Public Library Bill Is Approved By Ike
President Eisenhower, recuperating after surgery, spent much of the day in the White House working on public matters and approving legislation including a public library bill. He continued to make progress in his convalescence as he reviews key items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Sherman Adams
Congress
National Advisory Council
International Monetary
Civil Aeronautics Board
United States
France
Housing and Home Finance Administration
Blytheville
Ark
Hugh M. Comer
Birmingham
Ala
National Monument Commission
Clarence G. Morse
Federal Maritime Board
Adams
David
John Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
Susan
Barbara Anne
Major Eisenhower
Mary Ean
Snyder Man Killed in Auto Mishap Near Albuquerque
Snyder Gasoline Plant foreman Howard W. Hutchins, 52, died in an auto crash near Albuquerque New Mexico while en route with his wife and two daughters on vacation. His wife and daughters were hospitalized, and Hutchins’ body would be sent to Rainbow Kaw. He had worked for Snyder Gasoline Plant since 1951 after earlier service in Kansas. Survivors include two other daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard W. Hutchins
Snyder Gasoline
Albuquerque
N. M
Hutchins
Lydia Ann
Katherine Kay
Snyder
Colorado
Presbyterian Hospital
Rainbow
Kaw
Sunray Mid-Continent
Rainbow Bend
Barnsdall Oil Co
Kansas
Geuda Springs
Kan
John Anderson
William E. Tooley
Lubbock
Quadruplets Born to Italian Miner Family in Rome
Velia Giuseppetti a 23 year old marble miner's wife gave birth today to quadruplets three boys and a girl all reported in perfect health. They weighed between 2 and 3 pounds each.
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Rome
Velia Giuseppetti
Old Papers Found Lafayette Treasures In French Castle
The New York Times reports discovery of thousands of letters, papers, and belongings of Marquis de Lafayette in a 15th century French castle after nearly a century of neglect.
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New York
New York Times
Marquis de Lafayette
Texas Crude Production Raised 70 973 Barrels Daily For July
The Texas Railroad Commission ordered a 70 973 barrel per day increase in July production based on 16 production days in the month. The move ends a four month downward adjustment trend and sets permissive flow at 3 322 043 barrels daily while stressing stock and import trends.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas
Olin Culberson
Ernest Thompson
Oil Company
Humle
Sun
Sinclair
Magnolia
Conoco
Atlantic
Tidewater
Stanolind
Phillips 13
Gulf
Shell
Cities Service
Adame
Jigger “Y" McElroy
Fort Chadbourne
Coates
Culberson
New Round Of Showers Predicted By The Weather Bureau
The Weather Bureau forecasts another round of thundershowers for Tuesday afternoon after a weekend of twisters hail storms and heavy rains. Temperatures ranged 82 to 104 and rainfall totals included 1.42 inches in Houston and 1.00 in Beaumont with many other Texas sites recording lighter amounts.
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Associated Press
The
Weather Bureau
Houston
Presidio
Alpine
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Lufkin
Wichita Falls
Victoria
College Station
Palacios
Abilene
San Antonio
Laredo
Texarkana
Cotulla
Brownsville
Yellow Fever Survey in Brownsville-Mata Moros Area
The State Health Department announced a study this week to estimate yellow fever potential in the Brownsville Mata Moros region. Officials warn that advancing jungle yellow fever from Panama toward Mexico and the U S Gulf Coast is causing unease.
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Austin
Brownsville
Matamoros
State Health Department
Panama
Mexico
Gulf Coast
United States
Soil Bank Plan Details Circulated By Scurry ASC
Scurry County ASC has released 1956 Soil Bank instructions covering wheat and cotton payments. Wheat offers 4 dollars per acre with 50 acre or 50 percent limits, or 5 and 10 percent minimums. other rates apply if crop failed or not grazed after Jan 1. Cotton eligible up to 10 acres or 50 percent, with 10 percent or two acres minimum. Payments vary by destruction status and appraised yields. Participation is voluntary, with final destruction dates around July 20. County yields set at 117 pounds, based on10 year averages. Program for 1956 only, 1957 differs.
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Scurry County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Henry Burchett
ASC
Agriculture Marketing Service
Burchett
Judson McGaha
Roy Hanson
Charlie Eastman
Oscar Fowler
C. C. Hess
USC District 6
Bland Harrison
Bob Nelson
Colorado City
Chamber Drive Targets Budget Increase For Members
A series of chamber meetings opened with a Hilander breakfast to push a membership and revaluation drive. About 40 members attended. by noon over 2 000 had been pledged toward boosting the budget from 15 600 to 29 000 as teams sign new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Hilander
Chamber
Wacl McNair
Dan Eddy
Debt limit hike approved by Ways and Means
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a one year increase of three billion dollars to the national debt limit to 278 billion for the new fiscal year starting July 1. Treasury Secretary Humphrey said debt reduction will be prioritized with a projected 1.8 billion dollar surplus.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Eisenhower
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Ways and Means Committee
Gail Services Are Scheduled For Mrs El izabeth Pearce
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Ruth Pearce of Gail were set for today at 4 p m in the Gail gymnasium with Wesley Fillman officiating She died yesterday in Abilene She was born August 19 1877 in Columbia Tenn and was the widow of L A Pearce Survivors include her four daughters ten grandchildren and three sons. Interment was planned at Gail Cemetery under Bell Funeral Home with pallbearers named above.
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Elizabeth Ruth Pearce
Gail
Wesley Fillman
Church of Christ
Fluvanna
Pearce
L. A. Pearce
Abilene
Columbia
Hunt County
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Coryell County
Lee Anderson Pearce
Vansyck
Borden County
Ted Johnson
Snyder
L. L. Petty
Willis Bennett
Orange
John J. Williams
Ray
Roscoe
Wayne
Fort Worth
Delmo Pearce
San Antonio
Gail Cemetery
Bell Funeral Home
Vivian Clark
Burt Dennis
Frank Miller
Jap Jones
Jack Hunnicutt
Ronald Hamilton
Bobbie Beal
Bill Long
Snyder Weather Report Predicts Warm, Partly Cloudy Week
Readings show yesterday at low 6 and today's 7 30 a m 74 degrees. North Central and West Texas forecast partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with widely scattered thunderstorms mainly in the afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
North Central
Wee
Texas
Abilene Oil Merger Ties Texas Calgary to Texas Calgary
Abilene financier Ray McGlothlin Sr. merges oil and gas properties in Texas Canada Montana Arkansas and New Mexico. Texas Calgary Co. and Petroleum Products Refining and Producing Co. join as parts of the new entity with McGlothlin as president. Texas Calgary offices move from New York to Abilene making the firm the first Abilene stock exchange listed company.
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Abilene
Ray McGlothlin Sr
Texas
Canada
Montana
Arkansas
New Mexico
McGlothlin
Texas Calgary Co
Petroleum Products Refining and Producing Co
New York
American Stock Exchange
Texas Calgary
Flood Damage Closes In On McKeesport Regions
Cleanup under sunny skies continues in McKeesport White Oak and North Versailles after a second heavy rainstorm caused flash floods and extensive damage with estimates around one million dollars.
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Mckeesport
White Oak
North Versailles
Soviet loan offer to Egypt eyed amid dam talks
Cairo reports a Soviet loan of 1.12 billion dollars to fund the Aswan Dam, with Premier Nasser weighing the terms. Shepilov, in Egypt for National Day events, hints at broader aid while stressing Arab friendship and nonenrichment aims, as Western proposals also surface.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Union
Aswan
Nasser
Shepilov
Suez Canal Zone
Britain
United States
Nile
World Bank
Russia
Israel
V. M. Molotov
Red
Mediterranean
Bernesht
Gamal Abdel Nas
Ser
France
Greece
Turkey
Africa
Asia
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Big Spring
South Snyder
Joseph F. Gelnar
Odessa
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Joe Hampton
Milburn
Floyd G. Upton
Forty-first Street
Henry Burroughs
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Panama City
Cvrberson
Louisiana
Mexican
Beaumont
East
West
Salvation Army
Scurry County
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