Snyder Spotlights Seniors and Local Developments
Snyder High School prepares for a momentous graduation with 141 seniors, while first grade enrollment reaches 513, suggesting a potentially smaller senior class in coming years. The chamber plans mid month sales events to boost merchants, and a flood control survey for the Deep Creek watershed gains county approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder High School
Snyder
Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Deep Creek
Suez Canal Throughput Hits New High After Reopening
Thirty seven ships passed through the Suez Canal in three convoys at Port Said. The total marks the largest traffic since the waterway reopened after the October British French attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Said
Suez Canal
Snyder Junior High Names Honor Graduates for May Exercises
Honor graduates at Snyder Junior High include valedictorian Sue Taylor and salutatorian Tommy Minton with runners up Charlotte Flake Judith Wallace Ramona Hewitt and Linda Gayle Miller. Outstanding boy Jimmy Don Robinson and outstanding girl Linda Gayle Miller named by class vote. The eighth grade program features processional flag bearers and a keynote by Steve Melton. Diplomas are presented by Dr. Cecil Yarbrough after the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Sue Taylor
Byron Taylor
Thirty-fourth Street
Tommy Minton
Louie Minton
Forty-second Street
Charlotte Flake
Judith Wallace
Ramona Hewitt
Linda Gayle Miller
Linda Miller
Mike Morris
Roger McMennamy
Jimmy Don Robinson
Herman Trigg
Steve Melton
Landis Lee
Cecil Yarbrough
Charles Merritt
Kay Mottesheard
Jean Wade
Jean Young
Mary Capps
John Greene
Steve Bates
Jerry House
Jackie White
Bill Hazle
Bill Andrews
Pat Bills
Vonda Bonner
Cherie Boone
Vickie Bower
Jesse Crawford
Pat Dunn
Ronnie Eades
Mike Erwin
Ronald Fleming
Dorothy French
Sonja Gillean
Sue Hill
Donna
Lee Watson
Liberal Democrats of Texas Organize Convention in Austin
In Austin on May 18 more than 1,000 liberal Democrats reorganized as Democrats of Texas led by Byron Abernethy. The group aims to strengthen intraparty influence, not form a new party, and positions filed as a permanent successor to the Democratic Advisory Committee. Ralph Yarborough and other figures attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Montgomery
South
Ike
George Patton
Germany
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson
Grant
Gen. Sherman
Austin
U.S
Ralph Yarborough
Democrats of
Texas
Democratic Party
Byron R. Aber
Nethy
Lubbock
Abernethy
DOT
Democratic Advisory Committee
Allan Shivers
Democrats
Sam Rayburn
Naps Cited As Cure For Premature Aging
Soviet scientist Prof. S Braines claims artificial sleep can reverse precocious aging and restore nervous function and sexual activity. He cites experiments on primates and a 15 year old dog aged to 21 after three months of sleep therapy, noting improved movement and responsiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
S. Braines
Braines
Cerebrum
Weather Summary Snyder and North Central Texas
The Snyder area reports Friday high 82 and low 54, 7:30 am Saturday reading 55 with 1.59 inches precipitation. North Central and West Texas show partly cloudy skies with isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms, then cloudier Monday with scattered showers and a few local storms. No major temperature changes expected.
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Snyder
North Central
West Texas
Two Injured In Morning Car Crash at Twenty Fifth Street
Two men sustained cuts and bruises in a collision at Twenty fifth Street and Avenue H early yesterday. Billy Ray Chasteen 26 of Rt J Snyder and James Rockenbaugh 323 N E Tenth Grand Prairie Tex were hospitalized at Battenfield Jones Clinic about 12 40 PM by Bell ambulance. Police noted the car a 1956 Ford four door may have struck a utility pole near Lamb Chevrolet Co.
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Avenue H
Battenfield - Jones Hospital
Billy Ray Chasteen
Rt. J. Snyder
James Rockenbaugh
N. E. Tenth Street
Grand Prairie
Tex
Bell Ambulance
Lamb Chevrolet Co
More Floods Hit Texas County Is Soaked
Brisk showers drenched Snyder area on Friday with 1.5 to 2 inches of rain causing local stream and street flooding. A small tornado sighted near Gail, Texas, did not touch ground. Storms extended statewide, threatening more flooding along Red and Wichita Rivers and Lake Texoma, with rain totals from Abilene to Victoria and hail reports near the Dalhart region.
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Snyder
West Texas
David Strayhorn
Twenty-fifth Street
Avenue la
Vanna
Camp Springs
Helmleigh
Dunn
Fluvanna
Jim Beavers
Borden County
Gail
Border County
Texas
Wichita
Holliday
Red River
Texoma
Lower River Authority
Lake Travis
Wichita Falls
Victoria
Abilene
Austin
San Angelo
San Antonio
del Rio
Brownsville
College Station
Corpus Christi
Dallas
Fort Worth
Galveston
Laredo
Lubbock
Lafkin
Land
Waco
Beaumont
Pamhandle
Dalhart
Silverton
Weather Bureau
Longview
Lake J. B. Thames Rises Seven Inches Above Report
Lake J. B. Thames gained about seven inches from weekend rains, reaching 2 252.16 feet by 10 p m last night. The lake continued to rise from the Colorado River and Bull Creek channel at roughly 0.01 foot per hour, adding about 4 485 acre feet of water.
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J. B. Thames
Colorado River
Bull Creek
Flooding Closes Streets as Water Reaches Park and Homes
Heavy rains flood Big Spring and Snyder area causing water across Highway 35 and through Towle Memorial Park. Streets in North Snyder blocked. a car submerged on Thirty seventh Street with driver Willie Lawrence Williams escaping before drifting downstream. Nearby towns report varied rainfall totals.
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Sunbeam Grocery
Big Spring
Thirty-fifth Street
Towle Memorial Park
Kerley
Canyon Drive
Forty-second Street
Snyder
Avenue U
Fortieth
North
Willie Lawrence Williams
Winston Field
Hermleigh
Inadale
Iro
Lloyd Mountain
Pair Killed In Collision On Swift Creek Bridge
A Greyhound bus and a passenger car collided on a bridge over Swift Creek north of Colonial Heights Virginia. The bus tipped into the creek with 16 passengers uninjured, while two occupants of the car were killed.
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Colonial Heights
Greyhound
Swift Creek
Here
Richmond
Norfolk
Thousands Of Oklahomans Evacuated From Flood Area
Oklahoma communities from Tulsa to the Washita River region evacuated as major flooding spread. The Arkansas River near Tulsa was expected to crest with nine inches of rain in parts of the state, leaving eight dead and widespread property damage.
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Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Washita River
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Cimarron
Keystone
Washita
Lindsay
Lake Texoma
Highway Patrol
Three Story Tenement Collapses in New York Disaster
On May 18 a three story brick tenement on the Lower East Side collapsed with a loud roar. An elderly woman, Anna Levkulic, died after being pulled from the debris from a second floor apartment. A man believed trapped was found unharmed nearby. Authorities blamed danger on cracks and warned tenants to move, with Wasser Realty Corp. owner Mrs. Sauerhoff coordinating new housing.
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New York
Lower East Side
Anna Levkulic
St. Anthony
Martin Scott
Scott
Anna Sauerhoff
Wasser Realty Corp
French paratroopers attack Balcourt district victims tally
ALGIERS May 18 French paratroopers killed 30 Algerians and wounded 11 in an attack on the Balcourt district. French headquarters gave no further details. The day’s operations against nationalists across Algeria claimed 114 rebels killed in various actions.
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Algiers
Balcourt
Eite
Algeria
Graduation Services Slated for Snyder High Class
Dr J Chess Levern will deliver the commencement address for Snyder High School on May 28 at 8 p.m. Baccalaureate is set for May 26 at 8 p.m. with Rev G M Cole as speaker. 141 graduates led by co valedictorians Ronnie Smith and Sam Martin and salutatorian Joel Hamlett.
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J. Chess Levern
First Methodist Church
Lubbock
Snyder High School
G. M. Cole
First Baptist Church
Ronnie Smith
Sam Martin
Joel Hamlett
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Wacil McNair
Suez
Don Robinson
Avenue F
Elroy H. Miller
Lee
Page
Liberal Demos of
The
Associated Press
South Texas
J. Chess Lovern
Dr. Levern
Georgia
Southern Methodist University
Perkins Alumini Association
Rio Grande Valley
Laurel Heights
Dist
Dominican Republic
Hunt
Margie Sue Allen
Kay Banks
Joy Bills
Huanna Birdwell
Peggy Black Guy
Clinta Blackard
Frances Bonilla
Chiva Sue Boss
Patricia Ann Bruton
Iris Olene Butts
Mickee Camp Wyatt
Mary Lou Cary
Carol Sue Clark
Jo Ann Crawford
Wanda Sue Crook
Karen “ Wise Crooks
Carolyn Daniel
Janis Devenport
Pat Digs
Dena Dupree
Tennie Eades
Rosa Joe Nell Franks
Fisher Glass
Marjorie Sue Griffith
Rita Grimmett
Josephine Guillen
Patsy Harless
Donna Holmes
Cleta Mae Ishell
Jane Joyce
Dianne Kerley
Marie Knollenberg
Elizabeth Jewel Largent
Billie Mae Lee
Letha Love
Freida Melton
Joe Ann Morgan
George Ann Mottesheard
Patsy Jane McDowell
Barbera Ann Neal
Sandra Sue Nichols
Judy Anette Noah
Marjorie Norton
Myra Ann Osborn
Frances Mae Parker
Jane Patterson
Shirley Lou Price
Billie Jean
the Grads
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