Hermleigh Man Believed Dead Listed as Prisoner of Reds
Hermleigh residents learn their son Pfc. Carl D. Peterson, missing in December 1950, is named by Communist forces as prisoner of war. Family recalls years of worry as they await official confirmation and hope for his return.
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Reds
George Peterson
Peterson
Pfc
Carl D. Peterson
Leo Nachlinger
Carl
Nachlinger
War Department
Associated Press
Arno Stevenson
Richmond
Calif
Keith Ames
China Lake
Barbara Sue
Porter
Thomas
Boyce
Max
Gerald
Sammy Koenig
Korea
Bill Koenig
Lamesa
Pennsylvanian Field Extender Finaled and Nearby Wells
Sun Qi Co completed No 20 Bilby Wallace as a southwest extender in Central Kent County Clairemont Lower Pennsylvanian field. Initial oil production 125 44 barrels at 39 5 gravity with no water and gas oil ratio 136 to 1. Top pay 6769 feet, total depth 6777 feet. Five and a half inch oil string cemented at 6768 feet. Open hole treated with 500 gallons acid. Location 660 feet north and 2080 feet west of section 898-H&TC about one mile south of Clairemont. Amerada No 1 Canon in Dawson County reached 8215 feet after a four hour drill stem test. 270 feet drilling mud and 7135 feet salt water recovered. Hydrostatic 4195 4184 pounds, flowing 3595 pounds, 15 minute shut in 3595. No 1 Canon five miles northeast of Spraberry field. Underwood No 1 Clayton and Johnson Spraberry test seven miles south of Gail drilling below 4206 feet. Gulf No 1 A Long preparing drill stem test at 5710 feet Spraberry sand. Kent County Humble No 2 McLaury continuing swab after 40 barrels, 30 percent mud recovered. ScurryWildcat Bartley and others No 1 Guhrie Conrad at 4243 feet waiting for cement after re cementing casing.
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Clairemont
Kent County
H&tc
Borden Drillstem Amerada Petroleum No
Canon
Borden Wildcat
Spraberry Field
Dawson County
T&p
Underwood
Clayton and Johnson
Gail
Gulf No
Humble Oil & Refining Co
McLaury
Kent
Nation Endures Fresh Snow Storms and Deep Freeze
The Associated Press reports renewed heavy snow across the northern tier and central Rockies with subzero cold spreading from the Midwest to the East. Snow depths reach four feet in Watertown and up to 18 inches in Vermont. travel remains hazardous as thousands are injured or stranded.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Mountain
Plains States
Watertown
Syracuse
Buffalo
New England
Vermont
Airline Union Strike Is Off
The CIO TWU ended a three day strike against Pan American World Airways as workers voted about eight to one to halt the walkout. Picketing ceased at New York Miami San Francisco Brownsville and Seattle while a federal fact finding panel reviews the wage dispute. Company officials anticipated normal schedules today.
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Two Commissioners And County Judge to Austin With Hospital Plans
Edgar Taylor the county judge and two county commissioners Cullen Toombs and Doyle Palmer will travel to Austin to review actual construction plans for the county hospital with State Health Department engineers. They will meet Herbert Brasher of the Butler Brasher architecture firm in Austin. The floor plans were already approved and the trio plans to return to Snyder tonight.
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Cullen Toombs
Doyle Palmer
Austin
State Health Department
Herbert Brasher
Lubbock
Butler & Brasher
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Toombs
Palmer
Snyder
UN Adopts Western Disarmament Plan Amid Russian Bid Rebuff
The United Nations 60 nation Political Committee approved the Western disarmament plan and rejected a Russian bid for an immediate atomic ban. The plan creates a new disarmament commission to pursue step by step arms reduction with international inspections, with 11 Security Council nations plus Canada as members.
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Burma
Assembly
Russia
Security Council
Canada
Andrei Vishinsky
Fenton Home Destroyed In Midnight Blaze
Fire destroyed the home of Mr and Mrs Ed Fenton seven miles southeast of Snyder shortly before midnight. City fire marshal Ivan Gatlin said the couple were in town for medicine when neighbors called the department too late to save the building valued at about 15000 dollars. He urged residents to check electrical wiring after flickering lights earlier in the day.
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Ed Fenton
Snyder
Ivan Gatlin
Gatlin
Three Traffic Signals To Rise In Snyder Before Christmas
The State Highway Department plans three new traffic signals in Snyder by Christmas. W. J. Ramsey says the lights will go at the three intersections on Twenty-fifth Street at Avenues Q U and W. Poles and control boxes are being installed and the city will pay for the electricity used.
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W. J. Ramsey
Twenty-fifth Street
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United Nations considers probe into German elections
The United Nations Special Political Committee voted 45 to 6 with eight abstentions to study whether free secret ballot elections could unify Germany. A five nation neutral commission would conduct the inquiry with Western Powers pushing the plan amid Bloc opposition. Poland and others warned of barriers if access to the Soviet Zone is denied. Several nations doubted the plan’s outcome but supported setting up the commission to be ready if positions shift.
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Paris
United Nations Special Political Committee
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Poland
Brazil
Iceland
Netherlands
Pakistan
Prison Camps Indicated in North Korea Aiding POW Debate
A U N command spokesman places four camps near the Yalu border housing about 3,198 Americans among 11,559 Allied POWs listed by the Reds. The issue of camp locations, numbers, and verification fuels truce talks as negotiators push for full troop rotation and behind the lines inspections before any exchange.
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Cold Front Expected to Bring Snow and Cold Texaswide
A fast moving cold front is due to reach the Dallas Fort Worth area around noon Thursday. It is forecast to bring sub freezing temperatures and snow or freezing rain to the Panhandle and Texas regions with heavy clouds and brisk winds. Temperatures varied across Texas with Presidio recording a low of 27 and Brownsville highs of 69 and a low of 63. Moisture was light in most areas. Beaumont and Galveston reported measurable rain.
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Brownsville
French Happy Over Progress Of United European Forces
France expresses confidence that a six nation European army with a single budget and unified command can be formed with Britain’s support. Talks among France Britain Belgium Netherlands Italy Luxembourg West Germany and Eisenhower aim to finalize the army treaty as Churchill visits Washington. Belgium's reluctance over budget and power sharing remains a key hurdle.
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Soviets Report Executing Two Spies Dropped By U.S. Plane
The Soviet Supreme Court said two men with Russian sounding names were executed after parachuting into the Soviet Union from an American plane. Osmanov and Sarantsev were reportedly recruited from displaced persons camps in Western Germany and trained by American agents in map making and sabotage before being dropped into Moldavia.
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Greece
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Yugoslavia
Toy Pile Grows At Warehouse
Kiwanis Club tightens Christmas aid plans as a pickup loads toys to its warehouse from the fire station and more donations arrive. Food and usable toys admit to a 9 30 Saturday Palace Theater screening, with distribution lists to be finalized at a club meeting led by officer H W Cargile.
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Kiwanis Warehouse
Palace Theater
H. W. Cargile
Jorden School Head Resigns to Join Lubbock District
Mr and Mrs M B Brooks resign from the Borden County school system effective January 21 at a Gail meeting. Brooks will leave as superintendent and Mrs Brooks, a third and fourth grade teacher, will join Lubbock schools. No successors named. Harris notes National Production Authority priorities for three new rural 3 classroom schools and seven teacherages with foundations laid for Plains. Contract to Marlang Construction Co of Sherman Texas for a $147388 project.
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M. B. Brooks
Borden County
Gail
Brooks
Lubbock
Harris
National Production Authority
Plains
Marlang Construction Co
Sherman
Tex
Houston Milk Prices Rise in Local Market
Houston residents paid up to a cent more per quart for milk today. Retail pasteurized milk rose to 24 cents per quart and homogenized to 25 cents in the Houston area markets.
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Houston
Weather Low Drops to 22 as Cold Continues
The low reached 22 overnight with Mrs. PD P Strayhorn, official observer, noting a slight morning dip. At 7 30 the temperature was 38 degrees with the maximum from yesterday not stated in full.
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PD. P. Strayhorn
Weather snapshot for Texas regions
East Texas mostly cloudy with occasional rain this afternoon and tonight and near the coast Thursday. Warmer this afternoon and in the south tonight. South Central Texas mostly cloudy with rain this afternoon and tonight and near the coast Thursday. Warmer north this afternoon and tonight. North Central Texas partly to mostly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Thursday with occasional rain and much colder Thursday with freezing temperatures. West Texas partly cloudy to cloudy with warmer conditions this afternoon, colder Thursday and in Panhandle and South Plains tonight, very cold with freezing rain or snow and temperatures falling to 10 20 Panhandle and 16 25 South Plains Thursday.
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