Holiday Swimming Pool to Open in Lovington This Summer
Lovington area notes optimistic plan to reopen Holiday Swimming Pool after lease with Woodroe Coe. Russell Harrison and son Allen aim to operate with modest prospects, while weather and rain affect local crops. Local Legion leaders had asked for a public notice and thanked residents for flags on Flag Day.
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Russell Harrison
Lovington
Allen
Eastern New Mexico University
Woodroe Coe
Alno
Lovington High School
Eground
Harrison
Jett
Frank Beal
War Party Lands To Aid Cuba Reds War Part
The Cuban Revolutionary Council said exile commandos carrying arms landed on the Cuban coast before dawn to reinforce rebels. Sources say relatively few men actually landed, with a larger aim of arming insurgents. U.S. officials neither confirmed nor denied the debarkation.
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War Party
Cuba
Matthew T. Kenny
United Press International Miami
UPI
Cuban Revolutionary Council
U.S
Miami
Council
Washington
State Department
Pentagon
New York
IBM
Ment
Caribbean
Fidel Castro
Castro
Ise
Havana Radio
Antonio Maceo
Jose Miro Cardona
Hot Line Agreement Finalized Between U S and Soviet Union
The United States and the Soviet Union formalized a hot line pact to connect the Kremlin and the Pentagon by teletypewriter circuit within about 60 days. The link aims to prevent nuclear war by accident and miscalculation, with Khrushchev and the U.S. president able to communicate instantly around the clock and potentially include the White House.
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Gary Hampton
United Press International
Geneva
UPD
United States
Soviet Union
Washington-Moscow
U.S
Kremlin
Pentagon
White House
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Pierre Salin Marks
Hoover's Recovery Almost Miraculous
Former President Herbert C. Hoover age 88 shows an almost miraculous recovery from anemia and an intestinal ailment. Doctors at Waldorf Towers would issue no further bulletins unless warranted. The anemia, treated about two weeks, is complicated by internal bleeding.
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New York
APD
Herbert C. Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Hoover
Maritime Strike Averted in Port Dispute
The Labor Department said a settlement ended a potential national maritime strike over the S S Maximus load at Philadelphia. AFL-CIO unions resolved the quarrel after threats of port pickets and a protest over crew assignments involving the Brotherhood of Marine Officers. The Maximus carries Red Cross aid for Cuba, part of a 1961 Bay of Pigs relief effort.
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Washington
UPD
Labor Department
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
U. S
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
S. S. Maximus
Grace Lines
Philadelphia
Red Cross
Cuba
W. Willard Wirtz
AFL - Cio
Wirtz
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Europe
Curran
Engineers
Jesse Calhoon
Maximus
Meany
Engineers’ Union
Brotherhood of Marine Officers
NMU
Weather Outlook for Lovington Sees Warm Weekend
The Lovington forecast calls for fair conditions through Friday night with isolated after noon and evening thundershowers nearby. Temperatures hold with a high near 94 degrees and a low around 63 degrees.
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Lovington
Savannah riot squad breaks up segregation protest
Savannah police clash with about 750 demonstrators including hundreds of Negro participants and a few whites. Thirty arrested. three white hecklers jailed in St. Louis where another peaceful protest occurred. In Jackson, Mayor swears in first Negro policeman, Joe Lewis Land, 27, at City Hall.
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Savannah
UPD
St. Louis
Heck
Lers
Jackson
Miss
Allen C. Thompson
Joe Lewis Land
Albany
Gay
Sarah
Carl
Bum Gibbins Sells Off Equipment in Liquidation Plan
J P Bum Gibbins a 28 year oil well service veteran says his company is liquidating and all equipment will be sold by August 1 A Midland based auction planned for July 30 31 will sell 112 servicing units plus shop and office gear The plan aims to help employees start their own businesses with Gibbins promising to assist as many as possible. No violence reported in other protest summaries.
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J. P
Bum) Gibbins
Midland Oil Man
West Texas
New Mexico
Lovington
Midland
Fort Worth
Miller and Miller
Gibbins
Lea County
Hobbs
Monehans
Anderws
Denver City
Bowie
Odessa
Texas
Aztec
N. M. Compamy
Space Suit Keeps Blood Pressure Up
Santa Fe resident Leo E Schutz Sr 71 wears a mechanical pressure suit to manage orthostatic hypotension a rare condition causing fainting on standing He began experiencing the illness after a 1947 heart attack and now uses a skin tight suit inflated to about one psi to enable normal activity The Lovelace Clinic and military sources helped obtain suits and he has multiple versions including a tailored California parachute model.
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Thomas Corpora
United Press International
Santa FE
UPD
Leo E. Schutz Sr
Schutz
New Mexico
State Land Office
Louisiana
John Pastor
Santa Monica
California
Pastor
Air Force
Albuquerque
Love
Navy Blames Pipe Failure In Thresher Disaster
Navy reports blame the sinking of the Thresher on a pipe failure that allowed sea water to flood the engine room during sea trials off the New England coast. The court of inquiry led by Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin heard 120 witnesses and produced 1,700 pages of testimony as the Trieste explored the Thresher wreck.
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Darrell Garwood
United Press International
Washington
UPD
The
Navy
Thresher
Atlantic
New England
Portsmouth
N. H
Cape Cod
Adm
Bernard L. Austin
Two Inches of Rain at Tatum Storm Destroys Poles
A severe wind and electrical storm hit Lea County with about two inches of rain and a twister that sheered off three utility poles north of the cooperative power plant. More than 30 workers repaired damage, outages lasting hours for farms north of Levington and Caprock area residents. No crop damage yet reported, but cotton farmers face added hardship as rains continue.
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Lovington
Sherman Creek
Tatum
Lea County Electric
F. B. Moore
Caprock
Moore
Levington
Creek’s Packing Company
J. Paul Kemp
Lea County
No Pope Named In Four Ballots
Vatican reporters note cardinals failed to elect a pope in the first four ballots as white and black smoke signals fluctuated from the Sistine Chapel. Cardinal Montini was widely favored, but observers see a potential compromise candidate emerging amid liberal and conservative divisions. Voting resumes Friday with two ballots per session until a pope is chosen.
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Daniel F. Gilmore
United Press International
Vatican City
UPD
Sistine Chapels
John XXIII
Pius XII
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini
Milan
Vatican
Vatican Radio
Francesco Pellegrino
al Peter’s Square
Nouncer
Conclave
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Dick Hapke
American Legion of New Mexico
Legion
Simmons
Dacy
Jack
Andy
Sherman, Tex
Andy Wayne Gauntt
Arlington
Tex
Jamie
A. R. Sims
Bum Gibbins
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