Heavy Downpours Strain Lubbock Brownfield Area
Weather caused widespread flooding in the Lubbock Brownfield region. Evacuations were ordered from Negro town areas and Oak Grove in Northeast Brownfield. Water depths reached 2 to 6 feet, with 5 feet in Loop and 3 to 6 in low areas near Union. National Guardsmen assisted, assessing routes and potential disaster alert.
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New Oak Grove
Brownfield
Loop
Union
Highway 380
National
Six Inches Heavy Rains Flood North Texas Areas
A Weather Bureau report notes up to six inches of rain in northern Texas causing flash floods in Abilene and Haskell. A tornado touched down near Abilene at Tye, destroying a building while rivers and creeks overflowed, and several towns reported flooded streets and property damage.
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Associated Press
Texas
Abilene
Haskell
Weather Bureau
Tye
Rice Springs
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Red River
Junction
Novice
Brownwood
Baird
Shield
Winters
Memphis
Canadian
Scranton
Seymour
Shamrock
Muenster
Electra
Spearman
Springtown
Follett
Allison
Bowtie
Miami
Highway Patrol
U.S. 62
Meadow
FM 211
Lakeview
Seagraves
Wellman
Denver City
Lubbock
Slaton
Tohoka
Plains
At & P.m
Aare
Plains-Brownfield
Sundown
iMorton
Littlefield
Levelland
Amherst
Sudan
Anton
Mule
Abernathy
Shallowater
Lubbock Municipal
Idalou
Croshvton
New Mexico
Wreck Injures Driver After Street Collision
A fiery rear end crash on 19th Street involved Webb and Fowler. Webb, who cited headlight trouble, was taken to Methodist Hospital in satisfactory condition. Fowler, stopped at a signal, was treated with uncertain hospitalization. Barnett and Fowler described seeing people flee the car as firefighters arrived.
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Barnett
Fowler
Webb
19Th Street
Methodist Hospital
Memorial Day Observances Highlight Civil Rights Stance
Across the nation Memorial Day ceremonies featured President Kennedy's family and Sargent Shriver addressing civil rights. In Hyde Park and Gettysburg Vice President Johnson urged vigilance for peace and justice while honoring crews of the Thresher disaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The Navy confirmed the Thresher wreck was found and photographed in the Atlantic.
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Ato Ft. Banks
Winthrop
Mass
Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Peace Corps
Sargent Shriver
Hyde Park
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gettysburg
Lyndon B. Johnson
Portsmouth
N.H
Naval Shipyard
Thresher
Navy
Atlantic
Four Held in Raid On Ave Q Residence
Police detectives arrested four persons around 8 p m Thursday during a raid on a residence in the 600 block Ave Q. The trio consists of two women a 30 year old Lubbock resident and a 26 year old Odessa resident and two men both 30 from Brownfield and Lubbock. They are being held for investigation on narcotics paraphernalia felony theft and vagrancy charges. Separately Foy Leon Earnest an 18 year old resident of Lubbock says two men forced him into a car on 18th St and College Ave robbed him of his billfold and beat him before they dumped him on 9th St and Ave K.
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Ave. Q
Lubbock
Odessa
Brownfield
Foy Leon Earnest
Rt. 3
18Th St
College Ave
9Th St
Ave. K
Lubbock School Honors Top Students At Graduation
Floyd Honey Monterey principal presented awards for perfect four semester records with ties broken by one year intervals. Named top honors include Karen Kay Nancy Wood Mary Ann Elliott Gloria Brown Cassandra Devlin Cynthia Neill Evitt and Mike Jones. Four senior girls delivered commencement addresses on Go Forth To Strive To Seek To Find.
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Monterey High School
Ieft
Karen Payne
Milton Evitt
Kay Cartwright
Lubbock Public School
Jack Clapp
Lubbock Public Schools
Lubbock
Floyd Honey
Monterey
Honey
Karen Kay
Nancy Wood
Mary Ann Elliott
Gloria Brown
Cassandra Devlin
Cynthia Neill
Evitt
Mike Jones
Ruth Skibell
Miss Skibell
Peggy Stephens
America
Miss Stephens
Nancy Bernard
U.S
Frances Blake
Cornita Blane Brady
Vicki Elaine Brown
Ruth Ellen Bryant
Veleta Kaye Bryant
Cheryl Lynne Burks
Sandra Ann Clegg
Michael Lynn Clubb
Laura Virginia Coil
Patricia Carl Copeland
Sharon Kay Cunningham
Linda Kay Curry
William Thomas Dinwiddie
Martha Virginia Fry
Ann Gasper
Celia Jo Harris
Friz Peter Hodik
David Dwight Horton
Joy Ann Jasper
Jack Carlton Jones
Michael Gregory Kel
Racial unrest softens as integration moves spread
Across cities from Atlanta to New Orleans officials push for desegregation. Chamber of Commerce and local committees urge open service, hotels drop barriers, and schools begin limited integration. In Memphis a court order desegregated pools but closed facilities temporarily. The trend spans Charlotte hotels, Lynchburg drugstores, Norfolk theaters, Ocean City restaurants, Nashville offices, and Kentucky athletics, with statewide Florida gains and New Orleans losing a national convention worth about ten million dollars.
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Congress
Justice Department
Deep South
Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce
Memphis, Tenn
U.S. Supreme Court
Memphis
Charlotte
N.C
South
John R. Cunningham
Davidson College
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Ocean City
Maryland
Nashville
Tenn
Pine Bluff
Ark
Little Rock
University of Kentucky At Lexington
Florida
Miami
Tallahassee
Florida Trend Magazine
New Orleans
American Legion
Miami Beach
Fla
Two Blind Men Charged In Theft
Chicago police charged Larry Nowlin a former student with theft from the Illinois Training School for the Blind. Radios and tape recorders worth 4820 were taken. Nowlin named James Calvin Johnson a fellow student as an accomplice. Johnson was being sought.
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Chicago
Illinos
Larry Nowlin
Nowlin
James Calvin Johnson
Johnson
Kennedy tax plan alts face business group pushback
A Ford group led by Stuart T. Saunders urges prudent restraint on federal spending while backing a sizable Kennedy tax cut. The committee favors partial early effect, disagrees on a 5 percent floor on itemized deductions, and weighs new lower rates for individuals and corporations amid evolving tax-revision talks.
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Congress
White House
Treasury Department
Kennedy
Coleader
Ford Group
Stuart T. Saunders
Norfolk & Western Railway
Executive Committee
New York
Ford and Saunders
Frazer B. Wilde
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co
David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
Sam M. Fleming
Third National Bank
Nashville
William C. Stolk
American Can Co
House
Ways and Means
Missing four in single engine plane on Albuquerque to Lubbock flight
A Cessna 182 carrying Mr. and Mrs. Gerald I. Miles Al Lindsey from Albuquerque to Lubbock with two other men is overdue. Civil Air Patrol plans search after weather delayed operations. The plane N4746D, white and tan, was loaned by Joe Wilson of Wilson Flying Service.
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Albuquerque
Lubbock
Gerald I. Miles
al Lindsey
Harry Ingman
J. C. Ainsworth
Civil Air Patrol
Joe Wilson
Wilson Flying Service
Miles
Wilson
Memorial Day Traffic Toll Forecast for 30 Hours
The Safety Council projected 450 to 550 traffic deaths from 6 p m Wednesday to midnight Sunday, citing fast driving and alcohol impairment. Through four months, 11 630 motor fatalities occurred, about 100 daily. The Associated Press found 98 traffic deaths in a recent 30 hour nonholiday period, plus six boating deaths and nine drownings.
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The
Safety Council
Council
Associated Press
Weather Bureau faces phone delays during tornado alerts
Weather Bureau in Lubbock struggles as many residents call during severe alerts. Weathermen must preserve minutes to pinpoint tornadoes, so they refuse phone information requests. The article notes a tornado near Ropesville and citizens’ frustration with jammed lines.
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Ropesville
Weather Bureau
U.S. Weather Bureau
Lubbock
Lubbock Municipal Airport
Harold Frost
Vic Halliburton
H. C
Henry) Snyder
Arthur Walkowiak
David Wheeler
Vin Dunagin
Births List From West Texas Hospital Receives Wider Notice
A sequence of birth announcements from West Texas Hospital records numerous families in Lubbock and area. Listed are parents such as Fred Carol Goldston and Terry Durrett with newborns, weights ranging from 6 to 9 pounds, and times of birth, with occupations noted for fathers. The article ends with a Weather Bureau segment describing local meteorology operations and staff.
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H. C. Snyder
Vic Halliburton
Lubbock Weather Bureau
Lubbock
Fred Carol Goldston
16Th St
West Texas Hospital
Nortex Hide Co
Terry Ray Durrett
Farr
Mroo
Clyde Doris Tavis
Rt D. Lamesa
Mrocard
Wendell Edwin Penns
Baylor
Snowslide Victim Pauline Hudson Recovered in Ouray
In Ouray Colorado the body of 11 year old Pauline May Hudson was found by her uncle Vernon Hudson and grandfather Floyd Hudson after a search that began March 3 when she and family were buried in a massive snowslide.
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Ouray
Colo
UPI
Pauline May Hudson
Colorado State Patrol
Vernon Hudson
Floyd Hudson
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Dyess Air Force Base
City Hall
Dunbar
Charles Edwin Kerr
Reba Kirby
Russell Kirkpatrick
Madeline Lemon
Linda Lee Leutherback
Marvin
George McLarty
Carol Ann McMillan
Barbara Kay Mills
Margaret Ann Moseley
Dolores Gail Muggy
Carole Neel
Barbara Jean Nunn
Lola Darlene Page
Irvin Edward Pasee
Beverly Ray
Gary Lee Rose
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Rita Ann Rowntree
John Ienneth
Saar
Janet Mars Shaughnessy
Landon Keller Smith
Jane Sparks
Ross Lann
Spraching
Melody Fave Stems
Pegi Mianine Stephens
Elizabeth Suzanne Thompson
Bernie Ray Tonray
Dee Royce Wail
Stephen Jay Warshaw
Sandra Gay Wilson
Carol Ann Wood
Carol Ann Youn
Billy Myrl Welch
San Jose
Hancock Mig. Co
Hubert Keith Burkholder
42Nd St
Grigatss Furniture Co
James Metall
8Th St
Goodnight Hospital
Whites Auto Co
Leroy Jones
Date St
Methodiat Hospital
West Texas Compress
Jack McGture
Rt 1
Walter Richardson
20Th St
St. Mary's Hospital
Western Pipe & Steel Coa
Don Brown
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Ds Oan
Modern Electric Co
Richard Bardwell Gilbert
Adrian
Crecensio Sandoval
Rt. 2
Shadowater
Laur Cline
Benito Lopez, O'Donnell
Tal Clinic
James K. Krebbs
Auburn
Methodist
Hasgutal
Kinney Shoes
Caprock
Ding Center
Clyde Browning
Weigting
Yellow Motor Corp
Ronald Els
South Plains Electric Co-Op
Larry Cross
Wesley Byrum
Southwestern Public Service
South Plains
Washington
Weathermen
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