Texas highway brochure showcases Texas regions and attractions
The Texas State Highway Department releases a color magazine style brochure titled Texas America’s Fun Tier. It divides Texas into six recreational regions with maps and photos including the Sam Rayburn Memorial Library in East Texas and sections on hunting fishing and tourist services. Sheriff Dudley Jackson ends a catfish bounty with a communal meal while Jeff Pat Beene and Robert Dorough finish their plates amid bones on the table.
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Texas
Texas State Highway Department
Sam Rayburn Memorial
East
Texas Highway Department
Dudley Jackson
Jeff
Pat Beene
Robert Dorough
Weather Forecast For Bonham Sees Little Change
The Bonham area should see little change through Thursday with clear to partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures. Expected highs will be in the lower 90s, and morning lows around the upper 60s to lower 70s. The five day outlook suggests values two to four degrees below normal and possible weekend precipitation.
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Bonham
Texas drivers face 11.9 percent rise in liability rates
Texas insurance figures from the State Board of Insurance project an average 11.9 percent increase in automobile liability rates for private passenger vehicles. Bodily injury coverage up 12 percent, personal damage up 11.6 percent, with mixed effects for deductibles and full coverage. County differences cite Tarrant up 12 percent, Yom Green and Randall up 9 percent, McLennan down 5 percent.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
State Board of Insurance Today
Texas
Angus McDonald
McDonald
Tarrant County
Yom Green
Potter
Randall
McLennan County
Finders Return Money In Japan
In Japan, three women and a glove maker returned found money totaling over 2 million yen. Mohoko Nomura found 718,708 yen in a grocery bag after groceries were packed with a bank deposit. Jingoro Okubo turned in 700,000 yen found in rags. Teruko Tsubata returned 721,000 yen found in a purse outside a bar.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Mohoko Nomura
Jingoro Okubo
Teruko Tsubata
Navy jets knock out radar site near Haiphong
U S Navy planes struck a Communist radar installation eight miles from Haiphong, the closest attack on North Vietnam by that technology. A RA3B Skywarrior was shot down before dawn Tuesday, killing all three crew members. In Kontum Province, the 101st Airborne renewed jungle fighting as Operation Hawthorne killed about 869 Communists.
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Saigon
UPS
Haiphong
Viet Nam
Navy
North
Vinh
Communist New China News Agency
Hanoi
Red
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Kontum
Riots Rage in Saigon Third Day As Buddhists Rally
Saigon saw continued street battles as combat police clashed with Buddhists seeking to oust Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. Demonstrations, prayers, and hunger strikes marked the third day of unrest with reports of beaten newsmen and intensified tear gas use.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen Cao Ky
Vien Hoa Dan
Vien Hoa Dao
U.S
Thich
Tri Quang
Hue
Quang
Picture Taking Satellite to Orbit Moon Photo mission
NASA announced a six day launch window from July 12 to place a 50 pound picture taking satellite in lunar orbit to photograph Apollo landing sites and Surveyor 1. the orbiter will pass within 28 miles of the moon's surface every 30 hours and resolve objects the size of a card table. Meanwhile the Air Force readies a Titan 3D rocket to launch seven communications satellites and a moonslet as part of a global military networking plan. The Titan 3D flight is set for 10 a.m. EDT Thursday.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
United States
Lunar
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Moon
Surveyor
Air Force
Washington
Hearings Set On Draft System June 22 in Congress
House Armed Services Committee to hold public hearings starting June 22. Gen. Hershey to testify first on Selective Service. Rivers says hearings respond to complaints about draft inequities favoring college deferments and will consider options including a jittery proposal, though major changes are unlikely before the 1948 law expires June 30, 1967.
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Washington
UPS
Map L. Meade
Rivers
S.C
House Armed Services Committee
Lewis
Hershey
Selective Service System
Congress
Viet Nam
Difference Rivers
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Editor Faces Tough Decision at University of Oregon
Annette Buchanan coed editor of The Daily Emerald faced a grand jury order to name five student marijuana users she interviewed for a campus article. She could face six months in jail and a $300 fine for contempt if she refuses, and planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Fugene
Ore
UPI
Annette Buchanan
University of Oregon
Jane County Grand Jury
Ikmerald
Miss Buchanan
Buchanan
U.S. Supreme Court
Topeka Faces Severe Housing Shortage After Tornado
In Topeka Kansas the homeless problem worsens as 70-plus families seek mobile homes. Chamber of Commerce reports 1500 housing inquiries while Red Cross forwards requests to the Office of Emergency Planning. Sixteen Topekans killed, 550 injured, over 2000 displaced. power restoration expected today.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Kansas
Office of Emergency Planning
Hardy Knott
Denver
Theft of Judge's Gavel Stuns Dallas Court
UPI report says armed guards escorted Jack Ruby, condemned slayer of Oswald, through a sanity hearing in Dallas. Guards monitored spectators while more police lined the courtroom hallway as District Judge Louis T. Holland declared the gavel had been stolen.
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Dallas
UPI
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Louis T. Holland
Pavel
Police Deploy Heavy Patrols in Chicago Puerto Rican District
Police curbed violence in a troubled northwest Chicago neighborhood with more than 400 riot-helmeted officers patrolling a four mile stretch. Three days of clashes left 10 shot and 19 injured as 123 arrests were made and one officer injured by a rock.
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Chicago
UPI
Rious
Northwest Side
Divison Street
James Holzman
Christmas Seal Mobile X-ray Unit to Visit Bonham Area
The Dallas TB association will send a free chest X ray unit to Bonham on June 23 and 24 and Honey Grove on June 25. Pilot Glen Hodge and crew Cindy Simpson and Mrs Bill Cheatham will announce the visit with a colorful plane flyover. Residents over 15 in Fannin County are invited to participate, with arrangements led by local TB board members and the aging committee.
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Dallas Area Tuberculosis Association
Fannin County
Glen F
Dub) Hodge
Bonham
Cindy Simpson
Bill Cheatham
Cindy
Swinging Horizon Club
Mrs Cheatham
Jannin County
Dub Hodge
TB Association
Jannin County Foim
Bunham
Honey Grove
Johnny Avery
Hodge
Crippled Norwegian Tanker Reaches Safety in Mississippi
The Norwegian tanker Suga Sky steamed into Senthysst Pass early today after its hull was holed by a submerged object. The ship, 60,000 tons, had slowed to hive knots but later increased to eight knots as it drifted toward safety with Coast Guard at scene.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Coast Guard
Volcanic Activity Intensifies at Mount Jiulkano
Reports from volcanologists say Mount Jiulkano erupted in January and has since spewed lava and blown hot rocks hundreds of feet into the air. No threat to nearby inhabitants or farms noted.
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Lalania
Sietty
UPI
Metro
Newmouth
Jan
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South Viet Nam
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Bob Cantrell
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Fannin County Committee On Aging
S. G. McClure, Jr
12 Association
Boniam
Pam
Mr. Edna
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