Campaign Finance Figures From Texas Senate Race Reports
Details show Connally and Carr in US Senate primary spending with gifts totaling tens of thousands. Connally led with large donations while Tower faced substantial gifts and a large donor base. Willoughby and Tunnell show varied debt and contribution profiles, with labor and county committees among top supporters.
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Atty N. Waggoner Carr
U.S
John Tower
Stanley Woods
C Sappouston
Senate
Carr
Jack Willoughby
Houston
Oklahoma
Tunnell
Midland
Haring
Labor
COPE
Pulitzer Prizes First Awarded in 1917 Historic Debut
United Press International notes the first Pulitzer Prizes honoring journalism and biography. The New York Tribune wins for editorial writing, Herbert Bayard Swope earns for reporting, J. J. Jusserand is cited for history, and Laura E. Richards with Maude Howe Elliott win for biography.
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United Press International
New York Tribune
Herbert Bayard Swope
The
New York World
J. J. Jusserand
Laura E. Richards
Maude Howe Elliott
Political calendar shows local offices on ballot
County Treasurer Ben Hardison seeks re election while Commissioner Ralph Sides and Cliff Campbell listed for precincts Four and One respectively. The note ends with an old fashioned tavern tale about a Calibogus cold rum mixed with beer.
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Ben Hardison
Ralph Sides
Cliff Campbell
U S Forces Hit Viet Cong Supply Hubs In Vietnam War
U S air and ground forces target North and South Vietnam supply dumps bunkers and bridges near Vinh Than Hoa and War Zone C While U S forces also fire into Cambodia in self defense Navy aircraft destroy hundreds of river craft and supply routes A U S patrol near Duc Lat repels a large Communist assault with heavy casualties on both sides
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South
Viet Nam
Vinh
Than Hoa
United States
U.S
Cambodia
Guam
Navy
Ranger
Hancock
Duc Lat
Saigon
Lions Club guests at convention include regional leaders
Five club members were listed as delegates with one available to attend. Guests included Henry Gregory of Memphis, C. B. Kirk Montgomery Ward district manager in Fort Worth, and Seales, new Montgomery Ward store manager in Childress. Cecil Pryor served as program chairman.
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Page One Car Club
Lions Club
Bill Coopwood
Henry Gregory
Memphis
C. B. Kirk
Montgomery Ward & Company
Ft Worth
Es Seales
New Montgomery
Childress
Cecil Pryor
Kungsholm Enps Voyage New York Maiden Voyage
The Swedish American Line's new 661 foot passenger ship Kungsholm steamed into New York harbor to end its maiden voyage on Monday.
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Kungsholm
Enps
New York
UPT
Dallas faces historic floods with record rainfall
Storms drenched Dallas with 13.22 inches of rain in 10 days producing 23.73 inches for the year, double the normal amount. City officials sent a delegation to Washington seeking federal flood aid from Rep. Earle Cabell as City Council considers a $15 million flood control plan.
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Dallas
Washington
Earle Cabell
D-Tex
Vegetarianist 100th Birthday Celebrated in Illinois
Mrs Adeline Jones Drury of Du Quoin Illinois marked her 100th birthday this week after a life story that began with a doctor warning she had little time to live and a vow to become a vegetarian at age 23.
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Hil
UPI
Adeline Jones Drury
Albanian Delegation's China Visit Hinges on Mao Meeting
Western observers note uncertainty over when the Albanian delegation will depart China and whether Mao Zedong will meet them. One diplomat cautions that absence of a Mao meeting would undermine current speculation about the visit.
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China
Mao
Nose biting sparks bus driver assault in Mozambique
Police said Carlos Chana, a ticket collector, bit the nose off Antonio Pocas, a bus driver, during an argument over their work in Lourenco Marques Mozambique.
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Lourendo Marques, Mozambique
UPI
Carlos Chana
Antonio Pocas
Reavis Rites Held For 94-Year-Old Minister
Final rites for Rev. L A Reavis aged 94 father of Hollis Reavis of Childress were held at 4 p m today at Sweetwater Highlands Methodist Church. Interment followed at Sweetwater Cemetery. He died Monday in Wichita Falls where he had lived at Taylor Rest Home for two and a half years. He was a retired Methodist minister.
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L. A. Reavis
Hollis Reavis
Childress
Sweetwater Highland Heights Methodist Church
Sweetwater Cemetery
Parachute Jump Instructor Breaks Leg in Demo
William Rogers 37 from Santa Monica leaped from a three foot table in Arvin California to show safe landing technique and suffered a broken leg.
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Arvin
Calif
UPI
William Rogers
Santa Monica
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