Texas Legislature approves redistricting amid changes
The 59th Texas Legislature clears a congressional redistricting bill after a brief filibuster, shifting counties including Blanco to Pickle and Nueces to Young. The session also passes a $3.648 billion state budget, education raises, and new health and constitutional measures, with ongoing legal questions from Atty. Gen. Carr.
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Museum Leaders Laud Dr Holden and Mrs Holden at MOSRDS
Officials praise Dr Earl Holden and his wife for building the West Texas Museum and announce Dr Earl Green as his successor. Plan to relocate and expand to a new campus museum complex requires support from the West Texas Museum Association, the College, and the community.
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Museum Board of Trustees
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West Texas Museum
Texas Tech
West Texas Musum Association
Gemini 4 Prepares First In Orbit Spacecraft Rendezvous
The Gemini 4 mission will attempt a historic close approach to a burned Titan 2 second stage during two orbits. Astronauts McDivitt and White will perform spacewalks, use a spacegun unit, and test long duration flight as they push to 87 hours 50 minutes aloft, aiming to perfect maneuverability rendezvous and emergence for future moon missions.
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White
United States
U.S
Russia
Alexei Leonov
Rescue on Pecos River Ends as Couple Saves Wife
Brenda alerted help after Rescus sat on a wet log in the river with Mrs McCord submerged. Two men reached the beaver dam and supported Mrs McCord while McCord swam to pull her to safety. both were treated and released at Santa Fe hospital.
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Tonya
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Ragland Plans ITV Show About the United States
London based Ragland announces a new ITV program centered on the United States with focus on culture life and regional perspectives. The project signals expanding UK interest in American themes for television audiences.
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The
United States
Viet Cong attack in Quang Ngai. U.S. losses mount
Vietnamese forces report heavy fighting in Quang Ngai and Quang Nam with two battalions involved. About 350 Vietnamese troops killed, including 100 from the 39th Ranger Battalion. Two Americans died as Viet Cong overran a hill defended by Rangers. U.S. deaths raise total since 1961 to 393. Saigon talks continue as cabinet crisis deepens.
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Crash Kills Six Odessa Families Near Carlsbad
Two Odessa families on a holiday trip died in a two car head on collision on U S Highway 87 four miles north of Carlsbad. Bernard Kasberg and Rosa Kasberg died with their children Richard Rosepon Kasberg and John Kasberg. Rosa Flores and Joe Ruiz Flores also died. Veronica Flores survived. John Kasberg died later at Shannon Hospital.
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Odessa
Bernard J. Kassberg
Joe Ruiz Flores
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Rosa
Richard Kasberg
Rosepone
John Kasberg
Shannon Hospital
San Angelo
Mrs. Flores
Veronica Flores
Bogalusa Clashes Turn Into Virtual Battlefield
In Bogalusa Louisiana white mobs attacked Black pickets with clubs and pipes in downtown street confrontations. Police arrested 28 whites and 15 Black residents including 13 juveniles after four injuries surfaced. total arrests in the weeklong racial strife reach 48.
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UPI
Columbia Street
Robbery Suspect Wounded in Forney Gun Battle
A 23 year old Dallas man Leslie Dorris Guinn, sought for questioning in an armed Kaufman robbery, was critically wounded in a gun fight with Forney officers. He was later charged with the Kaufman Sears Roebuck order store robbery, with about 114 dollars in cash and several checks taken. The Kaufman County Chief Deputy Sheriff was wounded but not seriously.
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Kaufman
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Kaufman County
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Dutch filmmaker crafts auto sculpture from wrecked cars
Van Gasteren, a 42 year old Dutch film producer, envisions a monumental auto sculpture built from hundreds of wrecked cars. He imagines working headlights and lights that respond to telephone impulses, creating art that recycles wrecks and challenges disposal norms. He seeks funding and partners to realize tele-creation in Holland or Beaten.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Louis A. van Gasteren
van Gasteren
Ries
Germany
Denmark
van Gas
Itepenneres
Whlety
Weather traps Texas reader in Memorial Day storms
A storm system drenched parts of Texas Memorial Day weekend with heavy rains. Lubbock reported 0.88 inch while towns like Junc tion Wichita Falls and others logged several tenths to over an inch. Forecasters warned of warm, windy conditions with isolated thundershowers across the South Plains and Presidio. A fatality near Carlsbad occurred as a pickup was swept away by rising Black River waters.
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Littlefield
Olton
Red River Valley
Texas
Spelunkers Rescue Dowling With Sheriff Aid
Mee Vela led a climbing attempt from the cave Monday morning as Dowling complained of exhaustion and became stranded in his shoulder harness. Wood and Gerhard reached a backup party of three University of Utah students near the cave mouth. after an unsuccessful rescue, Salt Lake County sheriff’s office and a local climbing club aided the effort.
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Two Israelis Slain By Jordan Gunfire
Jerusalem reports Jordanian soldiers shot and killed a young girl and a man and wounded four women including two nuns in an alleged vendetta across the border near Damascus Gate. Jordanians say Israelis provoked the incident by patrolling into no man’s land.
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Aluminum Producers Union Reach Pact with Major Firms
The United Steelworkers and United Auto Workers announced early Tuesday new contracts with the five largest aluminum producers led by Aluminum Co. of America. Kaiser Reynolds Olin-Mathieson and Ormet are also covered. The settlements affect 32,000 steelworkers and 5,000 UAW members.
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Aluminum Co. of America
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Ormet
UAW
NBC assigns district tournament to Alice
The National Baseball Congress Monday assigned a Texas district tournament to Alice on July 5. Andrew Meyer, superintendent of parks and recreation at Alice, was named district commissioner. Dick Walker of Lubbock approved the appointment. Arlington Hamlin Brownwood Bryan Berger and Paris had been designated district tournaments. The champion of each district will advance to the state tournament July 31 at Lubbock.
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Tenant Farmers Protest at Leland Cotton Plantation
Tenants on a Leland Mississippi cotton plantation walked off their jobs demanding higher pay after long hours. The protest involved Black farm workers and their families as part of ongoing labor unrest reported by UPI.
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UPI
Johnson to deliver memorial speech at daughter's high school
President Johnson flew from his Texas ranch to Washington Monday night after a Memorial Day weekend. He will deliver the graduation address at his daughter Luci's high school today and attend a 2:30 pm CST swearing in of new officials. Special assistant Douglas Cater suggests the address will focus on education.
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Mora urged to resume duties as UN mediation falters
Dominican issues rise over Mora stepping down as peacemaker and returning to secretary general in Washington. Objections focus on risk to negotiated gains and fear of a renewed committee seen as paving a trusteeship move by the OAS in the Dominican Republic. Delegates want consult before any action and recall past five-man peace efforts.
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Defiant Junta Chief Refuses to Yield Palace in Santo Domingo
Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera heads a civilian military junta resisting ceding the presidential palace to the OAS It denies any transfer deal and says only junta forces may enter the palace government workers await pay after a $6 million payroll mixup delays disbursement and OAS payroll restart is planned.
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Maclin Slaying Probe Moves in Fort Worth
Fort Worth investigators press on in the gangland style murder of Robert Maclin. Mrs Shirley Maclin plans to emerge from seclusion to answer questions with attorney Charles Baldwin saying she will meet investigators this week in Dallas or Fort Worth as clues remain scarce.
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Houston
Toll Rises as Holiday Crash Toll Near 500
Officials say death toll during the holiday period climbs past 500 with a final figure possibly reaching 1550. A rash of crashes spreads across the coast and peaks with a nine dead plane crash at Corona Del Mar and multiple fatal accidents near Lone Pine and Abbeville.
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Births Recorded in Local Clinic Notes and Family Details
A series of birth notices lists new arrivals with times, weights, and parental occupations. Entries mention families including Aguirre, Montez, McKinney, Antor, Jackson, Radel, Mendes, and others, noting fathers as laborers, welders, or employed at hospitals and clinics.
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