Congressional Cash To Complete Session Pushes Aid Bills
Congress limped toward adjournment as the main 4 722 3 million aid bill faced deeper cuts. A 65 million add on was tucked into a 162 186 981 catch all fund bill. Senate action approved a sugar bill but blocked broader powers for Eisenhower over Dominican Republic quotas. Nixon blasted the session as political theater while Rayburn urged order to adjourn. A stopgap housing bill and a freedom academy measure also moved forward as debates over foreign aid continued.
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Hower
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Dominican Republic
United States
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
House
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
House Rules Committee
Plea Ignored in Divorce Hearing Over Unromantic Husband
Mrs. Jes sie A. Johnson, 80, told a pre divorce hearing that her husband George, 39, is unromantic and that even her poems have failed. The exchange was recorded in a brief AP Wirephoto item.
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Jessie A. Johnson
George
Unromantic Husband Shuns Poetic Plea in divorce case
Jessie A. Johnson, 80, testified in a Los Angeles court that her husband George, 59, a carpenter, ignores her romance efforts and poems. The couple, married December 16, 1942, separated last August. A judge ordered temporary support of 25 dollars weekly and to cover bills pending trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lavender
Lace
Jessie A. Johnson
George
L Ife
Lloyd, Saunders
Johnsons
Air Force Tests Long Range Emergency Radio Link
The Air Force launched a 02-foot Aerobee rocket from Eglin Base carrying a tiny transmitter to about 30 000 feet to test Project Tattletale emergency communications. Ground stations at Eglin Dayton and Golden monitored signals as the payload fell into the Gulf, with broadcasts starting at launch. A 200 mile altitude link could cover about 1400 miles along the Earth's curvature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
API
Air Force
Behn Gulf Test Range
Eglin
Dayton
Ohio
National Bureau of Standards
Golden
Colo
Plannes
Wright Air Development Division
Strategic Air Command
Gulf of Mexico
Senate OKs Pershing Statue Plan for Washington
The Senate on Wednesday approved and sent to the House legislation authorizing a statue of General John J. Pershing, the World War I AEF commander, to be erected in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
John J. Pershing
AEF
Companies in the United States on June 30, 1969
A brief note lists businesses in the United States as of June 30, 1969 with reference to a year 28 more than year apr. The fragments indicate a Commerce or corporate data item from a historical page.
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United States
Stiff Terms Vowed In Racial Violence
Jacksonville judge pled swift penalties for hoodlums with shotguns amid racial unrest sparked by sit ins at white lunch counters. Two white men were fined 75 dollars for threatening a Negro postal worker, while five Negroes faced charges for possessing pistols and shotguns. Inter Santora imposed suspended fines for fighting on two white men, one an NAACP member and the other a construction worker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
John Santora
Santora
A m
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Dunn
N.C
North Carolina
James A. Chance
Claude SI. Groves
Juanita Chance
Memphis
Tenn
Assembly of God
Expert Probing Complex Genetic Order In Flies
Washington University scientist Dr Harrison D Stalker describes fruit fly sex determination as typically male sperm producing equal numbers of male and female offspring, yet a type can yield 75 males per 100 females due to abnormal female producing genes. Complex genetic controls may apply to other beings including humans. Ken Germann and John Wellington, former Columbia athletes now on the Lion coach staff, are noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barbour
Stillwater
Oklo
Nature
Harrison D. Stalker
Washington University
St. Louis
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Stalker
Ken Germann
John Wellangton
Columbia Ath Notes
Lionwcouch
Germann
Wellineten
Yacht Saga Update Details Plane Pump Rescue And Sealed Leak
The yacht Wild Goose faced engine trouble after a seasick leak. An auxiliary pump was dropped and activated at 8 30 a m after a second pump was requested. The Coast Guard suspects a fathometer cap dislodgement caused the leak allowing a bottom opening. Wyman cut short his world cruise to transport Cecilia Mac Cauley for heart defect treatment in Seattle.
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Page
Tress
Coast Guard
Wyman
Cecilia MacCauley
M. MacCauley
MacCauley
Penrhyn Island
New Zealand
Cecilia
Seattle
Honolulu
United States
Jetta
Papeete
Tahiti
James Blackley
Frank Fisher
Marine Corps
F. K. Robinson
Bora-Bora
Lee Johnson
Darryl Jorgenson
Tahit
Hawaii
Wild Goose
South Pacific
Texas Industrial Commission adopts hands off policy
The Texas Industrial Commission votes to avoid endorsing controversial subjects to attract new industry. Chair E B Germany says the aim is to sell Texas and avoid class legislation. The group reports locating 475 plants across 80 counties and expanding 492 existing plants in 114 counties. Out of state ad inquiries come from six Illinois firms, eight from New York and single inquiries from several other states and Canada. The Minuteman ICBM will soon add to the Strategic Air Command deterrent fleet.
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Garth Jones
Austin
Texas Industrial Commission
Texas
Vineigar
E. B. Germany
Germany
Houston Harte
San Angelo
Ilinois
New York
Florida
Iowa
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Louisiana
Washington l
Canada
Strategic Air Command
Peoria Man Melvin Miller Goes West for Lagoon Beach Gag
A Peoria foreman becomes the butt of a Marine joke that grew into a fund drive to bring Melvin Miller to Laguna Beach California. His seven day itinerary includes dinners with Jayne Mansfield bullfights in Tijuana a Dodgers game ball toss at the Los Angeles Coliseum and a Marine air station review. Miller laughs it off saying he is just going along with the gag.
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Ocean Front
Melvin
Chicago
West Coast
Miller
Peoria
Los Angeles
The
Sandpiper
Laguna Beach
Gestson
Melvin Miller
Gestion
Jayne Mansfield
Tijuana
Mexico
FE Toro Marine Air Station
Los Angeles Coliseum
Mel
San Francisco
First 1960 Bale Ginned At Slaton
An Acuff farmer Cate Keeler brought in the Slaton area’s first bale of 1960 cotton weighing 452 pounds, two pounds above the award minimum. The bale, from over 30 acres planted mid April, was ginned at Acuff Gin No 1 and faced five sub freezings before presentation at the Farmers Merchants Banquet at Slaton High School Tiger Stadium.
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Slaton ‘Specialy
Cate Keeler
Slaton
Slaton Chamber of Commerce
Keeler
Farmers-Merchants
Slaton High School
Tiger Stadium
Nixon Kennedy Debates Set for September Through October
History’s first face to face debates between Nixon and Kennedy will begin September 26 with three or four joint appearances on TV and radio. Dates include October 13 and October 21 with a possible October 1960 program. Debates cover domestic and foreign policy with origins in Chicago and New York and panel formats.
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James Devlin
New York
United States
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
NBC
CBS
ABC
Mutual
Chicago
Integration sparks court fights over school desegregation
Reports describe governors and state agencies clashing over control as federal court actions unfold in New Orleans and other cities. Plans in Knoxville and Nashville win federal approval, while Arkansas Dollarway and North Carolina cases show mixed progress amid arrests and protests.
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Louisiana
Daniel
Sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Joe Reynolds
Connally
Houston
Knoxville
Tenn
Thomas N. Johnston
Nashville
Dollarway
Pine Bluff
Ark
U.S. Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Delores Jean York
Wet August Deluge Hits Texas With Storms and Floods
Texas endured one of its wettest Augusts as thundershowers drenched South and West regions. A Coryell County windstorm unroofed a general store with no injuries reported, while cities like Houston and the Beaumont area recorded record rainfall and recurring floods across 22 to 24 days of the month.
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United Press
Texas
Gatesville
U.S. Weather Bureau
Coryell County
A. D. Chestnut
Houston
Tricity
Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange
Weather Bureau
Austin
Birth notices from local families in Lubbock area
A series of birth notices lists several families from Lubbock and nearby areas welcoming newborns. Details include parents names and occupations, hospital births at Methodist Hospital and West Texas Hospital, with weights and times for each baby.
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Mro
Meg. Bo OR. Castner
Rt 2
Lubbock
West Texas Hospital
Four Crash Victims Remain In Hospital After Petersburg Collision
Two of four injured in a two car crash west of Petersburg remained in critical condition at Methodist Hospital. Victims Willie Tipton and Antonio Rendon, both 69 and 53, died in the crash. Charlie Espinoza and Carlos Espinoza were listed critical, Mrs Espinoza was fair, Cordie Ann Tipton, 16, described poor.
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Petersburg
Methodist Hospital
Antonio Rendon
Willie Tipton
Plainview
Tipton
Charlie
Carlos Espinoza
Congo War Intensifies Amid Reports of Atrocities
Eyewitness accounts describe heavy gunfire on the eastern outskirts as Baluba forces launch a strong attack on a Congolese army camp. Casualties are suspected as Congolese troops, well armed, push offensives while Balubas rely on night raids with limited modern arms. Europeans report beatings and assaults. Belgian observers accuse Congolese troops of indiscriminate slaughter in Bakwanga, amid a broader “reign of terror” narrative by veteran Congo observers.
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Lumumba
Lumuba
Bakwanga
Congo
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Cofewe Avenue
Posas
New Mexico
Baylor
Max H. Wyman
Bellevue
Wash
Charlie Hunter
Sinton
Gulf Coast
San Antonio
Mission
McAllen
Pharr
Edinburg
Brownsville
Harlingen
Victoria and
Laredo
Joe Rox Whitles
Taf
Joe Cristan
Littlefield
Pital
Lauthme
Hodges and
Turner Construction
Lontme Morin
Frank B. Hodges
Jessie Bosmith
16Th St
Miro
Troy Yate Jr
Danoth St
Lathbock Osteopaths
Cloverlake Dairy
Jiminy Hawkins
Mroo
Tperry Peyton Bridges
Yrth St. Oon
Tasior Hospital
Furrs Super Markets
Congo War
Wm. H. Evans, £. G. Pharr
Chauncey Trout
Charles B. Jones
Carlton B. Dodson, Bobby J. Moody and
John A. Flygare
Myrick
Lubbock, Texas
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