Battering Winds and Rain Hit Texas Leaving 28 Dead
Severe storms lashed a 100 mile wide swath from Mineral Wells to Eldorado Arkansas with two small tornadoes near Marshall and damage around Mineola. The Dallas Fort Worth area endured heavy effects as the Weather Bureau lifted the watch by 10 pm with threats of hail and damaging winds.
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Weather Bureau
Marshall
Life League Baseball Park
The
Waco
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Shreveport
Loneview
Gladewater
Kilrore
Mulhens
Carthage
Lousiana
Lake Caddo
Cypress River
Official Weather Bureau
At & Pm
Abilene
Austin
Beaumont
College Station
Corpus Christi
Childress
Dallas
Fort Worth
Galveston
Houston
Junction
Laredo
Lubbock
Lufkin
Midland
Mineral Wells
San Angelo
San Antonio
Victoria
Wichita Falls
Wink
Brownsville
Auto safety hearings loom as major car makers testify
Spokesmen for Ford Motor Co and other big auto makers led by Vice President John Bugas will front the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in two weeks of hearings on national auto safety standards. The administration bill covers safety standards, federal research facilities, highway programs, and a national driver register, with funding rising from 46 million in 1967 to 100 million by 1972.
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U.S
Ford Motor Co
John §. Bugas
House
Interstate and Fordn Commerce Committee
Senate
Sec
Commeree
John T. Connor
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Thre
Edward Speno
New York
Ralph Nader
Crusader
Auto Safety
Ribiceff
Abraham A. Ribicoff
National Safety Council
Harley QO. Staggers
West Virginia
Commerce Committee
Anto
Hospital fathers and daughters featured in Texas hospital pageant
A chaotic account notes a father who is a lawyer and a mother figure in a Methodist Heart hospital setting. It describes a pageant or event at Texas Hospital involving families, with mentions of many names, places, and dates amid a tangle of OCR errors. The piece centers on hospital life and local social pages.
Witness accounts describe green fiery object in sky over Maryland
Reports from Washington Post and Washington Star say many people observed a green fiery object gliding slowly, resembling a landing plane, with witnesses in Maryland and Delaware detailing its color and behavior. Flash rainfall hits parts of West Texas with Lake Thomas rising an estimated foot as flooding affects bridges and cattle feed truck crash near Tulia.
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Aait l Ikely
Washington Post
Washington Star
Joseph K. Mohbat
Associated Press
Maryland
James Stuart
Silver Spring
Wilmington
Del
U S Drops Effort to Learn Mott Prison Train Death
The United States ends attempts to obtain information on the death of Newcomb Mott 27 on a Soviet prison train. An American tourist who died Jan 20 while en route to a labor camp reportedly may have been killed by fellow prisoners.
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Moscow
United States
Newcomb Mott
Mott
Soviet Union
Norway
U.S
Twisters Seen At Littlefield Boost For Area Crops
Heavy rains in Lubbock and surrounding areas push April totals to record levels. A stationary front over central Texas caused Monday’s downpours totaling 1.68 inches in Lubbock, lifting the four day period to 3.00 inches and the month to 2.02 inches, marking the wettest April since 1957. The Gulf moisture-fed system began easing as the front moved eastward.
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Ross
Ftrolman
Gilmer
Texas
Marshall
Lattlefield
Slaten
Lubbock
Parmer
Castro Counties
Bovina
Friona
Castro County
South Plains
Telia
Vigo
Swisher
Tulia Wheatgrowers Truck Inc
Charlie Kimbell
Tulia
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
Atomic Energy Commission tests low yield atomic blast in Nevada
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the firing of a low yield underground nuclear test at the Nevada test site on Monday. The event marks another step in nuclear weapons research and weapon effects study conducted at the federal facility.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Blood Test Question Sparks Constitutional Debate
During court questioning Davenport defends blood tests for suspected drunks, saying holding an arm is not unreasonable force. Warren challenges the idea, asking if peaceful suspects are treated differently than violent violators. Justice Harlan asks about highway death counts, McGurrin resists basing a constitutional decision on such reasoning.
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Davenport
Earl Warren
Warren
John M. Harlan
McGurrin
No Proof Sipping Tea Coffee May Be Radiomimetic Peril
A scientist reports that coffee tea and alcohol cause chromosomal changes in onion root tips like ionizing radiation. Karl Sax of the University of Georgia warns there is no proof these substances harm humans but notes potential radiomimetic effects. he cites weighty dose comparisons and references AEC limits for radiation workers.
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Washington Cap
Karl Sax
University of Georgia
National Academy of Sciences
Sax
Suspect Surrenders in Four South Texas Slayings
Former area man among dead as Hoyt, pursuing a car believed driven by Enriquez, was fatally shot near Stockdale, 50 miles southeast of San Antonio. Officers reported the suspect surrendered after radioing his office.
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Johnny Rudy Enriquez
DeWitt County
Cuero
Enriquez
Darwin K. Hogg
Lamesa
Lubbock
Texas
Hoyt
Stockdale
San Antonio
Chaeeber Aftar
Foss
Springer
Runee
Helena
Fritz Riddle
Karnes City
Hogg
Enrques
Texas 125
Clayton Milner
Hoe
Milner
Wilson County
Floresville
Corpus Christi
Perez
Victoria
Fernando Florez
Florez
Department of Public Safety
Austin
Loss
Boy Returns To School Unshorn
Alan T Miller an 18 year old honor pupil who refused to cut his long hair was ordered back to class by Common Pleas Judge John M Kur Jroof Chester Counts. An injunction prevents suspension while a hearing sets a permanent ruling. Miller was suspended April 5, a senior finalist for national merit scholarships, and his mother notes the hair is part of a musical group identity.
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West Chester
Alan T Miller
Common Pleas
John M. Kur
Chester
Unionville Chadds Ford Board of Education
Karty
Miller
Burundi pledges to free political prisoners after coup attempt
Burundi's U N delegate Terence Nsanze promised to free all political prisoners arrested after last October's attempted coup. He told ILO director general David A Morse there were no mass executions, insisting about half of those executed were legally convicted of conspiracy.
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Geneva
Burundi
U.N
Terence Nsanze
David A. Morse
International Labor Organization
Nsunze
Soviets Begin Pacific Space Rocket Tests
Moscow reports a three month test series in the Pacific aimed at developing space rockets capable of reaching the moon. Tests run until July 1 with carrier rockets launched up to 6000 miles toward mid Pacific targets near Midway and Wake Islands. Tass cites refining new space systems.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Pacific Ocean
Bulls Eyes
Midway
Wake Islands
Tass
Governor Brown Receives Frog for Calaveras Jumping Contest
California Governor Edmund G. Brown was given a frog named Rough and Ready to enter Calaveras County’s annual jumping frog event in May. The contest pays homage to Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and caps Brown’s campaign for a third term.
Prisoners raise funds to send Eskimo inmate home
In Pendleton Indiana 700 inmates at the Indiana Reformatory pooled pennies to raise 500 dollars for Daniel John a 26 year old Eskimo from Mekoryuk Island near Anchorage to buy a one way ticket to Alaska. He had been approved for parole but lacked 232 dollars for travel. The group declined cigarettes to contribute small sums and larger gifts up to 5 60. The funds include extra cash for life start and a parole release may be granted next Wednesday by the Indiana Parole Board.
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Pendleton
Ind
Indiana Reformatory
Alaska
Daniel John
Mekoruk Island
Anchorage
John
Indiana Parole Board
Red Chinese Among Attacking MIG Jets
Intelligence sources report that at least two of four MIG fighters in a Saturday air engagement were Red Chinese. Officials say identification is unofficial and some other MIGs may have been flown by Chinese rather than North Vietnamese pilots.
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Saigon
API
U.S
UPS
New Effort Looms Rent Subsidy Program Rejected By Senators
The Senate Appropriations Committee refused to fund federal rent subsidies for the needy part of Johnson's Great Society plan. They defeated the request 15 to 12 while approving a $2.8 billion year end bill. Critics argued Southern Democrats and Republicans blocked the program.
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United Preas International
Ashington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Johnson
House
Senate
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