Bank
Sterling City
Odessa
Percy Allen Warren
Wallace Ray
Pete) Moulton
Charles Peeples
Peeples
Sterling City Bank
Paul McCollum
Guy McFarlin
Billy Barnes
Peoples
Aviatrix Cochran Odlum Sets GOP Nomination Path
Riverside Calif Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran Odlum leads the Republican race for California 29th Congressional District with 5545 votes to 4376 for Fred Eldridge. Judge Dalip Saund wins the Democratic nomination with 6632 votes while Cochran Odlum tallies 2494 on the Democratic side.
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Riverside
Calif
Jacqueline Cochran Odlum
California
Odlum
Desert
Fred Eldridge
Dalip S. Saund
India
Sound
Butte Mother Saves 13 Babies With Blood Type O Negative
Pauline Cain, a Butte mother of five and hospital lab assistant, has Type O negative blood that aided 15 babies with Rh incompatibility to live. Over five years she is credited with saving 13 infants afflicted by a blood disorder.
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Butte
Mont
Pauline Cain
Cemetery Home He Can't Vote
A bearded Bowery man claiming residence in a cemetery near Chatham Square was denied voting at multiple polling places. He said he lives there because it is cheaper, but the state attorney general's elections fraud office explained that a valid residence is required and no special address exists.
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New York
Bowery
State Attorney General's
Chatham Square
Six Indictments Returned In Ward Six
A 143rd District grand jury handed up six indictments here Tuesday. Two aggravated assault cases were moved to county court. Indicted are Mrs. John R. McCann of Monahans and Owen R. Smith of Pyote for hot checks. Cecil Autry Shannon of Odessa and Grant K. Edwards for second offense DWI. Jose Moreno of Fort Stockton for burglary. and an unnamed man not in custody for forgery.
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Monahans
John R. McCann
Owen R. Smith
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