Medal of Honor Winners Return to White House Reception
President Kennedy hosted Medal of Honor recipients in the Rose Garden with a ceremony that honored 290 living heroes. Veterans recalled battles from Spanish-American War to Korea as the Marine Band played and dignitaries, including Caroline and John Jr., watched from the White House.
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America
Ifhaie Aidtenn
Aaitie Wived
Manara
Korea
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Sampler
Haddonfield
N.J
Taft
Harding
Coolidge
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
France
Rose Garden
United States
Marine
Army
Caroline
John Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
White House
New York
Maj
Gregory Boyington
Okanogan
Wash
Charles D. Roberts
Chevy Chase
John Davis
St. Petersburg
Fla
Thresher
Mexia Seniors Present May 10 Play Mother Is a Freshman
Mexia High School senior class stages Rafael Blau comedy Mother Is a Freshman at the City Auditorium Friday May 10. Admission 73 cents for adults 35 cents for children. Curtain at 8:00 PM. Cast includes Dorothy Hardin Weldaleen Hamill Jolanda Love Warner Croft Barbara Burkett Linda Matthews Ann Tyus Molly Walker and others. Tickets from seniors or at door. Director Mrs Howard Campbell.
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Raphael David Blau
Mexia High School
City Auditorium
Pointer College
Pointer
New York
Abigail Abbott
Dorothy Hardin
Susan Abbott
Weldaleen Hamill
Dean Gillingham
Jolanda Love
Professor Michaels
Warner Croft
Linda Miller
Sylvia
Bunny
Helen
Carrie
Barbara Burkett
Pamela Harrison
Carolyn ‘Fletcher
Mrs. Miller
Linda Matthews
Marge
Ann Tyus
Clara
Molly Walker
Bubo
Jack
Howie
Bill
Henry Jackson
Charles Yelverton
Bobby New
Robert Myers
Howard Campbell
Churchill Urges Nuclear Deterrent for Britain
Sir Winston Churchill urged Britain to maintain an independent nuclear deterrent for safety and world peace. He warned that relinquishing weapons would bar a future return to the nuclear club and foresaw nuclear policy as a major election issue before October 1964.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Primrose League
Churchill
House of Commons
Phillies Buy Lemon from Twins in NL Deal
Jim Lemon, once a feared slugger for the American League, was sold Friday night by the Minnesota Twins to the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League.
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ST. Paul-Minneapolis
Jim Lemon
Minnesota Twins
Philadelphia Phillies
Navy men rescue 33 from Squalus disaster and Korea hero returns
Navy divers saved 33 sailors from the Squalus submarine disaster. A Mission Texas native, Sgt. Jose M. Lopez, who said he just returned from Korea, celebrated with a smile after a party in the Rose Garden and praised shaking hands with the President for his wartime feats against Germany.
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Navy
Squalus
Mission
Tex
Jounty
Jose M. Lopez
Korea
Rose Garden
King Hussein Faces Threat Amid Arab Unity Drive
Beirut AP reports King Hussein, 27, faces assassination danger as Arab unity moves press his rule. Analysts warn an attack could draw Israel across truces, risking a renewed Arab Israeli war while Jordan endures its worst political crisis in years.
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Lebanon
Hussein
Middle East
United Nations
Israel
Jordan
West
Jordan River
Jerusalem
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Iraq
Syria
Nasser
Freestone County Native Claude Jones to be Buried Sunday
Funeral services for Claude Jones 73 a Freestone County native will be held Sunday at 2 p m at Brown's Chapel A M E Church in Freestone County He died Tuesday in Dallas Osteopathic Hospital He was a retired farmer and Methodist Surviving are two sons four daughters three sisters two brothers 23 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Claude Jones
Freestone County
Brown's Chapel A.M
Jones
Dallas Osteopathic Hospital
Dallas
N. A. Burton
Brown's Chapel Church
Brown's Chapel
Dorsey- Keatts Funeral Home
Ahe C. Jones
Irving
William P. Jones
Dominee Turner
Alberta Woodard
Mary B. Daniel
Claudine Haynes
Compton
Calif
H. J. Wheat
Mary D. Jones
Oakwood
A. B. J. Mcllveen
Palestine
K. C. Jones
Herman Jones
Funeral Services For Mexia Man To Be Held Sunday
Funeral services for Simpson Uncle Dude Pringle 82 of Mexia will be Sunday at 2 30 p m at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church with the Rev D C Echols officiating Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery under Dorsey Keatts Funeral Home direction A native of Springfield Limestone County he died Sunday in East Texas Hospital Tyler He was a Baptist Surviving are his wife of Mexia two sons Jimmie Pringle Elgin Pringle both of Fort Worth a daughter Mrs Arlee Griggs of Fort Worth 17 grandchildren and one great grandchild
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Simpson
Dude) Pringle
Mexia
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church
D. C. Echols
Woodland Cemetery
Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home
Springfield
Limestone County
Pringle
East Texas
Tyler
Jimmie Pringle
Elgin Pringle
Fort Worth
Arlee Griggs
Mexia Church to Host Southern Jubilee Singers Program
The Southern Jubilee Singers will present a Sunday night program at 7 30 at Easter Chapel Church on Magnolia Street. Sponsor is Tom Abner with Rev R C Carr, pastor of the church.
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Southern Jubilee Singers
Magnolia Street
Tom Abner
R. C. Carr
Texas National Guard statutes updated by governor
Gov. John Connally signed a law revising military statutes for the Texas National Guard. The rewrite, the first major update since 1926, extends the six month pay limit for Guardsmen injured in active state service, imposes appointment and promotion limits, and authorizes an assistant adjutant general for air.
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Air
Affidavit of Depository Officer in Limestone County Texas
B F Pollard cashier of First National Bank attests that the listed dormant deposits and inactive accounts over seven years old have unknown existence and no claimant in seven years. The affidavit sworn May 3, 1963 before notary Ora Phillips.
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First National Bank
Mexia
Texas
State of
Stein No
Anderson, C. F. Agt
Ash. L. R
County OF
Limestone
B. F. Pollard
Ora Phillips
Notary Public
Lithestone County
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