County to Take Hospital Bids On February 23
County to bid opening Feb 28 for Cogdell Memorial Hospital construction with 37 beds and optional 13 bed wing. County judge says plans await final state approval after Austin talks. Federal aid halves costs, site donated by Cogdell, health unit building planned nearby.
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Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Edgar Taylor
Taylor
Austin
State Hospital Board
Herbert Brasher
Lubbock
Butler - Brasher Engineering Co
Avenue J
Twenty - Sixth Street
D. M. Cogdell
Big Spring
Cogdell
Deep Wildcat and King Wildcat Drills In Texas Fields
Deep Wildcat No. 1 J. R. Weaver in Central Dawson County by Seaboard Oil Co. aims for 10,500 feet testing Pennsylvanian lime with a site north of Lamesa. Ard Drilling Co. prepares King County wildcat No. 1 R. B. Masterson near Canyon reef, bottomed at 6,371 feet with oil and gas shows. Amerada Canon and Clayton wells in Borden work, and Sun Bilby Wallace in Clairemont field report oil and gas indications. Richardson & Bass No. 18 Nail Estate in Southeast Mitchell shows 108 barrels oil in 21 hours with no water.
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Seaboard Oil Co
Delaware
Dawson County
J. R. Weaver
Lamesa
T&p
Humble Oil and Refining Co
King Wildcat Ard Drilling Co
Borden
Amerada No
Canon
Borden Wildcat
Bilby Wallace
Clairemont Field
Mitchell Richardson & Bass
Nail Estate
Mitchell Field
Snyder School Gets 7900 Reduction in Valuation Fee
The Snyder school district reduced the valuation engineering fee by 7900 from 30000 paid to Pritchard & Abbott of Fort Worth for 1951. A. T. Nicholas says the company voluntarily cut the bill after valuations rose beyond expectations. 1951 district valuation totaled 82.8 million with four cent per hundred fees on oil railroads utilities banks and equipment.
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Snyder
Pritchard & Abbott Valuation Engineering Co
Fort Worth
A. T. Nicholas
Pritchard & Abbott
Thomas Y. Pickett & Co
Dallas
Pickett Co
Councy
Pickett
Sweden and Russia agree on major trade deal
Sweden and the Soviet Union announce a plan to double trade with a 23 million dollar exchange. Sweden will ship steam turbines generators iron steel metal products machinery instruments and butter, about one third of which will be electrical goods sold for cash.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Soviet Union
Warm Continues With 70 Degree Readings Across Fourth Day
Temperatures rose above 70 degrees for the fourth straight day yesterday with a 76 degree reading by weather observer Mrs D P Strayhorn. No rain this morning, skies overcast. At 7 30 o clock the temperature was 50 and the low last night was 49.
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D. P. Strayhorn
India Worried Over Shift In Soviet Policy
New Delhi officials express concern as the Soviet Union for the first time in four years backs India's view on Kashmir in the UN Security Council. Malik opposed Pakistan and accused Anglo American imperialism, while Indian leaders study the move ahead of Nehru's return from campaign tour.
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New Delhi
India
Kashmir
Pakistan
Soviet Union
United Nations Security Council
Jacob A. Malik
Jawaharlal Nehru
Moscow
Malik
West Bengal
Congress Party
Nehru
Washington
U. S
Chester Bowles
Churchill Lovett talks temper final Truman conference
Washington reports Prime Minister Churchill met with Secretary of Defense Lovett this morning before his final talks with President Truman. Churchill plans to meeting at 2 p.m. CT and may discuss aid to Southeast Asia, opposition to an American admiral as Atlantic naval commander, and token forces for the Suez area. Egyptian and British reactions follow.
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Washington
Churchill
Defense Lovett
Truman
Congress
U. S
Suez Canal
Paris
Egypt
London
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Britain
Canal Zone
The
Daily Telegraph
East Texas Rep. Pushes Repeal Of Car Inspection Law
State Representative Jack Wisener reported 58 of 150 House members favor calling a special session to repeal the car inspection law while 42 oppose it. He noted opposition mainly from rural areas and cited concerns over safety related requirements such as tailpipe checks and cracked windshields. Wisener said most big-city reps in Houston Fort Worth Dallas and San Antonio opposed a session.
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Stin
East Texas
House
M-Ders
Jack Wisener
Wells
Allan Shivers
Wisener
Shivers
Houston
Fort Worth
Dallas
San Antonio
Probes Drift on Grain Shortages and Prosecutions
Washington ledger shows Comptroller General Warren testing a full investigation into grain storage shortages in the Agriculture Department, with over 3.8 million dollars missing in a Dallas office. Senators Anderson and Aiken pressed for prosecutions amid farm price support program stock moving through government storage.
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Washington
Lindsay C. Warren
Agriculture Department
Dallas
Warren
Senate Agriculture Committee
Brannan
Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Senator Aiken
R-Vt
Ellender
D-La
Senate Committee
Anti-Truman Democrats Meet In Houston Ahead Of Texas Conventions
Houston hosts a conservative Democratic gathering to steer anti Truman delegation toward the San Antonio convention. Alvin Lane switches from Taft to Eisenhower in Texas. GOP groups plan a Dallas headquarters as factions frame the state race.
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Houston
Ike
Associated
Eisenhower
Taft
Texas
Alvin H. Lane
Texas Republican Party
Sen
Ralph B. Lee
Harris County
Leo Ac
San Antonio
Truman
Shivers
Price Daniel
Austin
Lee
GOP
Lane
Dallas
United States
Spur- Bell
Henry Zweifel
Fort Worth
Zweifel
Ohio
San Francisco
Jack Porter
Alvin Lane
Gulf Coast Texas Shipyards Hit by 12 Percent Wage Strike
About 3 000 Texas shipyard workers remain on strike as wage increases become the dispute focus. Beaumont Bethlehem workers seek 12 percent raise to align with Pacific Coast pay. Galveston and Todd Shipyards show varied responses. No violence reported.
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Associated Press
Texas
AFL
Beaumont
Bethlehem
Galveston
Todd
Mobile
Ala
Kane Shipbuilding Co
Henry J. Murphy
Murphy
Houston
Levingston
Orange
Iran Signals Possible Denunciation of 1857 Treaty with Britain
Hossein Fatemi writes in Emrooz that the 1857 peace and friendship treaty has no validity in the second half of the 20th century and calls it an agreement between wolves and lambs. Britain rejects Iranian orders to close consulates and maintains their presence under the treaty. Iran says it will reply to the British note by Saturday.
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Tehran
Iran
Britain
Hossein Fatemi
Mohammed Mossadegh
Fatemi
Emrooz
Foreign Ministry
Faure Presses to Form Coalition Cabinet in France
Paris Premier Edgar Faure, 43, the youngest since 1875, pushes a multi party coalition to end the political crisis. A 401 to 101 confidence vote from the National Assembly followed, with de Gaulle abstaining and Communists opposing Faure. The Socialists signaled limited backing, hinting the new cabinet may include few if any Socialists.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
France
National Assembly
Faure
Charles de Gaulle
RPF
Rally of the French People
Rene Pleven
Marcel David
Pleven
Jets clash over Korea fourth day in air war
U S Sabre jets screened Thunderjets against Red rail targets as 120 Communist jets attacked. Four MIG-15s briefly breached formation but no damage reported. Three MIGs downed and seven damaged over three days. St Paul cruiser and destroyers shell Red positions near Kosong while Athabaskan joins in closer inshore fire near Songjin. Twenty five B 29s from Japan join the night air strikes.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Eighth Army
Heartbreak Ridge
Kosong
St. Paul
Egyptians denounce Churchill call on Suez defense
Dr Mahmoud Azmi Bey told reporters Egypt guards the Suez waterway and forbids foreign troops from entering the canal zone. He said moving French Turkish or American forces into the area could threaten Middle East peace and may be brought to the United Nations Security Council.
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Paris
Winston Churchill
U. S
Suez Canal
Mid East
Mahmoud Azmi Bey
Canal Zone
U. Security Council
United Nations
Egypt
Britain
Churchill
United States
France
Turkey
Suez
Korea
British Action Tightens Control in Suez Canal Zone
Al Ahram reports British authorities have cut off Suez Ismailia and Port Said from other Egypt and imposed travel limits. Lieut Gen Sir George Erskine told Egyptian authorities that only with special permits can political or official persons travel between these cities.
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Cairo
Egypt
al Ahram
Suez Canal Zone
George Erskine
Suez
Ismailia
Port Said
Erskine
Salary Increase Approved by County Court Vote
County officials and deputies won a 10 percent salary raise after Judge Taylor broke a tie vote. He announced the decision after delaying ruling as the court adjourned, then notified the county auditor who issued the raises. Walter Grant and Doyle Palmer supported the motion, while Ted Haney and Cullen Toombs opposed.
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Eden Wy Biertine
Taylor
Austin
Commissioners Court
Walter Grant
Doyle Palmer
Ted Haney
Cullen Toombs
Weather forecast for West and East Texas
West Texas shows partly cloudy skies this afternoon tonight and Saturday with a small rise in temperatures in the Panhandle and South Plains. East Texas expected to be partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with a slight warm up in the north portion. South Central Texas partly cloudy and cooler in the extreme north this afternoon with gentle to moderate southerly winds along the coast.
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West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
East Texas
Cook
Texas
Truce Talks See Another Fruitless Day In Korea
Truce negotiators endured a tense but orderly day at Panmunjom with no progress on armistice terms. Chinese Maj Gen Hsieh Fang mocked allies as running dogs while Maj Gen Claude Ferenbaugh urged pledges to limit airfields, and Rear Adm Libby pressed for prisoner repatriation.
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Munan
Korea
America
Claude Ferenbaugh
North Korea
Yalu
R. E. Libby
Matthew B. Ridgway
U.N
Ferenbaugh
Hsieh Fang
United States
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Hawaiian Gardens
Long Beach
San Pedro
Sance Valley
Angeles
Reseda
Pacific
Sierra
Pas el Monte
Gulf Coast
Panmunjom
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