Severe storms flood West Texas towns with hail and twisters
Thunderstorms swept across the Plains Wednesday night dropping up to three inches of rain and spawning tornadoes. Brownfield suffered severe flood damage to the Modern Steam Laundry and roads were underwater while hail battered cotton fields near Spur. In Midland a twister unroofed a barn and damaged a sheet metal building and power lines as Reese AFB logged over an inch of rain and Lubbock reported steady rainfall.
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Charles Cullin
Avalanche-Journal
Ons
Plains
Texas
Brownfield
Spur
Midland
Lubbock
Reese Afb
Weather Bureau
Lubbock Road
Panhanile Downstate
Austin
Panhandle
Borger
Central Texas
Tohoka
Bill Mayberry
Levelland
Mayberry
Kennedy urges tighter control on drugs and testing reforms
President Kennedy calls for immediate removal of hazardous drugs like thalidomide and tighter controls. He also urges Soviet return to international inspection for a nuclear test ban and prods Albany Georgia to discuss racial barriers with Negro leaders. Page 10.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Kennedy
Russia
Geneva
U.S
Albany
Lift-Launch Atlas F Missile Speeds Toward 5000 Mile Target
An Atlas F missile rose from a bombproof lair at Vandenberg AFB California in a first lift and launch test of the ocean spanning rocket. The target zone is the lagoon of Eniwetok Island northwest of Kwajalein Island, Nike Zeus base. The test coordinated both the missile and its hardened launching pit.
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Vandenberg Afb
Calif
Marshall Islands
Vandenberg
Eniwetok Island
Kwajalein Island
Air Force
Senator Reagan predicts busy Texas Legislature session
Senator Bruce Reagan of Corpus Christi visits Lubbock with wife and Sen. Preston Smith and Sen. J. Penrod Toles. He says the next legislative session will be busy and that the sales tax will be a main early focus. He notes the tax raises more money than expected and cites a $100,000 teachers program, urging 12 amendments to solidify the tax while keeping it off food and medicine.
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Tate
Bruce Reagan
Corpus Christi
Texas
Reagan
Lubbock
Preston Smith
J. Penrod Toles
New Mexico
Gulf Coast
Senate
Car Hits Train At Erskine Crossing Kills Lubbock Man
Robert Edwin Shouse 41 of Lubbock was killed when his 1955 convertible struck a northbound Santa Fe passenger train at the Erskine Road crossing. He was thrown against the locomotive after impact and died at the scene. The collision occurred as the train, traveling about 35 mph, came from the depot toward Amarillo. The car skidded 54 feet before hitting the locomotive’s left front. Police and investigators described severe head injuries and noted the driver may not have worn a seat belt.
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Robert Edwin Shouse
David Ave
Erskine Road
Santa Fe
R. E. McReynolds
Amarillo
Shouse
Ray Westbrook
Vaughn Hendrie
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
R. D. Estes
B. M. Cooper
D. J. Bourn
Slaton
Bourn
AT SCHOOLS Failures In City Average By Laine
The Lubbock school board reviewed a 1961 62 report card showing citywide pupil failures near average. Supt Nat Williams announced 9.66 percent failure rate in elementary schools versus an 8.0 percent three year average. The board approved a 122000 Monterey High cafeteria addition and discussed Negro school facilities. They set Aug 18 for a joint meeting with the City Commission on tax equalization park site sharing and Monterey parking.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Nate Williams
Lubbock Club
Monterey
Monterey High School
City Commission
City Park and Recreation Department
Monterey High
Williams
Italians Test Missile Off Cape Canaveral
A team of Italian air force troops fired a missile in a training test about 1, 500 miles over the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
Atlantic Ocean
Derby Foes For Lubbock Champ Set By Dorrance
Rodney Palmer 13 of Lubbock will race his Big Red against Ashland Ohio and Parkersburg West Virginia entries in the 25th All American Soap Box Derby at Akron. Lane 1 Rodney faces Dan Daron Lane 2 from Ashland and Lane 3 Michael Morrison Lane 3 from Parkersburg as judges prepare final inspections and times. It is one of 183 entrants from across the United States and beyond. Rodney won the Lubbock derby July 16 defeating 107 rivals and now travels to Derby Downs for final prep and inspection before race day.
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Dorrance Guy
Avalanche-Journal
Kron
Ohio
Rodney Palmer
Lubbock
Ashland
Parkersburg
W. Va
Michael Jordan Morrison
Dan Daron
Dan
Rodney
Lubbock Derby
Derby Downs
Akron
U. S
South Plains
New Mexico
Derbytown
DERBY
Camic Dictionary Clinging Vine: A Woman Clings To Husband
A column defines a clinging vine as a woman who prefers holding on to her husband over discarding money. The phrase is examined in a light humorous editorial tone.
Estes Threats to Stop Probe Mark Kennedy Era Clash
Billie Sol Estes warned to Senate investigators that halting the cotton operation probe would spare him embarrassment for Kennedy administration ties. Deputy AID Tucker testified Estes linked the allotment matter to Henry Marshall's death, though officials urged caution about interpreting it as an explicit threat.
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Associated Press
Washington
Billie Sol Estes
Senate
Kennedy
Wilson Tucker
Agriculture Department
Estes
Henry Marshall
Tucker
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Marshall
Texas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Texas
Estes Report Due Today As Grand Jury Closes In
A 47th District grand jury investigating alleged antitrust activities of Billie Sol Estes and associates is expected to report in Amarillo today. Three Superior Manufacturing officials Coleman MecSpadden Harold Orr and Ruel Alexander testified at a court of inquiry and a transcript was provided to the grand jury. The panel reconvened after earlier examining the Estes affair with its term expiring this week. Meanwhile a missing plane incident is reported from Manila where a U S Navy T 5M Marlin carrying 13 aboard failed to return to Langley Point and is feared down 150 miles northwest of Manila.
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Amarillo
Billie Sol Estes
Superior Manufacturing Co
Estes
Coleman D. MecSpadden
Lubbock
Harold E. Orr
Ruel W. Alexander
Grand Jury
Commercial Solvents Corp
Wenesday
Manila
Langley Point
Here
Naval
Favorite Prayer Submission Invitation
Readers are invited to send favorite prayers for use here. Submissions must be under sixty words and may reflect personal faith or devotion.
Near miss over Kansas pits two airliners in 600 mph duel
Two jet airliners carrying 184 people narrowly avoided a collision over central Kansas. FAA blamed human error at the radar center in Kansas City. Capt. Davis of TWA veered right to miss American Airlines Boeing 700 with 104 aboard. Both planes were at 33,000 feet and 600 mph.
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United Press International
Ansas City
Kansas
Federal Aviation Agency
Trans World Airlines
C. EB. Davis
Los Angeles
American Airlines
TWA
United
New York
PAA
Davis
Kan
Benedict
FFA
Re- Momgba Iaiesd
Fred W. Mills
FAA
Tech Board Post Filled with Dallas Attorney Charles Mathews
Charles Mathews a 49 year old Dallas attorney has been named to the Texas Tech for directors to replace Jim Lindsey who resigned. Mathews will serve Lindsey term which ends Feb 19 1965 and attends the next board meeting Aug 25. He is a former first assistant attorney general and is currently vice president and general counsel for Redball Motor Freight Inc. in Dallas. He served as war crimes prosecutor at Dachau and held various UT honors. Lindsey resigned to become director of public information at Texas A&M College.
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Charles Mathews
Dallas
Texas Tech
Jim Lindsey
Midland
Price Daniel
Austin
Mathews
Floydada
Lindsey
Daniel Mathews
Texas
Daniel
Redball Motor Freight, Inc
Lubibock
University of Texas Law School
Europe
Dachau
U. S
University of Texas
American Bar Assn
Motor Carrier Lawyers Assn
Texas A&m College
Weather Map Page SD Lubbock Vicinity Outlook
Weather map notes show clear to partly cloudy sky in the Lubbock area with scattered thundershowers in the vicinity. Winds toward the east at 10 to 20 miles per hour.
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Lubbock
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