Sabotage Paralyzes Tampa Telephone Network Amid Strike
In Tampa area a General Telephone strike cuts calls as saboteurs damage cables and a microwave tower. About 60,000 phones go out of service across six counties while guards ride repair trucks. The dispute centers on seniority and wartime hires with wage gaps and arbitration rejected. Local 824 denies ties to the sabotage.
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Tampa
Fla
General Telephone Company of Florida
General Telephone
Tampa Fire Department
Bumpy Road to Success Thieves Lose Stolen Safe
In Windsor Ontario thieves forced a drug store back door and loaded a safe into a car. After a trunk bump the safe tumbled onto a sidewalk before the suspects drove off, leaving onlookers and authorities with the odd missing loot.
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Windsor
Ont
UPI
Wife Charged In Mate's Death
Fort Worth police charged Peggy Joyce Satovich with murder in the early morning shooting death of her husband Robert Satovich 39. The 29 year old woman told officers I guess he wont beat on me or take my baby any more. Bond set at 10000.
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Fort Worth
Peggy Joyce Satovich
San Domingo marks 467th anniversary with anti Communist march
Thousands of Santo Domingo residents celebrated the city’s 467th anniversary in the Western Hemisphere by staging an anti Communist demonstration on Sunday in the capital.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Petree Funeral In City Today
Ed B. Petree 69 died at his home and funeral services are set for 1 p m at Rix Funeral Chapel with Rev Curtis Simpson officiating. Burial will be at Willow Cemetery in Haskell. Survived by wife, son Billy Gene of Fort Worth, daughter Bettye Jo Guthrie of Fort Worth, seven grandchildren.
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Rix
Curtis Simpson
Southside Baptist Church
Willow Cemetery
Haskell
Petree
Lubbock
Billy Gene
Fort Worth
Bettye Jo Guthrie
Special stamps planned for World Scout Jamboree
Greece announces a set of special stamps to honor the ongoing World Scout Jamboree. The issue highlights the international event and celebrates scouting, with designs featuring global youth participation and symbols of the movement.
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Marathon
Greece
Funeral Pending For Mrs Ponder
Mrs Ella Ponder 87 longtime New Deal resident died Sunday at Colonial Manor. Services are pending with Henderson Wilson Funeral Directors. Native of Coryell County she was member of New Deal Church of Christ. Survived by two daughters Cora Walker and Ollie Taylor two sons G F Ponder R C Ponder and W H Ponder ten grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
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Ella Ponder
New Deal
Colonial Manor
Henderson-Wilson Funeral
Ponder
Coryell County
New Deal Church of Christ
Cora E. Walker
Citrus Heights
Calif
Ollie. Taylor
G. EF. Ponder
Dallas
R. C. Ponder
Riverside
District 13 American GI Forum Meets in Lubbock
District 13 of the American GI Forum held a district meeting Sunday night hosted by Central Forum groups in Lubbock. Jesse Zapata was elected district secretary to fill a vacancy from Andy Manzanarres. About 85 delegates from District 18, covering nine counties, attended along with representatives from Post, Lockney, Levelland, Plainview and Slaton. A reception for state chairman Dr. Fermin Calderan was planned for his upcoming Lubbock visit.
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American GI Forum
Lubbock
Central Forum
Jesse Zapata
Andy Manzanarres
Post
Lockney
Levelland
Plainview
Slaton
Fermin Calderan
Indulgence and a Prince's Whim in a Royal Tale
The verse recounts a queen and nurse guiding a royal child. A wasp lands on a dish and the prince asks for it, testing whether indulgence serves his best interests. The piece questions child asking and parental yielding.
African finance ministers back plan for regional bank
Finance ministers from 32 African states endorse a plan for a new pan African bank with initial capital of 200 million dollars. A committee of Sudan Kenya Tunisia and the Ivory Coast will decide the bank’s location. The item about Rin Tin Tin is unrelated trivia noting its origin from WWI luck charms sold by French girls.
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Khartoum
Sudan
UPI
Africa
Tor
Kenya
Tunisia
Ivory Coast
Muleshoe and West Texas Rites Recap Throughout Region
Multiple funeral services across West Texas accompany notices for Dr. T M Slemons 66 Muleshoe physician Mrs M D an area resident since 1993 Ern est F Lokey 72 Clovis attorney Marcus Eld ridge Messer two day old son of Mr and Mrs Messer Cora Mae Priddy 72 longtime West Texas teacher Carrie Lee Manley 71 longtime Anton resident Rosa Stokes 77 Lubbock resident and other area figures Stated rites occur today at various churches and burial sites with local funeral homes directing arrangements Ceremonies span Muleshoe Paducah Stanton Anton Lubbock Farwell and nearby communities with pastors from multiple denominations officiating Specific times and locations vary by service.
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Cora Mae Priddy
West Texas
First Baptist Church
Stanton
W. C. Wright
Bethel Baptist Church
Ackerly
W. H. Uhlman
Big Spring City Cemetery
Arlington Funeral Home
Carrie Lee Manley
Aton
First Methodist Church
Anton
Bill C. Watson
Hammons
Turn-Of-Century School Days In Dickens Recalled
Reminiscences of turn of the century school days in Dickens County were shared at a Sunday gathering honoring former students. About 50 attendees heard Judge J B Cotten Sr recount ranching exploits and town histories. reunions are planned for the future.
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Dickens County
J. B. Cotten Sr
Seagraves
Emma Buchannan Russell
Washington
Fred J. Hale
Amarillo
Beulah K. Bird
Post
Russell
J. B. Cotten
South Plains
Linda Beadle
43Rd St
Margie Carpenter
18Th St
Wanda Steele
Tulsa
Albert. Buchannan
Roswell
Douglas Buchannan
Mrs.Beadle
Merritt Rites In Plainview Today
Jessie W. Merritt 67 of Brownfield will be buried at Haskell Cemetery after services at Kinney Funeral Home in Haskell. The McLennan County native died Saturday evening in Plainview Hospital after a long illness. Survivors include his wife Oma Tidwell in Waco, a son in Midland, three daughters, two brothers in Waco and friends.
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Plainview
Jessie W. Merritt
Brownfield
Kinney
Haskell
Merritt
Plainview Hospital
J. H. Skiles
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
Mother Of City Men Succumbs In Ada Oklahoma
Mrs. Ollie Phares 69 of Ada Oklahoma, mother of two Lubbock men and a Dimmitt woman, died Sunday. Services tentatively set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Sanders Funeral Home with burial to be announced. Survivors include three sons and five daughters living in Oklahoma, California, and Texas.
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Ollie Phares
Ada
Okla
Lubbock
Sanders Funeral Home
Howard
Acuff
J. C
Ann Carpenter
Dimmill
Davie Quimby
Tulsa
Bess Davis
Delhi
Calif
Mexine Vredenburg
Oakland
Helen _ John H. Young
Wilmuth
Oklahoma City
West Texas Hospital
Relatives Gather To Honor Lubbock Man
Nieces nephews and their children more than 80 gathered Sunday to honor Frank Skinner, 1305 Ave. R, the 23rd time this event has been held. Skinner, 76, had four brothers and two sisters all of whom have since died. Nieces and nephews from Texas and Oklahoma attended the reunion, highlighted by a barbecue at Mackenzie Park. Skinner, married 64 years, is a great great great uncle to some attendees.
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Frank Skinner
Ave. R
Skinner
Texas
Oklahoma
Mackenzie Park
South Africa plans super highway linking Johannesburg and Durban
South Africa intends to build a $56 million super highway stretching 380 miles to link Johannesburg with the port city of Durban and holiday resort areas. The project is projected to take about ten years to complete.
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Johannesburg
UPI
South Africa
Durban
John Huxford’s Services Today in Tulia
Funeral services for Orville John Huxford 74 longtime Swisher County merchant are set for 2 30 p m at First Baptist Tulia with Dr W Neil Record officiating Burial will be Rose Hill Cemetery Tulia Wallace Funeral Home handles arrangements Surviving relatives include a son three daughters a brother a sister a stepmother seven grandchildren and one great grandchild
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Tulia
First Baptist
Orville John Huxford
Swisher County
Huxford
Clinton
Ind
Plainview
W. Neil Record
Wayland Baptist College
Rose Hill Cemetery
Iaf Wallace Funeral Home
East German Berlin Tensions Tact in Quiet Honeymoon
Soviet officials urge restraint in Berlin amid East German hints of banning Western troops. They downplay Ulbricht’s air corridor charges and warn any new tension could jeopardize the U S Congress ratifying a limited test ban. West diplomats expect quiet behavior to preserve peaceful coexistence.
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John 0. Koehler
Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
East Berlin
Ulbricht
West Berlin
West Germany
Soviet Union
U.S
Khrushchev
Barton Services Set For Tuesday
Tulsa resident Thomas J Barton 62 died Saturday at Swisher County Hospital after a months long illness. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. He moved from Springfield Missouri to Tulia and worked for OK Rubber Welders. Surviving are his wife two sons Wayne and Carl a daughter Barbara Day his father M Marton and seven grandchildren.
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Tulia
Thomas J Barton
Tulsa
Swisher County Hospital
Wallace Funeral Home
Rose Hill
Barton
Fanning County
Wichita Falls
Martha Minick
Springfield
OK Rubber Welders
Primitive Baptist Church
Wayne
San Lorenzo
Calif
Carl
Amarillo
Barbara Day
Canyon
M. Marton
Founder of Indian Museum Succumbs
Logan Billingsley 80 real estate man and founder of the Indian Hall of Fame in Oklahoma died Sunday at Northern Westchester Hospital Mount Kisco after illness. He was a brother of Sherman Billingsley proprietor of the Stork Club in New York City.
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Katonah, N.Y
Logan Billingsley
Indian Hall of Fame
Oklahoma
Northern Westchester Hospital
Mount Kisco
Billingsley
Sherman Billingsley
Stork Club
New York City
Funeral services for Mrs. Reta Winkles today
Mrs. Reta Winkles 5 year old Brownfield resident died at 7 15 am Sunday at Methodist Hospital Lubbock. She moved from Hillsboro to Morton then Brownfield before settling in Brownfield. Services set for 3 pm at Missionary Baptist Church with Rev H F Dunn officiating. Burial in Morton Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include son Roy D Greer step sons W C J T C Winkles E C Winkles step daughter Mrs Roy Taylor mother Mrs Nettie Bragg two sisters Mrs Price Glenn and Mrs D L Craig two brothers T E and C R Bradshaw and a grandson.
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Hillsboro
Winkles
Morton
Brownfield
Missionary Baptist Church
Methodist Church
H. F. Dunn
Morton Memorial Cemetery
Singleton Funeral Home
Roy D. Greer
Star Rt. 1
W. C
J. T
T. C. Winkles
E. C. Winkles
Plains
Roy Taylor
California
Nettie Bragg
Price Glenn
D. L. Craig
T. E
C. R. Bradshaw
Lubbock
Champ Bridge Star Silodor Dies at 57
Sid ney Silodor of Havertown a top three life master in contract bridge and four times world champion died at Episcopal Hospital Philadelphia The longtime player captained the U S Olympic team in 1960 and authored two technical bridge books He won the Vanderbilt Trophy nine times and left law practice in 1929 to chase bridge full time
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Philadelphia
Sidney Silodor
Episcopal Hospital
Silodor
Havertown
U.S
Lubbock Minister Rev Nathaniel Williams Dies After Heart Attack
The Rev. Nathaniel Williams 60 assistant pastor of the Church of God In Christ No 1 died on arrival at Methodist Hospital at 1 30 p m Sunday after an apparent heart attack He had lived in Lubbock since 1929 at 2202 Birch Services are pending at Jamison Funeral Home.
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Nathaniel Williams
Church of God In Christ No. 1
Methodist Hospital
Mr. Williams
Lubbock
Birch
Jamison Funeral Home
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Afl-Cio
Frank M. Edmondson
Plant City
Hillsborough County Medical Association
Joan McKee
Miss McKee
University of South Florida
J. M. Lariz
Yellow Cab Co
Tampa, Inc
Mate
Robert Satovich
Ed B. Petree
Mrs. Ponder
Julien C. Hyer
T. M. Slemimons
Muleshoe
Methodist
Muleshoee
J. Frank Perry
Elmer Crabtree
Plainview Methodist Church
Bailey County Memorial Park
M. D.ee
Missionary Baptist
Ernest F. Lokey
Clovis
State Line
Farwell
C. V. Steed
Robert ©. Tomlinson
Hamlin Memorial Methodist Church
Marcus Eldridge Messer
D. FE. Messer
30Th St
City of Lubbock
C. W. Taylor
Southside
Church of God
Rix Funeral Home
Rosa Stokes
Parkdale Baptist Church
Darrel G. Davidson
Monterey High School
W. Reed Quilliam
Lubbock Association of Insurance Agents
Pioneer Hotel
Quilliam
Mae Murfee
14Th St
Houston
Omer Malone
Lemons Funeral Home
Lubbock Man
John Huxford
Indian Museum
Ailes Insurance
Porter
Resthaven Memorial
Levelland Highway
Mrs. Winkles
Reta Winkles
Lubbok
Norman Rockwell
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Collier’s
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