Interstate Highway 20 Delays Plat Approval in Odessa
At a City-County Planning Board meeting in Odessa, Ed Martin's Southwest Commercial Sites plat was tabled while its alignment with Interstate 20 is reviewed. Board urged future policy on using dry lake beds as detention basins to prevent flooding, approving several plats and a park-use request while tabling others pending city council action.
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Odessa
Ed Martin
West County Road
Preston Parker
Martin
Emil Beck
West 16Th
West 27Th
Smith Chapel
North Cowden Road
Louis Rochester
FM 1936
Beck
Rochester
Redondo
Harold’s Drive
West Dunn
West 10Th
Edgar Francis
Eidson Avenue
Whiteside and
Bassett
Lawndale
Holiday Street
East 85Th
East 86Th
J. D. O’michael
North Alleghancy
West Sixth
O’michael
Bill Bird
City-County Park System
Park Board
West 54Th
Andrews Highway
Casity
Westover Acres
Wilbur Ash
Rochester Heights
Nash-Phillips-Copus
County Okays Work On Courthouse Lawn
The Ector County Commission votes to beautify the western half of the courthouse lawn at a cost around 784 dollars plus labor. County employees will perform the work, topsoil removal, re-sodding, shrub planting, and a sidewalk linking entrances. Also approved seal coating 6.5 miles of Cities Service Road and bidding for a county welfare postage machine costing about 1,000 dollars.
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Ector County
Ted Roby
Joe Hamilton
Grandview
Hamilton
Must Improve Morals To Live Long Life
A hundred year old Mexican woman Mrs. Marini Sotomayor de Acevedo recalls Porfirio Diaz era and warns that the present generation will not reach a century unless moral discipline tightens, saying today’s morals are too lax.
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Mexico City
Marini Sotomayor de Acevedo
Oaxaca
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Young mother dies in Garland crash with police car
Mrs. Bobby G. Bonser, 22, was killed and her two year old son Larry was critically hurt when her car collided with a Garland police car last night. Patrolman Terry Hauck, driver of the patrol car, was slightly injured.
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Garland
Tex
UPI
Bobby G. Bonser
Larry
Terry Hauck
The Death Of Ethel Barrymore Shocks The Stage
HOLLYWOOD UP I Stars mourn the death of Ethel Barrymore the last in Americas royal theater family She dies in Beverly Hills at age 79 from heart ailment after a year bedridden Funeral plans include Roman Catholic services and burial at Calvary Cemetery The lights dimmed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York for five minutes
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Hollywood
UPI
Ethel Barrymore
America
Miss Barrymore
Beverly Hills
Calvary Cemetery
John
Lionel Barrymore
New York
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Billie Burke
Florenz Ziegfeld
Flo
Charles Brackett
Frank Sinatra
Judith Anderson
Samuel Colt
Anna Albert
Philadelphia
Maurice Barrymore
Georgianna Drew Barrrymore
John Drew
Bus Crash Kills Two Officials in Mexico City Region
An autobus collision on the Queretaro highway Wednesday night killed Dagoberto Alvarez del Castillo commander of judicial police in the Federal District and Francisco Gedey another official in that department.
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Mexico City
Here
Queretaro
Dagoberto Alvarez del Castillo
Judicial Police
Federal District
Francisco Gedey
Sabrina Fair opens three-night workshop at Odessa College
Odessa College presents Sabrina Fair as the first of two summer workshop dramas. Directed by Larry Etheridge the romantic comedy features Betty Burrows as Sabrina and Bill Holm as Linus Larrabee Jr with strong supporting work from Ed Costello Sr Lois Webber Thelma Maxwell and Thelma Maxwell among others. The show runs three nights at 8 15 p m in the Odessa College Auditorium and is praised for its pace and professional air despite first night jitters.
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Sabrina Fair
Odessa College
Larry Etheridge
Samuel Taylor
Sabrina Fairchild
Long Island
France
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Larrabee
Prince Charming
Etheridge
Betty Burrows
Bill Holm
Linus Larrabee, Jr
Ed Costello
Costello
Lois Webber
Ed Costello,Jr
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Julia
Thelma Maxwell
Linus, Jr
Louis Kluck
Fairchild
Marlee McConnell
Margaret
James Moore
Paul d’Argenson
W. L. Sibley
Jim Kyle
Lu Richerson
Jerry Pat O’dowdy
Dorothy Jeanne Cochran
Gretchen
Odessa
Carbon Plant Head Selected
Lannie King was named manager of the Std. Richardson Carbon Plant on West Highway 80 replacing Harold H. Offutt who resigned. King began in carbon black in Monroe La in 1925 and has led the plant since its 1945 opening for United Carbon. He named Rufus B. Harris as assistant manager.
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Park Blvd
Std. Richardson Carbon
West Highway 80
Harold H. Offutt
West 15Th
King
United Carbon Company
Monroe
United Carbon
Borger
Richardson
Offutt
Rufus B. Harris
Harris
Jerry King
North Hancock
Bowen-Itco Company
Billie King
Hardin-Simmons University
Lee Dunham
Policeman In Pecos Rejoins Department
Pecos officials rehired Robert M. Lopez to the police force three weeks after his resignation following a salary dispute. Lopez, who previously served 2½ years as a patrolman, returned at his old salary of 335 dollars per month as the department faced resignations and a firing during its clash with the city council.
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Pecos
Robert M. Lopez
Lopez
A. E
Andy) Fenton
Senators back Strauss as commerce secretary nominee
Washington AP Lyndon Johnson and Ralph Yarborough Democrats sided with the majority as the Senate rejected the nomination of Lewis J. Strauss by a 49 to 46 vote. The rejection halted Eisenhower's bid to name Strauss secretary of commerce.
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Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Senate
Eisenhower
Lewis J. Strauss
Commerce
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