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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1956
Page
2
FBI ordered a five state alert for a man in a gray flannel suit who robbed Park Plaza State Bank in St Louis Park. He waved a .45 revolver, forced seven employees and a customer to the counter, then left in a canvas bag with $17 500. A getaway car was found abandoned about a mile away.
James IT. Jones pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Pasadena. Judge Joseph A. Sprankle Jr. suspended the sentence but fined him and allowed payment by installments. A bounced check to the court led to re instatement of 180 days plus an additional 180 days.
In 1907 Douglas McClure, a Choctaw, was whipped 15 lashes by Indian deputies in the Indian Court near Boswell Oklahoma for stealing hogs. The interview with Earl Holman and Cap Duncan recalls a court run entirely by Indians with a escalating punishment system ending in death for serious crimes.
The National Academy of Sciences recommends widespread use of radiation safety badges for all Americans including children. The proposal envisions a culture where exposure tracking becomes routine as the nation confronts real and potential hazards of radiation in the accelerating atomic age.
The first wave of American tourists returns to Europe in 1956, outnumbering other nationalities. France alone could host about 450,000 visitors staying 4.5 million tourist nights, with average spend around 297 and total output near 80 million dollars. Travelers shift to mass tourism, seek atmosphere, shop cautious, and expect marked prices plus occasional service charges.
In Dallas area five month period department store sales increased 9 percent from 1955. Houston up 7 percent, Corpus Christi and Fort Worth up 6 percent, Shreveport 5 percent, El Paso 4, Dallas 2. May gains also recorded with Corpus Christi and Houston up 15 percent each, Fort Worth 14, Waco 12, El Paso 10, Shreveport 8, Dallas 7, San Antonio 4.
The Agriculture Department reports wind erosion damaged nearly 10 million acres in the Great Plains for the Nov May 31 season, about six million acres less than 1954 55 and a 38 percent drop. Northern states reported 813,000 acres damaged while 9.4 million more acres remained at risk on June 1.
State officials sympathized with Capitol custodian Charles Wagner over 369 windows left open during a rainstorm yet declined to adopt his proposed remedy. Wagner wanted to mail all the Capitol building windows closed.
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