Secret Red Bases and Cuban Troop Estimates
Cuban exile leader Manuel de Varona claims 17 000 to 30 000 Soviet troops in Cuba and urges a U S led invasion to restore peace. Vienna sources allege two secret bases in Latin America one in northwest Brazil and the Paraguayan mountains as ships carrying troops approach Cuba raising urgency of Kremlin pullout plans.
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Ashington
Cuba
Manuel de Varona
Senate
Oustod Aan Fulgencio Batista
Vienna
Latin America
Brazil
Paraguay
Havana
DeVarona
Winter Slaps Plains Again
A surging Arctic cold wave with high winds and plummeting temperatures blasts Texas and the South Plains. Lubbock sees 46 mph winds as snow flurries threaten. readings may drop to 20 by today with highs near 30. Dalhart flights halted. colder weather spreads across the Panhandle and Great Plains.
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Charles Cullin
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
South Plains
Panhandle
Lubbock
Dalhart
Plainview
U.S. Weather Bureau
Upper Midwest
Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle
Great Plains
Great Lakes Region
Pennsylvania
New York
Weather Bureau
Navy hike ends in failure for eight sailors
Eight Navy men from Lubbock began a 50 mile cross country hike at 6 am on Wednesday to echo President Kennedy’s fitness push. By 9:15 am six dropped out, then one more at noon and another an hour later. Cmdr. Hewitt lasted until 2:15 pm before collapsing. Raymond Allen and John Hampton persisted until Hampton quit at 6:45 pm after 36 miles. Allen continued briefly but also failed to finish. The route spanned Lubbock Tahoka Wilson Slaton drawing local attention. Slaton police planned an escort that never materialized.
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Raymond Allen
John Hampton
Navy
Hampton
Allen
Sarge Klinger
Vaughn Hendrie
Avalanche-Journal
Ubbock’s
Navy On
the Plains
Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Cmdr
W. H. Hewitt
Tohoka
Young
Wilson
Lubbock
Tahoka
Slaton
Marriage Equal Partnership Banters on Money and Decisions
A humorous panel in the comic dictionary suggests marriage as an equal partnership where the husband handles money while the wife makes the decisions. The piece pokes at traditional roles with light, witty phrasing.
Kennedy pledges full U.S. aid to Venezuela to halt red threats
President Kennedy and Venezuelan President Betancourt issued a joint communique after Betancourt's Washington visit. They warned of an international Communist campaign aided by Cuba and urged the OAS to use its powers to sustain democracy in the Americas. The talks emphasized protecting Venezuela's oil interests under U.S. import programs and tightening Cuba isolation.
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Ashington
Kennedy
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
U.S
Betancourt
Washington
Cuba
Er Betancourt
Organization of American States
National Press Club
Asia
OAS Council
Jhemisphere
Four Named In Vandalism Strike at Lubbock Packing
Four Lubbock men, all union members, face misdemeanor charges for alleged malicious injury to private property after vandals punctured tires at a Lubbock Packing Co. site during a strike related incident. Names include Clyde Winn James Wheeler Marvin Wilson and Bill Caruthers.
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Lubbock
United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers
Afl-Cio Union
William Crossland
Ave. Q
Franklin Dunaway
N. Rider St
Lubbock Packing Co
Asst
William Quinn Brackett
Clyde Winn
James Wheeler
Marvin Wilson
Bill Caruthers
Steve Mauser
Fort Worth
Crossland and
Dunaway
14Th St
Crossland
Furr's, Inc
Furr’s
New Mexico House Nixes Sunday Blue Law Bill
The New Mexico House rejected a bill to establish a Sunday blue law prohibiting certain business and commercial activity on Sundays. The vote halted consideration of the proposed restriction in Santa Fe.
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Santa FE
UPI
New Mexico House
Reading Clue Renews Search For Missing Wife Joan Risch
Detectives renewed interest in the 1961 disappearance of Joan Risch after discovering her reading material included a book about flight and starting anew. Joan Nattras Risch, 31, vanished with blood found on a kitchen floor near Lincoln Massachusetts where the family had recently moved with children Lillian 4 and David 2.
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Incoln
Mass
Joan Risch
Martin D. Risch
Fitchburg Paper Company
Lincoln
Boston
Lillian
David
Risch
Some Thing For The Kids Editorial Prompts Action
In Briarcliff Manor Westchester County the PTA and residents seek guidance from the police chief on teens with too much idle time. Inez Robb’s editorial on Page 8 offers a thought provoking perspective and calls for constructive programs.
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Briarcliff Manor
New York
Westchester County
PTA
Sec. D
Inez Robb
Garwood Rejection Sparks Senate Battle Over Regents Pick
Texas senators held secret sessions after rejecting W St John Garwood as a University of Texas regent. The move shocks backers and prompts talk of reconsideration amid constitutional questions and rules hurdles. The Daily Texan denounced the action as students picketed the Capitol in protest.
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Bob Booker Astin
Texas
W. St. John Garwood
University of Texas
Garwood
Supreme Court
John Connally
Herringon Hospital
Charles Herring
Austin
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
Daily Texan
Capitol
Senate
Schwartz
Secretary of State
Haiti Ousts U S Official Amid Duvalier Tensions
Haitian President Francois Duvalier orders Col. Robert Debs Heinl of a 50 man U S naval mission to leave the country. Heinl had complained by letter about Duvalier's militia and police, prompting formal removal and a transfer of command to Col. Roy Batterton. Boucicault sought asylum in the Venezuelan Embassy.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Robert Debs Heinl
U.S
U.S. State Department
Heinl
Roy Batterton
Duvalier
Jean-Rene Boucicault
Heinz
Boucicault
Lincoln Devotions Prayer Toasts Freedom From Temptation
A devotional line attributed to Abraham Lincoln extols protection in danger and freedom from temptation. It asks for grace to prevail and to lead hearts to God in a moment of spiritual trust.
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Abraham Lincoln
They Make Legs for Little Girls in Tragedy
A seven year old girl Deborah Marcuccilli loses both legs in a tractor trailer crash that injured 61 children. Doctors removed one leg and she faces rehabilitation at Strong Memorial Hospital as her father recalls her love of dancing and the hope of prosthetic legs.
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United Press International
N. Y
Deborah Marcuccilli
Orazio Marecuccilli
Deborah
Marcuccilli
Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester, N. Y
Debbie
Anna Lucchesi
Sulphur Queen tanker debris found in Atlantic mystery
Two life jackets stenciled Sulphur Queen were recovered in the Gulf Stream southeast of Key West and near the debris site. Navy and Coast Guard crews extended aerial and sea searches for the 523 foot tanker missing since February 3 with 39 crew, while reports of oil slicks and prior fires prompt a continued probe.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
West
Fla
Atlantic
National Maritime Union
Navy
Coast Guard
Gulf Stream
Key West
Beaumont
Tex
Norfolk
New Orleans
Gulf
Peterson
Weather Map Page 6-A Lubbock Flurries Cold North Winds
Cold with light snow flurries in the forenoon. High around 30 degrees with strong northerly winds throughout the day.
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Lubbock
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Maine
New England
Comic Dictionary
JFK
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