Bitter cold relief eases grip on eastern U S
As a nine day winter assault loosens, death toll climbs past two hundred with 216 fatalities and widespread crop damage. Florida records new lows while Michigan Ohio and New York report heavy snow. National Guard aid scales back as authorities reassess relief efforts. Governor Bryant surveys stricken farming areas amid citrus losses.
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Mariner 2 Venus Rendezvous Sees Spacecraft Scan Clouds
NASA officials call Mariner 2's Venus flyby an unqualified success. The craft reached 21,500 miles from Venus at closest approach and 35 million miles from Earth sending back data from its two scanning instruments. Data are being analyzed. full findings expected in days or weeks.
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Kennedy proposes 1963 tax cuts to spur economy
President Kennedy calls for top to bottom personal and corporate tax cuts in 1963 to energize employment and balance the budget. He pledges no domestic spending increases and seeks quick relief, while noting defense and space spending may rise and delaying details until Treasury briefing.
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Bachelor Joke Sparks One Liner Label
A short quip about bachelors appears in the humor corner. The line portrays a man who rings wedding bells only when at the end of his rope, delivering a light joke consistent with light editorial banter.
Minuteman Missile Makes Record Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL AP I reports America's Minuteman intercontinental missile, declared combat ready four days earlier, flew 5 000 miles across the Atlantic Friday night. The 54 foot rocket launched from an 8 foot silo and hit a target near Ascension Island off Africa within 30 minutes, surpassing the prior record by several hundred miles.
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Massachusetts school bans Christmas trees sparks separation debate
In Sharon Massachusetts three schools halted classroom Christmas trees and carol singing amid protests by parents and a school committee reaffirming church state separation. Superintendent Richardson supported the ban as population shifts prompt policy clarification.
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Relay satellite tests halted by power loss
A new U S communications satellite reached a satisfactory orbit but low battery power postponed Friday tests. NASA launched Relay from Cape Canaveral aboard a Thor-Delta, with a 3 hour 5.09 minute orbital period and apogee of 4 612.18 miles.
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Prayer of thanks and forgiveness for eternal life
A devotional prayer thanks God for blessings and asks for strength to overcome faults and forgiveness. It seeks eternal life with God if deemed worthy at life’s end.
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Douglas accuses CIA and press of secrecy and conformity
Associate Justice William O Douglas urges that government and media foster ignorance and restraint on the public informed judgment. He singles out CIA secrecy and its foreign election influence, criticizing press failure to report and calling for openness ahead of Bill of Rights Day in a 48 page ALA PAC booklet release.
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Goodfellows Urge Donations For Lubbock Christmas Drive
Chief Goodfellow urges renewed support for Lubbock's annual Christmas drive aiding 8000 needy children. The campaign seeks $8,000 but has raised about $2,197.36, meaning roughly a quarter of the goal has been met. Donations from residents and groups are essential to provide gifts valued at about $1 each.
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A Child Is Born in a Christmas Sacre The Greatest Story Ever Told
A modern retelling of Joseph and Mary's courtship and the nativity in the Holy Land. Fulton Oursler’s narrative from The Greatest Story Ever Told is illustrated and accessible for all ages with broad reader endorsement. Appears as a Monday feature in The Avalanche Journal.
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Age of Change Essay on Conformity Trend
An essay discusses a trend to conformity noted by an author on a page labeled DOUGLAS Page 10. The piece reflects on how societal pressures influence individual expression during an era of shifting norms.
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Crash Kills Webb Pilot
A Webb AFB crew from Webb and 20 men searched wreckage near O'Donnell Texas after a T 37 trainer crash killed 2nd Lt John Bernard Keck age 23 who was alone aboard. Witnesses described the plane exploding on impact and leaving a long soil crater five miles south of O Donnell near U S Highway 87. Col Rex Fryer led the Webb probe into the crash scene.
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Praise From Afar Draws Thousands to Tech Lights
Visitors came from Springfield Massachusetts to view the Tech campus lights. Mr and Mrs Everette Esty praised the display as the most beautiful sight of the season after touring the Science Quadrangle Memorial Circle during two weeknight checks.
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Tech Campus Lights Draw Thousands Each Evening
The campus lights, a 1959 tradition, illuminate the Tech buildings with 16 000 bulbs. Begun Dec 4 in a public ceremony, the display runs nightly through Christmas amid a steady stream of onlookers and hundreds of cars during peak times.
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Weather Map Page 2 A Lubbock Outlook Shows Mild Day
Weather map page reports clear to partly cloudy conditions in Lubbock and vicinity with little temperature change. High near 70 degrees, southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Low this morning forecast at 30 degrees.
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