Texas Death Toll Climaxes in Christmas Tragedy
The Christmas weekend in Texas ends with at least 78 deaths across fires, shootings, stabbings, a plane crash, and especially traffic accidents. Notable victims include Fort Worth brothers Tony and Monty Sartor, 13 and 10, and multiple families across Nocona Woodsboro Dallas Hallettsville Houston Conroe San Antonio and Lufkin.
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Associated Press
Texas
Corsicana
Theodore Bracken
Fort Worth
Tony
Monty Sartor
California
Reece Pemberton
Nocona
Sue Doling Carpenter
Woodsboro
Corpus Christi
U.S
Dallas
Harold J Frost
Sherry Lynn Schroeder
Hallettsville
Weather outlook shows cool unsettled week across Texas
Northwestern Texas reports cold highs near 56 Saturday with lows around 24. Sunday peaks near 67 with 25 lows, readings at 7 am. North and Northeast Texas forecast cloudy and cooler with light rain or drizzle, possible snow in far northwest and extreme north Wednesday, highs in the 40s to low 50s, lows 26 to 42.
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Rwyder
Texas
High Plains
Panhandle
Seurl
Missourian Named U S Highway Chief
Rex Whitton, chief engineer of the Missouri Highway Department, was chosen by President-elect Kennedy to head the federal highway program with a $20 000 yearly salary. Whitton, 62, has led Missouri’s highway system since 1951 and will bring decades of experience to the Role. The announcement came during a day of high level discussions with Johnson Kerr and Rooney at Palm Beach.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Rex Whitton
Missouri Highway Department
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okta
Johnson
Senate Space Committee
Congress
State Department
Rep
Joan Rooney
D-Ny
House Appropriations
Whitton
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
University of Missouri
Jefferson City
Kerr
Rooney
Joseph P. Kennedy
Palm Beach Country Club
Salinger
Fatalities Below Estimates In U S Holiday Weekend Toll
A three day Christmas weekend saw about 474 deaths in motor vehicle crashes and 76 fire deaths, with 630 total fatalities from all causes. The National Safety Council and AP survey noted traffic deaths may end under last year’s 493 and 510-estimate ranges, signaling a lighter toll than past holidays.
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National Safety Council
Burglars Hit Pick and Pay Grocery on Christmas Day
Police report a break in at Pick and Pay Grocery on the Fast Highway early Christmas Day. Burglars stole $10 in cash and cigarettes. the theft was discovered at 1:23 am by the Snyder Police Department night shift and owner Marcel Josephson noted the missing items.
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Snyder Police Department
Marcel Josephson
Josephson
Funeral held for Robin Travis Mathews Jr in Snyder
Funeral services were held Monday for Robin Travis Mathews Jr born November 14 1939 killed in a crash near Albany at 3 30 pm. He drove from Fort Worth to visit his parents Mr and Mrs R T Mathews of Route 3 Snyder. He was survived by his parents six sisters and four brothers with Rev Alan Carthne officiating and burial in Snyder Cemetery.
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Alfred Nelson
Bridgeport
Justice of the Peace
E. P. Williams
Juan Lopez
San Antonio
Juan Orosco Jr
Everett W Gibson
Fort Worth
Snyder
Robin Travis Mathews Jr
Albany
R. T. Mathews
Route 3
Mathews
Navy
Dorothy Stewart
Ruby West
Houston
Ruth Fults
Belmont
Nelda
Rita
Sue Mathews
Joel Mathews
Rosharan
Onard
Raymond
James Mathews
Rey Alan Carthne
Green Hill Baptist Church
Bell Funeral Home Chapel
Irish Prison Break Escapes Donnelly From Belfast Jail
Police across Northern Ireland search for 21 year old Daniel Ignatius Donnelly an IRA district leader who escaped from Belfast jail during Christmas rounds He fled after swapping cells with John Kelly as guards sealed the 208 mile border with the Republic of Ireland and intensified security for Princess Margaret visit notes.
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Northern Ireland
British Isles
Daniel Ignatius Donnelly
Irish Republican Army
Princess Margaret
Irelani
John Joseph Kelly
Donnelly
Kelly
Insh Republic
Republic
France stages third nuclear test in remote desert site
Paris reports France successfully detonated a small tactical device at Reggane in the Sahara, about ten months after the first test. Officials say the weapon was several kilotons, with limited radioactive fallout affecting a 60 by 15 mile area, and aim to refine small thermonuclear detonators for future use.
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France
Reggane
Sanara
United States
Defense Ministry
Queen Elizabeth Considers Margaret as Bahamas Governor
A close royal insider says Queen Elizabeth II may appoint Princess Margaret governor of the Bahamas to resolve concerns over her and Antony Armstrong-Jones. If appointed they would reside at Government House Nassau, boosting Bahamas tourism revenue and marking no royal precedent.
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London
Elzabeth II
Margaret
Bahamas
Antony Armstrong
Jones
Armstrong-Jones
Atlantic
Florda
Tony
Government House
Nassau
The
Duke of Windsor
George VI
Los
De Gaulle plan for Algeria attacked by rivals in Algeria unrest
Paris AP says Charles de Gaulle faced sharp opposition from Roger Duchet and Felix Gaillard over his self determination plan as Moslem rioting continued in Oran and Algiers. Clashes injure and kill among Moslems, Europeans, and police with curfews in place.
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Godfrey Anderson
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Monay Night
Oran
Algeria
Roger Dauchet
Felix Gaillard
de Gaulle
France
Gaillard
Algiers
Duchet
Victor Hugo
Acene
Cold Front Pushes Into State Today
A cold front drives temperatures below freezing across the Panhandle South Plains and west North Central Texas. Fog and drizzle spread along the coast with offshore ship collision fog delaying Houston Galveston travel. no injuries were reported from the Fernmoor Tharros collision. Temperatures expected to cool further statewide except far southwest where they may rise slightly.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Texas
Ardmore
Okla
Mineral Wells
Junction
del Rio
Laredo
Brownsville
Houston
Fernmoor
Tharros
Strongest Magnetic Field Found in Nearby Star
Dr Horace W Babcock of Mt Palomar Observatory using the 200 inch Hale telescope reports the discovery of the strongest magnetic field yet found in nature about a nearby Milky Way star HD 21441. The field is millions of times stronger than Earth's and surrounds the unnamed stellar neighbor to our solar system.
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Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Horace W. Babcock
Mt Palomar Observatory
Hale
Three Vehicles Plunge Down Bank in Bryson City
In Bryson City North Carolina a car a truck and a car slid off a US 19 bank on ice. Mrs Ora Watson Morrow 49 of Franklin sustained critical injuries while Odell Grant and bystanders were hurt. The truck driver Homer J. Bowman 57 of Nanthala and Emory Bowman 26 of Lakeland Florida also suffered injuries.
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Bryson City
Here
US. 19
North Carolina Mountains
T. A. Sandhii
Ora Watson Morrow
Franklin
Odell
Homer J. i _ more
Nanthala
Mrs. Morrow
Emory Bowman
Lakeland
Fla
Morrow
Grant
Odell Grant
Belgium in strike standoff amid tax hike protests
Brussels reports show Socialist officials defying government decree as the nationwide strike paralyzes railways power gas and postal services. Mayors police and workers resist with refusals to name strikers and clashes noted though no full violence yet.
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Brussels
Belgim
Belgium
Congo
Rene Thone
Hainaut
Albert Silar
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