Triplets Celebrate 76th Birthday At Reunion
The Adams siblings Grover Cleveland Nettie and Cora born Aug 5 1887 on a Collin County Texas farm near McKinney Farmersville grew up to become a notable trio. A Sunday birthday event at Lou Stubbs Party House honors them as distinguished long time residents with roots traced to the 19th century state fair first public appearance.
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Grover C. Adams
Tom Clay
Cora Comer
Texas
Lou Stubbs
Adams
Ardmore
Okla
Clay
Hereford
Comer
Plainview
Grover
Nettie
Cora
Robert L. Adams
Collin County
McKinney
Farmersville
Grover Cleveland
Nettie Adams Clay
Grover Adams
Indian Territory
Bell ringing spree ends with police pursuit in St Ives
A church bell ringer suspects a young woman in the Virgin of Porthia church case caused alarm as she pulled the ropes during a Saturday night episode. Constable Rubery persuaded her to stop, then detained her after she fled. She was questioned at the station. garments found in the vestry.
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ST. Ives
England
St. In the Virgin of Porthia
William Pollard
Pollard
Charles Rubery
Woman's Attack Suspect Drowns In Escape Attempt
A 22-year-old Cleveland woman was abducted from a parked car and raped at knifepoint by three youths on a northern Indiana highway. One assailant drowned while fleeing police after a state trooper halted the stolen car on the Indiana toll road. two others fled, and one was found clinging to a river bank. The male victim was bound and left in a cornfield. he later alerted authorities.
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Gary
Ind
Cleveland
Indiana
Little Calumet
Mary Helen Taylor
Donald Edward Ingram
Sino-Soviet Rift Tightens as Treaty Talks Begin
U S and British envoys confer with Khrushchev ahead of a partial nuclear test ban signing. officials warn Washington will not relax vigilance due to Moscow Beijing split, while Kremlin seeks to curb nuclear risk amid intra Communist tensions.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
OSCOW
U. S
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Red China
Kremlin
Peking
United States
Russia
Sec
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Washington
Moscow
Moscow-Peking
Rusk
Black Sea
Dictionary Vacation: A Sunlit Immersion Abroad
A light editorial note describes a holiday framed as a dictionary vacation. The piece paints a sun drenched escape with waves and warmth, inviting readers to savor seaside moments and restorative leisure in a relaxed, breezy tone.
Area Girl Drowns Near Claytonville Caliche Pit
Fourteen year old Margaret Marquez drowned Sunday afternoon in a water filled caliche pit about 2.5 miles northwest of Claytonville Swisher County. Relatives and friends were in the pit when she went under in 12 to 15 feet of water. Elvin Hutson found the body about 140 minutes after she disappeared. The pit is 25 feet deep in places. Joe Trevino attempted a rescue but could not reach her. Tulsa Justice of the Peace D J Northcutt ruled accidental drowning. Funeral arrangements were pending at Wood Dunning Funeral Home Plainview. Surviving are her parents Gumercindo and the late name Marquez and six brothers and two sisters.
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USIA
Margaret Marquez
Swisher County
Claytonville
Gumercindo Mariquez
Darrell Smith
Elvin Hutson
Joe Trevino
Tulsa
Justice of the Peace
D. J. Northcutt
Kress
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
Plainview
Gumercindo Marquez Jr
Yismill
Mike
Manuel
Fred
Domingo Marquez
Mary Ellen Torrres
Martha Marquez
Whistles Lead North Korean Raid On American Outpost
In Korea near the DMZ a North Korean group attacked an American outpost in a two hour fight. Captain Jerry Scott of Ada Oklahoma led about nine men who repelled the assault with grenades and minor injuries reported among U S troops. No Communist casualties were confirmed.
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Associated Press
W U. S. First Cavalry Division
Korea
Demilitarized Zone
Maday
Jerry Scott
Ada
Okla
Scott
James Hamby
Puxico
Hamby
Dallas Ice Co. Robbery Yields Over Eight Thousand Dollars
Four gunmen hid in the Southland Ice Co office in Dallas overnight then robbed district managers depositing receipts in paper bags. They bound six officials before escaping in a new model car, leaving checks behind and taking cash totaling over $8,000. One supervisor freed himself and alerted police within five minutes.
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Dallas (Ap
Southland Ice Co
Southland
Dallas
Fort Worth
Will Fritz
Gospel on horseback helped build the West circuit
The article recalls early West expansion carried by circuit riders on horseback. Preachers known as Sky Pilots rode vast prairies to minister with fire and brimstone sermons and sawdust trail invitations. Reverend Dunn led the first riders after a Virginia to Texas migration following the Civil War.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
T’eir Parish
Mr. Dunn
Robert Franklin Dunn
Virginia
Texas
West
Old South
Jeb Stuart
Four British Soldiers Killed in Train Collision Near Lübeck
Four British soldiers died and three were seriously injured when their army truck was hit by an express train at a level crossing on the Baltic coast near Lübeck Germany on Sunday stationing the incident.
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Luebeck
Germany
Baltic
Here
Prayer for guidance to follow the right path
A devotional prayer asks for divine sight of wrong actions and guidance to follow the correct path in life. The speaker pleads for instruction and strength to live righteously. Amen.
Lubbock Morton Men Are Victims
Lat in American men were killed and 17 other persons were hurt in six traffic mishaps in Lubbock and area Sunday. Victims include Saragosa Morin 51 a Morton resident passenger in a two car crash south of Woodrow on U S 87 FM Road Al ened Bh Jose Cano 38 driver of one vehicle killed near FM 835 and unpaved county road. Three others hurt near Woodrow Mark A Martin 67 Hart resident and his wife Eva 1 in satisfactory condition at Methodist Hospital Domingo Perez about 40 Brownfield taken to Brownfield hospital.
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Avalanche-Journal
Weiler
Lubbock
Saragosa Morin
Morton
Woodrow
U.S. Hwy. 87
FM Road
AL Ened
A. Jose Cano
Ith St
Mark A. Martin
Hart
Eva
Methodist Hospital
Domingo Perez
Brownfield
Wayne Baker
Felix Morin
Martin
U.S
Cano
Justice of the Peace
George H. McCleskey
Thurston
West Texas
Frank Cano
Lubbock Ambulance Service
Fermin Rodriguez
Star Route 2
Morin
Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home
Acre
Karnes City
Plains Laundry
Priest Kills Self In Fire In South Viet Nam Tragedy
A Buddhist priest self immolated in Phan Thiet near Saigon to protest alleged religious persecution under President Ngo Dinh Diem. The incident follows two earlier self immolations and prompts talk of a tougher government stance amid Buddhist unrest.
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United Press International
Saigon
Phan Thiet
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Viet Nam
Thich Quang Duc
Nguyen Tuong Tam
Diem
United States
North Viet Nam
Kennedy
Drag Racer Hits Crowd Killing One at Gary Track
A car at a drag race near Gary Indiana left the track and crashed into spectators. John Montgerard 23 of Lansing Illinois drove the car which swerved off the track and burst into flames. Louis Martin 21 of Park Forest Illinois died. Nine others injured two critically.
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Gary
Ind
UPD
Here
Race Dragway
U.S
John Montgerard
Lansing
Ill
Louis Martin
Park Forest
Montgerard
Weather Map Forecast for Southwest Region
Four hour precipitation totals ending at midnight show scattered amounts. Cities listed include Abilene El Paso Albuquerque Dallas Houston Amarillo Oklahoma City Roswell Denver Walla Walla with varying readings from trace to around 0.02 inches and temperatures in the 60s to 90s for the period.
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City
Abilene
el Paso
Albuqurqu
Houston
Amarillo
Okla
Dallas
Roswell
W. Walla
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Misters
Luke
Page
Lubbock, Morton
South Plains
By Jerry McCarty
Self
James Johns
Buffalo Lakes Road
James William Thurston
33Rd St
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Viet Nam
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