Polio Victim Among City Deaths and New Cases
Lubbock records the county's first polio fatality, Crites, with bulbar polio noted as highly lethal. Texas reports eight polio deaths in six months. Two more cases, Curtis Baker and Michael Becknal, are in hospitals in fair condition. Crites is survived by a wife two sons and several relatives.
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Crites
Lubbock
State Health Department
Texas
Associated Press
Curtis Wade Baker
Methodist Hospital
Michael Becknal
West Texas Hospital
Baker
Leon Lowe
Brownfield
Becknal
D. R. Becknal
44Th St
Rites Set For Tech Graduate Dr A Leon Havis
Services are scheduled for 2 p m Monday at College Park Maryland for Dr A Leon Havis 53 an Agriculture research center official for 20 years He died Thursday night a 1931 Texas Tech graduate son of Mrs A L Havis Survivors include two brothers Melvin Havis and Dr John Havis plus other relatives The obituary notes ties to the University of Massachusetts through plants and shrubs.
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College Park
A. Leon Havis
Department of Agriculture Research Center
Havis
Texas Tech
A. L. Havis
26Th St
Melvin Havis
John and
Oriental Shrubs
University of Massachusetts
Pugh Rites Planned in Amherst for 87-Year-Old Farmer
Funeral services for W. E. Pugh 87 longtime Amherst resident will be at 4 p m today at First Baptist Church with Elder Kenneth Martin Floydada officiating. Burial in Amherst Cemetery under Payne Funeral Home direction. Survivor list includes five daughters Mrs Collins Dimmitt Mrs Wilson Oklahoma City Mrs Emerson Pauls Valley Mrs Baker Ranger and Mrs Brantley Amherst and a son H T of Muleshoe.
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Amherst
W. E. Pugh
First Baptist
Dimmitt
C. C. Wilson
Oklahoma City
Okla
J. C. Emerson
Pauls Valley
G. Baker
Ranger
Harry Brantley
H. T
Muleshoe
Dee T. Lorance Dies in Muleshoe Rites Set
Dee Thomas Lorance 64 a Bailey County resident for 22 years died at 8 a m Saturday in Green Hospital He was a World War II veteran Baptist member IOOF and moved from Memphis Tennessee to Muleshoe Funeral services are set for 2 25 p m Monday at Trinity Baptist Church with Rev Troy Walker officiating Burial will follow in Mule shoe Cemetery under Singleton Funeral Home direction Survivors include his mother Mrs A A Lorance of the home two sisters Mrs Nola Hill of Clarendon and Mrs Will Cargill of Turkey and two brothers O H and Jim both of Muleshoe
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Muleshoe
Deel Thomas Lorance
Bailey County
Green Hospital
Trinity Baptist
A. A. Lorance
Nola Hill
Clarendon
Will Cargill
Turkey
0. H
Jim
Russell Burton Dies. Bexar County Personnel Director
Russell Burton aged 51 and the first personnel director of Bexar County, died Saturday after a short illness. He began the post on February 1.
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San Antonio
Russell Burton
Bexar County
Carpenter Would Like Orbit Flight
Scott Carpenter the second American to orbit space expresses envy and admiration for Maj. Andrian Nikolayev after the Soviet achievement. In Aurora he praises the Russian mission and hopes to exchange places, sending congratulations and best wishes.
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Denver
Cole
Scott Carpenter
Soviet Union
Navy
Denver Post
Carpenter
Aurora
Claude Carpenter
The
Post
Maj
Andrian G. Nikolayev
Associated Press
Funeral services for Joseph Green Keele in Ralls
Funeral services for Joseph Green Keele 83 longtime area resident will be held at 2 20 p m today at the Ralls Church of Christ Burial will follow in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home Keele died Thursday in Crosbyton Hospital He was a retired farmer who had lived in the area since 1919
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RALLS
Joseph Green Keele
Ralls Church
Motel Guests Flee Sioux City Gas Leak
A car crashed into a light pole and ruptured an above ground gas main at a northwest Sioux City motel. About a dozen guests fled the building while the driver Donald Williams, 32, Dallas, suffered cuts and bruises and was hospitalized.
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Sioux City, Iowa
UPI
Donald Williams
Dallas
Funeral Service Slated Monday For Ted Husing
Funeral services will be held Monday in Pasadena at Ives and Warren chapel for Ted Husing the famed broadcaster who died after a long illness. The Rev Carl B Anderson will officiate with private interment in the Los Angeles area. Husing born in New York City became a golden era voice covering Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Bobby Jones and other sports icons. He spent his final years at Cloisters convalescent home after brain surgery and financial struggles ending in 1950s comeback attempts.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ives
Warren
Los Angeles
Carl B. Anderson
Messiah Lutheran Church
Husing
New York City
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
Bobby Jones
Woman Dies After Fall From Car Near Post
Mrs Joy Carolyn Arrington 19 of Level land died in Cogdell Memorial Hospital at 11 am Saturday from head injuries after reportedly falling from a car traveling about 45 mph near Post seven miles south of Post on Snyder highway. Sheriff L E Clabhorn Jr said the Levelland driver, 26, will undergo a polygraph test Monday. Two witnesses in another car corroborated the driver, both strangers to the Levelland pair. Services are set for Tuesday in Dallas with burial in Laurel Land Cemetery. Survivors include her husband Robert and her parents J E Paul and wife in Dallas, three sisters Shirley Gibson Mesquite Norma Smith Denver and Betty Williamson Hobbs, and a brother Jerry Wayne Paul.
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Claborn
Levelland
Funeral Services For Abilene Man William P. McDonald
Funeral services were held for William P. McDonald 94 of Abilene father of Charles A. McDonald of Lubbock at 2 p m Saturday at Clinton Avenue Church of Christ Abilene. Burial followed in an Abilene cemetery. Survivors include his wife three sons three daughters and a brother.
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William P. McDonald
Abilene
Charles A. McDonald
E. Tulane
Lubbock
Clinton Avenue Church of Christ, Abilene
Abilene Ceme
Fatality toll rises in Texas traffic crashes
The Texas Department of Public Safety reports 1070 fatal accidents causing 1312 deaths to date, up 4 percent in crashes and 2 percent in deaths from last year. Last year saw 1036 fatal accidents and 1285 deaths.
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Austin
UPI
Department of Public Safety
Texas
U S Balance Of Payments Deficit Drops Sharply
The Commerce Department reports the U S balance of payments deficit fell to about 1 billion dollars annually in the April June quarter, from 1.9 billion in Q1 1962, with the first half near 1.5 billion and the year 1962 total about 2.5 billion. Export gains and Canada’s capital flow curbing helped, but future reversals are possible.
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Washington
U.S
Commerce Department
Canada
Commerce Report
Bachelor ex lumberjack named backup cosmonaut in Soviet space history
Maj. Andrian Nikolayev, 22, described as a calm, energetic lumberjack and standby for Titov during the second Soviet orbital flight, joined cosmonaut training after forestry work and military pilot schooling. Tass notes his humble beginnings in the Chuvash region, family losses, and party affiliation since 1957.
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Moscow
UPI
Andrian Grigoryevitch Nikolayev
Russia
Nikolayev
Yuri Gagarin
Titov
Chuvash Autonomous Republic
Middle
Volga
Tass
Karelia
Mntov
Communist Party
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