14 Feb 1960
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1960
Page
1
AP report notes France announces plans for a nuclear striking force to ensure national independence after Sahara test. Pierre Guillaumat says a second test may follow, as the Tass agency condemns further explosions and the USSR warns of security implications.
A Golden Colorado resident near the Adolph Coors III disappearance reports hearing a gunshot and voices around the estimated time of his abduction. Mrs. W. J. Stitt said she initially attributed the shot to a poacher and heard two men talking or one man shouting twice before the incident.
Rome, famed for romance, marks Valentine Day like any ordinary Sunday. Most couples notice no special celebration, and the skull of one St. Valentine rests in Santa Maria in Cosmedin, once shown with a roses crown on Feb 14.
Castro and Mikoyan announce a five year plan in which the Soviet Union will buy one million tons of Cuban sugar annually and extend a 100 million dollar credit. The deal divides the sugar between cash purchases and barter with farm and industrial machinery. U.S. reaction hints at possible renewed scrutiny of Cuban sugar imports.
Tech's board approved contracts for two new buildings costing about 693000 and final approval to a revised exterior design of the five story library costing over 2.5 million. Two directors did not vote on the exterior design which now features a barrel arched roof around all four sides.
Air Force reports an oil crew found the bodies of five airmen from the World War II Lady Be Good bomber, missing since April 4, 1943 over Italy. The remains lie in Libyan Desert about 85 miles from the earlier near intact fuselage discovery.
A California Democratic Council resolutions committee urged Gov. Edmund G. Brown to spare death row inmate Daryl Chessman. The body with about 3 000 members planned to act on the resolution Saturday amid protests that the issue is not political.
A major snowstorm blanketed the Southeast with over a foot of snow causing road closures, stranded motorists, and cancellations. It spread northeast toward New England leaving Virginia Tennessee the Carolinas and West Virginia heavily affected. At least 72 people died across the storm system with traffic crashes and aviation incidents contributing.
Two Santa Fe Railroad officials, T. J. Anderson and Fred Ernest Andrick, were killed when a falling telephone pole and cable struck them during salvage of a mainline wreck six miles north of Abernathy. The $250000 damage tally covered 37 derailed cars and an engine.
A crowded subway scene prompts a quip about sardines oiling up to pack better, reflecting on crowding and efficiency in transit. The humorous line appears in a multifaceted paper spanning arts, farming, and radio sections.
A train wreck near Abernathy earlier in the day left a worker struck by debris as a pole and intact cable rebounded after being toppled. The pole had stood to keep wreckage from striking people. Staff photo by Everett Groseclose.
William Moody, 41, a merchant seaman, smashed a flat after a quarrel with his wife. He broke furniture, damaged a washing machine, and cut his wrist in a spree that left Kathleen Burrell and a neighbor shaken. Convicted of disorderly conduct and malicious damage, he was fined $61.60.
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