Dulles Reports Moderately Optimistic Far East Trip
Secretary of State Dulles presented a moderately optimistic report on his 19 day tour of 10 Asian nations to 22 congressional leaders at the White House as President Eisenhower listened. Lawmakers praised the tone while noting remaining trouble spots, with Dulles set to testify on foreign aid before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. General Gruenther and NATO issues also surfaced in related discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary
Dulles
Far East
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Marco Polo
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Middle East
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
GOP
Senate
Bridges
House
Martin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Alfred M. Gruenther
NATO
Richards
D-Sc
Strikers Go Back To Jobs At Westinghouse Plants
Westinghouse Electric Corp workers return to duty as production resumes to recover losses from a 156 day strike. Negotiations resume with Independent United Electrical Workers to resolve wage and contract disputes affecting about 10,500 employees across 10 plants. Union official James J. Matles says progress toward peace could be speedy while noting wage changes at South Philadelphia could drop average pay by 50 cents per hour. Six thousand workers remain on strike there after October shutdown. A Sharon Ohio local of the IUE with 6,500 members balked at ratifying a recently ended nationwide accord, with the company alleging pact violation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
United Electrical Workers
James J. Matles
IWE
Matles
South Philadelphia
Westinghouse
TUE
Sharon
IUE
Hail and Rain Strikes Texas With Tornadoes
AAP reports torrential rains hail and tornadoes across Texas, damaging crops and homes. A tornado destroyed the O C Gossett farm near Flat in Bell County but the Gossetts were uninjured. Rio Hondo and Hidalgo area hail damaged cars, windows, roofs, and crops. Another tornado touched Willow Grove near Temple, damaging a pump house. Funnel clouds were seen near Alice Falfurrias the King Ranch and between George West and Three Rivers with no reported damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
O. C. Gossett
Flat
Bell County
Gossetts
Rio Hondo
Rio Grande Valley
Jim Lang
Hidalgo
McAllen
Gossett
Willow Grove
Temple
Tom Drake
Moody
Alice
Falfurrias
King Ranch
George West
Three Rivers
Six Men Die In Plane Crash South Of Waco
Six men lose lives when a large airplane crashes south of Waco. The incident is followed by a local civic effort in Scurry County forming the Civic Loyalty League at First Baptist Church to oppose liquor expansion. Dr. O F Dingler leads the organizational meeting and outlines plans for a county rally and an upcoming petition drive for a local option election.
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Waco
Scurry County
New
Civic Loyalty Group
Forces of Righteousness
Local bootlegger faces trial again
Anderson Davis Jr a longtime bootlegger awaits trial on a possession of liquor in a dry area charge. He is serving most of a four year sentence from a 1952 jury verdict with 26 months remaining. Davis was arrested again after a governor’s reprieve expired while he was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Davis, Jr
Davis
New Mexico
Snyder
Sheriff's Department
Girlstown Ordered By State Board To Change Operations
A Texas welfare board ordered Girlstown U S A near Whiteface to tighten its operations or face license revocation as a child care institution. An advisory panel backed the department, citing unmet standards and concerns over funding, governance, and staff suitability, with a reasonable time given to implement changes.
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Girlstown
Austin
U.S.A
State Public Welfare Board
Welfare Board
Welfare Department
Girlstown Board
Whiteface
U.S A
Welfare Board of
State Board of Public Welfare
Board of Girlstown
Nelson Hawkins
Presbyterian Home and School For Children
Itasca
Iboard
Services Set For Ira Man
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church for Hubert Carnes of Ira. Carnes died Wednesday at Cogdell Memorial Hospital and was 47 years old. Masonic services will be held at the grave. Survivors include five sisters and four brothers. Burial in Snyder Cemetery under Bell Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
Hubert Carnes
Ira
Carnes
Masonic Lodge
Lee Weir
Sundown
L. R. Trotter
Pewaukee
Wis
T. E. Giddeon
Beth Phenix
Mineola
Kate Risinger
Sul
Automobile Damaged By Blaze In Snyder
A car owned by Anderson Davis Jr now jailed at Scurry County jail suffered rear seat damage from a fire early morning in Snyder. Fire Chief Durward Porter said the blaze, likely caused by a carelessly thrown cigarette, started at Davis 3500 block Avenue M residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Davis Jr
Scurry County
Durward Porter
Porter
Davis
Avenue M
Weather Snapshot for Texas Regions
Yesterday's high reached 71 and low 33 while 7:30 am today shows 34. West Texas to Friday stays clear to partly cloudy with a slight warming in Panhandle and upper South Plains tonight. East and South Central Texas expect clear to partly cloudy skies with a cooler trend tonight and moderate to fresh northerly winds on the coast shifting to moderate northeasterly tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Snyder Post Office Discussed and Proposed
Local civic leaders Herbert Feather and the Rev. Jay Hendren returned from Washington after discussing a new Snyder post office with federal officials. They seek a lease purchase or federal survey approach to determine need and space for a possible post office and related government offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Snyder
Washington, D. C
Herbert Feather
Chamber Civic Affairs Committee
Jay Hendren
Chicago
Washington
Irving J. Thomas
Bureau of Facilities
U. S. Post Office Department
T. G. Doyle
General Service Agency
George Mahon
U. S
Thomas
Texas
Arlington
Grand Prarie
Refugio
Post Office Department
Fort Worth
Mahon
Federal Agricultural Offices
Doyle
Chamber
Moonshiners Warned as Feds Seize Still and Mash
Federal agents led by Archie Kirkpatrick and Harold Lee pursued a moonshiner in Choc taw County Oklahoma. A lookout fled on horseback, signaling with coded cries as a car horn warned others. The agents confiscated a 50 gallon still and 150 gallons of mash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo
Okla
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Paul Revere
Archie Kirkpatrick
Harold Lee
Choctaw County
Snyder Students Attend Texas Interscholastic Choral Meet
About 185 Snyder students from Snyder High School and junior high will participate in the Texas Interscholastic League choral contests in Abilene on Friday and Saturday under Bob Clinton and Mrs. Landis Lee. High school groups compete for Division I ratings while junior high entries mark their first appearance. regional teams include Snyder, Brownwood, San Angelo, and others with noncompetitive judging against a standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Snyder High School
Bob Clinton
Landis Lee
Snyder
Brownwood
San Angelo
Sweetwater
Winters
Colorado City
Ballinger
Thackmorton
Albany
Cisco
Coleman
Plan for public defender discussed at Texas law conference
Enforcers at a three day meeting in Austin urged Legislature to study a public defender system for Texas. The plan envisions a public attorney skilled in criminal law to represent penniless clients. Texas law already allows appointment of counsel when defendants cannot afford it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Attorney General
WACO B25 Crash Near Hearne Kills Six Aboard
A B25 missing from Connally Air Force Base was found wrecked in a Hearne pasture about 50 miles south southeast of Waco. Six crewmen died. The training sortie began at 7:30 p.m. with a second target craft. poor weather and turbulence likely factors amid scattered aerial maps and exploding reports. Resources from Connally and Bryan AFB joined the search as dawn broke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Tex
Connally Air Force Base
Here
New Baden
Christmas Tree Lake
Hearne
G. D. Russell
Floyd Tippitt
Texas
Gatesville
Connally Afb
Bryan Afb
Russell
Connally
Franli
Franklin
E. P. Elliott
Doyle Caldwell
Elliott
Monk Burns Tail and Blaze Kills Quail at Store Pen
A fire of unknown origin destroyed a quail pen at E. E. Jones's Jones Grocery on Clairemont Road yesterday. Several quail burned to death and a pet monkey had part of its tail burned before fire chief Durward Porter put out the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones Grocery
Clairemont Road
E. E. Jones
Durward Porter
Shepperd Urges Measure to Preserve State Resource Rights
Texas Attorney General Sheppard urged U S senators Lyndon Johnson and Price Daniel to sponsor a constitutional amendment protecting states rights to conserve and control natural resources. He cited a Rogers bill introduced in the House from Pampa calling for state power to regulate exploration production and distribution of petroleum water sulphur and other minerals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Atty
Shepperd
Texas
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Price Daniel
Walter Rogers
Rogers
Pampa
Griffin To Appear Here Friday Night
The Hon Meade F Griffin will appear on a forum panel at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet Friday night. Griffin a West Texan native and top attorney has served in civil government and in World War I and II military posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meade F. Griffin
Chamber of Commerce
Cottonwood
Callahan County
Justice Griffin
University of Texas
Tulsa
Leon Springs
Camp Travis
Camp Sheridan
Alabama
Swisher County
Plainview
Hale County
64Th Judicial District
Griffin
Camp Shanks
N.Y
New York Port of
Judge Advocate General's Department
War Crimes Branch
U. S. Army
Wiesbaden
Germany
Infantry
Texas Bar Association
Old Voluntary Association
New State Bar Association
State Courts Housing Committee
Advisory Hospital Council
State of Texas
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Earl Carlsen
Mary Ann
Charlotte
Ill
Albert Joseph
Carlsen
Option Fight
Commissioners Court
Estes Kefauver
Minnesota
Washington, D.C
Gail
Kefauver
Malcolm McKinnon
John
New Snyder
Monk
Blaze
Quail
Meade Griffin
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