Meredith and Possum Kingdom Compared for Size and Capacity
A Texas reader inquiry compares lake Meredith with Possum Kingdom. Meredith matches in surface area but exceeds in capacity at 2 495 000 acre feet, with 17 900 acre top area and 20 mile conservation pool length, while Possum Kingdom trails in total capacity.
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Lake Meredith
Meredith
Possum Kingdom
Texas
Texoma
Denison
FCO
Angelina River
Sam Rayburn
Mexican
Falcon Dam
Mexico
Whitney
Brazos
Buchanan
Colorado
Ether
Lake Texarkana
Arkansas
Chansler Weymouths donate home to St Andrews Church
The Weymouths give their 17th and Harrison house to St Andrews Episcopal Church for the Rev. Alan Conley and family to reside there. They will keep La Tour Apartments as their town home on the North Plains ranch.
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17Th and
Harrison
St Andrews Episcopal Church
Alan Conley
North Plains
la Tour
L.S. Proclaims Full Neutrality in War
The United States declares neutrality in the India Pakistan Kashmir conflict and seeks UN mediation to halt fighting. A State Department spokesman rejects claims of bias. Senator Mansfield urges flexible aid, linking it to UN Security Council peace actions and a possible global pledge to adjust external assistance.
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Washington
APL
United States
Kashmir
Irenera U Thant
Comennist
Chinas
Chow En-lLat
Pakistan
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
McCloskey
Crima
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
UN Security Council
Subcontinent
The
Security Council
India
House
Mansfield
GOP Pushes Computer Redistricting in Texas Case
In Houston UPI reports Texas Republicans urged a federal three judge court to use computer analysis to redraw Texas 23 congressional districts. They said the current lines are a gerrymander and should follow one man one vote standards with strict population guidance.
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Houston
UPI
Texas
GOP
Nothh
Dallas, Fort Worth Midland
Odessa
Leaumont
Jimmy Breshin Columns From A Visit to a Little War
The Jimmy Breshin Viet Nam column series appears in the Amarillo Daily News as they are received, with reports often delayed due to wartime strain. The feature chronicles small war impressions and personal observations from soldiers and correspondents.
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Jimmy Breshin
Viet Nam
Amarillo
Six youths held for trial in Oklahoma City rape case
Justice of the peace bound six youths over for second degree rape trial after two and a half days of testimony in a case involving a 15 year old Texas girl. Among the held defendants are James D. Fellers and John William Shapard, sons of notable figures, with Johnny Ishmael’s charges dropped. The judge urged parental curfews as a crowd urged action.
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Oklahoma City
Apt
Justice of the Peace
Texas
Marvin Cavnar
James D. Fellers
Oklahoma Bar Association
John William Shapard
Michael and
Richard Stanley Paul Hampton Brogan
Larry W. Smith
Johnny Ishmael
Curtis Harris
Ishmael
David Shapard
Cavour
Thal
Cavnar
Taxpayer Clings to Palm Tree to Dodge Taxes
A reluctant taxpayer in Onusha Nigeria spent four hours in a 30 foot palm tree to dodge revenue men. Tax collectors waited nearby and when he came down he was fined 28 shillings for tax evasion and ordered to pay back taxes.
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Onusha
Nigeria
Betsy Pounds Texas Coast Turning New Orleans Into Evacuation Zone
Hurricane Betsy slammed into the area forcing thousands to flee homes along the lakefront as winds near 150 miles per hour. Lake Pontchartrain waters surged over seawalls and levees while power lines failed and over 10 000 homes were without electricity. Mayor Victor Schiro urged shelter in churches and schools as evacuation centers opened in city and state buildings with media outages hampering updates.
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New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
TRS Iby
Betsy
Victor Schiro
Lakefront
Bbetsy
Stamp to Honor Adlai Stevenson by Johnson
President Johnson unveiled a five cent commemorative stamp for Adlai E Stevenson. The issue goes on sale October 23 in Bloomington Illinois where Stevenson grew up and was buried. Johnson praised Stevensons role in shaping twentieth century democracy to about one hundred attendees in the White House Rose Garden.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Johnson
Bloomington
Ill
Stevenson
United States
United Nations
Adlas Rens
White House
Nower
War over water highlighted by OSU president
Dr. Oliver S. Willham, president of Oklahoma State University, told about 4,000 listeners that the India Pakistan conflict centers on water. He cited headwaters in Kashmir and warned food supply for billions in coming decades depends on improved farming and training programs. HALFWAY on Page 2.
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India
Pakistan
Oliver S. Willham
Oklahoma State University
High Plains Research Foundation
William
Ethiopia
OSU
Indus
Chenab
Kashmir
Cabinet Selection In Doubt
President Johnson signed to create a housing and urban development department but did not name a head. Robert C. Weaver, possible early favorite and the department’s Negro Cabinet prospect, attended the White House signing along with Mayors Wagner and Daley and other officials. The post and department take effect 60 days hence as Moyers said no decision had been made.
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White House Rose Garden
Congress
Kennedy
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Johnson
Ith
America
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Albert Rains
Alabama
John F. Kennedy
Weaver
Chinese Moscow and Hanoi war story report
John Scali cites American intelligence that 17 Soviet antiaircraft missile sites circle Hanoi, more than doubling figures from a month earlier. Pentagon and State Department decline comment as Seals notes new sites moved south of Hanoi and some inside the earlier five-site ring threatening bomb targets.
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Washington
John Scali
The
American Broadcasting Co
Hanoii
Pentagon
State Department
Seals
ABC
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Slayings Suspect Captured After Across States Flight
A man Donald Boggs and a girl Dixie Radcliff were arrested in Flagstaff Arizona after a man admitted four killings across Arizona and nearby. The suspect admitted the murders of Leaker Willis Johnson and H B Florry near Ash Fork.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Coconino County
Donald Boggs
Dixie Hadeliff
Athens
Ohio
Warren Lenker
Elizabethville
Robert Willis
Newport
Ash Fork
Ara
Halvor Johnson
Richardson
Boggs
Leaker Willis
Johnson
H.B. Flory
San Antonio
Tex Boggs
Miss Radcliff
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Francis Scott Key
Ray Armstrong
Wes Izzard
Mississippi
Louisiana
Sandy Koufax
Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
Los Angeles
L.S
Adlai Stevenson
Willham
Ber
Boges
Theriff
Cecil Richardson
John Harvey
Utah
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