Search Fails To Find Missing Plane Over Western Pacific
Thunder storms hindered a massive air sea search for a missing Flying Tiger Constellation with 107 aboard en route to South Vietnam. The operation spanned 150000 square miles between Guam and the Philippines as radar ships and planes hunted for wreckage while officials ruled out sabotage and hijacking.
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Spelling Bee Champions Named in County Contests
Bailey County winner Julia Burkett age 13 from Three Way School led Bailey contest at Muleshoe High Auditorium with altitude spelling notched on “allotted” and “alluring” to secure victory. Dawson County champ Mary Jane Jackson age 11 from local schools earned top honors. Garza County winner Jacqueline Michel Wilson age 12 from Post Junior High won the Garza Bee with Nedra Childs as alternate.
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Post
Lamesa
Avalanche - Journal
Avalanche-Journal
Julia Burkett
Dawson County
Mary Jane Jackson
Jacqueline Michel Wilson
Garza
Garza County
A. G. Wilson
Nedra Childs
W. H. Childs
Rt. 2
Harlan Sappington
Close City
Mary Barnes
Jettie Crawford
Larry Long
Southland
Dean A. Robinson
Garza County Bee
Lucy Callis
Faye Cockrell
Jackie Wisely
Pearl Storie
Post Chamber of Commerce
Bailey
Three Way
Bailey County
Muleshoe High School
J. L. Burkett
Box 15
Maple
Tex
Ruth Ann Duckworth
Frank’ Duckworth
Misa Burkett
Wayne ‘Thompson
Prayer Quote Petitioning Persistent Faith Appears
Today's prayer asks for ceaseless prayer and assurance of being heard. It seeks patience to wait and perseverance to keep trusting until prayers are answered, attributed to Mildred L Fewell of Lubbock.
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Heavenly Father
Mildred L, Fewell
Lubbock
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visits Banaras on Ganges cruise
Mrs Kennedy tours Banaras observing pilgrims and water buffalo in the murky Ganges while a 40 foot launch carries her under a white gold fringed canopy. Thousands greet her as she later arrives in Udaipur for a five day Indian tour with a desert prince host.
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India
Jacqueline Kennedy
Banaras
Ganges
New Delhi
Bhagwat Singhji
Myers stoic at Rusk verdict killer gets chair
The jury sentenced Arthur Lee DeKraai 32 a pistol slayer from Ottumwa Iowa to death by electric chair for the four robbery slayings in Big Spring. Myers 32 a divorced father of five showed no emotion as the verdict was read in the Rusk case.
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USK
John Ed
Win Myers
Illinois
Midland
Myers
Big Spring
Arthur Lee DeKraai
Ottumwa
Towa
State GOP Candidates Headline Rally at Local School
Five statewide GOP candidates are set to appear at a political forum tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Slaton Junior High School. The event marks one of the largest Republican rallies conducted in the area.
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Jor B. Phillips
Lubbock
Giles Miller
Dallas
GOP
Roy Whittenberg
Amarillo
Bill Hayes
Temple
Kollis Dibrell
Sessum
Syd Moore
Lubbock County
Chai
Moore
Jack Christie
Brownfield
Dennis Taylor
Crosbyton
U.S
Rom
Plains Youth Hurt In Track Mishap
A 15 year old Plains boy Coy Lowery was struck by an 8 pound shot put during a junior high track meet. He suffered a concave skull fracture and was taken to Denver City hospital before transfer to Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Surgery was performed Friday night with no current condition report.
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Coy Lowery
Carl Lowery
Denver
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Jack Pierce
Lowery
Pierce
Morton
New Soviet Claim of Invincible Global Rocket Shocks Moscow
Khrushchev announced a new intercontinental rocket the Soviets call global invulnerable to antimissile defenses and capable of striking the United States from any direction. He spoke during an unopposed election rally in Moscow and warned the West over disarmament and atmospheric tests.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
United States
North Pole
Tass
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Geneva
Kennedy
mid-Pacific
Berlin
Washington
U. S
Rhee Denied Return to Korea by Military Government
South Korea's military government refused ex-President Syngman Rhee permission to return to his homeland on Saturday. A government spokesman cited ongoing instability and said the apology offered by Rhee did not alter the decision.
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Seoul
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
Inflation: The shrinking dollar without reducing its size
Editorial notes mock inflationary pressure as a joke about a dollar bill shrinking in value. It cites public concern over prices and the cost of living, offering satirical commentary on currency devaluation and economic policy.
Pickup truck stolen from yard sparks old mystery
Mrs. Bill Roy of near Thalon reported to sheriff's deputies that two men towed away a pickup from her yard. She said the truck was not hers and an old school bus with supplies was also left when the house was wired seven years ago.
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Bill Roy
Thalon
Two Held In Robbery Near Earth Farm
Lamb County Sheriff says Noe Garcia and William Perez, both held on armed robbery charges in the Earth area, identified by victim Walter Stout as the assailants who beat him and stole 2800 dollars. Suspects arrested in Tahoka after a daytime robbery, with a getaway car linked by witnesses.
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Avalanche Journal
Artel
Lamb County
Earth
Noe Garcia
William Perez
Dick Dyer
Dyer
Walter Stout
Stout
Tahoka
Beeville
Norvell Redwipe
Khrushchev Speech Adds Little New Signals to Geneva Talks
Khrushchev’s Kremlin address drew little new detail about a global rocket plan. Experts view the satellite display as a pressure move aimed at Geneva disarmament negotiators and nonaligned nations, with U S agencies awaiting the full text.
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Associated Frese
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
U. S
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Moscow
Woman Survives 40 Minutes in Electrically Charged Bathtub
Jeshastin Washington wife Mrs Wayne Simpson endured a sunlamp powered electrocution that left her unable to move as the lamp fell into the tub. After 40 minutes her husband returned and shut off the supply draining the water. Doctors called it miraculous she survived.
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Wayne Simpson
Simpson
Mrs. Simpson
Wayne
Docks Idle As West Coast Shipping Strike Expands
A Friday strike idles docks from San Francisco to Los Angeles with fruit exporters urging President Kennedy to intervene. Sailors were ordered ashore to picket Pacific Maritime Association ships from Honolulu to New York as a federal conciliation panel dissolved after trying since February 27 to unite shipowners and unions on pay.
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San Francisco
Weather Update for Abilene Four-Hour Precipitation
A brief weather note reports four hours of precipitation around Abilene with ongoing moisture and light to moderate rain. Local observers indicate clouds linger over the region with chances of showers continuing into the afternoon.
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