Empty Barracks Built by Estes Stand in Midland Ruins
Three abandoned Midland barracks once bought by Billie Sol Estes in 1953 for 6000 later sold with land for 107000. Estes moved them to three lots and formed a partnership with William Scott Paul Ivey and M H McKinney. The property passed through several owners, faced tax liens, and yielded little rental income as failures to rent persisted.
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Billie Sol Estes
Sol Estes
Estes
William Scott
Paul Ivey
M. H. McKinney
Reeves County
Cal Boykin
Crawford Hotel
Scott
Holleman Jr
Jones
Carver Hornets
Holleman
Agriculture Chemicals, Inc
O. C. Behize
Llano
Behize
Jones and Holleman
Chester Robinson
W. E. D. Cooper
Dr. Cooper
J. B. McGowan
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Billie Sol
Weather outlook for next 30 days map summary
Maps from the U S Weather Bureau forecast probable precipitation and temperatures for the next 30 days. AP wirephoto map illustrates regional expectations.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Senate probes Estes Oklahoma deals examined by investigators
Senate investigations subcommittee led by Senator John L. McClellan probes Billie Sol Estes actions in Oklahoma. Investigators assess how Estes obtained cotton acreage allotments from Oklahomans for use in Texas and assess legitimacy amid Texas fraud and theft charges. Witnesses cite Estes profiting from complex deals and owning over 3,100 acres of allotments from federal land programs.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Senate
Oklahoma
Billie Sol Estes
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Estes
Texas
Agriculture Department
Washington
Texas Court of Inquiry
University of Oregon Medical School 75 Years of Progress
The University of Oregon Medical School celebrates 75 years, tracing its origin to Mackenzie’s Dream in a mortgaged grocery store. It grew from seven faculty and 18 students in 1887 to a 900-student, 13-building campus with a nine story research center and new outpatient clinic. Notable advances include the Stubblefield twins separation in 1959 and breakthroughs in leukemia treatment, total body X-ray irradiation, and the artificial mitral valve developed in 1960.
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Portland, Ore
UPI
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University of Oregon Medical School
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Willamette University
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K. A. J. Mackenzie
Stubblefield
Jeannett
Denett
Jeanett
Swiss Couple Adapts to Life in Lubbock Visitors Share Viewpoints
Andreas and Marianne Ludi arrived in Lubbock on May 11 and bought a car, noting cars are a necessity here though a luxury in Switzerland. They plan to bicycle for recreation and describe Swiss education as decentralized with students living at home. Their family background spans Protestant and Catholic roots, with siblings in medicine teaching and nursing. They speak German French and English, with Andreas fluent through scientific reading and research.
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Switzerland
Andreas
Berne
Nigeria
U.S
Bridgeport
Your the
First Refugees Chinese Family Busy Beginning Life In America
Eng See Suey 45 and his wife Yung Suey San arrive at O Hare from Hong Kong with three of four children. They are the first Chinese refugee family admitted under Kennedy's emergency program suspending the immigration quota. The family plans to live in Park Ridge near Eng's elderly father Frank Jing Eng. The elder man is critically ill. The youth Leng Ching 18 remains in Hong Kong for tuberculosis treatment and will join later. The program followed Hong Kong’s 70,000 Chinese refugees influx last month.
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China
United States
Eng See Suey
Yung Suey San
O’hare International
Hong Kong
Kennedy
Eng
Park Ridge
Engs
Frank Jing Eng
Palmer House
Red China
Leng- Ching
Hitchhiker Seen In Marshall Case
Texas Ranger Clint Peoples said agricultural agent Henry H. Marshall picked up a hitchhiker on the morning of June 3, 1961, en route to Franklin with his son. The hitchhiker, not a local man, was dropped off and Marshall was later found shot on his farm. A justice of the peace ruled the death a self inflicted shooting.
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UPI
Texas
Clint Peoples
Henry H. Marshall
Marshall
Peoples
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Justice of the Peace
Estes
Kennedy Letters and AMA Fight Over Health Care Policy
Kennedy's Tuesday letter marks another turn in the administration's dispute with the AMA over the health care program. Larson, in Chicago, denied AMA opposition to Social Security enactment and dismissed Kennedy's remarks as a smoke screen, saying the King-Anderson bill remains the trial.
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AMA
Chicago
Larson
Amas
Bishop and Mrs Martin Honored by Central Texas Conference
In Fort Worth the Central Texas Methodist Conference paid tribute to Bishop William Martin and his wife Mrs Martin at its annual meeting. The report praised the bishop for understanding pastors and churches and lauded Mrs Martin as a steadfast friend to parsonage families. Rev Allen Peacock announced conference membership has grown to 114 775. New Delhi reports significant high quality coal deposits found in Uttar Pradesh.
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Central Texas Methodist Conference
William Martin
Fort Worth-Dallas
Allen Peacock
Cisco
New Delhi
Uttar Pradesh
India
Texas higher education panel to discuss coed policy at A&M
Austin AP report says the Texas Commission on Higher Education will consider co education at Texas A&M College at its July 9 meeting. Commissioner Elizabeth Koch of San Antonio argued for review, stating women face unique discrimination in the state.
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