Greenbelt Authority loaned $50,000 to date for water study
The Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority has spent about $50,000 over five and a half years on mapping core drilling and water sampling funded by state federal and city governments. Eight core tests support dam suitability while Townsend notes water prospects remain good as engineers report progress beyond typical timelines. Directors at the meeting included Ross Springer, Kenneth Tooley, Carroll Knorp, Wendell Harrison, and Dr. Townsend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Filbinger
Stuttgart
Germany
Childress
U.S. Department of State
Werner Best
Childress Jaycee
Best
Ernest Meyers
State Department
Dr. Filbinger
Dallas
Knoxville
Santa Rosa
Vernon
Greenbelt
S. H. Townsend
Authority
Ross Springer
Hedley
Kenneth Tooley
Paducah
Carroll Knorp
Clarendon
Wendell Harrison
Memphis
Dr. Townsend
New Parking Meters Start 9 to 5 After Printing Error
City officials fix a printing error and set meters to operate daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A total of 47 meters will be installed, with 25 arriving today and the rest from Oklahoma City on Saturday. Meters use large A B C D engravings to indicate lanes for motorists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Sally
Sally
Oklahoma City
Roy Hassell Returns With 62 Water Well Motor
Roy Hassell left for Amarillo to bring back the repaired 62 water well motor for immediate installation after a lightning outage. Water has been pumped from Lake Childress and Michie Sand Hills during the outage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Hassell
Amarillo
Lake Childress
Michie Sand Hills
Grass fire extinguished at W. J. Sharp farm
Firemen put out a grass fire at the W. J. Sharp farm about 5 p.m. Thursday with no property damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Sharp
Temperature Surges Past 100 Degrees in Childress
Temperatures in Childress rose above the 100 degree mark yesterday reaching 101. The heat spiked around 2 PM with 100 at 2, 101 at 3 and 4, then back to 100 at 5 PM. A trace of rainfall came from brief showers around 11 PM and again around 11 PM Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Two Sentenced In District Court Today
Two non jury cases finished in District Court this morning. Al Edrington and J D Bybee received two year prison terms on guilty pleas. Edrington faced charges of removing mortgaged property from the state while Bybee pled guilty to forgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Cordell, Sr
al Edrington
J. D. Bybee
Edrington
Bybee
Stevenson reports rise of communism in Latin America
Adlai Stevenson told President Kennedy that communism in Latin America has increased appreciably over the past year while praising the alliance for progress. He cited a deteriorating economic situation and noted Cuba's invasion remains unpopular in the region. Stevenson briefed Kennedy after a 19 day tour of 10 capitals and offered an unofficial $3 billion estimate to meet the major hemisphere needs over the next decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis L. McCarthy
United Press Tuntern Washington
UPI
Adlai Stevenson
Kennedy
Latin America
Alliance For Progress
U. N
Stevenson
North America
United States
Cuba
South America
Montevideo
Fine Summer Weather Mixed With Texas Flooding
Light thundershowers touched parts of the Texas Panhandle and Red River region while most of the state enjoyed sunny skies and mild temperatures. Victoria faced crested Guadalupe River flooding, forcing evacuations and delaying a Texas League game. other rivers rose and receded as heat stayed mostly in the 80s to 100s across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Panhandle
Red River
Texas
Victoria
Guadalupe
San Antonio
Weather Bureau
Goliad
Lavaca
Navidad
Alpine
Childress
Wichita Falls
el Paso
Galveston
Impossible For A President To Have Minor Illness Today
Kennedy suffered a severe back problem during a 1962 May to June trip, starting with a tree-planting in Ottawa. He pressed on with European duties, then used crutches, ultrasonic treatments, and pain relief, while aides and doctors managed his condition. Page Five continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
White House
Canada
Government House
Ottawa
Janet Travell
Europe
Cal
Paris
Vienna
London
Travell
Washington
Palm Beach
Middleburg
Fidel Castro rejects U S tractor deal and offers prisoner talks
Castro refused the tractors for prisoners proposal, calling it ridiculous. He offered to send a prisoners delegation to the United States for further talks and demanded either 500 giant bulldozers with parts, a mix of tractors of equal value, or an exchange of political prisoners held by the United States and allied nations. He said the other side’s refusal to meet his terms breaks off negotiations and blamed them, while authorizing renewed prisoner talks to explain facts to Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
U. S
United States
Castro
Detroit
Spain
Puerto Rico
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Radio Havana
Committee
Fidel
U.S
Yankee Committee
Ulises Carbo
Bluebonnet Round-Up Set At Amarillo
Former Citizens of the Bluebonnet Girls State to reunite at the Colonial Cafeteria Wolflin Village Amarillo at 6 p.m. Friday June 30. Announcement by Mrs Jack W Flynt 18th District Girls State Chairman invites all former Childress girls who attended Girls State with husband or escort mail acceptances to Mrs Flynt Dimmitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Bluebonnet Girls State
Colonial
Wolflin Village
Amarillo
Jack W. Flynt
Dimmitt
Girls State
Childress
Meet Monday for Home Demonstration Club Leaders
Home furnishing leaders from county clubs are reminded to meet HD Agent Mary Scott at 2 p m Monday in the REA building for a county gathering and briefing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Scott
REA
Kennedy Convenes White House Lunch on Berlin Crisis
President Kennedy called a White House lunch with Cabinet officers and congressional leaders to discuss Berlin amid reports of pressure to boost U.S. strength. The plan includes possible mobilization and greater European forces as Acheson and advisers weigh crisis steps.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Berlin
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
Fay D. Kohler
McGeorge Bundy
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Moscow
J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Richard B. Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
U. S
U.S
Europe
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Dean Acheson
Khrushchev
Eichmann ties speech to Nazi plan for European Jewry
Adolf Eichmann testified he drafted Reinhard Heydrichs Wannsee conference speech announcing the final solution to kill all Jews in Europe. He claimed he carried out orders and was not a decision maker, while saying he saved 20,000 German Jews by transferring them to Lodz ghetto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Grigg
United Press International Jerusalem
UPI
Adolf Eichmann
Germany
Hitler
Europe
Eichmann
Robert Servatius
Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich
Servatius
Wannsee
Riga
Minsk
Benjamin Halevi
Lodz
Poland
Kennedy Pronounced Recovered From Illness After White House Visit
President Kennedy, recovering from a strep throat and virus, was declared practically recovered after a morning check by three doctors. He dressed, ate, and met Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, discarding crutches and planning weekend at Glenora, then returning to Washington Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Hayato Ikeda
White House
Pierre Salinger
Glenora
Middleburg
Prater Heads Masons as Worshipful Master
R R Prater was elected Worshipful Master of Masonic Lodge No 695 at a Thursday meeting in the Hall. A A Bass Senior Warden Warner Stevens Junior Warden Hap Wright re elected secretary Willard Williams re elected treasurer Earl Swain re elected Tiler Installation set for 7 30 Monday night at the Masonic Hall with Prater to make appointments before then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Prater
Masonic Lodge No
A.A. Bass
Warner Stevens
Hap Wright
Willard Williams
Earl Swain
Masonic Hall
Prater
Robert Goundie
Bass
Stevens
Stickney death date pushed to fall after stay
Howard Stickney the condemned killer returns to Huntsville Prison as his execution date is likely postponed to fall. A writ of habeas corpus granted in Corpus Christi could delay the sentence while the Court of Criminal Appeals reviews the nine day hearing. District Judge Cullen Briggs earlier blocked a dismissal of Stickney plea after an emotional defense presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
UPI
Howard Stickney
Huntsville Prison
Pat Bullock
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Stickney
Corpus Christi
Court of Criminal Appeals
Bullock
Houston
Shirley Barnes
Galveston
West Beach
Cullen Briggs
Bob Looney
Austin
Briggs
Highway Department
Oil industry feels effects of maritime strike in Texas
Gulf Oil Co. says crude purchases in Texas and New Mexico will be cut due to the national maritime strike and further reductions may follow. In Washington the House Appropriations Committee approves most of President Kennedy 43 billion defense request while warning waste is rife in the military. In Columbus Ohio Dr Samuel H Sheppard serving a life term for murder will be brought to the penitentiary for cancer tests linked to a prior experiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
UPI
Texas
Gulf Oil Co
New Mexico
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Kennedy
Pentagon
Russia
Columbus
Ohio
Samuel H. Sheppard
Ohio Penitentiary
Nikita Khrushchev Sheds Old Image With New Cult
Moscow has launched a campaign to shape a personal cult around Nikita S. Khrushchev as the man who is always right. The propaganda push, timed ahead of the fall party congress, aims to present him as the sole author of correct policy and to forestall internal criticism. Western diplomats watch with concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
UPI
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Lenin
Wealthy member shows new home to minister
A church member led the minister through his new residence. He described filling a large hole and building a lake with trees planted nearby. The minister replied that both the member and the Lord had done well, to which the member noted how the place looked when the Lord had it by Himself.
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Greenbelt Authority
Adlai
United Press International
New York
Hong Kong
Anniston
Ala
Ankara
Turkey
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Reds
By Stewart Hensley
R.R. Prater
Masons
Nikie Boy
Boyce
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