McDowell Enters Ole Miss Calmly After Meredith Turmoil
Negro Cleve McDowell enrolled peacefully at the University of Mississippi law school in Oxford. He thanked reporters for a courteous reception as federal agents escorted him through enrollment while Gov. Barnett urged restraint amid desegregation tensions sparked by James Meredith eight months earlier.
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David Maddux
United Press International
Oxford
Miss
UPI
Cleve McDowell
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
McDowell
Ross Barnett
Jackson
Mississippi
United States Army
Barrett Meredith
Barnett
Meredith
Birmingham
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Law School
Burns Tatum
Utility Club, Inc
Local Lovington Beauty Pageant Contestant Sharon Zahn
Miss Sharon Zahn, fifth contestant in the Miss Lovington Pageant, will perform a three minute dramatic reading. The event June 14 at 7 30 p m in Parnell Auditorium features six Lovington beauties vying for a place in the Miss New Mexico Pageant.
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Sharon Zahn
Sharon Yvonne Zahn
William M. Zahn
W. Polk
Lovington
Parnell Auditorium
New Mexico Bank and Trust Company
Zahan
Lovington High School
Future Homemakers of America
The
Future Teachers of America
Roadrunners
Nurse’s Club
Betty Crocker
Zahn
Hardin- Simmons University
Abilene
Kennedy backs supersonic airliner plan amid Western tour
President Kennedy watched missile demonstrations at White Sands and announced U S plans to develop a supersonic jetliner capable of speeds twice the sound barrier at about 60 000 feet. The program, costing about 1 billion, marks a push toward civil and military air power during a western tour.
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
EL Paso
Tex
UPD
Kennedy
U. S
Honolulu
Hawaii
National Conference of Mayors
Italy
Antonio Segni
John XXIII
Washington
Colorado Springs
Colo
U.S. Air Force Academy
May Building Permits Top $204000 in Lovington
Building permits issued in Lovington for May totalled 204 250 dollars, lifting the year to date above 400 000 and making the five month total 416 190. Deducting a 1962 Taylor High School permit suggests normal new construction near 100 000 for the year. The May list includes multiple firms and residential lots at 1304 W Co 1308 W Cottonwood 1401 N 13th St 1305 N 13th St among others with varied commercial repairs and home permits.
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Lovington
Taylor High School
New
Maier Construction Co
Ave. M
Carl al
Harrison
Hillard
Park Drive
Rock Reed
Henry Weiser
Johnny Etchverry
Joe Smith
Haseloff Coastion Company
Fil Naranjo
Jimmy
Seswestern
W. Co
W. Cottonwood
13Th St
16Th St
N. St
18Th St
W. Adams
Venezuelan terrorists raid U S base in Caracas
Police report a group of leftist gunmen stormed a U S mission building in Caracas forcing six soldiers to strip and burn the facility. No injuries noted. weapons stolen and damages pegged near twenty thousand dollars. Embassy cited Col James Chenault and family not stripped. six identified service members named.
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Caracas
Venezuela
UPD
U.S
George Washington
James K. Chenault
Maj
Bernard Gardner
T. C. Blevings
Kenneth Smith
Arch Saenz
Jose Agustini
Chenault
Flying Tiger
Uni
Anderson Praised by Farm Bureau for Wheat and Feed Legislation
In Las Cruces New Mexico Senator Clinton P Anderson received praise from the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau for backing a new bi partisan bill on wheat and feed chains. A W Bill Lange Langenegger the bureau president lauded the bipartisan effort and urged moving forward. He noted the plan stands a better chance of working than the wheat certificate proposal favored by Secretary Freeman and rejected by national wheat growers. Langeegger also commended Senator Edwin L Mechem joining Anderson and colleagues Aiken Holland and Hickenlooper in sponsoring the measure.
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Las Cruces
N.M
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau
Anderson
A. W
Bill” Langenegger
State Farm Bureau
Langenegger
Freeman
S&mwr
Edwin L. Mechem
Senate
Aiken, Holland and Hickenlooper
Salons Seek Way To Keep Old Bones
Portales reports a plan to preserve and remove mam moth bones found at a gravel pit. Gov. Campbell met with Rep. Boone and Dr. Agogino to arrange removal by Baylor and Wisconsin archaeologists under university direction, with Eastern New Mexico University coordinating a $100,000 state allocation for preservation.
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Portales
UPD
Jack M. Campbell
Fred Boone
Roosevelt
Donald Moyer
Eastern New Mexico University
George Agogino
Baylor University
Waco, Tex
Sam Sanders
Campbell
Sanders
Baylor
University of Wisconsin
Agogino
U.S
New World
Eastern
Preserva
Two Die In New Mexico Crash And Drowning
United Press International reports two deaths in New Mexico Tuesday night. Lloyd Victorino a 25 year old from Acomita died in a one car crash at Grants. Lawrence Eugene Sanchez 13 drowned while swimming at a construction reservoir near Prewitt Victoria. The driver was Joseph Sanchez 21 of San Fidel. The reservoir measured 70 by 50 by 20 feet. Sanchez the boy was the son of Mr and Mrs Sevedro Sanchez. A companion Juan Ottero survived with another boy who got help too late.
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United Press International
New Mexico
Lloyd Victorino
Acomita
Grants
Lawrence Eugene Sanchez
Prewitt
Victoria
Joseph E. Sanchez
San Fidel
Sanchez
Sevedro Sanchez
Juan Ottero
Otero
Hoffa to Face Fraud Charges in Chicago Case
President James R. Hoffa announced he will appear in Chicago on June 25 to answer federal fraud charges. He and seven others are indicted on 28 counts for allegedly siphoning 20 million dollars from the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund and using over 1 million for personal benefit. He will stay in Philadelphia two more weeks to finish a contract with Motor Transport Labor Relations Inc and resolve loose ends.
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Philadelphia
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Chicago
Hoffa
Central States Teamsters Pension Fund
Motor Transport Labor Relations, Inc Land
Manhunt Intensifies for Santa Fe Fugitive Tobias Ortega
Santa Fe police and state officers press a second day of searching for 18 year old Tobias Ortega charged with murder and the disarming of Deputy Manuel Roybal. more than 75 armed men scour jetty streets alleys and surrounding hills while tips pour in. Ortega remains at large with five bullets reportedly in Roybal’s pistol.
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Santa FE
Tobias Ortega
Manuel Roybal
A. B. Martinez
Ortega
Martinez
Roybal
Igunman
Kennedy Signs Bill to Replace One Dollar Bills With Silver Certificates
President Kennedy signs a measure enabling replacement of all one dollar bills with new silver certificate notes backed by a quarter gold value. The changeover, likely in 1964 or 1965, aims to free government silver stocks and curb high coin demand from vending machines.
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Vincent J. Burke
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Treasury
U.S
Weather Forecast: Cloudy With Isolated Thunder Thursday
Weather forecast notes cloudy conditions through Thursday with a chance of an evening thundershower. Winds shift in the afternoon. No notable temperature changes expected, with a high near 94 degrees and a low around 64 Thursday night.
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Ole Miss
White Sands
Holloman Air Force Base
Warren S. Dill
Central Junior High School
New Mexico State University
North Texas State University
Denton
Texas
J. E. Dill
Mirrow Street
Amarillo
Anderson Is
Farm Bureau
Moss
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