Dusty Cold Front Hits South Plains and Texas
A late arctic cold front swept across the region with 58 mph winds, bringing dust, snow flurries in Pampa, and low visibility in Lubbock and Amarillo. Temperatures fell to 26 overnight and 37 at dawn with a 60-degree high expected later, while more dust is forecast to spread eastward as spring nears.
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Tom Eastland
Avalanche-Journal
TE Ides
South Plains
Texas
U. S
Lubbock
Pampa
Corpus Christi
Amarillo
Texarkana
Childress
Panhandle
Local Spelling Bee Winners Lead Lubbock Contests
Truett Reeves 14 of J T Hutchinson Junior High captured the Lubbock Public Schools championship by spelling tirade and unanimous. Eleven year old T W Eubanks Jr of Parsons School earned second place after long rounds. Both victors advance to the March 26 Lubbock County Spelling Bee with participants from Christ the King School and Lubbock Christian School also entered.
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T. W. Eubanks
6Th St
Lubbock County
Lubbock
Christ the King School
Lubbock Christian School
Truett Reeves
David Nelson
Lubbock Public Schools
Center
Carl Bailey
Spelling Bee Top Scorers Highlight Local Students
Spellers remaining in the bee and top five placements are noted. T. W. misspelled tirade by replacing i with y. Bill Roberts, Casey Charness, and others from sixth grade programs at P. F. Brown School and Roscoe Wilson School are named among top finishers.
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T. W
Bill Roberts
P. F. Brown School
R. T. Roberts
Casey Charness
Roscoe Wilson
Sco
Mass protests sweep Deep South as sitins erupt
Demonstrations in Orangeburg Atlanta and other cities lead to hundreds of arrests with no violence reported. In San Antonio merchants agree to desegregate lunch counters, a major early win for the sitdown movement. University talks and Houston counterprotest warnings frame ongoing actions as authorities promise enforcement.
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Egroes
Deep South
San Antonio
Orangeburg
S.C
South Carolina
Atlanta
State Capitol
C. Don Baugh
University In Austin
University of Texas
Houston
Lewis Cutrer
Cutrer
Texas
City Commission
Rhee Re elected to Fourth Term in South Korea
Syngman Rhee won a fourth four year term as president of South Korea after a bloody election Tuesday. At least seven people were killed in the aftermath and the official committee said he was approved by more than the required one third of the nation’s 11,194,490 registered voters for an unopposed victory.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Adoption Granted for Gifted Child in New Jersey
The New Jersey Board of Child Welfare abandoned efforts to remove 4 year old Alice Marie from her foster parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard Combs of Old Bridge. The board said the family can proceed with adoption after it reversed its stance to avoid injuring the child.
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Richard Combs
Alice Marie
Associated Press
Renton
N.J
New Jersey Board of Child Welfare
Old Bridge
Combs
I.Q
Mrs. Combs
Lubbock school board okays stadium site and bids for additions
In a busy session the board approved a south Lubbock stadium site of 33 1/3 acres between Ave P and Ave L and 1100 feet south of 66th St for a Tom S Lubbock High addition and a training center. Bids on a 500000 plus project and a 50000 plus training building were set for April 14 with final contract dependent on dedications for access to the Tahoka highway and loop freeway.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
South Lubbock
Tom S. Lubbock
National Defense Committee
Daughters of the American Revolution Organization
Docia Brown
Ave. P
Ave. L
66 St
Lubbock
Tahoka Highway
66Th St
Tohoka Highway
Tom S. Lubbock High
Attendant Slain by Mad Killer at Atascadero State Hospital
ATASCADERO Calif UPI James Jack Cathey called kill crazy by a state prison warden killed an attendant at the Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane on the eve of his scheduled release. Cathey 28 formerly an Arizona prisoner had been certified sane for the second time in a year. Tiessen 21 San Luis Obispo Calif an attendant was fatally wounded in a cell struggle Monday night.
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Atascadero
Calif
UPI
James Jack Cathey
Atascadero State Hospital
Cathey
Arizona
Los Angeles
John C. Tiessen
San Louis Obispo
US Sends Note to Cuba Over Havana Harbor Blast
Washington protested Fidel Castro's claim that the United States was involved in the explosion of a munitions ship in Havana harbor. The government delivered the note to Cuba on Tuesday to dispute the accusation.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Havana
Motherwell Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
In Downieville California Larry Lord Motherwell was found guilty of first degree murder in the Aug. 16 death of Pearl Putney a wealthy Washington DC widow. The nine woman three men jury will reconvene to decide death in gas chamber at San Quentin or life imprisonment.
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Downieville
Calif
Larry Lord
Motherwell
Pearl Putney
Washington, D.C
Here
Washington D.C
San Quentin
Warren Steel
Area Couple and Missouri Man Die in Train Crashes
In two separate wrecks within about an hour, a Littlefield, Texas couple and H A Merkel of Preston, Missouri, were killed when trucks they rode were struck by trains. The Littlefield crash at Northwest Side Street left the cab torn free and bodies hurled along tracks, while Merkel died at Third Street crossing in Bovina. Officers described the Littlefield wreck as severe with no crossing signals and a whistle sounded a mile before impact.
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Ree
Littlefield
Santa Fe
J. C. Bales
H. A. Merkel
Preston
Bovina
Merkel
Third St
Lubbock
Lamb County
Bales
Charles Tue
Tue
Fritz Fitzgerald
I. W. MacDonald
MacDonald
Fitzgerald
Don Berry
James Cox
Gold Digger Cartoon Says It All
The item defines a Gold Digger as a woman who pulls the wool over a man’s eyes and then fleeces him. The definition appears in a comic dictionary feature across the paper’s comics section.
Postal Agents Slain By Thieves In Chicago
United Press International reports the largest federal manhunt in Chicago history for three mail thieves who killed undercover postal inspectors John McAuliffe and Benedretto Spizzirri in a car pursuit. Witness Wattson Murray said the gunfire occurred as captives were driven away and the thieves fled in a passing bus.
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United Press International
Hicago
Chicago
Jerome Williamson
Ilinois-Wisconsin-Michigan
Williamson
Post Office
John McAuliffe
Benedretto Spizzirri
la Salle Street
McAuliffe
Spizzirri
Winton Murray
Murray
Thirteen Miners Dead in West Virginia Coal Mine
In Ogden, West Virginia, 13 miners were found dead deep in a fire-scarred mine after 18 were initially trapped for over a week. A small rockfall started a fire that cut off the group. five others remained missing and rescuers warned of dangerous gas and collapsed passages.
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Associated Press
Ogan
W. VA
Crawford Wilson
Weather Update for Lubbock and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and warmer afternoon with a low of 26 and high near 66. Easterly winds at 15 to 20 mph.
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Lubbock
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