Line Of Stormships Darken Plains Towns With High Winds
Severe storms lashed numerous Texas towns Saturday with strong winds and frequent power disruptions. Rain totals reported near midnight ranged from traces to about .75 inches in communities including Hale Center, Denver City, Dimmitt, Plainview, Sudan, Sundown, Littlefield, Whiteface, Seagraves, and others.
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Denver City
Dimmitt
Earth
Hale’ Center
Littlefield
Plainview
Sudan
Sundown
Whiteface
Whitharral
Amherst
Anton
Abe
Dominion Police
Lubbock
Abernathy
Bovina
Tulia
Orton
Hale Center
Levelland
Friona
Hereford
Edmonson
Weather Bureau
Radio
KFYO
82Nd Street
Quaker ‘Avenue
Amarillo
South Plains
Seminole
Miss Virginia Wendy Dascomb crowned Miss U.S.A. 1969
Virginia US pageant results list Wendy Dascomb of Virginia as Miss U.S.A. 1969 with Mary Verdiana of Vermont as first runnerup and Eva Engle of Carolina, Boykin Harris of Arizona, Troas Kaye Hayes of California among the finalists. The piece also notes storm damage and severe weather across Texas with floods, hail, and power outages affecting Lubbock and surrounding towns.
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Ana Beach
Bond
Virginia
Wendy’ Dascomb
U.S.A
Vermont
Mary ‘Verdiana
Miss
Carolina
Eva Engle
Arizona
Ith ‘Boykin’ Harris
California
Troas Kaye ‘Hayes
Apollo 10 mission dress rehearsal aims for July moon landing
Apollo 10 completes lunar orbit maneuvers under stealthy views and camera scrutiny. Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan report a successful three minute engine burn on the moon’s far side and anticipate a July lunar landing by Armstrong and Aldrin.
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Moon
Dio
Stafford
Earth
Houston
Joe‘Engle
Neil.a. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin
Cernan
iStafford
Texas lawmakers push bills on education and public policy
Texas lawmakers advanced measures to fund new state universities in Midland Odessa Corpus Christi and Texarkana with limited programs. They also sought free tuition for low income top half graduates and broadened voter lists for jury selection while approving alcohol sales extensions and dog vaccination rules.
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Iit
Dallas
Texas
House
Senate
John Hannah
Longview
Midland-Odessa
Corpus Christi
Texarkana
San Antonio
Senate State Affairs Committee
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
Jack Strong
Schwartz
Strong
Sen. A. M. Aikin
Paris
Texarkana College
Religious Rites Due for 1856 Lubbock Seniors Today
Graduation week opens with 1801 public school seniors and 55 from two private schools in Lubbock. Dr. Dudley Strain will deliver the commencement sermon on a multiple choice religion. Joe Burks selects As A Man Thinketh for Lubbock Christian High graduation at Monterey Church of Christ at 2 30 p.m.
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Dudley Strain
First Christian Church
Joe Burks
New Lubbock State School
Lubbock
Christ the King High School
Christ the King Church
James E. Fitzgerald
Hubert Halfmann
St. Elizabeth Catholic Church
Lawrence de Falco
Amarillo
Catholic Church
Robert E. Brierly
St. Anthony's Hospital
Nat Williams
Howard Price
Coronado
George Scott
Dunbar
Clan [Rice
Estacado
E. C. Leslie
Monterey High
Lubbock High
Coronado High
Municipal Coliseum
Dunbar High
Estacedo
St. Elizabeth's
St. Christopher's
TTU Bill Sparks House Action Amid Graduation Ceremonies
House proceedings feature a split voice vote on the TTU measure with a second reading approval and upcoming final passage. The bill faces a Senate path, using a suspension rule to bring it up, while Christ the King High School and five area schools prepare graduations and related ceremonies with clergy participants and student leaders.
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Ben Barnes
Senate
Gus. Mutscher
House-Senate
Met
Texas Technological College At
Lubbock
Texas Tech University
Jones
House
TTU
Tech
State Affairs Committee
Hunt Indian Relics and Caddo Artifacts Unearthed by Family
Ellard family digs along streams in East Texas seeking Caddo settlements. They find home rings, postholes, charcoal, pottery fragments, and weapons from petrified wood. Pottery pieces are cleaned by Melissa and Marianne, 16 and 14, who fit shards together.
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Ellard
West
Texas
Marshall
Melissa
Marianne
Births Noted At Hospitals With Several Families
Mrs Derrell Butcher announces a son born at 7 20 am at Methodist Hospital weighing bands ounces. The father is aided by Broadview Steel Co and Mrs Joaquin Rodriguez of Ka frei. A daughter recorded at 6 17 am at Saturday bhodist Hospital weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces. father supported by American Iron and Bleel Co and Mrs Larry Wilson of 2301. Another birth listed with a daughter 8 49 tied at Pa ada How Moh wine Pi iy ne Hinance. Joe Esaulvel of 2908 2nd eat ties ben ot at a fe date a 1st Hospital. The father, ta at Bunge Betoot Preaching. Mrs Roy Garcia of Wilson on a Horpital. The father is a farmer.
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Derrell Butcher
Methodist Hospital
Broadview Bteel Co
Joaquin Rodreguez
Ka Frei
American Iron and Bleel Co
Larry Wilson
Ada
Joe Esaulvel
Che Father
Mitzi Green 1930s Star Dies at 48 in California
Famed child actress Mitzi Green died Saturday at her Huntington Harbour home after a cancer battle. She was 48, wife of director Joseph Pevney, and mother of four. Green started on stage in New York at age four, signed a movie contract at nine, and later returned as an adult nightclub performer.
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Huntington Harbour
Calif
UPI
Mitzi Green
Miss Green
Joseph Pevney
New ‘York
Gus Edwards
Eccentric Plan for Funeral Fund Seeks Tax Exempt Status
Nelms 61 outlines a memorial fund to host parties funded by a $5 to $10 million trust. He plans soft drinks for non drinkers and varied party lengths until funds are exhausted. He envisions a public, invitation and open event style with a brief religious segment and a single funeral song.
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Nelms
Aclaywer
Swiss team conquers Mt Tukuche in a single day
A five member Swiss mountaineering group led by Georges Hartmann reports conquering 22 686 foot Mt Tukuche in western Nepal twice in one day. The expedition underscores their bold ascent as a landmark feat. Grand Coulee Dam in Washington is described as built from over 100 million cubic yards of concrete.
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Katmandu
Nepal
UPI
Tukuche
Georges ‘Hartmann
Grand Coulee Dam
Washington
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Dorothy ‘Dickett
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U. S.A
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Colorado
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One Hitsyoe
New Mexico
Margaret Gard
York
Rosemary Hradek
Hawaii
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Deborah Giberson
Connecticut
Elizabeth Vanderman
New
Clovis
Hobbs
Space
South Pacific
USS Princeton
Pago Pago
Snoopy
Lunar
Rascal
Snoop
Tom
Pers
Morris Sheats
Trinity Church
E. D. Toines
St. John Baptist Church
Wendy. Dascomb
Hunt Indian Relics
Roy Garcia
Wilson
H. D. Ellard
Oye Camil
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