County School Census Shows Gains Across Snyder District
Buford Browning reports 1962 county school census with a total rise of 113 in school age children. Snyder district up to 4469, Hermleigh from 314 to 348, Ira from 168 to 206, Fluvanna from 122 to 125. State aid totals depend on age counts and district valuations. Scurry county districts Hermleigh Ira and Fluvanna qualify for foundation aid.
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Buford Browning
Snyder
Hermleigh
Ira
Fluvanna
Scurry County
Missing Flying Tiger liner vanishes with 107 aboard
A Flying Tiger Line four engine Constellation carrying 11 Americans, 93 U.S. Army personnel, and 3 South Vietnamese vanished 270 miles west of Guam en route to Clark Air Base Manila. Sixty-five search aircraft and ships scoured 750 miles by 100 miles as crews sought the airliner and its crew led by Capt. Gregory P. Thomas.
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Flying Tiger Line
Guam
U.S
Pacific
Clark Air Force Base
Manila
Travis Air Force Base
California
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Philippines
Clark Field Rescue Coordinating Center
U.S. Navy
Brister
Clark Field
7Th Fleet
Air Force
Okinawa
Gregory P. Thomas
Red Bank
N.J
Travis
Flying Tiger
Thomas
New Soviet Vehicle Is Hurled Into Orbit
Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced at an election meeting that the Soviet Union has launched a new space vehicle now in orbit. Tass later said it is an artificial earth satellite as part of space research. no word on a crew. He claimed superior intercontinental missiles and warned against nuclear war.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Tass
West
Burns Fatal to Hermleigh Resident Mrs Mason
Mrs Mary Leona Sheptard Mason, 71, of Hermleigh died at Cogdell Hospital after a house fire that burned a nylon housecoat. She was admitted from Snyder Hospital and died at 11:55 a.m. Thursday. Survived by husband, one daughter, one son, two sisters, three brothers, six grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church Hermleigh with Rev Bob Creswell officiating. Burial Pyron Cemetery Bell Funeral Home directing.
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Hermleigh
John E. Mason
Cogdell Hospital
Bell Ambulance Service
Mason
Mary Leona Sheptard
Thorne Hill
Tenn
Hermsleigh
First Baptist Church
Welfare Bill Passed by House Amid Vote Split
The House approved a 325 million dollar welfare measure, including 140 million for added relief payments not sought by President Kennedy. The 319 to 69 vote sent the bill to the Senate, while a Republican bid to boost relief funding failed 231 to 156.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
Standard of Texas Opens New Snyder Offices and Station
An open house is planned in Snyder tomorrow to celebrate two new Standard of Texas sites at Thirty-seventh and Big Spring Highway, a Chevron service station and a company office. Executives W. L. Taylor H. L. Smith and L. W. Clark will attend. The open house runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with staff guides and refreshments. The move follows steady regional growth since Standard of Texas began operations in Scurry County in 1948 with the Jessie Brown II well, the SACROC unit’s discovery.
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Standard of Texas
Snyder
Chevron
Thirty-seventh
Big Spring Highway
Standard of Texas Production
W. L. Taylor
H. L. Smith
L. W. Clark
Houston
Sacroc
Loca
Scurry County
Jessie Brown II
QO. H. Berry
Ed Micak
Co. D. Mims
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Harold Lacik
Winston Field
Paul Jones
Standard Oil Co. of Texas
Jones
Midland
Standard
Chamber of Commerce
India Urges Prompt Informal Talks On Disarmament
In Geneva the 17 nation conference urged Secretary Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to begin prompt informal negotiations on rival disarmament plans. Indian leaders pressed for quick talks while the Soviet Union rejected Kennedy terms for a test ban and refused foreign inspectors.
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Geneva
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
India
Francisco San Thiago Dantas
VY. K. Krishna Menon
Rusk
Gromyko
Menon
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Mrs Huey Dies Today In Arp Texas at 69
Mrs Huey 69 of Arp Texas died at 9 45 a m She was a native of Arp Funeral services set for 3 30 p m Saturday at Bell Funeral Home Chapel The Rev D W Copeland will officiate Assisted by Richard Williams Burial will be in Omen Texas cemetery She was a Baptist and survived by husband James H Huey a brother Ernest Sidney Bass five stepdaughters Carl Kelier Snyder Faye Huey Abilene Mrs Glenn Breneman E Adams Houston and Mrs Ray Woody Kodiak Alaska
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Huey
Arp
Tex
Bell Funeral Home
D. W. Copeland
Knapp Baptist Church
Richard Williams
East Side Church of Christ
Omen
The
Baptist Church
James H. Huey
Earnest Sidney Bass
Fort Worth
Carl Kelier
Snyder
Faye Huey
Abilene
Glenn Breneman
E. €. Adams
Houston
Ray Woody
Kodiak
Alaska
Storm Hits Rome Leaves Four Dead and Damaged Roofs
A March wind storm in Rome killed four people and damaged trees and several rooftops. Gale force winds affected coastal areas of Italy.
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Rome
Italy
Weather Summary for Texas Regions
Weather outlook across Texas shows fair to warm trends. North Central and Northeast Texas have fair skies with highs 65 to 75, lows near 3 to 45 tonight. Northwest Texas expects cooler nights with lows 26 to 43 and highs 68 to 72. Coast winds 9 to 15 knots shifting southerly Saturday. Southeast and Southwest Texas forecast warmer, with clear to partly cloudy skies and highs around 60s to 70s.
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Snyder
Texas
South Centre
Carr Holds Wide Lead In Texas Attorney General Poll
A 1962 Texas Poll shows Waggoner Carr with 40 percent first-choice support for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, well ahead of four opponents at 11 percent or less. Undecided voters total about one third, suggesting a close race before the May 5 primary and potential runoff dynamics.
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Waggoner Carr
Texas
Texas House of Representatives
Carr
Navy
W. T. McDonald
Tom James
Les Procter
Tom Reayiey
McDonald
James
Beagley
Procter
Sunday Snyder Daily News Adds Big Color Comic Section
A new color comic package arrives with the Sunday issue doubling the previous size. The Sunday newsstand price rises to 15 cents, while regular home delivery and mail subscriptions stay at the old rate. The 16 page color section includes Joe Palooka Blondie Terry and the Pirates Steve Canyon and more with favorites retained.
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Snyder Daily News
Joe Palooka
Captain Easy
Blondie
Terry and the Pirates
Steve Canyon
Alley Copacy
Yogi Bear
Li'l Abner
Dennis the Menace
Flint
Little Orphan Annie
Maw Green
Off Record
Tarzan
Boots
Babe 'N Horace
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Viet Nam
Western Pacific
Marine and
Coast Guard
Kremlin
Alexander Ushlinsky
Burns
Tion
Twenty-fourth
Avenue 5
Defense
Robert McNamara
House Foreign Affairs Committee
King May Huey
Twenty-sixth Street
John Cogdell
Jof Belden
Reaviey
Will Wilson
Justice McDonald of
Bryan
Court of Criminal Appeals
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