Winds Cutting Across Nation Cause Deadly Crashes And Missing Boat
A brutal cold front brings fierce winds and snow from coast to coast. In Texas a gust kills a woman when her car flips multiple times. A 13 foot sailboat is missing on Galveston Bay with at least five believed aboard. Floods, ice jams, and highway closures plague Idaho and New York while temperatures tumble 50 to 60 degrees from prior highs.
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Lillian Davis Montgomery
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Laredo
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Lake Ontario
Buffalo
Watertown
New York
Midwest
Kansas
National Guard
Rexburg
Teton River
Sugar City
Teton City
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Cuban Trade Ships To Face U S Boycott
President Kennedy is to issue regulations barring government or government-financed cargo from ships that carried goods to Cuba since the start of the year as the United States steps up a campaign to isolate Castro. The crackdown has been under consideration since last fall.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Kennedy
Cuba
United States
Sylvester
Pentagon
New York
Thurmond
Dunn Case Hangs Fire in Capitol Debates on Cuba arms
Kennedy decision expected in days as White House confirms action in works. Thurmond accuses Defense of evasiveness over Soviet arms in Cuba and bases for missile troops amid ongoing Capitol Hill dispute.
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WILL
Kennedy
White House
Pierre Salinger
Capitol Hill
Cuba
Strom Thurmond
Hospital board braces for ruling after tense closed hearing
The hospital board met in a lengthy closed session after an emotional final day. Attorney Hill Hudson said documentary evidence would be reviewed before a decision, with no timetable. Dr. Dunn accused a witness of lying as chairman Harrison Beauchamp cut off remarks. Fred Benners cited a similar case in another state.
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Hospital Board
Hudson
Dunn
Harrison Beauchamp
Fred Benners
SMU
Benners
Tommye Burkholder
Bee
Blast Kills Three In France Coal Mine
An explosion at a coal mine near here 80 miles northwest of Marseille killed three miners and injured two others on Friday. The incident was reported by UPI. Authorities investigated the blast and its cause.
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Uvalde
France
UPI
Here
Marseilles
Politician seeks inquiry into Snead Peace Corps hire
Rep. Victor Wickersham urged a House inquiry into Norman Snead joining the Peace Corps as a recruiter at a stated $15 600 yearly rate based on 130 paid days. Snead, Redskins quarterback and Wake Forest graduate, would be paid 75 dollars per day but only for days worked under corps rules.
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Victor Wickersham
Okla
Peace Corps
Wickersham
House Committee On Government Operations
House Appropriations Committee
Norman Snead
Washington Redskins
Snead
Wake Forest
Ace Corps
Redskins
Burglars Hit Two Overnight Hauls In City
Burglars stole about $7,683 in two breaks. At Sinclair Service Station on East 34th Street cash and checks were taken, plus a separate garage loot valued at $683. Items missing include a cutting torch and tools. locks were cut to gain entry. Police investigated as vandalism and other thefts were reported nearby.
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34Th St
Harry Porter
58Th St
Porter Oil Co
Frank Best
62Nd St
City of Lubbock
Willeve
Reeda
Holiness Church
Walls Collapse Kill 103 at Ecuador School
Rain drenched disaster at Heart of Mary College in Quito leaves 103 dead as chapel services ended. Three teaching nuns among the casualties, with 30 girls seriously injured. search parties probe ruins for missing victims as toll feared to rise.
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Associated Press
Heart of Mary College
Melida Alarcon
Boston Mother and Son Die in Apartment Gun Battle
In Boston two men allegedly invaded an apartment and shot a young mother and her 2 year old son. A gun battle with three gunmen and three policemen occurred during the Saturday incident amid a reported love triangle and threats involving an escaped convict.
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Associated Press
OSTON
Toby Zimmerman Wagner
Mark
Rocco Balliro
Balliro
Ess
Joseph J
House of Correction
Cummings
Salary hike backed by county bar split on new court
The Lubbock County Bar Association voted 32 to 24 to seek a $6,000 yearly raise for each of the three district judges. They also split on establishing a fourth district court as a general jurisdiction body. Both actions require Texas Legislature approval and then funding by the county commission. County Judge Bill Davis urged voters to let Austin lawmakers decide.
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Jerry Hall
Avalanche-Journal
Embers
Lubbock County
Bar Assa
Welfare Agency
Texas
Lubbock County Commissioners Court
Bill Davis
Austin
Prayer Walk Invocation and Editor’s Note
The text asks for daily prayer guidance asking divine steadiness to press onward in darkness toward divine light. It includes an editor’s note inviting readers to submit prayers or requests, though the note contains garbled words and misspellings.
Radio and TV Programs Highlights Page 2 Section F
Highlights from Radio and Television listings on page 2 section F feature program names, times, and channels. Listings note schedule changes and special broadcasts impacting viewers across local markets.
Move at 2 P.M. luncheon proceeds smoothly
A Saturday move occurred at a 2 PM luncheon with attorneys reporting a relatively smooth session and no surface friction during the action. The note appears on Lubbock page 14 detailing the proceedings.
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Lubbock
Plan clash over 1963 cotton allotments and subsidy
Senate Agriculture chair Allen J. Ellender urged raising 1963 cotton planting allotments and lowering federal price supports while opposing Kennedy's plan for a new subsidy. He favors using existing law to cut supports from 32.47 cents and boost allotments, signaling a split with administration aims to aid domestic mills.
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United Press International
Ashington
Allen J. Ellender
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Kennedy
Ellender
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Hilender
Greek King and Queen Begin Asia State Visits
King Paul I and Queen Frederica of Greece arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to start state visits to India and Thailand.
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New Delhi
UPI
Paul I
Frederica
Greece
Thailand
India
Ralls Grocer 92 Keeps Six Day Eight Hour Week
S J Ousley, a 92 year old grocer in Ralls, works a six day eight hour shift, stocking shelves, crate eggs, and serving customers. He is described as perhaps the oldest active grocer in West Texas, an institution loved by children and adults alike, seen daily alongside pastor James Rene Woody.
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South Plains
S. J. Ousley
Ralls
Ousley
Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
James Rene Woody
Ann Mor
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