Titan makes first flight test.
A Titan rocket completed its first flight test at Cape Canaveral, lifting a dummy warhead 2,000 miles as part of a push to close the U.S. missile gap. Officials hailed the 91-foot booster and its 80,000-pound thrust upper stage as a milestone in expanding America’s ICBM capability amid Senate investigations into past launch failures.
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Associated Press
Ape Canaveral
Fla
America
Wernher von Braun
House Science and Astronautics Committee
Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
Sears
Cape Canaveral
Atlantic
United States
Titan
All-Out SAC Vigil Urged
SAC chief Gen. Thomas S. Power testified before the Senate Space Committee urging a 24 hour a day airborne alert of combat ready bombers for deterrence. He warned of rising Soviet danger in the next four to five years and said by the mid 1960s U S long range missiles will deter attack, while the B 70 program remains contested and underfunded.
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Schriever
Congress
Defense
Thomas
Gates
Soviet Union
Titan
United States
Yashington
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Nikita Khrushchev
Air Force
Bernard Schriever
Senate OKs plan to outlaw poll tax in federal elections
The Senate voted 70 to 18 to amend the Constitution to ban the state poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections. The tally exceeded the two thirds threshold by 11 votes.
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J. W. Davis Ashington
Senate
U.S
South
Spessard Holland
D-Fla
Alabama
Arkansas
Mississippi
Texas
Virginia
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Javits
Beatin Names Clash Highlight Texas 1960 Races
The Texas 1960 political picture features twin candidates with identical or similar names in statewide races, including two Robert W and Robert S Calverts and two Ramseys in key posts. Beatniks Joseph Callaway and Peter Gill enter Democratic precinct chairmanships in Fort Worth while ballot confusion looms in Dallas and San Antonio races.
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United Press
Texas
Robert Calverts
San Antonio
R. L
Bob) Stricklands
Bill Joneses
Dallas
Ramseys
Calverts
Robert W. Calvert
State Supreme Court
Robert S. Calvert
Ben Ramsey
Rep
W. L
Bo) Ramsey
Beckville
Calvert Robert S
Stricklands
Ramsey
Houston
Don Yarborough
U.S
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
Ralph
Don
Joseph
Big Mike
Auto Crash In Duster Kills Three
A dust storm on Tuesday near El Paso caused a fiery four vehicle crash that killed Mrs Mary W Morrison of El Paso and Mr and Mrs M J Lahr of Ralston Nebraska. Two others were injured as winds of 63 mph plus swept dust across the area. Snow and rain were reported elsewhere with a Pacific cold front moving into the region.
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Mexico
Canada
Las Vegas
N.M
el Paso
Mary W.morrison
M. J. Lahr
Ralston
Neb
Lockney
Lamesa
Texas Highway Patrol
Arvana
Lubbock
House approves defense factory security program bill
The House voted to restore a security program in defense factories after a Supreme Court ruling invalidated it. The measure, approved by voice vote, directs the secretary of defense to establish and operate the system and moves to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
Senate
Secretary of Defense
Reds Beaten In Kerala Election
In Trivandrum India a non Communist alliance led by Congress appears to have won a crushing victory over the Reds in Kerala state. Nehru's party won more than twice as many Assembly seats as the Communists who had ruled Kerala for 28 months ending last July when the national government ousted them. The new majority party will choose the next state government needing 64 seats for a majority.
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Trivandrum
India
Nehru
Congress Party
Kerala
Doctor's Lover Gains Key Issue For Defense In Finch Trial
The judge ruled Carole Tregoff's sworn statements cannot be used to prove she helped murder Barbara Finch. This clears the way for R Bernard Finch to testify about the night of the slaying. The West Covina surgeon is accused of plotting with Miss Tregoff to kill Barbara so they could wed and block a divorce claim.
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Dial Torgersonos Angeles
Finch
Pretty Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
West Covina
Barbara Jean Finch
Miss Tregoff
Mrs. Finch
Carole
Las Vegas
Nev
Bank official shot protecting cash in Oklahoma holdup
In Racemont Oklahoma bank president W V Bud Granger was shot in the stomach during a bank robbery in which two masked gunmen fled with more than $11 000. Granger attempted to reach his weapon after forcing the bandits to the vault with staff and customers.
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United Press International
Racemont
Okla
W. V
Bud) Granger
First National Bank
Granger
Pauline Beardsley
H. L. Feagins
Mississippi State Wins Southwest Dairy Judging at Fort Worth
A team from Mississippi State won the southwestern dairy judging contest for senior agricultural colleges at the Fort Worth Stock Show, scoring 1 00 points to edge Texas Tech which earned 1,768. Texas Tech’s Bill Turner claimed top individual honors with 617 of 700 points.
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Fort Worth
Mississippi State
Principal Shoots Teachers In Class Then Kills Self
In Arford City Indiana the 44 year old principal Leonard O Redden shot two women teachers in a classroom before driving to a woods where he died from a shotgun wound. His wife and psychiatrist cited deteriorating mental health and delusions of gossip.
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Harriett Robson
Reed School
Hartford City
Ind
Leonard Redden
Miss Robson
Redden
Minnie McFerren
Don L. Reeder
Artford City
Leonard O. Redden
Russell Mathewson
Muncie
Lee
Vagrant Defined In Short Dictionary Entry
A brief glossary note describes a vagrant as a person moving from nowhere to nothing. It frames the term in a blunt social lens, noting the lack of stable residence and uncertain future paths for those labeled as such.
County tally may top 40 000 in Texas county race
County officials report a record voting strength possible to exceed 40 000 in Lubbock County for 1960 balloting. Tax assessor-collector Russell Hardin notes uncounted poll tax payments and exemptions while awaiting final figures and cites presidential election and county growth as key factors. Exemptions for over age residents not in large municipalities will push counts higher.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Ubbock County
Russell Hardin
Hardin
Lubbock
League of Women Voters
Jin
Shallowater
Idalon
Slaton
Ob- Bee County
Floods Displace Hundreds in Peru's Rami River Valley
Torrential rains in the Rami River Valley in the Andes near Peru's southern border cause widespread flooding. The disaster leaves hundreds homeless as rescue and relief efforts begin in Lima and surrounding communities.
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Lima
Peru
Rami River
Andes
Weather Chronicle Lubbock Area Partly Cloudy Cooler
The Lubbock area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with developing clouds and scattered showers. Early morning low near 33, daytime high around 50, winds 15 to 25 mph from the north and northwest. Possible snow in extreme northern South Plains.
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Lubbock
South Plains
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