Cotton harvest on South Plains hits big pace despite cold
Cotton receipts for the week reached about 375,000 bales as gins ran around the clock despite a cold blast. The 23 county crop is forecast at 1,912,000 bales, down 7,000 from November, with lint valued at about 258.1 million to producers and seed worth 34.4 million.
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Duane Howell
Avalanche-Journal
South Plains
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Lubbock Cotton Exchange
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
Cotton Exchange
PCG
Texas
U.S
Rainey Calls FBI Eyewitness Claim After Mississippi Arrests
Sheriff Lawrence Rainey said FBI agents claimed eyewitnesses to the 1964 civil rights workers murders offered him money for information. FBI sources called the claim ridiculous as 21 white men faced federal conspiracy charges and the case expanded with a nationwide probe into the Ku Klux Klan.
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Don Meekee
Philadelphia
Miss
Lawrence Rainey
FBI
Rainey
Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Schwerner
Goodman
Goodfellows Appeal Seeks Donations For Local Children
The Goodfellows campaign aims to raise 105.09 dollars by Saturday to fund Christmas packages for Lubbock children aged 14 and younger. Chief Goodfellow urges individuals and organizations to contribute as the holiday approaches, continuing a 1935 initiative by anonymous local business leaders.
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Goodfellows
Lubbock
Goodfellow
Spencer A Wells
Goher
Deanna Hariness
David Ribble
Benevolent Protective Order of Bikes
Baskin
Dessie Tito
Henry S. Evans
SU Baker Company
Three Days Left in Lubbock Christmas Lighting Contest
Only three days remain in the entry period for the 19th annual Lubbock Avalanche Journal Home Christmas Lighting Contest. A total of 78 entries have been received from 52 homes. entries will resume Monday at 8 a.m. Details appear on Page Mi, Sec F.
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Lubbock Avalanche- Journal
Winter storm toll climbs across the Northeast and Midwest
A sweeping wintry system killed at least 55 people in weather related accidents as it pounded the Northeast and Midwest. The storm brought heavy snow to Nevada and rain to the Mid-Atlantic while dipping temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Deaths by state included New England 11 and Illinois 11 with Missouri Indiana and others reporting multiple fatalities.
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United Press International
U.S
Tha Sanelician
Dimie
Nevada
North Dakota
Towa
Texas
Lone Star
South Plains
Lubbock
New England
Ilinois
Missouri
Indiana
Ohio
New York
Arkansas
Wisconsin
Michigan
New Mexico
Sucker Pictionary prompt and a fatal plane crash brief
A Pictionary clue uses a man who believes he is going places. Separately, at Fayetteville Arkansas searchers found four bodies from a plane crash in heavy overcast skies. The lone survivor endured over 12 hours in sub freezing conditions. See KILLER STORM Page 18.
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Hampshire
Maine
Pennsylvania
Pacific
Tier of States
Fayetteville
Ark
Verona blast topples 170 ton WWI memorial for Carlo Ederle
A bomb in Verona destroyed a 170 ton granite memorial to Carlo Ederele an Italian World War I hero killed at the River Piave. A fragment with the German slogan Freedom For South Tyrol was recovered at the scene.
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Verona
Italy
UPI
Carlo Ederele
Piave
South Tyrol
Gromyko and Rusk clash over NATO nuclear fleet plan
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko pressed Moscow’s objections to the American NATO nuclear surface fleet during a two hour meeting with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the U N. The talks covered disarmament and Laos as they debated the multilateral force plan and the role of West Germany in nuclear strategy.
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Stewart Hensley
EW York
UPI
Andrei Gromyko
Sec
Dean Rusk
Russia
West Germany
Rusk
MLE
Gromyko
U. S
Laos
Berlin
Prayer for Guidance and Unity in a Free Nation
A brief anonymous devotional text asks for divine guidance for leaders and citizens. It seeks peace, understanding, and reduced tensions within the nation, praising God for freedom and asking for prayerful guidance.
Governors split over Burch removal at GOP meeting
Republican governors meeting in San Francisco backed a call against narrow political radicalism and urged leadership change. three top figures George Romney Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton backed removing Dean Burch as national chairman, while others disputed the interpretation. They pressed civil rights support and opposed extremist disruption of self government.
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Associated Press
Dean Burch
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
GOP
George Romney
Michigan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Bureh
Goldwater
San Francisco
United States
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Governors Association
Army Captain Donlon Receives Medal at White House
Army Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerites New York received the Congressional Medal of Honor from the White House for actions in South Vietnam. It marks the first such award for that area. Wirephoto.
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Army
Roger Donlon
Saugerties
N.Y
White House
South Viet. Nam
State Solon Detroit Man Accused Of Masquerade
A re elected Democratic state representative Daniel W. West 54 of Wayne County is accused of masquerading under the name and education of a New York lawyer who died in 1961 and concealing a prison record. Police said fingerprints identify him as a felon who served sentences in three prisons under other names. The accusers are William H. O'Brien and W. O'Hara, who helped uncover the alleged fraud after West defeated them in the party primary.
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Associated Press
New York
Detroit News
Daniel W. West
Wayne
Detroit
West
William H. O'Brien
Civic Searchlight, Inc
W. O'Hara
Ford Motor Co
Leonad Clippett
Detroit Police Special Investigation Bureau
Detroit West
O'Hara
O'Brien
Statewide workshop urges aid for mentally retarded Texans
A Saturday briefing drew over 75 attendees to push a statewide plan for education and job opportunities for Texans with mental retardation. Key aims include trained teachers, research on prevention and teaching, diagnostic clinics, sheltered workshops, and public education on mental retardation. Recommendations will go to Gov. Connally's statewide committee for action via the Lubbock Commission on Mental Retardation.
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Kenneth May
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Connally
John Connally
Sgn
Doc) Blanchard
Lubbock
Max Tid
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