Berserk patient kills railroad worker in Silsbee Texas
A patient on furlough from a state hospital opened fire on officers and a deputy sheriff at a home near Silsbee, killing Bobby Parks of the Santa Fe Railroad and wounding Leo Hickman, I. W. Moore, and Gordon Dickinson who was also wounded. Police say Dickinson had been troubled and had refused talks before firing through the door.
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Sillbee
Tex
UPI
Gordon Dickinson
Bobby Parks
Santa Fe Railroad
Leo Hickman
I. W. Moore
Hardin County
Justice of the Peace
C. A. Kimball
Kimball
Dickinson
Highway
Parks
Hickman
Moore
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Rusk
Silsbee
Texas
Bonham Trustees to Attend Austin School Boards Meeting
M. B. Nelson and five Bonham school trustees will travel to Austin for a two day joint meeting of the Texas Association of School Boards and the Texas Association of School Administrators September 24 25. Attending are Carl Hanes John Meade L C Biggers Udell Brown and Reid Spivy Meade will fly Saturday while the others drive Joining the Bonham group for the Baylor Wake Forest game in Waco Saturday night before heading to Austin for the official Sunday morning opening.
Guard call pulls officers from Fannin county patrols
The 49th Division of the Texas National Guard will deploy, taking Patrolmen Bob Walker and Charles Carey from Fannin County patrols. The DPS may assign new town officers or unit members from Sherman, Denison, Paris and Greenville to serve in Fannin. Constable Wade Morris of Leonard, already in the 49th, transferred to Greenville.
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49Th Division
Texas National Guard
Fanning County
Bob Walker
Charles Carey
Department of Public Safety
Sherman
Denison
Paris
Greenville
Fannin County
Wade Morris
Leonard
Dub Cunningham Hauls Bull in Pickup Trucker Suffers Back Pain
Dub Cunningham hauled a bull to McKinney on Saturday and has complained of back pain since. Bob Barrow says work to lower the Plaza drug ceiling begins Monday. The new ceiling will be nine feet high.
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Dub Cunningham
Dub
McKinney
Plaza Drug
Bob Barrow
Bonham School Board Members Head to Texas Conference
Five Bonham school board members will miss the weekend meetings as they attend the Texas School Board Members Association annual gathering in Austin. John Meade, executive board member, is set to join the panel on insurance and the schools.
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Bonham School Board
Austin
Texas School Board Members Association
John Meade
Conversation at café about drafts and college exams
A cafe overheard dialogue shows a student debating college drafts and passing subjects including a joke about dom inoes. Another student remarks on performance, followed by the arrival of steaks.
Russia tests 14th nuclear blast in atmosphere
Washington officials report Russia conducted its 34th atmospheric nuclear test since resuming on September 1. The Soviets detonated near Novaya Zemlya with an estimated yield about one megaton, as announced by the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Washington
UPI
Russia
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Novaya Semlya
Bobby Vaught Heads Bonham FHA Group
Bobby Vaught elected president of the Bonham chapter of the Future Farmers of America. Other officers named include Tommy Higgins vice president Claude Lindsey secretary Jerry Stone treasurer Bill Spencer reporter and Teddy Pyles sentinel. James Griffitt vocational agriculture teacher serves as advisor.
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Bobby Vaught
Bonham
The
Future Farmers of America
J. D. Vaught
Tommy Higgins
Claude Lindsey
Jerry Stone
Bill Spencer
Teddy Pyles
Sentinel
James Griffitt
Bonham Ffa
Slim elected UN President for 16th General Assembly
Mongi Slim of Tunisia won a unanimous General Assembly vote to serve as president of its 16th regular session succeeding Frederick H. Boland. Slim, backed by Boland and Western powers including the United States and Britain, was a leading candidate for interim administrator after Dag Hammarskjold's death. Dr Ali Sastroamidjojo withdrew, giving Slim a clear path amid Russian opposition to a three secretary general plan.
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N.Y
UPI
United Nations General Assembly
Mongi Slim
Tunisia
Frederick H. Boland
Ireland
Slim
Boland
United States
Dag Hammarskjold
Assembly
Russia
World Organization
Hammarskjold
Ali Sastroamidjojo
Indonesia
Sastroamidjojo
Showers Forecast In Bonham Area
Bonham area forecast calls for scattered showers and thundershowers tonight with mild, partly cloudy conditions Thursday. Light morning showers were reported with cloudy skies through the day and little temperature change expected. North Central Texas outlook notes considerable cloudiness tonight and Thursday.
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Bonham
North
Texas
Berlin Border Evacuations Steady as Street Barriers Hold
West Berlin police report East German troops moved families from flats along Harzerstrasse near the border and sealed windows facing the West. The influx of refugees continues amid explicit instructions for Vopos to act without pity as Gen. Lucius Clay visits, delivering a morale boost to Berliners.
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Berlin
UPI
East Berlin
West Berlin
Vopos
West
Tshombe Demands New UN Ultimatum Ending Katanga Conflict
Katanga leader Moise Tshombe urged the United Nations to produce counter proposals by nightfall to halt fighting in his rebel province. He spoke after paying tribute at Dag Hammarskjold's bier as Radio Free Katanga claimed Congolese troops aided by U N forces moved against him. The broadcast also alleged Gizenga forces entered Katanga under an Indian commander and that a U N detachment remains encircled at Kamina base.
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Northern Rhodesia
UPI
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Congo
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Radio Free
Tshombe
Hammarskjold
New York
U.N
Mahmoud Khairi
Tunisia
Mammarskjold
Antoine Gizenga
Oriental Province
Gizenga
Kinzolo-Nyunzu
Kamina
Rotary Speaker Declares Indonesia Neutralist and Overrated Commie Influence
Delmer Vaught a petroleum engineer from Sumatra told the Rotary Club Wednesday that Indonesia remains neutralist and accepts aid from any nation available. He noted the Communist element is overstated and spoke on the island nation’s history culture and personal experiences. Vaught and his family stay with his parents in Bonham while visiting for several weeks. He is a Bonham High School 1953 graduate who studied petroleum engineering at Oklahoma University and has spent the last two years in Sumatra. Junior Rotarians of the month Pat Clutter and John Woodruff were introduced by Rotarian Paul Simpson.
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Delmer Vaught
Bonham
Sumatra
Rotary Club
Republic of Indonesia
Vaught
Indonesia
J. D. Vaught
Bonham High School
Oklahoma University
Paul Simpson
Pat Clutter
P. C. Clutter
John Woodruff
A. C. Woodruff
Red Cross Seeks Help for Carla Victims in County
W T May county Red Cross chairman says gifts for Carla relief are still accepted. Donations are credited to the county quota as part of a state drive while Red Cross workers in the disaster area provide immediate relief and financial help to families unable to rehabilitate on their own.
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Bonham
Carla Relief Fund
Red Cross
W. T May
Fannin County Red Cross
May
Carla
Hospitals Suffer Slight Damage From Carla
The Texas Hospital Association said member hospitals in Carla's path sustained relatively minor damage with no patient casualties. Reports include broken windows water intrusion and up to one foot of mud in basements.
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Austin
UPD
The
Texas Hospital Association
Esther Heads Toward New England Coast
Hurricane Esther moved eastward with 130 mph winds. New York and New England coastlines were under hurricane warnings as the storm brushed North Carolina and Virginia, then curves toward southeastern New England by Thursday afternoon per the Washington Weather Bureau.
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Norfolk
UPI
Esther
New York - New England
North Carolina - Virginia
Washington Weather Bureau
New England
Kennedy shifts schedule to push UN reform speech
President Kennedy reworked plans to deliver a major United Nations reform speech while awaiting word on timing. He canceled a Thursday news conference and considered speaking Monday or Tuesday, with a Thursday outside possibility. He will spend a weekend at Hyannis Port and visit Newport with Mrs Kennedy next week. Meanwhile the Weather Bureau warned of a hurricane threat along the Atlantic coast as ships moved offshore from Newport and emergency centers prepared on Cape Cod. forecasters noted a northerly track with potential landfall late today or Thursday near New England.
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UPI
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United Nations
World Organization
White House
New York
Pierre Salinger
Hyannis Port
Mass
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
General Assembly
Washington Weather Bureau
New Jersey
Maryland
Cape Hatteras
Virginia’ Capes
Virginia Capes
Long Island
New England
Newport
R. I. Naval Base
New Yorker Fowler Hamilton to lead new aid agency
President Kennedy nominated Fowler Hamilton a New York attorney and international law specialist to head the new Agency for International Development. Pierre Salinger says Henry Laabouisse will stay in government in another high post as the ICA and foreign aid are reorganized into a single agency. Hamilton will be administrator of the new agency.
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Washington
UPI
New York
Fowler Hamilton
Kennedy
White House
Pierre Salinger
Henry Laabouisse
International Cooperation Administration
ICA
Congress
Agency For International Development
Aid
Hamilton
GOP Poll Tax Drive Aims to Elect Conservative Republicans
Tad Smith, state GOP chairman from El Paso, announced a major poll tax drive set to begin October 2 to elect conservative Republicans across Texas. He argued the effort would push fiscal responsibility and mobilize grassroots voters, citing John Tower’s election as proof of mobilization capability.
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Houston
UPI
Tad Smith
el Paso
Texas
GOP
Smith
John Tower
Mexican Press Attacks Castro Over Protests and Extradition
Mexican newspapers condemn Castro for not answering protests over the assassination of Mexican diplomat Jesus Flores Aguirre in Havana and for not extraditing hijacker Albert Charles Cadon. Cadon seized a Pan American jet to Cuba, returning the crew and passengers to the United States while he stayed detained in Havana.
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Mexico City
UPI
Red Cuba
Foreign Ministry
Jesus Flores Aguirre
Havana
Flores Aguirre
Cuba
Castro
Secret Service
Havanna
Mexico
Albert Charles Cadon
Cadon
Pan American Airways
U.S
Berlin Crisis Unified Command Formed For Air Ground Units
Defense Secretary McNamara announced a unified command for Air Force troop support and STRAC units to train as a joint air and land team. He also ordered 73,000 reservists to active duty by Oct 15, boosting total on-duty reserves to over 150,000. Lt. Gen. Paul D. Adams will head the new command with plans for joint training.
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Washington
UPS
Air Force
Strategic Army Corps
Berlin
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Twe National Guard
Paul D. Adams
Third Army
Fort McPherson
STRAC
Army
82Nd Airborne
Fort Bragg
N.C
11St Airborne
Ft. Campbell
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Tactical Air Command
TAC
Langley Air Force Base
Unified Command
Langley
McNamara
Navy
32Nd National Guard of
Wisconsin
48Th National Guard Armored Division
Texas
Braceros Return Home After Dew Delays
About fifty braceros picking cotton on the Bob Harlan farm north of Riverby quit due to heavy dew and started walking home Tuesday. Sheriff Hoyt Ivey and Honey Grove officers intercepted them north of Honey Grove and held them for immigration authorities. Four remained to continue picking cotton on the Harlan farm.
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Bob Harlan
Riverby
North Texas
Honey Grove
Hoyt Ivey
Ivey
Harlan Farm
U S and Russia to Start Berlin Talks Thursday
United States and Soviet Union set to begin Berlin crisis discussions Thursday with Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko at a private lunch in Waldorf Towers. The talks aim to test grounds for possible East West negotiations and address Khrushchev intentions and UN tensions after Hammarskjold's death.
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New York
UPI
United States
Russia
Berlin
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Rusk
Waldorf Towers
Kennedy
Gromyko
Germany
Cal-Tex Juice President Given Fine and Suspended Sentences
Gordon E Van Liew of Houston Cal-Tex Juice Corp was fined 1000 dollars and given two five year suspended sentences on two counts of perjury after Judge Reynaldo Garza denied a new trial motion. The convictions followed a federal jury verdict last month in Houston.
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Brownsvilie
Lil
Gordon E van Liew
Cal-Tex Juice Corporation of
Houston
Reynaldo Garza
van Liew
Hyustea
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Virginia
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Brewer
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Tom Burch
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Charles E. Bohlen
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Greemyko
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