New Rains Boost Totals In Area
Thunderstorms struck the South Plains Sunday afternoon bringing up to 2.20 inches at Afton and over an inch in Matador and Dickens with no damage reported. Readings across the region varied from trace to .50 inches with two day totals listed for cities such as Lubbock Abilene Seagraves and Slaton. More showers were forecast by the National Weather Service as a warm front moved through Texas.
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Tahoka
Tulsa
National Weather Service
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Oak Cliff
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Vernon
Greenville
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Austin
Brownwood
Abilene
East Texas
Panhandle
NWS
Modernizing towns and changing transit in historic notes
A collage of brief items highlights shifts from horse drawn wagons to small town trains, the renaissance of old tools, and a new era of public works. Dignitaries, scouts, and golf winners appear as local life pivots toward modernization and civic action.
United Nations environment conference shifts focus to noise standards
Global talks avoid politically sensitive topics as delegates urge worldwide noise rules while other items note gunfire in Beirut and remarks by Kissinger on U S Japan relations. The issue also includes a light feature on a mother in law joke and toy comic section.
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Bec, A
Earthquake Deep Under Sea Noted
Boulder Colorado AP reports a submarine earthquake detected by the National Oceanographic Center. The quake occurred at 11 40 am CDT and was about 180 miles below the surface.
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Boulder
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Nal Beate i Ore
Spor i Lander
Wurface
Prayer for Comfort and Aid to Neighbors
A reader offers a brief prayer asking for divine help to comfort those in need and to ease burdens for others, invoking Heavenly Father and concluding with Amen.
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Heavenly Father
PharesLetter Adds New Twist To Old Case
Hale Center mystery of Andrea Phares who vanished May 4, 1955 on the Hale County scene receives renewed attention after a cryptic no‑address letter arrived May 20. Authorities enlist a private investigator as Oklahoma seek is renewed, following hints from a news clipping.
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Danny Ellington
Avalanche-Journal
Hale Center
Andrea Phares
Here
Texas
Hale County
Oklahoma
Texas Rangers
Jim Singleton
John Canon
Toll In Flood Reaches 208 In South Dakota
Rapid City and surrounding Black Hills communities reel from devastating floods after Canyon Lake Dam failure. Death toll tops 208 with about 500 still unaccounted. federal aid declared and search efforts continue as George McGovern and volunteers aid recovery. National Guardsmen mobilized. $100 million in damages expected.
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My the Associa’ Press
Rapid City
Black Hills
South Dakota
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial
Canyon Lake
Rapid Creek
Sate
Nixon
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pennington County Health Department
Richard Kneip
Bee champ Robin Kral to appear on Today show
Fourteen year old Robin Kral of Lamesa, National Spelling Bee champion, spent eight hours sightseeing in New York City. He and his mother and an Avalanche-Journal reporter will remain in New York until Tuesday after winning $1,000 prize in Washington. He plans to buy a record player with some of the money and save the rest for college.
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New York City
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Harrison family builds new roof as shared project
The Kenneth Harrison family of 1304 ae Place is reroofing their home as a collective effort. The parents say the work teaches cooperation and saves money, with Randy, 6, doing tasks like pulling nails while siblings pitch in after school and on weekends.
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Avalanche-Journal
Kenneth Harrison
Ae Place
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U S Soldier and Wife Welcome Quintuplets in Germany
In Frankfurt a U S radio technician and his Frankfurt wife Brigitte Bean welcomed quintuplets born by Caesarean section. The five babies, four girls and one boy, weighed 2 4 to 3 12 pounds and are in incubators. All were said to be in astoundingly good condition as they await reaching five pounds before leaving hospital.
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Frankfurt
Germany
University Clinic
Hans-Georg Seidentop
Brigitte Bean
Seidentopf
Harry Bean
Connecticut
Bean
American Forces Radio
AFN
Mrs. Bean
West Germany
U S Planes Hit North Vietnam Rail Cars And Power Plants
U S air raids destroy Lang Chi hydroelectric plant and strike railroad cars moving south from China. Missing crew numbers rise as losses climb to 122 aircraft and 68 Americans killed or missing. News notes March offensives and air battles across North and South Vietnam, including downed jets and helicopters.
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North Vietnam
Dong Hoi
U.S
South Vietnam
Nam Dinh
Hanoi
Deimilitarized Zone
Hue
Indochina
U.S. Air Force
Red River
Lang Chi
Air Force
China
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Highway crash kills 12 in Louisiana pickup near swimming spot
Twelve people died when a tractor trailer rear-ended a pickup carrying fourteen passengers in Alexandria Louisiana. The group, including children and adults, were on their way to a swimming site and were struck Sunday.
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Alexandria
Unidentified Man Fatally Struck On Avenue A
A Mexican American man in his 20s was killed after being hit by two cars on Avenue A near 4700 block early Sunday. The second vehicle fled. police sought its driver as investigators searched for the victim’s identity using fingerprints and photos. Charlene Owens Brooks of Haskell was driving the first car.
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20Th Street
Simon
FBI
Charlene Owens Brooks
Haskell
Weather Map Page data dump provides regional temps
The Weather Map Page lists daily high and low temperatures, humidity readings, and sun times for multiple cities including Philadelphia Abilene Houston Denver Dallas and others. It notes maximum 60 minimum 63 for a date, humidity near 97 percent, and sunrise sunset times around 6:55 and 8:58.
The Art of the Comic Strip Exhibit at Midland Museum
The Museum of the Southwest in Midland hosts a 102 work display titled The Art of the Comic Strip. It spans animal, child, domestic, adventure and joke strips from 1903 Katzenjammer Kids to 1960s cartoons including Krazy Kat Felix the Cat Popeye and Peanuts with many other famous titles.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
West Texas
Museum of the Southwest
Midland
Krazy Kat
Felix the Cat
Pogo
Nancy
Peanuts
Teenie Weenies
Bringing Up Father
Winnie Winkle
Blondie
Moon Mullins
Brenda Starr
Mary Worth
Flash Gordon
Terry and the Pirates
Steve Canyon
Tarzan
Alley Oop
Popeye
Prince Valiant
Joe Palooka
Li'l Abner
Judge Parker
Matt
Jeff
Henry
the Little King
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