Kennedy Names McNamara Defense Secretary in 1961
President elect John F Kennedy on Tuesday named Robert S McNamara Ford Motor Co president as secretary of defense. McNamara, 44, left a $400 000 a year post to serve and pledged to dispose of stock holdings and forego profits. The selection marks Kennedy fifth cabinet pick amid talks of other appointments.
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Avalanche Journal
Ashington
John F. Kennedy
Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Kennedy
McNamara
Harold D. Cooley
House Agricure Committee
Cooley
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Leo Goldberg
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Steelworkers
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Goldberg
Defense
United States
Ford
Thoms
Defen Pentagon
Snowbound Nation Faces Fatal Storm Toll Across States
Bitter blizzard misery spreads from the Northeast to the South Plains as snow and ice cripple seventeen states. Deaths top 250 nationwide with New York and New Jersey among hardest hit. Texas and New Mexico report fresh accumulations and ongoing storm threats. A premature birth occurs in a snowbound car in Pennsylvania while a youth dies from exposure in New Jersey. Forecasters warn of lingering snow and improving conditions by Friday.
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Bob Horton
Avalanche-Journal Star
U.S
Southwest
South Plains
Ood
New Mexico
East
Texas
New Mex
New York State
Pennsylvania
Ephrata
Harry Ross
Williamstown
Ralph Milano
Robert Geiger
Geiger
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Alpine
Panhande
Childress
Lubbock
Denver City
Weather Bureau
Lubock
Bandit Robs Service Station Fleeing With 103 Dollars
A young armed man robbed Kings No 2 service station at 1105 Clovis Road late Tuesday taking 103.11 dollars before fleeing into a snow covered lot. Attendant W L Lentz described the bandit as white, with a long coat and in need of a haircut and warned that a pistol was used in the holdup. The clerk drew his own pistol after the man left to gauge his escape.
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W. L. Lentz
Bob Tedder
King's No. 2
Clovis Road
Lentz
Everett Groseclose
Avalanche-Journal
Pocket Lentz
Pastor Ears Swaps Cloth For Stripes In Gamble Theft
Fort Worth minister William E. Lewis, 31, known as the Rev. William E. Lewis, was sentenced to 2 to 5 years in prison after a jury convicted him of stealing $1,000 worth of furniture from a house he rented last September and selling it. Prosecutors said Lewis abandoned his wife and four children to live with a Fort Worth woman, and $14,000 in church funds was found after his departure from Texas. He testified to living in sin and said gambling habits followed his departure from his Fort Worth church where he served seven years.
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Columbus
Fort Worth
William E. Lewis
Congregation Methodist
Superior Court
John Land
Lewis
Texas
Baby wins big in British football pools fortune
A baby named Paul scrawled checks entered weekly by thousands of players yielded an eight right total of 43 283 pounds tax free, changing a bleak Christmas for Norman and Jacqueline Cox. They plan to buy a new house and perhaps a less costly car while guarding the baby’s windfall.
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Easy Street
Paul
Oxford
Jacqueline
Tom
Cox
Laos Forces In See-Saw Battle Over Vientiane
Anti Communist forces backed by the provisional government clashed with Soviet supported troops in Vientiane. Gen. Phoumi Novasan's forces stormed the capital using U S equipment and controlled areas near the city center before Pathet Lao counterattacked and held a western perimeter by sunset. Casualty figures were not yet determined.
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Washington
UPD
Vientiane
Phoumi Novasan
U.S
Pathet Lao
Kong le
Dear Sir We Haven't Had Christmas Last Year in Lub bock
A letter to the editor from a family near Lubbock describes hardship after the father returned from the V A hospital and could not find steady work. They request assistance for Christmas items like clothes shoes and a coat for their children.
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Chief Goodfellow
Lubbock
V.A. Hospital
Mec- Kinney
Oct ‘Ible
Per
Goodfellow
Sixth Suspect Held In Alessio Kidnapping Case
Sixth suspect LeRoy Thomas Gavigan, 26, appeared in Municipal Court on a kidnapping for ransom charge in the Anthony Alessio case. Bail set at 210000. held pending a preliminary hearing. FBI arrested him at his South Gate home after a Monday night arrest.
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SA Diego
Calif
Anthony Alessio
Joseph A. Kilgaris
LeRoy Thomas Gavigan
FBI
Gavigan
South Gate
Huntington Park
Cal
Officials Under Fire Crime Probers Cite Texas Gulf Cities
State Rep. Tom Jaimes of Dallas said Beaumont Port Arthur area is the prime problem in Texas law enforcement breakdown and called organized crime here the oldest best organized and most open to the public. He spoke after testifying before the Jefferson County Grand Jury for 90 minutes and declined to discuss his testimony.
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Tom Jaimes
Dallas
Beaumont-Port Arthur
Texas
James
Texas House General Investigations Committee
Jefferson County Grand Jury
Tom Hpein
Port Arthur
Grand Fry
Texas Gulf Coast
Dist
Ramsey Griffin
House
Beaumont
Cotton Quotas Approved by Plains Farmers in 1961 Vote
Plains and other Texas farmers joined nationwide support Tuesday in approving 1961 cotton marketing quotas by a wide margin. In Lubbock County 1 173 in favor with 12 ballots cast, 1 216 total votes from about 3 2000 eligible growers. Statewide the tally was 31589 in favor and 2305 against, with New Mexico reporting 162 for and 92 against.
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Lubbock County
Cnst
J Onty
Jim Whitfield
ASC
New Mexico
Oklahoma
U S Lunar Rocket Set for First Moon Satellite Flight
Atlas Aable rocket stands ready for a five day launch window to send the Pond VI space craft toward the moon. Sterilized instruments will study radiation, magnetic fields and micrometeorites as Pioneer collects data before lunar arrival.
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Ape Canaveral
Pond VI
Mau
Drunk Dictionary Defined as Comedy Gag
In a playful dictionary entry the humorist defines drunk as a man who often lands behind bars after standing too much in front of them. The quip relies on wordplay about bars and detention to deliver a light punchline.
Man confesses 1957 murder in Bartlesville case
Oklahoma convict Leonard McLain admits beating elderly Dallas woman Fred Ernest to death in Bartlesville May 25, 1957. He says Louis Bennett, already serving a death sentence in McAlester, helped discuss a plan to trade his punishment for freedom. The confession surfaced after Mullin County sheriff reports.
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Bartlesville
Okiohota
Leonard Mclain
Wynn
Huntsville
Dallas
Fred F. Ernest
Louis
William Bennett
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
McAlester
Okla
Ernest
Bennett
Iis
Arkan
Washington County
Oklahoma
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