THREE MISSISSIPPI PROJECT WORKERS VANISH IN 1964
Three civil rights workers Andrew Goodman Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared during the Mississippi Project a desegregation drive. FBI arrested six months later three suspects for conspiring to threaten and intimidate northern workers in Itta Bena. McGraw Hodges and Randall faced charges with bonds set and no immediate trial date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Partment
Andrew Goodman
New York
Mickey Schwerner
Brooklyn
James Chaney
Meridian
Miss
Mississippi
FBI
Itta Bena
U.S
Oxford
Bernard Torkington
Berkeley
Calif
John Lyon Paul
Ossining
N.Y
Merritt Ely Randle
James E. Hodges
Lawrence Neal McGraw
Itta Bena Mississippi
U. S
Omar Craig
McGraw
Randall
Hodges
Project
Trash Fire Put Out in Odessa Alley
A trash fire was extinguished by the Odessa Fire Department Saturday night in an alley between the 1300 blocks of North Grant and North Texas. The Odessa American provides daily metropolitan news and subscription details in Odessa Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa Fire Department
North Grant
North Texas
Odessa
Tex
Ector County
Odessa American
East Fourth Street
Texas
Flaming Crash Injures Youth and Miss Hobbs Pageant Honor
A 19 year old Odessa resident suffered serious injuries when his motorcycle burst into flames after swerving to avoid a stalled dump truck. Miss Hobbs, Miss Raabe, was named Miss Hobbs in the annual pageant Saturday night. She is a drama student and a 1961 graduate of Hobbs High School attending the University of Michigan as a freshman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobbs
Marion Raabe
E. R
Dutch) Raabe
Raabe
University of Michigan
Hobbs High School
Odessa
Johnson addresses Midwest donors and delegates in vivid campaign tour
President Johnson spoke at a $100-a-plate Detroit dinner and later addressed 1,800 Democrats in St. Paul praising the administration's progress since 1960. He cited the nuclear test ban and cuts in nuclear weapons materials as part of a broader peace and prosperity record. At home, Gordon Locklear suffered burns and injuries when his motorcycle ignited after colliding with a roadside truck abandoned on West County Road. he was hospitalized in satisfactory condition. A bystander helped extinguish the flames and transport him, while the truck remained undamaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Minnesota
Democratic-Farmer - Labor Party
St. Paul
America
Johnson
Kermit Highway
West County Road
Gordon Locklear
West 48Th
Medical Center Hospital
Locklear
Freddie Harris
Diane
Jimmie Johnson
West 40Th
Elderly Man Held On Fondling Charge At Jp Dolan
A 64 year old man identified as Murray Paul McDonald was jailed on a fondling a minor charge in Ector County held on a 3500 dollar bond. He resides at 1018 Sylvan Place and appeared before Justice of the Peace J B Dolan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ector County
Justice of the Peace
J. B. Dolan
Murray Paul McDonald
Sylvan Place
Oswald's long odyssey from U.S. to Soviet life ends in return
Diary notes recount Oswald's transfer from a hospital to a general ward and his drastic journey through Minsk. He loses U.S. citizenship, marries Marina to spite Ella, and faces communist life with mixed feelings. By Christmas 1961 they gain permission to leave, and their daughter June Lee is born before the family returns to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rimma
Oswald
U.S.A
Red Cross
Minsk
Moscow
U.S. Red Cross
Comrade Shrapef
Lenin
Andrei Tovli
Tovli
United States
Tovii
U.S.S.R
U.S.M.C
Ella Germain
Radio Factory
Ella
Rosa
Ella German
U.S
Marina
June Lee
U.S. Immigration Service
San Antonio
Tex
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices Across Odessa Region
Funeral services for Spencer Allen Walker 64 of Odessa and numerous other memorials across San Angelo Midland and Levelland detail services for individuals including Mrs Ben Woods Jr Mrs Charley Luddy Waddell Roosevelt V Thompson Emma Dora Vick Miss Ruth Epley Roy P Northern Jr Mrs Ruby Mae Ray A Q Lucas and Anna Lewis. Surviving family links and burial sites span Frederick Oklahoma Lawnhaven Cemetery Temple Midland Abilene and Odessa Cemetery with local funeral homes directing arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Allen Walker
East 13Th
Medical Center Hospital
Frederick
Okla
Gish Funeral Home
Walker
Rix Funeral Home
Lubbock
Odessa
Medical Center
Illinois
Paul A. Walker
U. S. Air Force
O. 5. Burnham
Lawnhaven
Woods
Midkiff
Fort Worth
Ben Woods
Crane
First Christian Church
McCamey
G. T. Hogue
Midland
Emma Dora Vick
Newnie W. Ellis
Hillcrest
Temple
Vick
Allen Cowden
Ed Adsher
el Paso
A. Waddell
W. W. Hamilton
Roy P. Northern JR
First Presbyterian Church
Northern
Standard Oil of Texas
Wichia Falls
Melissa
Patricia Northern
John
Scott Northern
Roy P.northern
Lebanon
Ruby Mae Ray
Anna Lewis
East Pearl
Saint John’s Baptist Church
Cummings Funeral Home
Lewis
Robinson County
Andrew Lewis
College
James Lewis
Groesbeck
Collins Carter
Mexia
S.A. Penny
Roberta Green
Parker
Ariz
VFW Convention Elects New State Leaders In Hobbs
About 800 veterans from the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered in Hobbs for the 1964 New Mexico VFW Convention to elect a state commander a senior vice commander and a junior vice commander on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VFEW
HOBBS
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Mexico
VFW
Woman Injured in Altercation at Westover Inn Club
A 43 year old Pauline Brooks of 110 Orchard Lane was treated at Medical Center Hospital Saturday night for a forehead laceration after an altercation at the Westover Inn Club. Deputies from the sheriff's office investigated the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Brooks
Orchard Lane
Medical Center Hospital
Westover Inn Club
Sheriff's Deputies
Redistricting Shifts Power Toward Metropolitan Centers
The Harris County House delegation would rise from 12 to 19 while Dallas would grow to 14 and Bexar to 10. Rural districts may face more contests as incumbents clash after reapportionment. A federal court suit seeks an early ruling on the process and timing. Smith, veteran lawmaker, doubts cities face bias in future laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris County
Dallas
Bexar
Tarrant
Houston
Supreme Court
Federal
Smith
House
Senate
Lubbock
Fall Hurts 5YearOld Boy In Bicycle Accident
Five year old Roreld Clark son of Mr and Mrs R W Clark of 2831 Cambridge was hospitalized Saturday night with a fractured elbow from a fall off a bicycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roreld Clark
R. W. Clark
Cambridge
Medical Center Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Irine Birt
Los Angeles
Raymond Hallard
West
Arthur James Edison
Texas Highway
Mie
Canad
F Jeweler's
Ares
HALL
Upholstery & Mattress Co
Poge
Mrs
Ben Woods JR
San Angelo
Ben Woods, Jr
Charley Waddell
Denver City
Charley
Luddy) Waddell
Bethel Baptist Church
Denver City Memorial Park
Singleton Funeral Home
Waddell
Sterling City
Raymond Waddell
Roosevelt V. Thompson Snyder
Roosevelt V. Thompson
Thompson
Texas Medical Center
Scurry County
Mount Olivet
Ruth Epley
Fairview
Miss Epley
Abilene Hospital
Stanton
Abilene
Hardin-Simmons University
Texas Womens University
Denton
University College of
A. Q. Lucas Levelland
Lucas
George Price Funeral Home
Rger CH
Burger Chef Systems
Indianapolis 7
Indiana
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