Panel Told Oil Imports Big Threat To State
Abilene testimony before the Oil Import Study Commission cited a 40 percent drop in local drilling last year and a 60 percent dollar-volume decline at a service firm handling 55 percent of area rigs. Lauderdale warned cheap foreign oil endangers national security and Texas revenues, while Navy Captain M V Carson prepared as star witness on possible shifts from voluntary to mandatory imports controls.
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Abilene
Governor's Oil Import Study Commission
James Lauderdale
West Central Texas Oil and Gas Assn
Lauderdale
Commission One Service Company
Texas
Navy
M. V. Carson
Carson
Olin Culberson
Railroad Commission
Culberson
No Decision On Tax Cuts
Senator Martin said a White House conference on tax policy produced no conclusions. The talks covered withholding taxes excises and broader cuts aimed at stimulating spending and later investment. President Eisenhower remained calm and the administration kept its feet on the ground.
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Washington
Sen
Martin
Re House
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Anderson Martin
Anderson
Congressional Democrats
Knowland
California
Senate
GOP
Bridges
Republican Policy Committee
Roads Across Texas Listed Hazardous In Patches
The Highway Department reports mixed road conditions by district. Lubbock shows light snow and ice in places with all roads open. Brownwood notes ice on bridges and hills but warned districts may clear with bright weather. Abilene reports clear highways with ice on bridges sanded. Amarillo says all roads clear with an inch of snow at Hereford and light flurries elsewhere. Childress notes all roads open.
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Austin
Highway Department
Lubbock
Abilene
Amarillo
Hereford
Panhandle
Childress
Cuban upheaval slows Havana as Castro calls total war
In Havana a near paralysis hit shops and offices as rebels demand Batista quit. Castro declared total war and warned of a general strike and armed rising in April. Guards increased at key sites while many international flights and events were canceled or scaled back.
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Havana
Batista
Fidel Castro
Castro
Jane Powell
Havana Hilton
Andres Rivero Aguero
Oriente
Interamerican Press Assny
Civic Leaders’ Manifesto
Daniel Lands Cattlemen Independence Speech in San Antonio
Gov Price Daniel praised Texas cattlemen for facing drought and market woes without seeking price supports. He cited the Texas Beef Council's work to boost beef consumption and recalled 1860s hardships when cattle outnumbered people, noting pioneers moved herds to Kansas for better prices.
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San Antonio
Price Daniel
Texas
Daniel
Texas Beef Council
Kansas
Democrats Draft Lump-Sum Plan to Spur Economy
Democrats in Congress propose a $40 lump-sum tax rebate as a quick stimulus if business and employment fail to rise. The plan would issue a $40 tax withholdings rebate in the first pay period after passage, or the full $40 if at least that much was withheld, with aims to boost immediate spending.
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Washington
Congressional Democrats
Late Winter Spell Persists Across West Texas
A late winter spell lingered in Snyder and surrounding West Texas regions with continued cold air and forecasts predicting little change for 24 hours. Reports noted light snow and sleet in several towns, ice on bridges, and scattered precipitation across the Panhandle and South Plains, with temperatures ranging from single digits to the 80s in far south areas.
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Snyder
West Texas
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
McGregor
Lubbock
Abilene
San Angelo
Midland
Junction
Brownsville
Palacios
San Antonio
Austin
College Station
Dalhart
Amarillo
Upper South Plains
Presidio
Beaumont
Houston
Wichita Falls
Sherman
Galveston
Dallas
Fort Worth
Waco
Strike Ties Up Flights at KLM in Netherlands
In the Hague a pilot strike at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines halted most of today’s departures. Of 30 planned flights only two likely would depart to New York and Chicago while about 300 pilots pressed for reinstatement of two colleagues amid a wage dispute.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
New York
Chicago
All Men Laid Off Offered New Jobs
Phillips Petroleum Co said all men laid off March 1 from the butadiene section of the Plains Plant have been offered re employment The men are offered jobs at the carbon black plant effective March 31 Local 351 Operating Engineers Union had authorized a strike without a date after 22 workers were laid off Union agent L V McCarthy noted the company planned to release more workers
Testimony Nearing End In Murder Trial
In Dallas the defense in the J. H. Rogers murder trial and calls character witnesses as the case moves toward a close. Rogers, a 48 year old Wood County farmer, is charged with the Oct 1 1956 slaying of neighbor WH Lyle, 61, a fabrication of self defense is argued by his lawyers. Rogers son James married Nelda Lyle, Lyle’s daughter, at the time of the shooting following Nelda’s giving birth to a son.
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Dallas
J. H. Rogers
Rogers
Wood County
WH. Lyle
James
Lawyer Says Claim Settled in 1942 with Shipley Case
Fort Worth records show J. E. Sexton settled for $1000 with Mrs. Winnie Shipley who claimed common law wife status and a daughter, amid later will contests after Sexton’s 1946 forgery conviction and death at 80 in Jacksonville. Attorney A C Chaney said the out of court deal followed a signed disclaimer by Shipley’s mother and the child.
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Cleburne
J. E. Sexton
Sexton
Fort Worth
Winnell Shipley
Shirley
Agnes Kirk
Jacksonville
A. C. Chaney
Shipley
Chaney
Tex
Khrushchev Says Communist Party Seeks All Means In Elections
Khrushchev states the Communist Party uses every resource to back its candidates in the Soviet elections where 1,378 party nominees faced no opposition and 99.97 percent turnout. He notes final candidate decisions occur at district pre meetings while three U.S. observers question the system’s democratic nature and secrecy.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
U. S
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Khrushchev
United States
U.S
Vienna
U. S. Information Agency
World Service
Soviet Union
Afl-Cio
Weather snapshot for Texas regions
Weather update for Snyder and surrounding areas shows cloudy cold conditions through Wednesday with light rain possible in the south. North Texas remains cloudy with little temperature change and light wintry mix in the Panhandle and South Plains. Overnight lows range from the mid teens to the low forties across regions, with readings around 27 degrees in Snyder.
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Snyder
Texas
North
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Publisher Knight Testifies on Miami TV Case Confident National Official
Washington publisher John S. Knight testified he sensed National Airlines official Alexander Hardy was extremely confident before the FCC's 1957 Channel 10 decision. Knight, a Miami Herald publisher, described a plane talk from Washington to Miami around Jan. 6, 1956, noting Hardy hinted he had three votes on the seven-member FCC. The FCC granted Channel 10 to Public Service Television, Inc. after an examiner favored WKAT.
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Washington
John S. Knight
National Airlines
FCC
Miami TV
Knight
Miami Herald
House
Alexander Hardy
National
Miami
Hardy
Federal Communications Commission
Public Service Television, Inc
Public Service
WKAT
Rites Set For Wreck Victim Pedro Gar cia Villanueva
Funeral services are held for Pedro Garcia Villanueva 23 of the Sweetwater highway near Snyder. Burial in Snyder Cemetery with Snyder National Guard graveside rites under Bell Funeral Home direction. He died after a head on crash Sunday morning at 1:15 near the Sweetwater highway. Two Snyder men were killed and six others injured. Delbert Mack Richardson 19 of Wynnewood, Oklahoma also listed as a fatality with his funeral to be held there.
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Pedro Garcia Villanueva
Sweetwater Highway
Snyder
Catholic Mission
Thirteenth Street
Snyder Cemetery
Snyder National Guard
Bell Funeral Home
Villanueva
Here
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Thomas Quinlan
Colorado City
Delbert Mack Richardson
Avenue N
Wynnewood
Okla
Confident Message Carried By Vanguard Rocket
The Vanguard test rocket nose cone carried a stenciled message into space. Defense Department photos released the phrase Have ball, Will orbit, printed as part of the Navy launch yesterday.
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Washington
Vanguard
Navy
Defense Department
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Bureau of Business Research
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John P. Hagen
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International Airlines
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Daniel Lands Cattlemen’s Independence
Federal Reserve Board
Associated Press
Eddy
Shirley Titus
Krush
George Meany
Pravda
Meany
A. Frank Katzentine
Miami Beach
Harry McDonald
Securities and Exchange Commission
Kallentine McDonald
Kallentine
McDonald
Channel 10
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