Turbulent Weather Rips Texas Panhandle to Gulf Coast
Tornado alerts hit the East of Lubbock and the Panhandle as a major thunderstorm system lashed Dickens and King counties with heavy rain hail and high winds. Guthrie suffered power outages while Houston saw flooding and tanks ignited by hail and wind. A Tulsa lightning strike caused damage. the weather office tracked two possible tornado sightings near Guthrie and Paducah.
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Dudley Lynch
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Dickens
King Counties
Guthrie
Finney
Houston
Panhandle
Galveston Island
Presidio
South Plains
Tulsa
Weather Bureau
Paducah-Guthrie
Guthrie-Dickens
Aborted High Altitude Warhead Test Scheduled a Second Time
The U S planned a second attempt to detonate a high altitude nuclear device over Johnston Island after the first test failed. The Thor missile carrying the warhead was destroyed by range safety due to a tracking malfunction, and officials said no nuclear explosion or harmful radioactivity would result from the aborted test.
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Associated Press
Onolulu
United States
Johnston Island
Joint Task Force 8
Defense Department
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Left Turns Return at College and Broadway Intersection
Lubbock officials reopen left turns in all directions at the College Ave Broadway intersection after ten years of restriction. Traffic Engineer Bill McDaniel said crews finished preparations and opened the new left turn lanes, following complaints from Texas Tech officials and nearby merchants and a city study for additional right of way. The west side corners were widened by eight feet to add traffic space.
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Lubbock
College Ave
Broadway
Bill McDaniel
College Avenue
McDaniel
Texas
Hike Approved Settlement Near In Railroad Wage Fight
A wage settlement between railroads and 450000 off‑train workers appeared near after a presidential fact finding board favored a 10.2 cent hourly raise. Carriers and unions reached a flat 4 cent retroactive Feb 1 and 2% May 1 raise, totaling about 10.28 cents an hour or 105 million annually in additional railroad labor costs.
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Associated Press
Fact Finding Board
Wolfe
Hale Man Fined Ten Thousand for Tax Evasion
Dallas Special Lewis V Brittian a 6 year old Plainview farmer was fined 10000 and given a three year probated prison term in Judge Sarah Hughe s court. Brittian pled no contest to charges and was placed on probation for three years on condition that all back taxes along with interest and penalties be paid. He reported 1400 acres of irrigated land and was charged with evading 10000 in taxes for 1954 1955 and 1958 by failing to report 50279 in income from interest on six savings accounts dividends from unreported cotton and grain sales income and by overstating farm expenses. The IRS valued Brittian at about 500000 with roughly 100000 in government bonds and savings and loan accounts.
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Lewis
Brittian
Plainview
Sarah T .Hughes
U. S
Mennt
IRS
Bragging Brings Laughs in Comic Dictionary
A light comic dictionary item defines a disease that can be cured only by bragging at the neck. The snippet hints at humorous wordplay typical of the era’s editorial style.
First China Refugees Fly To Chicago Under Kennedy Program
A Chinese couple and their three children arrived in Chicago from Hong Kong as the first refugees admitted under President Kennedy’s emergency program. The elder Eng, 69, already a U.S. citizen, remains in Park Ridge with ailing health, while his son and two daughters join him to seek care. The family had waited nine years to reunite, as U.S. officials sped travel and documentation to reach the bedside of Frank Eng. The younger Eng, 45, and his family left Kwangtung Province in 1953 after land confiscation and his escape from hard labor. One brother remains in Hong Kong, reportedly ill with tuberculosis.
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United Press International
Hicago
Hong Kong
United States
Kennedy
U.S
Eng Lesney
Frank K. Eng
Eng
Aids Crown Colony
Chicago
Park Ridge
Ill
China
Crown Colony
Kwangtung
Mystery Deepens in Marshall Death Probe and Fatal Car Crash
Marshall death probe reveals two specks of gunpowder residue on the victim's shirt as Texas Ranger Capt. Clint Peoples cites new clues. In Lovington a two car head on collision near Tatum kills three, injures four with victims including Mrs. Preston Martin and her daughter Gail, and Rev. Paul Mabrey.
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Lovington
Tatum
Preston Martin
Gail
Bland St
Roswell
Paul Mabrey
St. Anthony’s Seminary
San Antonio
Texas Ranger
Clint Peoples
Henry H. Marshall
Grand
Marshall
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Houston
J. R. Turner
Robertson County
Howard Stegall
Lee General Hospital
Martin
Leonard
Sonja Gaskins
Karen
Florida
Howard Bowne
St. Anthony's Seminary
Mabrey
A. J. Mahoney
Nolen Utz
Atlanta Mayor in Paris to identify jet crash victims
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr arrives in Paris to identify 105 fellow townsmen among 130 killed when an Air France jet crashed after takeoff. Investigators say the cause is unknown as mourners plan memorials. Allen visits wreckage and five morgues, while flags fly at half staff and civic leaders begin funerary arrangements.
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Avalanche-Journal
Tlanta
Paris
Wason
Civil Aeronautics ‘Board
Ivan Allen Jr
Air France
Atlantic Art Assn
Allen
Edwin Stern
U.S
Capitol
Atlanta
Dillon signals top to bottom tax cut plan for 1963
Secretary Dillon said the Kennedy administration will seek a broad tax reform bill in 1963 with a top to bottom reduction in income tax rates. He did not specify amounts or whether corporate and individual levies would both fall, and noted reforms to investment credits and depreciation would accompany the plan.
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Panhandle
Gulf Dillon
United Press International
YORK
Sec. of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Kennedy
Congress
Dillon
New York Financial Writers Assn
Wall Street Hit by Severe Losses on Monday
Wall Street fell sharply as the Dow Jones average dropped 17.37 to 593.68 and the AP index slid 6.20 to 219.20. Trading was dull after a brutal early sessions, with 1,355 issues led by 105 advancers and 1,110 decliners amid a broad selloff linked to Kennedy’s trade program proposals.
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Associated Press
York
Dow Jones
Wall
Prayer Reflection On Holiness And Devotion
A concise devotional prayer urges believers to heed prophetic admonition to strive for holiness, invoking divine guidance and reverence. The text emphasizes living in alignment with God's character and sanctified faith.
New Pershing Missile Test Hailed Success
Cape Canaveral reports the Army Pershing missile scored a solid 300 mile test flight despite simulated gale winds. The launcher fired at 10 06 p m EST as the needle nosed missile veered initially but guidance corrected and the missile streaked across the night sky.
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Cape Canaveral
Atlantic
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