Heavy Rain Pours Across Southwest Texas Flooding Crews
Heavy showers drenched the South from Texas to the Carolina coast with Corpus Christi and Laredo reporting over two and four inches respectively. A 15 year old drowned in Palo Duro Creek near Canyon while 141 campers were stranded at Palo Duro State Park awaiting rescue as rain spread northward into the Midwest.
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Midwest
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Tex
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Laredo
Morgan
City
Texas
Carolina Coast
North Dakota
Nevada
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Palo Duro Creek
Canyon
Palo Duro State Park
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Plains
Oklahoma Lawmakers Seek Extra Water Funds
Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney and Rep. Carl Albert urged a congressional committee to add 710000 to Oklahoma water projects. They cited Pine Creek and Broken Bow reservoirs and asked for higher budgets for Sherwood, Hugo, Clayton and Tuskahoma reservoirs plus 500000 for Texoma recreational development.
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UPI
A. S
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Carl Albert
Congressional Committee
Oklahoma
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Antlers
Harold Norris
Broken Bow
Cecil Peters
John W. Campbell
Hugo
Red River
Monroney
Pine Creek
Albert
Sherwood
Clayton Reservoir
Tuskahoma
Lake Texoma
Texas-Oklahoma
Oklahoma Tourist Studies Approved
The Area Redevelopment Administration approved a $49,000 six month study to examine expanding tourist facilities in 41 eastern and south central Oklahoma counties and to develop an overall program for implementing specific projects and accommodations.
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Washington
UPI
Area Redevelopment Administration
Oklahoma
Tex oma Lake recreational funds and Arkansas Valley project requests
The administration seeks an extra 500000 for Lake Tex oma recreation in addition to 800000 for operation and maintenance. Monroney also pressed for full budget requests for Arkansas Valley projects including 2250000 for Short Mountain, 175000 for Copan Reservoir planning, 175000 for Skin took Reservoir planning, and 275000 for Kaw Reservoir planning above Keystone Dam, with higher totals than previously proposed.
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Doomed Slayer's Life Is Spared
Gov. Edmund G Brown commuted Clarence Edward Ashley's death sentence for the 1960 murder of Angie Mae Stewart to life without parole. He cited Ashley's severe mental illness, noting an insane person cannot be executed. Ashley, 38, a former Army warrant officer from Anderson, South Carolina, awaited execution at San Quentin.
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Edmund G. Brown
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California
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S.C
San Quentin
Angie Mae Stewart
Summer Musicals On Calendar In Oklahoma and Texas
Lawton and Dallas theaters announce a busy summer. Red Barn and Lawton Little Theatre plan 1963 64 seasons including workshops. In Dallas The Unsinkable Molly Brown Calamity Jane and other major shows run June through September with stars like Ginger Rogers and Carol Burnett.
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Darrell Woolwine
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Ginger Rogers
Dallas
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Doris Day
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Paul Francis Webster
Kansas City
Carol
Deadwood City
Art Lund
Utah
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Rusk seeks end to pole trade curbs on Poland and Yugoslavia
Secretary of State Dean Rusk planned to urge the House Foreign Affairs Committee to lift barriers in Kennedy era trade rules with Communist Poland and Yugoslavia. He argued MFN or lower tariffs options could help woo these nations from Soviet influence as Congress debates a $4.5 billion foreign aid bill.
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UPI
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Yugoslavia
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Kennedy
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Jerri Cobb Keeps Pledging for Women Astronauts
Jerri Cobb, a pioneering Oklahoma pilot, continues her campaign for women in space. She laments that a Russian woman became the first astronaut, noting it is not an American or herself, while stressing she will persist in advocating for an American woman to be first in space. She profiles her career, NASA rituals, and belief in women's advantages for spaceflight.
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Jerri Cobb
Jerri
Oklahoma
Valentina Tereshkova
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
House
Jane Hart
Michigan
Philip A. Hart
Jacqueline Cochran
Air Force
Koho Maru 18 Sinks After Collision With Evergreen State
In Yokohama a 38 ton coastal vessel Koho Maru 18 sank after colliding with the American freighter Evergreen State off Gozensaki Cape. One of 23 crew members is missing, the helmsman, while the rest were rescued by a Japanese vessel. The Evergreen State reportedly suffered no serious damage.
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UPI
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Two Bank Officials Get Prison Terms
Barney Green and his brother James Columbus Green, former officers of the now defunct First National Bank of Maud, received three year sentences each in U S District Court on federal misappropriation charges. They pleaded no defense to 107 counts.
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Barney Gordon Green
James Columbus Green
First National Bank of Maud
U. S. District Court
Barney Green
Ross Rizley
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