Border Town Prepares for Lopez Mateos Eisenhower Meeting
Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, readies to host the second summit between President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Engineers and officials renovate public buildings, upgrade lighting, air conditioning, and the airport for the October 24 talks at a prominent local home. Eisenhower arrives from Del Rio, Texas, while Lopez Mateos leaves Mexico City for a four day state trip, with talks and dinner planned before the U.S. president departs next year.
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Adolfo Lopez Marcos
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ciudad Acuna
U.S
Eisenhower
del Rio
Tex
Rio Grande
Lopez Mateos
Progress Baptist Church Wins Texas Church Award
Progress Baptist Church near Muleshoe earns the 1960 Texas Baptist Church Achievement Program district award for aggressive evangelism boosting Sunday School attendance and baptisms. The two member congregation organized evangelism council Sunbeam Bands Girls Auxiliary and Royal Ambassadors plus 187 projects benefiting church and community.
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Dallas
First Baptists Church of Progress
Muleshoe
Texas Baptist Church
Progress Church
Yarborough to Advise Kennedy on Natural Resources
Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas is named to John F. Kennedy’s natural resources advisory committee. Kennedy’s staff said Yarborough’s focus on water and conservation issues links to clarifying campaign positions retarded under the Eisenhower-Nixon administration.
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Washington
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Kennedy
Yarborough
Kennedy outlines action policy on natural resources
Kennedy discussed recommendations for an action policy on natural resources for his administration. He emphasized leveraging scientific input and regional cooperation to balance conservation with development and energy goals.
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Kennedy
J. S. Pitner Funeral Planned In Snyder
Snyder Texas Special funeral services were held for John Sanderford Pitner 38 who died Saturday at his son’s home from a heart attack. Rev Elton Wyatt and others led rites at Trinity Methodist Church with burial at Hillside Memorial Gardens. Pitner a retired farmer lived in Scurry County 41 years and was a Dunn Baptist Church member and church custodian.
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Hillside ‘Memorial Gardens
Bolger
Garden Grove Church Opens Drive-In Service Plan
Garden Grove California reports the Garden Grove Community Drive-in Church affiliated with the reform Presbyterian Church seats 600 cars using 10 acres and 100 loudspeakers for Sunday services. The Rev Robert Schuller said outdoor drive-in services began five years ago in a theater and aid the disabled, leading to a permanent site. Pallbearers listed include Roswell Merritt Burton Echols E L Rigsby Graham Smith Lloyd Hil and Paul Keaton.
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Garden Grove
Calif.r
Reform Branch
The
Presbyterian Church
Robert Schuller
Roswell Merritt
Burton Echols
E. L.rigsby
Graham Smith
Lloyd Hil
Paul Keaton
Batteas Services Set In Mobeetie For 83 Year Old
William Claude Batteas 83 of Goodland near Wheeler died shortly before 6 a m Sunday. Funeral services 2 30 p m Tuesday at First Methodist Church Mobeetie with Rev C C Lamb and Rev Byron D Har grove officiating. Burial Wheeler Cemetery under Singleton Funeral Home. Survived by three daughters Minnie May Wood Amarillo Lois Wright Hackita N M Hazel Sifford Adrian three sons Dezzie Batteas Fisher County Sam Batteas Pampa Elmer Goodland 26 grandchildren 32 great grandchildren 2 great great grandchildren.
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Morton
William Claude Batteas
Goodland
Here
Batteas
First Methodist
Mobeetie
Wheeler
Battens
C. C. Lamb
Byron D. Hargrove
Three Way Baptist Church
Wheeler Cemetery
Singleton Funeral Home
Mebeete
First Christian ‘Church
Minnie May Wood
Amarillo
Lois Wright
Hackita
N.M
Hazel Sifford
Adrian
Dezzie Batteas
Fisher County
Sam Batteas
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Nual Baptist General Convention of Texas
Lubbock
Canyon
Brownfield
Matador
McDonald
Collier's South Pa Ins Monument Co
Duane Trimble
Tim
Kevler
Brett
Inky
J. S. Pitner
Snyder
Job
Batteas Services
Mobecetie
Stinson
J. L. Hardin
Broadway
Zenith
Dave Garroway
Cialy Show
Ollie
Livingston
Texas
el Paso-Dixie
el Paso
Dixie
West
Horkey Oil Company
EL Paso Natural Gas Products Company
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