Deadline Passes With No Repatriation Requests
Panmunjom reports midnight passed with no requests from 22 American prisoners, 1 Briton, and 327 Koreans to repatriate. Pro Red and anti Communists staged chants and dances as broadcasts ended. authorities noted 18 within the camp and 17 Americans hospitalized or absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panmunjom
U.N
Neutral Nations
Red News
Richard Corden
East Providence
R. I
Corden
Andrew Condron
Claude Batchelor
Claude Batchelor, Kermit, Tex.; Richard Tenneson, Alden
Minn
William C. White
Plummerville
Ark
R. E. Douglas
San Angelo
Tex
Howard C. Adams
Corsicana
L. V. Skinner
Akron
Ohio
Wildcats Locate Drilling Sites in Garza Kent Counties
Garza and Kent County wildcat locations are announced for immediate drilling. Sun Oil Co. No 2 F Bilby Wallace in Kent County sits 2 miles southeast of Clairemont at 6,900 feet on a 2,253 acre lease. Garza No 1 T E Weaver Wellborn in Sharon Ridge field is eight miles northwest of Post with 3,800 feet target depth. SCURRY COUNTY notes include U L Meadows No 1 Buford Browning abandoned at 2,875 feet and Taylor Oil & Gas No 1 Winston Brothers core at 7,514 feet after a test in the Strawn formation. Ohio Oil No 1 A R Turner Kelley Snyder stepout yields 13.4 barrels of fluid with continued drilling toward 6,950 feet. C T McLaughlin sets No 10 Wellborn location three miles south of Ira for 1,850 feet. Dawson area reports Sinclair Oil No 1 Weaver Northwest Dawson wildcat pending Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildcat
Garza
Kent County
Sun Oil Co
Bilby Wallace
Clairemont
H&tc
Kent
Oil Co
Fort W
Garza Wildcat
T. E. Weaver
B&m Survey
Post
Scurry County
U. L. Meadows
Buford Browning
Northwest
Scurry Wildcat
Taylor Oil & Gas Co
Winston Brothers
Strawn
Ohio Oil
A. R. Turner
Kelley Snyder
C. T. McLaughlin
Sharon Ridge
Ira
Dawson Failure
Sinclair Oil No
Weaver
Dawson Wildcat
Sad Mother Is Leaving Japan
Mrs Portia Howe of Alden Minnesota returns home from Tokyo after visiting her son, Pfc Tennesson, a prisoner of war in Korea. She hopes he will repent his Communist stance and believes in God’s promises. She flew to Japan 12 days ago for Christmas with her family.
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Tokyo
Portia
Alden
Minn
Japan
Pfc
A Tenneson
Korea
Rome
Panmunjom
Howe
France in deadlock as 11th ballot fails to elect president
In Versailles Parliament fails to choose a president for the eleventh time as Naegelen and Jacquinot trail, with 372 to 338 votes in a deadlocked 900-member body. Laniel withdraws, urging non Communist unity, while protests mount outside the Palace of Labor.
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Versailles
France
Marcel - Edmond Naegelen
Louis Jacquinot
Independent Party
Naegelen
Jacqui
Jacquinot
Joseph Lanier
Palace of Labor Policy
West Germany
Lanier
Vincent Auriol
Independent
Charles de Gaulle
Laniel
Rec
Auriol
National Assembly
Council of the Republic
Senate
Versailles Palace
Lille
Young Kansas Coach Hired To Lead Snyder High School
John Conley, 30, was chosen over 44 applicants to become Snyder High’s head coach and athletic director. He signs a three year contract at 6000 dollars annually and will move in February to lead the ring training athletic program.
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Young Kansas
Snyder High
John Conley
School Board of Trustees
Conley
Bpeedy Moffett
Moffett
Cecil Yarkh
Moftz
Althrough
Ellinwood
Kansas
Mexia
Tex
J. F. Conley
Dallas
Magnolia Petroleum Corp
Johnny
Marine Corps
Methodist Church
Lions Club
Three Women Claim Same Husband in Bigamy Case
In Los Angeles three women allege they are married to Burton. Ellen King Brown 19 says he married her in July 1952 and used her to babysit another child. Helen Geraldine Burton, now of Venice, married him in 1946. Clair G. Lawrence 17 of Van Nuys says she wed him last April. Police secured photographs linking all three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Burton
Ellen King Brown
Northridge
Dallas Apartment Fire Displaces Seven Families in Cold
In northwest Dallas a blaze swept an attic of a brick apartment house forcing seven families into 18 degree air. Firemen fought the stubborn fire for 40 minutes, with hose lines freezing and a $20,000 damage estimate. Mrs. Katherine Matthews alerted residents by buzzing alarm switches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Katherine Matthews
Letter From Missing Burgess Reaches His Mother in London
A Christmas letter in the hand of Guy Burgess, missing British diplomat, arrived at his mother's home in London marking the first real sign he may be alive. The note dated November was mailed Monday from the Dockyard area, fueling long speculation about Burgess and Donald Maclean and their possible Eastward flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Guy Burgess
Burgess
Foreign Office
Donald
Iron Curtain
England
Maclean
Doctor Slavs Wife Jumps After Killing Her
Prominent physician Dr. Marx Sterbcow 43 killed his wife Marcia 27 with a carving knife then leaped 140 feet into the Mississippi River nine miles above New Orleans. Detective Bazajou reported the body of Mrs Sterbcow found after a friend entered the apartment where the crime occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mississippi
Marx Sterbcow
Marcia
William Bazajou
Mississippi River
Bazajou
Tough-Talking Wife Aids Jail Breaker In Escape
An armed jail escapee Ray Fitzgerald and his outspoken wife eluded deputies in a stolen car after she slipped him a pistol through a jail window. Fitzgerald, 29, escaped from Anderson County jail, later wrecked cars and headed toward Dallas. He had a 1947 robbery sentence in Galveston and McLennan counties and had a revoked grant of conditional pardon. deputies released after the escape as Fitzgerald fled with firearms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Ray Fitzgerald
Anderson County
Eustace
Kaufman
Dallas
Fitzgerald
Galveston
McLennan
Houston
John Womack
Peta Ee Lee Se
First Living Cost Drop In Eight Months Sparks Cautious Hope
Washington reports November living costs fell by three tenths of a percent to 115 percent of the 1947-49 average, the first decline since February. Food prices dropped 1.4 percent, aided by lower meats and pork, but signs point to possible climbs in clothing and overall costs as pork prices edge up and wage-linked index effects linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ewan Clague
Gadline
Mercy Slayer Found Innocent by Jury in Phoenix
Herman H. Nagle, 54, formerly a Brooklyn policeman, is cleared of first degree murder after jurors, eight women and four men, deliberated 50 minutes. He admitted killing his cerebral palsy daughter Betty Vinninia Nagle, 28, last Sept. 5, claiming he feared cancer and did not want to leave her alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Herman H. Nagle
Mercy Slayer
Brooklyn
Betty Vinninia Nagle
Nagle
Nae
Texas Braces for Cold Wave With Record Lows
Bitter cold gripped Texas with Amarillo 13 and Lubbock 15 as far north and Dallas at 18, the chilliest in weeks. Ice and snowbound highways disrupted travel from Pecos to El Paso while South Texas saw rain and light dustings in West Texas. Forecasters warned a brief warmup may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
Amarillo
Lubbock
Waco
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Pecos
el Paso
Dalhart
Paris
Marshall Electra
Corsicana
Kilgore
Dallas
Marfa
West Texas
Ted
Southen
Beef Processors Cleared Of Unfair Profits By Probers
The Agriculture Department found no evidence of widespread profiteering by beef processors or distributors over 1952-53. The study notes consumer and producer complaints about price drops not matching cattle price declines, with margins generally stable though some low grade cattle and retail meat showed wider gaps. Slaughter increases and distress sales helped push cattle prices down, while retail and wholesale prices lagged in some cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Benson
Department
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
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Anderson Davis
Snyder
Davis & Son
Ivan Gatlin
Gatlin
Roland Chadwell
Missing Red
Doctor Slavs
W. Howard Lee
Idlewild
New York
California
Weather Bureau
Jeceenes Fla
Seattle
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Montgomery
Ala
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