Damaging Winds and Tornadoes Rattle North Texas After Thunderstorms
A severe storm system battered Graham and surrounding counties with 1.75 inches of rain and hail. Two tornadoes tracked across Scurry County near Snyder and near Camp Springs, with structures damaged and power poles toppled. Midwest Electric crews repaired lines as rainfall totals reached 3.75 inches in areas, while Snyder reported heavy flooding and high winds.
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Graham
Albany
Lubbock
Spur
Brownfield
Crosbyton
Scurry County
Clyde South Farm
Snyder
Marcus Medrano
Camp Springs
Mike Soto
Medrano Place
South Farm
Helmleigh
Midwest Electric Co-Op
South
el Paso
Amarillo
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Poage Declines Return of 1962 Campaign Funds
Representative W R Poage says he will not return the 2800 in 1962 campaign contributions though no opponents existed. He plans to use the money in 1964 if he faces opposition and notes talks of Republican challengers. The filing names William Louvin and Irving Hoff among contributors with ties to sugar refining and soybean processing firms.
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Washington
UPI
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Poage
House
William Louvin
Houston
Louvia
Sugarland
Tex
Irving Hoff
U.S. Cane Sugar Refiners Association
House Agriculture Committee
Albuquerque real estate promoters indicted for mail fraud
Three Albuquerque promoters of desert land in Taos County New Mexico face 26 counts of mail fraud. The Great Southwestern Land Company and New Mexico Southwest Development Co operators promised free lots to winners registered at fairs and asked them to pay closing costs of 49.39 or 52.50 dollars. The case, developed by the postal inspection service, is the third major land fraud prosecution in six weeks.
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Washington
UPI
Albuquerque
Taos County
N.M
Justice Department
Department
Robert M. Golubin
Lenn E. Allen
George W. Walker
Great Southwestern Land Company
New Mexico Southwest Development Co
Postal Inspection Service
Game Official Quits Suddenly
Wilson Southwell of San Antonio resigned Friday from the State Game and Fish Commission amid pleas by fellow members for him to stay. A founder and former SCOT vice president, he cited personal reasons and declined to elaborate, surprising Assistant Executive Secretary W J Cutbirth who noted no prior indication of an imminent departure.
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Commission
W. J. Cutbirth
Southwell
Italian Premier Fanavi Faces Election Push in Rome Rally
Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani faces a critical test as he cedes his center-left government to the electorate. He told about 20,000 supporters at Rome's Piazza del Popolo that they need only fear the results, with 34 million voters to choose Parliament members and senators over the weekend.
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Rome
Amintore Fanfani
Christian Democrat
Piazza del Popolo
People’s Square
Italy
Driver Dies In West Texas Hit-Run On Shoulder
Roberts was found lying beneath a pickup on the highway shoulder near Lubbock after a hit run. He died en route to Methodist Hospital in Lubbock, about a mile north of the city limits. Funeral arrangements are pending at Lemons Funeral Home. Roberts leaves a wife Nila three sons a daughter and his mother Myrtle Roberts of Kress.
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Mullins
Roberts
Plain View Hospital
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
South Plains
Lemons Funeral Home
Nila
Mrytle M. Roberts
Kress
Tech Still On List Of Censured Institutions
The American Association of University Professors censured Sam Houston State College of Huntsville and four other colleges. The list carries moral weight, making faculty recruitment harder, while one college was removed. Texas Technological College remains listed since 1958 for firing three faculty members.
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San Francisco
American Association of University Professors
Sam Houston State College of
Huntsville
Texas Technological College
Texas Tech
Births Report From Lubbock Area Hospitals
Announcers list multiple newborns with weights and times at West Texas Hospital Lauf Clinic Taylor Hospital and Reese AFB Hospital. Fathers include attorneys sheet metal workers farmers bakers and service station employees.
Coast Guard Care For Mallard Mother Gee Gee
Milwaukee river mallard Gee Gee nests on a piling under a bridge guarded by Coast Guard personnel They feed the bird three times daily and request passers by tread softly The nest sits near another famous mallard Gertie whose eggs are due to hatch in about three weeks
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPI
Gee Gee
U.S. Coast Guard
Milwaukee River
Coast Guard
Coast
Charles W. Mace
Gertie I
Muskego
Milwaukee Road
Gertie H
Ted Weems Back On Critical List
Band leader Ted Weems, 62, is in critical condition at Tulsa Hillcrest Hospital with a worsened chronic pulmonary emphysema after earlier improvement. He was hospitalized on tour in Tulsa and has a Dallas residence.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Ted Weems
Tulsa Hillcrest Hospital
Weems
Tech Intercollegiate Rodeo round two leads with strong scores
About 3,000 spectators watched Texas Tech events at Municipal Coliseum as Clyde Fort and Benton Wardlaw posted rapid times in calf roping and bull dogging. Rebecca Ramsey won the barrel race with 14.3, while Sul Ross and New Mexico State dominated several bareback and saddle bronc showings and Tech riders faced tough competition in multiple events.
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Texas
Tech
Clyde Fort
Benton Wardlaw
Cratus Douthett
Eddie Puckett
Keith Streeter
Sul Ross
Chuck Sundt
New Mexico State University
Rebecca Ramsey
South Plains Junior College Coech
Sheryl Allred
Horn Hall
South Plain
Melvin Foster
Tater Gore
Jim Moore
Sarah Berry
Cathy Crow
Tech Cowboys
Doubhett
Ronnie Smith
James West
Willie Williams
UN Nations Representatives Tour Texas During Eight Day Visit
Twenty five UN delegates from as many countries arrived in Austin for an eight day Texas tour. They were greeted by Mayor Lester Palmer and hosted by UT students as they sampled campus life and state hospitality. The itinerary includes Lyndon Johnson's ranch barbecue, Fiesta Flambeau in San Antonio, a King Ranch visit, and a Houston segment before returning to New York.
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Austin
United Nations
Texas
Emmanuel Ndawula
Uganda
Austin Municipal
Lester Palmer
University of Texas Stu
The
Silver Spurs
San Antonio
King Ranch
Houston
New York
Hospitality Committee of
New Court Test Set on Eidinoff
U.S. District Judge Joe W. Sheehy ordered the state to show cause why Dr. Harold Eidinoff of El Paso should not be released from the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Rusk. Eidinoff seeks a writ of habeas corpus after a jury found him insane and committed him following the 1959 killing of Ted Andress. Witnesses testified Eidinoff resented Andress after nude photos of Eidinoff and his wife were shown in court.
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Tyler
Tex
UPD
U.S. Dist
Joe W. Sheehy
Harold Eidinoff
el Paso
Rusk
Eidinoff
Eldinoff
F ‘Paso
Ted Andress
Rusk ‘State Hospital
Andress
Racial Issue On Presbyterian's Sunday Agenda
The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly in Huntington debates race relations with a report urging abolition of racial barriers in church institutions. Rev. Robert B. McNeill, once dismissed for his views, helped write the report. The assembly would issue an advisory stance. final desegregation decisions rest with individual trustees.
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Huntington
W. Va
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly
Permanent Committee On Christian Relations
Robert B. McNeill
Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church
Charleston
Columbus
Assembly
General Assembly
Highest Court of the Presbyterian Church
U.S
Southern
Presbyterian
Estes Associates Are Questioned in Amarillo
Assistant Texas Attorney General Vince Taylor questioned three convicted associates of fertilizer tycoon Billie Sol Estes in Amarillo. Harold Orr Ruel Alexander of Amarillo and Coleman D Mel Spadden of Lubbock pleaded guilty to federal fraud tied to Estes and received prison terms. No official word on questions, but reports say possible link to a state anti trust indictment against Estes and Maynard Wheeler of Commercial Solvents Corp. New York. The state has not extradited Wheeler.
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Amarillo
Texas Atty
Vince Taylor
Billie Sol Estes
Taylor
Harold Orr
Ruel Alexander
Amarito
Coleman D. Mel Spadden
Lubbock
Estes
Maynard Wheeler
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
Wheeler
Governor Rockefeller May Be Planning Quiet Honeymoon
Albany reports show Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller has no public engagements from May 9 to May 31. Rumors circulate about a possible marriage to Margaretta Murphy after his Reno divorce in March 1962, with press officials declining to comment.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Margaretta
Happy) Murphy
Rockefeller
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Robert L. McManus
Rockefeller-Murphy
Murphy
James S. Murphy
Rockefeller Institute
Murphys
Reno
New York City
Laos Crisis Deepens Over Pathet Lao Battle
U S officers lead right wing Laotian troops against the Communist led Pathet Lao as fighting spreads in Plaine des Jarres. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma heads to the plain to seek halt to clashes amid ICC confirmation of firing.
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Hanoi
North
Viet Nam
U.S
Pathet Lao
Laos
Kennedy
United States
Harriman
Khrushchev
Gromyko
Moscow
Plaine Des Jarres
Defense Ministry
Ban Nong Boua la
Savannakhet
Plaine
Path‘et Lao
Phoumi Nosavan
Phoumi
Kong le
Souvanna Phouma
Souphanouvong
International Control Commission
ICC
Castro U MOAT: Kremlin eases tensions with anti Cuban exile curbs
Tass reports Castro travels from Havana by Soviet TU-114 to Moscow on a friendly visit invited by Khrushchev. A heavy propaganda push preceded the arrival amid signs of Kremlin concern over Castro Khrushchev tensions following missiles removal from Cuba after the October crisis. Tass notes the Murmansk to Moscow itinerary was chosen with Admiral Gorshkov among the welcoming party.
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Castro
Havana
Tass
Murmansk
Moscow
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Cuba
Kennedy
Alexander Alexeyev
I Castro
Arctic Circle
Sergei Gors
Cuba Protest Over Havana Refinery Raid Sparks Calls
Cuban officials blamed the United States for this pirate air raid on the Regla refinery complex near Havana and warned of diplomatic protests. Rorke described the mission as a press flight with limited details while denying U.S. government action against him.
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Alexander Rorke Jr
Havana
Washington
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Cuba
Rana
Nico Lopez
Regla
U.S
State Department
Rorke
Lincoln White
Department
Radio
United States
United Nations
Fidel Castro
American Broadcasting Co. Television Network
MIT
Boston
FBI
Bahamas
National Broadcasting Co
Cuban Gunboats Molest Cutter Near Havana
Two Cuban gunboats engaged in maneuvers near a U S Coast Guard cutter responding to a distress call in the Florida Straits about 30 miles northeast of Havana. No shots were fired and the actions were not deemed hostile by a Pentagon spokesman.
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Washington
U. S. Coast Guard
Florida Straits
Defense Department
Key West
Pentagon
Havana
Soa
Meryean
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Clinchfield Coal Co
Compass
Clarksburg
W. V
Stephen Thompson
Tahoka
Darrell Craig
E. Bates
West Texas Hospital
Anderson and Bigham Sheet Metal Works
Norman Sloan
Ave. U
Department of Agriculture
Jackie D. Condra
Danny Ray Hedrick
Ave. L
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Earnest R. Penny
Amherst
Rosalio Cabello
Rt. 5
Lauf Clinic
Arthur Stewart
Tado Arenas
Ave
John F. Baumann
18Th St
Reese Air Force Base Hospital
Reese Air Force Se
Jimmie Murrell Martin
Rt. 3
Taylor Hospital
Earle Hartwell Hamilton
31St St
Hartwell Sales Co
Dallas
Rocky
Massachusetts Institute — of Technology
Esso-Shell
Morro Castle
Sherman Billingsley
Stork Club
Christian Democratic Movement
Miami
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