Old Georgetown Life and Lore From a Kennedy Resident
Washington columnist paints Old Georgetown as a living neighborhood with a backs-to-history mood. Journalists wait at Kennedy’s door while residents cling to an 18th century aura amid a Potomac aroma and a mix of artists politicians and dealers who call it home.
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Dick West
United Press International
Washington
UPL
Old Georgetown
Bapot
Hopfenmaier
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Old George
Potomac
Georgetown
District of Columbia
Pierre l'Enfant
Maryland
George I
England
George Washington
Mahoney Services Planned Wednesday for Thomas Mahoney
Graveside services and interment will be held for Thomas Mahoney at 10 a m Wednesday in Childress Cemetery. Father George Sallaway offficiates at Sacred Angels Church. Pallbearers are C J Lyers E W Yeager Clyde Martin LB Hollingsworth J D Sweeney and John Ballew. Mr Mahoney was a retired FWED railway dispatcher and had lived here over 40 years.
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Thomas Mahoney
Childress Cemetery
George Sallaway
Ficry Angels Church
C. J. Lyers
E. W. Yeager
Clyde Martin
LB. Hollingsworth
J. D. Sweeney
John Ballew
Mahoney
FWED
Ordat Prices and Club Announce Christmas Party
Ordat lists prices at Memphis 6.50 Wellington 5.24 Quanah 5.04 and Childress 4.25. Ord notes revenue bonds not tax supported. President LeRoy Gaines announces December 20 Christmas Party for Ruth Fife and a resumed meeting schedule in 1961 with Carl Hudson leading the program.
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Memphis
Wellington
Quanah
Childress
Ord
LeRoy Gaines
Ruth Fife
Carl Hudson
Fatal traffic death in San Antonio girl named Diane Ramerez
A nine year old girl struck by a car Monday night in San Antonio died today at Robert D. Green Hospital. The victim was identified as Diane Ramerez.
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San Antonio
UPI
Robert D. Green Hospital
Diane Ramerez
Georgetown Restorers Defend 200 Year Old Charm
Virginia writer recalls Georgetown as a once rundown area now preserved as a historic quarter. Restoration efforts keep resisting modernizing plans by dealers who seek supermarkets and new housing. The writer predicts future White House trends may still favor preservationists.
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Virginia
Kennedy
Old Georgetown
White House
Peds Push for Lum Restoration in Congo Crisis
United Nations discussions focus on restoring Patrice Lumumba to power and disarming Mobutu loyalists in the Congo. Western sources cite Lumumba’s brutal confinement and fighting in Stanleyville while Lumumba loyalists also commit abuses against prisoners. Ten parliament members held in Stanleyville face beatings with serious injuries reported. Soviet and Western camps clash over Security Council action as Algeria’s war debate continues with France boycotting.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPT
Russia
Patrice Lumumba
Joseph Mobutu
Dag Hammarskjold
Lumumba
Th West
Congo
Security Council
Assembly
Kremlin
France
Snow Flurries Hit Panhandle Texas Weather Front
Snow flurries and freezing rain made driving dangerous across the Panhandle as a new cold front moved into Texas. Light rain and intermittent showers spread through North Central and South Central Texas with most many areas seeing colder temperatures tonight and rainfall totals varying across Dallas Fort Worth and other cities.
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United Press International
Panhandle
Texas
Weather Bureau
Amarile
Childress
Dalhart
Tyler
Dallas-Fort Worth
Abilene
Lubrock
Austin
Texarkana
Arkansas Midland
Wink
Tle
Rio Grande
Mercury
Brownsville
Dallas
Fort Worth
Final Burnett Rites Held In Memphis
Funeral services for Clifton E. Burnett 50 a farmer and agricultural leader were held November 29 at Memphis First Baptist Church. He died November 28 in a Memphis hospital after a prior heart attack. Interment was in Memphis Cemetery. A Hall County native he farmed Plaska and Harrell Chapel areas and moved with his wife Idell Betts to Memphis about 12 years ago. He is survived by his wife his mother J Burnett of Memphis and three brothers John L Barney Bluford of Carlsbad Mexico and a number of nieces and nephews.
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Memphis
First Baptist
Clifton E. Burnette
Burnett
Hall County
Plaska
Harrell Chapel
Idell Betts
Mo J. Burnett
Met
John Hoine
Wheeler
John L
Barney
Bluford
Carlsbad
Mex
Almanac Today December 6 1889 Lincolns Congress Jefferson Davis
Almanac entry for December 6 1889 notes the 341st day of the year with 25 to follow and references events and people such as Abraham Lincoln taking seat in the 30th Congress and Jefferson Davis’s death in New Orleans. It mentions Joseph Conrad born in 1857 and the end of Prohibition in 1933 with reflections on judgment by foes and friends.
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Saturn
Abraham Lincoln
House of Representatives
Jefferson Davis
New Orleans
Finlana
Russia
O Purchase
Joseph Conrad
Weather slows cotton harvests as moisture arrives
Freezing conditions continued around 11 12 a m driving cautious but not dangerous. Cotton harvesting will be delayed though heavy loads already at gin yards can be handled on schedule. We need the moisture, whether rain snow or ice, so let it come, says a farmer.
Kennedy and Eisenhower Hold Cordial Transition Meeting
President Eisenhower and President elect John F Kennedy held a cordial three hour meeting at the White House to discuss world issues and an orderly transfer of power. Kennedy said Eisenhower offered future service to the country if asked after January 20 and described the exchange as helpful and informative.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
United States
Kennedy
Fisenhower
White House
United State
Wichita Falls Man Charged in Wife Murder Attempt
Charles Warren, 74, faces an assault to murder charge after shooting his wife Clo vis Warren 45 four times Saturday and then shooting himself in the neck. Both are hospitalized in serious condition but expected to recover.
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Wichita Falls
UPI
Charles Warren
Clovis
Communists Present Tougher Front to World
Moscow reports a 1960 Communist manifesto showing a more aggressive stance toward the West led by Yugoslav revisionists and U. S. imperialism. It claims East Germany’s crisis and a looming collapse of colonialism, aligning with Chinese calls for Red revolutionary movements.
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Moscow
UPI
West
United States
Kremlin
Pravda
Communist Party
Yugoslavia
U.S
East Germany
Peiping Long
First Atomic Bomb Pictures Are Released
Washington reports release of photos showing the Hiroshima Little Boy and Nagasaki Fat Man bombs. Images, withheld for diplomatic reasons, accompany details of the 1945 blasts that killed about 150,000 people.
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Washington
UPD
United States
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Pearl Harbor
Mobutu denounces Lumumba torture reports
In Leopoldville Col Joseph Mobutu denounces as odious and scandalous reports that the arrested former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was tortured. In New York Russia demands a Security Council meeting on Lumumba’s arrest but US and other members oppose. London sources say a new Communist manifesto signals victory for Russia with concessions to Red China and adherence to peaceful coexistence.
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Alphonse Songolo
Lumumba
Ord
Stanleyville
Leopoldville
Leopoldvile
Como
UPI
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations, N. Y
Russia
Security Council
United States
London
Red China
Nikita Khrushchev
Police Break White Blockade at Integrated School
In New Orleans a busload of police dispersed a white blockade around an integrated elementary school. Attendance rose to 23 white pupils and one African American girl today.
Police search for suspects in Wichita Falls incident
Police in Wichita Falls sought two Black men accused of holding a 15 year old girl against her will and injuring her while she walked to a grocery. The victim’s age is listed as 15 and authorities described the suspects as Black men. No further details were provided.
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Wichita Falls
UPD
San Benito man dies after mercy flight fire injuries
Amelio Garcia of San Benito died on a mercy flight to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston after a butane tank he was filling caught fire and severely burned him on the way.
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Harlingen
UPI
Amelio Garcia
San Benito
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Bell brothers buried after Texas cave incident tragedy
Services for Hubert and Leonard Bell were held at Newberry Chapel with A. J. Pettit officiating. Burial followed in Childress Cemetery. Leonard Bell survived by a daughter and five sons, while Hubert Bell was survived by a sister and five brothers. Pallbearers included Buddy Hatley Norman Love Earl Johnson and others.
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Hubert
Bell
Newberry Chapel
A. J. Pettit
Canyon
Childress Cemetery
Leonard Bell
W. A. Loven
Charlie
Clayton
Dragerton
Utah
Farris
Ray
Dallas
Cecil
Los Angeles
Hubert Bell
Buddy Hatley
Norman Love
Earl Johnson
Alton Madison
Earl White
W. W. Vaughn
Noon Cotton Prices Rise in New York and New Orleans
New York noon quotes show December cotton at 31.65, up 9 percent, March at 32.42, up 10 percent. New Orleans prices were unquoted. For 1960 61 futures, New York December 33.62, up 19, March 33.73, up 23. New Orleans December 33.65, up 27, March 33.73, up 28.
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United Press International
New York
New Orleans
Hospital Admissions and Discharges List
Mrs. Oral Lane admitted today at General Hospital Childress. Mrs. L. H. Barley admitted Monday. Mrs. Earl Glenn discharged Monday. Mrs. Buster Halford discharged Monday. Mrs. Pedro Torrez discharged Monday. Mrs. Pete Davis admitted today. Co. O West discharged Monday.
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Oral Lane
L. H. Barley
Earl Glenn
Co. O, West
Buster Halford
Pedro Torrez
Pete Davis
Legion Saied Dinner Ends with K P Appointments
After the dinner the Legion meeting featured games of bingo. The sole business was appointing K P s for next month by Chef de Gare Joe Howard.
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K.P 'S
Joe Howard
Television schedule listing for multiple channels
A dense block lists hourly programs across KFOX KGNC KSYD KSYD Channel 4, Channel 7, and KFDA showing shows from 4:30 PM to 12:55 AM including news weather sports dramas comedies cartoons Westerns and movies with titles such as Superman Popeye The Rifleman Gunsmoke Stagecoach West Bugs Bunny Rescue 8 News and national broadcasts.
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Ksyd - TV
Popeye
Seaita Claus
MscCraw
Doug Edwards
Hennesey
Dobie Gillis
Evil
Alcoa Presents
Showtime
Kfda - TV
Dan True Weather
Ralph Wayne
Jack LaLanne
Video Village
CBS Live
Evii TV
Bob
Television Schedule Fragments From Multiple Stations
The listing compiles daily lineups across Teal Crown COLA KGNC KSYD EVII and CBS networks. It details programs from morning cartoons to soap operas and late-night news with channel numbers and time slots.
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O’connor
Jack Paar
Tom Ewell
Red Skelton
Garry Moore
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Continental Classroom
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