Navy Plane Sailor Killed as Patrol Bomber Hit by Fire
Tokyo reports bullet fragments confirmed a U. S. Navy P4M Mercator was hit by gunfire before it crashed into the China Sea off Red China. Only one body recovered, technician J. C. Albert P. Martin of Delta Ohio. Wounds from gunfire noted, while the cause of the fire and location of attack remain unclear.
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Tokyo
China Sea
Red China
Shanghai
J.c. Albert P. Martin
Delta
Ohio
Earl Jungham
Fleet Air Detachment
Iwakuni
Japan
Mattin
Junghamn
Weather and politics mix as season shift noted
The piece reviews shifting seasons with temperature highs of 103 and lows of 60 in a 24 hour span, mentions Democratic and Republican conventions in Chicago and San Francisco, and covers Fire Chief Durward Porter urging disaster readiness. It also notes wage scales for farm labor and warns farmers about legal employment of schoolchildren under the Federal Farm Labor Standards Act.
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Chicago
San Francisco
U. S. Ept. of Labor
Texas
Scurry County Shifts to Yarborough in Governor Race
Scurry County moved from Pappy O'Daniel to Ralph Yarborough in the Texas governor’s contest after the second Democratic primary. Yarborough led with 2,728 votes to O'Daniel’s 1,985, carrying 17 of 20 boxes, while Daniel led in several areas and absentee totals. In the attorney general race, Will Wilson defeated Tom Moore 2,546 to 1,759 as Moore had led earlier.
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Scurry County
Pappy O’daniel
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
O’daniel
Price Daniel
Daniel
Snyder
Bison
Lone Wolf
Will Wilson
Tom Moore
Moore
Wilson
Ross Carlton
Dallas
Registration Reminder for Snyder Students
Elementary students in Snyder who have not registered for the coming term are urged to do so this week. A large number have not registered and officials warn of long lines on the first day. Registration should be at the school of attendance, except those headed to Northeast Elementary. use Central Elementary for registration.
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Snyder
Northeast
Central
Daniel Narrowly Leads in Texas Governor Runoff
Daniel leads Yarborough by about 5,214 votes with 99 percent of ballots reported. Yarborough vows to win as Daniel cites labor impact and O Daniel independents while Wilson defeats Moore in the other statewide runoff.
Two Tight Local Races In Scurry County Nominations
Unofficial results from the second Democratic primary show two office changes in Scurry County pending canvass and the November general election. Sheriff Homer Whisnand is defeated by Earl Abercrombie as Renal Rosson leaves the district attorney race to Wayland Holt who edges J Ray Martin. Knight and Moore win nominations in precincts one and three.
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Scurry County
Democratic Executive Committee
Homer Whisnand
Earl Abercrombie
Abercrombie
Whisnand
Five Injured In Car Overturn East Of Snyder
About 9 10 last night a 1953 Pontiac carrying six people overturned seven miles east of Snyder on US 180. Mrs M L Dean of Seminole drove. five occupants including her and four passengers were injured and transported to Cogdell Memorial Hospital. deputies Bill Love and Howard Gibbons investigated. The injured: Mrs Dean Mrs Margie Humphries Joyce Dean Humphries 5 and Dolores Humphries 8 of Seminole and Mrs Evelyn Rogers of Kamay. M D Humphries of Seminole not injured. All injuries reported as slight to non critical.
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Snyder
M. L. Dean
Seminole
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Bell
Bill Love
Howard Gibbons
Bascom Giles Receives Four Write-In Votes
Former Texas land commissioner Bascom Giles, serving a six-year prison term for the veterans land scandals, received four write-in votes for lieutenant governor in Mitchell County, Colorado City, on August 25.
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Colorado City
Bascom Giles
Mitchell County
Giles
Veterans Land
Texas
Stevenson Attacks GOP Platform as Broken Promises
Adlai Stevenson denounces the 1956 Republican platform as a collection of broken promises and a stand-out do-nothing policy. He cites parity rhetoric for farmers, debt growth, selective tax cuts, and misleading foreign policy as examples of GOP hucksterism.
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Libertyville
Ill
Adlai Stevenson
San Francisco
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Violence Sweeps Across Country
Violent deaths from fires wrecks and blasts were reported nationwide. At least 43 people died, including children, in incidents from Hyannis Massachusetts to Baltimore Maryland. A midair collision near Hyannis killed the pilot and three vacationers. a Wall South Carolina head-on crash killed four adults and a family of five. residential fires in Houston Jersey City and Baltimore claimed lives and displaced residents. A bomb in Paducah killed bandleader Vivian Chaudet.
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Hyannis
Mass
Wall
S. C
Houston
Tex
Jersey City
N. J
Baltimore
Paducah
Vivian Chaudet
Orientation Program Set for Snyder Schools This Week
Snyder school system launches a week long orientation for all new and existing personnel to prepare for the September 4 opening. New staff register at 7 30 a m and attend breakfast at 8 a m with board members and administrators present. Frank Wilson leads the curriculum council with Dr Yarbrough and M E Stanfield coordinating sessions including a film about Snyder, a Young Man's Town.
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Ious
Frank Wilson
Cecil Yarbrough
M.E. Stanfield
Maydelle Burns
Margarett Clark
Duane Collins
Silas Devenport
W. T. Falls
Esther Free
Joe Glass
Joel Griffin
Virginia Grove
Earl Horton
Daniel Johnson
Margaret Key
Ollie Peek
Lida Rhoades
Herman Trigg
W. F. Weaver
T. D. Wiman
Yarbrough
H. Williamson
Snyder
Wilson
Snyder Junior Chamber of Commerce
Banquet Plans For Snyder Chamber Seeks Tickets
Letters go to Snyder Chamber of Commerce members inviting purchase of tickets for the annual Businessmen's Teachers banquet set for Sept. 10. Merchants and teachers attend, with Miss Waurine Walker as speaker, planning led by Olan Griffith.
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Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Merchants Committee
Waurine Walker
National Education Association
Texas Education Agency
Austin
Walker
Olan Griffith
Dee Burrus Nominated In Borden County Race
In Borden County Texas Dee Burrus won the Democratic nomination for commissioner of precinct in a tight runoff over John Stephens by four votes 103 to 99 with Hubert Walker not seeking re election. Unofficial totals show Burrus 103 Stephens 99 first primary results Burrus 100 Stephens 80 Harold Ludecke 29. Ralph Yarborough defeated Price Daniel 178 to 146 for governor locally Ben Ramsey 268 for lieutenant governor Will Wilson 201 Moore 95 for attorney general.
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Daniel
Yarborough
Johnson
Austin
Liberty
Texas
O’daniel
Will Wilson
Supreme Court
Tom Moore
Waco
Moore
Gail
Dee Burrus
Borden County
Burrus
John Stephens
Hubert Walker
Stephens
Harold Ludecke
Borden Gray
Sid Reeder
Ralph Yarborough
Price Daniel
Ben Ramsey
Snyder patient casts his vote in hospital
W. G. Breedlove of 2919 Avenue S, confined in Battenfield Jones Hospital for a back injury, insisted on voting in the Democratic primary. He summoned an ambulance to transport him to his polling place, cast his ballot, then returned to the hospital.
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W. G. Breedlove
Avenue S
Breedlove
Battenfield-Jones Hospital
Bolger Funeral Home
Wright plans mile high Illinois office tower for Chicago lakefront
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright announces drawings for a 510 story structure named The Illinois to house 100000 workers in Chicago Illinois Cook County and the city council area. He estimates a two year construction time and a height of 5280 feet with a 400 by 500 foot base near the Planetarium.
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Spring Green
Wis
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago
Empire State Building
New York
Empire State
Chrysler
Wright
State of Illinois
Cook County
Planetarium
The
Illinois
Administration blocks lower down payment on insured homes
Washington reports the Housing and Home Finance Administration chief Albert M. Cole proposed cutting down payments to five percent to spur housing, but the move was paused to avoid inflationary risk. Officials note starts are dropping toward 1.07 million annual pace, with 99,100 starts last month.
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Washington
Albert M. Cole
Eisenhower
Cole
Housing and Home Finance Administration
I. B. Roberson Dies Saturday
I B Roberson 38 died at 2 p m Saturday in Cogdell Memorial Hospital after about a month long illness He lived on Route 2 Loyd Mountain community and had recent surgery in Dallas He was a director of the Scurry County Rodeo Association and a member of First Baptist Snyder He is survived by his wife three sons and five sisters Funeral services set for 3 p m Monday at First Baptist Snyder burial Snyder Cemetery Bolger Funeral Home in charge
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Roberson
Loyd Mountain
Dallas
Putnam
Charlie Tate
Baird
Scurry County
First Baptist Church
Snyder
Billy Clyde
Sky
Jim Bob
Marlin Wood
Levelland
Arthur Burleson
J. O. Taylor
R P. Bruno
Denver
Colo
Stirl Abernathy
G. M. Cole
Snyder Cemetery
Bolger Funeral Home
James i. Taylor
Randle Ivy
M. L. Moddy, Jr
Chester Wilson
Gene Yeager
Bryant Taylor
Grady Barr
Mr. Roberson
Joe Smith Again Nominated in Martin County Vote
Joe Smith, known for recent GOP convention prominence, sought office again as voters in Martin County cast a ballot on Saturday with one voter writing his name for lieutenant governor.
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Stanton
Joe Smith
Martin County
Weather update for Snyder West Texas high and storms
Friday's high reaches 101 and low 61. Saturday 7 3 a.m. reading 63. West Texas forecast partly cloudy through Monday with widely scattered thunderstorms.
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Snyder
West Texas
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Pat Moore
Whiswand
E. W. Green
R. L. Bolding
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Renal Rosson
Wayland Holt
J. Ray Martin
Borden
Holt
Martin
Pat Beene
Frank Sentell
L. L
Pat) Moore
Knight
Clarence Wade
Wade
Marion Dobbs
J. W. Coffee
Whit Farmer
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Howard Knipe
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I. B. Roberson
Lra Baxter Roberson
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