Flood Threat Still Mounts At Eastland
The Associated Press reports a major flood sweeping Eastland Texas with 5 to 6 feet water in the Negro section, 42 feet deep Lake Leon spillway, and 10.42 inches rainfall. Sixty families evacuated to city hall as the National Guard and sandbagging rush to protect Eastland Lake dam. Highways and railways washed out, Piggly-Wiggly warehouse flooded, and dozens of telephone circuits out. Brady and Ballinger face rising threats as the Colorado River nears flood stage. shelters and evacuations underway.
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Eastland
Texas
James Dabney
Fastland
KERC
Dabney
Leon River
Cisco
Negro
Texas & Pacific
Brady
Ballinger
Leon
Lake Eastland
Eastland Lake
National Guard
Cecil Carr
Lake Leon
Eastland City
W. H. Coppock
Piggly-Wiggly
West Texas
Rural Electrification Administration
Breckenridge
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Eastland-Cisco
Ranger
Brady Creek
Colorado
Waco
Wichita Falls
Austin
Mineral Wells
Cotulla
Dallas-Fort Worth
San Antonio
Laredo
Scattered Showers Brush Scurry County Again
Scattered thundershowers moved across Scurry County yesterday afternoon and evening adding moisture to a land already soaked. Rain gauges recorded varied totals from .2 to 5 inches near Dermott and Ennis Creek, with Snyder totals at 4.54 inches for the month and 5.78 inches for the year.
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Scurry County
Snyder
Dermott
B. A. Moore
Polar
Ennis Creek
Clarence Thompson
Camp Springs
Jim Beavers
Camp
Weather West Texas Scattered Showers Thursday Night
Scattered showers and focal thunderstorms expected across Panhandle South Plains and east of Pecos Valley Thursday night. Otherwise partly cloudy through Friday with no significant temperature changes.
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Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Corbin Claims Filibuster Achieves Purpose in Texas
In Austin Sen Kilmer Corbin of Lubbock ends a 28 hour 15 minute filibuster aimed at highlighting opposition to a 100 million dollar water bond plan. The conference report passed 22 to 5 with a 3 cent per 100 dollar property tax to back bonds and a six member board. Corbin dismissed boasting as a joke while colleagues awarded a medal to his efforts.
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Austin
Senate
Conference Committee
House
Corbin
Wayne Wagenseller
Bowie
William T. Moore
Bryan
Moore
Lubbock
Court Denies Rapist's Plea
AUSTIN The Board of Pardons and Paroles denied condemned rapist Harry F. Butcher Jr. of Midland a request to reduce his death sentence to life imprisonment. He is scheduled for execution at Huntsville state prison tonight. His appeal contended the trial court did not instruct the jury on temporary insanity due to liquor as a mitigating factor.
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Austin
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Harry F. Butcher Jr
Midland
Butcher
Huntsville State Prison
Pardons Board
Court of Criminal Appeals
Polio Cases Rise as Inoculated Remain Steady
U S Public Health Service reports 206 new polio cases for the week ending May 14, up 30 percent from the prior week, while cases among inoculated persons stay at 17. Cutter vaccine contact cases total 23 among unvaccinated contacts. vaccine clearance delays create uncertainty in the vaccination program.
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Washington
U.S. Public Health Service
The
Health Service
Cutter Laboratories
California
Leonard A. Scheele
Texas
Michigan
New York
Mississippi
Oregon
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Postal Pay Hike Vetoed By President
President Eisenhower vetoed a bill raising postal workers pay by 8.6 percent, citing discriminations, administrative problems, and taxpayer burden. He urged quick reconsideration of fair legislation for half a million postal employees. The Austin report also notes Texas two month oil production cuts for June and July by the Railroad Commission, with daily allowables reduced and a statewide plan to limit flow to 15 days per month.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Congress
Austin
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Big East
Sun Oil
Pantex
Sandusky
Oil Creek
Adame Devonian
Jig+ ger Y
Pennsylvania
McEbroy
South Cowden
Fosster
Commission
Olin Culberson
Crisis Looms In Auto Labor
Detroit talks between the United Auto Workers and Ford and General Motors show no strike dates, but a fourth of Ford and GM locals have voted to back year round wage demands. UAW President Walter Reuther avoids setting dates as counter proposals are due June 7.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Washington
Frank Rising
UAW
Ford
Walter Reuther
C-C Chamber Drive Reports Progress on Membership Goal
The Chamber of Commerce campaign reports 122 new members on the first day. A noon meeting at the Village Restaurant will review results before continuing outreach to business men. Herbert Feather leads the committee as they push toward 200 new members by Saturday.
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Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Feather
Extension Granted For Cotton Planting In Central Texas
A temporary extension of the May 20 cotton planting deadline was granted by Agriculture Commissioner John White for eight Central Texas counties due to heavy rains. High winds and hail harmed young cotton in pink bollworm Zone 5 areas, forcing the extension as farmers cannot replant before the midnight deadline. Counties affected include Bastrop Caldwell Comal Duval Hays Lee Travis and Williamson. White did not set a new limit.
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Austin W
Texas
Commissioner of Agriculture
John White
White
Bastrop
Caldwell
Comal
Duadalupe
Hays
Lee
Travis
Williamson
Budget Question Still Unanswered
Texas lawmakers grappling with a 1 billion dollar two year budget faced no solution as the Senate State Affairs Committee rejected subcommittee tax suggestions on hotels chemicals stores and airlines The panel postponed to Friday boosting criticism of a time grabbing strategy The House approved omnibus tax bill would raise far less than 58 million in new revenue prompting pay less hot days for lawmakers The delay drew a crowded room of lobbyists and reporters with Sen Kilmer Corbin conducting a lengthy filibuster
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Joe Benham Austin
Texas
Senate State Affairs Committee
R. A. Weinert
Seguin
Searcy Bracewell
Houston
Friay. Bracewell
Sen
Ottis Lock
Lufkin
Senate
Lock
Secon
D. B. Hardeman
Denison
House
Hardeman
Jerry Sadler
Ckory Grove
Sadler
Kilmer Corbin
Lubbock
Lightning Strike Kills Four Students at Gillette High
In Kingsville Texas four seventh grade boys named Davis Rojas 13 Estanislad Barrera 14 Israel Prado 14 and Jesus Martinez 14 were struck and killed by a bolt of lightning at Gillette Junior High as a cloud approached from the south. A teacher Marvin Kirkman directing 42 boys was struck along with the group and a nearby girl group faced the same strike but suffered no injuries.
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Kingsville
Tex
Rkidgeville
Gillette Junior High
Davis Rojas
Estanislad Barrera
Israel Prado
Jesus Martinez
Marvin Kirkman
Jose
Soviets Seek Equal Rights In Yugoslavia
Moscow reports Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders will press equal rights and mutual noninterference in talks with Yugoslav President Tito in Belgrade later this month. He argued the USSR does not seek conquest and cited the Austrian State Treaty as proof.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Tito
Belgrade
U.S.S.R
Yugoslavia
Khrushchev
Nikolai As
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Europe
Frisco Suggested As Site Of Conference
New York Vincent Auriol urged a top level Big Four meeting be held next month in San Francisco the birthplace of the United Nations. He spoke at a dinner in his honor saying the city would be an appropriate site for leaders of the United States Britain Russia and France.
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New York
Vincent Auriol
France
San Francisco
United Nations
Auriol
U.N
United States
Britain
Russia
Resumption of Parley Urged on Gaza Border
The U N commission urged both Israel and Egypt to resume border negotiations after Israel refused to attend a meeting. An Israeli reprisal attack near Kissufim followed a Tuesday land mine blast that killed three soldiers and wounded two. Israeli troops attacked an Egyptian position, with no casualties reported, as troops retreated. The commission warned the Gaza frontier could deteriorate further without talks.
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Commission
Gaza Strip
Israel
Kissufim
U.N. Commission
Gaza
Land Mine Blamed In Soldiers Deaths
Israel blames an Egyptian land mine for the deaths of two soldiers and injuries to three on a routine patrol along the Gaza truce line near the Egyptian border. An army spokesman said the car exploded as it hit the mine amid UN Mixed Armistice activities.
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Jerusalem
Israel
U.N. Mixed Armise Tce
Gaza
Commerce Department Budget Cut Heavily By Senate Panel
Senate panel slashes Commerce Department budget by 18 percent, trimming subsidies for airlines and ship lines and cutting highway funds while boosting federal airport aid. It recommends 1.121 billion for the department, with a 244 million cut from Eisenhower’s request, subject to House and Senate action.
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Commerce Department
Senate
William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Civil Aeronautics Board
Bureau of Public Roads
Eisenhower
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W. Joynes Macfarlan
John O. Christianson
School of Agriculture
University of Minnesota
Snyder Independent Consolidated
Frisco
Rep
Preston
D-Ga
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