Blast and Fire Ravage Snyder Building and Vehicles
An explosion and ensuing blaze shattered walls at 1600 block Avenue and damaged Clark and Smith Gas Co and Star Tire, leaving the building heavily damaged. Fire officials suspect a late loaded butane gas truck leaked, fueling the flames across five vehicles while firefighters from Snyder respond and a Western Company truck aids. A nearby unoccupied house was damaged but the fire did not spread. another alarm and a haystack fire at Johnson Ranch were also reported.
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Snyder
Yuins
Clark and Smith Gas Co
Star Tire
Avenue
Boyd
Western Company
Johnson Ranch
Potsdam Papers Released Shine Light on Wartime Talks
The State Department released two volumes totaling 2733 pages of Potsdam Conference papers from July 17 to August 2, 1945. They show Truman and Churchill clashing with Stalin over postwar Germany and Eastern Europe, revealing long term occupation lines and early Cold War tensions.
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Washington
State Department
Potsdam
Harry S. Truman
Britain
Winston S. Churchill
Josef V. Stalin
Germany
Europe
U.S
Truman
Churchill
Berlin
Pre-School Visits Scheduled Across District Next Week
Planning sessions with principals and school nurses will help incoming first graders and their parents become familiar with the district. Nurses are assigned to East West Central Lincoln Northeast Stanfield North Elementary schools on various days, guided by C. D. Henry, director of curriculum.
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Nell Spence
East Elementary
West Elementary
Eula Williams
Central Elementary
Lincoln School
Leah Johnson
Northeast Elementary
Stanfield Elementary
North Elementary
C. D. Henry
Four Women Injured When Car Hits Pole Near Safeway
Four young women were injured when their 1960 Chevrolet crashed into a utility pole in front of the Safeway Store on Twenty-fifth Street. All four occupants Sarah Dennis Wanda Minnick Billie Smith and Gail June Minnick were taken to Cogdell Memorial Hospital by Bolger ambulance with cuts and bruises but no serious injuries reported.
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Safeway
Twenty-fifth Street
Chevrolet
Sarah Dennis
Avenue Q
Wanda Minnick
Billie Smith
Gail June Minnick
Thirty-ninth Street
Latchbock
Sixth Rebel General Surrenders In Algiers Faces Paris Trial
White haired General Andre Zeller walked into a police station in Algiers and surrendered to face trial for insurrection in the uprising led by General Challe. He was quickly flown to Paris to join five other generals imprisoned in Santé Prison as riot police and armored cars tightened security in Algiers.
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Andre Zeller
Zeller
Paris
Sante
Maurice Chaile
Challe
Raou Salan
Edmond Jouhaud
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Rusk Arrives For NATO Talks In Oslo Norway
Secretary of State Dean Rusk lands in Oslo for NATO foreign ministers strategy session. He urges alliance unity and warns security hinges on joint will to defend freedom by force if needed. He seeks greater European conventional forces and allied commitment to NATO levels.
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Norway
Dean Rusk
Atlantic Alliance
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Alliance
Rusk
NATO Council of Foreign Ministers
Washington
Red China
Laos
Geneva
Europe
Kennedy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Andrews Air Force Base
NATO
United States
Shepard flight adds new words to U S language
Cape Canaveral AP report notes two terms entering the language from Alan B. Shepard Jr s space flight. A okay describes his condition as reported by Project Mercury spokesman John Powers. Freedom 7 is the astronauts code name for the first U S manned flight.
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U. S
Alan B. She
Project Mercury
John Powers
Cape Canaveral
Powers
New Cold War Operations Center Formed at State Dept
The State Department announced a 24-hour crisis watch unit led by Theodore C. Achilles, a veteran diplomat who will work under Secretary Rusk. The center aims to deliver prompt crisis recommendations to the secretary and ensure Kennedy administration decisions are implemented, with Cuba and South Vietnam as initial priorities. Stephen E. Smith, Kennedy's brother in law, was named special assistant to Achilles amid the disclosure.
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State Department
Theodore C. Achilles
Dean Rusk
Achilles
Rusk
Kennedy
Cuba
South
Viet Nam
Department
Stephen E. Smith
Rochester
N .Y
Foreign Service
Peru
State Departa
Jaycee Banquet Honors Outstanding Young Man and Lifelong Member
Mel Gilbert named Outstanding Young Man of 1960 and Ernest Sears received Snyder Jaycees first life membership at annual banquet in West Elementary Cafeteria. Officiating officers installed. Doug McGlain new president with John Jarrell first vice president and others in leadership. Awards include Mr Jaycee Billy Joe Brown and Snyder National Bank outstanding boss of the year.
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Mel Zane Gilbert
Ernest Sears
Snyder Jaycees
West
Sears
Doug McGlain
John Jarre
Jerry Edwards
Bill Dryden
Gerald Johnson
Billy Joe Brown
Gene Williams
Joe Sentell
Junior Cummings
Ray Houpt
Dan Cotton
Kenneth Baker
Jaycee
Snyder National Bank
Shepard says flight not long enough for space journey
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr reports the 15 minute 115 mile high flight was excellent but his only complaint is that it wasn’t long enough. He awaits a Washington news conference and a Distinguished Service Medal presentation by President Kennedy.
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Grand Bahama
Island
Washington
Shepard
Kennedy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Congress
Navy
Project Mercury
Robert Gilruth
Walter Williams
Walter Schira
John H Gienn Jr
Scott Carpenter
Cape Canaveral
Capital Welcome Set For Shepard
Washington prepares a hero's welcome for astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. with a White House ceremony a Capitol reception and a televised news conference. The parade along Pennsylvania Avenue will start around 11 15 am and cover about a mile and a quarter. Shepard and the Mercury crew fly into Andrews Air Force Base then travel to the White House by helicopter prior to the events.
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Washington
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Kennedy
Space
Pennsylvania Avenue
Navy
White House
Capitol
America
Shepard
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Snyder High Band Wins Sweepstakes at Buccaneer Festival
Snyder High School in Corpus Christi swept Class AAA honors at the Buccaneer Music Festival. The band earned first division ratings in both concert playing and sight reading under Melvin Montgomery, with the Snyder Choir scoring first division in concert and second in sight reading led by Roger Gee. The group is due back about 7:30 p m, where a welcoming committee will greet them at the city limits. residents are invited to join.
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Corpus Christi
Snyder High School
Snyder High Choir
Southwest
Melvin Montgomery
Roger Gee
Parents Club
Ralls Man Sustains Head Injury In Road Mishap
Jimmy Rogers of Route 1 Ralls was brought to Cogdell Memorial Hospital by Bell ambulance around 6 30 p m Saturday after a radiator cap blew off while he worked on his vehicle near USS Highway 84 about 20 miles north of Snyder. The cap struck him on the head and he received a scalp wound.
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Ralls
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Bell Ambulance
Rogers
Snyder
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