The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956 Page: 20 of 70
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: The Abilene Reporter and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Abilene Public Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
FROM ABILENE (TEX.) TO ABILENE (KANS.)
... here’s city’s delegation to Kansas for industrial week promotion
I were injured in a head-on collision t when n vi by trailer in
near Snyder.
i finid.
6. Leroy Douglas of Waco kills
Chimself following a brief gun bat-
AUGUST
WRECK CLAIMS TWO ABILENE TEENAGERS
... tragic ending to race with another car, June 12
MOTHER, THREE DAUGHTERS DIE
. . . early morning fire brought tragedy to Jesse Flowers family
EVENTS OF 1955
tie- with Abilene policemen . in
which Officer BiH Olson was
wounded.
8. Rain, hail and windstorm hits
Abilene and West Central Texas
on the heels of a tornado alert
12 Mina McKenzie, 16, of Abi-
lene, was killed in a one - car ac-
cident three miles south of Abilene
on Farm Road 1750. and three of
1 -,her companions were seriously in- 1
jured.
14. High winds, rain and hail
wipe out crops in the Abilene area
and damage some homes in Abi-
lene. Sylvester and McCaulley.
16. Damage at ‘Vinters caused
by hail and windstorm estimated
at $100,000.----;-----------------
24. Don Ray Jones, 18, of Abi-
lene, dies as result of injuries he
received June 12 in a one car ac-
cident near Abilene in which Mina
McKenzie, 16. of Abilene, was also
killed.
JULY
1 Merkel celebrates completion
of water line from Abilene,
2 Silver anniversary celebration
authorities and is freed on $8,000
bond.
28. Smith freed on $8,000 bond.
29. New Abilene High School ded-
icated. R. T. Polk of Abilene
charged with murder with malice
in death of his wife.
SEPTEMBER
1. Abilene Air Force Base offi-
cially activated.
2. Abilene policemen, firemen
and city manager get pay raises.
3 Lt Gen. James H. Doolittle
tours Abilene Air Force Base and
speaks at luncheon in his honor
4. Four Snyder residents, J. A.
Littlepage, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Bentley and A. A. Brock, killed in
wreck at Muleshoe..
5. Mrs. A. A. Brock dies, bring-
ing toll of Muleshoe wreck to five.
J. C. Sword of Abilene killed in
wreck south of Abilene.
6. William Curtis, Bradley fatally
injured when car overturns south
of Bronte.
7. City Schools gain 1.200 stu-
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS AR
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1956 U M
and Baylor Counties | county wide bond issue to build
5. Brazos and Wichita rivers go coliseum at the Taylor County Ex-
on rampage flooding farms, roads position Center,
Mr and Mrs. John Millard Cona-
way of Westbrook killed when their
car collides with a train at West-
brook. Haskell County voters ap-
prove $100,000 bond issue to devel-
op water supply for Weinert.
11 Taylor County commissioners
seek tax equalization
12, Claud Lee Gordon Jr of
Haskell fatally injured in wreck
south of there Alvin Lee Hall of
Sweetwater killed in wreck near
Muskogee, Okla.
13. Presbyterians meeting here
to open Texas Synod to__Negro
churches
14. Petition being readied for
15. Girls Ranch near Brecken-
ridge accepted as a Baptist-spon-
sored institution. .
16. Howard Countians vote to
keep county-wide road operation
program.
17. Julio Lopez Gomez of Abi-
lene killed here in wreck on east
Highway 80.
18. First of one way streets open-
ed here. -
19. Relocation of residents in oft-
flooded Carver Addition to old mu-
nicipal airport proposed
- 20. Park board prefers establish-
„See EVENTS, Pg. 9.B, Col. 4
dents opening day.
, 8 George Lee Latimer, 19, of
- Abilene, indicted for murder with
a motor vehicle in the deaths of
Mina Vesa McKenzie, 16, and Don
Ray Jones, J8, both of Abilene.
Robert Thomas Polk,of Abilene in-
dicted for murder in the death of
his wife, charged with beating her
to death. Robert Franklin Carson
bil- of Fort Worth inducted on charge
of murder with a motor vehicle
in the death of James Anderson
. Conner of Rising Star.
_ ... 11. Rain in area measures up to
2 Charles (Chuck) Cockrell, 15, j 10 inches.
of Snyder killed in wreck on out- 12 Wendell Rudolph Flowers of
skirts of Snyder. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Abilene killed in car - truck wreck
Frank A. McCue, stationed at1 south of the city.
Point Mugu. Calif killed in crash 13. Estimated" 2,200 attend sec-
of jet fighter near Lake Fort ond annual Reporter - News Soil
Phantom Hill. Day.
5. Rains ranging from a trace to, 15. David Jake Underwood of
gully - washers fall in West Cen- Gorman sentenced to a year and
tral Texas. Abilene gets 114. | a day in prison for forging and
6 James Troy Braswell, accused passing U. S. Treasury checks.
17. Six persons from Brecken-
bank burglar, captured after Sny-
der and Abilene robberies.
ridge killed in auto - truck wreck
7, Mrs. Lacy Meridith of Baird north of Graham. They were Mr.
killed in wreck there. /-and Mrs. Fred Masters, Mr. and
o , . , . j 1 Mrs. L. L. Brown, Valton Cozart,
9 Segregation to be continued in 14 and Clifton Hodges 10
Colorado City hooks for the 1955- Its scattered rains in area meas-
.year--------------------.-----—ure up to 4.25 inches: Wayne H.
10 Big Spring uteri approve Gogle of Abilene killed when car
$090,000 bond issue for civic 1m- overturns east of the city,
provements. Temperatures soar to 23 Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby dedi-
record highs, ranging from 103 at cates West Texas Rehabilitation
Abilene to 112 at Seymour.. Mrs. Center for Crippled Children. Ken-
B A. Osborn of Snyder killed when nelh Wayne Kelso and Kyle. Mor-
HARRY WASHBURN
...(foreground) guilty of murder
hit by truck there.
11. Big Spring schools open first
six grades to Negroes
13 Yolanda Losa, 18 months, of
Abilene killed by tailing ice box.
gan Kelso, brothers of the Stith
community, killed in car - truck
wreck here
*
25. Abilene gets 162 inches of
moisture as the best rains in sev-
.: of Texas Cowboy Reunion opens
.at Stamford. Mildred Peterson
Converse of Midland killed in car
” 18 Harud p eral months fall over the area.
—O Rar IG BAFBOR ay 1 franger—“——-,-,■-■ ._,- ■.
26 High water hits 74 homes in
killed in wreck near Bronte. . ..
To ', . - , - - 2—- Abilene. Rain measures 2 11 with
19. Donald Ames, 15. of Abilene
wreck east of Valera. and John H. Stautzenberger. 16, of
J 5 West Texas has more money Seguin killed in wreck just south-
in its banks than any time in his- west of Abilene city limits. Drench-
tory. Lanell Rawls of Ranger nam-. ing rains fall over area; twisters
ed queen of the Cisco Kid Fiesta. I strike north of Bronte and Wylie.
6 James Troy Braswell, accused 20. Up to 2.30 inches of rain falls
bank burglar, escapes jail at in area. Abilene gets
Brownwood.
up to IJ inches reported in Kent
County. I
28Brazos River at Seymour
crests at near record level. Testi-
mony begins in Montgomery mur-r
der trial 1 g
29. Million dollar loss in Sey-
up to 1.00 mour and Knox City areas from
, . r Tinch within city. , - Brazos flood waters. *
1.8. Walkout of CIO employes of 23. Bids totalling $50,995 let for M John B. Montgomery cleared'
the General Telephone Co. spreads construction work at the Taylor by jury of murder charge. Four,
to West Central Texas towns, County Fairgrounds and remodel- men posing as H SU students ar. I
- 10. Taylor County voters approve ing of the Taylor County jail. Hu- | rested with stolen postal money or
reallocation of county funds. Mc- tert Barnes, 26, of Sweetwater 1 ders after downtown chase
Murry College opens 8800,000 build-killed when car hits bridge north I downtown chase
ing drive Phone workers vote of there OCTOBER
end strike. ----—__25. Mrs. Carl Murray and Her-
13. Tommy Windham found man E. Smith indicted at Ballin-
guilty of assault with intent ’ _____
murder without malice in throat | busband. /
slashing of Raymond Goza. One
year prison sentence recommend-
*d.
15. Joe Dale Strother of Abiler ■
drowns in stock tank south of Abi-
lene on the W. A. Stephens ranch.
17. Up to four inches of rain
falls in Central West Texas.
18. Thirty - two cars ot T&P
freight train derailed east of Abi-
lene.
-----------------2 Heavy rains fall over Wests
tol ger in the drowning death of her Texas. Abilene gets up to 1.20 4
atl hweh—i, inches in town.
27. Mrs. Murray surrenders to 4. Flood waters threaten in Knox .
_ OVETA CULP HOBBY
., dedicates new Crippled Children’s Center in Abilene
cific freight cars derail in down-
town Abilene Fire destroys the old
Kent County Courthouse at Claire-
--------(Continued from Pg. 1-B) troglycerine explosion
contract as Hardin Sunmons Green County. They were Ray-1 19. Mrs. Daisy Mae Moore, K-
mond Ridley, 25, and Russell Abilene businesswoman, killed in
Boyd, 25. a car-truck crash wo miles west
2. Twelve-men 1 jured in oil well of Cross Plains on State Highway
blaze near Silver in northwest | 36.
Coke County.
Jam, moa’
iversity head football coach.
■ 3 U. S. Air Force announces an
increase of 30 per cent in the
amount of housing it will need in
Abilene for its new Strategic Air
3 Cecil W. Bentley, 24, of Silver,
died from injuries he received in
Command Base Buford L. (Cap)
Ellis, vice president of the Farm-
ers and Merchants National Bank Coke County oil well fire
dies 7. Murder trial of John D. Mont-
5, James Mt Morries; former | gomery of Cross Plains begins in
22. Tornado strikes Fort Phan-
tom Hill reservoir area, but no
damage or injuries reported.
27. Wash Lytle, a former slave.
Martin Cox ty judge, sentenced to 42nd District Court at Baird
cowboy and trail driver, dies at
Abilene at age of 111. -
19. Downpours fall in West Tex-
as. Abilene gets 108 of an inch.
Negroes ask admission to new Abi-
lene High School.
20. B. E. Freeman, former How-
ardCounty tax assessor - collec-
tor indicted for misapplication of
county funds. Mrs Frank Cham-
pion of Ranger killed in collision
near there. Salk shots begin at
Taylor County schools.
24. Mrs. Ora Florence Perkins 1
a Rt. S. Brownwood fatally in- 1
jured in wreck near Goldthwaite I
25. Toney Glenn Grant of Big I
Spring killed when hit by auto. 1
26. A biline schools to continue 1
segregation during 1955-56 school 1
year. '/ • />
27. San Angelo ends segregation 1
in schools. / 1
28. Rains up to 2.50 of an inch |
fall west of Abilene Brownwood 1
High School to admit Negro stu- |
denfs 1
29. A $1,298,000 farm road pro- |
gram approved for the Abilene dis-
trict. 1
30 James Anderson Conner, Ris- I
ing Star farmer, killed in wreck |
three years in the state peniten-: 10. Jury in John D. Montgomery * MAY.
tiary after pleading guilty to a 1 trial dismissed after it-deadlocked Es MAT
charge of stealing county money. 8-4. 1. Don Sumrald. 19. of near Say.
6. Three Abilenians were killed 11 Howard McMahon, publisher der and careen T wear, of
when their car plunged into the of the Abilene Reporter-News, is and Garrison T. Massey of
Com River at New Braunfels. I named Abilene s Outstanding Citi- Bigusoring drowning lakes near
They were Virgil Gray, 36, Alvin zen of 1954.. | Snyder and Big Spring. Bodies of
C. Derington, 33 and Mrs Evie 13 Mrs Marvin Onken, 37, of Max Worthen and Jimmy C. Wil-
Newman, 30. Winters was silled and five other son, both of Midland, found in Oak
16. Ross Campbell, F of Merkel, persons were injured in a two-car Creek Lake south of Sweetwater.
was killed when he was struck by. crash near Loraine. 4. Norman Ethreg Sander of
a pickup driven by Jimmy D. Ras- 17. Robert Cooke. 30. of Winters, Colerad • City was killed instantly : KETATuo men held for investiva-
co-of Abilene, on U. S. Highway 80 dies of injuries he received March in a one-car smashup on U. S.--
■ Abilene. ‘ ~ ' ......r Y 7
27. University Baptist
12 in an oil well blaze in Coke Highway 80 near Merkel. 2 31. Jon Phillip Cook, 16, killed
Church County , 8. Several farm buildings at Cole- . / .
19. Antonio Urdailes of Winters rado City smashed by tornado
uipAL • was burned to death in * flaming 14 Jack Hahn. 32. of Asper iont
MARCH car wreck on country road near is killed with a shot from a .410
—• here .-----— shotgun at the home of Bill Hum- -*--*-----*-------------=
- L Two Sny der men killed in ni- I 29. A 104th District Court jury - * narto stoss ===-*=-=
firms - Aubrey Curtis Long." w. Permond sumphress nargea hun
guilty of murder and assesses his i murder
punishment at 50 years in the state •
penitentiary.18. Torrential rains measuring Sine
9.80 inches flood Eastland and Ba-t-een
close all highways through t here i
Twisters reported near Haskell and * 2
5 Wind storm injures three per Hawley Other West Central Texas
sons and causes $1 million dam- localities receive heavy rains. #117) E -
votes to build $300,000 auditorium
APRIL
age at Stamford, All five candi-
26 Northwest Texas Methodist
dates listed on the ballot in Abi- Conference votes to start a cam .
lene’s general election get offices paign to raise $800,000 for a new
W. M EDWARDS
... April newsmaker
they asked for
7 Fifty - three Abilenians fly to
Abilene, Kan, in a goodwill pro-
motion program between two
towns of the same name.
9 Abilene Christian College an-
nounces W M Edwards of Fort
Stockton has deeded the college
41,389 acres of ranchland valued
at $1,100,000 1 *
12 Thirty - nine Texas and Pa
paign to raise $800,000 for a new
girls' dormitory and academic
building at McMurry College.
31. Texas Manufacturers Associ
ation awards Abilene top honors in
the state for its observance of
Texas Industrial Week
JUNE
1. Mrs J. E Blood worth of
Midland was killed and six persons
. FLOOD WATERS HIT. ABILENE
.74 homes flooded in low-lying sections Sept. 25.
TAWA
M..6.
THIS 18 SOIL DAY, 1955 EDITION
, . . 2,200 from near and far came to Abilene Sept. 13 . .
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View two places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956, newspaper, January 1, 1956; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1653963/m1/20/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.