Dust and cold front may bring showers to Texas
A Pacific cold front could hit the upper half of Texas with possible showers on Wednesday while a dust front may return to West Texas. Temperatures fell below freezing in parts of the Panhandle, with Dalhart at 18 degrees and Lubbock around 34.
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Associated Press
Texas
U.S
Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
Panhandle
South Plains
Red River Valley
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
Lufkin
West Texas
Fort Worth-Dallas
Laredo
49Th District Court
Maverick County Water Improvement District Number 1
Rio Grande
Laredo Municipal
East Scurry Wildcat Test Set By Two Firms
Union Oil of California and Lone Star Producing plan a No. 1 C. D. Boone wildcat in East Scurry County to a depth of 7 700 feet testing the Ellenburger. Location is 14 miles east of Snyder, two miles north of Camp Springs, and near Hermleigh. Texaco files a semi wildcat offset No. 1 Marshall R. Young Cooper to the Strawn discovery in Northeast Fisher. Neustadt No. 1 A west offset completes the SMS field in Northwest Kent County with 24 hour rate of 13.80 barrels.
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Union Oil Co
California
Lone Star Producing Co
Scurry County
C. D. Boone
Snyder
Camp Springs
Hermleigh Field
H&tc
Rotan
Hamlin
Young-Cooper
Texaco
Marshall R. Young
Lillian C. Drake
Drake
Kent
Stanolird Oil & Gas Co
Sms
Kent County
Neustadt
Another Bawdy House Charge On Former DA
A new indictment charges former District Attorney William H. Scott with operating a bawdy house daily for over a year from January 1 1953 to March 16 1954. An earlier indictment dated March 10 alleged February 15 as the start. Scott blamed politics and refused to resign as Senate failed to confirm his appointment by Gov. Allan Shivers.
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Houston
William H. Scott
Scott
State Senate
Allan Shivers
Arab Group Condemns Israeli Attack on Natalia Village
The Jordan Israel Mixed Armistice Commission condemned Israel in the strongest terms for a Sunday midnight attack on Natalia near the Jordanian border. The resolution, proposed by Jordan and adopted by the commission, cites Israeli forces crossing the demarcation line and killing five national guards and a woman while wounding 14 villagers. It also notes the destruction of a truck carrying Arab Legionnaires, with three legionnaires killed and four wounded.
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Jerusalem
Mixed Armistice Commission
Israel
Natalia
Jordan
U. N
U.S. Navy
E. H. Hutchison
Negev Desert
Truce Supervision
West Texans Vote on Gas Taxes Monday
West Texas lawmakers split on the Kilgore gas tax bill with five Republicans voting with the House minority to amend or defeat parts of the tax program. Some supported restoring the gas gathering tax, while others backed the production tax increase, reflecting divergent views among Rep. Bishop of Winters and colleagues like Baker, Yancy, Burkett, and Stroman.
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Daily News
Austin
Rep
A. J. Bishop Jr
Winters
Joe Burkett
Kerrville
Omar Burkett
Eastland
John Kimbrough
Haskell
W. A. Stroman
Lester Clark
Breckenridge
Ibex
Mack Allison
Mineral Wells
L. L. Armor
Sweetwater
C. F. Sentell
Snyder
San Angelo
Kilgore
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde
Obie Bristow
Big Spring
Huron Brown
Midland
Carroll Cobb
Seminole
Dorothy Gurley
del Rio
W. G. Kirklin
Odessa
Truett Latimer
Abilene
David Ratliff
Stamford
Richard Slack
Pecos
Nurses Home Planned Close To Hospital Church Is Started
Construction begins on Trinity Methodist Church north of Cogdell Memorial Hospital funded by the Martha Ann Cogdell Trust. The trust plans a $60,000 nurses home beside the hospital and seeks local labor and equipment, with Cogdell supplying land and substantial funding from oil and mineral profits.
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Trinity Methodist Church
We Can's Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Martha Ann Cogdell Trust
D. M. Cogdell
Cogdell
H&tc
Scurry
Kent
Rains Construction Co
Davis Shaw
Radar speed meters to patrol Texas highways
Three radar speed meters will guard Texas highway sections to slow heavy-footed motorists. DPS Director Homer Garrison Jr said they will not be used as speed traps and public tests and demonstrations will be held. First public tests are planned for Harlingen area later this week.
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Austin
Texas
Homer Garrison Jr
Department of Public Safety
Mundt Seeks Fast Pick for Army Subpoena Counsel
Senator Mundt said better prospects exist for quickly naming a special counsel to aid the McCarthy Army inquiry. Army officials accuse McCarthy and aides of trying to gain favored treatment, while McCarthy says the Army sought to blackmail him. Mundt will preside as the subcommittee pushes toward a televised public hearing, with a hurried meeting possible if a break occurs.
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Washington
Sen
Mundt
R-Sd
Army
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
McCarthy
MccCarthy
Murat
Yester“7
Line Forms As Deadline Near For Car Tags
Crowds line the courthouse hall as tomorrow's registration deadline approaches for 1954 motor vehicle license plates. Since Feb 1 the tax office issued 7 460 plates about 90 percent of last year's pace with an expected total near 13 000 by Feb 1 next year.
Cooler Weather Report and Morning Temperature
The weather here cooled to 75 degrees after a cooler day with a 36 degree low last night. At 7 30 this morning readings remained 36 as reported by weather observer Mrs. D P Strayhorn.
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D. P. Strayhorn
Second hydrogen bomb test reported by U.S. AEC
The United States announced its second thermonuclear test in the Marshall Islands amid ongoing revelations from the March 1 explosion. The AEC said the latest detonation occurred on Friday March 26 with details classified and may precede a further blast in late April. Congressional leaders planned briefings as calls for public disclosure mounted.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
mid-Pacific Marshal Islands
Hiroshima
Marshalls
van Zandt
R-Pa
Esenhower
Rep
Holifield
D-Calif
Atomic Energy
Eisenhower Urges Tariff Cuts to Expand Foreign Trade
President Eisenhower asked Congress for broader power to cut tariffs as the core of a program to boost U S security and economic growth. He outlined four objectives including curbing foreign aid, expanding peaceful trade with the West and Iron Curtain, and easing buy American rules to open government purchases.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
America
Special Commission On Foreign Economic Policy
Senate
House
Clarence Randall
Chicago
Inland Steel Co
Daniel A. Reed
RNY
Ways and Means Committee
Richard M. Simpson
R-Pa
Eugene D. Millikin
Rcolo
Senate Finance Committee
British Push For Red Trade
The British press presses for looser controls on trade with the Soviet bloc. Harold Stassen meets with British and French officials in London and plans to travel to Washington. Informants say partial reductions in banned Western sale lists to the Soviet Union and East Europe were agreed, but China and North Korea embargoes remain.
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London
U.S
Harold Stassen
Washington
Stassen
Richard A. Butler
Soviet Union
China
North Korea
Churchill backs U S hydrogen tests in Pacific
In a Commons address Prime Minister Churchill urged support for America's hydrogen bomb tests, arguing they deter world war and rejecting calls to halt or seek international control. He insisted the United States will take rigorous safety measures to minimize risks.
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London
Churchill
U. S
Pacific
House of Commons
Labortte
United States
Free World
House
Plane Crashes Into Mess Hall At Fort Bragg
A C-119 Flying Boxcar crashed into a mess hall at Fort Bragg North Carolina. The public information office at Pope Air Force Base reported nine men aboard and could not yet confirm casualties. The aircraft, based at Sewart Air Force Base Tennessee, had just departed Pope for Louisville Kentucky.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Public Information Office
Pope Air Force Base
PIO
Sewart Air Force Base
Tenn
Pope
Louisville
New Taxes To Pay Teacher Salary Hikes In Texas
The Texas House, in a lighter mood than yesterday, backs Gov. Allan Shivers plan to raise 25.6 million dollars from new gas, beer, and franchise taxes to fund a teachers pay raise. Debate centered on exemptions and the gas tax, with key votes approving the natural gas tax and an exemption fight over carbon black.
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Tnto
Allan Shivers
Jack Fisk
Wharton
Texas
Maury Maverick Jr
San Antonio
Fisk
Maverick
W. G. Kirklin
Odessa
Rose
Grainger Mclihany
Wheeler
Joe Kilgore
McAllen
MclIihany
New Commercial Plane Record Set by US Carrier
American Airlines announced a DC T aircraft flying from Los Angeles to New York set a new commercial flight record of 6 hours and 10 minutes, breaking the previous 6 hours 17 minutes by Eastern Airlines in 1949 for the 2,439 mile trip.
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New York
American Airlines
Los Angeles
Eastern Airlines
Weather Outlook North Central Texas and Adjacent Regions
Cloudy and cold conditions persist across North Central Texas with lows 32 to 44 as the area remains unsettled. Southwest winds push temperatures up slowly by Wednesday with scattered showers or thundershowers likely and regional warming trends noted in Panhandle South Plains and East Texas.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Upper Panhandle
Tn Panhandle
Upper South Plains
Pecos Valley
Texas students plan protest of McCarthy San Jacinto Day talk
A UT group met to organize petitions against Sen Joseph McCarthy's April 21 San Jacinto Day speech in Houston. They criticized his record and urged student organizations to oppose the appearance while affirming his right to speak.
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Austin
University of Texas
Houston
Joseph R. McCarthy
Bob Kenny
Daily Texan
Sons of the Republic of Texas
McCarthy
Frank Spears
Presi
University Student Inn
The
Chronicle
Watts
University of Houston
Kenny
Texans For Texas Freedom
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