Storms Bring Heavy Rain and Flooding Across Scurry County
Deep Creek overflowed its banks in Snyder and Gail areas as rains topped two inches in most counties and up to 2.6 inches at Fullerville. Lake Thomas reached a new high, Bull Creek rose, and a downed old garage near Gail was blamed on the storm. Authorities reported hail, strong winds, and localized damage with one house evacuated but water not entering.
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Twenty-seventh Street
Snyder
Lake Thomas
Jack Dunn
Colorado River
Bull Creek
Dunn
Ira
Snyder Pump Staton
Borden
Sid Reeder
Borden County
Gail
Mesquite Creek
Gavett Creek
Colorado
Murphy Road
Reeder
Hermleigh
Fluvanna
Dan Gibson Ranch
Texaco
Fullerville
Harrison's
Jack Lee
Abernathy
Lee
Lamesa
Fairview
Howard County
Slaton
Lubbock
Wilson
Big Spring
Crosbyton
Lorenzo
Ralls
Southland
Tohoka
Floydada
Hale Center
Idalou
Lockney
New Deal
Silverson
Matador
Petersburg
Plainview
Wichita Falls
San Angelo
Abilene
Dallas
Childress
Austin
College Station
Waco
West Texas
Dalhart
Galveston
Palacios
Brownsville
Big Bend
Giles Bribery Trial Delayed By Legislator Hire
Tex as land commissioner Bascom Giles wins a postponement to August 15 in his bribery case after defense hires Rep Cecil Storey, a legislator, delaying trial while the court cites mandatory continuance rules. Giles and associates face a veteran land program bribery charge over a 663 acre Bexar County sale to 32 veterans.
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San Antonio
Atty. C. C. Small Sr
Rep
Storey
Small
Onion
Giles
Louis Schlessinger
Cocounsel
Jones
Bexar County
Veterans Land Program
Texas Atty
John Ben Shepperd
Allan Shivers
Veterans Land Board
Grand Jury
Land Board
British Dock Workers Out in Four Port Strike
London reports nearly a quarter of dockers across four major ports walked out amid interunion dispute ahead of the May 26 general election. Labor Minister Monckton sought to avert a broader Saturday strike of 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen, while Prime Minister Eden warned of economic damage from railway disruption. The smaller National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union cited 17,000 London Liverpool Manchester and Hull members. the Transport and General Workers Union urged normal work.
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London
Walter Monckton
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Eden
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union
Liverpool
Manchester
Hull
Britain
Transport and General Workers Union
Leonard Leddington
Stevedore and Workers Union
TGWU
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
Labor Party
Conservative Win Forecast In Britain
London reports predicted Conservative victory in Britain as the campaign neared its end amid Derby Day attention and port strike tensions. TGWU unionists walkouts in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull tested strike impact while the locomotive engineers threaten to halt rail service next weekend. Polls and papers split on majority size, with Eden favored to win a five year term but margins ranging from 20 to 34 seats.
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Eden
Winston Churchill
Sunday Dispatch
The
Sunday Times
House of Commons
Sunday People
Clement Attlee
Churchill
Experts Study Polio Vaccine
Washington experts from the U S Public Health Service opened a two stage meeting to assess plant inspections of five vaccine makers and discuss possible changes in standards and vaccine supply implications for the rest of the summer.
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Washington V
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
Leonard A. Scheele
State Maintenance Sought For County Farm Roads
The county commissioners petition the state highway commission to take over two miles of farm road maintenance. County officials Pat Moore T B Knight Judge Edgar Taylor and auditor Jimmie Billingsley met Floydada and spoke with Marshall Formby in Plainview. Formby indicated hope negotiations could yield state maintenance. The state has already assumed maintenance of most paved farm road mileage.
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Commissioners Court
State Highway Commission
Pat Moore
T. B. Knight
Eadgar Taylor
Jimmie Billingsley
Floydada
Marshall Formby
Plainview
Formby
Rotary Club
Knight
State Department
Pravda Attacks Dulles as Big Four Summit Near
Pravda denounces Secretary of State Dulles as top American target and accuses the United States of planning to restore the Wehrmacht in West Germany to subjugate East Europe. The piece links Allen Dulles and Harriman to business interests and notes no comment from Dulles or his ally.
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Moscow
Pravda
Dulles
Communist Party
United States
Vienna
Austria
Paris
Boleslaw Walczicky
Allen Dulles
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
W. Averill Harriman
New York
East Europe
U.S
West Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Walczicky
Dulles Brothers
Harriman
John Foster Dulles
I. G. Farben
Allen
American Intelligence Service
Committee of Free Europe
Pole
State Department
Washington
Eisenhower
Butler to Tour Texas for Democratic Fundraisers
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler will spend five days in Texas next month, visiting nine cities to address fund-raising dinners and party meetings. The schedule includes events in Lubbock, Big Spring, Dallas, Tyler, Waco, McAllen, Weslaco, Corpus Christi and Houston, with prior stops in Portland, Oregon.
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Washington
Paul M. Butler
Texas
Butler
Democratic Advisory Council of Texas
Hilda B. Wienert
Texas National
Texas Young Democrats
Lubbock
Big Aguas
Dallas
Tyler
Waco
McAllen
Corpus Christi
Houston
Portland
Ore
Redinner
Texas Plains Tornadoes Scramble Through Night Storms
Tornadoes swept across the South Plains causing property damage with no reported injuries as up to 3 inches of rain and hail struck various Texas localidades. Reports centered around Lubbock, Lamesa, Abernathy, and Fairview with multiple farms and outbuildings impacted and wind gusts near 40 to 45 mph.
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South Plains
Texas
Tyler
Colorado City
Weather Bureau
Electra
Lubbock
Lamesa
Fairview
Howard County
Lorenzo
U.S. 82
Plains Gas Co
Bill Harrison
Abernathy
Harrison
Rainfall totals and lake rise near Snyder area
Rainfall varied across Scurry County with Snyder reporting 1.27 inches and Camp Springs seeing 2 to 2.5 inches. Elevation of the lake rose to 2,239.61 feet, near last summer's high, as warnings noted creeks spilling their banks but no widespread damage. Residents reported minimal hail and wind, with local creeks retreating by morning.
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Ning
Snyder
David Strayhorn
Scurry County
Lloyd Mountain
Wraymond Sims
Camp Springs
Jim Beavers
Truck Strike Rages Through Fifth Day in West
In Los Angeles trucking operations across the West ground to a standstill on day five of a strike lockout. Management and union officials show little chance of quick conciliation. AFL Teamsters Western Conference president Frank Brewster says plans to call in a federal conciliator were rejected by management.
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Los Angeles
Frank Brewster
AFL Teamsters Western Conference
Brewster
House Backs Off From Action On Statewide Water Program
AUSTIN The Texas House backed away from action on the statewide water program as lawmakers began their 20th week. The conference committee report on the water plan was postponed until Thursday after Rep Leroy Sau of Kress faced a cool reception for his motion to adopt it. The Senate has approved the report while both chambers consider money problems and a gasoline beer cigarette tax proposal from the Senate state affairs committee. The tax plan faces uncertain support with the House opposing a two cent gasoline increase, and officials anticipate a prolonged struggle over revenue measures.
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Austin
House
Texas
Leroy Sau
Kress
Senate
Senate Committee
Four Calls Told Seniors At Snyder High Baccalaureate
Snyder High School’s 130 graduates filled the auditorium as minister Ted Norton of Twenty-fifth Street Church of Christ delivered the baccalaureate message. He outlined life’s four calls home economics citizenship and God urging budget discipline reverence for law and living as children of God. Principal T D Wiman announced tomorrow’s commencement at 8 p m with music by the school chorus led by Robert Clinton and Wanda Powledge singing Balm in Gilead.
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Norton
Noreton
God
Cecil Yarbrough
T. D. Wiman, Jr
John W. Reaves
First Christian Church
J. Lennor Hester
First Methodist Church
Snyder School
Weather outlook for North Central and West Texas
North Central Texas remains cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered thunderstorms and no major temperature changes. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies this afternoon through Tuesday with scattered activity mainly at night in eastern portions of the region.
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Texas
West
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Slessinger
Fred Semaan
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Sam Kimberlin
Semaan
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Associated Press
Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr
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