18 Aug 1955
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
1
Russians and American aides move through California farm country en route to Riverside and Lamar Town, planning a Veterans Memorial visit near Exeter. They will observe land development irrigation and cotton production as they travel toward Los Angeles.
In San Antonio's Sumner Frontier Festival a Jayere sponsored event featured Little Davys in costumes ranging from coonskin caps and burlap outfits to dresses. Boys and girls paraded before judges in three age groups while rifles, fringed shirts, and moccasins appeared. Some participants wore noncostumed outfits but joined in the singing and pageantry.
Police sought a 31yearold Chicago man with a record of morals offenses for questioning in the slaying of 12yearold Peter Gorham. Gorham vanished July from Camp WaBaningo near Muskegon and his body, found five miles away, showed a single fatal head wound. A pathologist linked the death to a .30caliber bullet.
Arkansas Congressman Rep. Wilbur Mills says President Eisenhower will ask Congress to cut personal and corporate income taxes. Mills, a Democrat, quoted an assistant secretary of the treasury saying the recommendation would be a serious mistake unless there is more detail.
Floyd Ray Jackson aged 20, described as a convicted rapist, died in the Texas penitentiary electric chair after the state denied a stay of execution. The report notes the execution occurred in Huntsville, Texas, on August 8 as AP coverage. Joseph P. Ryan, 71, president emeritus of the International Longshoremen’s Association, was indicted in New York on tax evasion charges covering 1949 to 1952 for $32,777.
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