Legislature Into Finale in Texas War Over Tax and Redistricting
Texas lawmakers return to finish the 59th Legislature amid clashes over a $101 million teacher pay raise, potential cigarette tax hikes to fund the plan, and a furious fight over congressional remapping. Gov. Connally promised guidelines on funding while lawmakers eye District 23 and Webb County in South Texas as key battlegrounds.
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Jay Lanee
Texas
John Connally
Connally
District 23
Abraham Karen
Laredo
Webb County
Washington
Showers Wane After Wide Weather Outbreak Across Plains
Severe weather swept the country with tornadoes in Wyoming Colorado and Louisiana. New England and California escaped rain while the South Plains saw heavy thunderstorms and some hail. Funnels touched Cheyenne and Torrington, Limon suffered farm building destruction, and Fort Morgan endured 75 mph winds. Texas areas faced winds and dust with storms dying out by night. Connally eyes seat amid remap debate and border build up noted in London reporting.
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Carmancne Sonra Sen
Wyoming
Colorado
Louisiana
New England
California
South Plains
New Mexico
Texas
Bledsoe
Morton
Sudan
Lamb County
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
Northwestern
Panhandle
Mermentau
Nebraska
Unique touch to city Precieto drive with home movies
A-Lubbock area feature highlights a unique touch to city life with a drive using home movies. The note appears on page 13 and recalls local media and cultural moments shaping daily life in the Texas Tech region.
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Lubbock
Bec
Robbery in Chicago as Three Teens Prowl Night Scene
Spectators watched a robbery in Chicago's old town as three youths attacked a man and his mother on a porch. The assailants tied up the trio, punched a woman, and escaped with cash and religious medals while bystanders did not intervene. Victim Robert Spinney, 33, and his mother Mildred Spinney, 67, Buffalo, N. Y., pursued aid after the incident. Spinney said the robbers, described as 17 to 20 year old Negroes, took $57 and he bore no bitterness toward the bystanders. He noted the taxi driver refused police assistance.
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Robert J. Spinney
Mildred Spinney
Buffalo
N. Y
Largest Ever City Graduating Class Begins Rites
A record 1514 graduating seniors from four Lubbock high schools attended a joint graduation at Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. Dr. Dudley Strain urged graduates to be engineers of a new highway into the future, emphasizing character and values as they decide their path.
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LEE Sneath
Avalanche-Journal
Btats
Lubbock
Lubbock High School
Monterey High School
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
Dudley Strain
First Christian Church
Dr. Strain
Paul Burns
Shelia Bell
Sherry Huff
Howard Cameron
Monterey High Schools
G. C. Clapp
City of God highway sermon echoes at graduation rites
In a Lubbock area service the speaker cites the road to the city of God as he addresses 91 prospective graduates at Messiah Presbyterian Church. He urges students to resist worldly pressure, guiding them with Romans 12 2 readings as the crowd hears about local high school class sizes and milestones.
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L. Walker
Messiah Presbyterian Church
Phillips
God
Self Styled Doctor Held By Harlem Hospital Interne Impostor
Daniel Bostick a 24 year old man without medical education or license posed as an intern at Harlem Hospital for six weeks treating patients and even setting a broken collarbone. He wore an interne Bostick label before deputy medical superintendent Dr Harry Hershey exposed him leading to charges of practicing medicine without a license and impersonating a doctor. The judge ordered psychiatric observation at Bellevue Hospital. King to Return to Montgomery for two day visit and desegregation push opens.
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the Associated Frees
New York
Daniel Bostick
Harlem Hospital
Bostick
Harry Hershey
Hershey
Bellevue Hospital
Neal P. Bottiglier
$1.9 Million Sought to Aid Spy Mike Search
The state Department asked Congress for 1.9 million dollars to fund a wall smashing search for hidden spy microphones in U S embassies worldwide. Navy Seabees would assist in demolishing interior embassy rooms in 15 countries under the program, as disclosed in testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee.
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Washington
UPD
State Department
U. S
House I
U.S. Navy
Junta Leader Hints At Refusal To Quit
Four Latin American nations and the United States sign a document creating an inter American peace force as 23,000 U.S. Marines and paratroopers join a 1,170 man Brazilian contingent. General Antonio Imbert Barreras hints he will stay in power, urging Caamano followers to surrender, while the OAS names Gen. Panasao Alvin of Brazil to command the mission.
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Yarmanche Journal
Anto Domingo
United States
Imbert
U.S
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Francisca
Caamano Deno
inter-American Force
Jose Mora
Organization of American States
Caamano
Rafael Trujillo
Lambert
OAS
Hugo Panasão Alvin
Brazil
Foreign Aid Battle Opens in House With Showdown Looming
United Press reports the annual foreign aid fight starts on the House floor with a $3.36 billion authorization bill debated over two days and a Tuesday vote planned. The week also features a Senate cloture vote on the voting rights bill and closed hearings on Johnson's $6 billion Social Security and elderly health program.
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United Press
Ashington
House
Congress
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Johnson
House Education and Labor
Sec. of Labor
W. Willard Wirte
Space activity advances with planned Saturn I launch
The Associated Press reports a busy space schedule with Atlas and Saturn I rockets ready for launches. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White are part of missions including the Delta carried Project Fire and an interplanetary monitoring platform. Officials say data from the early flight was excellent as missiles traced a high Atlantic reentry.
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Associated Press
Kennedy
Delta
James McDivitt
Edward White
Atlas
South Atlantic Ocean
Florida
Weather Map Report and Satellite Mission Details
Lubbock area forecast calls for mostly windy conditions with in and out thunder storms. High in the mid 80s, southerly winds 25 to 40 mph, threats of storms today and tonight. Describes Saturn V rocket launch to place Pegasus 2 satellite into orbit to study meteoroid hazards to manned spaceflight. Satellite will unfold two wing panels spanning 98 feet and maneuver through space, launch window between 2 30 am and 8 52 am with potential visibility of the 200 foot exhaust plume from parts of Florida.
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Lubbock
Florida
Sida
Paso
CMG
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