Johnson outlines defense cuts and UN address plan
President Johnson announced a defense budget cut for the next fiscal year aiming to keep total spending near 102 billion. He disclosed a UN General Assembly appearance on December 17 and sent Robert McNamara to Saigon to review South Vietnam. The White House briefing surprised reporters with several payroll and personnel reductions planned through June 30, 1965. The James Monroe submarine was launched in Newport News amid Kennedy’s death remembrance.
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Frank Cormier
Johnson
Pentagon
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Secuf
Robert S. McNamara
Saigon
South Viet Nam
White House
Defense
Congress
Defense Department
Tech Board Extends Coaches Contracts Amid Integration Move
The Texas Tech board voted to extend athletic contracts for another year as the school integrates its athletics program. President Goodwin announced the action alongside confirming campus integration across classrooms and dorms.
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Jerry Hall
Avalanche- Journal
Exas Tech
Tech
Goodwin
B.C. Goodwin
J.T. King
King
Red Raiders
Raiders
Manuel DeBusk
Dallas
Charles Mathes
Teo
Lubbock Crash Claims Woman and Children Die
A two car crash north of Lubbock kills Lulu Foust a 28 year old housewife and two young children. Eleven others are injured as a Terry County farmer dies when his pickup is struck by a train at Meadow.
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Lubberk
Jerry Foust
Littlefield
Foust
Dps Pheotess
Ty Vaughn Hendrie
Lubbock
Terry County
Meadow
Percy Jeanne Jackson Foust
Methodist Hospital
Farner
Robert Wo Ween
Santa Fe
Oman
Meint Tatum
South Plains
New Mesia
Lubbock County
IU S
Wayne Baker
Forust
Villesco
Iime
Maria Villesen
Lo Manuel
Benita Villesca
Auto Train Collision Kills Eleven in Alabama
A freight train struck an auto at a crossing near Midland City Alabama late Saturday killing eleven members of a family. Surviving child Margaret Ann Langford, injured, is observed at a Dothan hospital. Names identified include Henry Langford and several Langford children.
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Midland City
Alabama
Margaret Ann Langford
Dothan
Ala
Atlantie Coastline Railroad
Rufus Riley
Henry Loneford
Ray Allen
Jeannie
Kenneth Lanrieford
Henneth
Ann
Dethin
Monsor
Goodfellows Appeal Helps Lubbock Children in Need
Daily appeals reach the Chief Goodfellow as anonymous donors fund Christmas gifts for Moor and city children. The 20 year old charity relies on donations to provide candy fruit nuts and toys to about five thousand youngsters within Lubbock city limits.
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Lubbock
Goodfellow
Goodfellows
Yule Lighting Contest draws 69 entries in first week
The Avalanche Journal reports 69 entrants in the 17th annual Home Christmas Lighting Contest themed Christmas Is A Happy Time. Mr and Mrs William A Conley entered at 2728 Garth Street with smiling flower beds and doorway decor as neighbors stage a traveling wise men display beginning Tuesday at 4602 45th Street Provence home at 4702 43rd Street.
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Avalanche Journal
The
Avalanche-Journal
William A. Conley
G&th St
J. F. Provence
Provence
Avalanche- Journal
Yule Lights
One Dead In Plane Crash Near Spur
A single engine Cessna crashed on the Hernan McArthur farm near Spur leaving Coleman dead and William W. Vines 34 the sole survivor who was ejected and found along a creek bank. The FAA in Fort Worth said the flight was from Waco to Gazle Oklahoma via Mineral Wells.
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Denver
Coleman
Hernan McArthiy
Sptateutpe
William W. Vines
Daw Canyon
Bob Brard
McArthur
Memorial idea for Kennedy as a new London university
Patrick Gordon Walker suggested Saturday that Britain should honor the late President Kennedy with a new university. He said the memorial would serve as a lasting educational tribute if Labour returns to power.
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Memorial London
UPL
Patrick Gordon Walker
Labor
Britain
Kennedy
Harvest To Hit Record Cotton Bale Total In High Plains
Harvest crews move cotton to gins across the High Plains as fields push a regional crop toward a record. An estimated 65 000 bales daily at mills, with some plants backing up, drive a forecast of 208 008 bales in the region the season’s third largest. The Lubbock Cotton Growers area reports 27 600 dates in 20 counties with acres and earnings rising as spindles churn.
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Estell Brooks
Frenship Co-Op
Wolfforth
FBI to Keep Kennedy Case Report Secret One More Week
Federal investigators delay release of the Kennedy assassination report to let the Warren Commission review it. New evidence ties Oswald to the Walker sniper incident in Dallas last April, with a document reportedly found among Oswald’s effects.
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Fras
Blue Ribbon Investigation Commission
Earl Warren
Oswald
Dallas
Edwin A. Walker
Chicago Sun-Times
Seaviet Union
Walker
FBI
Studle
FRE
Federal
Sim Times
Irving
Tex
Dalhes
Kennedy
FBE
Weathering the Rain with No Umbrella
A light humor piece notes how a weatherman rarely carries an umbrella when it showers. The narrator contrasts forecast confidence with actual street conditions, reflecting on media persona and practical preparedness in daily life.
Four Americans Seized by Bolivian Miners in Hostage Drama
Anti government miners in Bolivia seized sixteen Bolivian technicians a Peace Corps volunteer and three Americans Thomas McMartin Michiel Aornstake Bernard Rifkin and Robert Pergerstrom to pressure release of three Communist labor leaders held in Washington State Department aide Richard Phillips said the hostages were unharmed union officials in Catavi joined the strike and called for the captives release in negotiations with Bolivian authorities
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PAZ
Peace Corps
Bolivan
Cminist
Washington
State Department
Richard I Phillips
Thomas Mc Martin
United States
Enformivation Service
New York City
Michiel Aornstake
Cassassiant Infernmiaton
Cassassiant Infernmiaton Offeer, Cadithie, Mieho
Bernard Rifkin
Agency For [International Development
Robert Pergerstrom
Phillips
Jose Fellman
Los Ambasesador
Doulas Henderson
la Pas
Catavi
Martin
Daily Prayer for Understanding and Patience
Anonymousprays for strength to be understanding and patient with others. They thank the Heavenly Father for blessings and seek to know and live by Thy will and commandments.
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Vale
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Navy
Pearl Utarbor
Lamb
Terry Man
Pessa
Christus
the Goodfellows
National Bank
Yule
KFYO
Duane Lowell
Catton
High Plains
Sity Laited
Press International
Astengston
Fred
John F. Nennedy
Lee Tlarvey Oswald
Tweed
Plains
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Houston
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