1 899 000 Bales Set In Survey Near All Time High
The Lubbock Cotton Exchange and Plains Cotton Growers forecast a crop of 1,899,000 bales for the 23 county area, potentially the second largest on record and about 29,647 bales above 1959. Weather, rains, and Cuba news are also noted in this periodical issue.
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High Plains
Lubbock Cotton Exchange
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
PCG
Playa Lakes
Lubbock Twins
Judy
Carol Best
Melvin Best
Jim Argo
Dallas Voters Defy Court Reject Integration Despite Referendum
Dallas voters turnout was high in unofficial returns on a school integration referendum. White precincts largely opposed desegregation while Negro precincts favored it, though the measure will not alter the federal court order for limited integration by September 1961.
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Dallas
Insgeeleton
T. Whitfield Davidson
UN Security Council meets as Congo crisis deepens
Dag Hammarskjold flew back to New York for an emergency Security Council session amid Congo Katanga tensions. He urged a pledge that UN forces stay out of Congo internal affairs while diplomacy seeks a Congo confederation and negotiations.
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Ome
Dag Hammarskjold
New York
Security Council
Hammarskjold
Katanga
Congo
Moishe Tshiombe
Elisabethville
Leopoldville
Antoine Gtenga
Agal
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Africa
Council
Ralph Bunche
Moscow
Solons To Get the Warning Solons To Get the Warning amped
President Eisenhower plans to send a message to Congress warning against budget busting by Democrats while urging limited new defense spending. The White House said the Senate would receive the message first with a House copy following. a nationwide address to the public was possible but not firm. The plan includes foreign and domestic issues, defense spending limits, school aid, care for the elderly, low income areas federal help, and mild wage law liberalization.
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Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Senate
House
86Th Congress
Washington
Quonset Naval Air Station
James C. Hagerty
Richard M. Nixon
Democratic Congress
Virginia Town Hit By Sudden Downpour
A thunderstorm drenched Richmond's West End with torrential rain and high winds flooding streets and homes. Nearly four inches fell in under an hour as area residents then faced renewed flood concerns from prior days of storms.
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Richmond, Va
Richmond
Bee
Philipine
Manila
UPL
Fa Street
Philippine
Weatherman The leading writer of fiction employed by the government
A satirical note questions the role of the official weather forecaster who also serves as a government fiction writer. It frames the figure as a public persona blending meteorology with literary craft and government service.
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Comic Dictionary
Weatherman
Parents embark on distressing journey to Moscow
Mr and Mrs Oliver Powers plan a long trip from southwest Virginia to the Soviet Union to attend the spy trial of their son Francis Gary Powers. They travel with Sol W. Cury as adviser. The State Department notes Moscow refuses certain American actions.
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Virginia Hills
Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
Oliver Powers
Moscow
Sol W. Cury
Powers
State Department
Washington
Sundown Liquor Proposal Fails in Local Vote
The article reports Sundown voters defeating a liquor proposal by a margin of 83 to 230 ballots, with 377 total voters participating. Soviet notes and overseas travel plans are mentioned as context, noting the seventh election in recent years and the complexity of overseas ballots.
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Oliver Powers
J. C. Akin
Washington
New York
Soviet Union
South Plains
Wis
Robbery at Raymondville Bank Ends With Tobacco Attack
Guadalupe Perez was robbed leaving the Raymondville First National Bank as two Black men threw tobacco in his eyes and grabbed a bag containing 1500 dollars intended to pay cotton pickers. They shoved him to the ground, then fled in a sedan north on US 77.
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Raymondville
Tex
Hiroshima 15 Years After the Bomb A City Rebounds
A DAY INOSHITA TAOSHIMA reports on Hiroshima's postwar mood with raucous city life and quiet hospital wards. The piece contrasts celebratory streets with lingering scars, noting 91,233 dead and missing from the August 6 1945 attack and ongoing recovery.
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Hiroshima
Good Old Days Questioned by G K Hodenfield
In comparing 1900 and later eras, the piece cites rising costs and wages from a Census Bureau book. It notes pork 11 and 10 pounds for 57 cents, worker pay at 398 hours for $2.07, and shifts in federal taxes and national debt, suggesting life may have been more favorable then.
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G. K. Hodenfield Ashington
Weather map page shows clear to partly cloudy warmth
Lubbock vicinity forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with an overnight low around 70 and a high near 5. Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms possible. Winds southerly to southwesterly 10 to 20 mph.
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Lubbock
Houston
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