No Recommendation On Buying Lots Between Park And School
The county park advisory board denies official recommendation to buy 18 Towle Place lots north of the park. Chairman Marven Stevenson and M. R. Estes say the board discussed the land but took no motion to spend bond money. Towle Place offered the parcels for 8100 with no development or resale conditions.
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Monday Daily News
County Park Advisory Board
Marven Stevenson
Stevenson
M. R. Estes
Commissioners Court
Joe W. Burkett
Towle Place Development Co
Towle Place
Estes
Austin
Denison
Forty - First Street
Drilling activity expands in Nolan and surrounding Texas fields
United Smelting plans a 6 500 foot Ellenburger test in Southeast Nolan County at No 1 J L Hicks location four miles NW of Hylton Strawn field Union Oil targets Lake Trammell area with No 1 A TXL at 3 30 feet from NE quarter section 33 S T P and 10 miles SW of Sweetwater to 5 500 feet Pennsylvanian test Kent project El Capitan No 1 Daugherty reaches 6 910 feet Strawn lime near Salt Creek field Cities Production crews a 12 500 foot wildcat northwest of Lamesa No 1 B Leverett location to begin Union Oil logs at Loggie No 1 William D Gail area and other rigs drilling shale lime in surrounding counties.
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United Smelting, Refining & Mining Co
Nolan County
J. L. Hicks
H&tc
Hylton-Strawn
Union Oil of California
Lake Trammell
St&p
Sweetwater
Kent Project
el Capitan
Daugherty
Kent Wildcat
Salt Creek
Lamesa
R. S. Anderson
Clyde Miller
Garza Prospector
UN Says Overflight Near Panmunjom Likely UN Planes
The United Nations Command stated that two or three jet planes seen over Panmunjom during the truce talks Sunday probably belonged to UN forces. The note to the Red liaison said witnesses could not identify marks, but concluded the aircraft were UN. The overflight was regretted and talks remain in recess until August 19.
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Munsan
Korea
U.N. Command
Panmunjom
United Nations
Charles W. McCarthy
U. N. Command
Chang Chun-san
Carlsen Denies Wreck Report
In an interview aboard the Flying Enterprise II Captain Kurt Carlsen denied a German police report claiming he was injured in a motorcycle accident. Flensburg police cited a hospital report naming a man as Carlsen with a broken collarbone and treatment, though no identification explanation was provided.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Kurt Carlsen
Germany
Carlsen
Flensburg
Flying Enterprise
Baptist College Group Safe After Plane Found Near Mexico City
A Beechcraft Bonanza carrying Wayland Baptist College leaders Dr J W Marshall Jack Robinson and Sam Choy was reported safe after landing near Atotonilco east of Guadalajara following a weather delay. An aerial search extended from Brownsville toward Mexico City after the plane departed Plainview Sunday. The trip aimed to plan a Wayland student faculty tour to the Baptist World Youth Conference in Rio de Janeiro in July 1953.
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Brownsville
Mexico City
Guadalajara
Mexico
J. W. Marshall
Wayland Baptist College
Plainview
Jack Robinson
Fort Worth
Sam Choy
Wayland
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Atotonilco
Marshall
Atotoncilo
Baptist World Youth Conference
Rio de Janeiro
Bogota
Colombia
Hale County
Tampico
Action In Hvasta Case Promised By State Dept
The Hvasta parents of John Hvasta meet officials in Washington seeking help to locate their son. Czech authorities claim he escaped a Bratislava prison on January 2 while serving a ten year sentence for charges denounced as baseless by the United States. A Czech refugee in Munich says Hvasta escaped with four others and is believed alive in Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
John Hvasta
Czechoslovakia
State Department
Michael Hvasta
Steve
Hillside
N. J
Bratislava
Jaroslav Burec
Munich
Germany
Hrasta
Special Election Called To Fill City Council Vacancy
Marines beat back a Chinese assault near Panmunjom capturing Bunker Ridge and Siberia Hill as phase of fighting on the Korea Western Front. American and British losses reported as naval and air actions continue with bombers hitting targets north of Wonsan and ordnance plants.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Bunker Ridge
U.S. Fiehth Army
Panmunjom
Siberia Hill
Siberia
Navy
J. R. Pierce
Barton
Mounts Bay
Wonsan
U. S. Far East
Selective Service Might Draft 19-Year-Olds Soon
A Selective Service spokesman said rising manpower needs could push drafting of 19 year olds. Currently men 20 and older fill draft calls, but October's 47 000 quota, up 17 000 from September, signals higher end of year demands.
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Washington
Selective Service
Armed Services
Putnam Attacks Ike Over Price Policy at Labor Meet
Roger L. Putnam told the Massachusetts Federation of Labor convention that General Eisenhower alienated many Republican congressmen by backing lower prices and taxes. He cited a 75 percent House vote to end price controls and accused Ike of inconsistent positions on inflation, prices, and tax relief.
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Boston
Roger L. Putnam
Eisenhower
Putnam
Massachusetts Federation of Labor
House
Gen
Chicago
Los Angeles
Missing Japanese national treasure prompts war era audit
A Japanese Parliament committee confirmed a large quantity of national treasure is missing and receipts for some items are unclear. The report cites losses likely during World War II while in Japanese hands, including Empress Nagako's crown and vast jewels and metals. It notes poor supervision and suggests theft would have been easy, referencing a past U S custodian's diamonds case as context.
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Tokyo
Nagako
Central Materials Utilization Assn
Japan
Col
Edward J. Murray
U. S
Bank of Japan
Murray
Cool Front Brings Showers Relief to Texas
A weak cool front moved into North and West Texas from Kansas and Oklahoma lowering late day temperatures and bringing thunder showers. The change provides relief from weeks of record heat while crop estimates fall with drought, water levels drop across wells and reservoirs, and several heat deaths are reported.
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Texas
Associated Press
Kansas
Oklahoma
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Dallas
Abilene
Wink
Big Spring
Wichita Falls
Mineral Wells
Cotulla
Alice
San Angelo
Waco
Salt Flat
Dalhart
Parker Thompson
Heavy showers soak Snyder with 1.33 inches in City
An afternoon rain began about 3 pm and lasted into night, totaling 1.33 inches per official weather observer Mrs. D P Strayhorn. The year’s rainfall rises to 9.49 inches with August seeing its second shower after a lighter .09 inch last Wednesday.
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D. P. Strayhorn
Snyder
Bootheland Addition
Governors lenient on car safety law inspections amid political debate
Two Waco legislators said Gov. Shivers favored lenient enforcement of the Car Safety Inspection Law if many vehicles cannot meet the December 6 deadline. The governor said enforcement is a Public Safety matter and he would confer with Homer Garrison Jr. on a possible postponement while lawmakers push repeal or modification. State Sen. Carlos Ashley announced plans to introduce repeal in January amid criticism that old cars drive fatalities.
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Associated Press
Shivers
Public Safety
Homer Garrison Jr
Public Safety Department
Waco
Sam Sellers
Tom Joseph
Austin
Texarkana
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Texas
Sellers
J. K. Aynesworth
Morris
Carlos Ashley
Llano
Ashley
Valley Cotton on Par With Average Crops
The University of Texas cotton merchandising research division reports that early cotton from the Lower Rio Grande Valley is on par with the average of the last six years. It is slightly finer and weaker than in 1951.
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Austin
Rio Grande Valley
University of Texas Cotton
Margaret Truman Visits Berlin Air Lift Memorial
Margaret Truman arrived in Berlin for a two day stay and paid a visit to the Air Lift Memorial today as part of her visit.
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Berlin
Margaret Truman
Petition To Probe New Police Chief In Snyder
City council met to consider a special election to fill a vacancy, while a petition circulated asking an investigation into Police Chief Walter Suttle. After a second private session, officials drew no public comment. election set for Sept 6 and charter change delayed to Oct 21.
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Walter Suttle
Forest G. Sears
Snyder
Suttle
Clara Jones
W. W. Park
Park
Sears
Robert H. Hargrove
Russell Yorgesen
Charter Commission
Jones
H. N. Bjornsrud
Bjornsrud
J. C. Blakely
Blakely
Electra
Vernon
Eisenhower Says Texas Strategy Is Local
In Denver on August 12 Eisenhower called Texas campaign plans a purely local issue. Texas GOP leaders said no local candidates would be filed to avoid harming the national ticket. Porter and Wisdom, among others, described discussions with Eisenhower on campaign organization in Texas and the South.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Texas
Eisenhower
Jack Porter
Porter
GOP
Supoa
Houston Oilman-Politico
Add
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
John Minor Wisdom
Louisiana
Wisdom
Richard M. Nixon
California
South
Absentee Ballot Voting Rises in County Clerk’s Office
By noon today thirteen voters had cast absentee ballots in the county clerk’s office, an increase of six from yesterday. County clerk Pat Johnston said 41 more ballots remain out on application and warned the absentee voting deadline is midnight next Tuesday.
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Pat Johnston
Weather Digest for East Central Texas and North Texas
East Texas sees partly cloudy skies Tuesday into Wednesday with scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly in the north, slight temps shift. Coastal areas experience moderate to locally fresh southerly winds. Central Texas remains clear to partly cloudy with little temperature change. North Central and West Texas expect widely scattered afternoon and evening storms with no major temperature changes.
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East
Texas
Portion
Central
West
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