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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1960
Page
3
The text references Galatians 3 23 29 about being Christ's heirs through the promise and adds a devotional note about finding a share of God s love. It concludes with a note about Newwell Booth and a Belgian Congo safety phrase.
SEW YORK UPI The Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City California announced that a team led by Dr Theodore H Maiman achieved true amplification of light a breakthrough with potential for a death ray and vastly improved communications The scientists say heat and sight intensities could surpass solar levels enabling vaporization of microscopic bacteria and ultra long range radio TV signals while jets of light could power space communications and spy proof channels
Reports from Independence and San Francisco recountings show Truman urged by Missouri governor Blair to attend the Democratic National Convention. Lyndon B. Johnson presses Kennedy's first ballot odds, while California figures overhear cues at Johnson gatherings. A divorce case in Los Angeles highlights domestic strife involving Erlin Geralt and physician husband.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson said Cuba import cuts will not noticeably affect U S sugar supplies or prices. Roubert Shields, head of the US Beet Sugar Association, said the United States could buy sugar from other countries with available supply to cover any slack.
A political issue once declared dead by the West Virginia primary reappears as Kennedy Catholicism fuels debate. Evangelist Billy Graham warns of Protestant problems if a Catholic leads the nation, while Southern Baptists and American Baptists voice concerns about Catholic influence on policy and church-state separation.
Events note Pickering issuing the first U S passport in 1796 and Shelley's drowning in 1822 followed by the Liberty Bell crack in 1835 during John Marshall funeral. Rockefeller born 1839 and Bryan's 1896 cross of gold speech referenced along with Shelley's defense of poetry.
Washington UPI reports a humorous plea for a single column combining romance, card games, and medicine. The piece mocks separate advice sections and previews witty reader letters about love, bridge mishaps, and domestic concerns.
Popular recording star Brook Benton undergoes surgery for removal of a cyst from his right ear and minor plastic surgery. Benton, 27, who has 11 consecutive hit records, is expected to be hospitalized about a week at Beth Israel Hospital in New York.
A radium capsule valued at about 10000 dollars and protected by a 250 pound lead shield was found on a front porch in Carlsbad New Mexico. Miner Henry Haney reported retrieving it after believing it was dropped from a truck traveling from Orla Texas to Hobbs New Mexico. The disappearance remains under sheriff investigation.
In Havana Cuba rejected U S protests over expropriation of Esso and Texaco oil refineries and a Shell refinery seizure. The Foreign Ministry call the Washington complaints false and hypocritical and blamed U S aggression. The government also rejected a British protest, though more moderately.
The Texas public school program for the year ending Aug 31 1959 cost 529 160 892 dollars with state support totaling 305 611 144 dollars, or more than 57 percent, per State Auditor C H Cavness.
A potentially deadly radium shipment went missing Monday while in transit. Officials say the package raised alarm due to its radioactive contents and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance.
Ray Peeler Jr a Texas delegate left Fort Worth by plane for Los Angeles with D J Kelly Fort Worth attorney and Bonham native also named as a delegate.
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