Clovis Area Hit by Flooding and Hail Storms
Heavy storms swept through the Clovis Melrose and Lubbock regions with up to three inches of rain and hail up to an inch in diameter. Clovis streets flooded two to three inches, an Army reserve unit stacked sandbags downtown, and an underpass on Highway 70 was submerged.
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South Plains
New Mexico
Clovis
Melrose
N.M
Hall
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
U.S Highway 70
Bovina
Muleshoe
Astronauts Race Toward Sixth Day in Space Flight
Soviet cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Valentina Tereshkova extend their tandem mission beyond previous records as Bykovsky nears 72 orbits and Tereshkova passes 40, despite a French report that Vos stok 6 failed to appear over Besancon. Observatories at Meudon and Besancon searched the path with excellent conditions but found no sighting.
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OSCOW
Soviet Union
France
Valentina Tereshkova
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina
Bykovsky
Andrian Nikolayev
Besancon
Meudon
Muller
Jin Vain
Meadon
Kennedy Sets Stage For Civil Rights Legislation
President Kennedy will present bills to hasten racial equality as filibusters loom. Governors at a White House luncheon voiced support for parallel state action. A compromise plan emerged in Jackson while protests and sit-ins continued in Gadsden and Harlem. North Carolina Governor Sanford urged end to mass demonstrations and promises dialogue. A separate vocational education proposal was noted with potential funding near one billion dollars.
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Ashington
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Senate
Noru
White House
Congress
Jackson
Miss
Gadsden
Ala
New York City
Harlem
North Carolina
Terry ‘Sanford
Humphrey
JFK
Lubbock School Board Endorses Language Tests and Devotional Plans
Lubbock Consolidated School Board hires more teachers and studies language laboratory use while honoring an outgoing trustee. Superintendent Nat Williams says no state or district mandates Bible readings or Lord’s Prayer. Principals are encouraged to arrange devotional activities, typically brief at elementary level and more uniform at secondary level, including student scripture reading and prayer.
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Kenneth Rhodes
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock School
Plainsman Hotel
Supreme Court
Nat Williams
Williams
Man killed by elephants in Knysna forests
Police found Kernells Jantjies, 38, a laborer, dead in the Knysna forests after he was gored and trampled by elephants. The incident occurred near Port Elizabeth where authorities are investigating the attack.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
UPS
Kernells Jantjies
Knysna
Farmer Board Upholds Estes Cotton Allotment Transfer
The Estes transfer case ends with the review committee upholding the transfer of 257 acres of cotton allotments to Reeves County land farmed by Billie Sol Estes. The ruling cancels Estes fine only if not reopened, while McNatt plans to lease the land to Ameri Grain Co. and plant cotton within two weeks.
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LLAS
J. P. McNatt
Greenville Automobile Dealer
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Reeves County
Billie Sol Estes
McNatt
Hunt County
Estes
Review Committee
D. C. Jeffries
Seminole
Howard Rooney
Sec. of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Ameri Grain Co
Oddly Printed One Dollar Bills Go Into Circulation
About 10 000 one dollar bills with mismatched serial numbers have circulated after a seven year error. Treasury official Henry J Holtzclaw said the Treasury will treat the notes as legal tender with no intrinsic value, though collectors may seek them. A Chicago dealer reportedly asked $40 for a bill.
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Washington
Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Henry J. Holtzclaw
Bureau
Holtzclaw
Chicago
Soviet Troops Left Cuba Slightly Since February
State Department officials said a few hundred Soviet troops may have left Cuba since February but there has been no recent major reduction in the number of Russian troops there.
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Cuba
Washington
State Department
Newlywed 19 Facing Burglary Charges In Lubbock Case
Police charged 19 year old Jack Dewayne Chaney with burglary of a private residence at night in a string of break ins. Chaney admitted to entering about 20 homes before marriage and five since, driven by desire to wed. One witness, Dean Morgan, startled him at 1511 27th Street.
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Lubbock
Jack Dewayne Chaney
28Th St
Chaney
Dean Morgan
27Th St
Morgan
Lucy Weir
Albuquerque
Murray Cleared Of Criminal Violation by Grand Jury
Former Texas Railroad Commissioner William J. Murray Jr. was exonerated by the Travis County Grand Jury of any criminal act in oil deals yielding over 1.7 million dollars during his 16 years on the commission. The panel criticized publicity around the case and noted no criminal conduct in Murray's official duties. The report accompanied Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr’s disclosure of Murray’s 1.7 million income from oil and gas investments. Murray’s vacancy was filled by Jim Langdon as the investigation concluded after his resignation earlier this year.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
USTIN
Texas Railroad
William J. Murray Jr
iTravis County Grand Jury
Oil Regulatory Aid
Murray
Grand Jury
Travis County
Travis County Grand Jury
Carr
Connally
Waggoner Carr
John Connally
Jim Langdon
el Paso
Bachelor Quote Defines Male Dilemma In Witty Column
A humorous editorial defines a bachelor as a man who delays marriage until he saves money, then avoids marriage to keep his savings intact. The piece uses light satire to comment on societal expectations for men and financial priorities in dating culture.
Roswell Airman Dies In Maine Car Crash
A Roswell airman stationed at Carswell AFB was killed in a crash near Falmouth Maine early Tuesday. Royce D Booker 26 was reported to have fallen asleep at the wheel and died at the scene. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Roswell.
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Roswell
Falmouth
Royce D. Booker
Carswell Afb
Fort Worth
Elizabeth
Daily Prayer Sanctify Our Bodies And Hearts
Prayer asks God to make bodies a sanctuary for the spirit. It seeks a constant, genuine prayer life, purging unworthy motives and igniting gratitude. Christ is asked to be enthroned in believers’ hearts in Jesus' name.
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Christ
Jesus
Kremlin Suppresses Letter From Chinese Communist Party
The Kremlin declined to publish a Chinese letter accusing the Soviet Union of censoring Beijing and pressuring peaceful coexistence. Officials cited potential aggravation ahead of July 5 talks. observers doubted all Party allies back Khrushchev’s policies.
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Associated Press
OSCOW
Kremlin
Central Committee of
The
Community Party
Khrushchev
Moscow
Peking
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of China
Central Committee
CPSU
Chinese Communist Party
House panel trims state and local tax deductions
The Ways and Means Committee voted to limit itemized deductions for state and local taxes on federal returns. The plan would ban deductions for taxes on gasoline, autos, licenses, cigarettes, alcohol, and other beverages, raising about 500 million dollars. It retains deductions for real property, personal property, income, and general sales taxes for itemizers and would take effect next January.
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Ashington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Kennedy
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