Supreme Court Won't Suspend Parr's Judge
The Texas Supreme Court refused to order the immediate suspension of 79th District Judge C Woodrow Laughlin of Alice before a removal decision. Eleven attorneys sought suspension pending removal, citing findings by master D B Wood of official misconduct and partiality toward Parr and his party. Counties in the district are Jim Wells, Duval, Brooks, and Starr.
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Austin
Supreme Court of Texas Today
C. Woodrow Laughlin
Alice
High Court
Laughlin
Supreme Court
79Th Judicial District
Jim Wells
Duval
Brooks
Starr
D. B. Wood
Duval County
Wood
Jacobs
Parr
Laughtin
Kent County Wildcat Drilling No. 82 Casey Near Clairemont
Kent General Crude Oil Co reports a wildcat near Clairemont in section 82 G W&ANW three and a half miles west. No. 82 1 Percy Jones, tract 7, depth 6800 feet aims to test the Pennsylvanian with Bright & Schiff of Dallas as No. 1 H. L. Casey, reentered after Honolulu Oil and originally No. 1 A. Q. Smelser. Initial potential 156 barrels of 38.3 gravity oil with 0.3% water and gas oil ratio 350 to 1. Perforations 6020 to 6032 feet, depth 7636 feet with 6195 feet plugged back. Produced from Canyon sand. field designated Swenson-Canyon. No. 2 Casey southeast offset staked. Howard County tests also noted with Alfretta Anderson plug and abandon at 9565 feet, and Ida Mae Oldham top Ellenburger at 9204 feet.
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Kent County
General Crude Oil Co
Percy Jones
W&anw
Clairemont
Bright & Schiff
Dallas
H. L. Casey
Honolulu Oil Corp
A. Q. Smelser
Canyon
Swenson-Canyon
Casey
J. D. Ward
Howard County
Stanolird Oil & Gas Co
Alfretta Anderson
Wildcat
Zephyr Drilling Co
Anderson
T&p
Lather
Plymouth Oil No
Ida Mae Oldham
Ellenburger
Scurry County Skelly Oil Co
W. H. Parrish
Snyder- Strawn “D
H&tc
The
Texas Co
Fuller
North Scurry County
A. Knickerbocker No
R. H. Jordan
Ohio Oil No
Turner
Kelley- Snyder
Murphy No
Walls
Dawson Wildcat
Skelly Oil
Windham
Borden Wildcat
J. Y. Graves
Blessing From Papa Clears Runaway Couple in Scotland
Antenor Patino withdrew his bid to block the marriage of his 18 year old daughter Maria Isabela to 20 year old Jimmy Goldsmith in Scotland. The couple, eloping lovers with a license, can wed at over 200 registry offices as Patino reportedly blessed them after a secret meeting. A temporary injunction had blocked the wedding for a week, later opposed by the couple through counsel.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Milklionaire
Antenor Patino
Love
Maria Isabela
Jimmy Goldsmith
Papa
Patino
Paris
Council Seeks Rail Crossing Signal After Fatal Wreck
City council directs city manager and attorney to draft letters to Santa Fe Railroad and other lines urging installation of an electric warning signal at Avenue E crossing after a five killed crash with a Lennye Duevance Miller family car. Meeting set for February first.
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Santa Fe Railroad
J. L. (Broadway) Browning
Marven Stevenson
Walter Hales Lumber Co
Avenue E
Lennye Duevance Miller
Army Officer Vanishes After Air Crash Attempt
Ft. Sill officer Capt. Harvey J. Collins disappeared after crashing his plane to die in the air. Walters resident Bill Birden said he picked up Collins near Wichita Falls Texas and drove him toward Galveston. Collins, 28, from Tacoma Washington, left a note and his wife has heard nothing since. The damaged plane was found by the highway patrol near Ft. Sill after a dawn crash into a railroad embankment.
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Walters
Okla
Ft. Sill
Wichita Falls
Tex
Bill Birden
Harvey J. Collins
Tacoma
Wash
Galveston
Birden
Collins
Army
Highway Patrol
Lubbock POW Reunites With Japanese Bride At Homecoming
Sgt Rayburn Roach a POW for 28 months in China and North Korea returns to Lubbock with Yasuko his Japanese bride. About 100 greet at the station as Roach and family celebrate a Christmas in their home. He remarried four times for various government regulations and now is on a 39 day furlough after re enlistment.
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Lubbock
Rayburn Roach
Roy Roach
Orient
Roach
Yasuko
Japan
Korea
Sergeant Roach
Eisenhower Pushes Flexible Price Supports for Crops
President Eisenhower outlined a farm plan using flexible price supports to replace wartime levels. Surpluses would be insulated from markets and usable for school lunches and disaster aid. He pledged a 1955 shift with price supports at parity levels for basic commodities and a gradual move to a modern parity formula for key crops.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State of the Union
Congress
Eisenhower outlines tax cuts and defense build up
President Eisenhower delivered a state of the union address to Congress detailing a plan for tax cuts and stronger defense. He emphasized atomic weapons if needed, vowed economic stability, and urged continued foreign aid while proposing a youth voting age 18 amendment and various security measures. The speech also touched on farm price programs, debt limits, and social security expansions.
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Eisenhower
Congress
America
United States
Penes
House
Senate
Korea
Finance Committee
U.S
St.wrence Seaway
Red tactics feared as Communist strength grows in Italy
Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce warns top officials of rising non violent Communist influence in Italy amid unemployment and union pressure. President Eisenhower backs a substantial defense and economic aid plan for Italy totaling about 300 million dollars over six months, though figures remain undisclosed.
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Washington
Clare Boothe Luce
Italy
Giuseppe Pella
Reds
Red
State Department
Fogged glasses misled Louisville woman into smoky fright
In Louisville a woman rushed home and, after an alarming fog from her glasses, called the fire department. Firefighters found no fire. The woman’s fogged glasses created the illusion of smoke and a blaze, and the incident ended without injuries or a named witness.
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Louisville
McCarthy Calls Closed Senate Hearings on Red Hunt Powers
Senator McCarthy announced a closed Senate investigations panel meeting to discuss possible curbs on Red hunting authority and to act on contempt citations against three witnesses in his Ft Monmouth spying probes. He denied reports of shifting focus away from communism under White House pressure.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
European Winter Deepens Across Continent
Heavy snows cripple Italy and Britain as Northern Italian Alps and Apennines towns remain cut off. A Pordenone textile mill collapsed with 350 workers gone for the day. Turin roads scarce as 40 hours of snow paralyze traffic. Po delta flood damage unpriced. several villages evacuated. Adriatic water recedes with no casualties. Britain endures more snow and freezing winds though London sees sunlight.
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London
Europe
Italian Alps
Apennines
Pordenone
Turin
Italy
Adriatic Sea
Britain
Secrecy Shrouds Murder Try In Walter Reuther Case
Detroit police kept tight secrecy on movements amid the Walter Reuther assassination probe. Four men and four John Does face charges of conspiracy and assault for the 1980 gun attempt at Reuther’s home, with a possible motive undisclosed. Renda and Jacobs were arraigned. Jacobs to an extradition hearing January 14.
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Detroit
Walter Reuther
CIO
Santo
Sam) Perrone
Perrone
Senate
Carl Renda
Peter Lombardo
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Clarence Jacobs
Tecumseh
Ont
John Does
Reuther
Victor Reuther
Auto Workers Union
Renda
Jacobs
Windsor
Wayne County
Gerald K. O’brien
O’brien
Walter
Victor
Essex County Court
O'Brien
No Rain, But Mild In State
The Associated Press reports skies were clear and temperatures mild across Texas. Overnight lows ranged from 24 at Junction to 32 at El Paso, with no rain in the last 24 hours and only patchy fog in Beaumont before scattered showers in the Panhandle Plains later Thursday night into Friday.
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Associated Press
Texas
Junction
Salt Flat
Iidio
Alice
Wink
el Paso
Weather Bureau
Beaumont
Panhandle Plains
Night temps fall to 34 not freezing
Weather observer Mrs. D. P. Strayhorn reports a 34 degree low last night as the thermometer failed to drop to freezing. Yesterday's high reached 68 and this morning at 7 30 officials logged 38 degrees.
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D. P. Strayhorn
Texas Weather Forecast Mixed Clouds and Mild Temperatures
North central Texas expects increasing clouds and mild conditions on Thursday with Friday remaining mostly cloudy and mild. West Texas follows with similar trends and cooler conditions in the panhandle and El Paso on Friday. East and South Central Texas will be fair and mild Thursday and mostly cloudy Friday with coastal winds strengthening to fresh Friday.
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Texas
West
Panhandle
el Paso
Reds Demand That Prisoners Be Held Amid Korea Talks
Seoul reports say the Communists insist Korean war prisoners who have not returned be kept in custody until a peace conference decides their fate. The demand could trigger a crisis on Jan. 23 as U N Command seeks release of all POWs and preliminary talks stall.
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Red
U. N. Command
Mhore
Red High Command
K. S. Thimayya
Neutral Nations Repat
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