New Water Storage Tank Now In Service
Snyder City Council approved final payments for two contracts. A half million gallon elevated tank in Southwest Snyder goes into service today with a $14,321.58 payment to R. D. Cole Manufacturing Co., completing a $58,695 contract. The council also paid $10,686.74 to L. A. Purtell for the seal coating project completing 182 blocks citywide.
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Snyder
R. D. Cole Manufacturing Co
George Patterson
L. A. Purtell
Patterson
Jackson
Rail and thalidomide headlines mix in Chicago dispatches
In Chicago a federal judge refused to dismiss an injunction against rail job cuts tied to a presidential panel. The case tests notices wiping out 13 000 to 40 000 diesel fireman positions and other featherbedding claims while Celebrezze reports 15 904 thalidomide distributions in the U S doctors program.
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U. S
Chicago
U.S. Dist
Joseph Sam Perry
Cogdell Rites Today For Earnest Cogdell 68
Funeral services for Earnest Lee Cogdell 68 were held at Trinity Methodist Church after he was found dead in Cogwell Center at 9 a m Monday. Rev Allen Adams officiated with burial in Mineral Wells Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr Thomas Hartley Obed Wooldridge Dick Hart J W Phillips R D Page and John Boren. Survivors include one sister five brothers and he was a member of the Methodist Church formerly with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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Earnest Lee Cogdell
Cogwell Center
Trinity Methodist Church
Allen Adams
Mineral Wells
Bolger Funeral Home
Thomas Hartley
Obed Wooldridge
Dick Hart
J. W. Phillips
R. D. Page
John Boren
E. T. Pitzer
Abilene
D. M. Cogdell
Snyder
Willard Cogdell
R. G. Cogdell
E. E. Cogdell
H. C. Cogdell
Cogdell
Methodist Church
Southwestern Rel! Telephone Co
Mystery Call To Monroe Probed In Monroe Death
Hollywood AP reports a mysterious nighttime call before Marilyn Monroe’s death fuels speculation on suicide versus accidental overdose. A housekeeper recalls no time, police seal her Manhattan apartment, and a will issue prompts holding her belongings. A toxicology report cites lethal barbiturate levels, with funeral plans and close friends listed.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Eunice Murray
Marilyn
Theodore J. Curphey
Murray
New York City
Miss Monroe
Manhattan
57Th St
Police Department
Aaron Frosch
Frosch
Liecu Linus
Grace McKee
Westwood Village
Joe Dimaggio
Lee
Paula Strasberg
New York
Burnice Miracle
Patricia Newcomb
Curphey
Monroe
Los Angeles
Sobien Exit Delayed Amid Diplomatic Deadlock
A London prisoner stalemate leaves Dr. Robert Soblen in Brixton as El Al defers transporting him to New York. Britain deadlines and extradition limits clash with Israel’s refusal to carry Soblen. Czechslovakia offers asylum while U S seeks his return.
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London
Robert A. Sobien
Brixton
el al
United States
New York
Britain
U.S
Soviet Union
Home Office
Soblen
Tel Aviv
Israel
British Press Association
Weather Outlook for Texas Regions This Week
Forecast shows hot and fair conditions across North Central to Northwest Texas with high temperatures from the mid 90s to upper 100s and lows around 40s to 80s. Coastline winds southerly 18 knots, gusts up to 28 knots. Southeast and South Central Texas expect clear to partly cloudy skies and high temperatures near 100.
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Snyder
Texas
Insurance Board Hears Agents on Safe-Driving Plan
The Texas Insurance Board and Texas Association of Insurance Agents discussed reinstating a safe-driving merit rating plan. Carl Hunt said 400 agents support a plan rewarding better driving with lower rates. The board dropped the two year old plan last month and now bases rates on territory and auto use.
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Austin
I AP
Insurance Board
Texas Association of Insurance Agents
Carl Hunt
Dallas
Association
Hunt
Heat Wave Persists Across Texas Panhandle
A weak cool front drifted into the Texas Panhandle with no relief from the heat wave. Weather observers expect little downstate change as skies stay clear and no rain falls. Texas cities report temperatures around 100 to 107 degrees with Presidio hottest at 110.
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Texas Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Texas
Presidio
San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Laredo
Wink
Childress
Cotulla
Abilene
Lufkin
College Station
Midland
Waco
Marfa
San Antonio
Austin
Fort Worth
Mineral Wells
Beaumont
Dallas
Houston
Eisenhower Visits Old Paris Home and ROT NATO Era
Former President Dwight D Eisenhower returns to the Paris residence he occupied as NATO commander in Europe and greets the current tenant General Lauris Norstad during a brief visit.
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Paris
Dwight D Eisenhower
NATO
Europe
U.S
Lauris Norstad
Algerian Regime Surrenders Powers To Political Bureau
The Algerian provisional government led by Ben Khedda ceded power to a political bureau headed by Ahmed Ben Bella. The move, to run until a constituent assembly vote on Sept. 2, leaves the government as a revolution institution while CNRA meeting is planned. The bureau aims to organize election candidates for the FLN and stabilize administration after independence.
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Andrew Borowiec
Algiers
Ben Youssef Ben Khedda
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ben Khedda
National Council of the Algerian Revolution
CNRA
Algeria
Ben Bella
Hocine Aii Ahmed
National Liberation Front
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State Highway Dept
Banisky, Ocker and Anderson
Certified Public Accountants
Thirtyseventh Street
Texas Highway Department
East Thirtyseventh
Avenue S
Avenue C
U. S. 84
Ter
Highway Department
Washington
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Celebrezze
Food and Drug Administration
Park Avenue
Germany
FDA
Francis C. Kelsey
White House
Kelsey
Kennedy
Cooleth—Gelene
Kathy Williams
Southland Ice Company
Gene Williams
Fortieth Street
Grace Goddard
Dollywood
Sobien
The
Czechslovakia
David Ben-Gurion
U.S. Marshall
Lgerian
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