Area Cities Hit By Rain Hail Storms and Floods
A violent thunderstorm swept the area causing flooding on highways near the Permian Basin and Fort Stockton. A Fort Worth man drowned when a squall capsized a boat as workers, including three braceros, were hospitalized with injuries. James R. Long, 30, was in a boat that capsized five miles west of Fort Stockton. Officers reported no other immediate danger to fishermen.
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Permian
Midland
Fort Stockton
Fort Worth
Alij
Lake Worch
Coluan
James R. Long
Chandler Farms
Antonio Melos
Armiundo Denberng
Hector Alsro
Drownings Vie With Traffic For Death Lead
Drownings rival traffic fatalities in a Texas week, with multiple drownings reported as severe weather and flooding hit Midland Odessa and surrounding areas. Four feet of water flooded Midland Memorial Hospital basement, while three inches of rain fell in parts of Midland and a 1.11 inch rainfall at a local station. Several injuries occurred from car and boat accidents amid dust storms and high winds across the state. victims include James Long 32, Luis Moreno Gomez 16, Pete Hudson 22, Audrey Eudy 19, and others from Fort Worth, Lamesa, and San Antonio.
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Midland
Midland Memorial Hospital
Andrews Highway
West Wall Street
Kcrs Radio 1
U.S. Highway 80
Odessa
Ausbie
Wayne Simpson
Harlingen
James R. Long
Hodges
Amber
Okla
Ostlas
John Joseph Farris
Lake
Wink
Tex
Neches
Salt Flat
With-Silsbee
Baal Ita Falls
Lake Kickapoo
Leard Beers
Texa
Pete Hudson
Audrey jEudy
Lake Baylor
Childress
William Smith
San, Antonio
MIGs Reported In Korea Trace Zone
In Seoul a Republic of Korea official said MIGs appeared in four waves over the Demilitarized Zone near Chorwon and Kumhans, crossing the line into air south of the truce. US Fifth Air Force and other sources confirmed no official details but noted the event near the eve of the Korean War’s anniversary. The defense ministry cautioned that confirmation was pending and exact flight paths were not established.
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Seoul
Korea
Addett
Korea Defense Ministry
Kim Chon- Kap
ROK
Chorwon
Kumhan
Kem
ROK Army
U.S
Jfir
Qasan Isid Ar
ROS Defense Ministry
Spikteman Dnt Nm
Sth
Air Force
Ywig
Unclear Weather Brief From A Fragmented Source
A garbled weather notice mentions Boreas at the Air Terminal and scattered terms like temperature, precipitation, and times. Names and places are unreadable, with several numbers and phrases incoherent.
Nickerson Army Row Heading For Court
Huntsville Alabama one of the Army’s top rocket experts Col John C Nickerson Jr who courted a court martial will face a general court martial board at 9 am Tuesday to answer 15 charges including espionage perjury and disobedience of orders the espionage charge claims he distributed secret information to unauthorized persons that could have harmed the nation’s security No trial since 1925 has involved such questioning of a superior as this caseэт
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Gol
John C. Nickerson
Atlantic
Billy Mitchell
Nickerson
Robert K. Balt
United Press Telepho
Huntsville
Ala
John C. Nickerson Jr
West Point
I-man
Parrs Trial In Sixth Week Focuses On Handwriting Evidence
The sixth week of George Parr's mail fraud trial opened with government witness Malcolm Wilkey expected to rest the case. Defense counsel Foreman cross examined Earl Williams, a Washington handwriting expert, challenging the material Williams used and noting copies of Parr's documents were sent to the FBI lab alongside the questioned checks. Separate notes reference military controversy around missile programs, with Nickerson and defense arguments about Army superiority in missile development and related memoranda amid Wilson’s orders.
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Houston
George Parr
Malcolm Wilkey
Percy Foreman
Earl Williams
Washington
Foreman
Williams
Parr
FBI
Mitchell
Conte
Nickerson
I Uf
Sileer
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Indians Protest School Transfer
Indians in Ontario protest a school transfer plan affecting six miles distance and segregation. Leaders argue the policy harms women and children, saying it would create second class people and instill inferiority despite improvements.
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Ganson
Somahawk
LaSare
leWe
Megratta
Midern
Trial Opens in Hondo Murder Case on Change of Venue
The murder trial of a former San Antonio narcotics officer opened in Hondo Texas today on a change of venue. Eric Weilbecher is charged with murder for the shooting of Felix Tindares. Proceedings focus on establishing admissibility and motive as the case goes to trial.
Court Upholds Obscene Mail Ban and California Law
The Supreme Court upheld federal obscenity mailing laws and a 1870 California statute banning indecent literature. The ruling, 6 to 3 for the federal case and 7 to 2 for California, affirmed limits on obscenity though Justices Black and Douglas dissented in both. Samuel Roth’s 26 counts led to a maximum penalty for mailing obscene materials.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Federil
William J. Breannan Jr
California
Hugo L. Black
William O. Douglas
John M. Harjlan
Earl Warren
Samual Roth
New York
John M. Cashin
U.S. Court of Appeals
Roth
Daylight H-Test Blast Dominates Atomic News
ATOMIC TEST SIT Nevada reports a daylight test blast so bright it blinded observers and so powerful it ripped doors from hinges fourteen miles away. The device, part of the sumer test se, rose on a large plastic balloon and created an unusual mushroom cloud visible from Las Vegas. Officials described dust plumes and a luminous sky at the moment of detonation as the U S begins experiments with high energy weapons.
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Nevada
Ed States
Las Vegas
ALEC
Franciman Fiat Alry
AEC
St. George
AGC
Hiroshima
Nagayuki
Utah
Stich
Tonopa
Nev
Rena
Mev
Lightning Fatalities In Fort Worth Area Nineteen Expenses
Dorothy Griffin, 39, died in a Fort Worth hospital from injuries after a Sunday lightning strike. The Atomic Energy Commission reported a high-altitude explosion over Nevada and Utah with blast effects felt across multiple states. Military observers witnessed the event from a distance near Ground Zero as Civil Defense officials assisted.
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Fort Worth
Dorothy Griffin
Desart
Missing plane sought across three states
Civil Air Patrol launched a three state search for missing pilot John O Neal of Wichita Falls and two Fort Worth men aboard a silver and red plane returning from a mission. Operators observed the takeoff and then lost contact as planes combed eastern New Mexico southern Colorado and West Texas in a coordinated CAP effort.
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Civ
Air Patrol
Fort Worth
CAP x
John O'Neal
Wichita Falls
Jon Stout
Civil Air Fatces
Fort Worth Sal
Stout
J.wg. Fry
Owen Curran
Kirtland Afb
O'Neal
Yestern “Iday
Manzano Mountains
Clovis
Habba
Carlsbad
West Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Experts say clean H-bomb 95 percent possible
Washington reports that AEC experts and three University of California physicists met President Eisenhower to discuss progress toward a “clean” hydrogen bomb. Strauss said fallout has been reduced since January, with safeguards on dangerous materials. The scientists avoided policy questions and stressed that past tests produced harmless, new quantities of radioactivity.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Jean
University of California
Charman Lewi L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Trauss
Stfaugs
Teller
Sand Becaus
Stuzh
Renee
Dansere
Strauss
White House
Aniely
Kitenhyey
Shold
Japs Review Death Sentence in American Soldier Case
Sendai Appeal Court opened a review of the death sentence imposed on an American soldier by a Japanese court. Defense argued the punishment was excessive given charges of robbery and murder, with disputes over who planned and carried out the crime that killed Misa Maraki in Sendai.
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Senda
Japan
Sendai
Pat Orvis Boye
Griveston
Tex
Eweerheart
Sureko Sasaki
Bony Wilsé
Widow Robbed and Tortured by Young Intruder
Opal Seteman, 48, describes a terrifying home invasion in Dallas in which a tall, suntanned man bound her with tape, held a knife to her throat, and robbed $150 from her purse after threatening to injure her. A telephone call likely saved her from further harm before the intruder fled.
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Dallas
Tor
Mex
Opal Sethsnsay
Plig
Control Block Caused Smash Over Pacific Western Airlines Crash
A preliminary report says a ground control block in the tail assembly caused a Pacific Western Airlines crash that killed 14 aboard. Captain Gerald W. Allen, 27, and Laurie Bolano, 23, were among the dead. One passenger, Patricia Wilson, 23, and three others escaped via a rear door.
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Port Nardy
B.C
Pacific Western Aireines
Vancouver
Cap
Gerald W. Allens
Allen
Laurie Bolano
J. Carver
Port Alice
Royal Canadian Air Force
Vancouver Island
Patricia Wilson
Vancouv
Texas Coed Is College Queen at Rice University
Beverly Montgomery of Houston, a sophomore at Rice University, won the Texas College Queen title, succeeding Marilyn Meier of Waco. Montgomery weighed 103 pounds and represented Texas at the event, with Taverly packing her frame in the judging.
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Texas
Adhury Park
Blentyes
Beverly Montsomery
Houston
Marilyn Meier
Waco
Charles Sader
That City
Taverly Packe
Ste
Rice Irsitet
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Chrence
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Tee Dorgan
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