Food Shortages Hit Soviet Union and Berlin Refugee Flow
Senator Humphrey said Khrushchev faces staggering food shortages and a wobbling economy. He cited hunger in East Germany and Beijing’s appetite for grain. Berlin refugees surge as Adennauer notes panic in East Germany.
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Stanley Meibler Ashington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Khrushchev
Berlin
Kremlin
Humphrey
West Germany
Senate
Soviet Union
East Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Berlin
Miss Louisiana Brow n Wins Miss U SA Title
Sharon Rene Brown 19 from Minden Louisiana crowned Miss USA at the Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach. She receives 1000 dollars and prizes and will compete against 47 international entrants for Miss Universe. Pamela Stettler of San Rafael California is runner up. Alexa Currey of New York City places fourth. Miss Alabama Suellen Robinson of Fairfax is among the top five semifinalists.
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Sharon Brown
Louisiana
U.S.A
Miami Beach
Marlene Britsch
Mississippi
Sharon
California
Pamela Stettler
San Rafael
Nevada
Karen Weller
Las Veg
New York
Alexa Currey
New York City
Alabama
Suellen Robinson
Fairfax
Ala
City Commission Approves Big Shopping Center Plan
The City Commission approved a 34.5 acre shopping center at 50th and Ave Q. A smaller two block project between 32nd and 34th St faced rejection due to a four fifths voting rule tied to a local petition and zoning ordinance provisions.
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C. W. Ratliff
Avalanche Journal
Ubbock City
More
Commission
Fred Senter
Tax clash erupts over selective sales tax in Texas
Gov. Price Daniel and Attorney General Will Wilson clashed over a proposed selective sales tax. Wilson warned of enforceability issues and lawsuits, while Daniel defended taxpayer impact and vowed more remarks Friday. The bill was sent to a subcommittee amid uncertainty.
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Fromm Avalanche-Journal
Price Daniel
Will Wilson
Wilson
Daniel
Texas
Self
House Revenue Jand Taxation Committee
House
House Tax Committee
Tony Konioth
Pennsylvania
Charles Ballman
Borger
Dixie Governors Meet Is Called
An impromptu strategy conference of southern governors to discuss racial issues has been called for next Wednesday. Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi is said to have issued the call, with the meeting reportedly to be held in Jackson. The group would likely address racial integration and the impact of federal aid to education on integration.
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Columbia
8.C
UPI
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Barnett
Fishers of Men A Light Verse on Courtship
A humorous item in the Women’s News section defines a “girl who fishes for a man” as fishing for sport rather than a serious pursuit. The piece adopts a playful tone typical of the era’s social columns.
California and Nevada Burnings Rage Across West
Massive fires blackened the Sierra region with more than 65 000 acres burned, two towns destroyed and at least two dead as California forests and Nevada Las Vegas Strip suffered losses. Lightning sparked numerous blazes while crews fought to contain the fires near Sonora Oakhurst and Yosemite threats. A separate Chicago fire destroyed several McCormick buildings at International Harvester and prompted widespread alarms.
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California
Las Vegas
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Yosemite National Park
State Division of Forestry
Nevada
Rex Bell
Chicago
McCormick Works of International Harvester Co
Sonora
Quartz
Rawhide
Kent
Oakhurst
Ahwahnee
MacArthur Returns To New York Home After Asia Trip
General Douglas MacArthur returns to New York with his wife Jean and Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney after a peacetime triumph in the Philippines. Philippine Ambassador Carlos Romulo accompanied them after a flight from Tokyo with a stopover in Anchorage, Alaska.
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New York
UPI
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
MacArthur
Jean
Courtney Whitney
United Nations
Carlos P
Romulo
Far ‘East
U.S. Air Force
Kennedy
Tokyo
Anchorage
Alaska
Deluges Hit Texas and Victoria Spark Flood Fears
Heavy rains across Texas from the far west to Victoria and Austin flood plains, with up to 5.3 inches in spots. A United Air Lines DC-8 near Thermal, California veered to avoid two Navy jets in midair, no injuries reported. Flood threats grow as highways close and deaths rise to at least eight.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
United Air Lines
Howard Hunter
Federal Aviation Authority
Thermal
Calif
Denver
Navy
FSU
Hunter
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Victoria
Austin
South Plains
Snyider
Lehman
Morton
U.S. Weather Bureau
North Texas
Red River
South Texas
U. S.159
Goliad
San Antonio
U. S. 111
Edna
Navidad
del Juges
Area Woman and Farm Worker Shot Near Bronco
A Plains area woman, Barbara Mills 25, and Mexican bracero Guadalupe Carillo Alvarado 35 were shot and killed when their station wagon crashed into vehicles outside the New Western Bar at Bronco on the Texas New Mexico line. Officers fear murder and possible kidnaping. a pistol and six empty cartridge belts were found, with Mills killed at the scene and Carillo dying en route to Lovington.
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Avalanche-Journal
Texas-New Mexico
Texas
Barbara Mills
Plains-Lovington
Guadalupe Carillo-Alvarado
C.d.mills
Bronco
Convicted Spy Soblen Faces Uncertain Fate in Court
Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, a psychiatrist and brother of jailed spy Jack Soble, was found guilty in federal court of passing secret data to Soviet agents over two decades. A death sentence seemed unlikely due to his cancer, with the judge considering medical care instead. Soblen did not testify, and the case centered on World War II era OSS data.
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Aspctated
York
Robert A. Sob- Allen
Soviet
Russia
Soblen
Moscow
William B. Herlands
Hlands
New York
Office of Strategic Services
jJack Soble
Soble
Prayer dedication by Carol A Goode from Lubbock
A personal prayer expresses gratitude for God s abundant love and asks for grace to dedicate life to others through self sacrifice and living out Thy purpose in a brief earthly lifetime.
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Father
Carol A
Goode
Lubbock
Burrowing Exloits Recalled Charlie The Mole Buried
The city buries Charlie the Mole in a cemetery lot near the underground lair beneath the jail. Charles Greer known as Charlie built an illicit hotel below the fortress of law named Hotel de Bastille with associates like Atomic Bum Sterno Kid and Gondola George. They tapped electricity and water, slept on cardboard and old mattresses, used canned heat for warmth, and called it requisition not theft as police eyed the cave.
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David Zinman
Orleans
Charlie the Mole
New Orleans
Charlie
Charles Greer
Hotel de Bastille
Sterno Kid
Knapsack Jack
Horrible Example
Rome
Times - Picayune
Howard Jacobs
Weather Map: Lubbock Area Partly Cloudy With Showers
Partly cloudy today and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and night. Easterly and northerly winds. Lows around 62, highs near 82 in the Lubbock area.
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Lubbock
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