Alabama Delegation Faces Seat Fight Over Loyalty Pledge
The Democratic National Convention credentials committee attached a loyalty oath to seating Alabama delegates. Alabama members rejected the plan 33 to 3 and prepared to contest on the floor, with Gov. George Wallace reportedly joining the opposition. The Mississippi seating decision also awaited.
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Associated Press
Tlantic City
N.J
Alabama
Mississippi
Mm Mee
Eugene Connor
Birmingham
George C. Wallace
Johnson Weanoning
Johnson
DEMOS
Five Die In Crash Toll Rises In Area
A Floyd County hit run and two other crashes killed five people in a weekend. Floydada residents Floyd Haymon Sterling and Mrs Towle died from injuries after being struck near Floydada. Of the three deaths, Sterling died in People’s Hospital and was on FM Road 784 aiding a stalled vehicle. Funeral plans were pending for the Towle family.
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Bell Seale Funeral
Floyd
Haymon ‘Sterling
Floydada
Jose” Ayina
Sas
Towle
Martha. Ann Woman’s Club
Albrurian Club
Methodist Church
First Meth‘dist
State
Bolger Funeral Home
John Blum
Snyder
H. Green
Big
Spring
Floyd County
Sterling
Kendall
Reed
Plainview
Carl Mullins
Rt. 4
Floy‘dada
Aurora, Minn
New York State
Cleo the hurricane pounds Hispaniola and Caribbean islands
Hurricane Cleo neared Hispaniola with 140 mph winds threatening dawn landfall. It damaged sugar and banana plantations on Guadeloupe and left thousands of homes destroyed or damaged across the Caribbean, with Cuba Jamaica and Haiti Cuba possible targets as the storm moved west.
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ech _ Tren
Jeannel
Cleo
Hispaniola
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Cuba
Senate Oy
Jamaica
Weather Bureau
Lof
Fonto
Domingo
Guadeloupe
Basse Terre
Islands
Co A
Charles Gy Crenshaw Sr longtime Lubbock attorney dies
Charles Gy Crenshaw Sr 78 longtime resident and pioneer attorney in the area died Saturday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock He moved here in 1926 and practiced law for decades Funeral services set for 4 p m at First Christian Church with Dr Dudley Strain officiating Interment in Resthaven Mausoleum under direction of Rix Funeral Home An native of Greenville La he married Luella Davis Foester in 1913 in Shreveport La and was active in local reporting and court matters
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Ervices
Charles “Gy” Crenshaw Sr
First Christian Church
Dudley ,Strain
Restha Es
Rix Funeral Home
Lubbock
Methodist Hospital
Cronsian
Greenville
Crenshaw
Luella Davis Foe
Shreveport
Crenshen
Court
Severe Rain Drenches Texas and Midwest Tornado Toll
Heavy rainfall battered central Texas with up to 10 inches and disrupted travel in Laredo where five inches were logged at the municipal airport. Catarina saw 6.54 inches as a cool front moved through the area, while Lubbock reached 88 degrees after a 56 degree low. In Wisconsin, destructive tornadoes damaged residential areas causing a state of emergency in one community.
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Ayelenche-Semnmls
New England
Texas Hill ‘Country
U.s.weather Bureau
Texas
Laredo
Municipal
Catarina
Rio Grande Valley
Lubbock
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Lone Star Delegation Y Hits Town
Texas delegates and alternates to the 34th Democratic Convention arrived in Atlantic City by two charter planes. Gov. John Connally and Mrs. Connally flew from Washington and were greeted at Haddon Hall by a waiting crowd. Connally humorously noted he had been interviewed five times since arriving as he prepared to attend the opening session at 6 p.m. Lubbock time, with Texas organizers ready for the convention.
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Chas
A. Quy
Avalanche-Journal
Onvention Hall
Atlantic City
Texas
Dallas
Houston
Lubbock
John Connally
Washington
Haddon Hall
Merrill
Floresville
FEXAS
Democratic platform adopts hard line stance on Communism
The 1964 Democratic platform writers in Plant City New Jersey approved a tough line on international Communism while pledging peace as a prime national objective. They vow to maintain overwhelming military strength and insist on enforceable disarmament, with critics attacked over nonproliferation controls. The 11 member executive committee also backed fair enforcement of the Civil Rights Act.
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Associated Press
Plantic City
N.J
Democratic Platform
Atform
Lanai G Edersiiet
le ‘Tavor
Democratic “Administration
America
Barry Swater
Neparentil
United States
Plattform Drafters
Sas
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Emma Guffy Miller
Pennsylvania
Liv Bjorke
Valley City
N.D
Claude W. Brown
Brown
Texas Democratic Executive Committee
Gerard Falvel
Philadelphia
Snyd
Hwy
Troy Lee Koening
Ira
Austin
Earl
Raymondiy
Charley Ray
Russell Angel
Janie
Ruth
Pearlie Mae
Ed Lee
Lone Star
Tersetee
Seearese
Negestes
Sareneges
Seherese
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