Preparing To Test New Well East Of Here
American Trading & Production Corp No 1 Elmer Howell in Snyder area is drilling to 6916 feet in Strawn lime and preparing to test after signs of oil in cores. No 1 Howell recovered oil and drilling mud while testing Cisco sand at 5829 907 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Trading & Production Corp
Elmer Howell
Filenburger
Snyder
Howell
Milne
Section
Standard Oil
George Kier
Cisco
Kellew - Snyder- Cisco
Husky Oil
Nance
Garza Wildcat
Strawn
Bilby Wallace
Kent Field
Fisher
Rowan & Hope
Truce Talks Reach New Low in Korea Negotiations
United Nations Command and Communist negotiators met in Munsan as talks sank to a new low after the Reds rejected the Allied three point package. Ridgway declared the offer non negotiable while the Communists submitted a counter proposal and insisted on indefinite recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
United Nations Command
Tokyo
Matthew B. Rideway
U.N
Reds
Russia
Rideway
Truman 68th Birthday Fight Continues Whistle Stop Attacks
President Truman, approaching 68, campaigns against budget cutters and the real estate lobby. He vows to press a long range housing program and defend world peace while railing at opponents who he says threaten national defense and public housing. He plans to continue campaigning as a private citizen if out of office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Todey
Stalin
National Housing Conference
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Sen
Douglas
Dill
Tobey
R-Nh
Extreme Heat Grips Texas as May Opens
Temperatures top 100 in Texas with May starting hot. Presidio reaches 104 degrees while Dalhart notes 83 for the high. Panhandle skies partly cloudy, ground fog at Beaumont, dawn lows from 72 in Galveston to 56 in Dalhart. Teases of thundershowers forecast in Panhandle Plains and El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
Presidio
Big Bend
Dalhart
Panhandle
Beaumont
San Antonio
Galveston
Panhandle Plains
el Paso
One Delegate Elected to Republican County Meet
Two of six precinct conventions attended the county Republican convention. Jack Young of Southwest Snyder and Lloyd Ainsworth of Fluvanna cast the single-vote format for both precincts on state convention representation. They supported Eisenhower retention of tidelands, state rights against federal encroachment, and flood control aid. John Stavely opened the meeting and presided as chair with Mrs. H. C. Ingram as secretary. Surratt named delegate to the Mineral Wells state convention on May 27 with his wife as alternate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Snyder
Fluvanna
Jack Young
Lloyd Ainsworth
Eisenhower
Tidelands
John Stavely
Young
H. C. Ingram
S. L. Surratt
Mineral Wells
Russell Tops Kefauver In Florida Presidential Primary
In Florida's farm counties Senator Russell of Georgia led by slim margin over Senator Kefauver of Tennessee. Russell carried 53 of 67 counties while Kefauver remained strong in Dade Pinellas Volusia and Monroe. Delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen May 27 in a second primary with no Republican presidential candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Florida
Sen
Russell
Georgia
Kefauver
Tennessee
Alabama
Tennessean
George Smathers
D-Fla
Smathers
Holland
Fuller Warren
Dade
Pinellas
St.Petersburg
Volusia
Daytona Beach
Monroe
Key West
Russell - Kefauver
GOP
Senate
Charles E. Compton
Miami Beach
Carroll
Shaw
Compton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dade County
Kefauver Crime Committee
Chapman to Run Against Cullen Toombs in County Race
Chapman former Precinct No 2 commissioner files for reelection with Cullen H Toombs as the other candidate. Chapman, resident 37 years, previously beat Toombs 222 to 218 in 1950 run off before appeals Court reversed and Arab precinct votes challenged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones Chapman
Harold Bennett
Chapman
Cullen H. Toombs
Toombs
A. S. Mauzey
32Nd District Court
Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Judicial District
Eastland
Temperatures Rise to 95 As Heat Lingers
Temperatures climbed to a high of 95 yesterday, per weather observer Mrs. D. P. Strayhorn. The low last night was 65, and at 7 30 this morning the reading stood at 68 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P. Strayhorn
Airman Held Without Bond In Attempted Murder Case
A 23 year old airman from Carswell Air Force Base is jailed without bond on armed robbery and assault to murder charges. Fort Worth cab driver Margaret Lister Gay was raped shot and left in a West Dallas field after the robbery. she is partly paralyzed. Cpl Obie Lee Belcher gave a signed statement to deputies and was arrested at the air base by Sheriff deputies with Carswell officials assisting in the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Margaret Lister Gay
Trinity River
Cpl
Obie Lee Belcher
Bull Decker
B. W. Adams Jr
W. R. Milam
Belcher
Carswell
Oil workers strike grips industry amid stalled talks
Denver reports the 22 oil workers unions coalition agreeing to meet the Wage Stabilization Board on May 13 to present the strike background. WSB chief Fein singer urged end to the strike and renewed bargaining as the dispute may be referred to President Truman under the Taft Hartley Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
O. A. Knight
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
AFL
Wired Feinsinger
Trans-World Airlines
Grand Old Man Of Masonry Dies At 106 In Fort Worth
John Jasper Ray Texas Masonry patriarch and Fort Worth's oldest resident died at 7 a.m. at his south side home aged 106. Born in Orange County North Carolina he moved to Texas in 1913 with his wife who predeceased him. He served as postmaster at Dublin and led a long tenure as a Mason elder and churchgoer. Survived by three sons all of Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
John Jasper Ray
Texas
South Side
Texas Masonry
Ray
Orange County
N. C
Cottonwood
Dublin
Presbyterian Church
Grand Chapter
Grand Council of Texas
Gravel Hill Lodge
Gravel Hill
Tenn
Grand Lodge of Texas
Waco
Grand Lodge
Hemphill Presbyterian Church
Alma Ray
John Ray Jr
W. T. Ray
S. W. Ray
Shivers Forces Make Clean Sweep Of County Convention
Shivers helped run the county Democratic convention in Scurry County where 30 delegates adopted three resolutions supporting state ownership of tide lands and uninstructed delegations to higher conventions. Harold Bennett was elected permanent chair. Forest G. Sears Bennett and John Sentell named state delegates. C. T. McLaughlin H. J. Brice James Rosser alternates. A debate over uninstructed delegations ended with Clark dissenting and the motion passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Bennett
Democratic Party
Scurry County
Forest G. Sears
Bennett
John Sentell
C. T. McLaughlin
H. J. Brice
James Rosser
Cr. McLaughlin
M. W. Clark
Clark
Texas
McLaughlin
Draft board lists Smoot among inductees despite death
The Scurry Nolan Fisher draft board had James Larry Smoot on its list for May 22 induction, though he died March 1, 1951 from injuries in an automobile accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scurry - Nolan- Fisher Draft Board
James Larry Smoot
County Orders Crossings and Underpass Over Railroad
County commissioners require Santa Fe railroad to grant three open crossings and one underpass in the road program and to pay for electric signals at all paved crossings. The plan moves a crossing near Dermott and adds crossings at Bootheland and a Hermleigh farm road. An underpass north west of the Roby overpass will aid the Snyder by pass, with pavement planking required at all crossings and future signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioners Court
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Dermott
Union
Edgar Taylor
Lamesa Highway
Snyder
Taylor
Bootheland
Hermleigh
Helmleigh
Railroad Company
Roby
Ex-Tax Official Meyer Indicted in False Statement Counts
Eugene L. Meyer, ex federal tax official at Austin, is indicted on four counts of making false statements. A fifth count accuses him of removing his income tax returns from official files and substituting another. A bench warrant and $1,500 bond were anticipated. The alleged acts occurred during an October probe of Internal Revenue Bureau offices, involving 1949 and 1950 files.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Eugene L. Meyer
Austin
Meyer
Internal Revenue Bureau
U. S
Charles F. Herring
Herring
Feinsinger Warns of Labor Chaos If WSB Powers Trimmed
Nathan P Feinsinger chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board testifies to the House Labor Committee warning that stripping the boards power to recommend settlements could provoke widespread strikes and industrial upheaval. He defended board recommendations as fair and aligned with voluntary wage increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Congress
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Feinsinger
House Labor Committee
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Madison
Wis
Truman
Supreme Court
Philadelphia
CIO
United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Family Of 5 Shot To Death In Texas
Electrician Robert A. Gist 26 killed his wife Luvenius 23 and three children last night then killed himself after walking four miles to report to police. The killings occurred on a remote ranch road 18 miles southwest of Cleburne, followed by Gist calling at the Horace Baldwin farm and turning the gun on himself. Witnesses said he told the Baldwin household, God forgive me I have killed my whole family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleburne
Johnson County
Earl King
Robert A. Gist
Luvenius Gist
Here
Gist
Horace Baldwin
King
Baldwin
Weather overview for West and Central Texas
Weather reports indicate clear to partly cloudy skies across West Texas on Wednesday through Thursday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in the Panhandle and South Plains. East and South Central Texas remain generally fair and warm with moderate to locally fresh southeast to south winds along the coast. North Central Texas shows partly cloudy and continued warmth through Wednesday night and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Texas
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Ray Jenkins
Columbus, Ga
Ledger
Hugh Bentley
Phenix City
Ala
Ridgway
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Cullen Toombs
Airman
Shivers
Laughlin
National Party
Rev. Clark
al Smith
Earl Creswell
Joe Merritt
Santa Fe
Home IS the
Sailor
John Taylor
Brooklyn
N. Y
Cousi
Felicia Borthwick
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Wasp
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