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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1954
Page
13
Walt Disney’s The Living Desert continues to break records with a weeklong Odessa run extended to include another week starting Sunday at the Rio Theater. The film uses telescopic desert footage from American landscapes.
A Crane girl identified as Bobby Jo Lightfoot is the sixth polio patient admitted to Medical Center Hospital this year. She is the daughter of Crystal and Lightfoot and was admitted on Wednesday. No bulbar cases or other serious polio cases have occurred locally this year. previous local polio patients were children and several have returned home cured without paralysis.
The Capitol Division, oldest in the South Korean army, celebrated its fifth birthday on Saturday June 19, marking another milestone for the unit in the region.
In Portland June 19 the Maine Republican primary centers on Margaret Chase Smith and Robert L Jones with Sen. McCarthy remaining a distant factor. Smith appears favored while Jones attacks her record, and turnout is expected light, well below the 156000 two years ago.
Hollywood chatter circulates about U S film stars possibly being vetoed from Argentina next year film festival. Paris and New York gossip mix with box office woes and marriages while Alisters of Tinseltown debate comebacks and censors.
The First National and Dallas National banks approve a merger that will form a bank with about 753 million in resources and 702 million in deposits, ranking as the largest in the South. Ben Wooten remains president of the First National, while Blagden Manning and J. C. Tenison assume top executive roles in the merged entity.
In Tucumcari New Mexico a 21 year old Indianapolis youth Harry Dalzell was wounded after a firefight with Indiana state troopers and Southern Pacific railroad agent Clough Moncus. Dalzell and 16 year old Ronald Clouser were found hiding in a freight car after midnight. Dalzell was listed in serious condition but expected to live.
Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes arrived in Las Vegas for a brief vacation before Haymes attends a re hearing before the immigration board in Los Angeles next Wednesday.
A cluttered list details programs with times and titles such as This is the Life Healing Waters Sunday Matinee Lee Powers Orchestra Yesterday's News Hour of Decision Crusade for Christ Hope of the World Uncle John Reads Funnies Organ Music Range Rider NBC News in Review News with Bill Richie TV Weatherman Hopalong Cassidy Toast of the Town Film Theater Liberace Loretta Young Show Badge TV News Final Weathervane The Late Show Sign Off.
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