Plainview Area Tornadoes Cause Widespread Damage
The Hale County storm system tore through Plainview and surrounding areas blowing out windows, downing antennas and severing a main telephone cable from Plainview to Lubbock. Flooding closed several highways, with widespread power outages and heavy rainfall reported across Hale, Floyds, Lubbock, and nearby counties. cleanup faces many sightseers and blocked routes as crews work to reopen roads.
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Plainview
Smith
Southwestern Bell ‘Telephone! Co
Lubbock
Federal Aviation Agency
Hale County
Civil Defense
Hale Center
Highway Patrol
Hockley
Amherst
Earth
Sudan
Bailey
Coyte Lake
Parker
Fia
Bovina
Dawson
Lamosa
Welch
Terry
Union
Littlefield
U.S. 4
Springlake
U.S. 70
Port
U.S. 87
Municipal Airport
J. DB. Wilson
Willson
Yellowty
Strife in Sinkiang Amid Maoist Power Push
Reports from Peking and Formosa detail heavy clashes between pro and anti Maoist factions in Sinkiang disrupting oil output. Peking Radio extols Mao as Communist theory’s greatest genius and asserts China now leads world communism. Nationalist raids in Shantung Peninsula reportedly killed 15 C Chinese soldiers and damaged a gunboat.
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Hong Kong
UPT
Ifram
Peking
Sinkiang
iChna
Peking Radio
Mao ‘Tse-tung
O Karl Marx
V. I. Lenin
Peking ‘People's Daily
Soviet Union
China
Mao
Lis Shao-chi
Wang En-mao
Taipei
Formosa
UPI
Shantung Peninsula
Rioters Clash in Clearwater Ghetto Demolish Police Car
In Clearwater Florida more than 150 Negro rioters smashed a police cruiser and battled riot squads in an early morning disturbance. No serious injuries reported though a officer was struck by a bottle and rioters faced billy clubs from riot officers.
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Clearwater
Fila
Lucille Ball Wins Second Emmy at 19th Television Awards
Hollywood reports Lucille Ball tears up as she wins her second Emmy for The Lucy Show. Mission Impossible leads TV wins with four Emmys, while The Monkees and Andy Williams Show take top comedy and variety honors. Jack and the Beanstalk tops children’s programs. Agnes Moorehead and Peter Ustinov win supporting and lead acting prizes.
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Hollywood
Lucille Ball
Miss Ball
Lucy
Barbara Bain
Video Academy
Andy Williams
Peter Ustinov
Athens
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Geraldine Page
ABC Stage 767
Bill Cosby
Don Knotts
Frances Bavier
Andy Griffith
Eli Wallach
Agnes Moorehead
Sid Caesar
Imogene Coca
Carla Reiner
Howard Morris
Injured Marine Reaches Family After Crash in New Mexico
Marine Sgt Travis Ward, wounded in Vietnam, arrived on emergency leave to join his wife and three daughters at a hospital near Artesia New Mexico. The youngest Melanie almost two remained in a coma while April 6 and Robin 4 were to be discharged today.
Skydiver Dies After Fall Into Rotorua Lake
Ronald-Thomas Flynn aged 29 died after leaping from 10 000 feet with three others near Rotorua Airport in New Zealand. Flynn and his group jumped for a 7 000 foot free fall while the others landed safely. a speedboat recovered Flynn deceased beneath his parachute. He had completed 112 skydives.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Rotorua
Ronald — Thomas Flynn
Flynn
Births and weights noted from multiple area hospitals
Several birth notices appear from West Texas hospitals listing newborns and weights. Entries name parents such as Mr and Mrs Rupert Larry Johne and Mr and Mrs Edna Eupelle Smith, with birth weights around seven pounds and ounces and times on Saturdays at local institutions.
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Rupert Larry Johne
Baxal
Edna Eupelle
West Theuns ‘Hospital
Falhier
Alaska Air Chief Dies After Plane Flips On Takeoff
Anchorage AP report says Lt. Gen. Glen R. Birchard commander in chief of the Alaska Command and Maj. Norman C. Miller died when a float plane overturned on Upper Jugashik Lake 270 miles southwest of Anchorage. Surviving tentatively were Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Cunningham and Edward Bellringer.
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Anchorage
Air Force
Glen. R. Birchard
Alaska Command
Alaskan
Birchard
Alaska
Norman C. Miller
Lga
Upper Jugashik Lake
Here
Joseph A. Cunningham
2Nd Air Force
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Edward Bellringer
Cunningham
Bellringer
Miller
Water Dogs Story From Spur Plant Engine Room
A recalled family tale describes warm water dogs crawling from a nearby tank after heavy rain at Spur. A worker nailed a plank to block them and then tossed several water dogs into a coal boiler to drive them away, refuting old folklore that salamanders resist fire.
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Spur
Briton Killed By Mine Near Aden in Radfan Region
A British soldier was killed by a mine in the Radfan area about 60 miles from Aden on Sunday. The soldier’s name and details were not released. In Aden, Tan D. McE lwain, undersecretary at the Finance Ministry, was shot in the shoulder and jaw while sitting in his car.
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Aden
Radfan
Tan D. McElwaine
lPinance ‘Ministry
Johnson to Confer on UAR Diplomacy Amid Blockade Strain
United States and Britain accused of pursuing a "gentle diplomacy" to ease the sea blockade. The Kremlin vowed to oppose Western efforts to ensure navigation through the Strait of Tiran. Jerusalem reported Israel forming a new national unity cabinet as regional tensions rise. Libya warned it would close Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli. At the United Nations, Security Council members met privately and planned to reconvene to seek restraint and a pause in hostilities.
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Britain
Kremlin
Strait of ‘Tiran
Gulf of Aqaba
Jerusalem
Israel
National Unity
Ftorce
Egypt
Middle East
Libya
America
Wheelus
Tripoli
United Nations
New York
Neabers
U-nation Security Council
United States
Council
Dayan Named Defense Minister Amid Mideast Tensions
The first Sunday with Gen Moshe Dayan marks his appointment as defense minister lasting since last Thursday. Israeli cabinet expresses concern over De Gaulle's neutral Mideast stance and may send a high level envoy to Paris for clarification. Cairo based Al Ahram reports Egypt warns of serious consequences if blockade breaks.
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Moshe Dayar
Sinai
Egypt
Dayan
Charles de Gaulle
Mideast
Paris
de Gaulle
Cairo
al Ahram
United States
Britain
Canada
Garrison on Right Track say clairvoyant Dixon
Washington clairvoyant Jeanne Dixon told UPI that District Attorney Jim Garrison is on the right track in investigating President Kennedy's assassination. She described visions dated Aug. 28, 1952 predicting a White House tragedy tied to a 1960 president and urged delaying a 1963 Southwest trip.
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New Orleans
UPI
Washington
Jim Garrison
Kennedy
Jeanne Dixon
Garrison
Warren Commission
Dixon
Houston Judge Lanegston G. King dies at 81
Lanegston G. King a longtime criminal judge and probation reform leader dies at 81 after a heart ailment. He served 3 years as Criminal District Court No 2 judge in Harris County retiring in 1964 and helped write probation legislation now part of Texas law with funeral at First Methodist Church Houston and burial at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery.
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Houston
Lanegston G. ‘King
Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery
First Methodist Church
King
Criminal District Court No
Harris County
Texas Law
Boston Riots Subside After Third Night of Unrest in Roxbury
Violent disturbances in Boston's Roxbury district eased to a lull on Sunday after a third night of fires looting and clashes. Police reported about 60 injured and 36 arrested as rioters attacked stores and buildings with bricks and bottles while a 6 year old woman died in a smoky apartment fire. Civil rights leaders urged city officials to address underlying grievances and noted progress toward calming tensions.
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Altos
Moss
Lubbock
Loop 289
Slide Road
Surulay
East 50Th Street
Magnolia Avenue
Boston
Roxbury Ste. J
Grove Hall
Kenneth I. Guacatt
The
Na ‘Tional Assn
Guecatt
Manly
Nora Roxbury
Assersby
Fark
Heston
Guser
Roxbury
SEA
John JP
Death of a President sells out first printing
William Manchester's Death of a President sold out its first printing of 600,000 copies in under two months. A second run of 25,000 copies is planned, publisher said Sunday.
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NEW York
William Manchester
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