Senate panel passes civil rights bill after 15 changes
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the House passed civil rights bill after 15 changes, including a weakening of the federal voting referee plan. Lawmakers aimed to finish action by midnight, completing the work about two and a half hours early.
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Warren Duffee Ashington
UPI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Kefauver
House
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Kefauver Lee
Murderers Get Death in Clutter Family Slaying
Ex convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were found guilty of first degree murder in the November slaying of four members of the Clutter family in Garden City Kansas. The jury sentenced them to death by hanging after less than two hours of deliberation. The victims were Herbert Clutter his wife Bonnie daughter Nancy and son Kenyon. The men confessed the murders aimed to wipe out witnesses to a robbery that yielded $50 cash a pair of binoculars and a portable radio.
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Garden City
Kan
Richard Eugene Hickock
Perry Edward Smith
Tueseday
Herbert W. Clutter
Hickock
Smith
Clutter
Bonnie
Nancy
Kenyon
W. P. Bryant
Tate
Harrison Smith
Arthur Fleming
Eisenhower and Macmillan back short underground test ban
The United States and Britain accepted a plan for a short term underground test ban if the Soviet Union agrees to a treaty with on site inspections for larger blasts. Eisenhower and Macmillan announced the proposal at Camp David after two days of strategy talks and said a signed accord could come within 90 days pending Soviet response.
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John Scaliettysburg
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Camp David
Maryland Mountains
Here
Macmillan
Eisenhower-Macmillan
Escaped murderer linked to Coors case tops FBI list
Joseph Corbett Jr., an escaped killer, was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list amid questions about his possible connection to Adolph Coors III's disappearance. Corbett moved under an assumed name in Denver and fled Feb 10 after Coors vanished Feb 9 near his home. The case drew flood and storm news across the Midwest with severe weather threats and disaster aid declarations.
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United Press International
Enver
Adolph Coors III
FBI
Joseph Corbett Jr
Denver
Coors
Washington
Corbett
West
Eugene Merys
Walter Osborne
California
Chino
Coors Home
Atlantic City
N.J
University of Washington
University of California
San Rafael
Calif
Glendale
Los Angeles
Merys
Osborne
University of Colorado
Boulder
The
Rocky Mountain News
Coors Family
Denver Post
Twisters and Hail Hit the South With Flood Threats
Severe weather blasted the South and Midwest with tornadoes and hail. In Sioux City Iowa the city manager ordered mass evacuation of 1700 to 2000 residents from low lying areas as flood waters surged through levees and main streets.
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Floyd River
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Midwest
Peterman
Ala
Cleveland
Miss
Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Elba
Trussville
Pine Hill
Nebraska National Guard
Platte River
Avalanche-Journal
Sioux City
Towa
Saturn In New Successful Test
Washington AP confirms a successful ground test of the Saturn rocket engine. Dr. Wernher von Braun tells the Senate Space Committee the test may accelerate the program by about a year from 1965 to 1964 and that the engine could place 25,000 pounds in Earth orbit or lift 12,000 pounds to the Moon.
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Washington
Wernher von Braun
von Braun
Senate Space Committee
Earth
Moon
South Africa Faces New Walkout as Arrests Spread After Boycott
Police sweep through black neighborhoods rounding up nonwhites after a day of mourning turned violent. Leaders threaten a total work boycott unless passes and discriminatory laws are repealed as South Africa faces UN Security Council scrutiny.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Channesburg
South Africa
Johannesburg
Cape Town
U.N. Security Council
New York
William Jobbe
Pan Africanist Congress
Space Agency eyes landers to listen for life on Mars and Venus
The Space Science Board proposes landing micro phones on Mars and Venus to listen for life as part of nine reports on Moon and planet exploration. Dr Harold C. Urey asserts life on Mars is reasonably possible and may exist, while noting the noise from Martian or Venusian life remains speculative.
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Ashington
UPD
Mars
Venus
Space Science Board
National Academy of Sciences
Moon
Edward R. Dyer
Space Board
Dyer
Harold C. Urey
University of California At
Urey
Just A Breeze Forecast From Lubbock Bureau
Winds under 20 miles an hour are forecast for the South Plains today after 60 mph gusts at 9 40 am. Tuesday saw sustained 40 mph winds with 25 to 30 mph gusts earlier, and a cold front reached Austin. Dusty visibility dropped to a mile but no air whips are expected today and temperatures will hold steady.
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South Plains
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
Austin
Cuban Plotities in Page 1 Editorials and Market Quotation
A fragmented entry from a newspaper section list mentions editorials columns and market quotations across pages with a cryptic note about the concept of a wife believing her lying husband in a comic dictionary context. The text appears more as an index than a narrative item.
Special Grand Jury Urged in Amarillo Crime Probe
Potter County grand jury urged 108th District Court to empanel a special grand jury to investigate crime conditions cited by the Texas House Investigating Committee. The plan proposed special counsel to handle proceedings and prosecute cases arising. Bar group discussed disbarment action against Roy Joe Stevens but adjourned without action. Judge E C Nelson questioned legality of convening a special panel. See GRAND JURY Page
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Avalanche Journal
Marillo
Potter County
Grand Jury
108Th District Court
Texas House
House
Texas Bar Association
Roy Joe Stevens
Man Born Here Faces Execution By Firing Squad
James W. Rodgers, 49, sentenced to death by firing squad for the 1957 murder of Charles Merrifield at Rattlesnake Camp in Utah. He chose the firing squad over hanging as his method of execution after multiple failed appeals. Rodgers, born in Lubbock and long resident of California, spent years in prisons for armed robbery.
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United Press International
Point OF the Mountain
Utah
James W. Rodgers
Charles Merrifield
Uranium Fields
Rodgers
Lubbock
San Bernardino
Calif
Seo
Weather Map Page 12-C Lubbock Summary
General ly fair with little temperature change. Low 35, high 75, variable winds shifting to south in afternoon. Humidity ranges 18 to 59 percent, with no significant precipitation reported. City readings include Abilene 78 57 and Dallas 62, with a few other stations listed for the 24 hours ending midnight.
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Lubbock
Abilene
el Paso
Albuqurque
Houston
Amarillo
Okla City
Dallas
Roswell
Denver
W. Fale
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Terry Kinney
Tanky
National City
South
Saturn
Gaudin
Avalanche-Journal Station
Joseph L. Myler
Arthur Adler
Chicago
Adler
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