Tax Increase Looms In Texas Legislature
In Austin Texas lawmakers near the halfway point of the 50th Legislature face limited requests for a teacher pay raise estimated at over 69 million dollars. The Senate Education Committee discussion continues amid budget considerations and policy debates on education funding.
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Texas
Hale-Aikin Committee
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Rep
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Bo) Ramsey
Beckville
Price Daniel
Fort Worth Senator Heads Hearing on Education Pay Bill
News tee reports Sen Doyle Willis of Fort Worth will chair a 7:30 p.m. Monday hearing on Sen A M Aikin Jr of Paris bill. The Hale Aikin Public School Study Committee backs the proposal to raise minimum teacher pay from 3 204 to 4 000 for teachers with bachelor degrees and lengthen the school year to nine and a half months, totaling 180 days.
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Paris
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Port Neches
Joe Chapman
Sulphur Springs
House Banks and Banking Committee
Don Kennard
Bob Hughes
Dallas
House
Senate
Texas
Lovington Falls to Hobbs in Thriller at Wildcat Gym
In a 59 56 heart stopper, Hobbs edged Lovington as the crowd roared through a final quarter rally. Coach Ross Black praised the officiating and chalked up Lovington’s loss to too many mistakes by a strong Hobbs squad.
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Hobbs
Ross Black
Wildcat Gym
FBI Hunts Bank Robber In Ohio
FBI and police pursued Frank Spinner also known as Lorenz after a $25.95 Hamilton National Bank robbery. A 1951 Nash Rambler found abandoned near Canton tied to Spinner offered a new lead as investigators traced movements through Pennsylvania New York and Ohio with reports of a sighting in Willoughby. Spinner escaped from an Akron jail about ten months earlier following Hollywood style crimes.
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Youngstown, Ohio
UPI
Frank Spinner
Hamilton
Ohio
FBI
Canton
Lprenz
Pennsylvania
New York
First National Bank
Sprenz
Willoughby
Cleveland
Lorenz
Enid Parker
Akron
Altoona
Allies draft signals broader Berlin talks not a summit
Washington officials said a rough Allied reply to Khrushchev welcomes a foreign ministers conference on Berlin but rejects Moscow's narrow terms. The draft seeks broader discussion, preserves Western rights in Berlin, and hints at expanding topics to include European security and disarmament.
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UPI
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Berlin
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Khrushchev
United States
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Fidel Castro to Sentencing Airmen in Genocide Case
Fidel Castro flies to Santiago to preside over sentencing of 43 Batista airmen retried after a revolutionary tribunal freed them of genocide charges. Aris tides D Acosta, chief defense attorney, predicted heavy prison terms and said most would not face death.
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Cuba
UPI
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Batista
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Havana
United Press International
D’acosta
Army
Raul Castro
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Assasins
Man Quits Lawn Battles After Nine Years In Miami
J. Thomas McDaniel spent nine years and five thousand dollars trying to grow a flawless Florida lawn in Dade County. After repeated bugs and failed grasses, he gave up on turf and moved to building a rock garden with boulders as his new landscape vow.
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Beverly
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Kenneth Osborn
Miami
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J. Thomas MacDaniel
McDaniel
Dade County
Florida
New Mexico Forecast With Colder South and Snow Likely
A fair day and night across New Mexico with partly cloudy Sunday and scattered snow possible in northern mountains. Temperatures trend cooler in the south, with highs 45 to 55 north and 50 to 60 south, and lows 10 to 25 north and 20 to 30 south. Lovington sees fair conditions today, partly cloudy Sunday, and a high of 62 on Sunday.
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Lovington
Khrushchev Seeks Berlin Pact as West Faces Exit
Premier Nikita Khrushchev summons Polish Czechoslovak and East German leaders for a war council in Berlin to press a peace treaty and force Western Allies from Berlin. He plans talks with Gomulka Novotny Ulbricht and may extend deadlines if the West negotiates.
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East Germany
UPI
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Berlin
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Poland
Antonin Novotny
Czechoslovakia
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Khrushchev
Kremlin
Russia
West Berlin
Kennedy For President Move At Midwest Meeting
At the Midwest Democratic Conference in Milwaukee Sen. John Kennedy did not attend the main events yet dominated chatter as the presidential front runner. Robert Kennedy displaced other candidates during a press session, revealing offers of campaign support in exchange for a milder stance on the Labor Rackets Committee. The Kennedy camp pushed ahead with statements on cooperatives and the wheat agreement, while Hubert Humphrey and G. Mennen Williams also sought attention ahead of tonight’s keynote banquet.
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Wis
UPI
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D-Mass
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Kennedy
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Adlai Stevenson
John Foster Dulles
Williams
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Robert Kennedy
Sen
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate
Fatal Accident Toll Reaches 70 In New Mexico
United Press International reports the annual New Mexico death toll rises to 70 after two traffic crashes. In one incident 18-year-old Pat Franklin Crumpton of Albuquerque died when his truck tilted off a west Gallup highway, a passenger was injured. In Alamogordo, 55-year-old Harold Axel Erickson was found dead after his car careened into a filling station.
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Pat Franklin Crumpton
Albuquerque
Gallup
Alamogordo
Harold Axel Erickson
CAP conducts search for missing Arizona light plane
Civil Air Patrol crews scanned the New Mexico mountains and eastern plains for a Cessna 120 feared to have crashed between Albuquerque and Roswell. CAP said the aircraft departed Albuquerque Friday night at 6 35 and was due in Roswell at 8 05 p m A report said the silver blue plane landed at Cedarvale near Corona before taking off again.
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Civil Air Patrol
New Mexico
Arizona
Albuquerque
Roswell
Bill Ward
CAP
Cedarvale
Corona
Services Pending For Tatum Woman
Mrs Lois Hall Husbands of Tatum died Friday March 6 at her home. Smith-Yarbro Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Services are pending. She is survived by husband Carl Husbands three daughters Mrs H L Child of Tokyo Japan Mrs John J Lynch of El Paso Texas and Mrs Wayne D Holcomb of Monahans Texas one son James D Hall of Kansas City Co and seven grandchildren.
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Lois Hall
Tatum
Smith-Yarbro Funeral Home
McCafferty Admits Murder in Santa Barbara
Joseph L. McClafferty surrendered with his brother-in-law and 10-year-old son after admitting he shot his wife Clementina at a Sandia Base home. He dumped a .22 derringer, faces extradition from Albuquerque, and a note allegedly signed by him claims the slaying. The victim was found in pajamas on a blood soaked bed. his son was reported in good shape.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Joseph L. McClafferty
McClafferty
Patrick
Clementina
Sandia
Albuquerque
N. M
Las Vegas
Nev
Patrick Therrien
Vandenberg Afb
Judges Bill Expands Santa Fe District Courts
The Senate approved measures to add a fourth judge for the First Judicial District and to create a second district attorney for San Juan and McKinley counties. Governor Burroughs would appoint both officials with elections later. appropriations of 3000 for the DA and 5000 for the judge are included for the current fiscal year. Location of new offices not specified.
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UPD
San Juan
McKinley
John Burroughs
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