Texas Tech tops Oklahoma A&M 27 to 13 in mud
Texas Tech muscles past Oklahoma A&M 27 to 13 at Lewis Field. quarterback Jack Kirkpatrick leads the attack with a 22 yard TD run and three extra points while Pat Green explodes for an 80 yard kickoff TD. crowd 10 000. rain mud slows ball handling. Raiders rush for 234 yards and pass for five.
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Joe Kelly
Applanche-Journal
Lewis Field
Sillwater
Okla
Texas Tech
Oklahoma A&m
Red Raiders
Post
Jack Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
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Aggies
Raiders
Tech
Aggie
Green
Pat Green
Paducah
Cowpokes
Bob Andrew
Skeeter-Lewis
Bobby Cava- Lee Raiders
Lubbockite Held Two Convicts Sought By Authorities
Texas and Oklahoma officers hunted two armed inmates who escaped Oklahoma State Prison at Granite with four hostages. Norman Davenport and Gerald Stanton, both considered dangerous, fled around 10 am driving away in a green 1941 Ford. Hostages released included Marvin Ware James Newman and David Waller, while Luther Brooks remained with the convicts. Warden Joe Harp said the break was not found for 55 minutes until Jack Barry freed himself. Page 14.
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Jack Coats
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Oklahoma
Granite
Lubbock
Norman Lee Davenport
Wichita Falls
Gerald Stanton
California
Marvin L. Ware
James Newman
Iowa
David R. Waller
Leavenworth
Kan
Luther Brooks
Joe Harp
Brooks
Maintainance
Jack Barry
Barry
Cool front ends Texas heat with heavy rain across Lubbock region
AMS rainfall drenched the South Plains soaking cotton fields as a northward cold front moved in. Lubbock recorded 4 weather swings from 43 to 52 and 75 expected, while Matador, Post and Dickens reported up to 2.5 inches. Minor wrecks totaled 24 in Lubbock with two injuries.
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Weather Bureau
Lubbock
Matador
Post
Dickens
Panhandle-South Plains Fair closes after wet week
The 36th annual fair ended with 127 771 attendance, the tenth largest on record, as rain and cold halted free acts and final fireworks. Officials plan an improved plant for next year, while exhibits impressed, notably in Agriculture with 13 counties participating.
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Chick Morris
Avalanche-Journal
LD Man
Panhandle-South Plains Fair
Fair Board
Charles L. Adams Jr
South Plains
Agriculture Department
Phantom Slayer Terror Grips Dallas After Rape and Murder
Dallas police deploy a helicopter and increase patrols as fear spreads after a 29 year old clerk is raped and killed near Love Field. Authorities seek a Dallas Negro who escaped a state hospital in Rusk Texas four days earlier amid ongoing questions and vigilante groups form in the tense city.
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Allas
Carl Hansson
Bell Aircraft
Hansson
Dallas
State
Rusk
Tex
H.C. Parker
Love Field
State Hospital
O'Donnell Safe Burglary Hits School Office
Burglars broke into the O’Donnell school superintendent’s office early Saturday, escaping with 214 dollars. Receipts from a Friday football game had been moved to a bank night safe. The Tahoka lumber firm office also was broken into, with 4 dollars taken, possibly by the same intruders.
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Avalanche-Journal
O'Donnell
Slaton-O’donnell
O’donnell
O’donnell First National Bank
Yahoka
Jones Pierce
John T. Morris
Tahoka
Booger Redwine
Higginbotham Lumber Co
Tohoka
Defense chiefs weigh stronger air defenses and warning system
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are reported ready to push a stepped up air defense program including automatic warning systems. Defense Secretary Wilson hints at a secret report and a new look at security as a guard against H-bomb threats. Emphasis shifts toward guided missiles, interceptor planes, and radar barriers plus potential installations for industrial protection.
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PY Ashington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Thomas D. White
Air Force
United States
Canada
Reds Write Off 827 POWs After Accounting Demand
South Korea bitter at Indians as 827 Allied prisoners are listed by the Reds as repatriated or released. The communists demand explicit accounting for 98 742 held by them. Indian troops guard anti repatriation prisoners amid threats of force after four captives were killed and 15 wounded.
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International News Service
Anmunjom
ROK
South Korea
United Nations Command
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission
Chung W. Cho
Navy pilot sets U S speed record at 753 mph in Skyray
Lt Cmdr James B Verdin flew the F4D Skyray at an average 753.4 mph over a 1.863 mile course at Thermal California. His fastest pass reached 761.44 mph as temperature stood at 98.5 degrees. The record ends Britain's 737.3 mph mark and gives the U S Navy its first record since 1947.
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Thermal
Calif
Navy
United States
James B. Verdin
California
Salton Sea
Verdin
Mike Lithgow
Wayland College Inauguration Event Details
The newspaper notes Wayland College will hold an inauguration event with academic leaders and guest speakers. Coverage mentions campus ceremonies and expected attendees from regional colleges.
New Hurricane Gail Spotted in Atlantic SE of Miami
A lone ship spotted Hurricane Gail, the year's seventh tropical storm, 2,600 miles southeast of Miami. The easterly wave brought up to five inches of rain to the Florida Keys and 30 mph winds along the east coast. Gail sat at 15.0 N 44.0 W noon advisory, moving WNW at 15 mph, about 1,000 miles east of Martinique.
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Miami
Gail
Florida Keys
Florida
Martinique
Two Ballinger Residents Die in Bridge Collision
Two Ballinger residents were killed and a third injured when the car they rode collided with an oil truck on a bridge at Miles in Runnels County.
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Ballinger
Miles
Runnels County
Soviets Release 11 German Generals
Eleven German generals released from Soviet camps arrived in Germany in a repatriation wave that began a week earlier. The generals, some 140 still held in the USSR, traveled from Moscow in a transport kept secret from West German authorities. They reported nine generals died in Soviet camps and said their men did light work such as peeling potatoes and slicing bread.
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Friedland
Germany
Russia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Cool Front Dumps Rains Over State
A cold front swept into Texas on Saturday bringing soaking rains to much of West Texas with the heaviest falls in the drouth-hit Big Spring and San Angelo areas. Across the state, amounts ranged up to 4 inches in Eldorado, with scattered showers elsewhere and wind and dust in Amarillo El Paso and Salt Flat as the system moved southeast.
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Associated Press
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Midland
Abilene
Fort Worth
Oklahoma
Drouth
Big Spring
San Angelo
Eldorado
Panhandle
Bronte
Grape Creek
Cristoval
Sonora
Rankin
Merizon
Garden City
Seymour
Sweetwater
Rock Springs
Kerrville
Menard
Lomo Alto
Ozona
Miles
Eden
Stanton
Ballinger
Arden
Ackerly-Knott
Two Youth Slayings Shock Lubbock Here
An unseasonable crime spike hit Lubbock on Saturday with the slayings of Rodolfo Tervino, 16, shot at 306 North Avenue C, and Herman Jones, 15, stabbed at Luby's Cafeteria, 2410 Broadway. Suspects include Domingo Aquellera, 15, of 306 North Avenue O, in the shooting, and Louis Kimble, 48, of 1611 Birch Street, in Jones death. These killings end a month without homicide.
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Domingo Aquellera
N. Ave. O
Louis T. Kimble
Birch St
Jones
Ralph White
Italian Officials Arrest Seven To Smash Spy Ring
Italian counter-intelligence agents arrested seven men in Rome on October 30, breaking a dangerous spy ring said to have sent military information to Russia. The alleged leader Eugenio Doria, 25, reportedly attended an espionage school in Prague.
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Ministry of Defense
Russia
Eugenio Doria
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Kidnapped Bobby Greenlease Case Draws FBI Push
Police and FBI poised for an all-out search as kidnappers face a 48 hour ultimatum. The Greenlease family awaits contact while a Baptist minister offers to mediate. Robert Letterman says FBI entry likely Monday as KC police shift to active pursuit.
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Robert C. Greenlease Sr
Bobby Greenlease
FBI
NEA
Police
INS
Ansas City
Bobby Greenflease
Greenleases
Kansas City
Bie Peckesman
Bobby
Robert Letterman
Tulsa
Robert Greenlease Sr
Greenlease
Robert C. Greenlease
Weather summary for Lubbock and region
Cloudy and cool with light rain in the morning. Partly cloudy by afternoon with highs near 75. Northeasterly winds around 15 mph. Observed today at a Weather Bureau station include a max 73 and min 32 with high humidity 93 percent and low 44 percent. Regional temps list El Paso 73 36 and Denver 105 51 among others.
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A S Weather Bureau
el Paso
AmarmMo
Houston
Albuqu'que
Okla
Defias T
Roswell
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W. Falls
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