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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1957
Page
5
A public appeal urges households to save an extra nickel per dollar to curb inflation and fund growth. The message links personal savings to broader benefits like more factories, homes, and schools, while promoting life insurance as a safeguard for purchasing power. Central Source of Information about Life Insurance, 483 Madison Avenue, New York.
Odessa's Phyllis Wheatley Day Nursery, run with Community Chest support, serves working mothers by providing child care for ages two to six at 1020A East Murphy. The facility operates 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays with meals, rest periods, and a supervised program, charging 3.50 to 7.50 weekly per child depending on number of enrollees.
Chrysler offers new styling for years with record sales proving its appeal. The car is lower and longer than rivals in its price class and provides more shoulder and leg room inside. Public demand drives its high resale value, reflecting advanced styling and engineering.
The Associated Press tallies at least 31 fatalities in Texas from Friday evening to Sunday night. Incidents include a three-death boat capsizing near Conroe, a drowning in a private lake, gunfire near Bay City, a fatal two-car Odessa crash, and multiple other deaths from accidents, stabbings, and a shooting. Names and locations span Houston, Conroe, Bay City, Odessa, Fort Worth, and Galveston.
MIDFIELD Tex UP Clyde Williams a 45 year old night club operator shot and killed two customers and wounded three others in Paradise Club near Midfield about 25 miles east of Bay City Witnesses report he drew a .32 pistol from his belt and fired five times after an argument Williams an ex convict is held on two murder and three assault to murder charges Sheriff J B Cole said two victims Carlos Presas and Guadalupe Traveno Jr died as their wives passed through a corridor The wounded include Mrs Florence Lynch Candido Presidio and another wife Williams said they kept coming at me Justice of the Peace noted the shots likely came from behind him The case adds Williams served a two year term for car theft
Two Nigerian women serving as tribal chiefs, Elizabeth Adekogbe and Wura Assan, arrived in New York with 100 International Council of Women delegates for a five day sightseeing visit yesterday.
Vivian Masters, 20, entered the Newton New Jersey police station armed with a 17 gauge shotgun and demanded Patrolman Young. After a tense standoff, Knoll tackled the gun as others intervened and Masters was arrested for reckless driving previously. She warned she would return and “hate all cops” if jailed.
The Agriculture Department refused to test Karnes County flax claiming moisture harmed crops in South Texas. Karnes flax valued at 100000 faced loss unless an independent buyer steps in. Ramos County Judge W S Picket leads a drought association seeking help from national party officials to raise the issue with Washington. Karnes was once called the flax capital of the world eight years ago.
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