Traffic lights cause jitters as city seeks smooth flow
Police hunt the trouble source after lights blink and clash between red and green, aiming to restore normal timing from Bailey Inglish and Junior High zones. Honey Grove visitors struggle with chopstick humor on Orient trip as a waiter offers knife and fork. An unnamed woman driver criticizes the dual light system on North Center and Main streets. Chief Thurman Renfro notes blinkers and edge lights control traffic near schools.
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North Center
Main Street
Thurman Renfro
Bailey Inglish
Constable Wade Morris Hosts County Officials Fish Fry
Wade Morris hosted a fish fry at the jail nook for county officials and friends. The gathering included members of the sheriff's department constables judges and clerks with a menu of fish shrimp French fried potatoes and more. A bus trip to Marshall for the Warriors Mavericks game leaves at 5 pm from the square with return after midnight.
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Wade Morris
Sheriff’s Department
Wade
Leonard
Grand
Marshall
Warriors
Mavericks
L. B. Morris
Showers Still Forecast for Bonham Area Through Friday
Scattered showers remain in the forecast for the Bonham area through Friday. Temperatures stay cool after a light norther moved in. The previous forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday morning did not materialize as expected. Maximum readings reached the upper 80s Wednesday before the front lowered them to around 60 degrees.
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Bonham
Inflation ignoring pork barrel bill approved by House panel
Washington US House Appropriations Committee backed a 4.11 billion public works funding bill allocating 2.20 billion to the Atomic Energy Commission and substantial amounts for river harbor and flood control projects. Critics warned it would fuel inflation while defending water resource needs and 24 new construction starts. Representative Davis argued against passing more money to the presidency, urging restraint.
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Glenn R. Davis
Davis
Congress
Johnson
Viet Nam
Army Corps of Engineers
Jess
Pep Rally at 6 30 Sets Football Spirit Night
Bondi football fans prepare for a second pep rally this season. Cheerleaders, band members, and students will gather at the school at 6 30 p m and march to the square for the event.
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Bondi
Labor Leaders Praise Wage Bill in Texas
Texas labor leaders hailed the new minimum wage law as a great step forward and urged Texas to pass its own version. Roy Evans of the Texas AFL-CIO said the national law won’t reach farm laborers sufficiently.
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Austin
UPI
Texas
Roy Evans
Texas Afl-Cio
Tornado Brings Damage and Injuries Across Texas Panhandle
A reported tornado touched down near Hill City in Hood County Central Texas damaging a trailer home and injuring two women who were under observation at Granbury General Hospital. Heavy rains fell across the Panhandle and High Plains with multiple rainfall reports across North Texas as a cold front moved east.
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Hood County
Texas
Panhandle
High Plains
Placid
McCulloch
Truscott
Knox County
A. J. Randie
Maggie Yarbrough
Hi City
Granbury General Hospital
Lufkin
Waco
Jélectra
Quanah
Sterling City
Scranton
Dumont
Vernon
Youth Slightly Injured in Bicycle Collision
Ethel Pauline Pinkston 13 daughter of C O Pinkston living at 912 West 8th street sustained slight injuries Wednesday afternoon when her bicycle collided with a car at West 8th and Thomas. Officer Kenneth Rice said Albert Alvin Staton 60 of Thomas was the car driver. Pinkston was traveling east on 8th and Staton north on Thomas when the accident occurred. Damage to both vehicles was estimated at one hundred yes.
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C. O. Pinkston
West 8Th Street
West 8Th
Thomas
Kenneth Rice
Albert Alvin Staton
Miss Pinkston
Staton North
Pinkston
Staton
Gemini 11 pilots Conrad Gordon Set Flight Records
Gemini 11 astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon splashed down in the Atlantic after an automatic landing hailed as the best yet. Their craft rode an orange and white parachute to impact at 9:59 a m EDT watched by millions on television.
Gemini 11 Splashdown Near Guams Shores Delivers Historic Auto Rendezvous
Astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon landed Gemini 11 near the aircraft carrier Guam after an automatic guidance splashdown between 144 and two miles from target. NASA calls it the best landing yet as the mission extends U.S. lead in manned space hours and rendezvous techniques. The crew completed a long spacewalk and a first orbit rendezvous with Agena, highlighting space rotation and an unprecedented deep space view.
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UPI
Charles Conrad
Richard Gordon
Guam
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Chris Conrad
The
Space Agency
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Gordon
America
Russia
U.S
Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
Pacific
United States
Cape Kennedy
Agena
Five Indictments Returned Against Trio in Burglaries
Five true bills were voted by the Sixth District grand jury for the July term. Billy Joe Cassel faced three burglary counts and was killed during the Tex Robertson grocery and Connelly drug store break in Trenton May 13 and the W. D. Clements store at Ludonia July 16. Thomas Jefferson Butcher was indicted for the Clements store burglary at Ladonia July 16. James Bilassingame, charged with breaking and entering theft, was identified by officers and held on $1,000 bond per case.
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Billy Joe Cassel
Cassel
Tex Robertson
Connelly Drug
Trenton
W. D. Clements
Ludonia
Thomas Jefferson
Clements
Ladonia
James Bilassingame
Marines Strike South Vietnam Front In Major Assault
U S Marines about 1500 hit the beach south of the DMZ in a combined amphibious and helicopter assault aimed at eradicating two Communist divisions. American planes bombed the DMZ before the attack as other Marines pressed inland against the 324B and 610th divisions amid rising U S casualties and air strikes over North Vietnam.
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Aps
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Yellow Star
United Sates
Viet Nam
Amercans
United States
Mansfield Moves To Trigger Second Cloture On Civil Rights Bill
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield plans a second cloture petition to end debate on the open housing civil rights bill after a first failed attempt. Dirksen predicts no improvement. the measure faces likely defeat again. The bill, passed by the House, would ban housing discrimination and expand federal civil rights powers.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Everett M Dirksen
House
Dirksen
Marcos Calls U S in Asia Key Ally and Deterrent
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos told Congress that American troops and air power in Southeast Asia deter Chinese and Indonesian Communists. He praised U S leadership and urged Washington to stay engaged in Asia to maintain stability and deter aggression.
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UPI
Ferdinand E. Marcos
South Viet Nam
Indonesia
Congress
Marcos
U.S
Southeast Asia
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South China Sea
Peking-Jakarta
John
Viet Nam
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Asia
China
Bus trip to Marshall hinges on extra reservations
The chairman, L. Morrs, said only 19 reservations were in by noon for a chartered bus to Marshall. He urged more fans to reserve tonight as the bus, departing at 4 30 p m from the north side of the square, aims to arrive in time for the kickoff.
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Marshall
Morrs
Submarine Hai Sinks in North Sea After Sudden Storm
West Germany reports the submarine Hai with twenty one aboard sank quickly in a North Sea gale between England and Denmark. Only one survivor, the chief petty officer, recalled the hull rupturing and slipping like a stone just south of the Shetland Islands near Tynemouth.
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Germany
UPI
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Shetland Islands
Tynemouth
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