Texas Business Activity Rises for Second Consecutive Month
Texas business activity gained 3 percent in May signaling recovery from March low. Freight carloadings fell 1 percent from April and remained below May 1957 levels. Oil production rose 1 percent in May while gasoline demand for summer months could improve short term prospects. The Texas Railroad Commission set a nine day allowable production for July. Women’s Society seeks judges for Plymouth Park Methodist pet contest. Retail sales for January–May reached $1.109 billion, up 2 percent from 1957.
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Sustin
UPS
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Index of Texas
Research Bureau
Texas Railroad Commission
France Taiwan Cuba and nuclear test talks quotes
United Press International quotes cover France's crisis progress on de Gaulle era, China's Peiping strategy cited by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Castro seizure of American engineers, Burke on Soviet nuclear war avoidance, and Geneva talks on nuclear test detectors.
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United Press International
Per- Paris
Charles
New York
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Peiping
Kremlin
Taiwan
Formosa
Havana
U.S
Smith
Fidel Castro
Creenwich
Conn
Arleigh A. Burke
Geneva
War Veteran Kemph Noted Flying Tiger Now Duster Pilot
Merlyn D. Kemph, a WWII Flying Tigers veteran and former plane mechanic, recalls his early air force days and service with Gen. Claire Chennault. Now a crop duster in Coyanosa, he praises Tigers and Chennault, holds a Bronze Star with two oak leaves, and credits Coyanosa Co-op for enabling his civilian flying career.
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Coyanosa
Cayanosa
Claire L. Chennault
Flying Tigers
Merlyn D. Kemph
Los Angeles
Kemph
Rangoon
Burma
Toungoo
Kunming
China
Chennault
Tiger
Bob Sandell
Bob Neal
San Antonio
Duke Hedman
Frank Lawlor
Bob Prescott
Tigers
Lattter
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Central Air Transport
Monroe
Waterproof
Kansas
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Tulsa
Pecos
Texas May jobs rise as unemployment falls
The Texas Employment Commission reports May nonfarm employment at 2,958,700, up 1,100, with jobless totaling 195,200 after a 4,200 drop. Gains in construction and service sectors offset manufacturing declines, while farm employment climbs by 33,600 to 459,000, and TEC cautions hard goods industries will lag into summer with aircraft, autos, and shipbuilding shrinking.
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Austin
UPI
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
TEC
Ued
May
Commission
Trans
Murder Rampage Hits Abakaliki Area Lagos Nigeria
A murder wave in the Abakaliki area of eastern Nigeria has produced at least 109 deaths to date, police reported on Saturday. Slayings are under investigation as investigators seek a pattern to aid the case, with one death attributed to strangulation by a bicycle chain and two involving local tribal chiefs.
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Lagos
Nigeria
UPI
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