Giles Refuses Departure in Deposition of Bascom Giles
In Austin on March 19 the state pressed questions to an empty chair as Bascom Giles refused to answer in two veterans land suits. Special assistant Kellis Dibrell continued the deposition but no judge remained. Giles will be back in court March 30 for an oral statement in a separate land suit.
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Austin
Bascom Giles
Veterans Land
Clint Small Sr
Kellis Dibrell
Notary
Harris Gardner
Giles
Dibrell
Jessie Waltrip
Gardner
B. R. Sheffield
L. V. Ruffin
Brady
Dimmit County
Small
53Rd District Court Room
Bexar County
Everett Looney
Sheffield
Looney
Clint Small Jr
Rogan Giles
George Pope
Snyder Spotlight voices on funds and street name change
The column urges prudent use of county funds in Scurry County, notes warrants can earn interest, and argues for timely spending on needed projects. It also invites public input on renaming Snyder streets and critiques federal subsidies for a Trinity River canal linked to Snyder taxpayers.
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Scurry County
Washington
Trinity River Canal
Snyder
Colorado River
Seven Andrews County Residents Donate To Probe
Senator Jim Phillips of the Senate Investigating Committee returns seven one dollar contributions from Andrews County residents to aid the veterans land scandal inquiry. He seeks facts over funds and commends local citizens for their interest in clean government. He did not name the contributors.
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Austin
Jimmy Phillips
Senate
Andrews County
Veterans Land
Veterans Land Board
Senate Subway Car Out Of Control Crash At Capitol
A Senate mono rail subway car ran out of control and crashed into a cement block at the Capitol end of the line in Washington. No injuries are reported.
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Senate
Washington
Capitol
Infant Girl Kidnapped From Beaumont Hospital Nursery
A blue-eyed 6 pound 10 ounce baby girl was stolen from the Southeast Texas Baptist Hospital in Beaumont about 1:15 pm. An impostor nurse in white took the infant while mother Mrs. George Wharton was in delivery. Police have no lead, and doctors advise special feeding and warmth for the missing child.
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Mrs. Mays
Wharton
C.H. Todd
Southeast
Texas Baptist
Texas Gulf Coast
Todd
Unfounded Reports of Communist Buildup Opposite Matsu Island
Taipei reporters quote Nationalist Chinese and American sources discounting claims of a major Communist buildup on the mainland opposite Matsu. The baseless rumors included jet bases in Fukien province, with confidence rising that Nationalists can defend Matsu and Quemoy, 150 miles away.
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Taipei
Formosa
Matsu Island
Reds
Fukien
Matsu
Quemoy
Friends Of Churchill Say He Will Quit Within Weeks
Nurse Catherine Stromie checks the temperature of Bobby Bohner Jr six in a Tulsa hospital to see it drop from 108.6 degrees after a ruptured appendix on admission a week ago. The fever fell to 106 then to 101 as doctors wait for infection to clear before surgery.
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Churchill
Catherine Stromie
Bobby Bohner, Jr
Tulsa, Okla
Bobby
Churchill to retire as Prime Minister and pass to Eden
London reports aging leader Sir Winston Churchill plans to resign within weeks and hand over power to Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden in early April. Queen Elizabeth II and the cabinet are said to be aware, with a general election anticipated in June or October amid party splits and health concerns.
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London
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Churchill
Russia
Sir Anthony Eden
Eden
Lord Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Beaverbrook
The
Express
Anthony Eden
London Evening Star
Elizabeth II
Lord Moran
Sicily
Labor Party
Aneurin Bevan
Clement Attlee
New Brief In Batchelor's Appeal Filed
San Angelo Texas March 19 a new appeal brief is filed in the Cpl Claude Batchelor court martial case claiming defense witnesses were wrongly blocked and noting a similar trial for Maj Ambrose Nugent where such witnesses testified Batchelor, 23 now in Leavenworth Kansas Federal Penitentiary, was convicted of collaboration with the enemy while a Korea prisoner and sentenced to life later reduced to 20 years Westbrook Batchelor's defense attorney says the Nugent case supports calling officers as witnesses to show orders or sanction by superiors in POW camps.
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San Angelo
Tex
Cpl
Claude Batchelor
Ambrose Nugent
Ft. Sill
Okla
Nugent
Batchelor
Westbrook
Guizado Faces Trial Monday in Panama Murder Case
Former Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon was assassinated at the Juan Franco racetrack. Ex officio suspect Jose Ramon Guizado, 56, a wealthy civil engineer and contractor, faces trial before the National Assembly on charges he conspired with Ruben Miro to kill Remon.
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Panama
Latin America
Jose Ramon Guizado
National Assembly
Ruben Miro
Jose Antonio Remon
Remon
Juan Franco Racetrack
Easter Parade Preview Highlights Snyder Sources
The Easter Parade in Snyder is drawing near with a Sec B pictorial preview in the Daily News showing parade features from local stores. Scurry County reports over 99 percent tax collection for the year in a Page 8 Sec A update. The merger of Pioneer and Continental will take effect April 1 affecting Snyder commercial air service with slight changes. Snyder Tigers swept a doubleheader Saturday in baseball, with a broader sports roundup on pages 4 and 5 Sec A.
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Snyder
Today
Daily News
Scurry County
Pioneer
Continental
Snyder Tigers
What is a Presbyterian Two Sacraments Observed By Church
An inform article by Dr. John S Bonnell explains Presbyterian identity as a form of church government with elders and ministers. It notes belief in the Bible as inspired and the Westminster Confession as the creed, and states Presbyterians hold two sacraments Baptism and Holy Communion while baptism is not required for salvation.
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Daily News
John Sutherland Bonnell
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York City
Presbyterian Church
Parliament of
England
Heaven
Hell
Jesus
Confession of Faith
Plans for Scurry polio vaccine program in schools
Plans to vaccinate 1038 first and second grade children in Scurry County without cost to families rely on anticipated licensing of the Salk polio vaccine next month. Dr. Robert Wasson and nurse Leah Davis outline school system coordination, with vaccine supplied by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and available through physicians if proven effective.
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Robert F. Wasson
Leah Davis
Miss Davis
Wasson
University of Michigan
NFIP
Scurry County
State Health Department
Wesson
Snyder
Health Department
Dr. Wasson
March of Dimes
Foundation
Snyder High School Fielded Grass Judging Team Wins Contest
A Snyder High School grass judging team won top honors at a grass contest in Sweetwater run by the Upper Clear Fork Soil Conservation District. Sophomores Billy Clyde Roberson Benny Rinehart and Richard Miller scored 1418 of 1500 and earned a trophy. Roberson led individuals with 488 of 500 and won a sterling belt buckle. Rinehart and Miller also placed high.
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Snyder High School
Sweetwater
Upper Clear Fork
Roberson
Rinehart
Miller
Thunderstorms Race Across Texas Spurring Early Spring
Storms swept much of Texas on Saturday signaling approaching spring. A 150 mile wide warning area covered 48 600 square miles from San Angelo to Palestine with hail possible. A separate 60 mile radius near Hobart Oklahoma included parts of Texas south of Wichita Falls. Temperatures varied wildly with highs of 88 at Laredo and Presidio and cooler readings north of the front.
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Texas
West Texas
Piney Woods
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
San Angelo
Palestine
Hobart
Okla
Wichita Falls
North Texas
East Texas
Houston
Austin
San Antonio
del Rio
Big Bend
Laredo
Presidio
Fort
Dallas
Junction 41
Fort Worth
Lufkin
Waco
Abilene
el Paso
Weather Outlook For Texas Regions
North Central Texas enjoys partly cloudy skies and warmth with widely scattered storms Sunday and a cooler Monday. West Texas sees mostly cloudy, scattered rain and thunderstorms Sunday turning colder with some snow in Panhandle Sunday night. East Texas reports partly cloudy Sunday with scattered thundershowers and a colder interior on Monday. South Central Texas forecasts cloudy and warm Sunday with widely scattered storms, then cooler Monday with scattered showers and local thunderstorms.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
del Rio-Eagle Pass
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Interior
Stassen Named To New Cabinet Post
President Eisenhower named Harold Stassen as special presidential assistant with Cabinet rank to study disarmament and reduce world armaments. He will draft policy on all major weapons, staying head of FOA until June, then resign as FDA dissolves. Bipartisan support noted on Capitol Hill.
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Russell Brines
Washington
Eisenhower
Harold Stassen
Stassen
White House
Russia
United States
U.N
London
Foreign Operations Administration
FOA
Congress
FDA
Capitol Hill
Minnesota
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Wacil McNair
Big Spring
Lubbock
Broadway
U.S. 180
Ralph Geisenhower
Snyder National Bank
Guizado
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