Prospector Locates Wildcat Drilling Sites in Fisher County
Bailey Balken of Dallas reports a 3 750 foot wildcat seven miles northeast of Eskota in Fisher County. Texas Co announces No 1-A Roy Lebus 6 000 foot wildcat in King County near the Ross Strawn field. Borden Oiler Stanolird reports No A R H Jordan in Ellenburger field with 61 63 barrels of 40 gravity oil since start.
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Bailey Balken
Dallas
Eskota
Fisher County
J. A. Langston Survey
King Wildcat the
Texas Co
Roy Lebus
Kingounty
H&gn
Ross-Strawn
Guthrie
Borden Oiler
Stanolird Oil & Gas Co
R. H. Jordan
Ellenburger
Borden County
H&tc
Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co
Luther
Howard County
Tom Spencer
T&p
J. W. Haney
Sun Oil Co
G. H
Skelly Oil No
J. D. Windham
Borden Wildcat
Pressure Test Ordered For Kelley-Snyder
The Railroad Commission ordered an immediate bottomhole pressure test for the Canyon Red Lime Reservoir in the Kelley-Snyder Field Scurry County. Eight key wells across eight quarter sections will be shut in until pressure observation ends with results due by February 1.
Supreme Court Segregation Decision May Be Month Off
Washington reporters mark the end of three days of arguments in the Supreme Court on whether racially segregated public schools violate the Constitution. A ruling may come months after the court’s term ends in June, with involved cases from Virginia South Carolina Kansas and Delaware.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Warren
H. Albert Young
Delaware
District of Columbia
Virginia
South Carolina
Kansas
New Mexico
Wyoming
High Court
Thns
Cold Weather Amid Clear Texas Morning
The Associated Press reports clear cold weather across Texas with temperatures below freezing. Forecasts predict Friday will be clear to partly cloudy and mild after Thursday afternoon’s rise, with coastal clouds the only exception. Temperatures ranged from 16 at Junction to 52 at Brownsville, with many cities in the 20s and low 30s, including Abilene 32 and El Paso 20.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
Junction
Brownsville
Abilene
Amarillo
Austin
el Paso
San Antonio
Waco
Fort Worth
del Rio
Lubbock
Presidio
San Angelo
Lufkin
Salt Flat
Wink
Midland
City Reverts to Well Water Clearing Up Discolored Supply
Water superintendent Roy Dunlap says complaints have ceased after the city returned to exclusive well water. Lake Thomas supply was cut off on Dec 1 and will stay offline until plant upgrades arrive next spring, including a filtration plant, booster pumps, extra mains and storage facilities.
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Roy Dunlap
Lake Thomas
Purge Continues in Soviet Leadership Crackdown
Moscow dispatches report Khrushchev and Malenkov sweeping enemies, with Armenia leadership ousted by Peter N. Pospelov. G. A. Aratiunov expelled from the Central Committee after a long tenure.
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New York
Georgi Malenkov
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Great Russia
Khrushchev
Leningrad
V. M. Andrianov
Armenia
Peter N. Pospelov
Trans
McCarthy to Question Prosecutor Over Fort Monmouth Spying
Senator McCarthy announced he will summon Telford Taylor, former war crimes prosecutor, to testify about alleged Soviet spying at Fort Monmouth New Jersey. He cited Taylor’s loyalty flag and said Taylor’s government file bars him from service while flag remains.
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Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Telford Taylor
Eoosnoin
Germany
Cver
Ft. Monmouth
N.J. M
Senate Investigations
Taylor
McCarthy
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Survey proposes cutting federal agencies to thirty
Temple University led privately funded report urges Eisenhower to reduce 70 independent agencies to 30 or fewer. Recommendations include shifting Coast Guard to Commerce, reforming the Labor Department, merging land management, and reorganizing Veterans Affairs and other agencies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Temple University
Congress
Sonptinaee Todesanalien
Labor Department
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Mediation Service
Hoover Commission
Interior Department
Reclamation Service
Army Corps of Engineers
Agriculture Department
Veterans Administration
Robert L. Johnson
Philadelphia
State Department
Voice of America
First Hoover Commission
New Animation Commission
Herbert Hoover
Johnson
Citizens Committee For
Hoover
Coast Guard
Treasury
Commerce Department
Post Office
Bureau of Land Management
The
Forest Service
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Economic Advisor
Selective Service Agency
Defense Department
Army Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Kiwanis Club Plans Christmas Gift Certificates For Needy
The Kiwanis Club of Snyder announces a Christmas program to issue grocery certificates redeemable at Snyder and area stores. Donations and lists of needy families must be submitted by December 18 to H. W. Cargile or Willard Payne with family details. The program has about 600 dollars available from a prior year’s leftover and up to 1,600 spent previously.
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Kiwanis Club
Frank Wilson
Snyder
Wilson
Central Fire Station
Kenner Lumber Co
East Highway
H. W. Cargile
West Texas State Bank
Willard Payne
Snyder National Bank
Cargile
Payne
East Germany Welcomes Four Power Berlin Conference Move
East Germany’s acting leader Ulbricht announces welcome for Western Big Three acceptances of a Soviet four power Berlin conference proposal. He attacks the army project and says German reunification cannot be achieved under Bonn and Paris treaties. He outlines measures to raise wages, boost housing, and improve living standards, including factory lawn planting programs.
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Berlin
Gannea Ulbricht
East
Ulbricht
Bonn
Paris
Oing
War Claims Panel Is All Republican
President Eisenhower removed two Democratic members and appointed an all Republican War Claims Commission to consider World War II internment claims by American civilians held by Japan.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Republican
War Claims Commission
Japan
Moscow Radio Dismisses Eisenhower Atomic Speech
Moscow radio in its home service news bulletin summarized President Eisenhower's December 8 speech at the United Nations General Assembly by noting he aimed to speak in a new language, the language of the atom war, in a brief 56 word report from New York.
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Dwight Eisenhower
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations
N.Y
Russia
Dag Hammerskjold
U.N
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
General Assembly
Andrew Cordier
London
Moscow Radio
Eisenhower
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Weather Summary for Snyder A.M. Temperatures
A minimum of 24 degrees was recorded for the second consecutive day in Snyder ending at 6 am. The previous day’s high reached 51 degrees. At 7:30 this morning the temperature was 27 degrees, reported weather observer Mrs. P. P. Strayhorn.
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Rec
Snyder
Tony
P. P. Strayhorn
Clues Emerge in Pamplico Rape and Double Murder Case
In Pamplico South Carolina investigators traced footprints across a five acre corn field to a gruesome triple crime. The head of 15 year old Betty Cain and the body of Harvey Allen were found in an abandoned well near a river. Police hold three men including two Negroes in the Florence County jail but have not filed charges. A six man coroner jury viewed the head and body as detectives search for a suspect described as six foot one black male.
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Pamplico
S.C
Pis
Betty Clair Cain
Harvey B. Allen
Latta
John Hann
Lorence Police
M. N. Cates
Columbia
Hanna Sai
Florence
Hanna
Allen
Ay Allen
Soviet Voices Reject Eisenhower Atomic Peace Plan
Soviet spokesmen signaled Moscow will have no part in Eisenhower's peaceful uses plan. They called it a rehash of Baruch's control proposal and urged unconditional ban and immediate international oversight of atomic weapons. UN talks remain deadlocked over control and inspection.
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London
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Moscow Radio
Boris
Baruch
Leontyev
U. S
Andrei Y. Vinsky
U.N
Russia
Eek
Seva
Weather Forecast for North Central to East Texas
North Central Texas will be cloudier and warmer on Thursday with widely scattered thunderstorms. West Texas turns fair and warmer Thursday, Friday partly cloudy and colder in Panhandle and Plains and upper Pecos Valley westward. East Texas partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thunderstorms. Coastal winds are gentle to moderate with fresh to locally strong southerly onshore flow.
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Texas
West
Panhandle
Plains
Pecos Valley
Jobless Miner Kills Three of Five Children in Ohio
Steubenville area man Frank Holt 34 killed three of his five children with a crowbar at his East Springfield home and critically injured another, saying God ordered the act. He told prosecutors he lured his wife away then carried out the attack while humming hymns.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Frank Holt
Jef
Ferson
Bernard T. McCann
Holt
Russell Wilsoc
East Springfield
Wilsac
Tracy
Sanford
Susan
Ohio Valley Hospital
McCann
Sophie Baker
Bakers
God
Veterans Hospital
Aspinwall
Ae Sae
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Prospector
Kelley-Snyder
Ike
Atomic Agency
United Medical Service
Housing and Home Agency
NLRB
Oe Senenan
M. Es
Railway Mediation Board
NLR
East Germany
War Claims Panel
Constance DiStasi
Roxbury
Mass
Virginia King
Carney Hospital
Boston
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