Bandit Trio Taps Poker Game For $26 000 Heist
Three bandits in Army fatigues robbed a Lazy Ranch poker game Thursday about 4 am using tear gas. They seized about $29 000 cash from guests including Melvin Sugarek 39, who says he lost roughly $9 000. Victims, from Corpus Christi and nearby, stood gasping as robbers collected the money and fled after locking car keys to prevent pursuit. Sheriff J L Robinson and Texas Ranger Wiley Willian investigated. a deputy spotted a suspicious car two hours earlier but lost it.
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Sugarek
Lazarek
Texas
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J.L. Robinson
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Herbustan
Robinson
Kennedy Nears Faster Post Office Building Push
President Kennedy ordered an immediate speed-up in the $270 million post office construction program to reduce unemployment and boost purchasing power. White House officials said new buildings will start within 10 months instead of 18, accelerating economic relief.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Stevenson warns Soviets against Africa intervention
Adlai Stevenson urged the Soviet Union to think twice before intervening in Africa to avoid nuclear war. He spoke in New York, criticizing outside powers and urging withdrawal of Belgians and nonintervention, framing his remarks as a defense of future humanity and against imperial drift.
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Kalal E. Stevenson
Soviet Union
Africa
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Balkans
Given
Robert F. Wagner
Goitenes
Khrushchevy
Unie
Ilinois
Ipresident
America
Belghm
Stevenson
Marx
Lenin
Texas Tech Wins First Southwest Conference Title In Basketball
The Raiders defeated defending champ Texas to claim the Southwest Conference basketball crown as 10,380 fans filled the coliseum. Athletic director Polk Robison praised the team and the crowd's spirit after the victory.
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Texas Tech
Texas
Mac Percival
del Ray Mounts
Bobby Gindorf
Tom Fatty
Polk Robison
Tech
Ray Westbrook
Bill Mart
Avalanche-Journal Sports Wetter
Jpblant
Texas ‘Tech
Upstate
Robison
Homeowners Protest Shopping Center Zoning Plea Tabled
City Planning and Zoning Commission tabled a request for a two block shopping center along Avenue Q north of 34th Street to study impacts. The panel also approved six zone changes and rejected a 30 foot deep development plan to salvage property values in the area. Former Mayor Lenie open bas and J Lous Murfee Jr led the discussion on C4 commercial zoning prospects.
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Mayvalanche-Journal
Avenue Q
34Th Street
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Commission
Edational Bairns J
Tax clash fuels Texas legislative dispute
W T Oliver of Port Neches criticizes Gov over sales tax policy as lawmakers clash on deficit retirement and corporate measures. The day features heated exchanges and calls for a showdown next week to decide what is best for the people amid partisan tensions.
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Texas
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Port
Oliver
Neches
Gov
Officials Elected 3500 Teachers Due For Assembly Here
Rep Franklin Spears of San Antonio defends Daniel against criticism and says fighting for his program is part of responsibility. House Revenue and Taxation Committee prepares for possible battle over a sales tax. Daniel blasts banks' report of a tax bill aimed at closing loopholes and trimming a deficit by 7.7 million. Daniel says his fight for the defeated abandoned property act and franchise tax change is not over, though the two measures were gunned down earlier.
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Franklin Spears
San Antonio
Daniel
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Noor
Charles Badman
Borger
Ballman
Reeves Named President Of Texas Teachers Union
LEN Reeves, superintendent of schools at Littlefield, was chosen as president of District 13 Texas State Teachers Assn. at a Lubbock convention kick-off. The event drew about 3,500 teachers from 17 counties. Reeves and other officers were elected at Parkway Manor Motor Hotel.
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Littlefield
Texas State Teachers Assn
Lubbock
Lubbock Municipal Auditorium
Tields
Reeves
House of Delegates
Parkway Manor Motor Hotel
Mary Lee Wrislien
Post
Florine Forbes
Abernathy
Marietta Montgomery
George Wels
Brownfield
Neal B. Dillman
Muleshoe
Albany
N.Y
Floyd Honey
New York State
Sam Hawkes
Crosby
Pauline Clark
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Price Tag High On Tiny New York Plot
The City Department of Real Estate will offer two minuscule Manhattan plots at the 8 surplus city land auction this month. One strip is nine inches wide and 100 feet deep on West 43rd Street near Fifth Avenue. Bids start near 90 dollars.
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New York
UPI
City Department of Real Estate
Manhattan
43Rd Street
Tax Dispute Turns Up In Senate Meeting
Fragmented OCR text shows a reference to a senate meeting on tax disputes with unclear details. The readable bits mention a tone of formal discussion and a page 10 reference. No specific names, places, dates, or outcomes are clear.
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Jeonrathar Wrens van Anager
Datel
Senate
Prayer for spiritual awakening and deliverance
A religious text prayer praising divine aid and calling for a universal spiritual awakening and deliverance. Attributed to Rev. Mary Garner in the Grace Tabernacle context, it emphasizes God’s love, saving power, and readiness to aid all who call.
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Mary Garner
Pasion
Grace Tabernacle
Meriwether Narrowly Approved as Export-Import Bank Nominee
In a tight Banking Committee vote of 5 to 4 with six abstentions the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether to direct the Export-Import Bank cleared. Meriwether a segregationist faced questions over past ties to the Crommelin faction and denied Klan membership.
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Senate
Charles M. Meriwether
Meriwether
Ku Klux Klan
Kennedy
A. Willis Robertson D-Vai
Banking Committee
Binkley
Robertson
William B. Blakley
Tex
Jonny Sparkman
Als
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Prescott Bush
R-Conn
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Proxmire D-Wish
Maurine Neuberger
Ore
Jacob K. Javits
RNY
Joseph D. Clark
State Finance Direc
Tor
John Patterson
Afj Patterson
Asim
John G. Crommetin
Crommetin
Alabama
Imelin
Crommelin
NASA outlines 10 year space plan including Moon trip
NASA officials at Senate hearings detail plans for a dozen lunar exploration craft and multiple Venus and Mars probes over the next years. The program envisions six weather satellites and a manned space lab in Earth orbit by the early 1980s with a three person crew circumnavigating the Earth.
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Unites Prose Ner National
Wwaastincton — Me
Sttce
Scien Ning Laboratory
Weresaul
National ‘Aeronautics and Space Adeministration
NASA
Congo Soldiers Massacre Civilians in Luluabourg Riot
Congolese troops said to be loyal to Kasavubu slaughtered 44 civilians in Luluabourg, triggering a mass flee by about 1,000 residents seeking sanctuary. The violence followed the rebels’ sudden capital takeover and left the city divided in loyalties.
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Con- Ligo
Luluabourg
Congo
Terjcapital
Kasih
Fe 5
Joseph Kasay ‘Vuba
Lenée
la Pei
Bec Ae
Stank
Luleabourg
Patrice Aes Ees
Besar
Amarillo Court Bars Gambling
Wiley County District Attorney Frank J. Baughman filed suits in the 47th district court before Judge Gene Jordan seeking temporary injunctions to halt gambling. Judge Jordan issued a temporary restraining order and set a hearing for 9 a.m. March 6. The petitions allege gambling at homes of Robert M. Davis Irene Davis and Fred Die Davis and at a recreation club owned by Kenneth Winnens.
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Amarillo
Weather Map Page 12 Lubbock Area Forecast
Clear to partly cloudy conditions with increasing warmth by afternoon. Highs near 60 across the region. Lubbock temperature 57 with a low around 40. Winds from the west to northwest at around 10 mph.
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Lubbock
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