Mayors Meet To Discuss Interstate Highway Links
Elected officials from El Paso Oklahoma City Wichita Falls and Lubbock gather in Lubbock City Hall with Mayor Williams proposing an interstate facility connecting El Paso to Oklahoma City via Wichita Falls and Lubbock. Attendees include city leaders and chamber heads from the four cities.
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Ayors
Oklahoma City
Wichita Falls
el Paso
Lubbock
W. D
Duh) Rogers Jr
Judson Williams
R. C. Rancier
George H. Shirk
Williams
Fred Hervey
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Irvin
el Paso Highway Coordinating Committee
Tom Diamond
Mark Miles
Clay Underwood
Rof
Citizen's Advisory Committee
Jim Harwell
C. Bailey
Henry Grace
City Mgr
Jack Davis
John Roark
Rainmaker Seeks Rain Claim With New Tower Near Morena
Edmond Charles Jeffery, a self styled rain maker, backs his claim with chemicals atop a tower near Morena Reservoir about 50 miles east of San Diego. He vows rain by Monday and ties his work to the infamous Hatfield rainmaking saga, noting a prior 1960 Morena effort.
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Robert M. Burnett
Diego
Calif
Edmond Charles Jeffery
San Diego County
Jeffery
Morena Reservoir
San Diego
Monay
Hatfield
Morena
Ctay
Warfield
Long hot summer ends as South Plains youths return from camp
South Plains youngsters end vacation as camp season wraps up. Mrs. Bud Englund of Slaton checks if her son Bob washed his ears after a Boy Scout trip in the New Mexico mountains. See other vacation end photos on page 8.
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South Plains
Bud Englund
Slaton
Bob
New Mexico Mountains
Despot Sheikh Ousted Amid Oil Fortune Tale
A deposed despot Sheikh who kept an oil fortune under his bed is removed from power. The story outlines the political shift, regional impact, and implications for energy control, with context on Middle East power dynamics and reactions from neighboring states.
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Despotio Sheikh
Page &, Sec. A
Three Alarm Blaze Hits Dallas Center
A three alarm fire swept a Lakewood area shopping center in east Dallas on Sunday night causing about 75000 dollars in damage. The Trice Carpet Store suffered the most damage with smoke affecting nearby buildings.
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Dallas Center
Dallas
UPD
Lakewood
Trice
Investigators Probe Braniff Crash Debris
Investigators probed the charred Braniff air liner remains after a deadly crash that killed all 42 aboard. The plane fell into a soybean field between Kansas City and Omaha as witnesses described a flames engulfing descent from a low cloud.
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Aus City
Neh
Braniff
Seven U S Planes Shot Down Over North Vietnam
Seven American war planes were shot down Sunday in North Vietnam, the highest toll of the air war. Two pilots were rescued and an eighth aircraft was thought to have been downed. A reconnaissance plane disappeared northwest of Hanoi with its pilot missing in action.
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Associated Press
AIGON
North Viet Nam
U.S
An Rei Vondoo
Hnanoi
Hanoi-Haiphong
Peking
New China News Agency
Hanoi
North
Prose
Gulf of Tonkin
First BAC 111 Crash in U S Kills Dozens near Falls City
Anonymous airmen reported missing in action after three parachutes were seen and beeper radios heard. The Braniff Flight 250 twin jet from New Orleans to Omaha crashed in Nebraska near Falls City, killing many aboard and scattering bodies at a five acre field owned by Antone Schawang. Witnesses described a ball of fire and a sky lit up as the aircraft plunged straight down, polecing a dramatic rescue and investigation effort.
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Air Force
Braniff International Airways
New Orleans
Minneapolis
Shreveport
Fort Smith
Ark
Tulsa
Kansas City
Omaha
British Aircraft Corp
Civil Aeronautics Board
Nebraska National Guard
Prichard Auditorium
Falls City
Nebraska Highway
Marvin Gifford
U.S. 73
Antone Schawang
Schawang
Maward Op. Larsen
Puyallup
Wash
Kevin A. Gilroy
Menlon Park
Calif
Fiof
Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Gifford
Milton Bauman
Eppley Airfield
Braniff
Donald G. Pauly
James A. See
California quake rattles Los Angeles and region
A 5.6 magnitude tremor centered southeast of Pasadena shook downtown Los Angeles at 10 37 a m Sunday. The quake was felt across southern California and parts of Arizona with no damage reported. Police lines were busy and chandeliers swayed in churches as residents felt the shaking for several seconds.
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Los Angeles
Gulf of California
Sonora
Mex
Seismological Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
California
Arizona
San Diego
Charles Howell
San Diego State College Geology Department
Phoenix
Tucson
Yuma
San Luis
Yoma
Bizarre Conveyance Stuns Cowpokes in 1886 Texas
John W. Murray and his son Hal arrived on velocipedes at a ranch near Paducah Matador asking directions to Hank Smith's Blanco Canyon. The Murray family, traveling from Margaret Hardeman County toward Estacada, sought a site for a print shop while testing unfamiliar two wheeled bicycles on cow and buffalo trails.
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Paducah
Matador
Hank Smith
Blanco Canyon
John W. Murray
Hal
Margaret
Frontier
Hardeman County
Pease River
Estacada
Two Youths Bodies Found In Car Trunk
A late night triple slaying near Fort Worth leads to murder charges against Roy Green and Kenneth Allen McDuff. A teenage girl Idna Louise Sullivan remains missing while two male victims, Robert Hugh Brand and Marcus Dunnam, were found in a car trunk. Evidence includes lipstick name on a window and missing wallets.
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Mike Cochran
Marcus Dunnam
Jack Dunnam
Tarzana
Calif
LL Weed Ura
Hicht
Franklin
Texas
Miss Sullivan
E.R. Mughes
Brand
Jack Brand
Young Dunnam
Louise
Tarrant County
Lon Evans
Bill Sanders
Evans
Page
Two Deaths Investigated In Texas City Murders
Plainview woman Erika Fries 36 found shot to death at her home site near a dirt road. Nasario Torres 35, a Rupert Marsh farms worker from Ralls, gunned down near his Lubbock apartment. An 18 year old Lubbock youth seen at the scene. Police pursue murder theory, autopsy ordered, no arrests yet.
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Plainview
Ralls
Lubbock
Erika Fries
Nasario Torres
Rupert Marsh
Libbock
Lemonga Funeral
J. C. Lewis
Fries
Nick Fries
Tilzeit
Germany
First
Newlyweds Nugent Stay in Capricon Villa Nassau Bahamas
Newlyweds Patrick and Laed Nugent arrived in Nassau on a Pan American flight from New York. They stayed at the Capricorn villa on New Providence Island near Lyford Cay. The couple traveled with two Secret Service agents and used the alias Frisbee.
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Nassau, Bahamas
Patrick
Laed Nugent
Bahamas
Capricorn
Pebeeca Harkness
New York
New Providence Island
Lyford Cay
Johnson
Nassau
Pan American
Customs and
Shelton B. Shelton
Mr. Jenkins
Roman
Harkness
Nugents
Seeret Service
Frisbee
Kennedy Airport
Harkness Foundation
Weather Map Page 3-A Lubbock Area Partly Cloudy Skies
Lubbock and vicinity expect partly cloudy conditions with little temperature change today and tonight. High near 90 degrees, low in the middle 60s, light easterly winds.
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Lubbock
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18Th
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Jimmie) Linn
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Hartley
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Perryton
Jack Young
Lamb County
J. W. Buchanan
Moore County
J. Paul Miller
Democratic Executive Committee
Charles Mallory Hatfield
Lubbock, Area
Yoakum County
Whitman
Sec. A
National League
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Comic Dictionary
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U.S. House of Representatives
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