Investigators Probe NASA Role In Ill-Fated U-2 Flight
Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioned NASA deputy administrator Dr Hugh L Dryden about NASA involvement in the U-2 flight over Russia. The probe examined statements on the plane downed May 1 and President Eisenhower's personal responsibility for intelligence flights. The CIA director Allen Dulles testified privately about the event, with no public release of his remarks.
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NASA
Warren Duffee
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Senate
Federal Space Agency
Russia
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dryden
U.S
The
Space Agency
Fulbright
Eisenhower
Dulles
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Paris
Texas Tornadoes and Floods Hit State Storms Tue Night
Tornadoes near Wink Monahans and Big Spring caused damage though most did not ground. Hail five inches wide shattered windows while three inches of rain flooded Bonham factories and 25 homes. Power lines down at Wink left the town dark as new storms moved in.
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Wink
Monahans
Stanton
Big Spring
Cosden
Bonham
Texas
Paris - Grand Saline
Corsicana
South Plains
Norwegian journalist to visit Childress in June
Karl Robert Ertsaas city editor of Lofotposten will arrive in Childress on Wednesday June 8. Jeff Henderson chamber manager will meet him in Amarillo that day. Brisons will visit only Childress in Texas and will tour local ranches while in the area. He comes at State Department request to learn about US journalism politics race relations film producing and fisheries.
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Karl Robert Ertsaas
Lofotposten
Svolvaer
Norway
Childress
Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Henderson
Amarillo
Texas
Brisons
State Department
Pasternak Leaves Over $1 Million in Royalties
London reports Boris Pasternak may have left more than a million dollars in royalties from Dr Zhivago after his death in the Moscow area. Collins and Feltrinelli noted British and U S earnings with substantial paperback sales, while Soviet officials kept death quiet and planned a quiet funeral near the dacha.
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London
UPI
Boris Pasternak
West
Zhivago
Pasternak
Moscow
London Daily Telegraph
Collins
Russia
United States
Britain
Feltrinelli
England
Soviet Union
Dacha
Local man questioned in Ruby Hayes murder case released
A 23 year old local man was cleared and released after overnight custody in the Ruby Hayes murder inquiry. Amarillo Sheriff Gaither requested the questioning. Local authorities say Hayes and a man in a car were only loosely connected and no clear link to the suspect was found.
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Ruby Hayes
Amarillo
Paul Gaither
Dumas Player Added to Greenbelt Bowl Team
Vernon Eubank announced a lineup change for the Greenbelt Bowl in August Bill Smith a 180 pound end from Dumas will replace Hal Ratcliff who will not play college football Smith made all district for Dumas High School last year He is 5 11 tall
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Vernon Eubank
Bill Smith
Dumas
Hal Ratcliff
Smith
Dumas High School
East Texan Dies While Traveling Near Childress
James Buchanan Pugh 65 of Timpson Texas died at 530 PM Tuesday at Childress General Hospital after a sudden heart attack while traveling near Childress with his family He was en route to Portland Oregon Born July 7 1894 in DeQueen Arkansas he was a retired farmer and a member of Carthage First Baptist Church Survivors include his wife Minnie four sons Carnell Readie Leon and Joyce two daughters Mrs Chester Edwards and Mrs Owen Spurlock and 18 grandchildren Newberry Funeral Home handled local arrangements and the body was taken to Carthage for funeral services to be announced
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James Buchanan Pugh
Childress General Hospital
Childress
Timpson
Texas
Carthage
Portland
Ore
Newberry Funeral Home
Mr. Pugh
DeQueen
Ark
Carthage First Baptist Church
Minnie Pugh
Leon Pugh
Carnell
Readie Pugh
Joyce Pugh
Stamford
Chester Edwards
Owen Spurlock
Floydada
Barbara Fay Pugh
DWI Charges Filed Against Former Resident
DWI charges filed in County Court against Landon Wallace Coffman 47 former resident now in Artesia New Mexico Bond set at 1000 by Judge Leonard King Coffman could not meet bond and was remanded to Sheriff Gaylon Smith after a two car collision six miles south of Childress High way Patrol said Monson Donald Reid Cee Wee Rt Childress driving east on Farm Road 94 was struck by Coffman driving west with considerable damage reported to both vehicles
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Landon Wallace Coffman
Artesia
New Mexico
Leonard King
Coffman
Gaylon Smith
Childress
Highway Patrol
Donald Reid Monson
Cee Wee
ASC Announces Wheat Loan Rate and Storage Charges
Commodity credit wheat loan rate set at 1.79 per bushel for No 1 wheat. Storage charges range 1 cent from June 4 to June 24 and 10 cents from June 25 to July 18. Discounts apply 1 cent on No 2 wheat and 3 cents on No 3. Protein premiums 1 cent per bushel for 12 to 12.9 and 2 cents for 13 to 13.9. Service charge applies. loan rate listed as 58 cents for oats and 81 cents for barley.
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Commodity Credit
ASC
Gene Frisbie
Nuclear Session Called Off By Big Three
The Geneva conference on nuclear testing collapsed after the United States delayed for instructions from Washington. Soviet chief delegate Tsarapkin pressed for a limited extension of underground shots for research while the main issue remained distinguishing between research and weapons development. US chief delegate Wadsworth presented a list of technical safeguards but the program likely will be postponed in an election year.
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Geneva
UPI
United States
Washington
Soviet Union
U. S
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Nikita Khrushchevs
Paris
Tsarapkin
James J. Wadsworth
J G Conner Dies In Wichita Falls At 74
Funeral services incomplete for J G Conner 74 who died at 1 50 p m today in the home of a son in Wichita Falls He had lived in Childress County since 1942 Survivors list not complete at press time
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J. G. Conner
Wichita Falls
Childress County
Two More Suspects Held In Amarillo
Sheriff Gaylon Smith released a man linked to the murder of Mrs. Ruby Hayes known as Ronnie. The body of Hayes was found in a park near Tucumcari New Mexico. Her four year old son Melvin Jr. had suspected Ronnie but investigators found the man in Childress at the time of the murder. Melvin Jr. was found abandoned in an El Paso supermarket five days before the body was discovered.
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Gaylon Smith
Index
Childress
Amarillo
New Orleans
Smith
Gaither
Hayes
Ruby Hayes
Melvin D
Marrero
Tucumcari
N. M
Melvin Jr
el Paso
Tex
Ronnie
Hopefuls Adopt H Truman's Technique at $100 Dinner
UPI report from Los Angeles covers Democratic presidential hopefuls Kennedy Symington and Johnson criticizing Nixon and the U-2 policy. They say Khrushchev misreads U.S. unity and decline to meet him as president. The trio spoke at a Brown fundraiser in California with about 1,200 attendees the day before the state primary.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Joan F. Kennedy
Stuart Symington
Harry Truman
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Khrushchev
U.S
Texan
Johnson
Kennedy
Symington
California
Edmund G. Brown
Nixon
Adlai Stevenson
Missouri
Weather flights of U 2 surpass two hundred since 1955
NASA deputy chief Hugh Dryden told Senate investigators that U 2 weather flights have exceeded 200 since 1955. The flights tested weather effects on aircraft over the western United States western Europe Turkey and Japan climbing mostly above 40 000 feet. Dryden said NASA had no detailed flight plans until after data reached the agency and cited possible questions about espionage cloaked as space exploration.
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Warren Duffee
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Senate
Hugh L. Dryden
Dryden
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
United States
Europe
Turkey
Japan
NASA
Pan American
TWA
Harmon Hired as Junior High Coach in Childress
J. J. Harmon of Childress was hired to replace Dale Jackson as instructor and assistant coach at Childress Junior High for the coming term. He has taught in Hollis Oklahoma this past year. The board approved 29 pairs of football shoes and contracts for typewriters and duplication materials. Jesse Evens retires July 1, to be replaced by Denzil McAlister. The board also approved a 30 volume encyclopedia and janitorial supplies.
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J. Harmon
Childress
Dale Jackson
Childress Independent School Board
Harmon
Hollis
Okla
Blair Hamilton Company
Vernon
Buchanan Stationary Company
Wichita Falls
Lynza Caradine
Jesse Evens
Denzil McAlister
Flashing Storm Drops Rainfall Across Area
An Index survey records rainfall amounts from a storm across several locations. Bruce Parrs reported 0.85 inches and the FAA airfield 0.70 inches while Floyd Biddy noted 0.65 and 0.55 inches at the index site. Winds gusted to 72 mph with scattered hail reported south of Paducah and minor unknown damage.
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Bruce Parrs
FAA
Floyd Biddys
Matador
Crowell
Paducah
Congressmen Expense Lists to Be Opened by Rayburn
Speaker Sam Rayburn announced the expense vouchers will be opened to public inspection reversing Clerk Ralph Roberts who had sealed them. Life magazine and Knight newspapers reporters cited 25,329 vouchers from July 1957 to June 1959 with claims of altered bills and high living, while congressmen deny treasury abuse.
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Rayburn
Frank Eleazer
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Sam Rayburn
House
Roberts
Life Magazine
Life
Knight Newspapers
Don Oberdorfer
Walter Pincus
Air Force tightens spending on golf courses and welfare projects
The Air Force faces scrutiny from a House subcommittee over using 24 785 tax dollars and enlisted labor valued at 5 250 to build a nine hole golf course at Offutt Air Force Base Nebraska. Chair Melvin Price questioned GI labor on such projects while the service defended legality. The hearing also covers sugar policy and equal time rules for the 1960 presidential campaign.
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Washington
Melvin Price D II
Air Force
Offutt
Harold D. Cooley
Eisenhower
House Agriculture Committee
Cuba
United States
Latin America
Cooley
U.S
Senate Commerce Committee
Arrests Reach 300 in Turkey as Menderes Party Tie
In Ankara UPI reports more than 300 MPs linked to Adnan Menderes Democratic Party have been arrested to curb a whispering campaign against Gen. Cemal Gursel's government. About 80 percent of the 408 Democrats are detained on Yassiada Island. The regime eased curfew and Istanbul activity to three hours as foreign recognition grows with 23 nations including Japan and Jordan. Political prisoners from the Menderes era to be released and pending cases dropped.
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Ankara
Turkey
UPI
Adnan Menderes
Democratic Party
Cemal Gursel
Yassiada
Sea of
Marmara
Gursel
Istanbul
Foreign Ministry
Japan
Jordan
Lebanon
Spain
Switzerland
Tunisia
Justice Ministry
Menderes
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Armstrong County
Roy Brunson
Potter County
Ruby
N.M
Arkansas Democrat
al Smith
Pecos Valley
Panhandle
Greenbelt
Cambridge
Ohio
DWI
Big Three
Jonathan C. Rande
H. Truman
Johns’ Furniture Company
J. J. Harmon
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