Bonham News Highlights Cotton Harvest And Local Pets
Mrs Mozelle Thomas displays the first 1983 cotton bloom in Bonham while noting her son’s 75 acre crop and early season poisons. Donna Cranfill seeks a replacement kitten after a truck incident. Wayne Cranfill reports many people want kittens. Sharon Orick cares for two kittens found abandoned, providing food and shelter during heat.
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Mozelle (Son
Thomas
Bonham
Son
Sharon Orick
Sharon
Ste
Germans Instruct Israeli Soldiers In West Germany
Bonn (UPI) German officials disclosed that Israeli soldiers are being trained in West Germany in modern equipment. Hans Merten, Socialist deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Defense Committee, said the training is conducted by a special non NATO military aid committee.
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Bonn
UPI
West Germany
Tee
Hans Merten
Neue Rhur Zettung
Kennedy to push civil rights bill to Congress
President Kennedy plans to send to Congress next week a civil rights bill to end segregation in interstate private businesses, allow school integration suits by the attorney general, and standardize literacy tests while speeding voting rights cases. A southern filibuster is anticipated as the fight shapes the 1964 election.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
House
Martin Luther King
White House
Attorney General
Space Craft Program Gains Military Support for Space Station
Skeptical civilian officials in the Defense Department are shifting toward the military view on manned space craft. Pentagon favors a joint Defense NASA space station with the Pentagon as top manager and McNamara may continue Dyna Soar. Two new strategic aircraft concepts capture interest: the Dromidary and the Low Level Penetrator, each requiring years to develop.
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UPI
Defense Department
Pentagon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Kennedy
Congress
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Air Force
McNamara
Telephone Spotlight Awards Night for Rural Clubs
Texas Blue Ribbon communities in Fannin county and nine nearby rural groups will receive awards Thursday night at the Bonham National Guard armory. Public is invited to attend as the county honors a year of active community programs judged the best in the state. President Calvin Felts will carry home the blue ribbon as the judges’ declaration is announced.
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Texas
Fannin County
Bonham National Guard
Calvin Felts
Telephone
Mulberry
Muberry
Bonham Chamber of Commerce
Fannin County Farm Bureau
Nunnelee
Lannius
Allen’s Chapel
Valley Creek
Ravenna
Allen's Point
Dial
Bartly Woods
Racial Tension Protests Reported Across Several States
Police in four eastern North Carolina cities were on alert for new racial protests. Troops enforced limited martial law in Cambridge Maryland. Danville Virginia remained tense at the North Carolina border. In Jackson Mississippi hundreds paid final respects to slain integration leader Medgar Evers.
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Fayetteville
N. C
UPI
North Carolina
Cambridge
Danville
Jackson
Miss
Medgar Evers
Rites Monday for Bonham's 101-Year-Old Citizen
Mrs. Sam W Hancock Sr died at 101 at 819 Evans Street after a decade of decline following a hip fracture. Funeral at 10 a.m. Monday at Wise Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Donald White officiating. interment in Willow Wild Cemetery. Born June 8, 1862 in McKinney, she lived in Bonham since 1895 and was active in civic and church groups. survived by descendants.
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Sam W. Hancock
Evans Street
Hancock
Bonham
Wise Funeral Home
Donald A White
First Christian Church
McKinney
Ilder J S Muse
Mt. Pleasant
I. A. Looney
Sam W Hancock
Hillsboro
Hancuck
First
Mothers’ Club
PIA
First Civic League
Delphia Club
Story League
Current Literature Club
Ibonham
The
Missionary Society
Charles Carlton
Sam
Flag Springs Homecoming Plans for July 14
Flag Springs residents prepare for the 1963 homecoming at the Community Center on July 14. Mrs. A. J. Thompson notes a basket lunch at noon followed by an afternoon of visiting with old friends and neighbors.
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Flag Springs
A. J. Thompson
Community Improvement Awards Night Set at Telephone Center
Calvin Felts, president of the club, says at least 100 people from the state's best community are expected to attend the Telephone Community Center event at about 6 30 p m. They will caravan to Bonham for the awards night as every other county community plans a large turnout. Homer Carpenter notes the heat as the thermometer reads 104 degrees on a sunlit steel beam.
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Bussett Watson
Texas Power and Light Company
R E E. Patterson
Texas A. and
M. College
Electric Utiility
Texas Rural Improvement
Bob Old
The
Telephone Club
Telephone
Bentam
Calvin Felts
Telephone Community Center
Bonham
McAnally Helps Run Local Little League Team
Henry McAnally said with three boys on the team he joined to help run the Little League effort. He explained his motive was to support the youths and organize activities for the season.
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Henry McAnally
Bonham Endures Week of Extreme Heat in North Central Texas
Bonham residents endure a week of 100 degree heat with a high of 99 degrees recent days and overnight low around 72. Forecasters project continued dry, hot weather through Sunday with upper 90s and low 70s by the weekend. Water use rises for lawns and gardens as air conditioning runs nonstop under clear to partly cloudy skies.
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Texas
Kentucky Sawmills Produce Large Lumber Output
Kentucky sawmills deliver between 500 million and 600 million board feet of lumber annually. The volume is enough to construct a boardwalk about 4 feet wide around the Earth at the equator.
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Kentucky
Bonham Plans Gay Nineties Sidewalk Sale
Bonham merchants set their annual Sidewalk Sale for next Saturday with the theme Modern Merchandise at Gay Ninety Prices. Stores will place counters on the sidewalk, offering reduced prices and an old-time carnival atmosphere to attract shoppers.
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Bonham Merchants
Bonham
Leeman Sewell
Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Civil Defense Education Meet Set in Fannin County
A meeting of Bonham city officials, Extension Service workers, and school superintendents is planned Tuesday at 9 30 a m in the Texas Power and Light auditorium to discuss starting a civil defense education program in Fannin county schools Speaker will be Dr W R Bodine of the Office of Defense and Disaster Relief County Judge Choice Moore arranged the meeting which follows notice that Fannin county was chosen as one of six pilot counties in the state for the program Officials to attend include Mayor John Crockett Ed Koenig Dr E C Williams County Superintendent M L Brent and area Extension agents
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Danville
Polich
Fannin County
Bonham City
W. R. Bodine
Office of Defense and Disaster Relief
Department of Public Safety
A.m
Texas Power and Light Co
Moore
John Crockett
Ed Koenig
Bonham
E. C. Williams
M. L. Brent
Ted Martin
Tom Joyce Cunningham
District IV
DPS
Cranfill
Cabinet backs Macmillan as Profumo crisis widens
Assured majority cabinet members back Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ahead of Monday's House of Commons debate on the Profumo scandal. A new rumor ties a royal family member to Christine Keeler, increasing political tension and security concerns amid party divisions.
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London
APS
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
James Salt
Christine Keeler
Lord Poole
Conservatives
Enoch Powell
Sunday Observer
Macmillan
Miss Bruton Injured In 2 Car Collision
Miss Margaret Bruton a Bonham high school senior suffered bruises and lacerations in a two car crash on Sam Rayburn Drive Friday night. The other driver William Watterson of Dodd City and passengers Mike Spiller and Paul Sutter were treated and released after the collision at a root beer stand. Officers Marlin Thrasher and Floyd Watson investigated the incident.
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Margaret Bruton
Bonham High School
Sam Rayburn
Miss Bruton
William GC
Watterson
Dodd City
Mike Spiller
Paul Sutter
Marlin Thrasher
Floyd Watson
Long Walk Home From Albuquerque Ends Happily
Corrine Almuju eight and her dog Lobo began a 65 mile trek from near Albuquerque after homesickness. Passersby and a state patrolman alerted Justice of the Peace and Mrs Darden who cared for Corrine until her father from Socorro picked her up.
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Val
Corrine Almuju
Lobo
Albuquerque
Socorro
U.S. 865
Jack Bt Johnson
Corrine
Peace Justice
A. Darden
Johnson
Sucarto
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