Baby Derby in Photo Finish First Four of 1952 Arrive
Snyder Hospital reports four newborns in the First in 1952 contest. The first baby, a son of Mr and Mrs William F Niddiffer, was born at 12 10 a m on Avenue L. Twin boys arrived to Mr and Mrs Wayne J Tittle at 1 50 and 2 10 a m.
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William Hayes Nidiffer
Snyder Hospital
William F. Nidiffer
Avenue L
Nidiffeer
Nidiffer
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co
Lee Watson
William F. Niddiffer
Wayne J. Tittle
Daily News
Harris Pharmacy
D&r
Recover Four Bodies From Crashed Airplane
The Navy reports one of four bodies recovered from a PBM Martin Mariner wreck off Hong Kong. Four survivors are in satisfactory condition. A British salvage crew raised one engine while four injured men were rescued by crash boat crews after the plane, from Sangley Point Manila, crashed on takeoff yesterday.
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Hong Kong
Sangley Point
Manila
Winter Storm Paralyzes Colorado Mountains on New Year
A severe winter storm grips Colorado as New Year arrives, with at least two dead and hundreds stranded. Snow and avalanches close highways in the southwest region, and temperatures dip below zero. Missing trucker Robert Lockhart and Robert Kurtze are reported. Melvin Herron is injured but safe. A Wolf Creek Pass slide buries a truck, prompting rescue efforts for motorists and families trapped by snow and cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colorado
California
Watson Brothers Transportation Company
Robert Lockhart
Maywood
Robert L. Kurtze
Downey
State Patrol
Melvin K. Herron
Ontario
Wolf Creek Pass
Herron
Reescus
Missing Transport Sparks Largest Arizona Search
Phoenix January 1 ground and air teams scoured the Superstition Mountains for a missing C-47 with 28 aboard including 19 West Point cadets. A vast search from Williams AFB involved 68 planes and rescue parties ready to parachute if needed.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
West Point
Iron Mountain
Hamilton Air Force Base
Calif
Superior
Williams Air Force Base
Here
John Jennings
Williams
Earl Strawn First to Enter Sheriff Race
Earl Strawn announced his bid for county sheriff. A former sheriff from 1944 to 1946 and ex-city policeman, he has lived in Scurry County since 1934 and now resides two miles northeast of Snyder with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Strawn
Strawn
R. B. Sears Motor Co
Tom DeSharo
Lloyd Merritt
Scurry County
Dallas
Sherman
Snyder
Truman Quiet About Charges
The White House declined comment on a charge that President Truman created a health needs commission as an abuse of emergency funds for propaganda. Dr. John W. Cline of the AMA accused it while Dr. Gunar Gundersen of Wisconsin said he declined a post, calling it politics.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Commission On Health
Joseph Short
Chicago
John W. Cline
American Medical Association
Short
Gunar Gundersen
la Crosse
Wis
Gundersen
Paul B. Magnus
Two U S Planes Shot Down In New Year Skirmish
Seoul January 1 report states American Sabre jets damaged two Red Mig-15s in a 30 minute North West Korea dog fight. Two U S propeller planes, an F 51 Mustang and a Marine F 40 Corsair, were shot down behind Communist lines. The Fifth Air Force reported no American fatalities in the aerial clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
U. S
Harrison R. Thyng
Pittsfield
N. H
U. S. Eighth Army
Yonchon
Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
Frank F. Everest
Kimpo
D. C. Hamer
Winston-Salem
N.C
Inchon
U.N
Perry Children Placed With Aunt After Car Crash
Betty and Bunny Perry, ages 5 and 7, are back in the care of their aunt Mrs Arthur Perry of Columbus Wisconsin after a December 15 car accident in Avon dale Arizona. A Wisconsin aunt and her husband transported the children by train from Fort Worth to return them home. A Dawson Grocery official said the aunt showed a photo from the scene and hinted the Perry family had no contact for 19 years. Ree Perry was reported improving at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Bunny Perry
George Perry
Avondale
Ariz
A. Dawson
Dawson Grocery
Arthur Perry
Columbus
Wis
Pearl Moon
Miami
Continental Charters, Inc
Miss Moon
Judy Frankell
Ann Frankell
Pittsburgh
Salamanca
Peace talks in dead stalemate at armistice talks
In Munsan Korea on New Year’s Day negotiators reported a dead stalemate over an armistice. Communists agreed to share information on 50 000 missing Allies and discussed repatriating civilians while accusing the Allies of kidnapping civilians. U N negotiator Joy warned progress would be slow and time is the price for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adm. C. Turner Joy
U.N
Joy
U.S
Korea
Cdmencine
A. U.N
Pe Eele
Turner
Hermleigh POW writes home from communist camp
The family of Pfc. Carl D. Peterson of Hermleigh received his first letter since learning he was alive. He dated Sept 17 and said he was well and hoped to be home for Christmas. Parents George and Mrs Peterson learned of his status when POW lists were released on Dec 18. He had been listed as missing since Dec 1, 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl D. Peterson
Hermleigh
James Davidson
Peterson
George Peterson
Reds
Egyptians threaten use of force to remove British from Suez
Cairo January 1 Egyptians Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha warned anew that force would be used to eject the British from the Suez Canal Zone and that his government would not consider any Middle East defense act while any British presence remains. General Sir Brian Robertson dismissed time or violence as a factor in their withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Mustapha FE
Nahas Pasha
Suez Canal Zone
Sir Brian Robertson
Middle East
Bodies Recovered After Buffal o-Crash Airliner Disaster
Fourteen survivors stay in hospital after the non scheduled airliner crash that killed 26. Rescue teams recovered bodies on a wooded ridge in Southwestern New York. CAB to investigate the scene as Nyrop notes third C-46 crash in three weeks.
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Little Valley
N.Y
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Allegheny Mountain
New York
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Donald W. Nyrop
CAB
Nyrop
Elizabeth
N. J
George Albert
Miami
Fla
Albert
Elizabeth Albert
New York State
White Enters Democratic Race for Agriculture Commissioner
Austin dispatch reports John C. White paying his fee to seek the Democratic nomination for Agriculture Commissioner. White seeks renomination after unseating J. E. McDonald in 1948, promising a five point record and staff hired on qualifications not political ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
John C. White
J. E. McDonald
McDonald
White
Sons Of High Ranking Men Aboard Plane Aboard C-47 Missing In Arizona
28 people aboard the missing C-47 include sons of three high ranking military men at Hamilton Air Force Base. Also aboard were a 1948 Olympic champion and the nephew of an ex Major League star. Cadets from West Point and several UC Berkeley and California cadets populate the list amid matching fears from Col. Guy L. McNeil and his son among the crew.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Hamilton Air Force Base
Calif
Good Fellow Afb
Tex
U. S. Military Academy
California
Air Force
Tucson
Associated Presa
San Francisco
Guy L. McNeil
Fourth Air Force
Hamilton
Guy Jr
West Point
Robert W. Berry, Jr
Robert W. Berry
Western Army Anti-Aircraft Command
Pfc
Robert L. Baseler Jr
R. L. Baseler
78Th
Noel 8. Perrin
Palo Alto
Edwin Perrin
George Ahlgren
University of California
London
Bony
Fort Benning
Francis C. Camilli
Dolph
Brooklyn Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
Camilli
Frankie Campbell
Max Baer
Campbell
Hugh Wilson
Tulelake
W. B. Keller
Colfax
Ronald E. Rounds
Delano
William F. Sharp
Los Altos
Earl F. Glassbrenner
Samia Ana
Allen C. Abrahamson
Alameda
George Manning
Richmond
William Pedrick
Leonard G. de Vilbiss
Sebastopol
William E. Melancon
Harry K. Roberts Jr
Oakland
Nelson S. Byers
Carmel
Herman Archer
Burbank
Maurice Mastelotto
Porterville
Kenneth MacArthur
W. Boback
78Th Fighter Interceptor Wing
Hamilton Field
Little Falls
N. Y
Navy
Richard Mulholland
Pacific Grove
John A. Harrison
Berkeley
WAF
Jean Garafalo
Plainfield
N. J
Bertram J. Audley
Lester G. Carlson
Summertime Mercury Readings Set Again
The Snyder area saw springlike warmth with a 78 degree high and March winds blowing dust. Overnight low was 36 degrees, a reading repeated at 7:30 this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
New Year Watch Night Services Draw Large Crowds
City police reported no complaints about loud parties or fireworks during New Year’s Eve, but seven intoxication bookings and two reckless driving arrests. Snyder residents filled church services as 1951 ended, with about 100 at First Baptist youth revival, 80 at Assembly of God, 300 at North Side Baptist, and a large First Methodist gathering featuring the film The Last Chance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
First Baptist Church
Bill Gurthrie
John H. Breland
Baylor University
Assembly of God Church
E. L. Tyler
Rotan
Leonard Allgood
First Christian Church
North Side Baptist Church
First Methodist
Telecast Plans For July Political Conventions
NBC announced a new portable camera for close-up shots of delegates at the Republican and Democratic conventions in Chicago this July. Philco Corporation will sponsor NBC coverage across television and radio. NBC becomes the second network to schedule convention broadcasts after Westinghouse's CBS plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
Philco Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Columbia Broadcasting System
Tradio
Weather summary for Texas and Panhandle regions
West Texas shows mostly cloudy skies with much colder air and scattered light snow or sleet. Panhandle and South Plains turn colder tonight with lows 8 to 16 in Panhandle, 16 to 24 in South Plains, 22 to 32 elsewhere. Wednesday remains cloudy and cold with further light precipitation possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
East Texas
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Deaths Near Predicted Holiday Toll Across Texas
Three people died in a head on crash on Highway 81 north of Burleson early today, raising Texas holiday traffic deaths to 110 and the total violent deaths to 188. Other fatalities occurred in McCloskey hospital Temple Paris Van Horn El Paso and Houston areas with multiple injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Burleson
Texas
State Department of Public Safety
Highway 81
Johnson-Tarrant County
Travis E. Dilleshaw
Cleburne
Ray D. Crocker
Tommy Wilson
Fort Worth
Henry W. Finch
McCloskey Veteran’s Hospital
Temple
Floyd Frazier
Paris
Lamar County
Charles Atchinson
van Horn
Lex Duke
Larline Atkinson Duke
el Paso
Derril Gene Maul
Travis County
Clyde Ernest Perry
Houston
Juanita Reyes Amaya
May County
Carol Ann Pierce
Sherman
James Milton Johnston
Union Tank and Supply
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Martin's Jewelry
Rogers
Banner Davies
McDonald's
Dunlap’s
Lad & Lassie
Snyder Drugs
Roe Home & Auto Supply
Anthony’s
Perry
Arthur R. Kirk
Biggs, California
Burlington
Wisconsin
Liars Club
Kirk
Hermleigh Pow
Ralph Castilgione
Brooklyn
Pvt
Sal Caporusso
Bronx
Oklahoma
45Th National Guard
Japan
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