Craft Burns After Crash
A single engine light plane crashed in a maize field six miles east of Hale Center killing four Plainview men returning from Lubbock on a pleasure flight. The Bellanca 260 rented from Miller Flying Service plunged into the field at about 5 45 p m witnesses said. The victims were Buddy Har poke 20 pilot Eugene Boedeker 21 Keith Horan 21 and Art Raborn 22. James Miller of Plainview said the men left Miller Flying Service for Lubbock at 3 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaughn Hendrie
Bill Foster
Avalanche-Journal
ALE Center
Here
Plainview
Lubbock
Buddy Harpoke
Eugene Boedeker
Keith Horan
Art Raborn
Miller Flying Service
Hale Center
James Miller
Funeral Home
Lynn Laws
A Child Is Born Room In The Stable Prophecy Realized
A narrative recounts the Nativity journey to Bethlehem, detailing Joseph and Mary’s crowded trek seventy five miles from Nazareth and the inn’s stable birth scene. Gabriel and Sarah arrange straw, while an overburdened innkeeper offers a stable as a warm alternative.
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Fulton Oursler
Rom
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Judea
Joseph
Mary
Anna
Joachim
Sarah
Gabriel
Shepherds
Josephi
Prayer for a global spiritual reawakening
A devotional excerpt asks for divine help to reach those who do not know You and to pour out Your Spirit on all flesh. It envisions a glorious reawakening in mankind and comfort for those who live in darkness and fear.
Seagraves Snowfall Tops Four Inches Across Panhandle
Seagraves reported 3 to 4 inches of snow by 10 p.m. Sunday with light snow elsewhere in Gaines County and heavier totals near Seminole. The Weather Bureau warned of a prolonged period of threatening winter weather across the Plains with hazardous driving and possible icing as snow shifts into sleet and freezing rain eastward.
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Leon Fleming
Avalanche-Journal
Gaines County
South Plains
Amraillo
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Plains
Kansas
Lubbock
Sweetwater-Abilene-Snyder
Plainview
Texas
Oklahoma
High Plains
Plains States
Spur
Andrews
Matador
Floydada
Departure delayed by Castro stalls Cuban airlift of prisoners
A mercy air lift began freeing Cuba's Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners after an 11 hour delay caused by Fidel Castro. The first planes landed at Homestead Air Force Base with 107 captives, as the operation aimed to remove all 1,113 survivors in a multi flight effort.
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Oscar Fraley Iami
UPI
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Fidel
Castro
U. S
Homestead Air Force Base
Miami
U.S
Havana
Four Fatal Night Incidents In Knisings Claim Four Lives
Four Black men died from stab injuries in separate Saturday night and early Sunday events in Knisings. Victims include Liney Parker 40, Jimmy Stevenson 24, Wary Harris 45, and Roy Edward McGruder 24. A 15-year-old boy and a 33-year-old woman were among those in custody as police probe the knife attacks. Rites are pending at Jamison Funeral Home.
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Liney Parker
Zenith
Methodist Hospital
Parker
Jimmy Stevenson
Jamison
Ave. F
Stevenson
Harris
Birch
Roy McGruder
Roy Edward McGruder
Union
McGruder
Latif Clinic
22Nd St
Jamison Funeral Home
Woman Victim of Shotgun Robbery at Lubbock Store
A man described as 26 to 28 years old and slender robbed Camp Valley Grocery in Lubbock on Sunday night, taking about $1,000 from a lone female attendant after entering with a long bar rel shotgun. Mrs Weldon Donaghue identified the owner’s wife and said the loot included roughly $500 in cash and the rest in checks. Police pursued leads late Sunday with no concrete suspect.
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Lubbock
Department of Public Safety
Mercury
Avalanche-Journal
Ith
Goodfellows Prepare Gifts for 8000 Needy Children
The anonymous Goodfellows and hundreds of volunteers finalize preparations for Christmas gift distribution to about 8,000 youngsters aged 14 and younger. They will meet at 5 a.m. Tuesday at a central warehouse at Mth Street and Texas Avenue to begin loading gift packages and using several hundred cars for delivery. The campaign surpassed its $8,000 goal, with packaging of toys completed and fruit candy nuts being packed today in the 28th annual effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anta Claus
Goodfellows
Mth St
Texas Ave
Goodfellow
Red China to Release 106 Indian Prisoners in December
Peking radio said 106 sick and wounded Indian prisoners will be released on December 28 and turned over to the Indian Red Cross at Jhang. The broadcast was heard in Tokyo via AP reports.
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Tokyo
Peking
Indian Red Cross
Jhang
Fusspot improves kitchen ritual with kettle ritual joke
A light column pokes gentle fun at the idea that only the housewife can start boiling water. The joke satirizes household routines and shows a playful tone about domestic chores and habits.
Kennedy plea rejected as longshoremen strike begins
Longshoremen reject President Kennedy's appeal and walk off Sunday as the Taft Hartley injunction expires. About 81,000 dockworkers leave Atlantic and Gulf coast piers after four days of halted shipping from Searsport Maine to Brownsville Texas. Pickets line Manhattan piers while unions promise to handle emergencies and military cargoes.
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New York
Kennedy
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Searsport
Brownsville
Tex
William V.bradley
International Longshoremens aAssn
Bradley
Manhattan
New York Shipping Assa
Mer
Sec. of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
East German sailors defect to Sweden at Sundsvall
Three East German sailors aged 20 to 25 defected from the ship Ataii near Sundsvall Saturday night and sought political asylum. They were taken to police headquarters and await aliens office decision, expressing a wish to settle in Sweden.
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Sundsvall
Sweden
UPI
Ataii
Aliens Office
Weather Map Summary for Southwest Region
Precipitation amounts and temperatures reported for several Southwest cities. Values include Abilene 43.30, El Paso 45.0, Houston 0.2, Amarillo 38.15, Oklahoma City 44.2, Roswell 6.9, and others. The report covers 34 hours ending at midnight yesterday with night and day temperatures.
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Pohol
Abilene
el Paso
Albugurag
Houston
Amarillo
Okla
City
Yallas
Rooswell
Falls
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Seagraves
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Hale County
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Church
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Caraway
I Cecil
Cecil
Champs
Knisings
Charles Cullin
Fen
Keturnal
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The
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