Sputnik launches heavy 7.1 ton satellite into orbit
The Soviet Union placed a 7.1 ton Sputnik into space, the heaviest object ever launched, with Tass stating systems worked as it entered orbit. Experts note it will burn up in days due to atmospheric reentry while observers report possible Morse like signals from the craft.
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OSCOW
Russia
London
Tass
Ivan Shevlyakov
Moscow Planetarium
Sputnik
Shevlyakov
Earth
Plains Store Hit For $1300 Cash
Robbers busted into the Cogburn and Young Hardware Store in Plains early Saturday and ransacked a safe, taking about $1300 in cash and tools. Deputy Olan Heath said two men pried the door with hack saws and pinch bars after breaking a window. loot included a 50 dollar bill and small change. No tracks were found when the store opened.
Snow Quietly Transforms New York City Streets
Snowfall blankets New York creating eerie stillness with Times Square lights gleaming. No traffic, few pedestrians, and closed stores produce a tranquil, ghostly scene as the city settles into a motionless white calm.
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George Cornell
YORK
New York
Times Square
Navy Chief Due Today For National Security Seminar
Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally Jr. arrives in Lubbock today for the National Security Seminar events set to begin Monday at 8:30 a.m. in the Municipal Auditorium. Rear Adm. Frederick B. Warder and Rear Adm. L. J. Kirn will also attend, with arrival times listed, and Connally will speak at a dinner at the Caprock Hotel after meetings with local officials.
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Dorrance Guy Avalanches Journal
Municipal Auditorium
David Co. Casey
Ann Nites
ML US Cpp Civics
John B. Connally Jr
Lubbock Municipal
Frederick B. Warder
8Th Naval District
New Orleans
L. J. Kirn
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Kirn
Reese Air Force
Warder
Armed Forces
Lubbock
Connally
U.S. Senate
Navy
Reese Afb
Pech
Paci
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock Club
Caprock Hotel
State of Union speech attacked by Soviet press
Soviet outlets including Izvestia and Life Abroad harshly criticized President Kennedy's State of the Union, calling his policy old line and alarming on disarmament. They accused him of borrowing Eisenhower era thinking and warned that expanded armed forces worsen global tensions.
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United Press International
OSCOW
Kennedy
Izvestia
U.S
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Jas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Bourgois
Life Abroad
Union of Journalistics
America
Cuba
Laos
Tass
Campaign Launched to Sell Texas Sales Tax Plan
Midland attorney Tom Sealy leads Citizens for a Sales Tax as they open an Austin headquarters to back a general sales tax. The group, with 31 businessmen, bankers and oil men on its executive committee, argues the tax is the fairest solution to Texas fiscal woes. The Texas Industrial Conference and Texas Manufacturers Association back the proposal, urging broad coverage to avoid burdens on purchasers and industry. The 87th Legislature faces a $63 million deficit.
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United Press International
Ustin
Pappy” O'Daniel
Texas
Citizens For
Austin
Midland
Tom Sealy
Sealy
Texas Industrial Conference
Texas Manufacturers Association
T. E. Jackson
Industrial Conference
Jackson
Local injury report details fall and hospitalization
A badly windblown incident left Mark Culhane, five, hospitalized after falling approximately 20 feet from a bed in his home. He sustained a fractured right arm and other minor injuries. Authorities cited a token injury assessment and ongoing medical care.
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Mark ‘Culhane
Dictionary Forgery Exposes Flattery as Imitation
The bulletin notes a forgery case showing that imitation can mislead readers and highlights the broader impact on trust in published works. Authorities probe the incident across editorial, church news, arts, and farm sections, urging caution with sourced material and verification practices.
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Plains Farm
Castro Regime Launches Dual Drive Amid Sugar Crisis
In Havana Premier Fidel Castro’s regime began a two-pronged effort to address severe economic and military problems. concurrently 51 Cubans faced trials in La Cabana prison for alleged plans to topple the government as the sugar harvest faces disruptions with 67,000 workers mobilized to boost cane cutting for a daily production target.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
la Cabana
Cuba
Conrado Becquer
National Sugar Federation
Emergency Proclaimed As Snowstorm Strands Gotham
A massive northeast storm halted major mobility with up to 30 inches in parts of New York State. New York City declared a state of emergency and barred private vehicles except essential traffic as Mayor Wagner mobilized 12,000 workers and 2,500 pieces of equipment to clear streets.
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Associated Press
Upstate
New York
New York City
Robert F. Wagner
Brooklyn
New England
Albany
Mercury
Snowstorm Drops Heavy Falls Across Panhandle and South Plains
A broad snow system dumped up to 11 inches in Higgins and seven inches in Perryton, sweeping southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas. Travel grew hazardous as roads iced, with Amarillo two inches and Lubbock flurries, while forecasters revised warnings from eight inches to intermittent snow after a dramatic, few hours’ calm.
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Bob Laces Bee Wittee
Kansas
Plains
Panhandle
Perryton
Stratford
Texas Highway Patrol
U.S. 287
Plainview
Hale Center
Littlefield
Muleshoe
Texhoma
Amarillo
Mercury
Lubbock
Kress
South Plains
Land deals and trials tied to Bascom Giles veterans plots
A report details payments and schemes connected to Bascom Giles and former land deals in Austin before his veterans land scandals. It notes conspiracy links with L. V. Ruffin and Almeida Mireles, a 54 lot sale to the State Land Board for $353000, and prior convictions involving Sheffield and a Court of Criminal Appeals reversal.
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Bascom Giles
Veterans” Land
Sheffield
Boots
Austin
Veterans’ Land
Giles
Bsert
Veterans
Dfonso Mireles
L. V. Ruffin
Brady
State Land Board
Ruffin
Prayer Reflection From Rev Dudley Strain
Today's Prayer from The First Christian Church urges reliance on divine energy for daily work. It emphasizes forgiveness through Christ for sins healing for hurt and strength for weakness as guiding spiritual sources.
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Rev
Dudley Strain
First Christian Church
House weighs boosting size to curb reapportion loss
Congressional leaders study increasing House membership from 435 to 450 to prevent states from losing seats after the 1960 census. Speaker Rayburn says the idea is under review though no decision has been made. A 450-seat House would affect state seat shifts and also expand the electoral college total.
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Associated Press
Ashington
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Alaska
Hawaii
U. S
Arizona
New Mexico
Congress
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts
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Alabama
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Ohio
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Weather map note for Lubbock area forecast
Party cloudy conditions expected for Lubbock and vicinity today tonight and Monday with slightly warmer temperatures. Low this morning around 16 degrees high near 40 with light to moderate northerly winds.
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Lubbock
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