Reds Retrieve Lunar Probe Fair Looms As Biggest Best
Early visitors crowded gates at the Panhandle-South Plains Fair as officials prepared to open the 51st annual exposition touted as biggest and best in history. A band parade signals the start with 29 area bands competing for 1250 in prizes and 6 host high school units marching through Lub bock.
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Dave Knapp
Avvalanche-Journal
Fair Park
Lubbock
Fair Park Coliseum
Panhandle-South Plains
Pat Boone
Texas Tech coach J. T. King offers no alibi after tie
Texas Tech coach J. T. King provides no alibis for the Saturday tie with Cincinnati. The paper lists sports notes and related items across sections, including editorials and columns, with a broad range of national and regional topics.
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Texas Tech
J. T. King
Cincinnati
Sec
Today at the fair highlights a full regional school day
A large crowd is expected as area schools bring students to free passes for Today at the Fair. Highlights include hog and cattle judging, a Green Berets repelling demonstration from the First National Bank building, a Parade of Bands, Pat Boone shows, and extensive military displays. The event draws thousands daily.
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Berkshire
Green Berets
First National Bank-Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Broadway
Lubbock
Guernsey
Pat Boone
Fair Park Coliseum
Chester White
Baby Chick
Victor
Smokey Sam
Gene Ledel
Green
Ufos Linked to Pentagon Balloons Voyager Program Claim
Columbus Dispatch reporter Paul Massa says 1966 1967 Southwest UFO sightings stemmed from government balloon launched saucer tests. He saw a 15 foot diameter craft at White Sands and cites Walker AFB Roswell New Mexico launches as part of the Voyager Balloon Program ending with cone shaped objects and inverted saucer appearance.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPN
Columbus Dispatch
Paul Massa
The
Dispatch
White Sands
N.M
Massa
U.S. Air Force
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell
Air Force
New Mexico
Zond 5 Recovery Signals Moon Mission Progress
The Soviet Union safely recovered unmanned spacecraft Zond 5 after it circled the moon and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. Tass cited recovery of scientific instruments and possible high quality moon photographs as key outcomes guiding future manned lunar flights.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Soviet Union
Zond
Indian Ocean
Earth
Africa
Eearth
Ade Gooch
eLehe Tass
Zond 5
U.S
Tass
Leonid Sedov
Sedov
Vladimir Kessenilkh
Alexander Mikhailov
Georgy Petrov
Webb
Washington
James FB. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Skywaymen Seize Jets In Cuban Hijack Incidents
Two Avianca airliners were hijacked in Barranquilla by a youth with a pistol and a man with a knife and grenade. The Boeing 727 landed in Camaguey with 72 passengers. the DC4 diverted to Santiago de Cuba with 57 passengers. No injuries reported. total aboard 135 to 139.
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Associated Press
Havana
Avianca
Cuba
Barranquilla
Columbia
Bogota
New York
Camaguey
Santiago de Cuba
Alfredo Crisman
Alfonso Lopez
Colombia
Fall Tang Hits South Plains With Rainstorm Encore
Thunderheads moved through the South Plains bringing rain and hail. Water covered FM-1780 near Morton as storms tracked northeast into Littlefield and Olton. Morton police reported no damage despite lightning and strong winds. Weather Bureau tallied storm top at about 42,000 feet.
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Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Morton
Littlefield
Olton
Small Hall
U.S
Rattlesnake in Bathrobe Ends Up a Fashion Joke
In San Francisco a police officer stormed toward a nonrattling diamondback that lay in a bathroom doorway. The scene amused homeowner F B Todd who admitted the snake was mistaken for a bathrobe belt, while the officer stood firm. Todd apologized. Wise refused.
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San Francisco
UPS
Gary Wise
Wise
F. B. Todd
Todd
Officer Wise
Teenagers urged to seek self through Jesus and commandments
A prayer from Mrs. H. L. Caden, Morton head, asks teens to find themselves by losing themselves in Christ, living by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.
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Jesus Christ
H. L. Cadenhead
Morton
Wrecks Kill Two In Area
Two people died and 14 were injured in area traffic crashes on the South Plains. At Brownfield a 33 year old farm laborer Francisco Galvan died in a predawn collision near Plains. his wife Ester and four others were hospitalized. A highway worker near Brownfield was killed and two injured. In Plains two miles west on U S 82 Lario Serda Arellano 55 of Plains died in a car pickup crash. two others were injured including Francisco Alvarado 4 and Author Lundy Wagnon 26.
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Avalanche Journal
South Plains
Brownfield
Terry County
Plains
Francisco Galvan
Lady Gin
8Th Street
U.S. 62
Ester
Brownfield General Hospital
Leandra Galvan
Francisco
David
Anna Maria
Jose Galvan
Pioneers Offer Recollections of Covered Wagons on the Plains
Henry R. Miller Jr. recalls moving to Dawson County in 1900 and living in a one room half dugout while seven in his family shared space. Roy B. Davis of Lubbock shares memories of wagons, roads and neighborly hospitality along the old routes to Elida New Mexico and beyond.
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Roy B
Davis
Lubbock
Dawson County
Big Spring
Texas
New Mexico
Vaughn
Elida
N.M
Old Mexico
Pair Sought In Fatal Lynn County Woman’s Death
Lynn County sheriff deputies and Texas Rangers hunt two Negro men suspected in the death of 55 year old Mrs. Currie Walls. She was found by her daughter in her grassland home and died en route to a Lubbock hospital. Tracks and reports indicate two long haired men near Tahoka with a red hair man and a goatee among descriptions.
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Grassland
Lynn County
Lathbnock
Doyle Woods
Wilson
Here
Walls
J. E. Ramsey
Russian Moon Effort Spurs U S Review On Apollo Plans
Soviet Zond 5 completed a lunar orbit and return, prompting NASA officials to reexamine timelines. Rep. Teague called for congressional review while Scheer downplayed impact, noting the U S program remains on track for five Apollo flights and a moon landing by 1969.
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Julian Seheer
NASA
Moon
Teague
Space Agency
Scheer
U.S
Nhat
Earth
United States
Weather Map Signals Scattered Thunderstorms In Lubbock Area
Widely scattered thunderstorms and partly cloudy skies forecast for today and tonight across Lubbock and vicinity. Cooler temperatures expected tonight with highs in the mid 80s and a low near the mid 60s.
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Mina
Imam
Paso
Houston
Albuquerque
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