Top of the camact nursing enrollment at Woodward Memorial
The note mentions a program for practical nursing at Woodward Memorial Hospital as a top entry. Other items include GEORGE GILKERSON elected president of the Highway 87 Improvements Association at a Clayton New Mexico convention, and various items across pages 1 through 28, including local appointments, national space news, Vietnam updates, and a bank robbery in Dallas.
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Woodward Memorial Hospital
George Gilkerson
Lubbock
Highway 87 Improvements Association
Clayton
N.M
Bids Sought on Four Dam Sites in Harmon County
Bids were invited for four dam sites in Harmon County as part of a seven county dam project totaling 41 units. The listing indicates multiple bidders competing for construction and environmental clearance across regional water infrastructure efforts.
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Harmon County
Meteor sighting echoes story of Hiroshima fireball
Twenty years ago a Santa Fe engineer and a railway mail clerk saw a flash south of Clovis, likened to a meteor. Three weeks later the Hiroshima bomb test at Alamogordo revealed the first fireball of atomic fission and world‑changing history.
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Santa Fe
Clovis
Hiroshima
Alamogordo Army Air Base
New Mexico
Tourism talk and Texas legends in Amarillo column
West Texas Chamber of Commerce directors discussed tourism Florida's 2 percent billion dollar gain and Texas lagging behind but improving. Legislators boosted tourism funding by 82 percent from the prior session. A volunteer note recalls Jack Hall’s ranch dance pavilion and a Dewey Ashcroft project. Wynne Veale ponders TV before cowboys. An Allison reader quips about cooling with porch water. The vanishing American pays cash for everything.
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Florida
Texas
Stevenson Eulogies Mark Nation’s Farewell for Stevenson
UPI reports a simple Washington funeral for Adlai E. Stevenson at the National Cathedral. President Johnson and family attended as Judge Carl McGowan praised the statesman as a completely civilized man. Stevenson died in London of coronary thrombosis and was later laid in state in Springfield before burial in Bloomington.
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Washington
UPI
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois Prairies
Johnson
Washington National Cathedral
Carl McGowan
Stevenson
Illinois
London
U.S
Springfield
Otto Kerner
United Presbyterian Church
Church of
Plains Weeds as a Riding Wigh June rains flood plains
Weed experts warn the Panhandle faces a catastrophe as 11 inches of rain feed a weed explosion across sorghum fields soybeans and sugar beets. Dr. Allen Wiese notes farmers delayed plowing, allowing weeds to take hold and deplete soil moisture, with up to 95 percent of June rain lost to weeds if uncontrolled.
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Robert Earl Mell
Wain
Amarillo Air Force Base
Allen Wiese
Great Plains Research Center
Bushland
Panhandle
Yolanda Sain
Amarillo
Southwestern Great Plains Research Center
Luiti Cente
Dr. Wiese
North Plains
McNamara Seeks More U S Troop Aid in Viet Nam Talks
Defense Secretary McNamara met with Vietnamese leaders in Saigon seeking an undisclosed increase in U S troops to end the guerrilla war. The discussion with Ky and others followed talks with Taylor and Westmoreland as heavy fighting raged in the region.
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South Vietnam
U.S
Robert McNamara
Saigon
da Nang
McNamara
Washington
Johnson
United States
South Viet Nam
South
Taylor
Westmoreland
Mars air too thin for life say Mariner 4 findings
Mars atmosphere is extremely thin with a maximum altitude of about eight miles and density only one to two percent of Earth's. JPL scientists cautioned that life could still exist elsewhere on Mars and anticipated more images from Mariner 4, with up to 21 pictures expected over the next week.
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America
Mariner 4
Mars
Texas
Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
William H. Pickering
A. J. Kliore
Proton-1 Space Stationlaunched by Soviet Union
MOSCOW AP The Soviet Union launched a 12.2 metric ton space station named Proton-1 into Earth orbit on Friday using a new powerful booster rocket Tass called the heaviest object ever orbited though experts noted weight definitions vary American Titan 3D with a three stage weight 32 347 pounds placed a dummy satellite into orbit last month.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
United States
Lass
Masked Man Holds Up Bank in Dallas Dollar Take Near Church
An armed man wearing a polka-dot mask robbed Hillside National Bank in northeast Dallas, taking 7003 dollars before forcing secretary Judy Boney to aid him to the car and fleeing. The car was later found abandoned near a church. The shooter’s companion, Cecil Abbey, died after a Texas Bank heist. police seek James Waller in a linked kidnap case.
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Dallas
Hillside National Bank
Judy Boney
J. R. Hensley
Sandra Inman
Boney
Amarillo
Texas Bank and Trust Co
Cecil Francis Abbey
Drownings In Mine Tunnel Near Eagle Nest New Mexico
In Eagle Nest New Mexico two El Paso men were swept 500 feet through a flood filled mine tunnel after they breached a wall in an abandoned gold mine. Ismael Cisneros 36 and Harold McManus 40 were employed by Jack Whisler Co. Cresencio Ramirez also from El Paso was present.
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Eagle Nest
N.M
Ismael Cisneros
el Paso
Harold McManus
Jack Whisler
Cresencio Ramirez
Prisoners Hunger Strike Continues at Harris County Jail
About 250 inmates on the sixth floor of Harris County jail entered a third day of hunger strike after burning a supper of spaghetti beans and pickled beets. They protest jail food quality and say they expect to endure several more days.
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Houston
Harris County
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West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Turkey Creek
Hollis Chamber of Commerce
Frank Madura
Tulsa
Gene Faulkner
Swisher County
Texas Technological College
Robert Foster Barnes
Dalhart Chamber of Commerce
Wally Butts
Saturday Evening Post
Okinawa
Miami Beach
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Dewey Ashcroft
Ooo
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Air Force
Old State Capitol
Abraham Lincoln
Bloomington
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Los Angeles
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Fort Worth
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