Tornado Rips Through Texas Panhandle Town Miami
A tornado tore through Miami Texas shattering homes and a school wall while about 300 students hid in a basement. The storm also produced grapefruit sized hail near Iraan and caused warnings across south central Texas and western Oklahoma.
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Avalanche Journal
Texas Panhandle
Miami
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Hall
Fort Stockton
Sonora
Iraan
Pecos County
Pampa
Department of Public Safety
Ches Meador
Texas leaders await Connally on special session timing
Austin reports say Governor Connally has not told House Speaker Ben Barnes or Lt. Governor Preston Smith when he will call a special session to grant funds and set taxes for the fiscal year beginning September 1. Smith hinted a May 13 date was street talk and both leaders expect the session to occur between now and mid June to raise about 126 million dollars.
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Austin
House
Texas
John Connally
Connally
Preston Smith
Legislative Budget Board
Smith
Lubbock
Ben Barnes
Barnes
Don Yarborough
Senate
Navy replenishment in the Vietnam war zone
A gunner's mate with a red helmet prepares to fire a shot line linking the munitions ship USS Paricutin with USS Mount Katmai during underway replenishment off Vietnam. In Saigon, heavy fighting continues with enemy losses reported and key officers killed as clashes flare near Tan Son Nhut and the city.
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Mount Katmai
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
Cam van Quy
South Vietnamese National Police
Cholon
Luu Kim Cuong
Quy
Nguyen Ngoc Loan
National Police
Warship crew moves munitions in South China Sea
Lt James W Perry reports aboard the USS Paricutin off the Vietnam coast where the munitions ship transfers bombs to an aircraft carrier. The scene describes dangerous daily operations as the ship roams the South China Sea delivering arms for war.
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James W. Perry
Lubbock
Yic
Monty High
Texas Tech
Jim Richardson
A-J
Perry
Yankee
South China Sea
USS Paricutin
Vietnam
United States Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
Mekong Delta
Lee Navy
Water floods mine trapping 25 miners in West Virginia shaft
In Hominy Falls, water broke through a wall in an abandoned coal mine trapping 25 miners, two miles from the shaft opening. Fifteen were reported safe and unharmed, while rescue pumps struggled as air holes were drilled and hopes faded for the ten others.
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Associated Press
Hominy Falls
W. Va
Richardson
Big Sewell
Martha Rudd
Rudd
Johnne Amick
Glen
Budget Board Confused Over Odessa College Earmark
Legislative budget board struggles to finalize earmarked funds for Odessa College. Officials debate allocations amid budget pressures and potential impacts on regional college programs. Other sections note disputes between British and Spanish governments over Gibraltar, highlighting international tension.
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Legislative Budget Board
Odessa College
Gibraltar
House Tax Writers Vote For 10 Billion Increase And 4 Billion Cut
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a package raising taxes by 10 billion dollars and cutting spending by 4 billion, signaling a momentum shift toward a compromise tax bill. Chairman Wilbur Mills joined supporters, reversing his opposition, as the plan heads to conference to reconcile with a Senate version.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Johnson
Mills
Wilbur D. Mills
Mike Mansfield
John W. McCormack
Rep. S. S. Herlong
D-Fla
Conference Committee
Prayer Exhorts Love Forgiveness and Nonjudgment
A reader's prayer pleads for guidance to do God's will and to love enemies. It asks for praying for those who harm and for avoiding judgment or condemnation toward others.
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Heavenly Father
Andrews
Governor Lurleen Wallace dies in sleep in Alabama
Alabama Governor Lurleen B. Wallace died in her sleep at 12:34 a.m. with family and doctors present. Lt. Gov. Albert Brewer, 39, became governor instantly upon her death. Wallace, 41, had been battling abdominal cancer for two years and faced a new setback from a possible abdominal abscess the day before.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lurleen B.wallace
Alabama
Ed Ewing
Hayden to retire from Senate after 57 years in Congress
Arizona's Carl Hayden, age 90, announced in Washington a retirement early next year after nearly 57 years in Congress. President Johnson paid tribute calling him a senator's senator as Hayden endorsed Roy Elson as his successor to keep the work advancing.
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Washington
Carl Hayden
Congress
Arizona Democrat
Johnson
Hayden
Roy Elson
Elson
People of
Arizona
House
Senate
Kennedy Humphrey vie in Indiana and DC primaries
RFK and Humphrey face first primary tests as Indiana and DC vote shapes take on the Democratic race. Kennedy competes in two contests while Humphrey seals his position in one with McCarthy and Branigin noted as shadow frontrunners amid crossfire from Nixon supporters.
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Associated Press
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
New York
Iday
Humphrey
Indiana
Roger D. Branigin
Branigin
Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Branig
Kennedy-Humphrey
District of Columbia
Weather Outlook for Lubbock and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and cooler today with a high in the low to mid 70s and a low tonight in the low 40s. Winds will be from the west to northwest at 20 to 40 mph, diminishing tonight. A 20 percent chance of rain remains overnight.
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Oklahoma
Miami
U.S
Lubbock
Monnday
Pampa
Frank Russell
St. Anthony's Hospital
Amarillo
Russell
Serene de
el Paso
Albuquerque
Houston
Okla City
Dallas
Clovis
Denver
W. Falls
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