Rains Boost North Texas Creeks Flooding and Insect Threat
Heavy rains across north Texas flooded creeks and boosted an insect threat to cotton while ranchers welcomed lush summer growth. Decatur and Wichita Falls areas saw evacuations and precautionary measures with police boats ready, while rainfall totals reached over an inch in Dallas and Fort Worth and up to 7.23 inches in Paris for July. A separate report notes a Berlin Soviet occupied delegation heading to Peking to discuss a first trade agreement with China.
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Lol
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Galveston
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Childress
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East Germany
Peking
China
Weather Map Forecast With Scattered Showers
A weather map shows scattered showers for the upper Mississippi Valley Pacific Northwest Virginia and parts of interior New York. Thundershowers are predicted for the plains southward into eastern Texas most of the South Atlantic states southeast Florida northern Utah and northern Indiana.
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Pacific Northwest
Virginia
New York
Plain States
Texas
South Atlantic
Florida
Waho
Utah
Weather Report With Humidity and Moon Phase Data
Snapshot of the day showing humidity at 83 percent at 9 30 a m July mean 62 percent. Precipitation 0 inches in past 24 hours total for month 1 80 inches year to date 10 45 inches. Moon first quarter with moon and sun rise set times and tides listed. Pollen counts include Altertaria rust ragweed and others.
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Lightning Kills Two Soldiers at Fort Bragg
Lightning struck after a rain storm at a rifle range sheltering under a tree killing two airborne troopers and injuring 25 others. The dead are Pfc. Frank W. Bar spew, 15, of Electra Texas, and Pvt. Clyde Loflin, 20, of High Point North Carolina.
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N. C
Frank W. Barspew
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Texas
Clyde ¥. Loflin
High
Boint
N.C
iClear Skies for Most of Country
Mostly clear skies and seasonal temperatures were in prospects for most of the country. Yesterday's top mark was at Yuma Arizona.
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Yuma
Ariz
MacArthur Confident of Victory After Front Visit
General MacArthur made a second surprise swing into the Korean front, meeting with Eighth Army leaders and Far East air force officials. He stated he was never more confident of ultimate victory, while warning of future heart aches and setbacks as the war continues. He praised Eighth Army, South Korean forces, and allied services, met President Rhee and the U.S. ambassador, and visited wounded at a field hospital.
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MacArthur frees escort of rockets to return to front
General Douglas MacArthur dismissed escorting fighter planes en route from Korea, telling pilot Major Anthony Story to release the three rocket-carrying F-5s and let them go back to the front where they would do the most good. Story recalled the exchange after delivering the Bataan into Tokyo amid drizzle.
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St. Louis
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Bomb or Firecracker at New York World Telegram Plant
A device described as firecrackers by the CIO American Newspaper Guild and as a home made incendiary by the World Telegram and Sun management exploded outside the New York plant. Part of the building filled with smoke but no injuries were reported. Guild members have been on strike since June 13 over wages and benefits, and union workers did not cross picket lines.
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CIO American Newspaper Guild
New York World Telegram and Sun
Texans Warned Against New Fraud
Texans warned of a new fraud scheme soliciting money to train seeing eye dogs. Lon Alsup, director of the state commission for the blind, said no recognized Texas agency exists to train such dogs.
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Austin
Lon Alsup
State Commission For the Blind
Texas
Ticks on your dog get effective economical control
A marketing blurb promotes HILO KILTIX a 60¢ bottle dissolved in water to sponge dogs and a 60¢ can of HILO TICK POWDER as a powder option both claiming fast tick kill and longer protection. Finished solution costs 10v per pint and products promise a clean odor. Sold at drug stores and pet shops.
Danciger Stocks Sold to Southern Production Co
Dan ciger president Dan ciger announces sale of the Dan ciger family controlling interest in the Dan ciger Oil and Refining Co to Southern Production Co of Shreveport Louisiana. The 1,687,488 shares, all common, fetch 25 dollars a share. Employees are to stay on in current roles for at least one year and other stockholders will be offered the same price.
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Ol & Refining Co
Southern Production Co
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Danciger Co
Southern
Danetger
Fire destroys trailer truck on Austin highway overpass
Morton John EB, 30, of 410 Fire Avenue escaped serious injury when a Swwheel Brandt Tron trailer truck exploded gas tank after a tire blowout on the Austin highway overpass at Military Highway. The crash knocked down posts and beams, injuring Morton who was treated at Baptist Memorial hospital.
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Austin Hwy
Military Hwy
Tohn
Morton
Firie Ave
Baptist Memorial Hospital
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