Two Year Bracero Extension Rejected in House Fight
The House defeated a measure to extend the bracero program two years beyond December 31 1963 amid absentee votes and party lines. Rep Gonzalez derided the plan as perpetuating inequity while Foreman urged need due to farm labor shortages in West Texas. Mahon supported extension with criticism of administrative safeguards.
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Gonzalez
Ed Foreman
Odessa
Mahon
Foreman - Gonzalez
United States
House Agriculture Committee
House
Udall
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Southwest
Foreman
West
Texas
Mexico
Tam
America
Gonalez
W. R. Poage
Waco
Hill
Poage
John Dowdy
Athens
Graham Purcell
Wichita Falls
Ray Roberts
McKinney
Olin Teague
Bryan
Tesans
Lindley Beckworth
Gladewater
Jack Brooks
Beaumont
Wright Patman
Texarkana
Albert Thomas
Houston
Clark Thompson
Galveston
John Young
Corpus Christi
Omar Burleson
Anson
Bob Casy
O. C. Fisher
San Angelo
Joe Kilgore
McAllen
Joe Pool
Dallas
Walter Rogers
Pampa
Heber Thornberry
Austin
Jim Wright
Fort Worth
Kennedy Celebrates 46th Birthday With Gifts
President Kennedy marked his 46th birthday with public gifts including a century-old Civil War carbine and a father of the year award. He spent the day in good health, hosting family gifts in secret and ending with a Sequoia dinner cruise arranged by Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Potomac
White House
Army
Cyrus Vance
Barksdale Hamlett
Boston
Lincolnia
Hamlett
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Three From City Hurt In Mishap
Three persons injured 2.8 miles north of New Deal during a thunder shower. Patsy Ruth Cooley 32 of Lubbock and her 12 year old son Jerry Keith Cooley admitted to West Texas Hospital in fair condition. Benny Lloyd Stidham 30 received emergency treatment. Patrols say Mrs Cooley driven car collided with Stidham as she attempted a left turn into a driveway on U.S. Highway 87 at 6 25 p m.
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New Deal
West Texas Hospital
Patsy
Ruth Cooley
Rt. 3
Lubbock
Jerry Keith Cooley
Benny Lloyd Stidham
39Th St
Two Texans Guilty Of Violating Firearms Act
A Tulsa federal court jury found Johnnie William Henson 33 Odessa and Billy Gene Lambert Brownsville guilty of violating the federal firearms act. They were convicted of using sawed off rifles to shoot locks off pay telephone boxes. Sentencing will be scheduled later.
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Tulsa
Texas
Johnnie William Henson
Odessa
Billy Gene Lambert
Brownsville
Cyprus to get commercial television service soon
Cyprus plans to launch commercial television soon as government officials anticipate a new broadcasting era. The project aims to expand media options and attract investment, with regulatory steps under way to establish the service.
Freeway Project Slowed by Engineer Shortage in Houston
Houston urban engineer A. C. Kyser of the Texas Highway Department says the freeway program is 18 to 24 months behind schedule due to a lack of design engineers. He cites low salaries and a recent Rice University class with only two civil engineers as factors.
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Houston
A. C. Kyser
Texas Highway Department
Kyser
Rice University
School ceremony details for Class of Lubbock district
Exercises at TCI feature Donna King as class secretary giving invocation. Lloyd Honey as principal presents honors, Dr Ishmael Hill assists superintendent presents class, and Dr James M Reynolds, board secretary, presents diplomas.
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Donna King
Lloyd Honey
Ishmael Hill
Lubbock Public Schools
James M. Reynolds
Board of Trustees
Dunbar Graduation Exercises Include Elgar Processional
The Dunbar graduation features Elgars Pomp and Circumstance by Monterey orchestra under Mitchell Zablotsky, with Danse Des Mirlitons, Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring, and Brahms O Lovely May. Speakers include Mattie Rutherford and Ella Faye Moore among others. Diplomas by James R. Cochran. Processional by Dunbar Band Roy Roberts. Invocation follows.
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Elgar
Monterey Orchestra
Mitchell Zablotny
Tschaikowsky
Bach
Marjorie Magness
Monterey Madrigal Singers
Plainsimen of
Monterey
Dunbar
Mattie Rutherford
Joseph Rutherford
Cedar
Henrietta Leggett
Ralph Leggett
E. 26Th St
Ella Faye Moore
Willie Moore
Teak
Ella Faye White
Quincy White
Nat Williams
E. C. Struggs
James R. Cochran
Isaacs
Roy Roberts
Shivers Denies Senate Plans
Former Gov. Allan Shivers says he has made no plans to run for the Senate in 1964 despite a draft movement in Dallas. He notes he has received mail asking him to run and says you never shut the door on such a possibility.
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Fort Worth
Allan Shivers
Dallas
Shivers
VA raises payments to dependents of deceased veterans
About 45 000 children and 30 000 dependent parents will see roughly a 10 percent increase in VA payments under a new law. Increases take effect automatically and will appear in July checks mailed around Aug 1. Affected cases include children from 70 to 77 dollars monthly and larger families with revised rates, plus dependent parents under 1000 dollars annual income. Also note Tokyo report: Japanese technicians will train in Algerian industries.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
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