Quartet Held In Forgery Suspects Arrest at Plainview
A Plainview clerk a bread salesman and a traveling sheriff helped arrest three Dallas men and a Mesquite woman for passing a forged postal money order. The incident began when a shopper flagged the cashier after recognizing a stolen money order. Police tracked the vehicle by license plate, broadcasting the details as officers pursued.
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Avalanche-Journal
Lainview
Dallas
Pat Jones
Safeway
Plainview
Spears
E. L. Noblett
Noblett
Mother's worry over scheming female capturing son
A mother frets that a scheming woman may capture her son while fearing no scheming male will capture her daughter. The page notes editorial and column sections across the issue, with various features including sports and market reports.
City Bond Study Recommends $22.7 Million Election
Lubbock officials scheduled a July 22 meeting to discuss a Citizens Advisory Committee report urging a $22.7 million bond election. Chairman W D Rogers Jr noted the panel’s findings need extensive study by the commission before action. The report followed a July 21 committee session with about 50 participants, part of a larger 75-member group.
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Lubbock
Citizens Advisory Committee
W. D
Dub) Rogers Jr
Commission
Rogers
City Commission
City Commission Relects Medians Plan At 34th Street
City commissioners after a parliamentary tangle voted not to alter the traffic medians at 34th Street and Ave A despite a businessmen plea for a re hearing. A tie breaking vote by Mayor Strong kept the project on track as work continues.
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Avalanche-Journal
Ubbock
34Th St
Ave. A
Clifford Brown
Texas Highway Department
Marvin McLarty Jr
Gene Alderson
Rolan Simpson
Jack Strong
McLarty
W. C. O'Mara
Alderson
Simpson
Strong
W. D
Dub) Rogers Jr
Citizens Advisory Committee
Avenue Q
50Th Street
Tohoka
Jones Bros. Pavers
Odessa
Municipal Airport
City Rejects
Armless couple to wed without ring ceremony in Florida
Live Oak Florida AP report tells how Martin Ravellette and Jo Beth Johnson, both armless, plan a Pine Level Baptist wedding without rings. He used feet to open a gift, she read a card with her foot, and they met after a California highway patrol and AP story sparked correspondence.
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Live Oak
Fla
Martin Ravellette
Jo Beth Johnson
Pine Level Baptist
Florida
Associated Press
Ravelette
California
Jo Beth
Threshhold
Ravallette
Heat Wave Grips Texas as Floods Hit Kansas and Oklahoma
Heat again soars across Texas with Lubbock near 99 degrees while downstate Presidio reaches 108. A cooling front offers slight relief with highs near 97. Heavy rains lash eastern Kansas and north central Oklahoma causing flash floods. Newton to Potwin sees 12 inches and nearby towns report extreme runoff. Four creeks swell the Smoky Hill River north of Gypsum.
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Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Presidio
Wink
Midland
Laredo
FE Paso
North Central
Newton
Kan
Potwin
Durham
Hillsboro
Five Whites Shot Amid Racial Unrest in Dixie Cities
Racial violence spread across Cambridge Maryland Savannah Georgia Peoria Illinois and East St Louis Illinois with police guards deployed and protests led by Negro demonstrators. In Cambridge three white residents were shot near their home as National Guardsmen were mobilized and two guardsmen reportedly shot elsewhere. Savannah saw police and nightstick tactics at a nightclub rally while Cedar protests continued in other cities. A dozen Negroes were arrested in Danville Virginia after King urged renewed nonviolent demonstrations.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Cambridge
Savannah
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland National Guardsmen
Peoria
Ill
East St. Louis
Forty Die As Argentine River Steamer Sinks
A river passenger boat Ciudad de Asuncion sank in fog 60 miles east of Buenos Aires after striking a sunken hulk. About 308 passengers and 6 crew on board. 40 dead, 22 missing, 350 rescued. Survivors accused others of crowding lifeboats. The vessel, built in Britain, was operated by the government river navigation company. The crash followed a fire in the engine room amid a panicked lifeboat evacuation. Page 10.
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AENOS
Ciudad de Asuncion
City of
Auncion
Britain
Argentine River Navigation Co
Buenos Aires
Monteviedes
Uruguay
Naval Ministry
Marisanza Raire
Loot in Lock Suspect Held in Burglary
Police arrested an 11 year old Lubbock man shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday at Gibson's Discount Center after the alarm sounded. The suspect admitted breaking in by smashing a front door glass and was restrained at the scene by officers Freeman and Gall as a passer-by helped pursue the escape.
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Lubbock
Gibson's
Discount Center
Ave. H
J. A. Freeman
Howard Gall
Freeman
Hall
Pittsburgh
Castle
Shannon
Allegheny County
Jack Clark
Clark
Prayer for guidance and healing across the world
A devotional prayer praising God's love and care. It asks to stay in divine will, bless missionaries and ministers, support those aiding the sick, and heal as God wills. It ends with a request for communal love in Jesus' name.
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Jesus
Defector Russia spy questioned in Britain amid recalls
An alleged top Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West is being questioned in Britain under tight guard at a secret HQ. U.S. authorities were reportedly contacted after the Moscow Penkovsky trial revelations. The defector, likened to George Blake, could carry dangerous information about Soviet networks.
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Ondon
West
Britain
U.S
North America
Moscow
Oleg Penkovsky
Penkovsky
Washington
Tate
George Blake
Blake
Middle East
Europe
London
Ecuador Ousted President Arosemena Exiled By Military Coup
The army toppled Carlos Arosemena after a showdown at the palace. He surrendered aboard a Panama bound air force plane. A military junta led by a colonel promised elections soon with broad party and armed force backing.
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Paeed
Ecuador
Carlos Avrosemena
Arosemena
Euadoritn
USS
Grace Ling
Gustave
Radio Espeja
Radio Atahualpa
Pan
Resort Area Hit By Strange Explosion
Hastings England was shaken by a Thursday night explosion in a crowded seaside resort. Two people were seriously injured and three others were hurt. The blasts, believed caused by a leaking gas issue, were followed by smaller detonations and fires. Police reported two seriously injured were Britons and one Canadian. no Americans were hurt.
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Hastings
England
UPD
Weather Map Page 12 A for Lubbocks area
Clear to partly cloudy with southerly winds 10 20 mph. High temperatures in the high 90s. A few widely scattered thundershowers likely in extreme north portions during early part of night.
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