King of Jazz Maestro Whiteman Dies at 76
Paul Whiteman, famed conductor known for blending jazz with classical form and the "Rhapsody in Blue," died in Doylestown Pennsylvania after a heart attack at his New Hope retirement home. He led American popular music for decades and mentored stars like Crosby and the Dorsey brothers.
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Doylestown
Paul Whiteman
Whiteman
New Hope
Doylestown Hospital
America
George Gershwin
Reer
Rhapsody
Bing Crosby
Tommy
Jimmy Dorsey
Morton Downey
Benny Goodman
Singer Crosby
Crosby and
The
Rhythm Boys
Bill France
National Association of Stock Car Racing
Daytona International ‘Speedway
Iworld
C H Edwards Rites Planned in Slaton and Purcell
Clyde H H Edwards 68 longtime Slaton resident died of a heart attack at Mercy Hospital Thursday He is to receive 11 am services today at First Baptist Church Slaton with Rev Archie Cooper officiating Graveside rites follow at 3 pm Sunday Hillside Cemetery Purcell Okla Englands Funeral Home directing Survivors include wife three daughters six brothers four sisters and eighteen grandchildren
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Slaton
First Baptist Church
Clyde HH. Edwards
Mercy Hospital
Archie Cooper
Pentecostal Holiness Church of
Hillside
Purcell
Okla
Funeral Planned For Mrs. Davis in Brownfield
Annie Ellen Davis 83 died Friday at a hospital. Service 2 39 p m Sunday at First Baptist Church with Rev Ed Crow officiating. Burial 2 30 p m Monday in Olney Cemetery. Survivors include two daughters two sons a brother ten grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
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Krrownfield
Annie Ellen
Ata ?Rd
First Baptist Church
Ed. Crow
Olney
Johnson County
Davis
Brownfield
Grapevine
Ella Mae Brownlee
Ruby Tharel
Everett
Irving
Carol
Uxston
Wyo
Walter Lowe
Fort Worth
Rites Planned For Mrs. Kate Denny
Funeral services for Mrs. Kate Denny 80 who died Thursday at Mercy Hospital will be held at 2 p m in the First Baptist Church with the Rev John Cartrite officiating Burial will be at City of Lubbock Cemetery Englands Funeral Home directing Survivors include three sons Halvert C Tims Sr of 3807 24th Lubbock Jess Tims of Slaton and N C Tims of Portland Ore six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren
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Slaton
Kate Denny
Mercy Hospital
Podcy
First Baptist Church
John Cartrite
Lubbock
Anger
of Englands Funeral Home
Pew
Halvert C
Tims Sr
Jess Tim
Burial set for Harrison Lamar at First Baptist Church
Services for Harrison Lamar 63 of First Baptist Church with Figwr will be held 3 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. R. D. Passionalielating will officiate and burial will follow in Littlefield Memorial. He died at the scene from an apparent heart attack. Survivors include his wife.
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Harrison Lamar
Baptist Church
Figwr
R. D. Pasion
Littlefield Memorial
J. N
James Spears Dies Rites Set in Lamesa
James Raymond Spears 65 a Lamesa resident since 1923 died Friday in a Big Spring hospital. He was born in Bogota Texas and belonged to Lamesa Masonic Lodge. Survived by his wife three daughters two sons a mother a sister a brother and eight grandchildren. Services 2 30 p m Sunday Church of the Nazarene with Reverends Roy McCoy J R Smith. Burial Lamesa Memorial Park Branon Philips Funeral Home directed.
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Lamesa
James Raymond Spears
Big Spring
Bogota
Tex
Gene L
Gore
Bethany
Okla
Bill Gayne
Abilene
Roy Clark
Pasadena
Don
Midland
Ron
Tulsa
L. C
Mrs. Woods of Roaring Springs Dies at 64
Mrs. Freda Woods, 64, of Roaring Springs, died Friday at a Matador clinic after moving from Amarillo where she lived 25 years. Survivors include husband W. R. Woods, three sons Truman of Lubbock Matador, three sisters Verba Faulkner Benno Wilson Jessie Roberts, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services are pending with Geigier Funeral Home.
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Matador
Freda Woods
Roaring Springs
Mrs Smyth Rites Today In Lamesa Texas
Mrs. M. E. Smyth 79 died Friday at her Lamesa home. Services at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with Dr. George Worrell officiating. Burial 4:30 p.m. in City of Lubbock Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Yot Smyth Jr. and Rev. Jerry Smyth and four grandchildren. Pallbearers named Roy Bass, Dr. John R. Bradford, John T. Agee, T. F. Vaughn, Joe Medlin, Howard L. Chapman.
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Lamesa
M. E. Smyth
First Baptist Church
George Worrell
City of Lubbock
Branon-Philips Funeral Home
Goldwaithe
Jot Smyth
Slaughter
Mrs. Mary Cook Dies in O'Donnell Rites Planned
Maude Cook 85 longtime local resident died Friday at Lamesa Manor Nursing Home born Arkansas married W A Cook in 1905 moved to O'Donnell in 1919 in farming. She was a Methodist member with services set for 3 30 p m Sunday Rev Jerald Tharp officiating burial in O'Donnell Cemetery White's Funeral Home Tahoka directing Survivors: four sons William Vernon Wallace Greg all of O'Donnell one sister Sadie Vandaveer Emily Waller Willie Phillips Redman Ore one brother Bryan of O'Donnell seven grandchildren one great grandchild
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O'Donnell
Mary. Maude’ Cook
Lamesa Manor
Franklin County
Ark
W. A. ‘Cook
Rhine
White
Tohoka
William
Vernon
Wallace
Death Notice for 5 Year Old Sandra Vanessa Terry
Sandra Vanessa Terry 5 died Friday at Methodist Hospital after a long illness. Services pending at Sedberry Funeral Home. She was daughter of Otha Lee Terry and wife and carried Cherokee ties. Survivors include her parents two brothers Archie Terry Roswell and others. born at Reese Air Force Base Hospital and attended Beaver Dam Baptist Church DeKalb Texas Carver Heights Nursery.
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Sandra Vanessa Terry
Otha Lee Terry
8Th St
Methodist Hospital
Sedberry Funeral Home
Avalanche Journal
Reese Air Force Base Hospital
Beaver Dam Baptist Church
DeKalb
Tex
Carver Heights
Kerry Larence i
Otha Lee Terry Jr
Tthe
Archie Terry
Roswell
Louise Terry
Albuquerque
Geraldine Giddens
Texas Tech Grad Reported Killed in Vietnam Action
Air Force Lt. Sammy A. Martin of Lubbock and Texas Tech graduate was listed by the Defense Department as dead from hostile action in Vietnam. He had been missing since December 27 while serving with Squadron 390 in Da Nang since 1967. Survived by wife and parents, memorial services pending.
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Vietnam
Air Force
Sammy A. Martin
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Martin
Squadron 390
da Nang
Bryan
Midwest City
Okla
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
Reese Air Force Base
MacDill Air Force Base
Fla
John H. Selby
Robert L. McDowell
Fayetteville
N. C
Sam. St. Martin
Fort Worth
Rites Planned for Joe Thurman Longtime Tahoka Area Leader
Joe M Thurman a longtime area president, died at 2 a m Friday in West Texas Hospital Lubbock after a brief illness He was a Comanche native who moved to Jones County in 1903 and later to Lynn County before retiring in 1959 He married Lille Bell Rogers in 1907 in Stamford Funeral services set for Sunday 2 pm at Sweet Street Baptist Church with Rev Shelby Bishop officiating Burial in Tahoka Cemetery under White s Funeral Home direction Survivors include his wife four daughters two sons three brothers fifteen grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren Pallbearers named are T A Stone Carl Stone Ed Stone Raymond Stone Newman Bartley J H Stalcup A G Cawthron and Turner Rogers
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Joe M. Thurman
West Texas
Lubbock
Comanche
Thurman
Jones County
Lille Bell Rogers
Stamford
Lynn County
Tahoka
Sweet Street Baptist Church
Shelby Bishop
Tohoka Cemetery
White
Mary M. Kelly
Midwest City
Okla
Olene Wilson
Silver City
N. M
Pearl Mize
Meridian
Emogene Smith
South Gate
Calif
Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Alabama
American Commercial Lines J
Lurleen
Joe Clayton Carell
Wallace
Sanders Funeral Home
Carnell
Chicago
Zeh
Rapket
Masonic Lodge
Genell
Oie
Shirley Alana
Ave
Vivian Petty
Warner Robbins
W. N. Kone
Bis Ane Johns
Many Industrial Sites Revealed In Alabama
A UPI report states Alabama leads on inland waterway potential with 31 sites listed by American Commercial Lines. Site sizes range from 4.5 to 7400 acres, illustrating extensive industrial development prospects in the state.
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Alabama
Neighbors and Community Duty, a Reflection by Julien C. Hyer
A meditation on living with others and sharing burdens, citing John Donne to emphasize neighborly responsibility. The piece urges cooperation, aid to the distressed, and the idea that a person’s life fades without communal involvement.
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Julien C. Hyer
Rockefeller warns restraint as New York faces budget strain
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller urged nationwide restraint in a year end message citing rising expectations and limited federal funding. He warned that government at all levels must balance hopes with reality and propose a tight 1968 69 budget with no new programs unless essential. He linked New York's finances to a broader national problem and warned of potential human and economic harm if spending outpaces income.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Bleing
New York State
George H Day dies after long illness in Floydada
George Harlan Day 78 died at Caprock Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Indian Territory Oklahoma moved to Estacado in 1907 and farmed in McCoy until two years ago moving to Floydada. Services pending at Moore Rose Funeral Home. He is survived by Maude Elizabeth three daughters Mrs M J McNeill Mrs Wanda O Neal and Mrs J W Day Jr four brothers Robert Roy Sudan Earl Hobert and a sister Mrs Ruby Fletcher. He had three grandchildren and four great.
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Floydada
Moore- Rose
George Harlan Day
Caprock
Day
Indian Territory
Okla
Wanda O'Neal
J. W. Day Jr
Robert
Tito Backs Pope Paul VI Peace Day Proposal
Belgrade AP reports President Tito endorsed Pope Paul VI's proposal to observe January 1 each year as a day of peace. The move aligns with Vatican led hopes for global nonviolence observance.
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Belgrade
Tito
Paul VI
Former Resident Dies At Home Of Sister
Mrs. Joe Caraway 77 of Arch New Mexico died at 10 p m Friday at the home of her sister Mrs O R Phillips 450 137th She was a former Lubbock resident living here from 1915 to 1946 She was a Cumberland Presbyterian Church member and a native of Leadville Arkansas Surviving besides her sister are a daughter Mrs Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Portales and two probable sons or relatives unresolved in the text
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Joe Caraway
Arch
N.M
O. R. Phillips
Lubbock
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Leadville
Ark
Gare
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
Portales
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