Slow Rains Benefit Scurry Area Farms
Slow soaking rains across Scurry County last night aided pastures and soils with amounts ranging from .23 to .5 inch. Cotton planting continues, and farmers report moisture helps blue panic grass growth. total Snyder rainfall for the year reaches 7.68 inches, with May accounting for 6.21.
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Scurry County
David Strayhorn
Snyder
Raymond Smith
Plainview
Ed Taylor
Canyon
Billy Don Huddleston
Knapp
Corky Krsne
Ira
Wraymond Sims
Lloyd Mountain
Lake Thom as rises 0.61 feet by 11 p.m.
Jack Dunn, pumper at the Snyder pump station at Lake Thomas, reported a total rise of 0.61 foot by 11 p.m. this morning on the lake. Dunn said that rains at Gail and Ackerly, reported to be from one inch to one and one half inches, would not reach the lake about 24 hours after they fe
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Jack Dunn
Snyder
Lake Thomas
Dunn
Gail and Ackerly
Four Drownings Reported Across Texas Stateswide
Four Texas youngsters drowned in separate incidents. James and Angelina Enders, ages 5 and 7, perished in Cow Bayou near Chilton with parents Edwin and wife. Santos Estrada, 8, drowned in a Galveston swimming hole while with two others on a raft. Pedro Mendoza, 16, drowned in six feet of water at a San Antonio pool. parents listed Fortunado Estrada and family.
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Texas
James
Angelina Enders
Cow Bayou
Chilton
Edwin Enders
Santos Estrada
Galveston
Fortunado Estrada
Pedro Mendoza
Antonio
Lake Thomas Jamboree Races On At Lake Thomas
Tickets move rapidly for the Lake Thomas Jamboree a two year event by the Downtown Lions Club on Sunday at 2 p.m. on the lake shore with prizes totaling 1000 dollars under National Outboard Association rules. Deanie Montgomery a Corsicana world champion headlines a Texas Oklahoma New Mexico circuit.
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Lake Thomas
National Outboard Association
Deanie Montgomery
Corsicana
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Giles Trial Set June 5
Former Land Commissioner Bascom Giles faces felony theft charges over a $6800 veterans land program transaction. Indicted with B R Sheffield of Brady, Giles and Sheffield face multiple counts tied to the Rosenow Ranch sale in Kinney County. Trial set for July 5 if not heard on schedule. Judge Betts orders severance and Giles to be tried first. State Sen. Carlos Ashley, Sheffield’s co counsel, notes mutual ties.
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Austin
Bascom Giles
Giles
B. R. Sheffield
Brady
Sheffield
Rosénow Ranch
Kinney County
Charles ©. Betts
Betts
Dist
Les Proctor
Carlos Ashley
Llano
Ashley
Four Fliers Tell Of Resisting Red Brain-Washing
Four American airmen freed from Chinese prisons say they resisted brain-washing and pleaded guilty to intruding into China. They spoke at a press conference near Hong Kong after over two years in captivity, described solitary confinement, and noted hope from U N secretary general Dag Hammarskjold.
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Honolulu
Hong Kong
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
China
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
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Heller
Lory Smith
Pacific
Navy
Washington
State Department
Special Air Force
Hawaii
Parks
Ford offers job security plan amid talks with UAW
Detroit News reports Ford Motor Co has proposed a 55 million dollar job security fund, aligning with the union's guaranteed annual wage idea. The offer follows Ford and UAW negotiations to avert a strike, with UAW delaying action to Monday.
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Norman Walker
Detroit
Detroit News
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
UAW
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Rites Set For Mrs. Hamlett Pioneer of Snyder
Mrs. J. H. Hamlett 78 a Snyder pioneer died Wednesday night in Temple where she had lived with a daughter the past three years Born Fan nie Irene Grimes in Blooming Grove she married in 1893 She taught an adult Sunday school class at First Christian Church Snyder for over 40 years Survivors: two sons Sam W. Hamlett Brownwood Joel H. Hamlett Jr Snyder two daughters Anton Goodman Dallas and A. C. Ballard Temple a sister E N Hoff man Fort Worth a brother E D Grimes Austin Four grandchildren and one great grandchild Funeral at 10 a.m. Friday Bell Funeral Home with Rev John Reaves officiating burial Snyder Cemetery Pallbearers: three grandsons Paul Hudgins Arthur Charles Ballard Joel H Hamlett III and Earl Brown Raymond Smith Edgar Eades
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J. H. Hamlett
Snyder
Temple
Snyder Cemetery
Paul Hudgins
Arthur Charles Ballard
Joel H. Hamlett III
Earl Brown
Raymond Smith
Edgar Eades
Weather Outlook for North Central Texas and Texas Panhandle
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Friday with widely scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and Friday east portions. No significant temperature changes. West Texas remains partly cloudy through Friday with scattered afternoon storms in east Panhandle and South Plains and east of Pecos River and Del Rio areas. Warm overall with scattered thunderstorms. Central Texas shows similar patterns with warm conditions, periods of thunder mainly in extreme northwest, and moderate to locally strong southerly onshore winds along the coast.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos River
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Cotton Research Gains Are Cited at Rio Grande Valley Meeting
Burris C. Jackson, head of the American Cotton Congress, praised cotton gains in quality and efficiency at the annual meeting in the Rio Grande Valley. He cited irrigation disease control and high yielding fertilizers, noting Pima S-1 and strong prewar market gains, with cotton remaining the valley’s top cash crop and last year delivering about 80 million dollars from over 400,000 bales.
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Harlingen
Tex
Texas
Burris C. Jackson
Jackson
American Cotton Congress
Rio Grande Valley
Lower
Tougher Punishment Looms For DWI Cases
In Austin lawmakers move toward stricter DWI penalties as a bill returning from the Senate would require both a mandatory fine and jail sentence for second-time offenders and strikes the suspension provisions, with the House to decide on Senate amendments.
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Austin
House
Senate
Joe Chapman
Sulphur Springs
Court of Criminal Appeals
Dallas Bus Workers Face Last Minute Wage Offer
Dallas transit workers received a 9 cent an hour wage increase offer with potential union acceptance. The AFL Transit Workers official said the offer is weak but may be the best possible. The union has authorized a strike but will delay action until after Friday midnight. The city plans to fund part of the raise by cutting Dallas Railway and Terminal Co. taxes by 50 percent. Mayor R L Thornton said eight cents is all the city and company can pay and urged no strike. Union members earn about $1.66 an hour and had rejected a previous one cent offer but will vote on the new city backed proposal.
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Ford
Carl Stellato
Rouge
Stellato
UAW
Dallas
Times Herald
AFL Transit Workers
Dallas Railway and Terminal Co
R. L. Thornton
Panel Approves Postal Pay Bill
The House Post Office Committee quickly backed a Senate bill to grant about 500,000 postal workers an average 8 percent pay raise. Final action in the House is set for Tuesday as Congress and President Eisenhower near resolution after Senate approval, with minor amendments not altering pay or job reclassification.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Senate
House
Congress
Eisenhower
Hearings Resumed On Security Program
Washington Senate Civil Service subcommittee resumes hearings on the administration's employee security program with former Republican Sen. Harry P. Cain of Washington as a witness. Cain, appointed by President Eisenhower to the Subversive Activities Control Board, has criticized parts of the program including use of the attorney general's list of subversive organizations.
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Washington
Senate Civil Service
Harry P. Cain
Cain
Eisenhower
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