Severe winter storm grips Texas and Lubbock area
The Texas storm left icy roads and widespread power outages. Lubbock faced dense fog and near zero temperatures with snow in parts, while major Texas cities reported freezing conditions and disrupted transit. Bus crashes and closed freeways highlighted ongoing hazards across the state.
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Rio Grande
Henderson
Tents
Harry Bowman
Houston Ae
South Texas
Tyler
Dale Marvel
State Highway Department
Houston
Marvel
Highway Department
Red River
Brownwood
Wichita Falls
Paris
Gulf Coast
Florence
Austin
Imore
Dallas Independent School
Harris County
Texas
Crockett
Palestine
Huffman
Dallas
Port Neches
Nederland
Beaumont
Ridgeway
Texas Instruments
Collins Radio
Ling-Temco-Vought
Hown
N.Y
Budget A Me and the Unified Budget Concept
Budget A Me compares to the 1590 billion range noting Social Security boosts since July 1. Spending rose above 100 billion for the year ending June 30, 1965, reached 126.7 billion, now estimated at 136.2 billion for the current year. Deficit remains undetermined as revenue estimates wait on tax surcharge plans. the 1962 and future totals are discussed under the unified budget proposal to end confusion and gimmickry.
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Treasury Department
Johnson
Births Count Twin Daughters and Local Clergy Roles
A garbled list reports multiple birth announcements from a Methodist Hospital and local families including Mr and Mrs Leland Wehde and Mr and Mrs Jesse Gueman. Details show twins with weights and times, mentions fathers’ occupations as pharmacist, coach, driver, or farmer, and references a regionally titled “Baat Germany” note about area size.
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Leland Wehde
Glige Road
Weishing
Methodist Hospital
L&h Dive Store
Mrs. Gallimore Dies Rites Set in Levelland
Mrs Ivy Pearl Gallimore 74 longtime Hockley County resident dies Tuesday morning. Services set for 2 p m Thursday at Fifth Street Baptist Church Levelland with graveside rites in Levelland City Cemetery Smith Funeral Home in charge. Born April 25 1893 in Hood County she is survived by three daughters Mrs Coy Caraway Midland Mrs Flossie Slaton Levelland and Mrs Ray Sanders Abernathy seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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Levelland
Ivy
Pearl Gallimore
Hockley County
Fifth Street Baptist
City of Levelland
Smith Funeral Home
Gallimore
Hood County
Coy Caraway
Midland
Flossie Slaton
Infant Graveside Rites Held for Brent Nelson
Arrangements were set for a graveside service for Brent Nelson at the family home with Pastor Lee Bolinger officiating. The infant child of Mr and Mrs Brent Nelson died at home, with funeral details coordinated by the Franklin arrangement group.
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Brent Nelson
Bill
Lee Bolinger
O 'Primitive Baptist
Chure
Hereford
Franklin
Coe Ge
13Th St
Surveyor 7 lands on Moon after perilous descent
The report describes Surveyor 7’s landing sequence with a 620 pound skeletal craft weighing 1 foot tall, settling 13 feet above the surface on shock absorbing legs. The target area lay 18 miles north of Tycho at a 12 mile wide circle on a crater rim 50 miles across with a 15,000 foot high rim. Surveyor 7 carried the heaviest gear in the $500 million program, including a TV camera a trench digger and a soil radiation analyzer.
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Tycho
Nouth
Surveyor 1
Surveyor 7
Texas vehicle registrations eye rise in 1968 figures
State officials anticipate seven million Texas vehicle registrations in 1968 with 4.75 million passenger cars and 1.9 million commercial vehicles. Hardin cites 1967 and 1966 totals, noting 1968 plates go on sale Feb 1 with new color scheme and April 1 deadline, while 1967 registrations continue.
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Hardin
J. C. Dingwall
Austin
Texas
Dingwall
Raytor's Obituary Notice in Eden City Court Cemetery
Services for Nolen Las Jack 4303 16th St. are announced by Ass God Church. The obituary notes a son two sisters and three half sisters. The burial will be in Eden Cemetery with survivors listed in the notice.
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Nolen Las
Jack
St. Ass God - Church
Aria
City of Eden
Sur Paren
Vane Tee
Nine Anxious Hours New Heart Transplant Patient Update
A New Yorker receives a heart transplant with a donor from New Jersey. The procedure uses hormone-type drugs to prevent rejection. The donor Miss Krouch died of a rapidly expanding brain tumor in Paterson, New Jersey.
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Philip Blaiberg
Mike Ahasparak
California
Block
Kantrowitz
Jess
Maimonides Hospital
New Jersey
Louie
T.am
New York City
Walter Pawlak
Bronx
Electrical Appiance
Rose Lo Nigro
Black
Helen
George
Gary
Miss Krouch
Barnett Memorial Hospital
Paterson
Brooklyn Hospital
Bilal Sures
Barnetthose
FBI Recaptures Escape Artist Henry Young
Henry Theodore Young, 54, once a bank robber and Alcatraz escapee, was captured Tuesday on a Kansas City street corner. He had been on the FBI's ten most wanted list after escaping seven months earlier from Walla Walla State Prison while serving a life term for a holdup slaying. The FBI recalls the 1919 Alcatraz escape by Young and four inmates including Doc Barker. Barker was killed and the others recaptured.
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Washington
Henry Theodore Young
Alcatraz
Kansas City
FBI
Young
Walla Walla
Wash
Bank
Johber Arthur
Doc) Barker
Alcatraz Federal Prison
San Francisco Bay
Barker
Johnson warns on dollar strength amid balance of payments deficits
President Johnson frames the U S balance of payments deficit as a present danger to the dollar and world economic stability. He urges restrictive investment abroad and travel limits while preparing for talks with Belgium on February 8 to discuss backers of the European Community.
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United States
U.S
International Monetary System
Johnnsor
Washington
Industrial Payroll Savings Bond Committee
Treasury
Henry HW. Fowler
Johnson
Texas
Europe
Family Cleared From Diphtheria Quarantine Near Crosbyton
Crosbyton special report says Adolph Minar family about six miles southwest of town will leave a 21 day quarantine Thursday after a diphtheria outbreak killed 4 year old Mel Minar and sickened Stella 9 and Daniel 3. Health officer Dr. Dale Rhodes notes all contacts checked and no danger of spread.
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Crosbyton
Adolph Minoramily
Here
Dale Rhodes
Crosby County
Mel Minar
Stella
Daniel
Rhodes
Plaing
Merce
Plainview
Dallas
Water District Elections See Heavy Voter Turnout
High Plains Water District reports heavy turnout as Crosby County annexation wins by a large margin. A Lubbock spokesman says田late Tuesday returns show Crosby's annexation carries decisively across the district. Board member Russell Bean is cited in the text.
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Crosby County
High Plains
Lubbock
Cnet
Crosby
High Plains Water District Board
Russell Bean
Court ruling clarifies Oklahoma water rights under 1963 amendments
The Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a city water ownership claim, calling the issue not merely hypothetical. The decision recognized landowners own water that flows over their land into streams and noted the 1963 amendments permit storage and use, with Farm Bureau and Landowners Protective Association joining as friends of the court. The piece lists election results for South Plains and High Plains water districts, including board member names and vote counts.
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High Court
Oklahoma City
City
Fim Croek
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Farm Bureau
Landowners Protective Association of Oklahoma
Friends of the Court
Farm Bureau
Draper Lake
gaid-Farm Bureau
Charles G. Huddleston
Enid
Subpoena Issued in New Orleans Case
In New Orleans a district attorney named Jim Garrigan issued a subpoena on Tuesday for a man from Tamna Florida. The document targets truth in a matter linked to a Marine Corps employee and a sworn statement in a local legal matter.
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New Orleans
Atty
Jim
Garrigan
Tamna
Marine
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