Explosive picnic disaster kills three children in El Paso yard
A 90 mm shell exploded during a backyard picnic causing the deaths of Velma Morales 4 George Valdez 6 and Riccardo Lujan 10 and injuring ten others including four year old Hector Ramiro who lost both legs. Police and witnesses described a scene of widespread shrapnel and burns as families gathered for corn roasting near Ft. Bliss Casner range.
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EL Paso
Tex
W. E. Wood
Velma Morales
George Valdez
el Paso General Hospital
Riccardo Lujan
Tiny Hector Ramiro
Raymundo Santos
Casner Range
Ft. Bliss
David Marcia
Irma Morales
Velma
Juan Ortiz
Fernando Ramirez
Amado Rivera
Carlos Valdez
Roberto Robson
Luis Ljuan
Thomasa Marcial
Polio Victim Mrs. Wallace Milburn Reported in Critical Condition
Scurry County notes a fifth polio case in the area and a sixth for the Scurry Borden unit. Mrs. Wallace Milburn, 52, of Highland Drive, is on a respirator at Hendrick Memorial Hospital. Roy Reeder of Borden County is the first local case this year, diagnosed last week.
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Scurry County
Scurry- Borden County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Wallace Milburn
Highland Drive
Milburn Mortgage Corp
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Milburn
Scurry County Boys Club Delayed Fall Opening
Scurry County Boys Club will remain closed in the afternoons beginning Sept. 6 due to school opening activities. Club director Guy Sullivan said the fall schedule, with daily hours at 3:30 p.m., will begin next week instead of today.
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Scurry County Boys Club
Guy Sullivan
Sullivan
Weekend Heat Reaches 101 Degrees In Local Readings
The week ends with a high of 101 degrees Sunday, the hottest of the warm spell. Saturday reached 97 and Friday 100, with an overnight low around 66. David Strayhorn, weather observer, notes 73 degrees at 7:30 this morning.
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David Strayhorn
Clash Over Gaza Strips Egypt and Israel Fly Warplanes
Cairo reports an aerial clash as Egypt and Israel renew border fighting near Gaza. Egypt says one Egyptian Vampire jet was shot down while both sides accuse the other of initiating hostilities. The conflict marks a fifth straight day of combat with dozens dead on both sides. Arab reaction remains cautious as U S plans for a peace treaty are reviewed.
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Wilton Wynn
Cairo
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Israel
Jerusalem
Rafa
Sinai Peninsula
Raeli
Palestine
Gaza City
Beeri
Berri
Egyptaan
Kussufim
U.S
Dulles
Arab League
Norman Ford Receives First Cotton Bale Award
The Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee awarded Norman Ford a 300 dollar check for Scurry County's first cotton bale of 1955. Jake Hodges presented the prize as Ford's 570 pound bale, from 2080 pounds of seed cotton on about 15 acres, was ginned at Paymaster Gin Thursday afternoon near Polar.
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Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Norman Ford
Scurry County
Jake Hodges
Ford
Regional US Weather Update Northern Central and West Texas
Partly cloudy through Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Warmer conditions in the north this afternoon. East and West Texas expect similar partly cloudy conditions with scattered storms and no notable temperature changes. Moderate southerly winds along the coast.
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Texas
West Texas
East
Disarmament Talks Begin With Big Four and Canada
At the United Nations in New York the Big Four and Canada gather for new disarmament talks sparked by Geneva measures. British minister Anthony Nutting and Soviet Arkady Sobolev confer briefly while U.S. Stassen hosts a luncheon for five Russians and five Americans at Waldorf Astoria. Delegates anticipate groundwork for higher level talks in Geneva Oct 27 with focus on comprehensive inspection systems and phased reductions.
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Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
N. Y
Anthony Nutting
Britain
Arkady A. Sobolev
Geneva
Nutting
London
United States
Canada
Russia
U. S
Harold E. Stassen
Sobolev
Stassen
Waldorf-Astrama
Ilya M. Saraiev
Red Army
I. Usatchev
Leonid M. Zamyatin
Y. M. Vorontsov
U.N. Disarmament Commission
U.N
Eisenhower
Bulganin
U.S
Moscow
Izvestia
Ivestia
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Jules Moch
France
Paul Martin
Trigger Burke Held By Police
Burke alias Trigger, 37, was captured at Folly Beach and held in Charleston on bond for two U S charges. New York and Boston seek his return for a 1952 murder and a 1954 prison break case involving a submachine gun. Authorities believe he aided an O Keefe ambush.
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Charleston
S.C
Elmer Francis
Trigger) Burke
New York City
Boston
FBI
Folly Beach
New York
Burke
Garrett H. Byrne
Suffolk County
Alfred J. Scotti
Edward Walsh
Joseph J
Specs) O’keefe
O'Keefe
French To Try Out New Government In Morocco
The article reports on U N Command accusations against Communist forces over the treatment of Lt. Guy H. Bumpass after his plane crash on August 17 near the neutral zone. Maj. Gen. Parks presented evidence of no medical care beyond suturing head wounds and a lack of X rays, while noting Bumpass sustained a fractured skull. Capt. Charles W. Brown was killed in the crash near Tokyo.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U. N. Command
Guy H. Bumpass
Harland C. Parks
Military Armistice Commission
Bumpass
Jackson, Miss
Jung Kook Rok
U. S
Parks
Tokyo
Charles W. Brown
Louisville
Pair Quizzed In Killing Of Californian
In Kingman Arizona police questioned Robert Miers and his wife Elizabeth about the death of Donald E. Graham a Palm Springs building inspector. The couple admitted a struggle and theft at Graham's Palm Springs home and provided differing accounts. Investigators noted stolen clothing a watch a diamond ring and cash from Graham's wallet.
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California
Robert Drak
Miers
Here
Kettman
Palm Springs
Frank Porter
Mohave County
Graham
Porter
Loud-Playing Radio Leads To Man's Death
In Pineville West Virginia a 15 year old Ravencliff youth James Albert Hart shot and killed his father James Roscoe Hart 46 after being reproached for playing a radio too loudly The youth was jailed pending a hearing before Circuit Judge Robert M Worrell No charge filed yet Sheriff Paul Goode said the investigation showed the father had whipped the youth with a miner belt The youth grabbed a 12 gauge shotgun from another room and shot his father between the eyes on the back porch
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Pineville
W.va
Ravencliff
Wyoming
Paul Goode
James Albert Hart
Robert M. Worrell
Goode
James Roscoe Hart
Hart
Southern Democrat Bloc Losing Ground
Southern Democrats show signs of fraying over anti Stevenson unity as Russell’s withdrawal weakens the Southern rally. Kefauver tops first ballot but has little Southern appeal while Shivers seeks revolt and Lausche eyes Ohio option amid lack of clear alternative to Stevenson.
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Washington
Sen
Russell
Europe
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois
Kefauver
D-Tenn
South
Tennessee
Frank G. Clement
Allan Shivers
Texas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shivers
Dixie
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
Bender
Refinery Fire at Standard Oil Indiana Reaches Third Day
The Standard Oil Indiana refinery fire in Whiting enters its third day with two large storage tanks burning. Officials say the blaze is under control and unburned fuels will burn out safely. Evacuations and a claims office assist residents as damage nears 10 million dollars.
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Carl Bell Whiting
Ind
Standard Oil Co
Mile Square
Standard Oil
National
Robert E. Wilson
Midwest
Wilson
Red Cross
Washington
Faure Aims for Moroccan Harmony by Sept 12
Paris reports Premier Faure seeks a new representative Moroccan government through negotiations with nationalist leaders. Talks at Aix les Bains and Paris aim to include IsItiqlal and other Moroccans, with a deadline of Sept 12 to calm violent unrest in French Morocco.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
Morocco
Pierre July
Aix Les Bains
Faure
Tistiqlal (Independence) Party
July
Istiqlal
Ald Les Bains
Aux Les Bains
Antoine Pinay
Mohamed Ben Youssef
France
Madagascar
Ben Youssef
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Grandval
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Burglary at Snyder Store Investigated
Police report a Sunday night break in at the Piggly Wiggly on Twenty fifth Street and Avenue W. About $10 was stolen after burglars entered through the roof and knocked off the safe knob. gas from the safe hampered further attempts. Similar roof entry used at a nearby Rainbow Market burglary weeks earlier.
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Twentyfifth Street
Avenue W
Leonard White
White
J R. Beadle Rainbow Market
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Snyder
Center
Nicholas
Chamber of Commerce
Breckeridge
Lee Watson
Big Four
Trigger Burke
Reds
Nicholas Prestigigiacomo
Cathrine
Joseph
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