Exiles Held After Successful Raid On Cuba
UPI reports 10 Cuban exiles returning from a raid on Cuba were detained in the Florida Keys after their PT boat sunk. They allegedly attacked a sugar refinery at Matanzas, damaged facilities, and engaged Cuban forces, with one raider wounded.
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JFK
Solon
United Press International
IAMI
U.S
Caribbean
PT Bost
Floriday Keys
Joseph Fortier
Miami Customs Office
Evangelio Rufin Calaro
Key West
Miami
Matanzas
Manuel Quiza Docal
Kennedy-Eisenhower discuss race after Evers slaying
In Washington President Kennedy held a more than hour long meeting with former President Eisenhower at the White House amid shock over the Medgar Evers slaying. Kennedy invited Eisenhower days earlier as civil rights tensions rise and Southern leaders denounce federal power over private property.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Washington
Kennedy
Medgar W. Evers
NAACP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
Eisenhower
White House
Evers
Andrew T. Hatcher
Butt
Manhine
Hatenna Bho Beeen
Uclwcee Ung
Alabama
University of Alabama
Wee
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Justice Department
Cambridge
Russell
Congress
Mississippi officer links rifle to Medgar Evers murder
Jackson police Captain Ralph Hargrove displays a .30 caliber rifle police say matches the weapon used to kill NAACP official Medgar Evers. The firearm was recovered in weeds near Evers home after the Wednesday shooting.
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Jackson
Miss
Ralph Hargrove
NAACP
Medgar Evers
Evers
Former A&M student abducts registrar and robs bank
A Texas A&M registrar H L Heaton 57 was kidnapped by Gerardus F Hauwert 35 of Houston after returning from lunch in an A&M parking lot. Hauwert forced Heaton to cash a 250 check and drove toward the Mexican border before fleeing at a service station. he was captured near LaGrange.
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United Press International
Lllege
Texas A&m
A&m
H. L. Heaton
Heaton
U.S. Highway 77
Giddings
Tex
Gerardus F. Hauwert
Houston
Hauwert
LaGrange
Brazos County
J. W. Hamilton
Hamilton
U.S. 77
Mexico
Rusk
Vernon Goodson
Goodson
NASA ends Mercury to push Gemini program
NASA announced it will terminate the Mercury Manned Satellite Program to focus on Project Gemini. James E. Webb said the plan includes a December or January suborbital test with a boilerplate Gemini, a three month follow up test of the full system, and by late next year a full unmanned or possibly first crewed orbital Gemini flight.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
James E. Webb
Cotton bill would cut support prices for 1964 crop
Texas Farm Bureau officials urged support for SB 1458 at a meeting in the New Johnson House. The bill would set a 30 cent per pound national average support for middling cotton and raise the allotment to 17.5 million acres, with a potential 29 cent rate in 1965 if supplies grow. An export subsidy of 64 cents per pound is proposed, down from 84 cents.
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valanche-Journal
Texas Farm Bureau
Nome Ana Avrona
Ed McKay
TFB
Waco
McKay
Johnson House
Congress
Allen B. Ellender
D-La
Senate Agriculture Committee
American Farm Bureau Federation
Heatwave Hits Texas Drying South Plains After Deluges
South winds dry the state sending many areas into the 90s as heat records fall from Beaumont to Lubbock. Thunderstorms bring scattered rain in Seminole Abilene Wichita Falls while Fort Worth Dallas and Lufkin report hot readings. No relief expected for days as skies vary from partly cloudy to clear.
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South Plains
Texas
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
Seminole
San Angelo
Big Spring
Amarillo
Childress
Abilene
Wichita Falls
Beaumont-Port Arthur
Fort Worth
Dallas
NASA official quits after Mercury flight plans canceled
NASA announced Wednesday the resignation of D Brainerd Holmes head of the man to the moon program. The move followed the agency canceling plans for any further Project Mercury flights.
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NASA
Washington
Space Agency
D. Brainerd Holmes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Runaway Grain Truck Slams Through Duluth Traffic Group
A grain truck sprinted down a mile-long hill into busy Superior Street in Duluth injuring fifteen people and killing a six year old girl from Aurora Minnesota. The crash knocked a building from its foundation and damaged multiple vehicles. A page six photo accompanies the AP Wirephoto coverage.
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Duluth
Superior St
Aurora, Minn
Sec. C
Casey Charness Jr. disqualified after stumping on ducat at National Spelling Bee
In Washington Casey Charness Jr. 13 of Lubbock was disqualified in the fifth round after failing to spell ducat a gold coin slang term for ticket. Forty-one of 69 spellers were eliminated as 18 boys and 10 girls left the competition with Steven Palmer Vernon still active and other Texas hopefuls advancing. Casey received a Mahon call then left to visit the Smithsonian. See CASEY Page 12.
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Ashington
Lubbock
Casey Charness Jr
Casey
Vivian Salazar
Amarillo
David Levenson
Flushing
Long Island
N. Y
George Mahon
Speller
Smithsonian
National Museum
Casey Jr
Defeat for Kennedy on Federal Aid Expansion Vote
The House rejected Kennedy administration plans to expand federal aid for chronically unemployed areas by five votes. Southern Democrats shifted to oppose the measure amid a high civil rights profile, with 189 Democrats and 15 Republicans voting for the bill and 57 Democrats and 152 Republicans voting against it. The White House offered no comment immediately.
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United Press International
Kennedy
House
White House
Georgia
Florida
Gram
Conte Dictionary Bureaucrat Cartoon
A satirical panel portrays a government official who hides mistakes by labeling them top secret and locking them away, lampooning bureaucratic secrecy. The cartoon comments on transparency in government and the tendency to conceal errors.
Prayer for a refreshed day and thoughtful service
A brief prayer asks God to grant a refreshing day and well-prepared tasks and trials. It seeks good desires and wise thoughts to honor God and show believers as children of the Father through Jesus Christ.
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Jesus
Assassination Shocks Nation as Medgar Evers Is Slain
Medgar W. Evers, 37, Mississippi civil rights leader and NAACP field director, was shot in the back outside his Jackson home after a meeting. A .30-30 rifle was recovered in honeysuckle bushes near the residence as FBI and Justice Department join the investigation.
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Associated Press
Ackson
Miss
Mississippi
Medgar W. Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evers
Justice Department
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
FBI
Jackson
Escapee Horace Hayes Captured in Lubbock After Seven Years
Horace Earnest Hayes, 38, an escapee from a Raleigh North Carolina prison farm since 1956, was arrested in the 700 block of 34th Street after a Hereford drunkenness charge led to fingerprint checks. Hayes, who used the alias Harold Ernest Hayes, said he was tired of running and faced potential six more months upon return. He had moved from California and lived with his wife and step-children before arrest.
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Horace Earnest Hayes
North Carolina
Lubbock
Hayes
Avalanche Journal
6Th St
34Th St
Harold Ernest Hayes
Sims
California
Hereford
Howard Smith
Bud Sims
FBI
Raleigh
N.C
Weather forecast for Lubbock area with clearing skies
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions in Lubbock and vicinity with high temperatures around 92. Winds will be southeast to southerly at 10 to 25 mph. Widely scattered thundershowers are possible late after noon into early evening.
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City
Abilene
Paso
Albuq
Houston
Amarillo
Oklaty
Ion SB
Dallas
Roswell
Denver St
W. Falls
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