Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis Amid Global Tensions
The United States tightens a maritime quarantine around Cuba as Kennedy warns of Soviet missiles and bombers in Cuba. Latin American nations offer naval and base support while a global wave of demonstrations rises.
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Silvester
Cuba
Washington
U.S
Navy
United States
Kennedy
State Department
Argentina
Costa Rica
Honduras
Caribbean
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Peru
Haiti
Panama
Venezuela
Estes Trial Defense in By Wilson Dealings
The Estes case features a defense arguing the tanks were delivered and a mortgage signed by Wilson was valueless and Estes’s property. A juror question about accepting $7 500 for a mortgage was deemed improper though later conditionally allowed. Estes received a haircut during the noon recess at Tyler barber E C Pickle.
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Fense
Wilson
Estes
Hume Cofer
Texas Dist
Otis T. Dunagan
E. C. Pickle
Tyler
Body Of Man Is Found In Crane
The body of Charles Wayne Wilson 23 of Odessa brother of Ector County Atty Walter Wilson was found Wednesday in the Sand Hills area five miles south of U. S. Highway 8 near Farm Road 1053 on the McKnight Ranch in Crane County by Mrs. Ewell McKnight and grandchildren. A wrist watch was noted on the body and Wilson’s car had been parked nearby for two days.
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Monahans
UPI
Ector County
Walter
Wilson
Charles Wayne Wilson
Odessa
Sand Hills
McKnight Ranch
Crane County
Ewell McK
Textile leaders meet in Lubbock to tour cotton industry
A seven state delegation of about 42 textile executives and wives arrives for a three day program in Lubbock. They will tour area cotton farms gins and mills and visit Texas Tech textile labs and Lewter Feedlots before attending receptions and a Tech SMU football game. The ATMI led by David E Howe of American Thread Co oversees the gathering with Plains Cotton Growers and local groups coordinating.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
PCG
George W. Pfeiffenberger
Earl Glover
USDA
Agricultural Marketing Service
Washington, D. C
Texas Tech
John T. Wigington
ATMI
Clemson
S.C
Wilmer Smith
New Home
Research and Technical Service Committee
David E. Howe
American Thread Co
New York
Plains Cotton Co‘operative Assn
Lubbock Club
Pioneer Hotel
Tech
Lewter
Cotton Committee
Southern Methodist University
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Ohio
New Jersey
Central Trade Association
Charlotte
N. C
Swisher Farmer Dies In Mishap
A 21-year-old Tulia farmer, Thoran Avent, was found dead beside a two row binder on his farm 14 miles east of Tulia. His tractor was running. officials said he had been dead about an hour. Services were pending at Wallace Funeral Home. He left a wife, a son James, parents Jewel and Mrs. Avent, a brother John, a sister Susan, and grandmother Mrs. J T Avent. Officers found a portion of cyanide in the dead man’s small foreign car.
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Tulia
Here
Thoran Avent
L. D. Young
Boyd Young
Avent
Wallace Funeral Home
James
Jewel Avent
John
Susan
J.T. Avent
Plan for Cuban crisis shows UN pressure for talks
Thant warned the United Nations faces a grave duty as tensions over Cuba flare. He urged immediate negotiations among the United States, Soviet Union, and Cuba to avert nuclear confrontation and condemned actions threatening world peace.
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United ‘Arab Republic
Ghana
Thant
United States
Council
U.S
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Chile
China
Venezuela
Cuba
Romania
Rudolph Grimes
Patrick Dean
Western Hemisphere
Free World
Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez
Latin America
Americas
Frank Aiken
Amarillo Firm Wins Low Bid On Pantech Center Project
Western Builders submitted a $516 000 bid as Tech officials opened bids for the Killgore Beef Cattle Center to be built on the 5800 acre Tech research farm near Pantex east of Amarillo. The bid trails the available funding and Friday action will review both this project and bids for new speech and psychology buildings.
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Texas Tech
Killgore
Tech
Pantex
Western Builders
Tech Board of Directors
Speech and Psychology
Killgore Foundation
Marshall Pennington
Gerald Thomas
W. L. Ulich
Ralph Durham
Nolan Bar- Tick
Elo Urbanovsky
Births Reported From Lubbock Hospitals In Local Notices
Congratulations to numerous families in Brownfield Lubbock and West Texas as babies arrive at Methodist and West Texas hospitals. New fathers work for Pan American Petroleum GM Acceptance Corp Reese Air Force Base Forts Inc Luby Cafeteria GE Supply and schools.
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Ralph Way
Brownfield
Methodist Hospital
Pan American Petroleum Co
Franklin Tucker
Lubbock
Reese Air Force Base
Beaumont Woman Is Apartment Fire Victim
Beaumont nurse Kath leen Neeson, 55, died in a Wednesday apartment fire. Fire investigators say she appeared to have fallen asleep while smoking, and the mattress caught fire, the sole damaged item in the unit.
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Beaumont
Fire destroys gin at Swift & Co. in Valley View
A $50,000 fire leveled the Swift & Co. cotton gin in Valley View on Wednesday. W. E. Aston, gin manager, provided the damage estimate.
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Gainesville
Swift & Co
Valley View
W. E. Aston
Khrushchev urges restraint as Cuba crisis looms
Khrushchev called for not provoking the United States and for talks to avert nuclear war. He accused Washington of hatred toward Cuba and cited election pressure while warning the world against reckless actions. Kennedy signaled willingness to meet Khrushchev in talks if he visits the United States.
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Kennedy
Khrushchev
Russell
White House
Pierre Salinger
London
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Lord Russell
Washington
Moscow
Soviet Union
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United States of America
UN General Assembly
Harold Macmillan
U.S
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paris
William E. Knox
Westinghouse Electric International Co
New York
Knox
Kremlin
Cuba
Threat evidence mounts new Cuba missile photos surface
Washington AP reports the Pentagon released more photos of Soviet ballistic missile bases in Cuba. Officials say the images are even more revealing than earlier pictures that prompted President Kennedy to order a quarantine.
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Cuba Missile Pads
Washington
Pentagon
Cuba
Kennedy
United States
Joint Chief of Staff
Petagon
Defense Department
Civil Defense steps for emergencies and Cuban crisis
Civil Defense officials brief principals on protecting students while Washington and Bridgeport direct 24hour centers and curb siren tests. Texas agencies review plans as 60 million shelter spaces are planned and drills, enlistments, and shelter requests rise amid Cuba developments and possible US action.
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Lorton
Bridgeport
Conn
Civil Defense
Defense Department
Dallas contractor loses second bankruptcy fight over Sun Bowl payments
In Dallas the contractor E D St John lost the second round in a bankruptcy dispute over almost $3,000 paid at the request of former El Paso County Judge Woodrow Bean for Sun Bowl Stadium work and a reception for U S Senator Ralph Yarborough. The ruling by Judge T Whitfield Davidson upholds Referee Elmore Whitehurst and leaves room for appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
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Fei Paso
Woodrow Bean
T. Whitfield Davidson
Elmore Whitehurst
E. D
St. John
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
West Coast tour ends as Hershey met with draft officials
Draft director Hershey ends weekend tour in San Francisco and visits Texas and Dallas with Col Morris Schwartz and Lt Col Ben Forrest. He avoided predicting Cuba’s impact on induction levels noting Congress’s sensitivity to repeated reserve recalls and met with reserve and local draft board officials.
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West Coast
Selective Service
Morris Schwartz
Austin
Texas
Ben Forrest
Dallas
Regular Army
Cuba
Armed Services
Hershey
Congress
Draft Board
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