Heavy Rains Shift To Coast Two Men Killed
The storm moved from the northwest to the coast around 4 a.m. with 2.11 inches of rain and soft hail causing few damages. Two men, Garner Eaves 32 of Beaumont and Dan Metinis 56 of Fred, were killed when lightning struck near Fred. Abner Bell 44 of Fred was in critical condition after seeking shelter under a tree. Harville Jr. and John Robert Calloway, both of Fred, were involved in the incident.
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Corpus Christi
Fred
Garner Eaves
Beaumont
Dan Metinis
Abner Bell
Harville Jr
John Robert Calloway
Births and family notices from local hospital
A series of birth announcements lists new babies and parents including Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stephenson with a 7 pounds 10 ounces son at Methodist Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson with a 7 pounds 10 ounces son, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tadlock with a 7 pounds 0 ounces son at Marys Hospital, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kristinek announcing a 7 pounds baby at West Borphal. The father Gaeleman is a farmer. other notices mention families in Lubbock and surrounding areas with details on weight and birth times.
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Mra
Sammy Joe Sima
Jamer
Thompvon
M. Methodist Hospital
Texas Tech
Gabe
Saturn
EE East Defener En Tre Arverts ‘Supply’ Co
Carl Tadlock
Mary's ‘Hospital
Galeeman
Labbock Wholesale Florists
Merc
Dimas Vargas Jr. Wolt
Daushier
Ernest Kristinek
Weather and ceremony details in Lubbock service stories
The report includes a Lubbock area senior service with music by the Tom S. Lubbock orchestra and a girls sextet performing religious pieces, plus a separate weather summary noting a deep trough of cold air causing South Texas rains. It lists rain totals from Annaville to Refugio, and temperatures across Texas with Ranchos and Coastal areas mentioned.
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Neches
Here
Tyler County
Weather Bureau
Texas
Tyler
Austin
del Rio
Woo
College Station
Lufkin
Pecos Valley
Galveston
Rio Grande Valley
Annaville
Refugio
Linton
Hempstead
Yoakum
Los Angeles
Cuero
Harlingen
Midway
San Saba
Edray
Halfettsville
Madisonville
Indian Gap
Victoria
Byrd
Uvalde
Tennyson
Jefferson
Movice
Youngsport
Karnes County
Smithville
Conroe
Jarrell
Placid
Belton
Rocport
Knippa
Riverside
Gonzales
Vanderpool
Carrizo Springs
Derby
Taylor
Luling
Pflengerville
Singleton
Ropesville calf-roping injury and Dunbar graduation week
Clarence Hickman 18 was treated for a shoulder injury from a fall during a calf-roping contest in Ropesville and released from St Marys Hospital. A 26-year-old man involved in a reported knife wound declined charges after treatment at West Texas Hospital. The Dunbar High School commencement will feature burglary case details, music by the Dunbar band, soloists, and religious elements, with graduation exercises set for 8 p.m. Friday. About 385 Monterey tEs and 370 Tom Lubbock seniors are slated to receive diplomas, with final grade checks due Tuesday.
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Clarence Hickman
R. R. Hickman
Ropesville
St. Mary's Hospital
Joe Hughes
West Texas Hospital
E. 25Th St
Railroad Lane
Dunbar High
Dunbar
Sheriff's Deputies
D. A
Berlin
Carter Chapel
Haught Farm
Wolfforth
Vivian Cooke
Dunbar Band
Roy Roberts
Choralaires
Dunbar Choral Group
Handel
the Green Cathedral
Hahn
Aline Hughes
Ruby Neil Philips
Bobbie Rafe
Shaw
A. L. Dunn
New Hopetist Church
A. L. Davis
St. Luke Baptist Church
Mendelssohn
Montereytes
Lubbock Munigre Auditorium
Tom Lubbock
Skyscrapers Get Smaller in Central Manhattan Markets
AP dispatch notes shifting real estate scene as Tahman Realty CEO Rob Tuman signals major changes. The report outlines tighter demand, price shifts, and property consolidation affecting noninstitutional investors in New York.
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York
Rob Tuman
Vie
Showers Threaten Cotton Planting On South Plains
Area forecasts warn of showers delaying cotton planting and potential replanting after heavy rain and hail. A weather line from New Mexico weakened as it moved into West Texas late Saturday, with Hobbs and Clovis reporting hard showers, while skies remained overcast in the region.
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South Plains
Clovis
School Bus Plunges Off Cliff In Georgia
A Lumpkin County High School bus carrying 26 students and two teachers slid down a mountain road near Dahlonega, Georgia, overturning on a curve. Eleven people were injured lightly, none seriously, during the spring picnic trip to Vogel State Park. The ninth graders were en route with the group when brakes failed and the vehicle plunged nearly a mile downhill.
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Blairsville
Lumpkin County High School
Dahlonega
Vogel State
Ghost Spurs Woman Search For Money
Manila report states 77 year old Mrs Brigid Latigal claims a $35,000 bank account her late husband left in 1943. She says the ghost of her husband has haunted her for three weeks urging stronger efforts to recover the funds.
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Manila
UPD
Brigids Latigal
Refugee ends life under debt and hunger in Chicago
Hungarian refugee Sandor Torma, 30, died by hanging after severe debt and poverty. A coroner's jury found death by his own action, noting he faced unemployment, medical injury, and insufficient security for his family. His widow Frieda, 26, recalls a life of hunger and 26 cents.
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Aspctated
Chicago
Sandor Torma
Torma
Techni
Frieda
Edith
Susan
United States
Freighter Spreads Seaway Tie Up Traffic
A 442 foot Liberian registered freighter named Andora went aground just east of Snell Lock on the north side of the South Cornwall Channel halting all Seaway traffic. Officials said the severity and duration of the blockage were not yet known as the Inland Waterway remains shut while investigators inspect the grounding.
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Massena
St. Lawrence Seaway
Andora
Snell Lock
South Cornwall Channel
Death barrier expansion along Algerian frontier
The French army begins a second death barrier of mine fields barbed wire and high voltage lines to block Algerian rebels based in Tunisia. The new line runs along the frontier while the older fortification spans five to 50 miles inside Algeria.
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Algiers
Tunisia
Algeria
MOUSE THAT ROARED FILM SPOOF DELIGHTS GENEVA AUDIENCE
West and East diplomats and conference reporters laughed at the Angelo-American satire The Mouse That Roared shown in Geneva. The mock Grand Duchy of Fenwick seeks help from the United States by losing a war, with politicians from Moscow London and New York humorously portrayed. The plot includes a so called Q-bomb mishap and a World Series reference as the tale ends with the bomb harmless.
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Eddy Gilmore
Geneva
United States
Peter Sellers
Grand Duchy of Fenwick
New York
Grand Duchy
Bieri
Moscow
Britain
New York Yankees
Milwaukee Braves
Fenwickians
Texas House weighs sales and corporate taxes in special session
A proposal package targets higher corporation franchise tax on interstate business and increased sales taxes including cigars tobacco and liquor. The plan also cites motor vehicle tax rises, a new natural gas tax, radio TV and cosmetics levies, and a bold 8 percent corporate profits tax to fund education amid Hale Aikin study recommendations.
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Texas
Daniel
George Hinson
Mineola
Hale-Aikin
Hale-Aikin Public School Study Committee
W. L. Ramsey
Beckville
Alonzo Jamison
Denton
Malcolm McGregor
el Paso
Mackerel Released With Tags In Gulf Study
Mackerel are released in the Gulf with small orange tags on their backs, the State Game and Fish Commission said Friday. Fishermen will record the time and place the fish are caught as part of a study of mackerel migratory habits. Extortionists Target In Mexico.
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Austin
UPI
Gulf
State Game and Fish Commission
Red Planes Reported Routine Near Tokyo
A U S Air Force spokesman said routine air activity by North Vietnamese bombers and fighters off the coast of Japan is being tracked by radar. He noted that unless the planes venture closer than before there is no problem, describing the flights as a long-standing routine.
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Kyo
Japan
U. S. Air Force
More Cuban Arms Captured Exiles Target Santo Domingo
UPI reports Cuban exile efforts faced a setback after customs seized a plane load of arms destined for an expeditionary force training in the Dominican Republic for an attack on Fidel Castro. Miami detectives also arrested another Cuban and confiscated an auto load of arms. The roundup, including the Dominican Republic’s Miami consul Augusto Ferrando, disrupted a planned assault timeline and highlighted ongoing arms moves to Santo Domingo.
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Miami
UPI
Dominican Republic
Fidel Castro
Castro
Augusto Ferrando
Santo Domingo
Dormitory Groundbreaking at Lubbock Christian College
Groundbreaking for a new dormitory at Lubbock Christian College named Katie Rogers Hall followed a ceremony with Dr. F W Mattox and Mrs W J Rogers. Funds near $150,000 in bonds funded construction with $10,000 more from the Lubbock Christian College Associates. The project aims to match expansion with a growing campus and anticipates completion by fall.
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Iian
United States
Abilene Christian College
Lubbock School
F. W. Mattox
Lubbock Christian College
W. J. Rogers
9Th St
Mattox
Lubbock Christian College Associates
Myrtle Higgins
Bitls
Lubbock Christian
Ino
Lennis Baker
Lubbock
W. D. Rogers Jr
Miss Bentley
Collegeditorium
Katie Rogers
Butler-Kimmel Co
F. C. Bennett Jr
Princess Margrethe Joins Danish Air Force Cadets
Princess Margrethe, 19, heiress to the Danish throne, signs up with 44 other girls for a summer platoon leader course in the air force women's auxiliary corps.
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Copenhagen
Margrethe
Air Force Women's Auxiliary Corps
Senate Agriculture Committee approves surplus stockpile probe
A six member Senate investigation panel led by Sen Stuart Symington will study the government surplus stockpile and farm policy handling. The group, including Democrats Humphrey Ellender and Proxmire and Republicans Williams Young, targets storage and disposal costs paid to private warehouses amid long standing concerns over pricing and profits.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Agriculture Committee
Stuart Sym
Sweepingington
D-Mo
Nile
Weiderway
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Bert H. Humphrey
Minn
Hereman E. Talmadge
Willam Proxmire
Wis
Milton R. Young
N.D
John J. Williams
Del
Williams
Benson
Piumphrey
Rey
High speed chase ends at dead end on North College avenue
Suspects fled after a car described as matching a pursuit vehicle fled from Lubbock area police near Teen-Age Park on College Avenue. Officers Holleman and Meacham fired shots as the getaway car sped west on Auburn Street and north into Yellowhouse Canyon, ending when the suspects halted at Calata Street.
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Page One
Sheriff's Office
Lubbock
College Avenue
Highway Patrol
North College Avenue
Yellowhouse Canyon
High Holleman
United States
Calaata Etraot
Geneva Talks Steady at Turning Point in Nuclear Pact Effort
Reports from Geneva describe cautious negotiation among the United States Soviet Union Britain and France as they pursue a summit aimed at stopping nuclear weapon tests. Officials note no movement from either side on core Europe problems while confidential exchanges over meals seek to avoid public posturing. If talks stay constructive a summit probability rises, say sources, as the Big Four weigh atmosphere and material progress. William Penn introduced the brewing industry to Pennsylvania.
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Eigenen
Meacham
Holloman
Geneva
West Germany
Russia
West
Europe
Isenhower
Pair of suspects identified after stolen car incident
Officers found 97 dollars on the pair and two bullet holes in the car as the stolen vehicle tied to William Durwood Murdock of 119 Temple. Roseberry brought them to Latchbock police, where they picked out two suspects from a lineup of five. Deputy York said suspects gave only names and addresses. FBI and DPS offense sheets will be obtained.
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William Durwood Murdock
Temple
Roseberry
Latchbock
Bill
York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Texas Department of Public Safety
Sailor Rescued From Bath Tub at German Drugstore
A sailor was rescued from drowning on Saturday in a bath tub at a local druggist in a North Sea town. He had been visiting bars, climbed into the bathroom via a ladder, lay in the tub, and fell asleep as the water overflowed before the druggist noticed the spill.
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Bath Brunsbuettelkoog
Germany
North Sea
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