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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1964
Page
6
Mysterious copper wartime pennies, including 1943 steel cents with copper coating, are highly valued by coin collectors. Variations from the three mints and rare 1944 steel issues drive interest. A magnet distinguishes steel from copper cents.
The Soviet Union rejected U S claims that American wheat is being shipped to Cuba after Captain Artur Fertig reported Soviet stevedores told him of grain shipments to Fidel Castro. State Department officials and a Soviet embassy minister dismissed the charges as groundless and alleged Fertig made the assertion to provoke trouble.
In New York pianist Peter Nero plans a future with his wife and two young children as his 1961 concert schedule tightens. He notes long tours keep him away from home while preparing new RCA material and personal appearances. District life in Clovis marks the Davis funeral for Strother W. Davis.
Reports from Leopoldville say rebel tribesmen led by Gaston Soumaintot seized Kindu after hours of street fighting. The town hosts a key rail line and the remaining European population, about 100 people, urged evacuation as 40 white women and children were already evacuated last week.
Mrs Raul Ballesteros of the 2700 block Fordham St had a home birth with a 7 pound 4 ounce son and was taken to Lauf Clinic by Sanders Funeral Home ambulance. Her baby and mother were reported doing fine. Mrs Mario Jimenez, residing on a farm near New Deal, is in fair condition at West Texas Hospital after a flash butane explosion damaged the residence on O W McLeod's farm. She sustained first and second degree burns from the blast prior to the fire.
Edwin John Goddard a Texas A&M graduate and Shallowater farmer was found shot in the chest at his home around 11 am Wednesday. Justice of the Peace D B Kizer led the inquest, noting a personal safety related gunshot wound. Deputies found a 30 caliber rifle near the body and two notes at the residence. Survivors include his wife and three children, plus his mother and other relatives. Funeral arrangements were pending.
Services for Mrs Mary Alice Crow 83 and Mrs Eleanor Sadler 93 will be held at 2:30 p.m. today in Tulia at the C Wallace Funeral Chapel. Dr W Neil Record officiates with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include three sons and two daughters among grandchildren and great grandchildren.
R D Jones 83 a Northwest Texas and South Plains developer died at Baptist Memorial Hospital San Angelo. Services set for 4 pm Friday at Fielder Baker Funeral Home Farmersville with burial in Farmersville Cemetery. Survived by three daughters Mrs E H McMurtry Mrs Dexter Koff and Dr Nancy L Douglas and two sons E B and Chandler Harris along with 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. He graduated Baylor 1904 Yale 1905 captained Baylor football and led various northern Texas farming and lumber ventures. He helped establish long staple cotton and directed Northwest Texas Cotton Growers Assn and Farm Bureau efforts. He was first manager of the Ropesville Reclamation Project. He was married Sept 1905 to Emmett Roberta Harris who preceded him in death. He died Jan 12 196? in San Angelo.
A religious excerpt cites Isaiah 29:14 about progress driven by purpose and desire. It argues dissatisfaction spurs pursuit of a better life, higher goals, and greater wealth, urging ambition to increase income and gain.
Special services for Robert Franklin Jackson age 97 will be at 3 p m today at West Side Church of Christ Dale Self Levelland will officiate Burial will be in Floyd County Memorial Park under the direction of Moore Funeral Jame Jackson born in Montgomery Alabama moved to Floydada in 118 He is survived by four daughters Mrs Elton Goen and Mrs B Clark Floydada Mrs E D Tarpy le Clovis and Mrs J A Pittman Muleshoe Also 11 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren
Services for Ms. J. T. Mitchell 89 will be at 2 p m today at First Baptist Church with Rev H C Abbott of Roby officiating assisted by Rev Ralph Cooper of Southland Burial follows in Terrace Cemetery under Mason Funeral Home direction Mitchell came to Post from Baylor County in 1919 moved to San Benito in 1943 and back to Post last year She died at Twin Cedars Nursing Home survivors include two daughters Mrs W C Fluitt Sr Post and Mrs T C Ferguson Ralls 17 grandchildren 28 great grandchildren 13 great great grandchildren
AP reports Joe Foley, 44, drowned Wednesday while diving for golf balls in Llano Grande Lake at the south end of the Mercedes municipal golf course. Authorities investigated the underwater accident and recovered the body.
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