Civil Rights Battlelines Form Long Fight Seen
President Kennedy urged restraint from Negro leaders to allow Congress to act on civil rights measures. He warned that demonstrations risk lives and property and insisted violence is unjustified. He supported equal accommodations and said property owners cannot exclude the public from public businesses based on race, while allowing federal action after local efforts fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Martin Luther King Jr
Washington
Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Senate
Olin D. Johnston
D-Sc
Judiciary Committee
Johnston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Commerce Committee
Dirksen
Mansfield-Magnuson
Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen Ofllinois
Civil Rights Commission
Kennedy civil rights plan draws mixed Senate response
President Kennedy urged swift civil rights action with a broad package including desegregation and voting rights. Senate Republicans split support while Southern Democrats denounced the proposals as unconstitutional, pledging a battle likely including a filibuster.
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Jerry T. Baulch
Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
Local Leaders Debate Taxes and Education at Forum
Lubbock forum features Blanchard Quil liam Parsley on taxes education and constitutional revision. Quilliam pushes for more higher education funding while Parsley backs broader sales tax base and education funding gains. Blanchard notes district poll tax views and cites district voting patterns.
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Parsley
Blanchard
Quilliam
League of Women Voters
Lubbock County
Flint Philanthropist Mott Leaves $128 Million GM Stock Gift
Industrialist founder of a city legacy, known as the man who built Flint, donates $128 million in GM stock to a foundation. The article traces Henry L. Mott’s vast wealth from GM stock, his extensive gifts to Flint including a library and health center, and his public education philanthropy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mott
Flint
Detroit
GM Corp
Gave Library
Local Families Welcome Newborns in Lubbock Area Hospitals
A series of birth notices from Wednesday and early Thursday report births across Lubbock and nearby areas. Families include Bobby Beale, Joe Winston, Leonard Brown, Billy Wayne Lord, Andrew St John, Joe Travis Jackson, John Thomas, Amancio Sanchez, Charles Shook, Earnest Jenkins, Henry Griffen Jr., and Jack Henry, detailing hospital, time, weight, and parental occupations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Beale
Methodist Hospital
Powell and Childress Tire and Appliance Co
Leonard Brown
Auburn St
Moss Gordin Lint Cleaner Co
Billy Wayne Lord
Ajith St
Taylor Hospital
National Distributors
Joe Travis Jackson
Detroit
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
City of Lubbock Park and Recreation Department
Ace
John Thomas
Ja Grain & Milling Co
Browneld
Charles E. Shook
69Th St
Texas Tech
Earnest Wayne Jenkins
35Th St
West Texas Hospital
Henry R. Griffen Jr
Toledo
City of
Lubbock
Area Storms Leave Texas Shaken and Soggy
A night of severe weather swept across West, Central, and Northeast Texas with hail, heavy rain, and vivid lightning. Rain totals reached nearly five inches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, flooding streets and seeping into homes while no widespread damage was reported beyond downed signs and water intrusion.
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Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Rio Hondo
South Plains
Denver City
Plains
Seminole
Seagraves
Brownfield
Abilene
Alpine
Amarillo
Austin
Childress
Dallas
Junction
Lufkin
Midland
Mineral Wells
San Angelo
Waco
Dalhart
Galveston
Presidio
Big Bend
Tiros Weather Satellite Mission Achieves Seven-Satellite Run
The Ti ros program has launched seven satellites in 38 months with no misses. Ti ros 6 remains active and has delivered over 250 000 cloud images proving satellite weather observation feasibility while Ti ros 7 photographs south of the equator. Ti ros 8 will expand ground stations to over 40 worldwide and carry infrared sensors to study clouds in darkness and solar heat exchange.
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Tiros
Tiros 6
Tiros 7
Equator
Pacific
Tires 7
United Fund campaign quotas listed for 1963 drive
The document details a six agency United Fund campaign totaling 92 000 with growth to 27 agencies by last year and presents a long list of agency names and their individual quotas toward the 1963 goal of 519 914 41. It includes American Hearing Society Blinded Veterans Association Boys Club Nos 1 2 3 Boy Scouts Camp Fire Girls Carver Heights Day Nursery Salvation Army and others with specific amounts for each.
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Community Chest
United Fund
TOTAL
American Hearing Society
American Social Health Agsn
Blinded Veterans Association
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls of
Carver Heights Day Nursery
Community Clothing Center
Salvation Army
Community Planning Council
Iamily Service Association
Girl Scouts
Caprock Council
Guadalupe Neighborhood Center
Lubbock
American Red Cross
Lubbock Day Nursery
Milam Children’s Training Center
National Council On Crime and Delinquency
National Recreation Association
Pele Reese
Wat Lee Ae
United: Grand Administration
Space Pair Triumphs In Vostok 6 And 5 Orbits
Soviet spaceflight records show Valentina Tereshkova and Nikolai Bykovsky completing 48 and 81 orbits respectively while Maj. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. logged 22 orbits in 34 hours 20 minutes. Valentina reported minor nose bruising, Khrushchev praised the mission, and a large Red Square celebration was planned.
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Munist
Bykovsky
Valentina
Air Force
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
U.S
Khrushchev
Komsomol
Communist Party
Central Committee
Soviet Union
Moscow
Vostok 6
Karanganda
Soviet Kazakhstan
Earth
Vostok 5
Stalin
Red Square
Maj
Andrian Nikolayev
Nikolayev
Cooper
FAA outlines supersonic passenger plane plan
FAA administrator N R Halaby announced a government industry program to develop a passenger aircraft flying faster than 2000 miles per hour by 1970 end. He cited a projected cost of 700 million to 1 billion dollars and said funding was needed this year to start. He noted specifications would be prepared for a design competition in August.
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Los Angeles
UPS
N. R. Halaby
Federal Aviation Agency
Halaby
theAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
FAA
Lubbock
Amarillo
McFarland
Raymond L. Lawrence
Austin
Muléshoe
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Water District
South Plains
Lubbock County
Hockley
Lamb
Deaf Smith
Floyd
Palmer
Bailey
Castro
Cochran
Randall
Lynn
Armstrong
Potter
City of Lubbock
Russell Bean
John Gammon
Larbuddie
J. R. Belt Jr
Lockney
Earl Holt
Hereford
H. J
Chick
Schmidly
West Texans View JFK Civil Rights Plan With Skepticism
West Texas lawmakers reacted to Kennedy civil rights proposals with caution or opposition. Rep. George Mahon urged local action and careful study, while Rep. C. C. Fisher argued existing laws suffice, opposing new federal measures. Rep. Ed Foreman favored protecting private rights and opposing federal overreach, and Rep. Tower criticized compulsory desegregation of private businesses as unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jfk
Ned Curran
Avalanche-Journal
Washington Bureau
Washington
West Texas
Kennedy
John Tower
George Mahon
Lubbock
C. C. Fisher
San Angelo
Mahon
Omar Burleson
Anson
Justice Department
Tower Delared
Lake Victim Search In Lubbock Dramatizes Community Effort
About 250 volunteers and multiple agencies combed a 10 acre lake area northeast of the new dam for three days. Divers from Abilene and Sweetwater joined, with air support from a Reese AFB helicopter and a crop-dusting plane conducting aerial checks. Local residents, clubs, and the Salvation Army provided meals and aid as authorities coordinated a wide scale recovery operation.
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Segrest
Lubbock Fire Department
Lubbock Boat Club
Swat Smith
Lubbock
Reese Afb
Absiene
Sweetwater
Htbert Hubbard
Bobby Newell
Shelby Holly
Hubbard
Abilene
Buffalo Lakes
Wedneday
Civil Air Patro Lubbock Ski Club
Lubbock G Kart Club
Department of Pulicc Safety
Slaton Fire Departent
Sheriff's Office
Goodpature Grain & Milling Co
Slaten
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Department of Labor
Office of Manpower, Automation and Training
Federal
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Byron Tunnel
Tunnell
Michigan
Mackinac Bridge
Upper
Lower Peninsula
Matt
J. William Davis
J. P. Kenney
Girl Scout Troop 14
J. L. Graw
Hill Baggett
Charles
Joe Winston
Wilson
KCAS
Andrew E. St
Amancio Sanchez
Tahoka
Jack Bob Henry
Lovington
Turner's Insurance
Preston Smith
Lubbock League of Women Voters
Garden and Arts Center
Bill J. Parsley
Smith
League
Fisher
Ed Foreman
Odessa
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