Soviet Leaders Seek Eisenhower Meeting Impasse
The text notes Khrushchev seeking a meeting with Eisenhower and questions why no such talks occurred. White House secretary James DeHagerty says no American approach existed and that Khrushchev might need to initiate. He adds that arranging meetings with De Gaulle and Macmillan happened, but not with the U.S. leader.
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Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Mac ‘Millan
James de Hagerty
Adenauer
Germany
West Berlin
Bonn
Hagerty
Hope Held Out For A Test Ban Pact At Summit
Paris AP report notes Eisenhower could strike a bargain with Khrushchev on a nuclear test ban at the summit with Macmillan. A treaty would curb above ground fallout and establish new control posts and inspectors, but may leave the Soviet Union free to pursue underground weapons. Pros and cons split officials.
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Paris
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Ike
Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Geneva
Macmillan Long
Pentagon
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Johnson faction solidifies control of Texas Democratic convention
The state convention delegates favor Lyndon Johnson with a 100 percent loyalty pledge. Liberal groups may challenge the Johnson bloc at the national convention, while Mrs Frankie Randolph and Harris liberals seek a rump convention if rebuffed.
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Harris
Denton
Cas Kimble
Newton
Winker
Dallas
el Paso
Travis
Price Daniel
Frankie Randolph
Houston
Texas
Johnson, Daniel
House
Sam Rayburn
Lyndon Johnson
Blackman
Space race insights as Soviet flight nears manned milestone
American experts analyze the Soviet space mission noting telemetric function and 200 mile altitude while predicting U.S. Mercury plans to orbit a one ton, one man satellite in late 1961. They question safety, reentry challenges, and potential radiation studies as both nations pursue first manned spaceflight.
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Earth
Hagen
Moscow
Tass Agency
Space Agency
United States
Battle of Quebec Fades In Fifteen Minute Clash
A brief engagement known as the Battle of Quebec lasted under fifteen minutes. Key combatants and exact locations are not detailed in the fragment, but the action is described as swift and decisive with rapid developments on the field.
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Quebec
Space ship sighting prompts nationwide naked-eye view
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reported a Soviet space ship will be visible with the naked eye across the United States and other cities this morning for three to four minutes. Times include Houston at 4 23 a m and El Paso 6 19 a m.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
U.S
Smithsonian
Houston
Tex
el Paso
Albuquerque
Denver
Smithsonian Institution
Local Births Announced From West Texas Hospitals
Congratulations to Kenneth and Mrs Walker of 4610-B Belton on the birth of a son weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces at 4 11 am Sunday at West Texas Hospital. Paul Whiteside of 2833 Bates and his wife welcome a daughter 7 pounds 6 ounces at 8 am Sunday at West Texas Hospital. Andrew Kitten of Rt 1 Slaton and his wife welcome a son weight to be confirmed at 4 35 pm Sunday at St Marys Hospital. The father is a farmer.
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Kenneth Walker
Belton
West Texas Hospital
Shook the Co
Paul Whiteside
Bates
Andrew Kitten
Rt. 1
Slaton
St Mary's Hospital
Aarmer
Multiple Fatal Crashes and Drowning Reported Across Texas
A stream of fatal crashes and drownings fills Texas reports from San Antonio to Houston. Victims include Frank Saunders 70 in a San Antonio collision Irene York 39 near Wichita Falls Glynn Kelley 23 and L C Wommack 31 near Clarksville and Jo Nell Richardson 19 stabbed in Baytown. Houston area deaths include three in a Colorado Austin line crash Virgil McCracken 63 and others injured. Drownings include Felix Love 12 and Nathaniel Turknett 11 in Houston bayous and a Nederland drowning Donal Guillot 9 and Gary Clements 13. A Baytown man Jimmie Richardson is charged with murder in the stabbing death of Jo Nell Richardson. A Texas City man John Polinard 28 died by self-inflicted gunshot. Airmarked fire and a Seminole accident claim Thomas Morris 35. A Katy Hospital patient Oscar Wingfield 81 dies after falling from a third floor window.
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Irene York
Henrietta
Wichita Falls
Homer Sebree
Frederick
Okla
Paris
Clarksville
Texas
L.C. ‘Wommack
Glynn Kelley
Delbert Brockway
James Byrd
Robert Hamil
Dallas
James Edward Knox
Manchester
Jo’ Nell Richardson
Baytown
Roy Montgomery
Jimmie L. Richardson
Houston
Colorado
Austin Counties
Joy. Fojt
Midina
Virgil McCracken
Nathaniel Turknett
Pat Higgins
Freer
Corpus Christi
Seminole
Carol Shirley
San Antonio
Texas A&m
Bryan
Herman O. Hughen
Shreveport
Nacogodoches
Thomas M. Morris
U.S. 180
Donal Guillot
Nederland
Gary Clements
Hondo
Oscar Wingfield
Katy
Denison
Justice of the Peace
New Scholarship At Tech Offered By SDX Chapter
The West Texas Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi created a journalism scholarship at Texas Tech. A current grant of 250 dollars and 350 dollars more for a permanent fund were approved at a 6 30 p m meeting at the Johnson House. Funds came from the Gridiron show proceeds and Marshall Formby reported on the Dallas meeting. New officers for 1960 61 were installed with Jerry Hall named president.
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Texas Tech
West Texas
Sigma Delta Chi
Organization of
Johnson House
Texas Sigma Delta Chi
Dallas
Marshall Formby
Plainview
Jerry Hall
Avalanche-Journal
SDX
43Rd St
Professional Journalism Society
Society
Wallace Garets
Texas Tech Journalism Department
Henry Mathews
Neil Vanzandt
Seagraves
Gaines County
Hall
Bill Kalb
Homer Steen
Floydada
Floydada Hesperian
Tanner Laine
Rockefeller May Be Favorite Son Candidate
The New York Republican delegation debates whether Governor Nelson A Rockefeller should be carried as a favorite son at the GOP convention. L Judson Morhouse says Rockefeller could be considered, though not active, with the delegation to meet June 14 to decide whether to go uncommitted. Nixon may enter North Dakota senate race. Kennedy and Symington vie in Oregon.
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Associated Press
New York State
Nelson A. Rockefeller
L. Judson Morhouse
New York
Rockefeller
Morhouse
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Chicago
Nixon
North Dakota
Senate
John E. Davis
Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Kennedy
Hot Springs
Sen
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Maryland
Oregon
Tuesay
Robert F. Kennedy
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Symington
Harry S. Truman
Wayne Morse
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Adlai
Adlai Stevenson
West Virginia
William Blair
Stevenson
Blair
Severe thundershowers hit Texas and Southland area
A thundershower across the Southland produced brief power outages near Carrizo Springs and light hail in places. Rain fell in Wichita Falls and the Junction San Angelo corridor with signs blown down and telephone outages reported east of Southland.
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Southland
Hubert Taylor
Carrizo Springs
Texas
Junction-San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Bullet Hits Window Wakes Woman Here
Lula Morgan Sims reported a disturbance at 2204 Elm early Sunday. A .22 caliber bullet pierced her wall and dresser mirror, traveled into the room and bed where her children slept, after a crash and argument outside.
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Lula Morgan Sims
Elm
Father of Medicine Benjamin Rush Opens 1786 Free Clinic
Benjamin Rush, dubbed the father of American medicine, founded the first free dispensary in the United States in 1786, creating a pioneering clinic model for public health access.
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Benjamin Rush
United States
UT Regents OK 42.4 Million Budget for Year
The University of Texas regents approved a 42,398,781 dollar budget for the new fiscal year starting Sept 1 at a two day Galveston meeting. They did not act on a request from a San Antonio citizens committee to seek 100,000 dollars from the Legislature for a UT medical branch study. The plan lists allocations for Austin main university, Galveston medical branch, Dallas medical school, Houston medical programs, and related administration.
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Galveston
University of Texas
San Antonio
University of Texas Medical
Central Administration
Main University
Austin
Texas Western College
el Paso
Stedical
Southwestern Medical School
Dallas
Houston
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Graduate School of Medicine
Medical Center
Sherman Parade Stopped by Puerto Rican Spanish Parade
In New York City a Civil War ceremony near Central Park was drowned out by bands and floats from the annual United Puerto Rican Spanish parade. About 100 mourners heard Agnes Hahn speak as public address systems failed and spectators moved through the Sherman statue.
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New York
Georgia
William Tecumseh Sherman
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Sherman
Agnes Hahn
Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Maj
William F. Bruckel
Sons of Union Veterans of the
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Johnson
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America
Ihe
Macmillan
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Heinrich von Brentano
Christian A. Herter
von. Brentano
Berlin
West Germany
Francis G. Powers
Pinson Drug
Charles Graves
Frank ‘Saunders
Tech
ARMY
Yuma
Ariz
She Electronics Proving Ground
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