Simmering Poverty War Fuss Boils Over
The House antipoverty probe nears a boil over as three staff lawyers are fired in a routine realignment. Powell and subcommittee Republicans push for immediate field hearings in Chicago Cleveland Los Angeles and other cities amid delays and discord over the inquiry.
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Washington
UPI
Adam Clayton Powell
Ashawedaaman ¢Haanhanm
N.Y
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House
Garrett Byrne
Boston
I. T. Creswell F
Nashville
Tenn
Warren Wilson
Everett
Wash
Byrne
Creswell
Wilson
Chicago
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Johnson Praises Alabama Jury Verdict and Klan Prosecution
President Johnson welcomed the conviction of three Ku Klux Klan members in the slaying of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in Alabama. He praised Justice Department prosecutors and FBI for the case and noted the nation can take heart from justice in racial matters.
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Johnson City Tex
UPI
Johnson
Joseph Laitin
Katzenbach
South
Lunar Horoscope Digest Weighs Weekend Outlook
Daily star chart notes conflicts to be tabled after the 12th. Aries seeks practical personal solutions while Taurus counsels patience. Gemini and Cancer urge calming actions. Leo favors home time. Virgo social recreation away from home.
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Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Leo
Virgo
Bakers Union Cancels Bread Strike to Let Study Commission Decide
London reports that the Bakers' Union has called off its national bread strike and accepted a government commission study of demands for a 30 percent wage increase. The move shifts wage dispute resolution to the commission's findings.
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London
UPI
Bakers’ Union
Nightrider Slayer Sentenced in Racial Killing
Hubert Damon Strange received a 10 year prison term for the July slaying of Willie Brewster in Anniston Alabama. The verdict, by an all white jury, marked the first modern South murder conviction of a white man in a racial killing.
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Ala
UPI
Hubert Damon Strange
Willie Brewster
Robert Parker
Strange
South
Lewis Blevins
Johnny Ira Defries
Brewster
Clarence Williams
Williams
Parker
J. B. Stoner
Inspection Set For Woodson Boys Club Open House
Woodson Boys' Club in the 900 block of East Murphy will be open for public inspection Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The club will begin operations Monday at 3 30 p.m. A color television will be given away at 7 p.m. Saturday during the open house. The official opening program is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday December 19.
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Woodson Boys’ Club
East Murphy
Mental Testing Slated For Midlothian Boy
A 19 year old youth held for several fire bombings will face a sanity hearing Monday in Ellis County courthouse at 8 45 am. He has admitted setting the 1962 Midlothian Mirror bombing and other fires since 1961. He will be committed to Terrell State Hospital for 90 days, then evaluated for continued treatment. The Mirror suffered 7000 damage. one fire damaged L O Womack Manufacturing Co in 1961 causing 175000 in losses.
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Tex
UPI
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Midlothian
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Midlothian Mirror
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Hartsfield
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the Mirror
Saews
Penn Jones
Aday
Jones
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Annual Scout Banquet Set in Sunset Trail District
The Sunset Trail District of the Boy Scouts of America will hold its annual recognition banquet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in Cameron Elementary School cafeteria. It features a covered dish dinner for all Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Explorer leaders with entertainment by a quartet from Odessa High School directed by Maurice Alfred. Jack Stickland will install 1966 officers led by Chairman Dr. Bill Shaw with vice presidents Jack Tidwell and Jack Milam and a long list of board members. A. C. Akins will serve as speaker.
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Boy Scouts of America
Cameron Elementary
Odessa High School
Maurice Alfred
Jack Stickland
Buffalo Trail Council Executive Board
Bill Shaw
Dover
Jack Tidwell
North Whitaker
Jack Milam
Englewood Circle
Wroe Lynch
West 22Nd
Lucius Bunton
Ridgecrest
J. C. McConnell
West Crescent
Jim Headlee
Country Club Estates
J. A. Fowler
North Graham
Jim Perry
Idlewood
George Burns
Fall
Curtis Brothers
West 26Th
Morris Barker
Dawn
Bland Harper
Glenwood
W. B. Stowe
North Washington
A. C. Akins
Soviets Pay in Yankee Dollars for Transit to North Viet Nam
United Nations diplomats reported that the Soviet Union has paid transit duties to China in American dollars and gold for supplies sent to North Viet Nam, rejecting rubles for the payments. The move follows rising Soviet-Chinese tensions over aid to the Viet Cong and North Viet Nam, with Poland joining Moscow in criticizing Beijing.
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N.Y
UPI
China
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
General Assembly
Red China
Peking
North
Communist Party
Moscow
Polish United Workers Party
Trybuna Ludu
Chinese Communist Party
Annual Iraan FFA Livestock Show Scheduled
The 19th annual show starts at 8 a.m. December 18 at the FFA feed barn. Frank Randolph, vocational agriculture teacher, announced the Iraan FFA Chapter sponsors the commercial event with 90 lambs judged by slaughter grade. Champions will be named in fine wool, medium wool, and crossbred classes, plus an overall grand champion. Livestock showing ends by noon and a following FFA judging contest begins at 1 p.m.
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IRAAN
Farmers of America
Frank Randolph
FFA
Replacements Hired For City Employes
The City of Odessa hires two replacement workers for the week ending Friday. Joe Reschman at 1008 Matamoras works as traffic engineering laborer earning $285 monthly. Manuel Aguero at 1519 South Anderson serves as refuse collector in the sanitation department earning $1.50 an hour.
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Joe Reschman
Matamoras
Manuel Aguero
South Anderson
Sanitation
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