Truck Explodes After Semiole Cafe Crash
A car and a Frontier Chemical Co truck collided in downtown Seminole early Thursday. The truck rammed into the Westerner Cafe causing a gasoline explosion and a major fire. One person was slightly injured. the cafe interior suffered total loss. Damages totaled about 10,000 to the cafe, 3,500 to the truck, and 1,500 to the car. The truck carried acid and was driven by Clarence C Young. occupants included Alle N Fuqua and M E Parrish. Firefighters took two hours to extinguish the blaze.
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Avalanche Journal
Minole
Seminole
Miles Warlick
Frontier Chemical Co
Clarence C. Young
Denver City
Alle N. Fuqua
M. E. Parrish
Pasadena
Calif
Parrish
Young
Soviets expel three American students over Amerika distribution
Three American students and a Briton were expelled by Soviet officials after distributing copies of the U S State Department magazine Amerika from a downtown hotel. Police detained a Chicago schoolteacher and a West German during the incident as others fled or avoided signing statements in an unfamiliar language.
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Associated Press
ISCOW
Sted
U. S. State Department
Amerika
Ay Briton
Chicago
Ito
McGovern
One Dies In Train Wreck MONAHAN TX
MONAHAN TEXAS AP A Texas and Pacific freight train derailed near Monahans killing engineer W D Graddy 55 of Big Spring. Graddy was operating a switch engine on a siding when the eastbound freight derailed about 20 cars back. He jumped as the cars left the rails and was crushed to death. Two other trainmen on the switch engine escaped unharmed as wrecked cars piled up to 40 feet high near the western edge of town.
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Monaians
Texas and Pacific
Texas
W. D. Graddy
Big Spring
Monahins
Graddy
Hey
Eisenhower Tours Jamboree as Scouts Shoot Photos
President Eisenhower rode in an open car for eight miles through cheering Boy Scouts at the Fifth National Jamboree near Colorado Springs. About 56,173 Scouts snapped pictures as one boy lamented missing his shot. The visit followed a stop at Mrs. Elivers Doud in Lafayette Street, where the 82 year old was seriously ill, before Ike and Mamie planned to return to Newport, R.I. on Friday or Saturday.
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Led Press International
Eisenhower
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Lafayette Street
Elivers Doud
Mamie Eisenhower
Chicago
Mrs. Doud
Newport
R.L
Ike-Scouts
Anotil
Don Long
Cliaton
Colorado
Springs
Denver
Tragic West Texas Crash Kills Nine Including Seven Children
A tractor trailer collided with a passenger car near Odessa. Nine people died, seven children among them, with several others injured and one survivor. The truck driver John Bostick fainted at the scene as rescuers pulled victims from the wreckage. Authorities labeled it Texas's worst crash since February 1959.
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Fee
Avalanche Journal
Texas
Peggy Roberts
Bess Letterman
Odessa
Marice Lynn Roberts
Letterman
Ramona
Mary
Sus
B. J. (Oil) Well Service Sc
John Bostick
Bill Leslie
Department of Public Ely
Alamo
Hidalgo County
Maj. W. E. Speir
The
Texas Dept
Toll May Hit 24 in Cuban Train Crash Near Camaguey
A Cuban train collision near Camaguey left at least six dead and about 200 injured as a braking failure caused one train to crash into another. Hospitals overflowed with casualties while a Cuban army helicopter delivered emergency supplies and aided evacuations.
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Toll
Camaguey
Cuba
UPD
Nixon Hurls Challenge to Khrushchev at GOP Nominating Night
Richard Nixon accepted the GOP presidential nomination and warned Soviet Premier Khrushchev that grandchildren will live under freedom. He pledged a hard, unprecedented campaign, attacked Democrats led by John F Kennedy, and proposed a strong economic strike force to battle communism worldwide.
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Nixon
EXPERT URGES CRACKDOWN ON LUBBOCK TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS
Dallas official Don Hill urged a stronger city traffic program in Lubbock, calling for harsher enforcement and arrests for accident producing violations. He cited annual economic losses over four million and noted 1959 fatalities far above the city average, with 1960 showing only slight improvement but still high.
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C. W. Rat Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Conti
Citizens ‘Traffic Commission
Don Hill
Dallas
Natio Safety Council
City Hall
Hill
Lion
Nothling
Til
Brownfield Liquor Petition Nears Deadline Amid City Debates
Brownfield petitioners push for a city wide vote on package store alcohol sales for on premise use as Clovis and Seagraves see petitions delayed or dropped. Wade Yandell reports observers note near two week waits, while Sundown voters prepare for a June election and the Brownfield timing hinges on clerk certification and court approval.
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Clovis
Forves
Seagraves
Wade Yandell
Terry County
Council
Kate
Phins
E Prouillers
Casta
Danman Titmas
Yantell
Alwat
Afl
Cour
Spendthrift the only person who cannot economize
A clipped excerpt from a colon section notes a remark about wasteful spending. The line identifies a spendthrift as the sole person unable to economize even when financially strained.
City approves zoning changes for apartment and motor hotel
Lubbock City Commission approved zoning changes to allow a ten story apartment building on 50th Street and a 144 unit motor hotel on Ath Street. The apartment project height is limited to 10 feet? The hotel zoning shifted from C2 and RAS to C4 to fit the request, with protests from two residents noted.
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Lubbock
50Th St
Ath St
Lubbock City
Ye Mater Hotel
Ras Vanes
Ray Caspman
Laird
Ges McCleskey
G. H. Morris
Weldon Steel
Transwestern
Deeveloperst
Tage
180 Mile Run Truck Dash to Repair Shop
A large truck hauling unknown cargo, bearing SUSACT, was escorted by police to a Thermoking repair facility after its air conditioner failed in mid 90s heat. The 73 year old driver, Arterburn of Scholasville Kentucky, kept details private while claiming a Redstone Arsenal to White Sands route. The event occurred near Tesaihana in the northeast state, with the truck normally maintaining a tightly controlled temperature. The cargo remains unspecified though rumors suggest explosives.
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Frees Internationaly
Tuck
Dash
Duck Arterburn
Scholasville
Redstone Arsenal
Akshamae
White Sands
Ncm
Tesaihana
Sand Arterburn
Dalas
Untile
Spendstone
Apartment leveled by blast injures 13 in New Kensington
An explosion followed by fire leveled a two story apartment building in New Kensington Pennsylvania on Thursday night injuring at least 13 people. Fire officials said no fatalities. Natural gas lines in the basement were under inspection when the blast occurred and 9 patients were admitted in satisfactory condition.
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