Twisters Hit Plainview Area Damaging Property
A severe tornado outbreak near Plainview and Hale Center left two people injured in a pickup crash and damaged farms, barns, and power lines. DPS reported extensive debris, downed poles, shattered windows, and widespread warnings as crews tracked funnel clouds across the South Plains and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Plainview
Plainview
C. R. Stegall
John Phillips
Texas
Carl Mullins
Hale Center
Mullins
U. S. 87
Barrow Ditch
Sgt
Thurman Keffer
DPS
Plainview General Hospital
Robert S. Block
Doyle Lee Glidewell
Edmonson
Keffer
Block
Department of Public Safety
Williams Pump Co
Wesley Davis
Max Bogart
Jack Rhine
Six Point
DeLeon
Gene Browning
Charlie Walker
T. C. Ingram
4Th St
West Plainview
Beech Street
Barry Sanders
Beech St
Avalanche Journal
Ruby Jiminez
Civil Defense
Billy Ward
Pepperdine Fund Drive Slated by Union Leaders
In Fresno California a group of union leaders plan to raise one million dollars for Pepperdine College after the school refused a grant tied to awarding an honorary degree. J E Batten secretary of Chemical Workers Local 97 commented on the stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Pepperdine College
J. E. Batten
Chemical Workers Local 97
Pepperdine
Saudi girl in Houston hospital faces possible heart surgery
A 17 year old Saudi Arabian girl, Samira Commesani, was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Houston for examinations to determine if heart surgery will be attempted by Dr. Michael DeBakey. She is accompanied by her father Suleiman Gommesani, a customs employee in Arabia, with fares paid by the Arabian government.
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Houston
Methodist Hospital
Samira Commesani
Michael DeBakey
Samira
Suleiman Gommesani
Arabia
Local births listed from West Texas to Slaton
Congratulations to numerous families across West Texas for newborns. The notices name parents such as Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elam and others, with each child’s weight and birth time at Lauf Clinic, Highland Hospital or Methodist Hospital, and fathers' occupations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Elam
Ave. D
West Texas Hospital
Plains Co-op Oil Mill
Joe Alfred Gonzales
Ave. W
Porter Clinic Hospital
Lubbock Auto Co
Charles Pool
Muleshoe
Methodist Hospital
J. Hitt. Slaton
Nunn Electric Supply Corp
Few Significant Changes In Local Primary Canvasss
Elmer Tarbox posts a 1 699 vote lead over Gillespie in the June 7 runoff for state representative Place 2 after official canvass by the Democratic County Executive Committee. The tally shows Tarbox 5 704 Gillespie 4 025 and Denzel Bevers 2 144 with other races updated including Brazell over Brown 1 335 to 1 095 and Republican results at party HQs.
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Elmer Tarbox
Bill Gillespie
Tarbox
Democratic County Executive Committee
Gillespie
Denzil Bevers
Brazell
Alton Brazell
D. J
Buzz) Brown
Brown
Syd Moore
Bill Mendee
Republican County Executive Committee
Clubwomen Outlined Values and Portability of Beauty
The speaker defined beauty as a mix of external appearance and inner virtue, stressing three attitudes toward beauty and noting rarity and individuality. She urged portability to adapt to changing family needs, comparing frontier wives to gems. Afternoon events include lectures by Delbert Downing and Marian Ross, awards, a publicity workshop, and a film screening followed by a dinner and officer installation.
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Midland
Delbert Downing
Marian Ross
New York City
Motion Picture Association of America
Shell Oil Company
Hallmark
Ruby Clayton McKee
The
Dallas Morning News
Pauline, Naylor
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Mildren Young
Dallas Times Herald
Freda McVay
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Texas seeks inclusion in Pacific Northwest water study plan
West Texas lawmakers push to join a water needs study extending to 2010, arguing the plan should include their state despite opposition from Pacific Northwest officials. Rep. Mahon and Rep. Hosmer debated funding and fairness while stressing Texas would not seek a free ride.
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Velopment Board
Panhandle
South Plains
West Texas
Craig Hosmer
Calif
Mahon
Hosmer
Congress
Rogers
Washington
Morris Udall
D-Ariz
Connally
Texas
Udall
Laurence Burton
Rutah
Richard White
el Paso
East Texas
Gulf
Ahlquist
G. L. Crookham Jr
Idaho Water Resource Board
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Donel J. Lane
Eugene
Oregon Water Resources Board
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Colorado
Pacific Northwest
Lane
Colorado Basin
High Plains
Reclamation Subcommittee
United States
Texas Panhandle
House Appropriations Committee
Abilene
el Paso i
Columbia Basin
Missouri River
Mississippi
al Ullman
D-Ore
Columbia River
Ullman
Central Arizona
Congress votes on housing subsidies and water import plans
Lawmakers clash over a rental housing program with private builder incentives and a 500,000 poor waiting claim. Debates cover minority access, city restrictions, and the Mohole project while water import and diversion studies draw staunch regional support and opposition.
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Sidney R. Yates
D-Ii
Appropriations Committee
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Congress
Europe farming accord funds big common market boost
European Common Market ministers reached a billion-dollar farming financing accord after 36 hours of bargaining. A tariff free customs union will start July 1 1968 with staged tariff removals and a 285 million dollar annual modernization fund pegged, showing the bloc’s largest step in three years. Germany 61.2 percent Italy 20.3 France 52 percent Luxembourg 0.2 Holland 8.2 Belgium 8.1 percent are set to contribute to the fund.
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Brussels
UPI
Germany
Italy
France
Luxembourg
Holland
Belgium
California Divorce Sought By Kim Novak
Kim Novak seeks a divorce from actor Richard Johnson after a marriage of just over a year. A suit with charges of extreme cruelty was filed April 22 in Monterey County with Marilyn Pauline Johnson named as plaintiff. Novak, a Carmel resident, was not available for comment while Johnson headed to the Cannes Film Festival.
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Hollywood
UPI
Kim Novak
Richard Johnson
Monterey County
Calif
Marilyn Pauline Johnson
Marilyn Pauline Novak
Carmel
Johnson
Miss Novak
Salinas
Market Slide Reflects Auto Cuts and Policy Talks
The market extended losses as GM and Ford announced further production cuts this month. Analysts cited Fed chair Martin and adviser Ackley warnings, rising rates, and investor shifts to bonds, while positives included strong near term profits and a solid economy.
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William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Gardner Ackley
Johnson
Viet Nam
Eldon A. Grimm
Walston & Co
Wall Street
William R. White
Hornblower &Weeks-Hemphill Noyes
New York Stock Exchange
General Motors
Ford Motor
Chrysler
Boeing
Douglas
Zenith
Anaconida
DuPont
Xerox
Rail Strike Protest Over Drinking At Lunch
Harold J. Pryor of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says the work stoppage protests drinking on duty by railroad officials. The union alleges a rule violation and labels the issue black mail, while the railroad claims drinking was limited to nonoperating personnel and not covered by the non drinking rule.
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Harold J. Pryor
The
Brotherhood of Railroad
Pryor
Railroad
Thomas Goodfellow
LIRR
Coldest late-season crop freeze hits region
Crops faced record low temperatures with some suburbs recording 19 degrees as a cold snap lingered. A warming front from northerly winds was forecast to reach the Great Plains and spread across the Midwest by Wednesday with little relief expected until Thursday. Frost or freeze alerts covered twenty two eastern states overnight with warnings extending into Alabama Georgia and northern South Carolina. An English school in London offered evening classes in entertaining at home.
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West Texas
South Plains
Denver City
Brownfield
Gomez
West Point
Terry County
Kansas
Amherst
Anton
Bovina
Dimmitt
Levelland
Tulsa
Red River Valley
Henrietta
Nebraska Panhandle
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Imperial
Topeka
Kkan
Wyoming
Colorado
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Midwest
Great Plains
Alabama
Georgia Mountains
South Carolina
Vatican Plans Five Day Polish Millennium Celebrations
The Vatican announced a five day program to mark Poland's millennium of Christianity. The events begin with a Mass by Carlo Cardinal Confaloniere, rector of Polish Roman Catholic missions abroad, and conclude with a Sunday Mass by Pope Paul VI at St. Peter's Basilica.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Poland
Carlo Cardinal Confaloniieri
Vatican Curia
Pope Paul VI
St. Peter’s Basilica
Miss Minelli Plans to Wed Australian in Fall
Liza Minelli, 20, daughter of Judy Garland, plans to marry in the fall to Peter Allen, 22, an Australian lyric writer and composer. The wedding is expected in California in September, as her agent announced, while she performs in a cabaret at London's Talk of the Town.
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London
Liza Mincli
Judy Garland
Miss Minelli
Peter Allen
California
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Plains
CIA
Abernathy
Andrews
Anton Tobe
My Cotton Center
Costston
Denver Elly St
Dimooltt
Moydada
Latmesas Muy Tevelland
Lackney
Lavington
Lubbock
Petersburg
North Plainview
AMD
Snyder i
Tahoha
Bulla Rue
Union Community
Jim Coker
Manuel Ramon
Beech
Lauf Clinic
Central Body Works
Lillian Cruse
James Ross
James L. Medders
Sith St
Highland Hospital
Simmons Machine & Tool Co
Wendell R. Moore
46Th St
Ben E. Keith Co
John Connally
Johnnie Mae Hackworth
Stanley Woods
Hackworth
Woods
Bill Hollowell
Preston Smith
Hollowell
Carr
U.S. Senate
Waggoner Carr
John Willoughby
Galloway Calhoun
Franklin Spears
Crawford Martin
Calhoun
Spears
Martin
Fred Williams
Jerry Sadler
Williams
Paul
Haring
P. S. Ervin
Byron Tunnell
Ervin
Tunnell
McDonald
Court of Criminal Appeals
W. T. McDonald
Jack Onion
Reed Quilliam
N. J. Murdock
Quilliam
James Williams
Roy Boyd
Boyd
Hub O’neal
Jane Reiger
O'Neal
Precinct
George Green
H. B. Griffith
Jim L. Benton
Benton
Clubwomen
Edward P. Boland
Dmass
House
Charles R. Jonas
RNC
Glenn R. Davis
R-Wis
Paul A. Fine
Fine
Boland
Russia
Selective Service System
Veterans Administration
Europe
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
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