Region Dotted by Storms
Severe weather swept the Panhandle with rain hail wind and lightning on Sunday forming a forecast line across the Golden Spread. An unconfirmed tornado was reported 20 miles north of Amarillo but did not touch the ground. Highs were forecast in the 86 to 92 range with possible late day thundershowers and Littlefield saw 1.5 to 2 inches of rain in about an hour.
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Panhandle
Golden Spread
South Plains
Amarillo
U.S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo Air Terminal
Littlefield
First Baptist Church
Korea Hints New Moves
South Korea’s new premier Gen Chang Do young said the military government may suspend the constitution temporarily to pursue revolutionary aims. Since the May 16 coup martial law has governed the country and authorities jailed 25 leaders and closed 381 media outlets in a crackdown on major businessmen and politicians.
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Seoul
P—Li
Chang Do-young
South Korea
Sumaron Sumner’s Plains Party Line Tops Page 7
The Daily News today features Sumaron Sumner’s Plains Party Line on Page 7 detailing a woman’s woodcarving symbolizing a philosophy and daily activities of residents in Amarillo and surrounding areas.
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Amarillo
Sumarion Sumner
Daily News
Wave Relay Stations Blasted by Dynamite
In western Utah and eastern Nevada three isolated microwave relay stations were dynamited at dawn. FBI, National Guard, and police searched the intermountain west as the blasts cut coast to coast telephone and other communications. Officials noted possible dynamite theft and shifted traffic to alternate routes while guarding stations in Wendover and Amarillo.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Nevada
FBI
National Guard
Intermountain West
National Defense Circuit
Cof
Baseball scores from multiple leagues across Texas and national circuit
Ardmore defeats Amerilla in Texas League action with Tulsa 10, Austin 4, Rio Grande Valley 4, San Antonio 3. Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 2. Los Angeles 4 Milwaukee 3. San Francisco 6 Chicago 5. St Louis and Pittsburgh 4. American League sees Cleveland 9 to 4 over Kansas City 1 to 8. Boston 5. Baltimore 0. Washington 6. Minnesota 4. Detroit 7 to 4 over Los Angeles. Chicago 14 to 9 over New York 25.
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Amerilla
Tulsa
Austin
San Antonio
Rio Grande Valley
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Kansas City
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Minnesota
Detroit
New York
Explosions Hit Microwave Stations Near Wendover and Cedar Mountain
Authorities initially investigated but hours later found no leads. A blast damaged a microwave station three miles west of Wendover, ripping out 14 inch concrete walls and destroying equipment. Similar explosions hit a Cedar Mountain microwave station and a Knolls cable repeater station nearby.
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Wendover
Utah-Nevada
Cedar Mountain
Knolls
Little Prospect of Summit Gains Stages for Kennedy
President Kennedy heads to a phased summit with France's de Gaulle, Khrushchev in Vienna, and Britain's Macmillan. Officials call it a Big Four gathering by degrees. The two leaders will meet informally, not negotiate, on unsolved global tensions amid Western cautions.
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Kennedy
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
France
Vienna
Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Last Floor Nears in Texas Tax Hassle
Texas lawmakers enter the final 24 hours of the 57th session to resolve a 350 million dollar money problem and avoid a special session. House conferees report no progress as Senate conferees refuse to yield on a 348 million tax package centered on a 2 percent general sales tax. Governor Daniel vows a veto if the House accepts it. If Monday talks fail, the House plans a vote to accept or reject the Senate bill.
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Austin
UPI
Texas
House
Senate
Ballman
Price Daniel
Police Guard NE Stations After Relay Sabotage
In Santa Fe on May 28 AP reports New Mexico state police were stationed at all 20 microwave and cable relay stations following sabotage at three stations in Nevada and Utah. Governor Mechem requested patrols. one officer and a Mountain States employee guard each relay post overnight.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
K. K. Miller
Nevada
Utah
Miller
Ed Mechem
Roswell
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Mechem
Mountain States
Four Die in Crash Vernon Texas High School Friends
Four Vernon area graduates died in a head on crash after a graduation party near Lake Kemp. Victims were James Knapp Freddie Adams Larry Schiwart and Larry Donges. Ernest Tobar injured. Donges driven one car. crash occurred at 6 40 a m three miles south of town. Donges was star pitcher and son of the city fire chief.
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Lake Kemp
James Knapp
Freddie Adams
Larry Schiwart
Larry Donges
Ernest Tobar
Donges
Joe Donges
Vernon
Tower election shocks Democrats in Texas Senate race
Washington reports stunned Democrats as Republican John G. Tower won the Texas U S Senate seat, ending a 91 year streak of statewide Democratic victories. Kennedy administration had hoped Blakley would prevail, keeping an unbroken Democratic line in the state despite expected party shifts.
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Washington
John G. Tower
United States
Texas
Morgan C. Hamilton
Senate
Blakley
Kennedy
Thad Hutcheson
GOP
Don Eliinger
Democratic Party
Polish security official flees to West named as Col Antonio Alster
London report identifies Col Antonio Alster, 34, Poland interior vice minister, as the high security official who fled to the West. He is said to be in Washington and questioned as the most important communist defector since the war. The paper notes his escape amid fear for his life and mentions a Polish woman accompanying him.
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London
Antonio Alster
Washington
Reform Dear Editor and the Warsaw security chief case
A reader from Wellington Texas cites multiple newspapers about a missing top Polish security chief from Warsaw now identified by Polish émigrés in London. He notes reports of defection via Berlin to London and then the United States, plus Soviet reactions and a purge order affecting Jews in high Polish posts.
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Daily Mail
Warsaw
London
Free
FCC
Minow
Ulster
Alster
West
Berlin
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Tower wins Senate seat ending 91 year Texas GOP drought
The Associated Press reports college professor Jon G. Tower won the U S Senate race by about 8,000 votes, becoming the first Republican elected by Texas voters to the office. A Barry Goldwater style conservative, Tower had never held public office before. He clinched the victory Sunday.
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Jon G. Tower
US Senate
Texas
Tower
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Towey
Weather and political results from Texas and the plains
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms across Amarillo and surrounding areas. Texas election coverage notes Tower leading Blakley with about 30.45 percent of votes tallied. Blakley about 436,815 votes of 881,630 counted. Governor Johnson in Texas, no comment on Senate vacancy.
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William Want
Representa- A
Weather Snapshot From Amarillo to Dallas and Houston
Weather data shows Amarillo reporting 140 days out of 148 with 15 miles visibility and cloudy sky. Similar readings appear for Houston and Dallas with clear conditions in Dallas and Oklahoma City, highlighting varying wind directions and cloud cover across the region.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okla
Soviets Launch High Level Recon Flights Over Border
Washington reports say the Soviet Union is conducting extensive reconnaissance flights over northern Pakistan Kashmir and the China Kashmir frontier with high altitude photographic missions akin to U2s. The program followed Francis Powers U2 loss and has stepped up recently amid Afghan Pakistani clashes. Indian and Pakistani officials monitor the missions as Pakistan pilots rely on F102 fighters but struggle to halt the flights.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Pakistan
Kashmir
Russia
Francis Powers
Powers
China
Sinkiang
Storm Over Missing U S Naval Documents in Parliament
London reports a parliamentary storm as Laborite Richard Marsh charges that secret U S naval papers on underwater warfare vanished from Admiralty custody. Marsh vows to press Macmillan in Parliament while U S officials decline to comment. Police had suggested the papers disappeared from a London engineering firm safe under navy contract.
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London
Harold Macmillan
U.S
British Admiralty
Richard Marsh
House of Commons
Marsh
Macmillan
Labor Party
Washington
U.S. Navy
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
Admiralty
Navy
United States
United States of America
Row Row Row Your Bed Race Floats to Victory
In Richmond on May 28 a six-man fraternity team won a floating bed race on the James River in 1 hour 40 minutes. Gamma Nu of Chester led Gamma Chi of Bon Air by about half an hour, with Gamma Tau of Richmond third, as other teams trailed along the course.
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Richmond
Chester's Gamma Nu
National
Pi Phi Young Men's
James River
Gamma Chi
Bon Air
Gamma Tau
Pi Phi
Chester
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