Tornadoes Kill Baby and Injure Fourteen in Texas
A baby died and fourteen people were hurt as tornadoes lashed West and North Texas Tuesday night. Paducah suffered the worst damage with half its City Hall roof torn and Ida Placincio, three months old, killed. Bakersfield and Iowa Park also reported damage and injuries.
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Texas
Associated Press
Paducah
Cannes
NvuuUll Fiains Cowan
Iowa Park
Ida Placincio
Bakersfield
San Angelo
Mining Executive Takes His Own Life
Denver mining executive Homer H. Harris, 70, secretary-vice president of the Potash Co. of America, shot himself with a .32 caliber revolver in his home garage. Harris, who had headed mining, banking and lumber ventures in Iowa and Colorado, arrived from Ottumwa in 1931. Medical Examiner W. S. Tucker called it a clear death by own action. no autopsy or inquest planned. He had suffered a two year muscular disorder and severe pain.
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Denver
Homer H. Harris
Harris
The
Potash Co. of America
Iowa
Colorado
Ottumwa
W. S. Tucker
Postal Receipts Rise in May 1954
May 1954 postal receipts totaled 26567 dollars and 81 cents, up 602 dollars and 25 cents from May 1953, per Postmaster Mary McCullough.
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Mary McCullough
Weather Summary for United States Reading Day
Temperatures tracked from 2:00 p.m. yesterday to 11:00 a.m. today show highs near 98 and lows around 65 with recent values around the low to mid 90s. Precipitation remains zero in the last 24 hours and month to date. Sunrise is 4 49 and sunset 17 03 with a 14.2 hour day. Forecast calls for mostly clear skies with dust, cooler conditions, a high near 86, and a low near 58.
Recovered $5,700 in Artesia auto collision case
In a District Court filing dated May 29, J L Taylor and Kenneth L Taylor against J F Massey and New Mexico Farm Mutual Insurance Co settled a Nov 1952 crash on US 285 four miles north of Artesia. Judgment awards totaled 5,700 with 4,035 to the Taylors and 1,665 to the insurer.
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J. L. Taylor
Trenth
Kenneth L. Taylor
New Mexico Farm Mutual Insurance Co
J. F. Massey
Taylor
Kenneth
U. S. Highway 285
Artesia
Massey and Taylor
Taylors
Flash Explosion Kills Two On Submarine Sirago
In Portsmouth New Hampshire two civilian workers were killed when a flash exploded in the Sirago’s ballast tank while it rested in drydock. A nearby sailor was burned but not seriously. An investigation was ordered and names withheld. The blast occurred a week after a deadly explosion aboard the carrier Bennington.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Robert E. Cronin
Navy
Bennington
Quonset Point
R.I
Press convention invites state and national candidates
All state officers and candidates for state and national offices were sent blanket invitations to the New Mexico Press Association summer convention. Bill Calvert, convention chairman and The Current Argus advertising manager, announced the event. The gathering starts Friday in Santa Fe at La Fonda and ends Saturday with a banquet and gridiron dinner featuring Gov. Ed Mechem and Lt. Gov. Tibo Chavez.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
New Mexico Press Assn
Elds
Lincoln O’brien
Ind
Euene Mann
Eastern New Mexico University
Texas
Sigma Delta Chi
Joe Roach
Ben Martinez
Bernalillo County
Harold Hubbell
Las Vegas
Dist
Jose Armijo
Charles Guy
Lubbock, Tex
Avalanche Journal
Edward M. Pooley
Carlsbad
New Mexico Press Association
Bill Calvert
Argus
la Fonda
Ed Mechem
Tibo Chavez
Hondo Dams Project Bids Open Near Capitan Nevada
The Soil Conservation Service invites bids on 41 earth fills along the Hondo River on the Pearson and Brancroft ranches near Capitan. June 10 bids mark the first projects to serve the watershed. A separate civil suit against singer Jimmy Boyd was dismissed.
U S Air Force Withdrawals From Indochina Continue
About 200 American Air Force technicians sent to Indochina last March are being withdrawn by June 12 as part of pledged United States policy. Remaining technicians and 47 B-26 bombers are kept to bolster French air operations against Vietminh in the delta amid secret strategy talks with allied chiefs.
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Washington
United States
Indochina
Defense Department
Hanoi
Red
Congress
France
Ital
U.S
Far East
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
USS
Palace of Nations
Henri Delteil
Ta Quang Buu
Vietminh
As Level
Yester
Oppenheimer Seeks Fast Action On Adverse Report
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer asks the Atomic Energy Commission for swift action after a special three member board recommended barring him from atomic secrets. The majority opinion accuses him of delaying hydrogen bomb work and associating with Communists. A minority opines no hindrance to H bomb progress.
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Oppenheimer
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Robert Oppenheimer
Commission
Sivir Lauliu
Allet Sia
Ward V. Evans
Loyola University of Chicago
Lloyd K. Garrison
AEC
K. D. Nichols
Personnel Security Review Board
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
N.J
Nixon
Sumner T. Pike
David Hill
The
Federation of American Scientists
Departments of State and Defense
National Security Council
Security
Funeral Services For Don Vertrees Tomorrow
Donald Wall Vertrees 23 will be mourned at 2 30 p m tomorrow in First Methodist Church with Rev. Austin H Dillon presiding. Burial follows at South Park Cemetery. Vertrees, a cadet who drowned at the New Mexico Military Institute natatorium, was born in Detroit March 5, 1931. He moved to Roswell in 1945 and studied at UNM and NMIMT before entering the local Institute. Survivors include his parents Charles X and Mrs. Vertrees, a brother in Albuquerque, and maternal grandparents in Roswell. Pallbearers are Schrim sher, Corn, Davenport, Clees, Kragrad, and Gentry. Arrangements by Ballard Funeral Home.
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Donald Wall Vertrees
First Methodist Church
Austin H. Dillon
South Park
Cadet Vertrees
New Mexico Military Institute
Detroit
Roswell
Donald
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
New Mexico Institute of Mines and Technology
Socorro
Charles X. Vertrees
N. Atkinson Ave
Charles E
Joseph Brown
Max Schrimsher
Poe Corn
Eddie Davenport
Homer Clees
Ray Kragrad
Charles Gentry
Ballard Funeral Home
Small Loan Association to Police Members in New Mexico
Investigator Lilburn Homan said he would call today to urge the small loans industry in New Mexico to police its own members to prevent lawbreaking. He was to address the Small Loan Association meeting in Albuquerque.
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Self Policing
Santa FE
Lilburn Homan
New Mexico
Homan
Small Loan Assn
Albuquerque
University to test 10000 ninth graders for delinquency prevention
The University of Minnesota will conduct personality tests on about 10 000 ninth grade students to explore prevention of juvenile delinquency mental illness and related maladjustments. Dr Starke R Hathaway and Dr Elio D Monachesi supervise a project funded by over 80000 in Public Health Service funds.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Starke R. Hathaway
Elio D. Monachesi
U. S. Public Health Service
Boy Causes Fuss At Braintree Police Station
A 3 year old boy was held at the Braintree police station for two hours yesterday. He dumped police files from drawers and disrupted the teletype and telephone switchboard. He beaned Lt Francis Maguire with a flashlight before officers placed him in a cruiser to search for his parents.
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Braintree
Mass
Francis Maguire
Alarming Infiltration Alleged by McCarthy Subcommittee
Senator McCarthy said the investigation has information alarming beyond words about Communist infiltration of the CIA and hydro and atom bomb plants. He noted these fields are more serious than the Army radar lab charges at Ft Monmouth. He spoke before the noon recess on the 24th day of the Army McCarthy hearings.
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Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Central Intelligence Agency
McCarthy
Army
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Army-McCarthy
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Roy M. Cohn
McCarthy Subcommittee
Jackson
Monmouth
FBI
Officials Inspect Holloman AFB and White Sands Proving Ground
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Frank Newbury and five aides arrived to inspect Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Proving Ground. The visit marks the first in a series to familiarize officials with Western bases.
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Base Alamogordo
the Air Force
Frank Newbury
Holloman Air Force Base
White Sands Proving Ground
Farmington Man Dies After Albuquerque Hospital Stay
Allwyn Bill Rutledge 48 of Farmington died in an Albuquerque hospital after four days of treatment. Survived by three sisters and eight brothers. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Farmington
Albuquerque
Allwyn
Bill) Rutledge
Eisenhower touts anti communism wins at press briefing
President Eisenhower announced an impressive list of accomplishments in fighting communism and subversion. He refused questions on the McCarthy dispute, saying his sole objective is enacting his legislative program and citing a Justice Department and FBI report on anti subversion efforts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department
Brownell
Monroe Named Acting Chief Tax Commissioner
Governor Mechem named D. D. Monroe of Clayton as acting chief tax commissioner. Monroe will serve until a permanent appoinment or until he can assume the role permanently. The post was vacant since June 1 after Fred W. Moxey resigned to become executive secretary of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association.
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Santa FE
D. D. Monroe
Clayton
Edwin L. Mechem
Mechem
Monroe
Fred W. Moxey
The
New Mexico Oil and Gas Assa
McCarthy Call Records Face Senate Subcommittee Questioning
The Senate Investigations subcommittee debated releasing monitored calls in the McCarthy dispute with Army officials. Roy Cohn protested missing transcripts and urged all relevant calls be introduced before any are made public. The panel sought a waiver from the President’s order to release the talks, while McCarthy and Cohn insisted on no selective disclosure.
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McCarthy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
Roy M. Cohn
Ray Jenkins
Cohn
Army
Jenkins
Joseph N. Welch
Atty
Stevens
Kirke B. Lawton
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Subcommittee
Mount McKinley Climber Found Alive After Fatal Fall
Pfc George Argus of Brooklyn N Y was found alive high on Mt McKinley Alaska after an earlier May 16 fall that left him with a broken hip. One climber in the party died in the plunge while two others survived and reached civilization for aid.
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George Argus
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mt. McKinley
Alaska
Civilization
President Refuses Opinion on Oppenheimer Case
President Eisenhower declined to offer judgment on the split Security Board ruling barring J. Robert Oppenheimer from secret atomic files. He cited ongoing quasi-judicial processes and praised the physicist’s past achievements while Oppenheimer and his lawyers questioned the board’s loyalty finding.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Security Board
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
AEC
Oklahoma A&M 59th commencement honors 1,212 degree recipients
Paul Eugene Wilham of Dexter is among 1,212 Oklahoma A&M College students who received degrees at the 59th commencement exercises. The diploma was conferred by Dr. Oliver S. Williams, A&M president, on May 31.
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Stillwater
Paul Eugene Wilham
Dexter
Oklahoma A&m College
Oliver S. William
A&m
Bidault Seeks Asian Neutrals to Police Indochina Cease Fire
Geneva reports say French Foreign Minister Bidault will propose a plan for Asian neutrals to supervise an Indochina cease fire with backing from the United States and Britain. The U.S. weighs whether to exclude Soviets from oversight and prefers Asian policing of their back yard.
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Bidault
Geneva
Georges Bidault
Indochina
United States
Britain
U. S
Supervisory Commission
India
Pakistan
Ceylon
Indonesia
Burma
Oe S
101st Bennington Victim Announced
The Navy says the 101st casualty of the Bennington blast is Marine Pfc. Delbert Baird of Akron Ohio. He died at Chelsea Naval Hospital Massachusetts from burns as a board of inquiry enters its fifth day into the disaster.
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Quonset Point
R. I
Navy Today
Bennington
Delbert Baird
Glenna Baird
Akron
Ohio
Chelsea
Mass
Naval Hospital
No Trace Found Of Missing Cook
Jake Allen, 41, local cook, remains missing after the May 17 flood. A sheriff's posse conducted a thorough search along Spring River a week ago but found no signs of him.
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Jake Allen
Sheriff’s
Spring River
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G. R. Dillard
Gene Barker
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