Tornado Warning Confirms Severe Weather Across Texas Oklahoma
A new Weather Bureau alert from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. covers 120 miles from southwest of Fort Smith Arkansas to southwest of Lake Charles Louisiana. Severe storms threaten flood zones in Northeast Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma with Lake Texoma at record flood stage as crest forecasts rise to 643.7 feet.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Fort Smith
Ark
Lake Charles
Texoma
Lake J. B. Thomas gains four hundredths foot to 2254.91
Lake J. B. Thomas rose four hundredths of a foot since yesterday to 2254.91. Runoff was light as rains were light and inflow slowed. In Snyder the official daily rainfall measured 0.11 inches. The lake is about three feet short of the service spillway level.
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J. B. Thomas
Snyder
David Strayhorn
Sailor Killed in Car Truck Collision Near Beeville
A sailor stationed at Chase Field Beeville was killed and two other servicemen injured in a car truck collision about 30 miles east northeast of Laredo on U S Highway 59. Names of the sailors and condition of the injured could not be learned immediately. The truck driver was not injured.
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Laredo
Chase Field
Beeville
Here
U.S. Highway 59
Beck Jr Refuses to Answer Questions Before Senate Panel
Dave Beck Jr. invoked the Fifth Amendment 19 times in eight minutes when questioned by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee about his ties to Teamsters Union business. The 36 year old, linked previously to his father’s finances, declined to identify his occupation and to say whether he knew his father. He was accompanied by attorney Edward L. Carey.
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Washington
Dave Beck Jr
Senate
Teamsters Union
Senators
Beck Jr
Beck
Washington, D. C
Edward L. Carey
Alaska
Dave
Joseph McEvoy
Beck Sr
McEvoy
Japan Allowed To Try U S Soldier
The United States agreed to turn over Specialist 3 C William C from Ottawa to Japan for trial in a case where a Japanese woman, Mrs Naka Sakai, was killed at a U S Army firing range. The joint decision by Secretary of Defense Wilson and Secretary of State Dulles touches on status of forces treaties and whether the act was performed in duty. Girard, 21, claimed the shot was not intentional and aimed to frighten scavengers away, facing a possible 15 year Japanese prison term.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Defense
Wilson
Dulles
Congress
U.S
Ee . Ay
William C. A
Ottawa
Girard
Naka Sakai
Defense Department
Treasure ship Grosvenor claimed found off Durban coast
Graham Reed leads divers aboard the Martinetta to a hulk near Lady's Bay identified as the East India Company ship Grosvenor. cannons and coins recovered amid rough seas after a 100 yard offshore discovery, with historic value cited at millions of pounds and dollars awaiting verification.
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Durban
South Africa
Graham Reed
Capetown
Martinetta
Lady’s Bay
East India Co
Grosvenor
Reed
India
Britain
Ranskei
P. A. Ingebriktsen
Rate Analysis Slated By City Council Vote
The city council voted to move 1200 from unappropriated funds to a service account to cover Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. rate increase analysis. The company has not yet appeared at a council meeting on the proposal, though questions were sent for clarification. A similar request was rejected last year.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Low Bids Accepted by City Council on Water Projects
City council approved extension of water mains and a six month supply of water department materials. Horace Williamson Construction Co. won the mains bid at 45 541 26, with Panhandle Construction Co. and R. B. Hodgson & Co. as other bidders from Lubbock. McGee Co. of Lubbock won the six month material supply bid at 2 735 79, with Clowe & Cowan and Well Machinery Co. as other bidders.
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Horace Williamson Construction Co
Lubbock
Panhandle Construction Co
R. B. Hodgson & Co
Belmont Park
Park Place
Highlands 2Nd
Thirtyseventh Street
M. B. McGee Co
Water Department
McGee
Clowe & Cowan
Well Machinery Co
Rohan Co
Waco
Thirty-fourth Street
el Paso
Austin Place Avenue
Scientists Warn Fallout Threat From Nuclear Tests
Three geneticists told Congress that radiation from nuclear weapons tests harms heredity with no safe dose. They warned that while overall genetic damage may be a small share of future deaths, billions exposed means thousands or millions could be diseased or deformed or die early if testing continues.
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Washington
Congress
Senate House Atomic Energy
James F. Crow
University of Wisconsin
Bentley Glass
Johns Hopkins University
Hermann J. Muller
Indiana University
Crow
Snyder Man Injured When Car Overturns South of Ira
William Franklin Lane Jr. 27 of 3011 Thirty-ninth Street, a Western Co. treating engineer, was injured in a 1956 Ford accident on U S Highway 350 about 0.4 miles south of Ira. The car left the pavement, rolled 1.5 times in a washed out ditch, injuring his hand and head. He was aided by a Western Co. coworker until ambulance transport to Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Patrolmen Arthur Dyson and Jim Kinser, with sheriff’s deputies, investigated.
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Snyder
Ira
William Franklin Lane, Jr
Thirty-ninth Street
The
Western Co
Lane
the Western Co
Barrow
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Bell Ambulance
Arthur Dyson
Jim Kinser
Sheriff's Department
40th Anniversary Vows Mark Dallas Priest’s Milestone
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination to priesthood in Dallas. He warned in interviews that communism is making strides in America.
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Dallas
Thomas K. Gorman
America
Smoking danger linked to higher death rates in men
The American Cancer Society reports that men who smoke have lung cancer deaths 1000 percent higher and heart attack risk 70 percent higher than nonsmokers. Final four year study of 188,608 men aged 50 to 70 found 11,870 deaths. Findings announced at the American Medical Association meeting by Dr. E Cuyler Hammond and Dr. Daniel Horn.
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New York
American Cancer Society
The
American Medical Assn
E. Cuyler Hammond
Daniel Horn
Society
Civic Clubs Plan Joint Meeting in Snyder
Snyder civic clubs schedule a joint meeting at noon tomorrow at the Martha Ann Woman's Club led by Scurry County Boys Club. Thomas Craighead of Dallas will present the local charter from Boys Clubs of America to about 35 boys as Mickie Brous leads the presentation and John Boren serves as MC.
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John Boren
Boren
Mickie Brous
Fort Worth
GOP High Command Faces Fund Raising Hurdle
Meade Alcorn said the Republican National Committee informed President Eisenhower that some large contributors feel the administration's budget is too high. He noted the party may endure a temporary fundraising dip but expects donors to accept the $71.8 billion fiscal plan for the year starting July 1.
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Washington
Republican High Command
Eisenhower
Meade Alcorn
GOP National Committee
White House
Alcorn
National Committee
GOP
Congress
Infant dies after car overturns near Georgetown
Richard Dean Zant seven month old son of Mrs Shirley Jensen Zant of Luling was killed yesterday when thrown from the car her sister Donna 2 and two others were hurt as the auto overturned twelve miles west of Georgetown Texas.
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Georgetown
Tex
Richard Dean Zant
Shirley Jensen Zant
Luling
Donna 2
Here
Floydada Woman Injured in Two Car Crash
Floydada resident Mrs. H. S. Ward was injured in a two car collision at Avenue M and Twenty fourth Street yesterday afternoon. She rode with her husband in a 1954 Chevrolet when it hit a 1950 Mercury driven by O. L. Gladson. Police had not finalized the report this morning.
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H. S. Ward
Avenue M
Twenty-fourth Street
Fatal One Car Crash Near Canadian Texas Claims Mrs Burnett
Mrs. Bob Burnett of Rt.2 Woodward Oklahoma was killed in a single vehicle crash south of Canadian. Her husband and two sons were injured in the accident reported yesterday.
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Tex
Bob Burnett
Rt.2
Woodward
Okla
Here
Unclear Snyder Weather Report With Temp Reading
Weather report indicates high near 67 degrees and low readings with precipitation. Mostly cloudy skies expected in the West Temas region with possible thundershowers and stable temperatures through Wednesday.
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Snyder
Ee Tegay
Presipita- West Temas
Eight Blocks Of Paving Added By City Council
The city council passed an emergency ordinance on one reading to add eight paving blocks this year. Petitions from nearly all affected property owners supported the measure. New streets include Beaumont Avenue, Sixteenth Street segments, Avenue O to P, Twenty-first Street, Avenue Q, and Thirtieth Street, plus parts of alleys. Work orders were issued to Brown & Root Construction Co. for 11 paving units and related street projects.
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Colonial Hills
W. J. Ely
Lyle
Deffebach
Colorado River Municipal Water District
Roy Dunlax
Dunlap
Beaumont Avenue
Thirty-fourth
Thirty-fifth
Sixteenth Street
Avenue R
Avenue S
Avenue T
Avenue O
Avenue P
Twenty-first Street
Avenue M
Avenue Q
Twenty-second Street
Twenty-third Street
Thirtieth Street
Brown & Root Construction Co
Avene
Twentieth Street
Thirty-third
Twenty-ninth Street
Clairemont
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Lufkin
Port Arthur
Lake Texoma
Robert F. Hunter
Tulsa
Denison
J. R. Meadows
Scurry County
Meadows
Dermott
Watson
Sailor
Brewing Company
Seattle
Canada
McClellan
D-Ark
Giard
General Improvements
Sewer Department
and Water Department
Muller
GOP High Command
Floydada
Thirty-second Street
Thirty-first Street
Avenue W
Avenues W
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