Free Barbecue Tour Slated In Scurry County
A free general farm tour and barbecue is planned for Thursday in Scurry County. It will start at 8:30 a.m. from the stock barn in Towle Memorial Park with a barbecue at the barn featuring Sterling Evans of the Federal Land Bank of Houston as speaker. Five Snyder school buses will transport participants and law enforcement will escort the tour through various farming demonstrations including hybrid grain sorghum, cotton practices, insect control, dairying, soil improvement, and irrigation methods.
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Jake Hodges
Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Hodges
Scurry County
Towle Memorial Park
Sterling Evans
Sudan
Burglar Gets Little Money After Entry
The Wheel Cafe on the Lamesa highway was entered in Snyder's ongoing burglary wave. Officers report a second Saturday night entry with a missing watch and wallet totaling about 17 dollars, while the cafe machine contained only pennies. Deputy Bill Love investigated the first break in. Deputy Lowell Holt noted the second entry reported by Mrs James H Norred.
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Pierce
Bill Love
Lowell Holt
James H. Norred
Thirty-sixth Street
Command Inspection Planned Here Sunday
The Company B 112th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Texas National Guard will hold its annual command inspection here Sunday at 8 a.m. at the armory. Maj. Chester Winters will lead as inspection officer. Company B, with five officers one warrant officer and 113 enlisted men, will be evaluated on uniforms training equipment leadership and drill. Maj. William Schiebel and First Lieutenants Lee Dan Stone and Lyle Alexander are liaison pilots drilling with Snyder guardsmen.
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112Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Texas National Guard
Chester Winters
National Guard
Army
Snyder
Summer Heat Spur 96 Degree Day In Snyder
The temperature climbed to 96 degrees yesterday afternoon under bright skies in Snyder. A low of 67 degrees occurred overnight, with 74 degrees at 7:30 a.m. reported by weather observer David Strayhorn.
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Snyder
David Strayhorn
Airman Released After Bold Exchange In Korean Neutral Zone
U S Airman 2nd Lt Guy Bumpas of Jackson Mississippi freed by Communists and returned with wounded head and eye. Army Capt Charles W Brown of Louisville Kentucky released as observer after Aug 17 mission. Communist officer questioned Bumpas about treatment and belongings while he crossed to Allied side.
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Murray Fromson
Louisville
Bumpas
U. N
Harold A. Dye
Lanta
Brown
North Korea
Dye
Students Sign For School Enrollment Soars
More than a third of the expected elementary enrollment had registered by noon with nearly 1000 students signed in. Over 300 first graders registered in pre school, and total elementary enrollment is projected at 2150. Morning tallies include Central Elementary 100, Central Primary 170, West Elementary 300, North Elementary 206, East Elementary 220. Regular registration runs 8:30 to 3:30 tomorrow. High school mass registration ended but daily signups continue with over 600 already in for an expected 750 to 800.
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Central Elementary
Central Primary
West Elementary
North Elementary
East Elementary
School Children Die In Argentina Train Crash
A fast electric express train carrying school children and commuters rear ended another train at a foggy Buenos Aires station. Initial reports put deaths at 15 to 18 with 45 to 55 injured.
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Buenos Aires
Rotan Youths Injured When Plymouth Overturns
Three Rotan youths, all 18, escaped serious injury as the 1955 Plymouth they rode in overturned near Snyder. Driver Joe Kennedy Jr sustained broken ribs and a fractured arm, Bobby Harrell broke his pelvis, Ted Cave was shaken and released. They were rushed to Cogdell Memorial Hospital after the crash around 6:25 p.m. on the Big Spring highway. An onscene witness said tires failed as the car neared a curve and was demolished.
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Rotan
Plymouth
Snyder
Joe Kennedy, Jr
Bobby Harrell
Harry Ward
Kennedy
Harrell
Ted Cave
Ward
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Towle Memorial Park
Canyon Drive-In
E. W. Green
Big Spring
G. W. Thane
Cogdell Hospital
Green
Flying Boxcar Crash Near Charleston Kills Reported 11
A C119 from the 456th Troop Carrier Wing crashed and exploded near Liberty Park in Charleston killing and injuring civilians. Unconfirmed reports said 11 dead as flames spread to three homes. Fire halted immediate wreckage exploration.
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Charleston
S. C.P
Charleston Air Force Base
Liberty Park
456Th
18Th Air Force
North Charleston
Texas drought relief grows as isolated showers persist
Isolated thundershowers and thunderstorms continued across Texas aiding drought ravaged regions. Rain fell in needed areas including Crockett County and along sections of U S Highway 163 while heavy downpours caused temporary highway closures. Temperatures stayed high across the midlands.
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Texas
Texas Panhandle
West Texas
Crockett County
U.S. Highway 163
Muno
Comstock
Alfredo Lugo
Juno
Lugo
Ozona
State Highway Department
Austin
Pecos River
Midlands
Johnson to depart for ranch on Thursday
Washington reports Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas is tentatively set to leave by plane early Thursday for his ranch near Johnson City Texas. The move follows routine travel plans as he continues to handle Senate duties and visit his Texas properties.
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Washington
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson City
Tex
Ike Starts Aerial Survey Of Flood In Eastern States
President Eisenhower began an on site evaluation of Northeast flood devastation spanning Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island as death tolls rose and the region faced massive economic and rebuilding challenges.
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Ike
Ten children die as train hits school bus in Tennessee
A freight train rammed a loaded grammar school bus at a downtown crossing in Spring City Tennessee killing ten children aged six to twelve and injuring about 30 others and the bus driver Raymond Moore. Police charged Moore and Paul Gilles with manslaughter as investigators probe signals and crossing safety.
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Spring City
Tenn
Raymond Moore
Back Valley
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Moore
Dayton
Walter Boles
Gene Crisp
Crisp
Robert
Francis
Paul Gilles
Southern Railway
Tennessee
Frank Clement
State Highway Patrol
Cecil Strader
Strader
Decatur Man Killed in Highway Collision Near Saginaw
A 26 year old Decatur man, John Joseph Lovett, died in a post collision fire seven miles north of Saginaw. Sam Taylor of Nocona drove a cattle truck into Lovett’s rear, the truck catching fire from the car’s gasoline. The fatality increased Tarrant County’s road toll to 43 percent of the year’s total.
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Fort Worth
Saginaw
John Joseph Lovett
Decatur
J. O. McMains
Sam Taylor
Nocona
Lovett
Taylor
Tarrant County
Eisenhower surveys Northeastern flood damage in major tour
President Eisenhower flew to Hartford to view flood devastation in six states and pledged action including potential special Congress funding. He met with governors and civil defense leaders, urged rapid work, and announced plans for long term flood prevention and insurance. The six state toll reached 180 dead with damage in the billions.
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Hartford
Conn
Eisenhower
Congress
North
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Columbine
Bradley Airfield
Bridgeport
Bradley Field
Abraham Ribe Icoff
George Leadeer
Christian Herteer
Averell Harriman
Dennis Roberts
Robert Meyner
North Carolina
Diane
Edwin Griffin
French Armored Columns Hit Moroccan Insurrection Strongholds
French armored columns backed by fighters attacked mountain strongholds of 4000 Berber tribesmen after raids on Oued Zem. Death toll cited may reach 1000 in Morocco with Algeria reporting hundreds of casualties. Duval killed in a plane crash as raids and reprisals continue.
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Ing
Casablanca
French Morocco
French Legionnaires
French North Africa
Carl Hartman
Rabat
Meknes
Kasba Talda
Oued Zem
Atlas Mountains
Marakech
Morocco
Algeria
Kenifra
Khourigba
Raymond Duval
Cen
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Ribicoff
Woonsocket
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Mass
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Waterbury
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