Copeland Resigns Post As 121st District Attorney
Levelland special report Morgan Copeland 36 year old district attorney for the West Judicial District resigns effective December 1. He will join Gulf Oil Corp legal department in Midland. Brownfield native Copeland has led the four county South Plains district since 1959. The 11st Judicial District Bar Association endorses E W Boedeker former Hockley County attorney for the vacancy.
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United Fund Sets Final Report Meeting To Reach Goal
The fourth United Fund report meeting is set for noon today at First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall to push the drive over the top. Volunteers may turn in reports at the United Fund office or deliver gifts at agencies and a final noon Friday event aims to hit 519 914.41 with the executive division already over its quota. Copeland named district attorney for the 1st District with praise from Judge Ledbetter. Brownfield Jaycees honored him in 1963.
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Brownie Scout Leader Drowns In Missouri River
Great Falls Montana AP reports Brownie Scout leader Mrs William Dorthea Kempa 28 fell from a cliff into the Missouri River during a troop hike watched by two children and 12 scouts. Associate leader Mrs Don R Kenezka tried a rescue but both were pulled into icy water.
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Levelland Schools Open System Study Plan
Levelland public schools begin a year long self evaluation involving all teachers and administrators. The study aims to improve the school system and its community relations with leadership from Supt Kenneth Laycock and a steering committee including Bernice Railshack Jack Simmons Louis Griffin Walter Reed James Purgason Bill Vardeman Lester Rawson Rex Hardin Charlie Speed and Harold Dobbs.
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Bernice Railshack
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Walter Reed
James Purgason
Bill Vardeman
Lester Rawson
Rex Hardin
Charlie Speed
Harold Dobbs
Mexican Actor Says He Will Wed Ava Gardner
Mexican actor director Emilio Indio Fernandes told Novedades he and Ava Gardner would marry soon. Gardner did not confirm the report while filming in Puerto Vallarta. Fernandes, co-director with John Huston, said he would travel to Los Angeles and that possible weddings could occur there or in Puerto Vallarta Guadalajara or Mismalaya.
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John Huston
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Mismalaya
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Ava
Forces clash in Operation Big Lift mock battle at Fulda
U S Air Force squadrons support a staged clash against a German armored division in the Fulda region as 14 500 troops arrive from Ft Hood Texas. No serious casualties reported. Prisoner names and wartime drill details are provided amid broader notes on wheat policy.
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Chief To Make Moscow Visit
G Keith Funston president of the New York Stock Exchange will visit Moscow as part of a Time Inc tour. The group of about two dozen American businessmen plans a 12 day trip with stops in Berlin Bonn Brussels and Paris after meeting President Kennedy in Washington. Details and participant names were to be released Saturday.
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Venezuela seeks seizure of ex dictator Perez Jimenez assets
Venezuela has asked the United States to seize property of ex dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez including a yacht and a Miami mansion. Perez Jimenez was extradited from the United States to face embezzlement charges. Karachi spark plug plant planned in Pakistan.
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Miami man sues Reynolds over cigarette dangers
Leo A. McGraw a 52 year old Miami resident who smoked Camels Winston and Salems for 30 years claims cigarettes caused his lung cancer in 1962. He seeks 2 536 000 dollars in Dade County Circuit Court alleging misleading ads hid harmful effects and asks for a jury trial.
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