GOP Leader and Oilman Mark McLean Dies in San Antonio
Mark McLean 69 prominent oilman and political leader died at his San Antonio home after a brief illness. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. at his residence with Dr. W R White of Baylor University officiating. Burial in Magnolia Cemetery. Survivors include his widow Verna Hooks McLean a daughter Ruth Bowman a sister and five grandchildren. Born Sherman June 20 1883 he promoted oil from salt dome flanks and moved to Beaumont in 1907 before settling in San Antonio in 1933 where he became a civic leader and Baylor benefactor. He supported Taft and served as vice chairman of the National Republican Finance Committee.
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San Antonio
Mark McLean
W. R. White
Baylor University
Magnolia
Beaumont
Sherman
McLean
Austin College
University of Texas
Gulf Coast
Frost National Bank
Robert A. Taft
Survivors Recall Plane Crash Near Sabine River
The lone survivor Hazel Cox, 21, described the Delta-Chicago and Southern DC-3 crash near Waskom Texas six miles west of town on Sunday in a heavy rain and hail storm that killed 19. She woke to flames as the plane hit trees. pilot and passengers perished. Civil Aeronautics investigations began as Cox recovered with injuries.
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Waskom
Tex
Delta - Chicago and
Southern Airlines
Here
Hazel Cox
Panama City
Fla
East
Texas
Louisiana-Texas
Dallas
Atlanta
Cox
Shreveport
Air Force S Szt
J. W. Cox
Jackson
Miss
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Rains Worsen Flood Threat In East Texas
The Sabine River basin faces record flood risk as rains push levels higher. Bon Wier and Deweyville near 24 foot crests with 18 to 24.5 feet forecast, while Orange and Newton County brace for more rain and possible evacuations. Army engineers deploy radio cars boats and sandbags as authorities monitor the rising water.
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Weather Bureau
Bon Wier
Orange
Dewevville
Paul Cook
Lake Charles
Sabine
Dewerville
Deweyville
Cook
Sabine River Authority
John W. Simmons
Army Engineers
Red Cross
Newton County
Texas
Texas-Louisiana Line
Herbert D. Vogel
Army
U. S
Port Arthur
Cam B
Jasper
Fort Worth
Brave attendant tackled robbers but held at gunpoint
Amarillo report says Fred Loar 17, night attendant, fought off a bandit last July. On Monday another robber bound and gagged him to an oil drum and locked the station. A motorist saw Lear freed by a prior incident in which he overpowered an escaped life term convict from Oklahoma.
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Amarillo
Fred Loar
Loar
Lear
Oklahoma
Titles Bill Signing To Be Ceremony
The White House will make a ceremony of President Eisenhower signing a controversial bill that gives coastal states title to submerged lands off their shores. The signing, scheduled for today, was postponed until an indefinite date probably later this week. Plans were changed and the White House closed to arrange attendance for a number of interested persons.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Congressman Dies in Wisconsin at 102
U S House veteran Rep Merlin Hull died Sunday in La Crosse Wisconsin at age 102, the oldest member of the House. Hull served decades in Congress and was a prominent Republican figure. He passed away after a long career shaping national policy.
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Lacrosse
Wis
Merlin Hull
U. S
House of Representatives
Texas teachers pay plan stalls as lawmakers abandon compromise
Three authors of the 306 dollar plan say hopes for a compromise are dropped amid a split vote and a statement from House Speaker Reuben Senterfitt. The session runs to May 27 with this and other bills facing deadlines while teachers push for a 600 dollar annual raise.
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Austin
Ben Glasing
Kingsville
Frank Carpenter
Sour Lake
Frank Crain
Victoria
Reuben Senterfitt
House
Senate
Economy Administration
Texas
Community Ads Invite Help With Your Survey
A lively plea invites readers to fill out a community survey while listing numerous local businesses in a newspaper style classified ads section. The items include theaters, shops, services, and contractors such as Ector Theater Fisher Optical Co Fox Rig & Lumber Co Goodyear Service Store Home Vacuum Maxwell Co. Fd Phillips Tire Co. Carl Sewell Motor Co. and many more.
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Ector Theater
Fisher Optical Co
Fox Rig & Lumber Co
Goodyear
Home Vacuum
Electrolux
Maxwell Co
Phillips Tire Co
Carl Sewell Motor Co
Silver Saver
Texas Theater
SMALL
Armstrong Music Co
Rock Construction Co
Crain Office Supply
Davis Fields Co
Elliott Hotel
Fox Music Co. Furniture Co
H & H Grain Co
Health Spot Shoe
Henderson Parker Agency
Hubbard Funeral Home
Hoffman Floor Covering Co
Johnnie's Liquor Store
Leftwich Tire & Supply Model Shop Appliance
Montgomery Tile Co
Muse Sewing Machine Co
Odessa Camera Center
Otto's Ice Cream
Permian Auto Spring Co
Plaza Theater
Pokorny Drug
Exhumation of Mrs Evans Ties Notting Hill Case to Christie
London May 18 UP Scotland Yard grave diggers unearthed the murdered body of Mrs Beryle Evans, wife of Timothy Evans, once condemned as a key witness in the Notting Hill strangling case. The coffin was removed at 6 a.m. amid high screens. Christie’s connection to the murders resurfaced as authorities linked earlier killings to the same “murder house.”
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London
Scotland Yard
Beryle Evans
John ,Christie
Naiting ‘Hill
Kensington Borough Cemetery
Chiswick
Timothy Evans
Christie
Evans
Senate Advances First Appropriation Vote in Series
The Senate moved toward a vote on the first of several appropriation bills to fund independent government agencies for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The measure affects the low rent housing program for low income families, while the House ban on new starts contrasts with a Senate panel recommendation approving 35 000 new units. A final action on other spending for state commerce and justice departments was postponed as investigators reported to the committee on an unannounced subject.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
List of Dead in Accident Near Marshall Texas
Seventeen of nineteen aboard a Delta Air Lines DC-3 died when the Chicago and Southern DC-3 crash near Marshall Texas occurred yesterday. The lone survivor is Mrs. J W Cox of Panama City Florida. Names include L F Russ Dallas and Captain Douglas Volk Atlanta. Co pilot James P Stewart of Chattanooga and stewardess Joe Anne Carlson Chicago. Several women on the passenger list remain unidentified with James M Cobb noting Betty Roddy Monroe Louisiana among the dead.
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Atlanta
Delta Chicago & Southern
Marshall
Tex
J. W. Cox
Panama City
Fila
L. F. Russ
Dallas
Victor Goldberg
Monroe
L. L. Kilpatrick
Lake Providence
Harvey T. Newell Jr
Meridian
Miss
Ray M. Adams
Barbara Leidy
St. Petersburg
Fla
Barbara Jean Leidy
Patchogue
N.Y
James M. Cobb
Delta C. & S
Betty Roddy
World Citizen Davis Freed From Bow Street Court
London actor Gareth Gary Davis known as World Citizen No 1 was discharged at Bow Street Police Court for wandering abroad. Officials prepared to send him to India in three days with a ship leaving May 21 as the Home Office agreed to extend his stay.
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London
Sol Gareth Gary Davis
Bow Street
India
Davis
Francis Reece
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth
Britain
American Red Cross
Home Office
French Beat Off Hard Red Assault Near Hanoi
French command said French troops wiped out an entire Communist battalion in a bid by 5,000 Red attackers to seize Indo China’s Maginot Line south of Hanoi. They claimed their biggest Indo-Chinese victory in six months and regained control of the Yen Vi defense works guarding the Hanoi rice bowl. Observation pilots said Viet Minh forces were regrouping to the south, hinting at a possible new assault.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
Indo- China
Democrats Begin Fight To Cop Texas Party
About 300 Democrats met at Buchanan Dam to form the Democratic Organizing Committee of Texas and plan a state convention before November 1. They call for restoring party control to Texas Democrats, ousting current leaders, and raising a $5 contributions drive to back Stevenson supporters.
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Adlai
Texas Party
Buchanan Dam
Stevenson
Texas
Eisenhower
Austin
Democratic Organizing Committee of
Adlai Stevenson
Democrats of
Democratic Party
Byron Skelton
Temple
Jud Collier
Mumford
Creekmore
Allan Shivers
Dwight Eisenhower
Ralph Yarborough
Shivers
Fagan Dickson
Democratic
Stevenson Democrats
Collier
National Democratic Party
Stephen Mitchell
Dickson
Mitchell
Trash pickup routes update in city zones
Cleanup roundup shows Zone 5 east of Grant from 14th to 31st streets in progress today to Wednesday with Zone 6 west of Grant from 14th to 27th sweeping Thursday to Saturday. Total loads 1732. Leads taken out today: No report.
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Grant
Newsmen Meet in Midland Discuss Coverage
Fifty executives and editorial members from Texas newspapers attended the spring meeting of the continuing study committee of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association in Midland. Col N Dwight Allison presided at a luncheon. Roderick J Watts led discussions with Frank H King assisting. Speakers included James N Allison Delbert Downing James R Record and Charles A Guy. The fall meeting will be in Tyler on Oct 11.
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Midland
Texas
Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Col. N. Dwight Allison
San Antonio
Roderick J. Watts
Houston Chronicle
Frank H. King
Dallas
Associated Press
Watts
James N. Allison
Midland Reporter - Telegram
Delbert Downing
Midland Chamber of Commerce
James R. Record
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Charles A. Guy
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Tyler
Cop Petition Re Submitted To City Today
Circulators re submitted their petition to city authorities at mid morning about two hours before the noon deadline. Assistant City Attorney Walter Acreman said a check will be made and the document will be ready for council on May 26 with no action before then. The filing shows 36 pages and an estimated 121 added signatures, still short of 93 names needed after a prior revie w and voided names. Five circulators are listed in affidavits including Ben R Jenkins and Lewis Hadid with witnesses noted for signature collection. The petition seeks an election to decide if the police chief should be an elective post.
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Walter Acreman
Ben R. Jenkins
Eisenhower Road
Lewis Hadid
East 115Th
W. O W. Holder
West County Road
H. J. Biedleman
Sunset Lane
Henry Derrell
W. Murphy
Jenkins
Jamita
Haddi
J. C. Freeman
Ridgway Warns Europe Defense Remains Weak
General Ridgway told Congress that even with increases to planned European forces this year they would still be too weak to prevent serious reverses if attacked by the Communists. He questioned Soviet peace talk sincerity and urged continued US aid of 5.8 billion dollars, noting air power and logistics remain weak links in NATO defenses.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Congress
Europe
U. S. Army
House Foreign Affairs ‘Committee
Ridgway
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Tech inaugurates sixth president at Texas Tech
Dr. E. N. Jones became Texas Technological College’s sixth president in a formal inauguration in Lubbock on May 18. National educators attended as Dr. Henry Nash Smith of Minnesota delivered the principal address. Charles C. Thompson chaired the board meeting, with a reception and luncheon featuring Dr. William H. Cowley of Stanford.
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Lubbock
Tex
E. N. Jones
Texas Technological College
Henry Nash Smith
University of Minnesota
Charles C. Thompson
Colorado City
Tech
Jones
William H. Cowley
Stanford University
Texas Tech Board of Directors
Bellyrina Samia Says She Will Not Publicly Explain Divorce
Cairo May 18 Belly dancer Samia Gamal announced she will not detail the reasons for seeking a divorce from Texas playboy Abdullah King II. She warned she will retaliate if he makes unbecoming statements, while King in Houston called the news ridiculous and prepared to travel to Cairo.
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Cairo
Egypt
Samia Gamal
Texas
Sheppard
Abdullah
King
Samia
Houston
Paris
Gloria
Lamia
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