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Newspaper
Snyder Daily News
Location
Snyder, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1952
Page
1
Britain watches in shock as the De Havilland 110 disintegrates during an ascension at Farnborough. Pilot John Derry and observer Tony Richards die, 18 spectators perish, over 35 injured as debris rains on the crowd. Spectators recall the sonic boom and frantic evacuations.
The State Department said its seagoing radio station aboard the Coast Guard cutter Courier will start a regular schedule to Middle Eastern nations and Russia. The mobile relay unit, costing about two million dollars, is anchored near Rhodes in the Eastern Mediterranean with medium and short wave transmitters.
The Army Navy and Air Force were ordered to create a centralized procurement system starting Monday to curb duplication and waste. The move follows congressional criticism and the O Mahoney amendment urging an integrated supply operation to meet military needs without overlapping. Senator O Mahoney expects substantial annual economies.
School enrollment in Snyder notes 3,029 students registered by A T Nicholas business manager as 3,800 names on the scholastic roll. 100 percent do not register. Week start delayed. nearly 300 fewer than last year. spring total 3,687 with detailed by elementary and secondary counts.
Western authorities say the Soviet Union is creating a chain of bases along the Arctic shorelines linking Europe and Asia. The Northern Sea Route, opened in 1933, is being developed into a freight waterway from Barents Sea to Bering Strait, with Murmansk at its western end near Scandinavia, its eastern end near Alaska.
The Savage Atlantic hurricane split the Honduran tanker Foundation Star in two 130 miles east of Charleston. Seventeen crew were rescued. 10 are missing in a lifeboat, and two cling to wreckage. The storm, with 90 to 100 mph winds, was northeastward toward North Atlantic shipping lanes, posing no immediate US land threat.
In Kasson Dodge Center Minnesota more than 100000 farmers heard Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson outline farm programs at the National Plowing Contest. Both urged price supports around 90 percent parity with plans to reach full parity later. They backed decentralization and stronger farm cooperatives and rural services. The crowd stayed largely silent, listening intently as the two candidates offered similar proposals and quips aimed at each other.
In Scurry County about 5 000 vehicles lacked required inspections by yesterday afternoon as eight local stations reported 7 774 cars inspected under the new motor vehicle law. Total county registrations stood at 11 341 as of Aug. 26. Drivers face fines up to 200 dollars for driving without a sticker. Inspection stations from Bob Dupree Nash Co to Stimson Motor Co reported long lines and some motorists were turned away at closing. several firms planned to stay open next day to handle the surge.
Five year old Tommie Yates of Vernon Texas received a belated Christmas tree and merriment after a community effort. His mother Mrs Robert Dale Simpson was convicted of assault with intent to murder and sentenced to ten years in prison for beating him unconscious last Christmas Eve. Tommie remains under care at Baylor Hospital Dallas recovering and charming nurses.
Maine chooses a successor to U.S. Senator Owen Brewster and elects a governor and three congressmen as Republicans and Democrats dispute a potential statewide shift. Richard Nixon’s Maine visit underscores national stakes while an indictment links Gov. Payne ally Bernard Zahn to a liquor probe.
Scurry County farmers plan winter cover crops to protect soil but wait for moisture. PMA funds help seed legumes, yet most choose edible peas or wheat for cash use. Some will plant double use covers for grazing or later money crops, while others fear moisture depletion.
U. S. Rep. A. A. Ribicoff a 42 year old two term congressman was nominated by the Democratic State Convention in Hartford to run for Senate. The party unanimously and by acclamation endorsed him as the first Democrat in over ten years to carry Connecticut’s first district in a non presidential year.
Gov. Allan Shivers abandoned a legal path to placing Dwight Eisenhower on the Texas Democratic ballot and urged a straight two-ticket race, Democratic and Republican, for the November election. He called a unity convention in Amarillo to certify Stevenson as the Democratic nominee and warned voters they may split, scratch, or stay home.
Washington reports intensified US and Allied diplomacy to spark fresh momentum in UN talks over Korea. Plans outline a strategy in New York to move peace processes forward while maintaining military talks in the battle area and pressing for a settlement on POW repatriation.
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