Solvent head grilled over Estes ties and $4 million cache
House investigators pressed Maynard C. Wheeler of Commercial Solvents on the firm’s dealings with Billie Sol Estes. Wheeler disputed testimony given to a Texas inquiry about loans, mortgages and security tied to Estes’ fertilizer and grain operations. Pacific Finance held $4.5 million in alleged chattel mortgages, while government grain payments were impounded after Estes’ indictment.
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Commercial Solvents
Maynard C. Wheeler
Billie Sol-Estes
Estes
Switzerland
Wheeler
Texas Court of
Frank Cain
Pecos
Tex
Agriculture Department
Cain
Pacific Finance Corp
Los Angeles
Texas Court of Inquiry
New Avenues In Probe Opened
Franklin Texas AP testimony from Billie Sol Estes opened new avenues in the investigation of the death of Agricultural Department official Henry H. Marshall. Robertson County grand jury to hear 3 or 4 more witnesses before the next session Monday. Estes questioned for about two hours with no public release of details.
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Two U F Leaders Named For Drive Chairmen Announced
J A Gus King announced two area chairmen for the United Fund drive Reneau Carrell of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co and Charles Dickhute traffic manager for Alabama Flour Mills will oversee two phases of the campaign Carrell directs the service and Dickhute leads merchants phase Both have long UF involvement The annual drive supports about 25 community service agencies during October in Decatur and surroundings.
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J. A
Gus) King
Reneau Carrell
Metropolitan *Life Insurance. Co
Charles Dickhute
Alabama Flour Mills
King
Morgan County
Carrell
Dickhute
Decatur
Riverside High School
John Brown University
14Th Ave
First Methodist Church
Raymond
Neb
Omaha Business College
College of
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North Alabama
Red Knowles Jr. regains use after severed arm surgery
Everett Knowles Jr. known as Red, 12, in Somerville, Massachusetts, had his right arm amputated by a freight train and surgically reattached at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors report progress and expect him to go home within weeks as he plans to exercise and play ball.
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Ronald A. Malt
Massachusetts General Hospital
Somerville
Mass
Everett
Everett Knowles Jr
Knowles
Red
Sandy
Massachusetts
New England
Market swings leave traders puzzled on 1962 lows
AP Business News Writer reports a choppy trading day with the market hovering near early May lows. The Dow fell 2.51 to 571.53 at noon as the AP 60 slipped 0.10 to 212.40 and the S&P 500 eased to 55.28. Seat prices on the NYSE slid to 115000, the lowest since 1959.
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New York
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Standard & Poor
New York Stock Exchange
Laos Rule Bothers U S
United States relations with Laos face friction as the Lao government asserts its policy and challenges American positions. Officials in Washington weigh responses amid ongoing diplomacy and regional security concerns.
United States seeks to avert Lao coalition power shift
U S officials warn against leaving one pro Communist prince in control of Laos early in the new coalition. They urge neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma head Laos' delegation to a late month Geneva conference on neutrality, while Gen Phoumi Nosavan leads his country’s Switzerland delegation. Prince Souvanna attends his daughter's Paris wedding June 28.
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Washington
United States
Souphanouvong
Laos
Red Prince
U.S
Souvanna Phouma
Geneva
Phoumi Nosavan
Switzerland
Prince Souvanna
Paris
The Christian Overcomer and the Power to Do Right
The speaker explains sin as the cause of wrongdoing and cites biblical verses on humanity's sin. He compares spiritual law to gravity, notes no one can overcome the law apart from Jesus Christ, and asserts faith brings forgiveness and power to overcome sin, producing true overcomers.
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Paul
Jesus Christ
NASA plans two more three orbit flights this year
Washington AP NASA associate director Dr Robert C Seamans Jr said two additional manned orbital flights around Earth are planned this year both to be three orbit missions like Glenn and Carpenter If safe and informed they may extend to longer flights A moon television mission and instrument package landing are also planned with a Venus flyby using a Ranger style craft The U S has failed eight Moon shots with the latest landing on the far side in April
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Washington
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Robert C. Seamans Jr
NASA
Senate Space Committee
John H. Glenn Jr
Malcolm Scott Car
Seamans
United States
Venus
Ranger
One Thousand Attend DAV Athens Meet
About 1,000 delegates and their guests are expected for the three day Disabled American Veterans convention in Athens. Meetings will be at the National Guard Armory with a Saturday night banquet at the Armory hosted by governor elect See.
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DAV
Athens
The
Ed Shelton
National Guard
Small Counties Win Pledge for Equal Senate Voice
A bloc in the Montgomery legislature pushed through a 67 senator constitutional amendment to grant each county an equal voice in the Senate, with a full time senator per county. The Senate Constitution Committee also advanced an amendment to end population based reapportionment.
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Montgomery
Senate
Senate Constitution Committee
House
Helpless Female Is Back In Style For Pauline Trigere Show
New York AP reports Pauline Trigere revived the helpless female look as models showcased a winter collection. Capes masked arms, some oversized and tricked like magician’s, while dresses under them were sleeveless and beltless with trumpet silhouettes. Rich fabrics ranged from velvet and fur to bold wools and taffetas.
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New York
Pauline Trigere
Miss Trigere
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