New Andrews School To Have Carpeting Innovation
Andrews plans a $2.9 million high school with carpeted classrooms as a nation first. Ford Foundation and American Carpet Institute fund a $10,000 research grant to study carpet benefits in maintenance acoustics and learning environment. Warner Construction of San Angelo won base bid of $2,378,300. total project cost about $2,942,000 with alternates including pool and gym enhancements. Frank M. Studer will supervise as architect for Reid Roskwell & Taries of San Francisco.
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Andrews
Andrews Igh
Andrews Board of Trustees
Ford Foundation
American Carpet Institute
Tors
Foce School
The
Carpet Institute
Warner Construction Company
San ‘An
Gelo
Laykold
Warner Company
Frank M. Studer
Reid, Roskwell & Taries
San Francisco
Pecos Railroad Hearing Slated For Passenger Service
A Railroad Commission hearing in Pecos will hear Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway requests to discontinue passenger trains between Pecos and Carlsbad NM, with service ending Saturday subject to approval. Freight service will continue. The line, built in 1895 as Pecos Valley Railway later became part of the Santa Fe system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Commission
Reeves. ’ County
Pecos
Panhandle
Santa Fe Railway
Carlsbad
New ,Mexico
Sons Learn Base Sliding Lesson Turns Leg Bad
Buddy McAnally of Pecos attempted a baseball slide demonstration for his sons at a Little League practice. The misshaped slide broke his leg. he was treated at Reeves County Memorial Hospital Pecos and then sent home.
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Barstow
Buddy McAnally
Pecos
McAnally
Reeves County Memorial Hospital
Five Contestants Get First Points
Five contestants earned initial points toward Mrs America honors with wins in Alaska Pennsylvania Texas and Oklahoma. Alaska’s Marlynn Porter Ketchihan created a wild rice igloo casserole dish while Pennsylvania’s Charlotte Logue produced a molded lime gelatin angel’s delight. Texas’s Betty Cutbirth won the cake bake with a Johnson star cake and Oklahoma’s Mary Mason of Tulsa captured the laundry contest. Sr Mrs America will be named Friday night.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Texas
Alaska
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Marlynn -Porter
Betty Cutbirth
Brownwood
Tex
Brothers Escape Jail In Oklahoma Shootout Trial Delayed
Waurika Oklahoma UP I reports judge FL Baker escaped Jefferson County jail for the second time. Road blocks set on southwestern Oklahoma roads and Red River bridges into Texas as officers search for Jack Camplain 31 and Earl Camplain 27 of Wilson charged with assault and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the January 20 Jefferson County shooting that injured Judge Baker. Authorities doubt the fugitives fled in a blue Ford with a third man waiting and note the Camplains had previously escaped from the same jail after arrest. Baker has recovered. trial for the defendants had been scheduled to open today.
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Waurika
Okla
UPI
Tivo Brothers
Jefferson County
Oklahoma
Red River
Texas
Jack
Camplain
Earl Camplain
Wilson, Okla
Jefferson
Baker
Cand
Camplain Brothers
Hungarian Police Track Juvenile Gang of the Black Half Moon
Budapest officials report five youths form the Gang of the Black Half Moon to avenge counter revolutionary parents. The group aimed to burn Communist youth flags destroy texts and smash windows in recent months per Magyar Ifjusag.
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Vienna
UPI
Cay
Budapest
Magyar Itjusag
Graveside Rites Held For Infant Son Williams
Graveside funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today for the stillborn infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D L Williams of Odessa. Rev. Ed Welch officiated at Odessa Cemetery with burial in the same grounds. Survivors include the parents, two brothers Johnny and Donal Williams, Odessa, maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Paul Kilgore Corsicana, and paternal grandmother Mrs Di Le Williams Tyler.
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D.L. Williams
East 56Th
Medical’ Center
Odessa
Ed Welch
Rix-Mahan
The
Roses
Johnny
Donal Williams
Paul Kilgore
Corsicanay
di le Willhams
Tyler
Odessa Graduate At Annapolis Class Of 1956
William Raymond Calvert son of Mr and Mrs C R Calvert formerly of 2720 West Second Odessa Texas was among 27 Texans in the Annapolis Naval Academy class. In Odessa High he joined the National Honor Society and ranked high in his senior class according to Principal James McMath.
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Odessa
Annapolis
William
Raymond
Thomas. E. Nichols
Aubrey
D. Nichols
Tulip, Lane
Army National Guard
Infantry School
Fort Benning
Coleman High School
University of Texas
Odessa College
Will Suslov Replace Nikita Khrushchev
Boris Morros, a Soviet born movie producer and former FBI counterspy, predicts Mikhail Suslov will replace Nikita Khrushchev as Soviet leader. He says Suslov is the only one who can justify the overthrow by the Stalinists.
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Philadelphia
Boris * Morros
FBI
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail’ Suslov
Ise
Presidium
Suslov
Khrushchev
Morris
Odessan Dies Early Today in Medical Center Hospital
Andrew Jackson Allen, 63, of 711 North McKinney, died after a two month illness. Funeral 2 p m Thursday at First Methodist Church with Rev Lee Crouch officiating. burial Sunset Gardens under the Mahan Chapel of the Roses. He was a maintenance supervisor for Phillips Petroleum in Odessa, lived here eight years, born Oct 16, 1896 in Chico, married May Stabaugh in 1923. Survivor: wife, two sons James H Allen Dallas and Buddy Allen Kermit. brother W O Allen San Antonio. sister Mrs A L Tipton Vashti. three grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.
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Andrew Jackson’ Allen
North McKinney
Medical Center Hospital
First Methodist
Lee Crouch
Hart
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Oly - Rix- Mahan Chapel of the Roses
Allen
Odessa
Phillips Petroleum Company
Electra
Chico
May Stabaugh
Ibex
Tex
The
Methodist Church
James H
Dallas
Kermit
W. O. Allen
Retired Farmer Dies Of Illness
Frederick Quincy Blount, 81, a Santa Anna resident and retired farmer, died after several months illness. Born October 22, 1877 in Hamilton County, he married Maggie Buffington in May 1905 in Cass County. Burial held at Wil Wa Cemetery in Haskell after services at Hosch Funeral Home. Survived by wife, son George Blount, son Ernest Blount of Brownfield, and foster son Ted C Williams of Brownfield.
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Santa- Anna
Frederick Quincy - Blount
Wilwa
Haskell
Hosch Fermeral
Blount
Hamilton County
Maggie N. Buffington
Cass County
Terry County
Church of Christ
Midland
George Blount
Ernest Blount
Brownfield
Ted. C Williams
Leave Your Wife Business Sense Speech Warns Men
Los Angeles AP reports probate court examiner Marijane Brown urged married men to teach their wives budgeting and business skills rather than giving fur or a yacht. She advised budgeting for emergencies, making the wife an efficient executrix, and building memories through shared financial literacy.
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Los Angeles
Marijane’ Brown
Area Men In Service Area Train at San Diego centers
Area men in military training report from San Diego Naval Training Center and Ree Training Center. William C. Twilligear, son of Mr and Mrs Rosco Twilligear, and others including Donald E Philipp, John H Pope, Billy R Jones, Lonnie E Colston, and Charles L Brewer are listed with recruit and advanced training statuses. Details cover assignments in the Army and Navy, maneuvers in Grafenwher, Germany, and tanker or boilerman schools, with home locations Midland, Kermit, Odessa, and Midland High or Permian connections.
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Ree Training Center
San Diego
Cali
William C. Twilligear
Rosco’ Twilligear
West 32Nd
Naval Training Center
Rordle’.L. “Payne
Elm
Kermit
Charles L. Brewer
Charles. E. Brewer
South Ave
David W.teal
Navy
C. E. Teal
Raan
Naval ‘Training Center
Os Army
Donald E. .Phillipp
And
Armored
Fort Hood
Phillipp
Army
Odessa
Permian
John H.B. Pope
John M.pope
Mariana Blvd
Midland
4Th Armored Eee
Grafenwehr
Germany
Pope
Ann
04Th Aviation Company
Midland High
Odessa College
Billy R. Jones
Earnest, Jones
South Madison
2Nd Armored Division
Carver High School
Lonnie E. Colston
E. A. Ealeton
North McKinney
37Th Armor
Seventh “Army
Bergen Hohne
Marathon High School
Texas Agricultural and Industrial College
Pioneer Iraan grocer G W Chapman dies in Houston
G W Chapman 70 of Dodge died Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston. He started Iraan’s first grocery with his brothers in law Floyd Kennemer. He retired and was a Methodist. Surviving are his wife two brothers W W Chapman of Jacksboro and HL Chapman of Baytown four sisters Grace Copeland Iraan C V Robertson Snyder R J Hamilton Mangum Okla and Johnnie Sowell Anchorage Alaska.
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Iraan
Traan and McCamey
G. W. Chapman
Dodge
Veterans Administration
Houston
Chapman
2Tocery
Floyd Kennemer
wT. W., _Chapman
Jacksboro
HL “Chapman
Baytown
Grace Copeland
C. V. Robertson
Snyder
R. J. Hamilton
Mangum
Okla
Johnnie Sowell
Anchorage
Alaska
German Posting: Ledgerwood in Augsburg Signal Corps
Charles H Ledgerwood 25 son of Mr and Mrs C H Ledgerwood 407 West 47th serves as teletype operator in Co A 24th Signal Corps 24th Division in Augsburg Germany. He previously worked in Odessa for Devonian Well Service.
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Germany
Charles H. Ledgerwood
C.H. Ledgerwood
West 47Th
Co.a
24Th
Signal Corps
Augsburg
Odessa
Devonian Well Service
Alpine Funeral Rites Pending for Richard Riddle
Richard RL Dick Riddle died Tuesday of a heart attack at his Kokernot Ranch home in Limpia Canyon. A former cattleman in the Big Bend area he was born June 9, 1888 in Tennessee and served in World War I. Services are pending at Livingstone Funeral Home. Survivors include sister Mrs. Lillie Rayde of Manchester Tennessee.
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Richard RL
Riddle
Kokernot
Big Bend
Limpia Canyon
Livingston Funeral
Riddie
Tennessee
West
Mona
W. W. Tumey
Ater
Lillie Rayde
Manchester
Tena
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New Andrews School
Mameo
Burlington
Grandview
L Brothers
Hungary
Odessan
Odessa Savings & Loan
F.S.L.L.C
Savings & Loan
Dessa — Savings & Loan
Alsa
Servidey
Ronnie Brownlee
C. LiBromlee
West 26Th
Robert Outsen
University of Oncoming
Laramie
Brownlee
Charlie D.howard
T. Dz Connelly
East Odessa
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
519Th Signal Company
Fort Gordon
Hans
France
Texas State Optical
WC Joy Rogers
Optometrin
Durestor
TSO
S.J. Rogers
N. Jay Rogers
Optometrists
Cos Iui
Tura
North Grant
Midland Village
East 3Rd St
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