Johnson Holds High Level Talks Ahead of Erhard Visit
President Johnson met with CIA Director John A. McCone and top advisers at the LBJ Ranch to discuss Cyprus, foreign aid reform, and defense spending as West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard planned a weekend visit. The day included setting up a policy committee to review foreign aid by January 15 and coordinating the Erhard talks at Bergstrom Air Force Base.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Dean Rusk
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Lbj Ranch
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Houston
Free World
Texas White House
George W. Ball
Kermit Gordon
Peace Corps
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Rusk
Ball
Christian A. Herter
McGeorge Bundy
Congress
1964 Promises Busy Political Year in Childress
The 1964 political year in Childress will feature many open offices at county and city levels. Incumbents and candidates include District Judge Luther Gribble seeking reelection, District Attorney John T. Forbis not seeking reelection, and County Attorney Charles Reynolds planning to run for DA. City posts such as Mayor and several council seats will be contested, with Alvis Maddox seeking re election and other incumbents planning bids. The election is set for January 21 with subsequent city elections in April and multiple precinct openings on the commission. The notice also signals broader county contests for sheriff and tax assessor collector and school district board changes.
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Childress
Luther Gribble
Wellington
W. S. Heatly
Paducah
Jack Hightower
Vernon
The
Index
Harold Cordell
Claude Hipps
Commissioners Court
John Turk Fowler
Fowler
Ralph Sides
Sides
Odis Smotherman
Precinct 1
Wilmer Rutledge
Gaylon B. Smith
U. S. Fromm
Alvis Maddox
C. J. Lyons
Michie Thaten
Lyons
Frank Dakil
Charles Mock
Childress Independent
Irby Teague
J. B. Holland
W. R. Hill
Arlie Key
Donald Ray Crook
Bernie Steed
Russian Wheat Sale Nears Break in Negotiations
The Commerce Department issued export licenses totaling 40.6 million dollars for U S wheat to the Soviet Union, signaling a possible breakthrough after months of stalled talks. Licenses are for private traders and require compliance with shipping and government terms including half of cargo on U S ships.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
Commerce Department
U.S
Russia
Jack N. Sherman
Domstic and
International Business
Behrman
Beherman
Two Men Charged In Gasoline Theft
Ismal Garcia and Santos Gorostiza were arrested by the Highway Patrol and were to be returned to Wellington today to be charged with stealing gasoline according to the Sheriff's Department.
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Wellington
Sheriffs Department
Ismal Garcia
Santos Gorostiza
Highway Patrol
Teen Canteen Opens Tonight After Tournament
An adult supervisor announced Teen Canteen will operate tonight from 9 p.m. to 12 at Fair Park Auditorium following the basketball tournament in City.
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Teen Canteen
Fair Park Auditorium
English priest to Havana for Castro anniversary festivity
Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 89, longtime critic known as the Red Dean of Canterbury, travels from London to Havana for Fidel Castro revolution anniversary events. A Gift Exchange poll lists electric food mixers as the top duplicated gift, bow and arrow sets as the top toy, and silver candle snuffers as the least desired present.
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Havana
London
UPI
Hewlett Johnson
Canterbury
Fidel Castro
Johnson
LOS Angeless
Gift Exchange
DPS death toll hits 55 during holiday period
In Austin, the Department of Public Safety reported 55 violent deaths with six days remaining in Operation Deathwatch. Officials forecast 125 violent deaths by New Year's Day, noting 26 auto wrecks and nine homicides plus 20 other accidents as the holiday period unfolds.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Stanford Rights To Be Saturday funeral rites for Mrs Willie Robertson
Funeral rites for Mrs Willie Robertson Stanford will be conducted at 10 a m Saturday at Newberry Chapel by Rev Joe Allen pastor of First Baptist Church Mrs Stanford 84 died Thursday morning at Zoe's Rest Haven Pallbearers are Floyd Green Obert Stevens Johnny Rowell Virgil Swain Littleton Havins and Arthur Caradine Interment will be in Childress cemetery. BLOW OUT PAMPA Tex Mrs Florrene C Pounds 46 of Canadian Tex was killed Thursday when a tire blow out caused her car to skid out of control and slam into a railroad warning signal.
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Willie Robertson Stanford
Newberry Chapel
Joe Allen
First Baptist Church
Stanford
Zoe's
Floyd Green
Obert Stevens
Johnny Rowell
Virgil Swain
Littleton Havins
Arthur Caradine
Childress Cemetery
Pampa
Tex
UPI
Florrene C. Pounds
Canadian
Living Costs Hit All Time High in November
The Labor Department reports the consumer price index rose 0.2 percent in November to 107.4, a record against 1957-59 averages, with gains in food and shelter. Fresh vegetables and sugar led price hikes, while gas and electricity stayed steady.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
A Department
Arnold Chase
Labor Statistics
Chase
Christmas Traffic Deaths Total 226 Tie By United Press International
National Safety Council and United Press International tally holiday deaths at 226 from 6 p.m. Christmas Eve to midnight Christmas Day. California led with 33 highway deaths. fires across the nation added 62 more fatalities, including a Charleston, SC blaze that killed 12 children. Eight states avoided traffic deaths.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
California
Ted
Charleston
S.C
Safety Council
Texas
Kansas
Michigan
Florida
North Carolina
Alaska
Colorado
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho
Minnesota
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Erhard Heads For Texas BOM Visit to reassure Johnson on Common Market
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard left for the United States from Wahn Airfield at 1 08 p m to meet President Johnson in Houston. He aims to stress that the European Common Market remains non isolationist and to discuss Berlin and NATO probes with Moscow as part of a broader U S European trade and security agenda.
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BOM
Germany
UPI
Ludwig Erhard
United States
Johnson
Erhard
Wahn Airfield
Houston
Gerhard Isgeo
Kennedy
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Soviet Union
U.S
Europe
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Paris
Moscow
Iron Curtain
Berlin
de Erhard
Two Cool Fronts Move Into State
Two cold fronts from the Pacific and Canada entered Texas on Friday but Gulf air kept overall mild conditions. Overnight lows ranged from 23 degrees in Lubbock to 49 in Brownsville with no rain reported or forecast. Gulf Coast highs reached 82 in McAllen and 81 in Corpus Christi while a gradual cool front behind the Pacific air mass was expected.
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United Press International
Pacific Ocean
Canada
Texas
Gulf
Lubbock
Brownsville
Gulf Coast
McAllen
Corpus Christi
Pacific
Panhandle police search for man matching Tulsa Amarillo murder suspect
Oklahoma and Texas authorities hunted a 55 year old ex convict in the Panhandle who allegedly matches the description of Clarence Schell wanted for the strangling murder of Ada Lamar Re in Tulsa and the slaying of an airman's wife near Amarillo. A Gruver Texas man saw Schell at a GuyMon tavern and Amarillo police broadcast Schell's photo and car details to authorities. Highway patrols in both states and surrounding counties were alerted.
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Guymon
Okla
UPI
Oklahoma
Texas
Panhandle
Tulsa
Amarillo
R. L. Shepherd
Guyman
Shepherd
Clarence Schell
Ada Lamarre
Schell
Hepherd
Gruver
Tex
U S protests Red Killing Berlin wall incident
The United States protested to Russia over the Christmas Day killing of a refugee who tried to scale the Berlin wall. Martin Hillenbrand delivered the note to Soviet ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov in East Berlin after a protest from Bonn. West Berlin officials also protested.
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Berlin
UPI
United States
Russia
Martin Hillenbrand
U.S
Bonn
Pyotr A. Abrasimov
East Germany
East Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Police Capture Three Escapees in Austin Raid
Police rammed a second story room in an Austin home and captured Daniel Villalpando 29 Robert Donley 33 and John Guzman Jr 21 among eight Travis County jail escapees. Two surrendered with no struggle while a third fled to a roof then jumped to ground but was caught.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Austin
Travis County
Daniel Villalpando
Robert Alfred Donley
John Guzman, Jr
Bertram
Tex
Thomas E. Gutierrez
Adolph Rudy Alvarado
Alvarado
Joe Leyba
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Cyprus
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Charles Reynolds
Clarence Carter
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Lucy Baines
Lynda Bird
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