Panhandle South Plains Fair opens 49th edition with bands and shows
The Panhandle South Plains Fair launches its 49th edition with high school bands, women’s exhibits, and livestock judging set for today. Officials predict 50 000 on opening day as Tennessee Ernie Ford and Ern arrive for matinee and evening performances. Cattle and hog judging begins with $30 000 in premiums pursued as 800 head from seven states compete.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
South Plaine
Lubbock
Sudsing
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Gene Ledel
Fair Park Coliseum
Ford
Mitchell
S. C
Corn Palace
America
Ol’ Ern
Coliseum
Berkshire
Durochogs
New Typhoon Imperils Storm Wracked Japan
Tokyo reports 184 dead 125 missing and nearly 1000 injured as troops police search mud and debris after twin typhoons. A third storm June approaches 400 miles southwest of Iwo Jima as relief programites relocate and feed victims amid widespread floods and damaged infrastructure.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Tokyo
Ing
Iwo Jima
Kiichi Aichi
U.S
U. S
Inez Brews In Atlantic Intensifying Near Storm Status
Tropical Storm Inez neared hurricane strength over the tropical Atlantic far from land with top winds reaching 70 mph near the center. Forecasts said it would intensify and grow larger while vessels were warned to avoid offshore waters even as the storm remained distant from North American shores.
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Inez
Guadeloupe
French West Indies
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Ferris Wheel Takes Shape for Fair Opening
David Page of the Gene Ledel Shows helps assemble a ferris wheel on the midway as the carnival prepares for today's opening. The Sunday scene captures the fair’s focal point under construction with staff photography.
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David Page
Austin
Gene Ledel
ERhard to Seek Delay on U S Arms Purchases
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard met with U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk at Blair House to discuss his talks with President Johnson and with Soviet officials. Erhard aims to seek a moratorium on fulfilling a 1.35 billion arms purchase by June 30 and may state Germany can no longer pay 50 percent of the current 675 million annual offset costs for the U S 7th Army in Germany.
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New York
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Germany
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
West Germany
United States
U.S
Lubbock Area Rathskeller Activities Spotlighted
Music loving burglar boosts his repertoire as Texas Tech Union coverage on page 14 highlights campus events. Brilliant young scientists sought for space exploration program features in State and Nation. Goldwater Birch Society clash becomes public on page 11 with today’s horoscope on page 7.
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Texas Tech Union
Sec. A
Goldwater
Join Birch Society
Robber Fails Stage Hijack After STP Can Hits Attendant
A would be robber attempted a midnight hold up at a service station on 19th Street and Avenue A. Gary Harris, the attendant, confronted the bandit who fled after Harris threw a pistol and the thief struck him with a can of STP. The getaway car was a 1956 Chevrolet with black fresh paint.
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Egypt Plans MIG21 Jets in Syria to Back Regime
Le Jour reports Egypt has stationed 19 Soviet built MIG21 fighter jets in Syria to protect it from Israel and to aid the Syrian regime against possible revolutions.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford Arrives After Long Trip for Lubbock Fair
Tennessee Ernie Ford disembarks from a bus after a long haul from North Dakota. He looks forward to performing at the Lubbock fair, with a staff photo capture of the moment.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
North Dakota
Lubbock Fair
Tennessee Ernie Ford arrives after long bus ride
The nation’s top pea picker Tennessee Ernie Ford arrives in town after a 950 mile bus trip from Mitchell South Dakota to join the Panhandle South Plains Fair. He is greeted warmly at the motel by the Young American Singers and Ford apologizes for the two hour late arrival due to a successful stop in Mitchell.
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Ron Butler
Journal
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Mitchel
S. D
Panhandle South Plains Fair
Ford
Corn Palace
Mitchell
Two Top Officials Forecast Anti Inflation Tax Increases
Washington reports indicate the Johnson administration may seek tax hikes to curb inflation. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler called deflationary action "within the realm of probability" while Commerce Secretary John T. Connor has long favored corporate and personal tax increases to cool the economy alongside monetary steps.
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America
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Henry H. Fowler
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John T. Connor
Tax policy debate grows as Congress nears election
Fowler and Connor discuss possible tax increases to balance the budget amid rising prices and wartime costs. Ackley sees sustained vigor next year unless Vietnam War spending ends, warning of a potential recession without swift action.
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Connor
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Ackley
Loch Ness Monster Theory Sparks Scientist Debate
American professor Roy P. Mackal of Chicago University proposed the Loch Ness monster could be a giant sea slug, a claim to explain a living phenomenon in Loch Ness. Critics at Natural History Museum doubt any gastropod reaches that size. locals reported another sighting as the case accumulates in Inverness.
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Scotland
Roy P. Mackal
Biological Science
Chicago University
Atlantic
Natural History Museum
Macka
Mackal
Emmanuel de Lichtervelde
White Protest March Sparks Negro Attack
In Jacksonville Florida a white segregationist march failed and several Negroes threw rocks at cars. A white woman was cut by flying glass during the disturbance. Police reported about six rock throwing incidents, mainly by a few youths, scattered around the area.
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UPI
W. W. Anderson
Teenage girl dead in Lubbock County traffic crash
A 15 year old Patsy Sue Evans died after the car she rode in overturned on East 19th Street near Oak Street in Lubbock. Driver Lawrence Garner and passenger Coral Houston were injured but survived. The crash raises the year’s South Plains traffic toll to 76 with a second death later that day.
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Patsy Sue Evans
Cedar
Methodist Hospital
Oak Street
East 19Th
Lawrence B. Garner
Walnut
Coral Houston
Webber
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