Katanga Crisis Deepens as Tshombe Loses Tribal Support
Katanga leader Moise Tshombe faces desertion by eight leading tribal chiefs who urge central government control and U.N. intervention. They demand arrest and trial for Tshombe and his aides as Kolwezi dams and copper mines threaten to be detonated if U.N. forces strike.
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Felisabethville
Katanga
Congo
UPI
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Tshombe
Thants
U. N
Thant
Elisabethvill
Kolwezi
The
Cyrille Adoula
U.N
Leopoldville
Drew Bunche
Bunche
Elisabethville
U.S
Union Winiere Mining Company
Brussels
Electric For
Congress Opens Wednesday Victory For President Expected
The 88th Congress convenes with Kennedy seeking control of the House Rules Committee. Democrats support the president while Republicans mobilize a counter plan to alter committee balance. A House vote and Senate considerations loom after the State of the Union.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Kennedy
John Lindsay
N.Y
Thomas B. Curtis
Mrs. Carlton To Present Farm Bureau Program
Mrs. Mary Jo Carlton Lea County home demonstration agent will present a Lovington Local Farm Bureau program Thursday at 7 pm in the Farm Bureau office. The talk covers home economics and 4-H work and will interest both men and women. A game night follows.
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Mary Jo Carlton
Lea County
Lovington
Viet Cong Seize Arms In Week Long Push Across Vietnam
UPI reports U.S. advisers say Communist guerrillas captured enough new American arms to equip at least two companies. Viet Cong aiming for pre selected targets to amass weaponry for about 23,000 first line troops and 190,000 part time fighters. Attacks include Nui Mieu and recent reverses at Plei Me and Ap Bac foreshadow larger operations.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPI
U.S
Red
Nui Mieu _unday
Plei Mrong
Ap Bac
Funeral set for Dorothy Hatcher
Funeral services for Dorothy Hatcher age 33 found dead Monday at her home 202 N Chaves St will be held at 2 pm today at New Hope Baptist Church Rev Young pastor officiating Burial in Lovington Cemetery directed by Smith Yarbro Funeral Home Hatcher born September 14 1929 in Oklahoma Survivors include son Richard Eaves her parents Wesley and Mrs Vaughn of Rural Levington two brothers Richard Vaughn and Charles Vaughn both of Clarksville Ark and two sisters Mrs Alice Cotton and Mrs Evelyn Colbert both of Lovington
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Dorothy Hatcher
N. Chaves St
New Hope Baptist Church
Rev. Young
Lovington Cemetery
Smith Yarbro Funeral Home
Hatcher
Oklahoma
Richard Eaves
Wesley Vaughn
Rural
Rush Pleads Guilty to Vagrancy in County Court
Cecil Rush, 29, of West Avenue D, pleaded guilty to two counts of vagrancy before Justice Reese Creates. He received 90 days on each count for a total of 180 days in Les County jail. felony charges against Bush were dismissed by Assistant District Attorney Joe Waiton.
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Cecil Rush
West Avenue D
Justice of the Peace
Reese
Rush
Les County
Bush
Joe Waiton
Campbell urges reapportionment and education push in New Mexico
Gov. Jack M. Campbell in a 28 page joint address to the New Mexico Legislature urged reapportionment, economic development especially in the north central region, public welfare rehabilitation, and continued education improvements. He called for a constitutional revision commission, hospital upgrades at Los Lunas Springer and Las Vegas, and strengthening merit and personnel laws. His remarks followed the swearing in of House members and Sen. Howard K. Shaw.
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United Press International Santa FE
UPI
Jack M. Campbell
House
Senate
Campbell
New Mexico
Los Lunas Hospital
New Mexico Boys’ School
Springer
New Mexico State Hospital of
Las Vegas
Howard K. Shaw
D-Catron
Wilford J. Shumway
Rio Grande Gorge
New Mexico Boys
New Mexico State Hospital
House of Representatives
Mexican squatters confront ranches as troops moved in
In Chihuahua state, peasants occupied multiple ranches including Las Bajas El Encino and Agua Nuevo, prompting 40 federal troops to enforce eviction if needed. Army Gen. Manuel Mendoza Dominguez and acting Gov. Saul Gonzalez Herrera warned squatters to leave peacefully amid stalled negotiations.
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Chihuahua City
Mexico
UPI
Chihuahua
Manuel Mendoza Dominguez
Saul Gonzalez Herrera
Oficials
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Mendoza Dominguez
Las Bajas
el Encino
Agua Nuevo
Casas Grandes
Santa Anita
Lovington Public Library Sees Sharp Rise in 1962 Circulation
Librarian Mrs. Amme Harker reports 38 087 books circulated in 1962 up 12 091 from the previous year. November led with 4 336 borrowings, July saw 4 024. New titles and a strong reference section support growing public interest across ages.
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Lovington Public Library
Amme Harker
Kennedy to Meet Kuznetsov on Cuba as US Forms Policy Task Force
President Kennedy scheduled a Washington meeting with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov to press for withdrawal of Soviet forces from Cuba. A new government wide task force led by Sterling J. Cottrell will coordinate Cuban policy and surveillance will continue. Khrushchev’s stance remain unclear amid Havana tensions and U.N. inspection disputes.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Cuba
Kuznetsov
U.S
United Nations
State Department
Poli
Washington
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Dean Rusk
Khrushchev
Sterling J. Cottrell
Foreign Service
Offcials
Rusk
Castro
United States
Kremlin
U.N
Adlai Stevenson
Security Council
Fidel Castro
Russia
Kuznetson Stevenson
Midland man dies at 88 in Texas obituary
R. L. Self, 88, of Midland, Texas, father of Mrs. E. B. Yarbro, died Tuesday night. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today at Hudman Funeral Home in Post, with burial in Post Cemetery. He was born in Texas, a Baptist, and a Mason. Survivors: four sons A. R. Self Clovis W. G. Self Stanford Tex Watson Self Montague Tex Roy Self Tohoka Tex. two daughters Mrs. Yarbro Lovington and Mrs. Jewel Hancock. 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
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R. L. Self
Midland
Texas
E. B. Yarbro
Hudman
Post
Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
A. R. Self
Clovis
W. G. Self
Stanford
Tex
Watson Self
Montague
Roy Self
Tohoka
Yarbro
Lovington
Jewel Hancock
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United Press International
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Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Ford
GOP
Guy
Charles
Mary King
Mary Love
Mrs. Carlton
Viet Nam
By Frank Morgay
Heid
Mexico City
Democrats
Fabian Chavez
Santa Fe
Chavez
William C. Gallagher
Colfax
Bruce King
D-Santa Fe
Public Welfare Board
Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Public Finance
Soviets
Cies
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