Tidelands clash heads to Supreme Court October 13
Texas and four Gulf states press for a 3 mile offshore boundary in the submerged lands case. Attorney General Will Wilson leads a team with Gov. Price Daniel to file the Texas reply brief in Washington. The suit seeks rights to 1.7 million acres valued in leases and royalties.
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ED Overholser
Austin
U.S. Supreme Court
Will ‘Wilson
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Gulf
Wilson
Washington
Price Daniel
United States
Daniel
Geneva
Russia
the Hague
Galveston
Cape Catoche
Yucatan
Trist
Nicholas Trist
U.S
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Eisenhower Plans U.N. Role in Middle East Peace
The Eisenhower administration is shaping a policy to have the United Nations replace great powers in making peace and keeping order in the Middle East. Dulles will head the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly as Washington promotes a U.N. commission to propose practical, long term solutions while seeking U.S. support.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Eisenhower
United Nations
Middle East
White House
Gettysburg
Secretary
State Dulles
U. N General Assembly
U.N
U.S
James C. Hagerty
Dulles
New York
Mideast
Soviet Union
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
State Department
General Assembly
Lebanon
Jordan
Britain
Faisal
Iraq
Hussein
Saud
Saudi Arabia
Nasser
U.A.R
Tension Over Formosa Strait. Little War Likely
AP reports Hong Kong say U S and Britain see little danger of a shooting war between Red China and Nationalist China over Formosa. Both sides issue claims of invasion plans while privately viewed as talk with purpose. Nationalists accuse Reds of moving MIG jets near offshore islands. increased U S aid could follow.
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Hong Kong
Formosa Strait
U. S
China
Formosa
United States
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Snyder Savings appoints Mel Gilbert to fill unexpired director term
Snyder Savings & Loan announces Mel Z. Gilbert as director to fill the vacancy from the April death of J T Hughes. Gilbert serves until the January stockholders meeting when a full slate is elected. He is KSNY radio and Snyder Community Antenna Television executive with a background in the Chamber of Commerce.
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Snyder Savings & Loan Association
Mel Z. Gilbert
J. T. Hughes
Max West
Gilbert
West
Gene Best
Lee Smyth
Fred Aulforth
Harold Bennett
C. O. Holder
KSNY
Snyder Community Antenna Television, Inc
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
the Savings and Loan Association
Snyder
Corporation
San Angelo
Acclaim Awaits Nautilus Crew After Polar Crossing
The nuclear submarine Nautilus nears Portland England after a transpolar voyage from Hawaii. Cmdr. William R. Anderson and a 116 man crew prepare to land for a ceremony with President Eisenhower and receive honors before England stop August 12-17.
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Washington
England
Portland
Hawaii
William R. Anderson
Iceland
Eisenhower
London
White House
Pacific
Atlantic
Free World
H. G. Rickover
Gunman Steals About 5000 From Houston Supermarket
A lone gunman forced the manager to hand over roughly $5,000 at a Houston supermarket on Saturday. He fled the scene by car with more than 80 people inside the store at the time.
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Houston
Weather snapshot for Texas with heat and scattered storms
Weather alerts show Friday highs around 105 degrees and a low near 71 with a 7:30 am reading of 75 Saturday. North Central and East Texas expect partly cloudy skies with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly south. West Texas remains partly cloudy with nighttime storms and little temperature change. South Central Texas sees partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers mainly in the extreme north.
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Snyder
Texas
Bear Kills Child In Park In Jasper National Park
In Jasper Alberta a 7-year-old girl, Barbara Christine Coates, was killed by a bear at Sunwapta Falls as her mother tried to pull her away. A coroner's jury found the bear, a 4-year-old, broke the child's back and stomach injuries led to death before it was shot by a cottage owner.
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Jasper
Alta
Jasper National Park
Barbara Christine Coates
Barbara
Alison
Sunwapta Falls
Rocky Mountain
Jack Coates
Angelo Wreck Kills Five in San Angelo
A semi trailer jackknifed into a car on U S 67 eight miles north of San Angelo. Five people died: Frank Del Rio his wife Ester age five their son Lorenzo 29 and Frank’s brother plus Guillermo Almanza 25 of Monahans. Driver Manuel Perez of Brownfield said he lost control in rain and the truck rolled into the car. Perez was unhurt.
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San Angelo
Frank del Rio
Ester
Lorenzo del Rio
Frank
Guillermo F. Almanza
Monahans
Cecil Turner
Manuel Perez
Brownfield
Grape Creek
Perez
Libya Air Crash Kills 309 People in Ben Ghazi
A four engine Central African Airways Viscount crashed near Ben ghazi Libya early Saturday killing 35 of 54 aboard. All dead were British or from Commonwealth nations. Four of eight children perished and seven crew members died.
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London
Central African Airways
Benghazi
Libya
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Sub-Summit Expected With Hammarskjold At UN Session
Dag Hammarskjold aims to hold a sub summit of foreign ministers during the General Assembly emergency session on the Middle East. Dulles Lloyd Gromyko Fawzi Abdul Mangoud Hassan plan to attend as talks shift to a lower scale meeting. Hassan said Fawzi may join if discussions warrant.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
General Assembly
Middle East
Hammarskjold
Dulles
Selwyn Lloyd
Andrei Gromyko
Mahmoud Fawzi
United Arab Republic
Gromyko
New York
Lloyd
Fawzi
Abdul Mangoud Hassan
U.A.R
Midland Plans Big Office Building
Midland announces a 15 story office building valued at 2 million dollars to be built downtown by R F E Milner a top General Motors dealer. Gulf Oil Corp leases a substantial portion of the structure with completion expected around January 1 1960 near West Wall Street by the County Courthouse.
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Midland
R. FE. Dumas Milner
Jackson& Miss
General Motors
Gulf Oil Corp
Midland County
West Wall St
First National Bank
Midland Savings and
CAA Okays Tower For Community TV
The Civil Aeronautics Administration approves Snyder Community Antenna Television to erect a 440 foot tower north of Snyder Cemetery on the Lawrence Jones farm. SCAT will open a downtown office after tower completion and plans to offer reception on five stations with NBC CBS and ABC signals.
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Snyder Cemetery
Lawrence Jones
CAA
SCAT
Gilbert
Texas Theater
N. R. Clements
Flora Hughes
Wendell Mayes
Brownwood
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Salam
Basta
Acclaim
Nautilus
By Elton C. Fay
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Stockholm
Polar
Gunman
Angelo Wreck
William N. Oatis
Hassan
CAA Okays Tower
Civil Aeronautics Adminis
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Thirty-seventh Street
Avenue S
Beths Sims
Ginny Sims
W. D. Sims
Patsy Huffman
Lee Watson
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