Cool Front Brings Hail to Plains in Texas Storms
Torrential rains and crop damaging hail lashed the South Plains of Texas as a cool front moved in. Tornadoes were sighted, with reports of 4 to 5 inches of rain falling in minutes near Plainview and Kress. Lightning damaged homes in Dimmitt, and widespread thunderstorms with hail affected cotton and wheat in the Lub bock area. Record heat shaded the rest of the nation, while floods threatened rivers from Minnesota to Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Kress
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Ruth McKenzie
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Missing Baby, Woman Found At Bus Depot
In Lubbock an 18 month old boy was reunited with his parents after being found with a woman at a bus depot in Sweetwater. The boy, Lowel Russell McDonald, wandered from his mother while shopping in a downtown hardware store. The woman, a 35 year old divorcee, initially claimed the child was hers and later said she found him crying and offered to help. FBI agents assisted in the case. no charges were filed. The boy and his father were returning to Lubbock with officers and agents.
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Lubbock
Lowel Russell McDonald
L. R. McDonald
Varmy
Charlie Henderson
Aere
FBI
Henderson
Rursing
Slaton
J. H. Rushton
Rushton
Sie
Sue
C. F E. Wilson
Fort Worth
Jordan King Hussein Divorce Denial Reported
A Jordan government spokesman rejected a Cairo newspaper Al Ahram report of King Hussein divorcing Queen Dina last week. Rumors had circulated since Dina’s September 1956 Cairo visit to her ailing father and her failure to return to Amman. Dina, married to Hussein in April 1955, has a daughter born February 1956.
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Jordan
Cairo
Hussein
Dina
al Ahram
Baghdad
Alexandria
Frog owner asks mayor about running frogs in city
Norman youngster worries over a new ordinance banning livestock from running at large. He asks Mayor Paul V. Keen what happens if his pet frogs get loose. Keen says a complaint would likely lead to the poundmaster capturing them.
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Norman
Oxfa
Paul V. Keen
Keen
Army's Counsel To Marry Widow
Joseph N. Welch 66 Boston attorney and former Army chief counsel in the McCarthy hearings plans a summer or fall wedding to widow Mrs. Agnes Rodhers Brown of Chestnut Hill. Welch, a widower, was pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1956 the year Welch’s wife died.
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Harwichport
Mass
Joseph N. Welch
Boston
Army
Welch
Agnes Rodhers Brown
Chestnut Hill
Haitian Troops Ordered To Put Down Protests
Port au Prince reports the Haitian military junta has deployed troops and police with orders to shoot arsonists as followers of ousted President Daniel Fignole threaten to torch the city. The junta banned general strikes and limited electioneering while restoring some air services after weekend violence that left at least 50 dead and 200 wounded.
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Port AU Prince
Hait
Haiti
Daniel Fignole
Fignole
New York
United States
Boy Studied After Muse Rampage by 10-Year-Old
CANONSBURG Pennsylvania psychiatrists will study what caused 10 year old Joey Coleman to terrorize a mining community by firing at moving targets. He was ordered committed to Allentown State Hospital after juvenile authorities took the action. State police have not determined how he obtained two pistols and ammunition used to hold people at bay. No one was wounded.
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Canonsburg
Joey Coleman
Muse
Allentown State Hospital
Joey
Paragua name origin linked to crowns and palms
The text states that Paraguay's name derives from Indian terms for crown of palms and river, with "'par agua" meaning crown of palms and "U" signifying river, or a river crowned with palms.
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Paraguay
Paragua
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