Marilyn Monroe Found Dead in Brentwood Home
Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe was found in her Brentwood bungalow in bed, an apparent suicide or overdose. Police and coroner planned further tests while psychiatrists and friends were questioned to determine her mood before death.
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Aowoop
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood
Miss Monroe
Brentwood
Eunice Murray
Hyman Engelberg
Joseph Clemens
Theodore Curphey
Los Angeles
Joe DiMaggio
San Francisco
Clark Gable
Wrecks injure 12 in area crashes near Lubbock
A pickup truck and a boat were involved in a late Saturday night crash on the Texas Tech freeway near Boston Avenue injuring three members of a Lubbock family. The father Tommy Wynne and his wife Bobbie were treated and released. Eleven year old Danny Wynne remained in fair condition at Porter Clinic Hospital. Four others from Brownfield and Fort Worth were hospitalized in fair condition after separate accidents on U S 62 near Meadow. Police described a multiple car collision with a stopped vehicle in the median. the Crain and Breeding crash occurred at 11 10 p m Saturday.
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Lubbock
Porter Clinic
Danny Wynne
Texas Tech
Boston Avenue
Colorado City
Bill Bailey
Keith Farr
Tommy G. Wynne
Rt. 5
Bobbie
Meadow
U.S. Hwy
Fred Lenz
Brownfield
Terry County
Billy Wayne Brooks
Glenn Ruby Palmer
George Donald Crain
Fort Worth
Lenz
Odell Breeding
31St St
Breeding
Crain
Kenneth Dwight Kacauskas
J. A. Kacaukas
39Th St
Soviet Union resumes atmospheric nuclear tests in Arctic blast
The Soviet Union fired a 40 to 57 megaton atmospheric nuclear blast over Novaya Zemlya, resuming tests after prior U S Pacific tests. Swedish seismologists at Uppsala measured a high altitude explosion, while Japan and U S agencies placed it in the megaton range. The test followed Khrushchev’s threat, prompting Western warnings and new Arctic maneuvers.
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Soviet Union
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Novaya Zemlya
Russia
Uppsala
Sweden
Japanese Meteorological Agency
U.S
Khrushchev
U.S. Pacific
Washington
State Department
Japan
Arctic Circle
Soviet Defense Ministry
United States
Murmansk
Barents and
Kara Seas
Lubbockites Debated Shorts Fashion In Public Spaces
Avalanche Journal reports on local views from Dr. W. C. Holden and residents on who should wear shorts in public, noting museum policies and the clash between modesty and comfort as tourists visit national sites and the West Texas Museum on the Texas Tech campus.
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Lubbockites
Billy Roy Williams
Betty Burgess
38Th St
Avalanche-Journal
W. C. Holden
20Th St
Washington, D.C
White House
Capitol Building
Congress
Washington
Lubbock
Dr. Holden
West Texas Museum
Texas Tech
Clark Gable
Holden
Poor Taste Shorts-Wearing In Washington Shrines
Tourists in shorts flood Washington shrines including the White House and Capitol, a hot weather dilemma with no quick solution. Authorities resist dress rules, arguing only the President First Lady and Congress can ban such attire, likely sparing action amid public uproar. The White House counts over 50 shorts wearers per day in samples, while the Capitol draws even larger crowds.
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White House
Washington
Capitol
Congress
Secretary of Interior
Slaton Immunization Day Draws 4500 In Stop Polio Drive
4500 residents participated in Slaton Stop Polio Sunday mass immunization for Sabin vaccine. Rotary Club led the first dosage while Lions Club and Jaycees sponsor upcoming doses. Children and adults praised the painless oral dose as Slaton plans future mass campaigns in Loreno Diaz area towns.
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Avalanche-Journal
Laton Slaton
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Jaycees
Angelia Gail Martin
Gene Martin
West Ward
John Schmidt
Slaton
South Plains
Lorenzo
Brownfield
Lamesa
Tahoka
Lubbock
Civic Club
Reunion Here 1900 Events Recalled By Classmates
Charles Cullin recalls a Dickens County one room school reunion with four former pupils and their classmate Emma Buchanan Russell. The group shared memories of Alma Mater, a center curtain dividing primaries, Dickens isolation, wagons from Quanah, and square dances in the district courthouse.
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Charles Cullin
Avalanche-Journal
Alf
South Plains
Lubbock
Dickens
Emma Buchanan Russell
R. G. Beadle
43Rd St
Russell
Alma Mater
Fred Hale
Amarillo
Emer Clay Gay
Pearl Gunn Mce- Whorter
Irene van Leer Rodgers
Dickens County
Quannah
Zapata Banker's Trial Set Today
Manuel Medina faces trial in Webb County on charges of taking deposits while knowing Zapata private bank was failing. The case, moved from Zapata to Webb, follows a bank closure on July 18, 1961. Bankruptcy trustee Francis Maher expects about 50 cents on the dollar for creditors, though preferred credits may alter that share. Medina, 55, has been free on bond and living in San Antonio.
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Laredo
Manuel Medina
Zapata
Medina
Zapata County
Webb County
Francis P Maher
San Antonio
Six Die in Head On Collision Near Lubbock
Six men and women believed from the Lubbock area were killed in a head on crash on U S Highway 87 eight miles south of Lubbock near Woodrow at about 12 15 a m. The dead include Nieves Mendez Santiago Martinez and Mr and Mrs Luciano Ortiz and Mr and Mrs Siilda Bustamante. No witnesses were found and ages and addresses were unavailable.
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Lubbock
Headon
U.S. Hwy. 87
Woodrow
Nieves Mendez
Santiago Martinez
Luciano Ortiz
Siilda Bustamante
Wilson
Mendez
Martinez
Prayer Verse Header for Local Use
A short prayer entry thanks Heaven for life and asks for guidance as households welcome divine presence at home. The fragment names T A Payne C M Long D B Longley and Andrews and invites prayers for use in local settings.
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Heavenly Father
T. A. Payne
C. M. Long
D. B. Longley
Andrews
Heat Sears Texas Again with 12th Straight 100-Degree Day
A cold front moved east from the Rockies north of Texas record heat as tornadoes and severe storms swept Arkansas to Michigan. San Antonio tied a 1930 record at 103 after two thirds of Texas stations hit 100 plus. Fires burned 3000 acres, threatening homes as storms raked Missouri, Ohio, and Michigan. one car incident injured a woman in Arkansas.
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Michigan
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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S.D
Grand Forks
N.D
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Ark
Ballwin
Maplewood
South St. Louis
Mississippi River
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