Maine Primary Shakes Up Senate Race As Brewster Defeated
In Maine, Sen. Owen Brewster loses his bid for Republican renomination to Gov. Frederick G. Payne with Payne leading by about 3,000 votes as results from most precincts come in. Democratic hopeful Roger P. Duke wins a largely symbolic Senate contest in the state. Nationwide, Eisenhower gains delegates while Taft and Kefauver/Harriman contest convention votes.
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Owen Brewster
Brewster
Frederick G. Payne
Roger P. Duke
Lewiston
Payne
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Dwight Eisenhower
Ohio
Robert Taft
Taft
Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Denver
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Wigenhower
Georgia
Sen
Richard Russell
Caspar
Wyo
Oklahoma
Robert Kerr
Iowa
District of Columbia
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Malai
W. Averell Harriman
Russell
Associated Press
Kefauver
Harriman
Republi
East Germany Moves Toward People's Army Conscription
East Germany announced plans to draft a military force called the People’s Army and to punish conscientious objectors as enemies of peace. The move, touted by the anti fascist bloc and backed by Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl, aims to mobilize 18 million people using existing police and security units.
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Berlin
East Germany
East Zone
Otto Grotewohl
Pampa School Board Plans Bond Session on June 23
The Pampa School Board will meet at 2 p.m. Monday June 23 in the City Hall city commission room to discuss a $400,000 school bond. The May 24 rating covered $350,000 for a new elementary school in the southwest area and for new stands at Pampa High School football field.
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Bida
Isaac
Pampa School Board
Pampa
City Commission
City Hall
Summer recreation program enrolls 300 on second day
City enrollment for the summer recreation program reaches 300 by midday as C O Mangold announces enrollment continues at Baker Sam Houston and Carver Schools. Playgrounds start next Monday at 8 30 am and parents are urged to enroll before Friday though enrollment remains open all summer.
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C. O. Mangold
Baker
Sam Houston
Carver
Mangold
Navy Aims Atom Powered Supercarrier By 1955
The Daily News reports designs for an atomic engine to drive a Forrestal class carrier at 50 knots. The vessel would carry about one third more aircraft, run largely without refueling, and be ready for installation by fiscal 1955. The Navy seeks one more large carrier annually for 10 years, with construction planned for fiscal 1954.
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New York
Daily News
Navy
Washington Dispatch
Jerry Greene
Congress
Plutonicum
Furith
Skellytown Launches Clean-Up Campaign With Community Events
The Skellytown Lions Club starts a cleanup campaign with a Thursday meeting at Les Kreis's garage at 2 p.m. to collect trash. A box and pie supper is planned for Friday, June 20, at the school auditorium to raise funds for local projects. Sheriff Clarence Williams auctioneers alongside Pete Wellborn. Entertainment by the Squeaky Door Four and John Lee Weston. Everyone invited. no admission.
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Skellytown
Squeaky Door Four
Pampa
John Lee Weston
Ridgway Denies UN Germ Warfare Claims in Korea
General Matthew Ridgway, at an air port news conference before departing for Naples, blasted Communist charges that United Nations forces used germ warfare in Korea as deliberate propaganda. He asserted no such weapons were used and called the proofs, including photographs, as manufactured by Communist leaders.
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Rome
Matthew B. Ridgway
God
United Nations
Korea
Ridgway
Naples
Redg
Russ Ship Offer Seen as Overture to Debt Settlement
Washington officials viewed Moscow’s surprise offer to return 188 American ships as a step toward resolving the Soviet lend-lease debt of about 11 billion dollars. The proposal comes amid stalled talks on other major issues, while a Russian group led by Boris Karayaev also offered 300 million dollars for a final settlement covering ships, tools, locomotives, and civilian goods.
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Washington
State Department
Soviet Union
Moscow
United States
Boris I. Karayaev
Emassy
Forecast: Mercury Rises With Hot Texas Temperatures
A cool front cooled yesterday when highs reached 86. Today expect hotter conditions with high temperatures near 90s across Texas and more warm days ahead as heat dominates the forecast.
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Texas
U.S. Must Overcome Russian Air Superiority
Washington reports Senate subcommittee urges faster U.S. air power buildup to reach 143 wings quickly, citing Joint Chiefs of Staff testimony. Lyndon Johnson leads the push on defense, warning that delays invite disaster and leave NATO unable to withstand a Soviet attack.
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Washington
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
U. S
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Truman
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Russia
Joint Chiefs
Johnson
Army Reveals New Plans On U S Defense
The Army said anti aircraft batteries have been sent to defensive positions around key industrial plants and major cities. Civilian defense workers will begin a 24 hour vigil July 14 as Air Defense Command notes Soviet capability to attack. Exact battery locations were not disclosed to maximize defense from any direction.
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Washington
Army
Air Force
Frederic H. Smith Jr
Air Defense Command
United States
City Commission Considers Civic Improvements and Traffic Signals
The city commission spent most of the session discussing civic improvements focusing on traffic signals. Priority goes to Somerville streets Foster Kingsmill Francis with lighter Kentuc ky Yeager costs allowing potential Martins Hobart Kingsmill signals if needed. The rubber extension bill moved to President Truman to extend the program through March 31, 1984.
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Russell
Foster
Frost
Somerville
Foster, Kingsmill
Francis
Foster, Whinga
Mill and
Kentucky
Yeager
Hobart
Kingsmill
Washington
House
Truman
Warden resigns after six hour sit down strike in New Mexico prison
Warden Joseph Tondre quit the New Mexico penitentiary after convicts staged a six hour sit down strike and voiced resentment toward his administration. He feared further trouble and possible harm if he stayed. The strike overlapped a news conference held in the prison yard by prison board chairman L. White before convicts ended the protest. Losses included damage to freight cars estimated at 145000 dollars after a Coleman rail derailment near Abilene Santa Fe.
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Banta Fin
A. A
Joseph Tondre
New Mexico Penitentiary
Tondre
L. ©. White
Lewis Hardware
Early Resident, Wife Tour City Via Bicycle
W. Z. Beydler, founder of Pampa’s first coal yard and Crescent Theatre, travels with his wife from San Jose to revisit Jericho Springs birthplace and Pampa connections. They retrace Beydler’s 1901 arrival, recalling town beginnings and his later California retirement. The couple stays with local hosts C. H. Wood and I. S. Jameson, with Beydler recounting changes since his first visit.
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Beydler
Birvedes
Wereen Rote
San Juse
Calitra
Missouri
UPR
Limber Yard
Funeral Home
W. Z. Beyiler
San Jose
Calif
Jericho Springs
Pampa
Beydller
Teve Hooper Lumber Company
the Crescent
California
Southern Pacific Allroad Ca
Blanche Courtney
Ambassadors Due Honors At Dinner
Royal Ambassadors aged eighteen and under will attend the Brathurhodd First Baptist Church monthly dinner at 7 pm in the church dining room. Rev Watt Holloway will speak, with a group of visiting ambassadors scheduled to sing on the program and Miss Eloise Lime presenting a solo.
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First Baptist Church
First Baptist Ciel
Watt Holloway
Visita Ambassiatel
Pal
Wloise Lime
Sweden Ups Warlike Search After Soviet Jet Attack
Infuriated Swedes pressed a continuing Baltic search for a missing Swedish DC-3 as 5,000 protesters gathered at Stockholm. The government protested and demanded punishment, while jet escorts were assigned to the search amid escalating tension with Soviet fighters near the Estonian coast.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic Sea
Husslangs
Narman
Iion
F Lold
Ing
Mailin
Lust
Eiquiry
Shi
Hangoe
Fox A
Stan
Constatine Rodinov
House Approves Social Security Increase Measure
The House voted final approval to a bill raising Social Security benefits by at least $4 a month for 442 million beneficiaries, costing about 300 million dollars annually. The measure, lobbied by Speaker Rayburn, now moves to the Senate amid political backlash and revisions to address objections over medical enrollment.
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Washington
House
May
Senate
Raytten
Frog
Soe Nienshers
McLean Lions to Mexico City Meet
Approximately 38 members of the McLean Lions will depart by chartered bus tomorrow for the Lions International Convention in Mexico City. They arrive at 7 a.m. and will spend three days attending events before the convention.
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McLean Lions
Mexico City
Mb Veracaas Cepsnen
Liong Chibsi
Lianhande
Lions International Conve Vol
Fron Attuaitig
Canvens Hun
Thig
Lions
Commencement Set For Bible School At Central Baptist
Vacation Bible School of Central Baptist Church will hold commencement exercises Wednesday at 7 30 p m Parents invited and all students will participate Bert A Howell Inc offers complete air conditioning service from 34 60 and up Visit 119 Ward Phone 152 or 4872
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Central Baptist Church
Bert A. Howell Inc
Ward
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