Area Hit by Wintry Blast Produces Ice and Snow Across U S
A nationwide wintry blast brings ice and snow with subzero temperatures and icy roads. Duluth reports eleven inches of snow, while forecast calls for more in the northern Lakes region. Tornadoes cause damage near Brewton Alabama. rain drenches Mobile and the Carolinas. Road crews in the Lubbock district salted and sanded highways as freezing fog limits visibility to 300 yards.
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South Plains
Weather Bureau
Michal Ramsey
Duluth
Minn
Northern Lakes
Midwest
Brewton
Ala
Mobile
Carolinas
Virginia
Texas
Arizona
California
Lewiston
Mont
Cheyenne
Casper
Wyo
Helena
Denver
Colo
Goodland
Kan
Lubbock
Post
Lamesa
Brownfield
Muleshoe
Friena
Clovis
Joe Reardon
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Reardon
Stratford
U.S. Weather Bureau
Galveston
Houston Ship Channel
Houston
Amarillo
Dalhart
Brownsville
Wichita Falls
Albuquerque
U.S
Texas weather and political clash over Bracero program
Frosty Panhandle conditions and icy highways grip Texas as storms bring 4 to 6 inches of snow northward. In Slaton, disputes over Bracero labor rules spark GOP criticism of the Labor Department while wind chill drives record lows and emergency crews prep for power and line issues across the state.
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Nation of Bracero Employment Authority
Tower
Mahon
Slaton
Labor Department
Luz Quientero
Elias Muniz
Hector Garcia
Corpus Christi
Texas
Department of Labor
Garcia
Plainview dedicates new control tower at Hale County Airport
Special U. S. Representative George Mahon led the dedication ceremony for the Hale County Airport control tower in Plainview. He praised local vision and progress, with remarks by Tut Tawwater. The event included a neon barbecue and open house after the ceremony. Abernethy named San Antonio as 1962 CAA convention site. About 156,060 passengers use the airport annually and the $96,000 tower project was highlighted.
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Plainview
George Mahon
Hide County
Erro
Nationl Guard Army
Mahon
Tut ‘Tawwater
Plainvig Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
D. McHam
Houston
Lubbock
Southwest Rental Iihe Caa
Planview
Muddled obituary notices reveal multiple names and times
Fragmentary text mentions a funeral or memorial with names such as Wayne Tokell and Phe father near 200 p.m. and 3 Hoopead. The garbled OCR references a death and service details with scattered times and locations, offering only hints of an event and attendees.
Soviet Orbit Top Foreign News of 1961
Tokyo AP reports Kyodo News ranked Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight as the year’s top foreign story for 1961. The Soviet nuclear tests resumption in September and the Kennedy Khrushchev summit followed in the top tier. Other landmarks include Berlin and Dag Hammarskjold’s death, the Cuban invasion, and the Con Pantset murder in a list of ten.
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Tokyo
Yuri Gagarin
Kyodo News
Soviet Union
Lencoen
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Lothers
Berlin
Mbt
Jeneral
Con Pantset
Dans
Christmas Goodfellow program seeks forgotten children
A Lubbock city appeal invites residents to submit names of children under 14 who might be forgotten on Christmas Day. Send the printed name and address to Chief Goodfellow at P. O. Box 561, Lubbock.
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Lubbock
Chief Goodfellow
P. O
Albania Expels Diplomats as Hoxha break with Khrushchev Deepens
Albanian diplomats must leave Moscow as Albania declares independence from Soviet influence and weighs Western economic aid. The feud stems from a 1960 rift at a world communist leaders conference, worsening ties, depriving the USSR of a Mediterranean base and cutting East bloc aid to Albania.
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Moscow
al- ‘Bani
Vod Chin
West
Emba Uader
Albania
Soviet Union
Khrushii
Mediterranean
Portuguese Soldiers Raid Village on Goa Border
About 15 Portuguese soldiers raided a village on the Goa border, firing around 350 shots before being driven away. The incident echoed a prior intrusion, with no casualties reported. Lisbon accused India of aggressive acts against Goa.
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Belgaum
India
Goa
Lisbon
Goi
Santa Nabbed For Breaking Blue Law Pair Held For Giving Away NATO Secrets
Paragraphed AP dispatch reports a West German colonel and a lower Saxony official arrested on suspicion of giving NATO defense secrets to a foreign power. The colonel was based in Bonn. the official linked to a Hanover military site. The chaotic note mentions a Santa arrest and Algeria unrest with casualties.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
ATO
Bonn
Lower Saxony
Hannover
UPS
County bids set for culverts cabinets and grader
County Commissioners will open four sealed bids at 10 am in the new courthouse for a year’s supply of metal culverts filing cabinets docket books and an elevating grader. Also planned are a welfare board member appointment and a real estate appraiser contract. The Lubbock Food Service Assn meets Tuesday at Dunbar High for a Christmas toy drive.
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New Court House
Lubbock Food Service Assn
Dunbar High School
23Rd St
Manhattan
Lighting Contest Deadline Near
Entries for the 15th annual Lubdock Avalanche-Journal Lighting Contest close at 4 30 p m Wednesday. Judges visit displays starting Wednesday night. Entries are taken 8 a m to 4 30 p m today Tuesday and Wednesday. Prizes totaling 110 dollars plus a 100 bonus will be awarded. Thousands of residents and visitors will tour the Yule Trail from Wednesday night through December 20. Displays are lit daily from 1 to 10 p m.
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Lub- Dock Avalanche-Journal
Winne
Lubbock
Truck Mishap Injures Couple On Ice Near Post
A one truck incident on an ice slicked hill north of Post on U S 81 injured C L Stern 37 and his wife Verda Mae Stern. The tractor and trailer, loaded with 32 cattle, slipped while shifting gears. They were hospitalized with rib fractures and a broken leg respectively.
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Higginbotham
Lamesa
Ward
Stern
Garza County Memorial Hospital
Mason Funeral Home
Lubbock
Katanga
Elisabethville
New York
St. Mary's Hospital
Sharon
6Th St
Tanga
West Texas Hospital
Ford I
Armstrong Jr
Katanga St
West Texas
Herbert
Hugh Holley
Tommy Baker
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Linda Burt
50Th St
Apt
Methodist Hospital
James
Anthony Graham
S Monthsold
1St St
Willie Wilborn
Jerry Blecker
E. 6Th St
Colette C. Davis
Auburn
Sherry Marl
5Th St
Mary Wison Mayfield
Shirley Cross Graham
Dist St
Charles Wilson Mayfield
42Nd St
Charles F. Kilpath
Johnnie Nunn
8Th St.z
Lula McCloud
Broadway
AML
Hos
Edna’ Loyd
Jesse Glenn
UN Leaflets Warn Katanga as U N Plans Peace Talks
The United Nations ordered leaflets dropped on Katanga to say its forces act only after attacks. US Acting Sec State Ball urged continued U N and Western operations for peace. UN Sec Gen Thant said fighting continues until movement and security are guaranteed, seeking speedy peaceful reunification. Rhodesia's Welensky rejects transport of bombs to Katanga, calling UN conduct deceitful. A refugee train carrying 40+ women and children left Elizabethville for Rhodesia after delays. Tshombe allowed the train but appeared reluctant to permit whites to town.
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United Nations
Congo
Katanga
U.S
George Ball
Washington
United States
U ‘Thant
Pos Hie
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Roy Welensky
Britain
Welensky
Tshombe
Elizabethville
Castro’s Declaration Sparks Debate on Socialism and Communism
The text critiques Castro and Molotov for labeling USSR as building socialism, noting the differing Western socialist paths and the Communist view that reform impedes revolutionary goals. It discusses the ideal of a stateless communism and the persistence of bureaucratic states under socialist regimes amid ongoing imperialist conflicts.
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Molotov
Castro
Cuba
Ussr
V. M. Molotov
Kommunist
Soeia
Karl Marx
Labor Party
West Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Burglary Spree Strikes Lubbock Nighttime thefts
Burglars pried open a juke box and took about 25 pounds from Woodward Cafe at 1616 Coleman Alley. A power hand saw worth 100 dollars was stolen from George Lamb Jr., 4104 16th St Apt A. Elwyn Crutcher reported two Fender skirts stolen from his car at Main St and College Ave. Hubcaps, Ray Lubke at 2203 8th St, were taken from his vehicle near Elks Lodge. Lonnie Rusk, 2406 Ave L, reported a tire and wheel theft from his car. A speaker worth 6 dollars vanished from Circle Drive-In Saturday night.
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Woodward Cafe
Coleman Alley
George Lamb Jr
16Th St
Apt. A
Elwyn Crutcher
Sneed Hall
Texas Tech
Main St
College Ave
Ray Lubke
8Th St
Elks Lodge
Th St
Slide Road
Lonnie Rusk
Ave. L
Circle Drive-In
Atlanta Society Hosts Eight Hour Twist Party
In a Dinkler garden tent, about 300 guests from Atlanta and distant cities danced the twist for eight hours. Guest of honor Mrs. Clark Gable wore a black ball gown with a diamond necklace and twirled with Walter Troutman of New York. The party foreshadowed the newer hully gully craze potentially reaching New York within a year or two.
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Atlanta
New York
Hollywood
Chicago
Houston
Boston
Palm Beach
Clark Gable
Walter Troutman
Joe Maclean
Dinkler
Georgia
Ballard
McKee Nunnally
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Aspermont
Max Arguello
Major Lemon
Ber ‘Tower
Goldberg
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Senate
Galdter
Congress
Friona
Panhandle
Upper
el Paso
Beeville
Hereford
Perryton
Spearman
Sherman
Mini ‘Eral Wells
San Angelo
Mid-sland
Lubbock Man
Rental Association
Poe
Poiras
Tehh
Su ‘Pis bin
Wayne Tokell
IBM
Deen
Ager
Quicksihever
Simpson
Stisspeal
Soviet Orbit
Santa
NATO
William L. Ryan
Associated Pi
Fidel Castro
Un-Congo
America
Gnome Ground Zero
Carishad
Andrea Andrews
Limerick
Maine
A San
Ourvalet
Johnston & Murphy
Euro Open
Monterey Center
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