Heat Wave Death Toll Mounts Across States
Searing heat pushes temperatures above 100 degrees in 21 states while New York City and St Louis report record and near record deaths. Weather Bureau expects 105 degree highs through Saturday as heat claims elderly and infant victims. livestock losses rise in Cherokee County.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
New York City
St. Louis
Alton
Ill
Mississippi
W. W. Billings
Weather Bureau
Health Department
Cherokee County
Stormy Gulf Coast with tornadoes and high heat across Texas
Thunderstorms dotted the Gulf Coast with reports of tornadoes and a waterspout while Texas baked in highs mostly in the 90s to 100s. A two car crash south of San Antonio killed a Corpus Christi couple and hurt four others. Humidity remained high across the South Plains as predictions warned of continued heat through the weekend.
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Gulf Coast
Texas
San Antonio
U. S
Corpus Christi
Presidio
Wichita Falls
Galveston
Abilene
Lubbock
South Plains
New Mexico
Dalhart
Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Dickinson
Houston
Gulf of Mexico
Beaumont
Ellington Afb
Richmond- Rosenberg
Budget Hearing Leads to Tax Vote For Lubbock District
The board adopted a 1966 67 tax rate of 1.50 per 100 dollars value for operation and bond retirement. They rejected a Neighbor Youth Corps proposal for 50 students and faced citizen comments during a lengthy public hearing. The meeting ran from 7 30 p m to 11 30 p m with attendees including Mrs Paul V Prior and others.
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Kingsbery
Lubbock School
Paul V. Prior
H. O. Simmons Jr
Ollie B. Livingston
James M. Reynolds
Lema Wins Kingswood Challenge Match in England
San Diego’s Tomy Lema, former British Open champion, defeated Peter Allis of Britain 2 and 1 in a $1,700 match at Kingswood. Lema posted a 64 to tie the course record, seven under par.
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Lema
Kingswoop
England
Tomy Lema
San Diego
Calif
Peter Allis
Klan Threat Shrinks Head Start Participation In South
Scores of white teachers and hundreds of white children drop from Head Start programs in the Louisiana area amid Ku Klux Klan intimidation. Bill Crook of the War on Poverty regional office cites threats to teachers volunteers and employers, urging parents to re enroll children.
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Austin
Louisiana
Ku Klux Klan
Bill Crook
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Crook
Klan
Bobby
Salisbury
N. C
Robert Shelton
Ku K Klux Klan
United States
Nugent
Travis Air Force Base
Saan
Ivannah
Air National Guard
Boards of Education
Shelton
Local families welcome new births across the city
Congratulations to multiple families on newborns. The Condreys report a son at Methodist Hospital weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces born at 3 36 a m. The Pierres welcomed a son 5 pounds 5 ounces at West Texas Hospital 2 15 p m Tuesday. The Butchers Carlisle celebrate a 9 10 pound son at 6 20 p m Tuesday. The Dominguezes announce an 8 pound baby at 5 34 a m Wednesday. The Jaurezes celebrate a 7 12 ounce daughter at 10 54 a m Wednesday. The Dwyers welcome a 6 4 1/2 ounce son at 6 50 p m Wednesday.
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Charles E. Condrey
Ave. U
Methodist Hospital
Professional Data, Co
Roger
Pierre
36Th St
West Texas Hospital
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma Coaches, Inc
Lenny Butcher Carlisle
Sauf Clinte
Gulf
Jose Dominguez
Laurae
Moss
Justo Jaurez
Taveliand
Lauf Clinic
John Dwyer
40Th St
Lubbock
Nugent Applies for License to wed Luci Johnson
Pat Nugent and Luci Johnson 19 applied for a District of Columbia marriage license to be wed August 6. They appeared at the License Bureau but did not receive the paper due to a five day waiting period. Nugent will pay $2 more after the period ends.
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Washington
Patrick J. Nugent
Luci Johnson
Luci
District of Columbia
Nugent
Births in April 1966 Match April 1965 Total
The long decline in U.S. births saw a brief interruption in April 1966 with an estimated 291000 births, equal to April 1965. A health service spokesman cautioned this is not a reversal. The seasonally adjusted fertility rate held steady since last August, while population rose to 195.4 million.
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Washington
United States
Public Health Service
Agriculture Experts Predict Big Famine in Global Warning
A U.N. panel of agriculture experts warned that the world is on the threshold of the worst famine in history. They urged the FAO and fertilizer advisers to launch a massive effort to boost food production amid rising hunger and malnutrition in the less developed regions.
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Rome
U.N
Fertilizer Industry
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Navy Jets Shoot Down Interfering Mig As Raids Continue
U S Navy jets shoot down another MiG amid ongoing northern raids. Reports say 13 allied soldiers killed, five wounded, one missing this week. Ground ops limited as Viet Cong bodies found after bombing. Dong Nhan oil storage area near Haiphong attacked by carrier planes. 91 missions flown by Navy and Air Force over the North.
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U.S. Navy
Qui Nhon
Saigon
Hanoi
Dong Nhan
Haiphong
Navy
Air Force
North
Than Hoa
Viet Nam
Guam
Ateas
Quang Tri City
Pickets Arrested in Grenada as Civil Rights Tactics Rise
In Grenada Mississippi 35 Negro pickets were arrested for obstructing traffic during a downtown protest supporting a boycott of white merchants. Officials viewed it as an orderly display but enforced local laws. Separately two white men, Bobby Todd and B C Bennett, faced grand jury charges for assault with intent to kill after a church shootout near SCLC headquarters with no injuries reported.
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Grenada
Miss
Bradford Dye
Dye
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Alty
Jim McRae Criss
Bobby Todd
B. C. Bennett
Duck Hill
Bennett
Todd
SCLC
Grenada County
Grand Jury
Everett Crosby Dies Of Cancer
Everett Crosby 70 brother and business manager of Bing Crosby died of cancer at Sharon Hospital in Salisbury Connecticut after being treated for a laryngeal malignancy. Doctors initially believed the growth had been found early.
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Salisbury, Conn
UPI
Everett Crosby
Bing Crosby
Sharon Hospital
Crosby
Texas auto insurance rate inquiry urged by Rep Smith
Rep Will Smith of Beaumont asked the Texas Legislative Council to probe auto insurance rate setting. He urged the Senate House research committee to supply impartial facts on the rate making formula and accident data used by the State Board of Insurance.
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Austin
Will Smith
Beaumont
Texas Legislative Council
Texas
Smith
Senate House Research Committee
Department of Public Safety
Ida Faye Gunn Dies in Dallas After Illness
Ida Faye Gunn 59, a former resident and frequent visitor to Lubbock, died at 5 30 am Wednesday in Dallas after a six month illness. Services pending at Ed C Smith Funeral Home in Dallas. Survivors include son B R Gunn of Lubbock and four daughters in Dallas Jacksonville N C and one in Dallas. Six grandchildren.
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Ida Faye Gunn
Lubbock
Dallas
Ed C. Smith Funeral Home
B. R Gunn
T. H
Carol) Arnold
Paul Lattimer
Lavoy Harvey
Joe Denman
Jacksonville
N.C
Whitharral Resident Dies at 72 in Levelland
Vianna Beatrice Hutson, 72, a Whitharral resident since 1956, died 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at South Plains Hospital. Services pending at George Price Funeral Home. Survivors include husband Bird, three sons Wilsey and Foy of Whitharral and Troy of Friona, a brother N B Reeves of St Jo, Texas, and two grandchildren.
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Levelland
Vianna Beatrice Hutson
Whitharral
South Plains Hospital
Supreme Court Sets Limits on Redistricting in Midland County
The Supreme Court reversed lower courts on Midland County redistricting, upholding a population based approach in some cases but allowing county variation for convenience of the people. The court sent the case back for judgment after noting potential voting rights equality, with a dissenting view about standing. Avery of Midland vows to pursue further action if needed.
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Trial Court
Supreme Court
8Th Court of Civil Appeals
el Paso
Texas
Midland County
Federal
Congress
Smith
Avery
Midland
U. S. Supreme Court
New Mexico Indian Miners Rescued From Uranium Mine
Three Indian miners trapped overnight 100 feet underground at Ambrosia Lake uranium mine escaped after 16 hours in a 4 by 8 foot chamber with eight feet of limestone overhead. Rescuers passed food through drilled holes while avoiding further cave ins. all three, Jerry Yazzi 29 Charlie Martinez 34 Scotty Hudson 27, appeared unhurt and returned home to bed.
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Ambrosia Lake
N.M
UPI
New Mexico
Jo Cubble
Rimrock
Jerry Yazzi
Charlie Martinez
Scotty Hudson
Birth of septuplets reported in India
New Delhi India Health Ministry investigated a report that a Lakhi village housewife in Broach district Gujarat state gave birth Sunday to seven children five boys and two girls. The mother and children were reported as doing well and the ministry sought confirmation and details to assist survival and upbringing.
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New Delhi
Lakhi
Broach
Gujarat
Health Ministry
Sinatra to wed Mia Farrow in late fall
The report says Frank Sinatra is to wed Mia Farrow sometime in late fall, following his early career with the Harry James band and Tommy Dorsey. It notes Sinatra's marriages to Nancy Barbato and Ava Gardner, their divorces, and that Sinatra’s children Frank Sinatra Jr and Nancy have pursued show business. Farrow, twentyish, rose to fame in Peyton Place and off Broadway.
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Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Harry James
Tommy Dorsey
Nancy Barbato
Ava Gardner
Frank Sinatra Jr
Nancy
Miss Farrow
Miss O'Sullivan
John Farrow
20Th Century-Fox
Frank
Disturbances Roil Chicago District Again Night of Violence
Rioting erupted on Chicago's West and near southwest sides as Negro gangs hurled rocks and bombs, set fires, and damaged shops. Police reported injuries to two civilians, ten officers, and motorists, with two youths shot. Reinforcements moved in as cars and windows were attacked.
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Chicago
West Side
Southwest Side
14Th Street
Ashland ‘Avenue
William Collins
Presbyterian-St. Luke
Nigerian theologian fights tech prophecy at world church
At the World Council of Churches in Geneva Dr S A Aluko, a Nigerian Anglican economist, challenged Harvard professor Emmanuel Mesthene’s view that technology will transform religion. He argued human power is a lever against God and cited Babel as a warning. In Karachi, Pakistan plans to run a travel agency.
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Geneva
UPI
S. A. Aluko
Babel
World Council of Churches
Aluko
Harvard
Emmanuel IG. Mesthene
Mesthene
Earth
Space
Dallas to build parking under JFK Memorial Plaza
Dallas officials confirm an underground parking garage will be built beneath the planned Kennedy Memorial Plaza in a joint project with the memorial. County Judge Lew Sterrett says both structures will be erected simultaneously, with completion in eight to twelve months. Architects Jack Corgan and Phillip Johnson design the garage and memorial respectively. The memorial sits near the JFK assassination site, with a Warren Commission marker planned nearby and a $100 000 plaza project completed last December. The garage will hold 350 to 400 cars and awaits formal county approval after plans are reviewed.
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Dallas
Kennedy Memorial
Lew Sterrett
Jack Corgan
Phillip Johnson
New York City
Sterrett
John F. Kenne
Sterret
Johnson
Garrage
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Patrick A. O'Boyle
St. Bartholomew's Church
Waukegan
Covina
Pat
BY Solon
High Court
India
Frank Sinatra
Maureen O'Sullivan
New York
Mia
Edgartown
Mass
World Council
Karachi
Pakistan
Planns
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
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