Tornadoes and Flooding Hit East Coast and Midwest
A severe weather outbreak across the East Coast and South produces tornadoes near Bath and Wilson's Mills North Carolina injuring a woman and prompting widespread flood warnings. Roads flooded from Maryland to Virginia and beyond while distant regions report heavy rains, gusts, and high water along rivers and lakes.
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North Carolina
Wilson's Mills
Bath
N.C
Sted
Maryland
Virginia
Ind
Washington
D.C
Brian
Vada
North
Carol
Raid uncovers large gun and explosive stash in California
In Valley California police found about 130 pounds of explosives and 12 detonators inside a German shepherd dog handler’s garage. Police described the cache as capable of blowing up an entire block and adjacent to a schoolyard.
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Joseph Francis Budnek Jr
Budnek
U.S. Magistate Venetta
Treasury
Roscoe
Army
Alfred Lemos
Postal People Day Observed At Local Post Offices
Local post offices mark Postal Week with Postal People Day observing the issuance of a new set of 10 eight cent stamps honoring postal workers nationwide. Lubock postmaster Elmer J Reed Jr leads posters and souvenir envelopes for the event.
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Elmer J. Reed Jr
A& Pew
Lubbock
Gen
ET. Klassen
Speakers Named For Youth Rally at Church of Christ
Speakers from Lubwes Christian College Mrs and Mrs Lest Vorrin and Reese Liryant will headline a youth rally at the Church of Christ today. Registration begins and sessions start at 1 p.m. A devotion will open the program.
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Renpan Gail
Lest Vorrin
Reese Liryant
Lubwes Christian College
Obituary Briefs for Local Residents
Obituary notices list services for Lucilie Peerett of Baylor Street 2626 12 as plans indicate. Burial at Lubbock City Cemetery with South Plans Funeral Home directing. Also noted are obituaries for Lewis White of Weatherford and Maloney Slaten. services at churches and Englewood Cemetery. Donald Wood, 36, formerly of Hale Center, died in Denver.
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Lucilie Peerett
Baylor
Gens Chapel Baptist Church
Lubbock
South Plans Funeral Home
Everest
Ienethy Diness
Circus Set to Stage Fisher Gross at Local Park
Silverton fans club sponsors May performances of the Fisher Gross Circus at the local baseball park. Tickets cost 1 from Lion members. The act features a Regal Python, a lion display, and a 000 pound Conga that is over 20 feet long.
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Silverton
Fisher Gross
Vickers
Mea
Wail Leon
Improvement Plan Slated For Women
Miss Dorothy Morison will present a personal improvement program for women in May at the Swisher Electric Cooperative in Tulsa. The home economist from Milk Producers Inc in Amarillo will explain how a woman can improve herself and work toward becoming a beautiful person. Sponsored by the Swisher County Homem1 onstration Council and the County Extension Service.
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Tula
Dorothy Morison
Swisher Eelectric Cooperative
Tulsa
Milk Produvers, Inc
Amarillo
Morrison
Swisher County Homemonstration Council
County Estension Service
Professor Ramsey invited to Nixon meeting on employment of the handicapped
President Nixon invites Texas Tech Industrial Engineering professor Jerry J. Ramsey to a Washington meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Ramsey, a 1971 72 participant, chairs the Lubbock County group and sits on a national advisory panel for labor safety standards. He will also meet the Standards Advisory Committee on Heat Stress during the trip. Ramsey focuses on ergonomics the study of work man interaction.
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Nixon
Texas ‘Tech
Jerry J. Ramsey
Washington
Ramsen
Lubbock County
Department of Labor
Munday Mishap Kills Two Men
Two men died Friday when a tractor-trailer overturned in Munday Texas. Gary F. Gale 22 of Morris Oklahoma was the driver and Freddie M. Carrol 30 of Mc Camey Texas also died. The truck, carrying oil field equipment, left the highway and struck two cars a telephone pole and a tree before overturning. Highway patrolman Bryan Williams reported the cause could not be determined.
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Tex
Gary F. Gale
Morris
Okla
Freddie M. Carrol
McCamey
Bryan Willliams
Sam Brown obituary notices Seagraves Texas
Services for Sam Brown 77 will be held at First Baptist Church with Pastor G L Burton and Elder Murry officiating. Burial follows in Sea graves Cemetery under Webb Funeral Home direction. Survived by wife Cassie Irene and 3 daughters 2 sons 3 brothers and 3 sisters and 13 grandchildren. Brown died Thursday in Seagraves after a long residence there. He married Cassie Irene March 20 1920 in Mangum Oklahoma.
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Seagraves
Sam Brown
First Baptist Church
G. L. Burton
Seventh Day Adventist
Lubbock
Murry
Carlsbad
N.M
Seagraves Cemetery
Webb Funeral Home
Brown
Cassie Irene Brown
Mangum
Oklo
Katie Fuller
Phoenix
Ariz
Eva Underwood
LaPuente
Calif
Francis Dancer
Los Angeles
Harold
Rosenberg
David
Brownfield
Curtis
San Antonio
Logan
Vail
Whittier
Chris Cooper
Marie Stover
California
Doris Ashley
el Monte
Funeral services pending for Fred Littlefield
Fred Littlefield 77 of Marble Falls died about 9 30 p m Friday in a Burnet hospital He operated dry cleaning plants in Crosbyton and Snyder A daughter Leona Mrs Johnnie Johnson of Pampa a son Bob of Hobbs a brother Denny of Fallbrook Calif and three grandchildren survive He was a native of Crosby County Funeral arrangements are with King Funeral Home Crosbyton
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Crosbyton
Fred Littlefield
Marble Falls
Burnet Hospital
King Funeral Home
Littlefield
Crosby County
Snyder
Leona
Johnnie Johnson
Pampa
Bob
Hobbs
Denny
Fallbrook
Calif
Thelma Mead Services Planned in Tulsa
Thelma Joyce Mead 36 of Rt 2 will have a 2 p.m. service at Wallace Funeral Home Chapel with Earl Cantrell of Rock Creek Church of Christ officiating. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. She died Friday morning in Methodist Hospital Lubbock after a short illness. She married in 1957 in Las Vegas and moved to Tulsa four years ago. Survivors include husband Bob a son Adam Wayne daughter Lora Irene her mother Mrs. Victor Davis Tulsa a brother Dennis Nix Tucson and a sister Mrs Barbara Redfern Mountain Home Idaho.
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Tulia
Thelma Joyce Mead
Rt. 2
Wallace Funeral Home
Earl Cantrell
Rock’ Creek
Tulsa
Bob
Adam Wayne
Lora Irene
Victor Davis
Dennis Nix
Tucson
Barbara Redfern
Mountain Home
Idaho
Adella Pettigrew SPUR Services in Spur for Mrs Pettigrew
Mrs Adella Elena Pettigrew 97 died Monday in a Monterey Park nursing home. Services set for 10 a m today at Campbell's Funeral Chapel in Spur. Burial in Dickens Cemetery. Surviving are two sons Kelsey and Clyde, four daughters Ann Gladi shy Ona Adams Earl Odom Jewel McMeans, a sister Dean Huckabee, 18 grandchildren and 47 great grandchildren.
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Spur
Adella Elena Pettigrew
Monterey Park
Calif
Campbell's
Dickens Cemetery
Dickens
Taylor
Pettigrew
Dickens County
Arizona
Ludy Pettegrew
Kelsey
Casa Grande
Ariz
Clyde
Downey
Ann Gladishy
Ona Adams
San Pedro
Earl Odom
Jewel McMeans
Colton
Dean Huckabee
San Angelo
Reverend H C Row MORTON services at First Baptist Morton
Obituary notice for Reverend Herbert Owen Row 51 Bledsoe school teacher and pastor of Bledsoe Baptist Church with funeral today at 10 3 a m at First Baptist Morton. Burial 5 30 p m Stith Cemetery near Merkel. He served in World War I and U S Air Force, attended several universities, and coached football before becoming a minister. Survived by Pauline three sons Paul Don David Kay parents siblings and one grandchild. Also mentions champion pipe smoker Robert M Foulds winning British national pipe smoking title with two hours one minute sixteen seconds.
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Morton
Herbert Owen Row
Bledsoe
Bledsoe Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Harold Harrison
Whiteface Baptist Church
Alvin Kelly
Smyer Baptist Church
Stith
Merkel
Singleton Funeral Home
Row
Coleman County
Cochran Memorial Hospital
U. S. Air Force
Texas Christian University
Hardin-Simmons University
Lampasas
Sundown
Texas Tech
HSU
Southwestern ‘Theological Seminary
Pauline
Paul
Don
Lubbock
David
Kay
M. O. Row
Abilene
Edna Lybrand
Fort Worth
Inez Barefoot
Russell Crawford
Arkansas
Billy
Charlie
Washington
Irene Ryan Leaves Million Estate To Actors Scholarship Fund
Irene Ryan known as Granny Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies died at 70 in Santa Monica after a stroke. She left more than 1 million dollars to the Irene Ryan Foundation funding scholarships for aspiring actors. The Miss Ryan widow to Harold Fox ended in 1961 and she rose from minor roles to Broadway and a Tony winner.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Irene Ryan
Miss Ryan
Granny
Beverly
New York
Pippin
el Paso
Tex
San Francisco
San Fran
Worries of Aunt Nellie in The Shepherd
Poem presents Aunt Nellie’s anxious view of life and impending misfortune. She laments dark thoughts about health and death, fearing future woes while friends have already died. The piece frames gloom as her daily stock in trade and reflects a somber meditative tone.
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Nellie
Traffic Violation Leads To Jailing In Murder Case
A Mineola Texas man identified as Larry Gale Culbreath, 32, was jailed in DeKalb County on murder charges after a traffic stop near Atlanta. He faces charges in Dallas for the December 9 killing of James Timothy Overton and Wanda Jewel Long, both shot dead in the Vickery Park area. Dallas police previously linked him to the August 30 shooting of Dixie Mafia figure Stanley Cook, though Dallas Capt. Jack Davis said there is no connection between the cases.
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Dallas
Mineola Tex
Atlanta
DeKalb County
Larry Gale Callbreath
Justice of the Peace
Tom Naylor
Culbreath
James ‘Timothy! jOverton
Leavenworth
Kan
Wanda Jewel Long
Arkansas
Vickery Park
Stanley Lee
Cook
Jack Davis
New Deal Drug Education Committee Meeting Planned
A New Deal Community Drug Education Committee will meet at 7 30 p m on Tuesday in the New Deal High School cafeteria. The public is invited. Mrs L R Bissett can be contacted at the high school for more information. Silverton Future Homemakers collect clothing for Girlstown USA. Donations sought for all sizes. Silverton Post Office observes National Postal Peoples Day with souvenir envelopes for visitors.
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New Deal Community Drug Education Committee
New Deal High School
L. R. Bissett
Silverton Future Honemakers of America
Girlstown USA
Silverton Post Office
National Postal Peoples Day
Air Force Plane Crash Kills One at Kirtland AFB
At Kirtland Air Force Base a Weather Reconnaissance jet from the 58th Squadron crashed two miles southeast of the runway during a training mission. One crewman died, another ejected with minor injuries. fire destroyed the aircraft.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Air Force
Kirtland Air Force Base
Weather Reconnaissance
Albuquerque International Airport
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Ieve
Roosevelt General Hospital
Wheeler Mortuary
Lemos
Treasury Department
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
Lewis
Pam
Yin White
Weatherford
Greenwood
Emetery von
Nis
Im Maloney
St Joseph's
Cathal ‘Hutch
Slaten
Englewood Cemetery
Englund
Servie
Maloney
Slaten Hospital
M. Morrison
Asbury United Methodist Church
Franklin Bartley
Mr. Morrison
Methodist Hospital
Donald
Wood
Yom Aday
Church of Christ At Hale Center
Plains Cemetery
Freeman Funeral Home
Hale Genter
Denver
Colo
Ramsey
Munday
Thelma Mead
Adella Pettigrew
H. C. Row
Pipesmokers London
Robert M. Foulds
Gordon C. Atkins
Crafton Hills College
Yucaipa
Atkins
Crafton Hills
University of Redlands
Redlands
Eugene Dawson
Irene
Ryan Wills
Harold Fox
the Palace
Tim Ryan
Meredith Wilson
Rudy Vallee
Jack Carson
Bob Hope
McCloskey
Matthew H. McCloskey Jr
Philadelphia
The
Lubbock Monument Works
Georgia Marble
Bill Linn
Tommy Morris
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