Bold theft at Shell station in Lubbock prompts police inquiry
A stocky man with a mole over his left eye allegedly pilfered about $100 from Johnny Brawner's Shell station at 3520 50th St during a mid afternoon rush. The suspect fled in a two tone blue 1950s Chevrolet after asking for a job.
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Lubbock
Johnny Brawner
Shell
50Th St
Brawner
Alfred Rainbolt
37Th St
Rainbolt
Burlington Railroad Lines
17Th St
Ave. A
R. C. Johnson Standard
Plainview Highway
W. A. Dealy
Dallas
Parkway Drive
Sun satellite OSO3 fails to reach orbit at Cape Kennedy
The 10 million dollar Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO3 failed to reach a 350 mile high orbit after a Delta rocket third stage malfunction. Officials suspect a faulty fuse caused ignition trouble. signals showed the satellite worked before vanishing from tracking. Space agency costs total about 14.5 million.
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Cape Kennedy
Earth
Fla
Delta
Douglas Aircraft Co
Space Agency
OSO3
Orbiting Solar Observatory
OSO
JL. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Cape Kenney
Ots
Hatch Act Study Bill Seeks Bipartisan Commission
The Senate passed a bill to form a 12 member bipartisan commission to study the Hatch Act and related laws restricting government employee political activity. The panel would assess effects and the need for revision or elimination while avoiding a return to coercive practices.
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Washington
Senate
House
Daniel B. Brewster
D-Md
Senate Rules Committee
Estimated 500 to 600 deaths feared on Labor Day weekend
The National Safety Council projected 500 to 600 fatalities in traffic crashes during the 78 hour Labor Day period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. It noted 87 million vehicles will be on the roads, with travel totaling a record 8.9 billion miles.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Gemini 5 sighting described by Space Center
A Space Center spokesman said sightings of the Gemini 5 spacecraft require timing and good eye contact. Carnarvon Australia tracked the craft early and again on Wednesday while a surgeon aboard Coastal Sentry Quebec reported a superb visual during the 65th orbit.
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Manned Space. Center
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
United States
Carnarvon
Australia
Dirksen Reapportionment Amendment Passes Subcommittee
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee approved Dirksen’s amended reapportionment proposal by a 6 to 2 vote. The plan would allow one house to be apportioned by political subdivisions with voter approval, giving a veto to one house based on population.
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Washington
APA
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Supreme Court
Ilinois
Senate Judiciary Committee
Dirksen
James ©. Eastland
D-Miss
Teen-Age Youth Found Hanged in Clovis Backyard
Martin Burford 13 died after accidentally hanging himself from a backyard tree near his Star Route home. District Attorney Morris Stagner ruled accidental death and no inquest will be held. Services set for Friday at the Church of Christ with burial at Lawnhaven Memorial Park. survivors include parents a brother a sister and two grandmothers.
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Clovis
Martin Burford
Wayne Burford
Clovis Memorial Hospital
Burford
Morris Stagner
Stagner
Patience and Experience Teach Gain From Losses
A brief reflection on how patience and experience born of error lead to knowledge that lifts fortunes. The author Julien C Hyer notes losses imprint lessons, guiding wiser choices and better use of time in later years.
Highway bandits rob Mexican highway couple in wake of incident
Three masked gunmen stopped a camper near 25 miles northwest of Mexico City waking Richard C. Trexler and his wife Bernice. One bandit fired into the vehicle and fled after stealing two suitcases, $100, watches, a camera and an electric razor. One suspect was captured within an hour and loot recovered. Also Houston Councilman Thomas Henry Needham Sr., 82, died after two terms.
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Mexico City
UPI
el Paso
Richard C.trexler
Bernice
Federal Prosecution Urged In Acts Of Racial Violence
Civil rights leaders urge President Johnson to push federal laws empowering prosecution of all racial violence crimes. They cite the Friday Hayneville Ala murder of Jonathan Daniels and fear killers go unpunished despite indictments. Signers include MLK Jr and leaders from SNCC, CORE, and the National Urban League.
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Boston
Johnson
South
Richard G. Hirsch
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Robert W. Spike
Commission On Religion and Race
National Council of Churches of Christ In America
Whitney M. Young
National Urban League
Services Today For Mrs Hicks From Matador Resident
Services for Mrs. W. J. Hicks 78, longtime Matador resident now in Lubbock, will be at 3 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church in Matador with Rev. Gene Hawkins officiating. Burial follows at East Mound Cemetery under Seigler Funeral Home. She died Tuesday night at Methodist Hospital. Survivors include son Clint Hicks of 3711 47th St.
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W. J. Hicks
35Th St
Matador
Lubbock
First Baptist Church
Gene Hawkins
Lockney First Baptist Church
Victor Crabtree
Dickens
James Hancock
East Mound Cemetery
Seigler Funeral Home
Hicks
Methodist Hospital
Clint Hicks
47Th
Orville Jones Area Farmer Dies in Mexico
Orville Jones 59 a Hale Center native and noted farmer died Wednesday on a fishing trip at Sugar Lake Mexico He served on Hale Center School Board directed the Wheat Growers Assn and Producers Grain Corp in Amarillo and was a charter member of the Lions Club He retired from the City Council Services set for 2 pm Saturday with Hale Center Funeral Home to announce survivors include wife a daughter a step son three brothers a sister and four grandchildren
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Hale Center
Orville Jones
Sugar Lake
Mexico
Hale Center School Board of Trustees
Jones
Hale Center Wheat Growers Assn
Producers Grain Corp
Amarillo
The
Hale Center Lions Club
Hale Center Funeral Home
Harold Hoffman
Dallas
Charles Mills
Hurst
Claude
Plainview
Virgil
Charlie
Olton
T. E. Flake
Lubbock
Franco Espana Dies at 66 in Clovis Rites Slated Today
Franco Espana, 66, a Clovis resident for 45 years, died at 4 p.m. Tuesday at his home. Services are set for 9 a.m. today at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, with burial in Mission Garden of Memories. Officiant will be Rev. Arthur Meyer. Survivors include wife, a son Frank in Clovis, four daughters in Clo vis, OKC, and a brother in Mexico.
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Clovis
Franco Espana
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
Mission Garden of Memories
Sherwood Mortuary
Arthur Meyer
Frank
Richard Salvino
Elsa
Silva
Whisenhunt Dies Longtime Amherst Area Farmer
James Henry Whisenhunt 74 died Wednesday in Sudan after farming west of Sudan since 1930. Services 10 a m Friday at First Baptist Church Sudan with Rev. O L Turner and Rev. Willie Hazel officiating. Burial in Sudan Cemetery under Payne Funeral Home Amherst. Survived by wife Ethel four sons James M Susan Grover Levelland Arthur O Donnell and John Los Angeles two daughters Beatrice Adkin Amarillo and Mavis Green Pampa six grandchildren pallbearers named.
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Amherst
James Henry Whisenhunt
Sudan
First Baptist Church of
O. L. Turner
Willie Hazel
Buria
Payne Funeral Home
Ethel
James M
Susan
Grover
Levelland
Arthur
O'Donnell
John
Los Angeles
Beatrice Adkin
Amarillo
Mavis Green
Pampa
Calvin Wiseman
Pudd Wiseman
Henry William
Frank Pennell
Jimmy Carpenter
Filvily
Hobbs
Sammy H. Hill Rites Slated in First Baptist Church
Sammy Harold Hill 53, a farmer and implement dealer, died Tuesday at Lubbock Methodist Hospital. Rites are at 11:30 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with burial at Canyon at 5 p.m. Sem i nole Memorial Chapel directing. Surviving: wife two sons two daughters and four brothers.
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Seminole
Sammy Harold Hill
Lubbock
Methodist Hospital
First Baptist Church
Canyon
Seminole Memorial Chapel
Mrs. Cauble Dies. Services Pending in Snyder County
Rosa Lee Cauble 77 resident of Snyder County since 1918 died at Cogdill Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Native of Albany she was a Methodist. Services pending at Bolger Funeral Home. Survived by three daughters Mrs. W. H. McMullen Mrs. Clyde Bingham and Mrs. Bruce Murphy two sons Charles M and W F Snyder five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Tot crushed under wheels of pickup in Midland driveway
Abelardo Rodriguez Jr., 244, died after his father's pickup backed onto him in the driveway of his home in Midland. He arrived dead at Midland Memorial Hospital.
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Midland
UPI
Abelardo Rodriguez Jr
Midland Memorial Hospital
Elbert S. Rowe Littlefield Attorney Dies
Elbert Sanford Rowe a Brownfield migrant who became Littlefield first county attorney in 1921 and Littlefield High’s first football coach died at 8 30 p m in Littlefield Hospital. He founded Rowe Abstract Co in 1927 and served multiple terms as county attorney. Services at First Baptist Church with burial in Littlefield Memorial Park. Survivors: wife Susie two sons E S Jr Denver Colo Hall St Albans W V a daughter Mrs Jack Berkowitz Arcadia Calif seven grandchildren.
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Littlefield
Ebert Sanford
Rowe
Lamb County
Littlefield High
Brownfield
Rowe Abstract Company
Masonic Lodge
First Baptist Church
Robert Longshore
Littlefield Memorial Park
Hammons
Mrs Crawford Dies After Olton Crash
Mrs Nell M Crawford 70 of Olton died at Lubbock Methodist Hospital from head chest injuries and a broken arm and leg after a two vehicle collision near Olton. Funeral services are at First Methodist Church Olton at 2 50 pm with Rev R H Campbell and Rev Cecil Hardaway officiating. Burial in Olton Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter a sister two brothers and three grandchildren. Alfredo Lozano Lozano was in good condition and released from hospital. Born in Tarrant County she moved to Olton in 1928, except 1947 46 in Lubbock.
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Olton
Nell M. Crawford
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
First Methodist Church
R. H. Campbell
Cecil Hardaway
Wood- Dunning Funeral Home
Lubbock Hospital
Alfredo Lozano Lozano
Tarrant County
Crawford
Arhe
Gibson Services Pend In Lamesa
Wendell C Gibson 50 of the Welch community died on arrival at Medical Arts Hospital at 7 pm Wednesday. Born in Weatherford and moved to Dawson County in 1935 he was a Welch Baptist Church member. Funeral arrangements are pending with Branon Philips. Survivors include his wife two daughters a son his father two sisters two brothers and seven grandchildren.
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Wendell C Gibson
Welch
Medical Arts Hospital
Wednesday Gibson
Weatherford
Dawson County
Welch Baptist Church
Branon-Philips
Connie O'Brien
Stratford
GG. L
Isaacs
O'Donnell
Tommy
Lamesa
J. K. Welch
Edward B. Reddock dies at 61 in Seminole funeral today
Edward Bascom Reddock, 61, oil field worker, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Services set for 10 a.m. today at Memorial Chapel with burial in Santa Anna under Memorial Chapel direction. Survivors include wife, three brothers Bryan Iran Tex Rev Hal Reddock Floresville and Jack Lubbock, three sisters Elizabeth Wilson Oklahoma City Shelly Boultinghouse San Saba Lillie Chalk Dallas. Afghanistan plan to build a new steel mill.
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Sminole
Edward Bascom Reddock
Memorial Hospital
Memorial Chapnel
Santa Anna
Tex
Memorial Chapel
Bryan
Iran
Hal Reddock
Floresville
Jack
Lubbock
Elizabeth Wil ‘Son
Oklahoma City
Shelly Boultinghouse
San Saba
Lillie Chalk
Dallas
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Space Lab
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
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Julien C. Hyer
Houston (Ap
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Jonathan Daniels
Keene
N.H
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Mass
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Whisenhunt
Sammy H. Hill
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