Texas Campaign Reviews Lead to Convention Contests
In a three ring parade of campaign stops, Ralph Yarborough urged water development in West Texas while criticizing Shivers over county road powers. Taft and Eisenhower factions battled for Texas delegates as Price Daniel and Drew Pearson sparred in the Senate race. Rep. Lindley Beckworth ramped up touring and Texas GOP leaders faced a clash over district versus at large delegates at the national convention.
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Ralph Yarborough
Allan Shivers
el Paso
Brownfield
Lamesa
Pig Spring
Stanton
Midland
Odessa
Yarborough
West Texas
Shivers
Abilene
Dallas
Dallas Baptist Association
General Eisenhower
Denison
Monte Bales ‘Jones
Gold Star Mothers Arrangements
49Th Armored Division
North Fort Hood
Texas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
United States
E. W. Napier
Wichita Falls
Senate
Snyder
China
United Nations
Korea
Atty
Price Daniel
Longview
Drew Pearson
Daniel
Pearson
Sam, Rayburn
Bonham
Tideland
Rayburn
Tidelands
California
Ed Pauley
Marshalls
GOP
Myron Balock
Lindley Beckworth
Gladewater
Evans
Lampasas
Copperas Cove
Gatesville
Belton
Rosebud
Lott, Eddy and
Mart
Beckworth
Tom Connally
National Committee
Malmvilal
Charles P. Howard
Louisiana
Mississippi
Georgia
Virginia
Exas
Chicago
Foward
theTexas
Eisenhower
Acion
Taft
Yarborough Attacks Shivers at Courthouse Rally
Texas governorship candidate Ralph Yarborough spoke to about 75 onlookers on the Ector County courthouse lawn and jailed spectators, denouncing Gov. Shivers over taxes the auto inspection law and tidelands. He accused Shivers of delaying laws and urged a direct presidential primary while highlighting a 1948 yacht visit to Galveston with the Maceo gambling link.
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Ralph Yarborough
Ector County
Harold Young
Yarborough
Allan Shivers
Austin
Shivers
Texas
Johnny
George Washington
Maceo Gambling Syndicate
Galveston
Maceo
Atlantic Pact casts wide sea and air maneuversCastanets
In pre-dawn darkness three convoys navigate off Portsmouth as NATO forces from the United States Britain France the Netherlands Belgium Norway Denmark Portugal and Canada begin the Castanets exercise covering about 500 000 square miles of the English Channel North Sea and North Atlantic They field around 250 ships and 400 aircraft.
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Portsmouth
England
Britain
Castanets
English Channel
North Sea
North Atlantic
NATO
United States
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Denmark
Portugal
Canada
Hereford Bull Halts Train In Georgia Oddity
A 1500-pound Hereford bull halted a freight train near Vidalia Georgia after colliding head on with the diesel locomotive and eight freight cars. The Blue Goose freighter was left halted with wreckage scattered across the tracks.
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Vidalia
Georgia and Florida
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