Deluge floods streets as two inches fall in hour
A heavy downpour drenched the area Tuesday afternoon, causing street floods and a car washed into a creek from Avenue 7. Red Green crawled from his submerged 1951 Chevrolet after being swept more than two blocks. Sand bags protected the Sunbeam Market area and traffic slowed along Twenty Fifth Street.
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Snyder
E. W
Red) Green
Ralph Eades
Twenty - Sixth Street
Avenue M
Avenue L
Burton-Lingo Lumber Co
Rs&p
Sunbeam Food Market
Red Green
Mississippian Test Swabs 47 Barrels In Oil Well Report
Mississippian tester Eva Laws reports the Laws No 1 well in Scurry County swabbed 47 barrels of oil in 24 hours with some lead oil indicated. The hole filled after five hours with 2700 feet of fluid and bottomed at 8264 feet with prior shows on a drill stem test.
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Superior
Intex
H&tc
Scurry Wildcat Hurndall & Gray
Ida Gannaway
Scurry Wildcat
Mude
Scurry County
Texas Co
M. A. Fuller
Kent County
Enter Rodeo Attracts 225 Entries With 17 Parade Floats
Scurry County Rodeo Association reports 225 entries by mid morning with up to 300 projected and 17 parade floats. Prize money totals 3400 dollars and new sponsors include Bell's Funeral Home Snyder Parent-Teacher Association Bob Dupree Nash Hale's Sewing Machine Center.
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Scurry County Rodeo Association
Billy Boren
Association
Bell's Funeral Home
Snyder Parent - Teacher Association
Bob Dupree Nash
Hale
Sewing Machine Center
Boren
Pavinas
Doctors Resist Health Hearing in Houston
The Harris County Medical Society opposed a one day Truman health commission hearing, one of eight city hearings, arguing the open session would yield valueless information and that cooperation would be refused.
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Houston
Truman
United States
Harris County Medical Society
American Medical Association
County Society
Paul B. Magnuson
Commission
Air Sea and Land War Resumes in Korea
American carrier planes bombed Dongjin reservoir in Northeast Korea. The battleship Iowa fired one ton projectiles at rail yards and coastal guns, resuming major assaults in the Korean conflict.
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Korea
Seoul
Dongjin
Iowa
United States expands Voice of America amid Amerika suspension
The State Department said VOA will be boosted with new transmitters languages and features after Amerika the Russian language magazine was suspended. The Vagabond coast guard vessel converted to a radio transmitter will sail to the Mediterranean to relay signals behind the Iron Curtain.
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Washington
State Department
Voice of America
The
USA
Amerika
U. S
Moscow
Department
Russia
United States
Wilson Compton
Campaign of Truth
Vagabond
Coast Guard
New York
Mediterranean
Munich
Germany
Compton
Leningrad
Aid Arms Cuts Anger Truman
President Truman denounced Congress for slashing his foreign aid and economic stabilization requests. He signed the $11.79 billion supplemental bill praising the cuts as an economy while warning the 25 percent reduction will weaken allies and raise costs for Americans. Foreign aid receives about $6.03 billion.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
County retires bonds saving county money
The county prepaid 18000 in bonded principal, saving over 800 in interest. Refunding warrants from 1937 were retired for 3544, and 1590 bonds from the 750000 road paving program were retired for 16135, saving about 750 in interest. Remaining debt totals 261000 on road bonds and 13000 on refunding warrants.
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Ity
Trains Carry Texas Rival Demo Delegations to Chicago
Texas rival Democratic factions plan separate train rides to the National Convention in Chicago. The Loyal Democrats depart Dallas on the Texas Special at 6 10 p.m. Saturday with unpledged supporters following behind Gov. Allan Shivers delegation. both trains arrive about 2 p.m. Sunday. Ahead of the trains, leaders MAURY MAVERICK and Fagan Dickson prepare Chicago headquarters at Conrad Hilton and Palmer House, as hearings determine seating.
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Austin
Texas
Chicago
MKT
Dallas
Allan Shivers
Union Station
Maury Maverick
San Antonio
Fagan Dickson
Conrad Hilton Hotel
National Democratic
Wright Morrow
Shivers
Palmer House
Absentee Vote Total Reaches 86 Today
Eighty six persons had voted by absentee ballots in the July 26 primary by noon today. Applications, including those who have already voted total 207. Applications for absentee ballots are made with the county clerk, where absentee voting may also be done in person there by those planning to be absent from the county on election day. Deadline for absentee voting is midnight July 22.
ADA Leader Defends Yalta Policy at Democratic Platform Hearing
Francis Biddle head of Americans For Democratic Action urges pride in Yalta and warns that the Soviet Union violated the agreements in Eastern Europe and China. He argues U.S. troops could have prevented Communist triumphs, defends Yalta, and pushes for civil rights planks at the Democratic convention platform hearings.
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Chicago
Korea
Francis Biddle
Americans For Democratic Action
Yalta
ADA
Biddle
Europe
Manchuria
China
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Tehran
Potsdam
Platform
National Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ADA National Board
American Farm Bureau Federation
Democratic Platform
Farm Bureau
Washington
Jets Reach Yokota After Long Overwater Flight
Fifty-eight Thunderjets touched down at Yokota Air Force Base near Tokyo marking the largest mass overwater jet flight from Turner Air Force Base Albany Georgia to the United States and the Pacific. One plane exploded yesterday over Iwo Jima killing Lt. Col. Elmerda Rosa of Sacramento California. General Otto Weyland said pilots may occasionally go to Korea for combat.
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Tokyo
U. S
Yokota Air Force Base
United States
Pacific Ocean
Turner Air Force Base
Albany
Iwo Jima
Japan
Elmerda Rosa
Sacramento
Calif
Otto Weyland
U. S. Far East Air Forces
Korea
Steel Union Sets Policy to Shape Strike Strategy
The 170 member Wage Policy Committee of the CIO United Steelworkers meets in Pittsburgh to decide the union’s future course in the 45 day old stalemated strike. President Philip Murray called the meeting after a brief negotiating session with the industry ended in deadlock.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
USW
Philip Murray
Kefauver Eyes Tactics From Ike Backers in Bid for Nomination
Washington reports Kefauver team mimics four Ike campaign moves including governors' appeal and anti machine protests. Tennessee Governor Gordon Browning seeks a free convention while Kefauver aide Gael Sullivan accuses unnamed rivals of plotting to form a machine. He calls for open meetings to radio TV and press.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Gordon Browning
Gael Sullivan
Sullivan
California
Contract Let on Work To Widen East Highway
State Highway Department in Austin announced a bid to widen East Highway 84 from Avenue H to the east city limits to four lanes. Ernest Loyd of Fort Worth was the low bidder at 59,583 dollars.
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Law
Snyder
State Highway Department
Austin
Avenue H
Ernest Loyd
Fort Worth
Acheson Criticizes Red China Over Geneva Treaties
Secretary of State Acheson accused the Chinese Communists of violating Geneva conventions on war rules amid broadcasts claiming conditional recognition. He noted failures to publish prisoner lists, allow POW camp inspections, or mark camps, and questioned any real change in policy.
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Munsan
Korea
Peiping Red
Chou En-lai
China
International Committee of the Red Cross
United Nations Stockades
North Korea
Red China
U. N
Comunists
Peiping
Washington
Acheson
Truman admitted to Walter Reed for infection treatment
President Truman entered Walter Reed Hospital for a check up after a mild virus infection. Press secretary Joseph Short said the fever was nearly gone and the illness not serious but he may stay two or three days. The admission came five days before the Democratic National Convention and could influence nomination news.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Joseph Short
Short
White House
Wallace H. Graham
Big Military Hospital
George C. Marshall
Mohammed Mossadegh
Iran
Graham
Frank McKinney
Weather Update for East and South Central Texas
Showers and local squalls along the coast with partly cloudy interior for Wednesday through Thursday. Weak to moderate temperature change expected with fresh to locally strong southeast winds on the coast.
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Associated Press
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Beaumont
Lufkin
Orange
Longview
Tyler
College
Waco
Gulf
Corpus Christi
Pensacola
Fla
U. S. Weather Bureau
Houston
Dallas-Fort Worth
Weather Bureau
Galveston
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
Mid
Mara
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Ezell Motor Co
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Teolw Wee
Tety
Marion Everhart
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Clairemont Road
Dan Gibson
Gibson Ranch
Hermleich
Fluvanna
Donald Heckler
A&t Trailer Courts
Connie Williams
Thirteenth Street
Lee Watson
Superior Oil Co
Florance Lanhan
Borden County
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E. E. Wallace Estate
Kent Wildcat
Babe
Lewiston
Edgar Taylor
Panmunjom
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Steel Union
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