Snyder School Board Calls for Bids on New Junior High
The Snyder school board in a special meeting approves bids for a new westside junior high to be built by next term. Architect Fred Buford of Dallas to prepare plans with revisions. bids open Sept 25. Phase five of a six phase bond program totaling over 2% million.
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Snyder School Board
Westside
el Paso Avenue
Fred Buford
Dallas
Houston Avenue
Denison
el Paso
Colonial Hill
Deffebach & Yorgesen
T. E. McCollum
Ford Motor Co
James McCormick
Joe Harwell
Dearborn
Mich
McCormick
Flynn
M. E. Stanfield
Forty-third Street
Snyder
Stanfield
Snyder names school for longtime educator M E Stanfield
Snyder Independent Consolidated School District honors M E Stanfield by naming the new South Elementary School the M E Stanfield Elementary School. Stanfield, assistant superintendent since 1952, led consolidation of many districts and oversaw rapid enrollment growth tied to the oil boom as the district expanded to ten buildings.
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Snyder School Board
M. E. Stanfield
Snyder Independent Consolidated School District
State Department of Education
Stanfield
T. D. Wiman
Snyder
Scurry County
First Cotton Bale Signals Start Of 1958-59 Scurry Season
Scurry County reports its first bale of cotton from Doc Bynum’s farm near Union as forecasts delay. Pre school programs enroll 350 first graders while city water use nears 4 million gallons and DPS warns Labor Day traffic deaths may reach 29 in Texas. Scurry County’s decade average pedestrian safety award is noted by DPS officials.
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Scurry County
Doc Bynum
Union
Department of Public Safety
Texas
Scurry
DPS
Rescuers pull 2 year old from wreck as mother perishes
In Nantucket Massachusetts a Northeast Airlines crash prompts rescuers to risk their lives. They locate 2 year old Cindy Lou Young who survived with minor injuries while her mother Jaqueline Young 18 died trying to shield her. The mother’s body acted as a cushion to protect the child.
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Nantucket
Mass
Northeast Airlines
Cindy Lou Young
Jaqueline Young
Blow Out On Turner Turnpike Kills Texas Baby
A tire blow out hurled a car into a Turner Turnpike bridge killing 2 week old Peter Carlile Sukovaty of Pampa Texas. His mother Arlene Sukovaty 22, and sister Lisa 2, plus aunt Sandra Kay Calvin 11 of Chandler Oklahoma, were injured with cuts.
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Chandler
Okla
Turner Turnpike
Texas
Peter Carlile Sukovaty
Arlene Sukovaty
Pampa
Tex
Sukovaty
Lisa
Sandra Kay Calvin
Farm Conservation Program Changes in 1958 Start
County ASC leader Henry Burchett outlined major changes to the federal conservation reserve program affecting new participants this fall. Farmers bid for participation, must request a rate by Sept 26 and apply by Oct 17, with contracts for three, five, or 10 years. Scurry County reports 263 participating farmers across about 21 000 acres. No CR program acreage reserve for 1958, Burchett said.
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Henry Burchett
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Agency
Burchett
ASC
Colorado City
Judd McGaha
Charlie Eastman
Roy Coston
Pat James
Guy Moore
Soil Conservation Service
Oscar Fowler
Scurry County
Norway to introduce new Middle East resolution at UN
Norway plans to formally present a new UN General Assembly resolution Monday with eight to ten sponsors. It counters a Soviet proposal calling for U S and British troop withdrawal from Lebanon and Jordan and aims to ensure Lebanon and Jordan’s territorial integrity while permitting troop withdrawal. It also seeks ongoing Mideast economic development studies and a standby UN police force. The U S and Britain support but may not sponsor. Lodge says aim is a broad vote.
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Norway
U. N
Middle East
General Assembly
Assembly
United States
Britain
Lebanon
Jordan
Dep
Hans Engen
Engen
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate Reverses Deadlock On Farm Bill Vote
The Senate, urged by Agriculture Committee chairman Ellender, agrees to vote next week on the House farm bill to end the eleventh hour stalemate. Passage would send the measure to President Eisenhower as both chambers seek to prevent sharp cotton and rice acreage cuts next year.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Agriculture Committee
House
White House
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Ellender
Senate House
Benson
Eisenhower
Local Snyder Schools Set Tuesday Registration Schedule
Snyder schools announce registration for all students Tuesday and Wednesday. Pre-registered juniors stay home. preschoolers already registered are exempt. High school students are asked to wear clothing suitable for yearbook photos during registration at various sites and times for each class.
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Snyder
T. D. Wiman, Jr
East
Central
North
Northeast
Lincoln
Tractor accident kills Charles H. Cooper near Snyder
Charles Henry Cooper Jr., 48, of Snyder, was killed when his tractor rolled down a steep embankment on the Weldon Johnson Ranch, injuring his son-in-law Sidney Wallace Johnson who was riding on the crossbar. Coroner W. C. Davidson ruled accidental death. funeral plans pending.
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Charles Henry Cooper Jr
Snyder
Cooper
W. C. Davidson
Johnson
Mr. Cooper
Weldon Johnson Ranch
Davidson
Fuller Ranch
J. A. Eubank
Nina Lee Cooper
Sidney W. Johnson
Trey Cooper
First Christian Church
Bolger Funeral Home
Crosby brings newborn Tex home to Holmby Hills
Hollywood AP reports Bing Crosby and wife Kathy Grant Crosby left Queen of Angels Hospital with eight day old son Harry Lillis Crosby III known as Tex. The couple carried the infant to their Holmby Hills home while photographers clicked. Kathy plans to resume acting, and the Crosby family embraces more children as God wills.
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Hollywood
Crosby
Queen of the Angels Hospital
Harry Lillis Crosby III
Holmby Hills
Papa Bing
Kathy Grant Crosby
Bing
Tex
Bronchoscope Pioneer Dr Chevalier Jackson Dies at 92
Dr Chevalier Jackson, renowned developer of the bronchoscope, died at 92 in Philadelphia. He founded Temple University's bronchoscopic clinic, which bears his name and is led by his son Dr Chevalier L. Jackson. The elder Jackson had lived on a farm in Montgomery County after retiring from practice. His son was away on a Brazilian lecture tour.
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Philadelphia
Chevalier Jackson
Jackson
Montgomery County
Temple University Hospital
Temple
Chevalier L. Jackson
Snyder Area Weather 109 High and 70 Low Reported
Weather bulletin for North Central Texas, West Texas and surrounding regions notes Friday temperatures at 109 high and 70 low with 7:30 am reading. Weekend outlook shows partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers and little temperature change.
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Snyder
North Central
Texas
West Texas
East Texas
South Central
Greenlease Ransom Mystery Near Solution
Senate investigators and the FBI close in on the $300000 Greenlease ransom mystery. McClellan and Kennedy say fresh clues tie gangland rackets to the case as hearings continue with two witnesses under scrutiny. The 1953 kidnap and murder of Bobby Greenlease remains unresolved in public inquiry.
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Washington
Senate
Special
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
FBI
McClellan
Robert F.kennedy
James R. Fete
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Kennedy
Bobby Greenlease
Kansas City
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Missouri Gas Chamber
Gus Zapas
Indianapolis Teamsters Union
Dawn Firing Looms For First US Moon Rocket
The first US moon mission countdown moved into checkout as Douglas Aircraft crews worked toward a dawn launch Sunday of the Thor Able rocket. Forecasters predicted partly cloudy skies at Patrick AFB and the mission faces a 10 to 1 odds against a precise lunar orbit, with only 24 days until results are announced if successful.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Douglas Aircraft Co
Patrick Air Force Base
Cleo
Cape
Air Force
Cocoa Beach
Space
Pentagon
Earth
Nantucket Airliner Crash Kills 23 in Dense Fog
Civil Aeronautics Board began probe into North East disaster that killed 23 people, including Gordon Dean and Harvey Schwamm, with 11 others injured. The Convair crashed near the Nantucket airfield as fog closed in, hitting pines and disintegrating after landing attempts.
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Nantucket
Mass
Civil Aeronautics Board
New England
Don Breswick
New York City
Massachusetts General Hospital
Gordon Dean
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Harvey Schwamm
Wall Street
American Trust Co
John S. Pearson
Manhattan
American International Underwriters Corp
Boston
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
New
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Bob Dryden
Charles H. Cooper
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G.milton Kelly
Jack King
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