Lubbock Woman Surrenders in FBI Ten Most Wanted Case
Katherine Norris, widow of several Southwest hoodlums, turned herself in to Midland police and the FBI after harboring Harry Raymond Pope. She denied awareness of Pope’s fugitive status and said Pope visited her trailer house on the prior Tuesday with his companion Peggy Ann Frye. Authorities said Pope had been captured earlier near her residence on the Tohoka Highway.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Ged
Harry Raymond Pope
Dallas
FBI
Lubbock
Pope
Midland
Katherine
Daltes
Norris
Tracy Eggleston
Cecil Green
Tohoka Highway
Cape
L. W. Forrester
Forrester
24Th Street
Mrs. Norris
J.david White
Peggy Ann Frye
United States Seeks Urgent Laos Aid and SEATO Session
The United States plans expanded aid to Laos amid guerrilla clashes, with unofficial reports indicating arms enough for 5,000 soldiers. An unusual SEATO session is to be held here in late September, as Rep. Stratton urges Marines and carrier task forces for Laos. President Eisenhower calls Laos situation urgent and signals broader military assistance.
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State Department
United States
SEATO
Laos
Samuel S.S. Stratton
Flash Flood Strikes Portales Area Town
A flash flood struck Floyd, 16 miles northwest of Portales, causing a rapid rainfall event. Reports indicate around 3.35 inches of rain fell in about 30 minutes, with Portales area weather affected and brief closures reported.
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Portales
Floyd Community
Wednesda
Petition Filed For Precinct Liquor Vote In Lubbock County
A second petition seeks a local option election in Justice Precinct 2 to legalize off premises sales of all alcoholic beverages. The drive, led by Mce Melcher for Robert Stolle, gathered 21 signatures with 10 needed, and circulators have 30 days to collect and return valid signatures to the County Commissioners Court.
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Lubbock County
Justice Precinct
Lubbock
M¢e Melcher
Lubbockatey
Robert Stolle
Justice
Slaton
Stolle
County Commissioners Court
Four American-Born Brothers Leave Chicago for Russia
Four brothers aged 3 to 12, raised in the United States, flew to reunite with their Russian parents. The older three hold Russian citizenship, though born in displaced persons camps after World War II, while Peter the youngest has U.S. and Russian citizenship. The boys wore White Sox caps and clutched baseball mitts at Midway Airport amid the farewell.
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Russia
Komnin
Chicago
Richard
Paul
George
Peter
Marguerite Davis Aicago
UPI
Paul Kozmin
David Moon
Bensenville
George Jr
United States
Chicago White Sox
Midway Airport
Mexico Quake Ravages Gulf Coast Area Killing Dozens
An earthquake in southern Mexico caused widespread damage in Veracruz and neighboring regions. Authorities report 7 to 40 deaths and about 100 injuries with 60 to 80 percent of buildings damaged. Army and other services mobilized aid as communications faltered.
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Associated Press
Esico City
Mexico
Gulf Coast
Tehuantepec
Coatazaccalcos
Compania Mexicana de Aviacion
Pemex
On Sulicen
Army
Navy
Air Force
Communications
Test Ban Extended Through End of Year
President Eisenhower ordered the suspension of nuclear weapons tests extended through year end in response to the Geneva conference talks among the Big Three. It remains unclear if an international test ban agreement is near or if the United States will resume tests after January 1, 1960.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
U.S
State Department
United States
Coast Hit By Floods and Tornado Toll in Texas
Severe flash floods struck San Antonio and Houston after a tropical disturbance produced heavy rains high tides and a tornado near Pasadena. Three people died in a Tomball Harris County crash as remnants moved inland. tides rose one to two feet and beaches flooded.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Houston
Texas
Tomball
Harris County
Thomas Ripley
Dill Sr
Estelle Dill
O. B. Grant
New Orleans
Tragedy on Highway Ends Hope as Couple Killed
Relatives had received postcards claiming safety after Montana quakes, but Earl Callahan 70 and his wife 63 died Tuesday in a two car crash at Wolf's Creek north of Grants Pass Oregon.
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Grants Pass
Ore
UPI
Earl Callahan
Montana
Callahan
Wolf's Creek
Here
Rivera Dies After Birthday Celebration Hit By Car
Amadeo V. Rivera died from injuries after being struck by an automobile moments after telling a friend he was celebrating his 72nd birthday and had outlived all his friends. He passed away Wednesday in Hilo per UPI.
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Hilo
iHewall
UPI
Amadeo V. Rivera
Khrushchev Warns on Nuclear Arms. Sees Historic Cold War Turn
Khrushchev told Adenauer that Soviet military might could overwhelm the United States but urged cautious steps toward a historic reapproachment. He warned West Germany against arming with nuclear weapons and said reunification is a German domestic matter, not for great powers to decide.
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OSCOW
Nickkita Khrushchev
United States
Eisenhower
Konrad Adenauer
Khrushchev
Adenauer
Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
Germany
Housing Bill and Sections Highlight Dated Pages Referenced
The note lists sections and pages from a newspaper with references to housing bill coverage sections on Page 1 and 4, sports scores on Page 4, women's news on Pages 10 to 12, market quotations on Pages 4 to 5, radio and TV programs on Page 11, and a comic dictionary entry linked to an expense account.
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Comic Dictionary
Eisenhower arrives in Bonn for West Germany visit
President Eisenhower arrives in Bonn to begin talks with Chancellor Adenauer and pledges US support for West Berlin. He is welcomed by cheering crowds after extending the nuclear test ban and amid rising Cold War tensions with Khrushchev warning of retaliation in case of East West war.
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Avateces
Ies
Bonn
Germany
Eisenhower
Russia
Free West
Washington
IUS. Ee
Nikita Khrushchev
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Pia
Beero Nous
Semeeerican
Condroar Wain
United States
West Berlin
Ike
U.S
Adenauer
Conrad Adenauer
Troisdorf
Bons Wederang
Car Truck Collision Kills Midland Man Near Sierra Blanca
A collision eight miles west of Sierra Blanca killed Jack Stanley Sud duth 28 of Midland Texas and injured another man early Wednesday, according to UPI reports from El Paso.
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EL Paso
UPI
Sierra Blanca
Jack Stanley
Sudduth
Midland
Tex
Desert Fatal: Pretty Girl Watches Death On Highway 99
In Coachella California a 26 year old woman in a black dress stood on a lonely desert road and was killed when a truck struck her on U S Highway 99. Witness James Frye described the sudden impact and the driver Frederick Widemann from Artesia said he felt a thud and stopped.
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Noachella
Calif
Jean Elizabeth Wood
U. S. Highway 99
James Frye
Torrance
Frye
Flood Toll Heavy In Japan Rain Disaster
Sixteen people are confirmed killed with many missing and about two hundred twenty injured after torrential rains hit northern and central Honshu on Wednesday.
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Tokyo
Hi Miss
Honshu
Weather Map Page 1A Lubbock and Vicinity Report
Partly cloudy and warm with isolated evening thundershowers. Morning low around 64 and afternoon high near 89. Humidity around 89 percent, etc. Forecasts for El Paso Albuquerque and surrounding areas included.
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Lubbock
Ely
Lange
Moldnignt
el Paso Bial
Albuquerque
Roswell Denver
We Falls
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Fort Worth
Southern
Jalapa
Veracruz
Jalapan
Joe
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