Horse Race Debate Highlights Texas Prospects
Proponents claim horse racing could boost state revenue, citing Illinois population and potential tracks while opponents warn about betting dangers. A color film linked racing to figures like Hoover and Rockefeller as a legislative hearing featured tense exchanges and limited applause.
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Conroe
Jake Johnson
San Antonio
TRA
FBI
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Queen Elizabeth
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John Hay Whitney
Dick Cory
Victoria
Br. Johnson
LaPrvor
Tex
High Court Rejects Motive in Partial Plant Closings
The Supreme Court ruled that employers may shut an entire business for any reason, but cannot close part of a single operation if the motive is to chill unionism. Partial closings count as an unfair labor practice when aimed at weakening remaining plants. The decision affirmed management's right to liquidation but limited it in multi-plant scenarios, affecting the Darlington textile dispute and union strategy.
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Union
NLRE
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Isaue
Harlan
New York
William Pollack
Textile Workers Union
Bomb Hits U S Embassy in Saigon Wounding Officials
A terrorist blast shattered the Saigon embassy injuring deputy chief Robert Miller and others as desks overturned and windows blew out. Vietnamese and American responders sealed the area while investigators examined a nearby sedan linked to the attack and foiled plot details surfaced from prior days.
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Richard Cleveland
Wayne
Miller
Cleveland
Lele Goodwin
Pekin, T
Sutton
Goodwin
Medical School Bill Sparks Tex Tech Floor Clash
Amarillo figures Med School bill triggers sharp debate as Parsley moves to concur with Senate amendments. Knapp warns removal of student cap could flood the state with 500 or more entrants and questions the siting on campus. Debate cites the coordinating board’s authority and the fate of the Tech campus in Lubbock. The bill aims for governor’s signature after a two hour House hearing and rapid finalization.
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Parsier
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Senate
Knapp
Preston Smith Memorial Hospital
Charles Herring
Austin
Tech
Lubbock
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Sen
Blanchard
H. J
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Raleigh Brown
Abilene
Gene Hendryx
Alpine
Ralph Wayne
Plainview
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Commission On Higher Education
Reed Quilliam
Delwin Jones
Lubbeck
Amarillo Group
Senate Education Committee
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Boy Killed As Plane Hits Home In Ohio
Four people injured and a four year old boy killed when a small twin engine Cesena crashed into a home near Lost Nation Airport in Menton Ohio and set the house ablaze. The boy was Bobby Bowman son of Mr and Mrs Harry Bowman. The pilot and two passengers were taken to Lake County Memorial Hospital West in Willoughby.
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Menton
API
Lost Nation
Bobby Bowman
Harry Bowman
Cesena
Lake County Memorial Hospital
Willoughby
Avalanche buries bus killing six workers in Austria
An avalanche swept down a mountain in East Tyrol burying a workers' bus used to transport laborers to a Felbertauern tunnel project. Police report six dead and seven injured among eighteen aboard.
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Austria
Tyrol
Felbertauern Mountains
Astronauts Honored In New York Welcome Parade
Grissom and fellow astronauts were greeted by rain soaked crowds, riding through Broadway ticker tape showers to a theater standing ovation after landing at LaGuardia. Mayor Wagner received them at City Hall while their wives and families joined the celebration. They declined another parade but will attend an airport reception in Houston with five high school bands.
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Florida
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Humphrey
Bowling Green
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City Hall
Robert F.wagner
Houston
Gemini Schedule Seven Day Mission For Conner Cooper
Next seven day mission planned by L Gordon Cooper and Charles Pete Conrad for early fall. Officials say detailed checks on the Molly Brown capsule will finish in about a month with spacecraft in excellent shape. Minor issues cited include Grissom and Young undershooting landing area by roughly 60 miles.
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Charles F Pete Conrad
Grissom
Young
Attendant Thwarts Hold Up At Lib Hock Imported Cars
A salesman at Lib Hock Imported Cars on 77 Ave X Bristow restrained a would be robber who demanded money. The driver claimed urgency as he rifled drawers while the beagle watched, ending the incident without a theft.
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Garcia
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Robbery At Caprock Hotel Ends After Knife Encounter
In a tense episode at the Caprock Hotel, a teen and a young woman witnessed a knife wielding robber threaten station staff. Garcia and manager Minjarez fought the assailant with a tire tool, the weapon slipped, and the suspect chased along Avenue X before fleeing with a teammate who fled in a car.
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Caprock Hotel
Iran
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Pal
Robberies mark third station holdup in as many days
Early Saturday two Latin men held up King's Service Station at 1905 Clovis Road taking 53.70 at knifepoint while a Negro man robbed Walt's Service Station at 506 18th Street of 50. Two earlier holdups occurred at Walt's Station on 11th Street and at Neugent's Seven to Eleven Grocery on Ave Q. The text also describes a severe East Texas storm bringing rain, flooding near Henderson and Tyler, and notes on the nightmarish weather with thunder and lightning.
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Clovis Road
Walt's
18Th St
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Ave. Q
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Oak Cliff
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Rail Crash Near Elm Park Kills Two In England
A crowded commuter train derailed near Elm Park England killing at least two and injuring fifteen. Eleven ambulances, twelve of the injured hospitalized, and eight carriages reported overturned as three coaches toppled. The 7:10 p.m. Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness service failed after hitting an object on tracks under Rainhally Bridge.
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England
UPI
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Shoe-Buryness
Here
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Justice Suspended By Oklahoma Senate
Oklahoma City Oklahoma University Press BRI UPI reports the Oklahoma Senate suspended Supreme Court Justice N B Konhsen after House impeachment charges alleging he took $10000 for favorable decisions. Johnson had said he would suspend himself pending Senate trial.
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UPI
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New Yorkers Arrested Over Half‑Million Magnin Jewelry Heist
Three New Yorkers, two men and a woman, were arrested at Los Angeles airport while boarding a plane to Bermuda. They were questioned by police about the half‑million dollar Magnin Jewelry robbery as the inquiry continued.
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UPI
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