IRA raids across Ulster cause million dollar damage
A mass raid by the outlawed Irish Republican Army damaged Ulster property in a night of terror. BBC transmitter blown up, a courthouse and two bridges set ablaze, and several barracks attacked across multiple counties. Police pursued raiders. five captured, others escaped.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
British North Ireland
Royal Ulster Constabulary
British Broadcasting Corp
Ulster
Irish Republic
IRA
United Kingdom
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Armagh
Cork
Londonderry
BBC
Magherafelt
Snyder High Students Selected for All State Band and Choir
Snyder High School will send nine to eleven students to the all state band and choir event in February in Dallas during the Texas Music Educators Association convention. Karleen Roberts earned a top score of 99, joining other Snyder seniors in the band and choir selections from region III and the broader state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder High School
Dallas
Texas Music Educators Association
Fair Park
Snyder
Karleen Roberts
Miss Roberts
Marjorie Norton
Jane Patterson
Wilda Livingstone
Lynn Tankersley
Phillip Smart
Delbert Lloyd
Melvin Montgomery
Allstate Choir
Bob Clinton
Roberta Selman
Dana Scarborough
Peggy Black
Wanda Sue Crook
Jimmy Pier
Davie Floyd
Oil and Gas Association Sets Talk on Automatic Transfer
Jack Alien of Vinson Supply Co will discuss automatic transfer custody of oil at the Scurry County Oil and Gas Association meeting tomorrow night. The new method would purchase oil by meter with the product flowing directly from the heater theater into lines, bypassing storage tanks. The 7 pm meeting at the Hilander Drive-In is led by president John Casebier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Alien
Vinson Supply Co
Scurry County Oil & Gas Association
Hilander Drive-In
John Casebier
Seven White Men Freed Of Charges In Florida Case
In Bushnell Florida seven white men were acquitted by directed verdicts after allegations they flogged Jesse Woods a 39 year old Black farm laborer. District Attorney A P Buie asked for four acquittals as witnesses recanted statements in Sumter County Court.
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George
Georgia
Buie
Keith Ands
Jacksonville
Max Jumborg
Wildwood
Seaman Lundy
Bellview
Fla
Doyle Polk
Marion County
Robert Nesmith
Belleview
Ezekial Alderman
Altman
Wood
Violence Grips Poland After Stettin Riot
Eighty eight people jailed amid new anti government violence sparked by the Stettin Soviet consulate attack. Trybuna Ludu reports protests in Olecko Nowy Ciechocinek and Nieszawa with police action, jail breaks, and tear gas as officials apologize to the Soviets and warn against further unrest.
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Warsaw
Poland
Stettin
Trybuna Ludu
Polish United Workers (Communist) Party
Olecko
Bialystok
Communist
Nowy Ciechocinek
Communist Party
Nieszawa
Hungary
Szczecin
Trybuna
Poznan
Soviets Charge America With Subversive Action At UN
At the United Nations General Assembly in New York the Soviet Union formally accused the United States of subversive activity in Eastern Europe. The move coincided with debate over a U.S. backed resolution condemning Russia for meddling in Hungary and included a proposed item on U.S. intervention in the domestic affairs of the Soviet bloc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U.N. General Assembly
United States
Europe
Russia
United States of America
Cotton Plan Approved By Voters Here
Voters approved government controls for upland cotton next year with 32,852 for price support and 3,430 against, a 90.5 percent approval. Extra long cotton and other crops also showed strong support across multiple counties as ASC tallies detailed by G. C. Carruthers.
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College Station
Tex
State Agricultural Stablization and Conservation Committee
Texas
ASC
G. C. Carruthers
Pecos-El Paso
Carruthers
Dallas man dies after weekend traffic accident
George Nelson, 52, a Longview salesman, was injured Saturday in a Dallas traffic crash and died last night in a hospital, authorities said.
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Dallas
George Nelson
Longview
First Airlift Refugees Arrive In US
Four American planes carried about 200 Hungarian refugees to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey marking the start of Operation Safe Haven. Government and military officials welcomed the vanguard as 9 700 refugees are slated for United States by December 31 with remaining passengers to travel by ship.
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MC Guire Air Force Base
N.J
United States
Military Air Transport Service
Ning
Air Force
Camp Kilmer
Tracy S. Voorhees
Eisenhower
Voorhees
Wayne Dumont Jr
New Jersey
Frank Thompson
Harmon Field
Nild
Munich
Snyder School contracts awarded for new high school wing
Snyder school board awarded contracts totaling 109002 dollars for a 9000 square foot high school wing at Abraham Lincoln School. T E Shelburne & Son of Snyder won the general contract at 89460 dollars. Braune Plumbing of Abilene 12550 dollars. Howell Electric Co. of Snyder 6992 dollars.
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Snyder School Board
Abraham Lincoln School
Presnet Lincoln
T. E. Shelburne & Son
Snyder
Abilene
Shelburne
Fred Buford
Dallas
Horn
Shifler Bros
B. F. Horn Co
Harry E. Miller Co
Lubbock
Rose Construction Co
Suggs Construction Co
Big Spring
Cooper Construction Co
Odessa
Barker Construction Co
Quanah
Kelley Construction Co
San Angelo
A. P. Kasch & Sons
Kasch
Braune
R. W. Gray Plumbing
Midland
Rountree Co
Western Service Co
Big
Man Nabbed After Chase In Littlefield Tex
A 34 year-old man wanted for questioning about a contractor robbery was captured after a high speed chase reaching 110 mph. The pursuit ended when his car overturned at Enochs and the driver was knocked unconscious. Sheriff Hazel Hancock said a wallet with 377 dollars and a jewelry box were recovered. the wallet belonged to Buck Ross, a Littlefield contractor. The captured man gave the name Omer Buford Rodgers and showed a multi-state driver’s license. he refused to identify himself further.
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Littlefield
Tex.p
Enochs
Cochran County
Hazel Hancock
Hancock
Buck Ross
Omer Buford Rodgers
Nixon to Visit Austria for Refugee Review In Vienna
Vice President Nixon showed interest in visiting Austria to inspect refugees from Hungarian communism. The U.S. Embassy said any official announcement would come from Washington. The Austrian newspaper predicted Nixon would arrive in Vienna on Saturday.
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Vienna
Nixon
Austria
U.S
Washington
Oesterreichische Neue Tageszeitung
Julius Raab
Weather summary for Snyder and West Texas
Yesterday high 70 and low 39 in Snyder with 45 at 7 30 am today. West Texas expected partly cloudy through Thursday with a turning colder Wednesday and temperatures 25 to 40 Wednesday night.
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Snyder
West Texas
Meeting On Freeway Slated Here
A joint meeting of the county commissioners court and the city council is set for 10 a.m. tomorrow in the county courtroom to discuss a proposed new freeway from U S Highway 84 southeast of Snyder to northwest of Snyder and crossing U S 180. Jake Roberts, district highway engineer from Abilene, will present final plans and right of way details. The city council meets at 9 30 a m in a special session at city hall before attending the courthouse session. The highway department has set aside 2 million dollars for the project and a right of way bond election will follow definite requirements and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Commissioners Court
City Council
Jake Roberts
Abilene
Roberts
Highway Department
Polio Funds Disclosed in Texas November Aid
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced 72 300 dollars in polio emergency aid distributed in Texas during November. This brings Texas grants for 1956 to 797 950 dollars as the foundation augments dwindling local reserves.
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Dallas
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Texas
Japan Backed For UN Seat
The Security Council unanimously recommended Japan's admission as the UN's 80th member, paving the way for final approval by the General Assembly. Japan had waited since July 16, 1952, facing four Soviet vetoes, with the United States backing the bid and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. urging admission.
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Spain
Turkey
Colombia
Russia
India
Burma
Ceylon
Indonesia
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hungary
Budapest
Assembly
Imre Horvath
U. N
Bulgaria
Albania
Moscow
United States
United Nations
N. Y. Wh
Security Council Today
Japan
General Assembly
Soviet Union
Lloyd Calls For Super Parliament
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd urged a three point Atlantic grand design at NATO to fuse parliaments, a NATO directed political directorate, and economic co operation through OECD Euratom and European free trade aims. West Germany warned of East German revolt and urged Allies to decide on aid vs Moscow pressure as NATO ministers met.
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Paris
Selwyn Lloyd
Atlantic
North Atlantic Council
NATO Alliance
Lloyd
Threepower
NATO
Western European Union
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
European Payments Union
European Coal and Steel Community
Euratom
West Germany
East Germany
Hungary
Moscow
Heinrich von Brentano
von Brentano
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Otto Grotewohl
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Panhandle Construction Co
Lee Watson
Oil, Gas Association
America
Alvidia Barnacet
New York
International Airport
Puerto Rico
Snyder School
Man
Chase
Town
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