Booths For Cotton Festival Sought By Chamber
Mrs. H. G. McClure Jr. chairs exhibits for the Cotton Festival booths to be built at the National Guard armory. Booth price is about a8, with a May 8 deadline. A pie supper at the Community Center on Apr 28 funds the baseball team’s Pony League suits. Community Improvement is backing the event. Anse Babers noted pasture work during judges’ visit amid rain.
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8. G. McClure, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Pony League
Improvement Cmd
Verdict May Be Given On Berths Saturday
A blue ribbon panel of two men and one woman deliberated the fate of 11 Fannin county communities in the state improvement contest. The panel included Mrs. Tom Joyce Cunningham, Ted Martin district Extension Service agents, and Jack Jenkins area farm management specialist.
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Fannin County
Tom Joyce Cunningham
Ted Martin
Jack Jenkins
Denton-Wednesday concludes evidence in bid for state finals
Back Home Denton-Wednesday completed their inspection of the evidence and heard arguments for berth in the state finals. Judges evaluated 11 communities across the district in a two division judging tour to select the finalists from the 19 county district.
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Denton
Martin
Fannin County
Allen’s Point
Allen's Chapel
Bonham Rotary Club
Selfs
Ravenna
Mulberry
Randolph
Lunnius
Bartley Woods
Gober
Nunnelee
Bonham
Lions
Revenna
Kiwanis
Rotary Club
Allen’s Chapel
Telephone
Tornado Rips Through Area In North Texas
Two injured and damage estimated at 125000 as a tornado crossed southeast Fannin and southwest Delta counties Wednesday night. M. R. Wood 78 and P A Wood 53 were hospitalized in critical condition. Power lines, barns, homes and farm equipment were destroyed across Bonham and surrounding areas.
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Fannin
Delta
M. R. Wood
P. A. Wood
Merce
Joe Middlebrook
Ladonia
Fannin County
Middlebrook
Pecan Gap
Texas
Bonham
Troy McNeail
H. R. van Zandt
Fannin County Sheriff's Department
Justin
Denton County
Denton
Dellas
Wise
Johnson Says He Feels Pity Yet Supports Civil Rights
President Johnson expressed pity for demonstrators who disrupted his World’s Fair speech but affirmed the civil rights cause won’t be harmed by fanaticism. He outlined a five city Appalachia trip, defense budget changes, and Vietnam expectations while declining to name a 2024 running mate, citing ongoing Senate talks on a jury trial amendment. He noted Lodge in South Vietnam already has access to sensitive data and defended cooling wartime diplomacy with Russia.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Stallin
Ambasaador
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Viet Nam
Edié
Senate
Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Viet Nam
United States
Russia
Sin
Defense
Robert S. MacNemore
Huntington
W. Va
Appelechia
Labeg
W. Willard Wirts
Commerce
Luther
Hodges
Welfare
Anthony J. Celebrezee
Community clubs visit and rain delay flower show
James led a short tenure at Serham TP&L as Ellis county visitors checked community improvement efforts in Ravenna and Mulberry. Hunt county judges toured Gober while rain dampened Bonham Garden Club plans and postponed the Friday flower show with a new date to be announced.
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James
Serham Tp&l
Ellis County
Ravenna
Mulberry
Hunt County
Gober
NYC Trainmen May Go On Strike
Michael W. Herr, strike chairman for the railroad trainmen on the New York Central east of Buffalo, said the presidential agreement is unsatisfactory and that the trainmen would strike the Central at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. A strike would tie up Boston, New York and Philadelphia operations. Herr criticized government use in reaching the agreement and said collective bargaining has taken a beating.
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Syracuse
N.Y
UPI
Michael W. Herr
New York Central Railroad
Buffalo
Trelamen
Central
Herr
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Herr Cald
Turks Reject Makarios Peace Plan Sparks Cyprus Fighting
Fighting flared in at least three areas after Turkish Cypriots rejected the Makarios peace proposal. Greek Cypriots reported two wounded and one missing, amid calls for amnesty and removal of fortifications. Turkish Cypriot officials rejected the plan, arguing it would portray them as aggressors and fail to guarantee safety.
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Osman Orek
Fazil Kuchuk
Cyprus
Orek
French Communist Party Targets Foreign Workers in Campaign
The French Communist party seeks to rally 2.6 million foreign workers amid a dues decline. The politburo pledges equal salaries and social security and denounces government bias against foreign workers as it launches the campaign.
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Paris
UPI
Communist Party
Senate debate on jury trial for civil rights bill unfolds
Senate action hangs on whether the first vote on the civil rights bill should include a jury trial guarantee for violators. Democrats and liberal Republicans push to move beyond the trial provision toward fair employment amendments by Dirkson. Southern senators spotlight Dirksen with Talmadge amendments on criminal contempt jury trials. Humphrey backs applying the jury trial proviso to the whole measure. Russell notes possible acceptance of Dirksen employment amendments by unanimous consent.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Dirksen
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Hubert H. Humphrey
Richard B. Russell
Payoff Probe Underway In Houston Police Payoffs
Harris County grand jury and Houston mayor office open probe into possible vice payoffs to police officers. Chronicle reports Mayor Louie Welch launched a secret investigation two months ago and the two probes were merged this week.
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Houston
UPI
Harris County Grand Jury
Houston Chronicle
Chronicle
Kent Demaret
Louie Welch
Demeset
Weather Lifts World Fair Attendance Despite Protests
In New York 1964 65 World’s Fair opening day drew 92 646 visitors amid improving weather and easing civil rights tensions. Demonstrations inside the fairhouse continued with at least 299 arrests after a subway incident. President Johnson spoke at the dedication.
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New York
UPI
Fair
Freedom Now
Johnson
Bonham Native Dr Edward Grant to be Austin College Distinguished Alumnus
Dr Edward D Grant of Baton Rouge Louisiana will be honored as the distinguished alumnus of the year at Austin College Day. A 1930 graduate he is president of Grant Chemical Co Grant Lehr Corp and Gramor Chemicals Inc and has long served in Presbyterian church lay work. The award luncheon follows convocation in Wynne Chapel with Friday events including Alumni Association meeting and anniversary banquets.
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Bonham
Austin College
Edward D. Grant
Baton Rouge
Chemical Industry
The
Presbyterian Church
U. S
Grant
Bob Grant
First Presbyterian Church
Board of Education
Memorial Union
Wynne Chapel
Alumni Association
J. W. Madden
Denison
Noel G Shaw
Evanston, Ill
Meril A. May
New York
Dunn and Bradstreet, Inc
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Billy Jerden
Steff
Middlebrooks
Lbj
Appalachia
South Bend
Ind
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Inez
Pittsburgh
Huntingted
Robert S. McNamer
Ébedtete
Pentagon
Barry Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Margaret Chase Smith
Harold &. Stassen
Richard M. Nixon
William Scranton
George Wallace
Alabama
Bonham Garden Club
Nyc
Civil Rights
Edward Grant
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