Vienna Coats Navy Execution Hit By Dowdy
Congressman John Dowdy reports on government corruption and a harsh note on the Nagy execution. He cites a White House inquiry into a matter involving Bernard Goldfine and gifts to officials, urging vigilance against graft. The piece mentions Adams and a 1958 context with congressional resolutions condemning communists.
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Eldridge Ryman
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Imne Nagy
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Fort Hood unit completes rigorous two-week training cycle
On arrival the unit split into red and blue squads for training including rifle fire, land mine and mortar firing, bayonet assaults, and rocket launcher drills. The second week adds filtration and close combat courses. The infiltration exercise proved toughest, involving crawling under live fire and demolition hazards. Training ended June 21 with a parade. Payday totaled 7 205 dollars. Lt. Col. William T. Wilkins praised the program as the most thorough at Fort Hood, noting increased live ammunition use.
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William T. Wilkins
Fort Hood
Volleyball Play Thrashing Out Team Standings
The article notes Thursday games at 7 p.m. in the high school gym pitting Mathews Miller against Maximum Security and South Texas Producers against the Outlaws, with Reklaw Old Folks at 8 p.m. facing Comets. It details Monday standings: Reklaw Flyers lead the women, and in men Nicholson’s Grocery and Reklaw Old Folks share first, with Road Runners and Outlaws tied for second and a three way tie for fourth among Mathews Miller Cherokee Laundry and Comets.
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Mathews-Miller
Maximum Security
South Texas
Outlaws
Reklaw
Comets
Nicholson's Grocery
Reklaw Flyers
Team Queens
Zervettes
Independents
Big Rs
Reklaw Old Folks
Mathews- Miller
Cherokee Laundry
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Ponta 4-H Club Hears Civil Defense Report
Laquita Bobbitt presided at the Ponta Community building meeting on June 19 at 7 30. Jamie Scallon read minutes Sue Bennet reported on Civil Defense and Laquita Bobbitt outlined next agenda with an August meeting planned. Present were Bennet Scallon Bobbitt Irwin Davis and others.
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Mary Nell Bobbitt
Laquita Bobbitt
Ponta
Jamie Scallon
Sue Bennet
Billy Davis
Johnny Scallon
Janella Bobbitt
Elizabeth Irwin
Barbara Bobbitt
Willie Davis
Paul Traylor
Harold Scallon
Lillie Bobbitt
Guard unit completes historic Fort Hood training encampment
A 65 man National Guard unit from A, Rusk returned after a two week training encampment at Fort Hood described as the most successful field period since World War II. The group did rugged combat drills and character guidance then on June 14 was chosen as one of five companies to form the Governor’s honor guard on Governor’s Day.
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Rusk National Guard
Fort Hood
Cherokee County Students Enroll At SFA Summer Term
About 82 Cherokee County students from Jacksonville Rusk Alto Wells Maydelle and Gallatin enroll for SFA summer term. SFA registrar McKewen reports 1513 total students for the term the third largest in 35 years with towns listed and names of enrollees.
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S. W. McKewen
SFA
Cherokee County
Jacksonville
Rusk
Alto
Wells
Maydelle
Gallatin
Willie Acker Laverne Banks
Bobby Beard
Marvin Brightwell
Ethie Crooks
William Crooks
Mabel Douglas
Kenneth Flynt
Billy Garner
Ernestine Garner
Lewis Griggs
Gwenda Gunn
Dorris McLeod
Peggy Mack
Hughlamae Manning
Philip Manning
Earl Meyer
Jenny Meyer
Lora Moore
Maureen Moore
Ruth Richards
Faye Short
Kate Stovall
Helen Treadwell
Joyce Smith
William Watson
Helen Wilson
Cherokee County Farmers Advise on Grasses and Pines
W G Dominy of Alto plants Coastal Bermuda in 1954 and cites the error of not planting the full area to grass. Clayton and Earl Barrett of Troup thin 30 acres with help from Texas Forest Service foresters. Rogers of Knob Hill dairy near Alto tests Coastal Bermuda Sudan and Columbia grasses and expands Coastal Bermuda. District cooperators R W Cruseturner Alto and C R Meador Jacksonville help complete stock-water ponds. Mrs R G Bobbitt Ponta and B L Gray New Summerfield build terraces. The district will distribute 2 600 000 pine seedlings in December to February. orders from August 1 to September 15 via Lena Bell Pirtle in Rusk. Cooperator B C Cannon clears brush, Durwood Rogers saves Crimson Clover seed, and Mrs L L Simpson harvests 10 500 lbs oats as volunteers.
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W. G. Dominy
Alto
Bermuda
Dominy
Clayton
Earl Barrett
Troup
Barretts
Texas Forest Service
Maxel Rogers
Knob Hill
Rogers
Sudan
Columbia
Cherokee County Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service
R W. Cruseturner
C. R. Meador
Jacksonville
R. G. Bobbitt
Ponta
B. L. Gray
RA youth group plans all night camp out at Ratcliff Lake
The Royal Ambassadors of the First Baptist Church plan an all night camp out leaving Rusk Friday afternoon June 27 for Ratcliff Lake and returning Saturday. The outing includes swimming group singing and inspirational services sponsored by the church Men's Brotherhood. Ten boys will attend with Tom Sartain and Bingaman accompanying.
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Royal Ambassadors
First Baptist Church
Chas. Bingaman
Rusk
Ratcliff Lake
Men’s Brotherhood of the Church
Tom Sartain
Bingaman
Loving County Receives Notation as Last Texas County
The record notes Loving County as the last Texas county organized in 1931. The detail appears in a historical summary of Texas county formations highlighting its late establishment amid the state’s municipal development.
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Texas
Loving
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