Texas Violence Claims 26 Lives Weekend Toll
A weekend tally from the Associated Press reports 26 deaths across Texas from highways drownings shootings and accidents. Dallas County saw five of six shooting deaths while others occurred in Houston Tyler and scattered communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Associated Press
Dallas
Otis Harlan Moore
Clepurne
Yung
Jeffrey Gilen Moore
U.S
Alvarado
Moore
Inez
Cleburne
Marvine Martin
Childress
Lake
Tawakont
Brian A. Timms
Timms
Roy Lee Millage
Dalls
Millage
Joseph Fontenot
Redelb
Civil Disorder Advisory Commission Dies After One Year
Joe N. Warton, 45, drilling firm executive and antique auto collector, died on arrival at Medical Center Hospital. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders ended today after about $1.5 million and a year of reports on urban riots. Johnson faced pushback over code cost estimates and Congress inaction as the panel’s work concluded with three studies and no new legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe N. Warton
Medical Center Hospital
Washington
National Advisory Commission
Johnson
Detroit
White House
Milnois
Otto Kerner
Pope Paul VI to rule on birth control in Humanae Vitae
The encyclical Humanae Vitae, dated July 25 1968 in the pope’s seventh year, condemns birth control while addressing population pressures in starving regions. It declares Catholic doctrine on human life and reproductive ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
James,the
Report on racial division policy sparks broad debate
A roughly 1.5 million dollar study concluded America was moving toward two societies, one Black and one White, and urged a sweeping program of housing education and jobs for African Americans. Presidents Johnson and Nixon drew mixed responses while Humphrey called it open to challenge. The Pope and Vatican officials discussed birth control policy amid international reactions. Warton Pauline Patterson Turnbow Audrey Allen Turnbow and Effie Rogers obituaries and notices populate the rest of this wide ranging clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert J1
Jhumphrey
Johnson
Msgr
Ferdinan
Lambruschini
Vatican
Latin America
Prav
Soviet Communist Party
Pope Morgan
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Nobel Prize Winner Dies in Goettingen Germany
Otto Hahn a pioneer German scientist dies at 89 after a long illness. He and assistant Fritz Strassmann split the atom in 1938 proving atomic fission via uranium and neutron bombardment. Hahn won the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry. he could not accept until 1946 as a British POW. Survivors include widow, a grandson, and several relatives. Funeral arrangements follow in Goettingen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goettingen
Germany
Otto Hahn
Hahn
Fritz Strassmann
Eves
Charlie
Charles
Rogers
Corpus Christi
Harvey Rogers
Sanderson
Louis Fletcher
Xilline
Horace Fletcher
Dave Medley
Fort Davis
Cecil Bell
Maria
Eleanor Thomas
Houston
Frankfurt
England
Sir William Ramae
Hain
Canada
Lord Rutherford
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Max ‘Planck Institute
Odessa American Circulation Department Hours Update
Notice regarding subscription and newspaper delivery, inviting readers missing the paper to contact the Circulation Department by phone FE 7 4845, with hours listed as open until 6 45 pm on weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Texas
Qoofssa American
Eas 4Th Street
Ector County
Oy Mall
Iilephone
Prague reform leaders pledge no pullback on freedoms
Pravda denounces American propagandists as trying to split socialist nations. Prague reform leaders including Josef Smrkovsky insist the new liberal program will not yield on press freedom, and stress the presidency will not concede to Soviet demands for ending liberalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Committee
Warsaw
Hey
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Prague
Communist Party
Rude Pravo
Catholic Peoples Party
Lidova Demokracie
MVR Vle LS
U.S
Pravda
Europe
Josef Smrkovsky
National Assembly
New Liberal Movement
Smrkovsky
Presidium
Police shootout prompts claims of foreknowledge
Witnesses recount violence after snipers killed three on the East Side. A special task force member claimed powers knew hours before and police were not warned. Officers described beatings and detentions while investigations follow scattered allegations and suspicious activity around a station wagon on Auburndale Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boros
D Ray
Ray
Special Task Force
Powers That Be
Thomas R Gerrity
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Auburndale Avenue
Gerrity
Minor Alarms Are Answered Across Weekend
Firemen answered four minor alarms this weekend. A cigarette caused a small blaze in the back seat of a 1957 model car owned by Fred Seymore Jr. at 706 Snyder near 620 South Grant. No major damage reported. other incidents included a clothes dryer fire at Collins Lamn and a false alarm at 2u1 West 3rd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Seymore Jr
Snyder
South Grant
Otters
Collins Lamnthe Bay
Andrews Highway
Terviews
East 21St
Andrew Nichols 71 dies. services scheduled in Cross Plains
Andrew Jackson Nichols, 71, former Odessan, died early today in a Cross Plains nursing home. Funeral services set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jack Hackworth officiating. Burial in Odessa Cemetery. Born March 14, 1897 in Oklahoma, he moved to Odessa in 1932 and to Cross Plains in 1949. Survivors include sisters Mrs R C Kellar of Odessa, Mrs Clara Bolinar of Siloam Springs Arkansas, and Mrs Elizabeth Mullins of Bisbee Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth L. Haught
Midland
Newnie W. Ellis
Trinity Cemetery
Wilmer
Haught
Midland Memorial Hospital
Fairmont
West Va
Snyder
Humble Oil and Refining
First Baptist Church
Emma
Kenneth L. Haught Jr
Houston
Andy
Michael R. Haught
Julia Haught
Ralph N. Haught
Austin
John J. Riggs
Emma Allen
Resthaven
Resthavenorial Park
Bailey
Fort Worth
First Methodist Church
George Philippus
Emily Irene [Bailey
Henry Jay Perry Kermit
Henry Jay Perry
Kermit
East Side Church of Christ
Breckenridge
Cooper Funeral Chapel
Perry
Memorial Hospital
Douglas County
Colo
Continental Oil Co
Perry's
Nora Jane Williams
Pyote
Nora Jane
Andrew Jackson Nichols
Nolan
Clara Bolinar
Siloam Springs
Ark
Elizabeth Mullins
Bisbee, Ariz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lee Collins
Route 2
Rhonda Ann Hidalgo
Autry Anderson
Tyler
Herbert Welding Cox
Interstate 10
Winnie
David L. Knowles
Grapevine
Kenneth Webb
Rico Gene Hash
Hash
Richard Charles Byrd
Eric Thompson
Myles Mooring
Roans Prairie
Bryan
Emanuel Edmonson
Giddings Saturdy
Celinda Davis
Beaumont
Mary Alice Davis
Jaarl Smith
Pallas
Farmers Branch
Hallas
Lloyd Williams
Williams
Kathleen
Darrell Devilliers
Perrin
Sherman
Advisory Commission
Commission
Georg Christian
Congress
Warton
House
Emi
Siday
Hubbard-Kelly
Bill Cook
Immanuel
princi-Baptist Church
Sunset Memorial
United States
New York
John Lindsay
REDS
Ec Mac
Immanuel Baptist Church
McFarland Lodge
Jeanette
Pamela
Robin Warton
J. L. Warton
East 18Th
Charlies Warton
Peoria
Heart Fund
Pauline M. Patterson
PECOS
San Antonio
First Methodist
Balmorlea
George Ritter
el Pasos
Thet, Methodist Church
Women’s Society of Christians Service
Louis A. Yates
D. Mi. Wells
Carrizo Springs
Audrey Allen Turnbow Andrews
Audrey Allen Turnbow
New Mexico
Daniel Chonahawn
Effie Rogers
Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton Church of Christ
Sanderson Cemetery
ITISL
Ruth J. Cox
Hobbs
N. M
Griffin Funeral Home
Prairie Haven
Michael Sherrill
Michaell Darrin Sherrill
Forest Park West Cemetery
Yanetan
Vlivee
Clinton Eastman
Slatin
Leslie Johnson
Thristoval
Andrews/i
Singleton Funeral Home
Turnbow
Cooper-Bessemer Inc
Ruidoso Hondoj
Valley Hospital
St. Luke’s
Lincoln National Forest
Episcopal Hospital
Rochester
Southwest Memorial Baptist
Andrews
Baptist Church
Sherrills
Geraldine
Holly Lyn
Nicki
S! Lee
Walters
Y. J. Sherrill
E. Turnbow
Christoval
West 12Th
Russell E. Turnbow
Rasmussen
Casaj Barnhart
Grande
Vaaouae
Earthman Funeral Home
Jouston
Emma Allen Bailey
Eula Bessie Reaves
McCamey
Eula Bessie ‘Reaves
Fairmount Cemetery
San Angelo
Spalding Funeral Home
E. A. Reaves
Reaves
Margaret Carter
E. F. Reaves
H. P. Walker
Anna Welch
Kate Nance
Tucson
Aviz
Sybil Schlitter Hobbs
Sybil Schlitter
Oil Center
Oil Center Baptist Church
Graham, Tex
Herb
Charles Schlitter
Rantoul
Charlotte Ann Brunette
Balboa
Panama Canal Zone
M. D. Stephens
Philadelphia
Frank
Richard Stephens
Randchildren
Dick Clark’s
East County Rd
Dick Clark's
U. S
Leslie
Wea
Clark's Chicken
Dick Clark
BR. S. Fisher
B. Fisher
North Grant FE
West Texas
Har Jurgs Hanes
Memphis
Hanes
Dist. Atty
Phil M. Canale
Justice Department
King
2U1
Andrew Nichols
Pai
Nessa , Tera
Sands Restaurant
Jaycees
Inn of
American Legion
Earl S. Bailey
Legion Hall
Eighth and
Pueblo
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!