7.6 Mile Segment Okayed for Loop 289
The Texas Highway Dept. awarded a low bid of 1 189 590 for 7.6 miles of grading and paving with a railroad overpass from U S 62 to U S 87 in Lubbock as the southeast quadrant of Loop 289. The project totals 15 to 20 million dollars with a 300 foot right of way. LH Clifton calls this a major step toward traffic dispersal and notes planning began in 1952.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock
State Highway Dept
Texas
Associated Press
U.S. Hwy. 62
Henry K. Stafford
Crain
Highway Department
Idaion Hwy
Tahoka Hwy
Qty
HL. P. Clifton
Clifton
Titan Fails To Leave Test Pad
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP A Polaris submarine missile registered its fourth straight success and a giant Titan sputtered and died on the pad Wednesday as the United States stepped up its rocket test program The Polaris carried a dummy warhead to a target 900 miles down the Atlantic missile range Flames poured from the Titan engine three hours earlier as the countdown reached zero but the 91 foot intercontinental range giant failed to lift off in another attempt to ignite its second stage for the first time.
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Fla
Polaris
United States
Atlantic
NO SURVIVORS IN INDIANA FAMILY CAR CRASH
Four Jessup children aged 17, 16, 13, and 7 died when their car skidded over a hill and struck an empty Paragon school bus in Indiana. Driver James Jessup 17 perished. bus driver Lee Voshell sustained minor injuries.
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James Jessup
Richard
Barbara
Janet
James
Eminence
Ind
Iowa
Bloomfield
North Western
Marshalltown
Logansport
Dayton
Lipstick safety debate stalls bill in Congress
A Democratic congresswoman Leonor Sullivan from Missouri urged caution on a color additives bill aimed at lifting a government ban on 17 lipstick shades. She warned dangerous shades may return to market and argued safety proofs are insufficient.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Congress
Leonor Sullivan
St. Louis
40 Acre Site Chosen For Public School Stadium
Tallibock Independent School District trustees select a 40 acre Tahoka Highway site near 66th Street for a new public school athletic stadium. Officials aim to begin construction within 31% months with bids possible in about 3 1/4 months. condemnation likely if land ownership issues persist.
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CHOOL
South Lubbock
Tahoka
Tract Ia
Tallibbock Independent
A. W. Eckert
Eckert
Tahoka Highway
66Th St
Doshin Brown
Tthe
Avalanche- Journal
Wreck Kills Pair's Four Children in Indiana Tragedy
Martinville Indiana AP reports James Jessup 18 and his wife lose four children Janet 7 Barbara 13 Richard 16 and James a high school senior after their 1951 car collides with a school bus on a rainy bridge. Bus driver Lee Voshell 47 suffers minor injuries. Parents notified as bodies laid in ditch near barbed wire fence. James later pronounced dead at Greencastle hospital.
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Roacre
James T. Jessup
Richard
Barbara
Janet
James
Richard & Junior
Little Janet
John L. Gastineau
Lee Voshell
Greencastle
Firefight in Mostaganem as Algerian crowd clashes with forces
Police and troops opened fire on hundreds of Muslims in Mostaganem, Algeria, as they marched from the Casbah in a counter demonstration against European settlers. Reports say six injured amid ongoing clashes tied to De Gaulle’s Algeria policy.
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Mostaganem
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
Algeria
Casbah
de Gaulle
Chessman's 13th Bid For Life Due Today
Daryl Chessman faces his 13th bid for clemency with a San Quentin execution date set for February 19. An attorney sought transport of Judge Walter Evans from Los Angeles to San Francisco for Chessman’s hearing to appeal the death sentence in the light of the ongoing murder trial.
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UPI
Daryl ‘Chessman
Eral Cour
Fect
Los Angeles
Walter R. Evans
Tregoff- Finch
Chessman
San Quentin
Heiress Gamble Benedict Becomes Ward in Romance Case
Runaway heiress Gamble Benedict aged 19 is placed under court ward as Brooklyn magistrate probes charges of being a wayward girl. Her grandmother Katherine Geddes Benedict takes custody while a Manhattan judge orders her brought to court as questions linger for weeks. Andre Porumbeanu, 35, the ex chauffeur linked to the Paris elopement, looms in background as family fights to end the affair.
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New York
Gamble Benedict Wednesday
Andre Porumbeanu
Miss Benedict
Paris
Brooklyn
Corning G. McKennee
Remington Typewriter
McKennee
Katherine Geddes Benedict
Porumbeanu
Manhattan
State Supreme Court
Samuel H. Hofstadter
Gamble
Douglas
Juggling Is Charged In Rocket Data
Senator Stuart Symington accused the Eisenhower administration of juggling intelligence to balance the budget. He argued a substantial missile gap exists and the U S deficit in intercontinental missiles exceeds a 3 to 1 Soviet advantage when shorter range rockets are included. He urged that the public be shown the true defense needs. The remarks followed defense briefings defending new estimates.
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Fred
Hoffman Ashington
Stuart Symington
D- Mo
Eisenhower
Air Force
U.S
Soviet Union
Missouri
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency
Allen W. Dulles
Dulles
Congress
Thomas S. Gates Jr
United States
Gates
Center Dictionary Courtship The period when a man courts trouble
The notice presents a lighthearted dictionary-style piece on courtship as a risky pursuit that leads to marriage. It frames the courting phase as a prelude to commitment and uses witty language to describe the social behavior of men seeking partners.
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Centre Dictionary
Eisenhower touts military and economic strength in campaign
President Eisenhower claimed the United States is the strongest military and economic power as he opened GOP campaign events. He criticized Democratic critics and warned against a “sansorized dollar” and other political tactics while vowing to maintain prosperity without war.
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Traf
Ike
U.S
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Angeles
Eisenhower
America
United States
Soviet Union
Senators challenge drug firms over alleged price monopoly
The government filed civil suits in New York charging Carter Products and American Home Products with unlawful conspiracy to monopolize sales of the meprobamate tranquilizers Miltown and Equanil. Testimony came from Carter president Henry H. Hoyt as the Senate antitrust subcommittee pressed the inquiry into drug pricing and competition.
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Jerry T. Baulch Ashington
Senate Antitrust
Henry H. Hoyt
Car’ Ter Products, Inc
U.S
Carter
New York
Navy vessels report sonar contact with wreckage of crashed airliner
In New Orleans the Navy said two ships probing the Gulf of Mexico for the November airliner crash established sonar contact with debris at a depth of 41 fathoms about 250 feet. A diver was to descend Wednesday morning to assess the site.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Midwest Ice Envelops Four States Kills Seven Drivers
Freezing rain fog and an icy glaze caused a deadly Midwest stretch of driving peril across Michigan Illinois Iowa and Indiana. At least seven deaths were blamed as accidents and slick roads disrupted air rail and highway traffic.
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Ly United Press
Weather Bureau
Michigan
Ilinois
Iowa
Indiana
Chicago
O'Hare International Airport
Midway Airport
Missouri
U.S. 40
New York
Mississippi Valley
Central
Appalachians
Florida
Cuba President Dorticos Rejects Ike Insinuations
In a TV policy speech Osvaldo Dorticos condemned Eisenhower's suggestion that international communist intrigues could wreck Cuban U.S. friendship. He lamented the U.S. misunderstanding of Castro era aims and urged that deteriorating ties are the fault of Washington, not Havana.
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Cuba
Osvaldo Dorticos
Eisenhower
Dorticos
United States
U.S
Corticos
White House
Weather Map Page 8-B Lubbock and Vicinity Summary
Partly cloudy and warm today with a high near 66 and a low around 32 degrees. Winds will come from the southwest at 15 to 25 mph.
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Lubbock
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