Waco Man Observes Mock Atomic Attack Aboard Carrier
J H Kultgen reports aboard ship in a July 4 era dispatch. The carrier 888 feet long displaces 33 000 tons and carries 2800 men. He describes ship life including a mock atomic attack, base tours in San Diego, Pearl Harbor, and a Mars flight back to San Francisco. He notes civilian guests from several states. He plans to return to Waco by June 23.
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U.S. S
BONER
California
Washington
Missouri
Montana
Iowa
Texas
Louisiana
San Diego
Naval Base
Shangri la
Kearsage
Hancock
Point Creige
Princeton
Pearl Harbor
Makalopa
Pearl Arbor
Mars
San Francisco
Chicago
Waco
J. H. Kultgen
MT. Lookout
Boy Fatally Run Over in Texas Driveway
James Richard Baker, age 2, was killed Friday night in Killeen when an automobile driven by Charlie J. Tomek rolled over him in Tomek’s driveway. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cayanas, was playing with other children at the time.
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Killeen
Texas
James Richard Baker
Charlie J. Tomek
Tomek
James Richard
Peter Cayanas
Fire hero returns home after beans fire incident
Reader recounts a neighbor near Crews house where a pot of beans on an electric stove caused smoke. The homeowner's husband raced across a ditch to the scene, opened the door, extinguished the flames, and assisted firefighters before the resident returned home.
Lawn Work Returns After Brief Interlude
Mrs. Eddie Burns of 2001 North Thirty-ninth A Street notes another quiet day as a man resumes mowing the lawn after a brief pause. The casual observation frames a simple, routine moment in daily life.
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Eddie Burns
North Thirty-ninth
Whisky Flows Like Water At Sabula Tavern Raid
Sabula Iowa June 11 Officers raided a tavern and found no liquor at first. A policeman turned on a water faucet to drink water and whiskey flowed. Owner Elmer Patterson was charged with violating Iowa liquor laws.
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Sabula
Iowa
Elmer Patterson
Woman Ends Distinguished News Career in Electra
Abby Cooper of Electra Texas retires after twenty nine years with the Electra newspapers at age seventy. She will remain a correspondent for the Associated Press and Fort Worth Star Telegram and began as a country reporter in 1907. She later served as oil editor and was a longtime pioneering female editor in Texas. She earned the AP local correspondent of the year award in 1948 and had an appreciation week proclaimed in 1952 with a 1953 Pioneer Queen crown at the T and C Fair.
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Electra
Texas
Electra Newspapers
Abby Cooper
Roger Bannister Weds Moyra Jacobsson in Switzerland
Roger Bannister, famed as the first to break the four minute mile, married Moyra Jacobsson in BASSE Switzerland. The church and civil ceremonies took place with only close friends and family in attendance. Moyra is Swedish born and niece of the British high commissioner to Canada.
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Basse
Switzerland
Roger Bannister
Moyra Jacobsson
Canada
Donors Plan Gallon Club Charter Party
Central Texas Regional Blood Center reports 35 responses for the Gallon Club charter party to be held at the United Club on June 20. The club recognizes donors who have given at least a gallon of blood and includes seven pint givers awaiting their eighth pint to qualify.
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Central Texas
Merle
Blood center seeks past donors for records
Blood Center director urged donors who believe they gave eight pints to call Wheeler at 2160T to verify records. Donations counted include those given in service elsewhere, not only at the Waco Center.
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Eherlee
Alf
Waco
Two Amarillo Men Sentenced for Fort Sill Burglary
Virgil Wesley Watts Jr. and Johnny Joe Counts received two-year Federal prison terms from Judge Stephen S Chandler after admitting a $100 burglary at Fort Sill on May 23. The case was handled in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Fort Sill
Okla
Stephen S. Chandler
Virgil Wesley Watts Jr
Johnny Joe Counts
Midland Girls On High Seas Sailed for Europe on Italian liner
Fourteen Midland Texas girl scouts left New York for a two month European tour aboard the Andrea Doria. They earned 17000 dollars over two years from baby sitting rummage sales spaghetti suppers and parties and will visit Italy Germany Switzerland Holland France and England before returning home.
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New York
High Seas
Europe
Midland
Texas
Andrea Doria
Italy
Germany
Switzerland
Holland
France
England
Game Commission Creates New Eastern Gulf Coast Post
The Game Commission established a new administrative post to manage growing work on the eastern Gulf Coast. Marine Biologist Howard T. Lee will head a Houston unit and operate in Galveston Beaumont Orange Port Arthur and other upper coast areas. C W Reid will supervise from the marine section at Fockport.
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Game Commission
Austin
The
Gulf Coast
Howard T. Lee
Houston
Galveston
Beaumont
Orange
Port Arthur
C. W. Reid
Commission
Fockport
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