Senate Approves Peacetime Arms Fund and B70 Jet Drive
The Senate passed a peacetime defense appropriation of 46.848 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1. It includes 3.5 billion to expand conventional forces and nearly a billion for unrequested bomber production and National Guard support, plus 448 million for B70 development and bomber production. The bill returns to the House with Senate boosts totaling over 4 billion.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
West Berlin
Congress
B52. the Administration, Through Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Religious Leader Seized in Baltimore Raid at Mount Vernon Estate
More than 100 police and FBI agents seized John R. Harrell and 16 followers at his 100 acre Louisville estate after an armored car breached a gate. Marine deserter Dion Davis sought refuge. Harrell defended sanctuary claiming discipline and immorality in the Marine Corps. The group faces U S charges for harboring a deserter. Harrell, a 39 year old former Senate candidate, runs a church and anti Communist school on site.
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Louisville
FBI
John R. Harrell
Harrell
Dion Davis
Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps
Manley Hawks
Centralia
Davis
U.S
Greenville
George Washington
Mount Vernon
U.S. Senate
Christian Conservative Church
I E Holley Rites Pending
Funeral rites are pending for F. E. Holley 56 of 1600 Avenue G who died at 7 30 am Thursday in Snyder Hospital Clinic Bolger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements He was born February 17 1905 in Waxahachie and is survived by his wife Lola Holley a daughter Edna Earle Morris of Waco three sons Dan Holley of Los Angeles Jimmy and Kenneth Holley of Waco three sisters Viola Starr Lavbbock Salley Fairley Pecos Edith Underwood Los Angeles and three brothers R L Holley Big Spring Johnny Holley Dallas Woodrow Holley San Aliguites
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F. E. Holley
Avenue G
Snyder Hospital
Bolger
Jimmy
Kenneth Holley
Waco
Viola Starr
Lavbbock
Salley Fairley
Pecos
Edith Underwood
Los Angeles
R. L. Holley
Big Spring
Johnny Holley
Dallas
Woodrow Holley
San Aliguu Tes Er
Khrushchev signals readiness to negotiate Berlin peace
Moscow in a formal note to the United States Britain France and West Germany says it is ready to negotiate a settlement of the Berlin question but warns against military threats The note mentions a possible German conference before elections and reiterates a Soviet peace treaty with East Germany without Western participation It follows Allied notes urging a freely negotiated settlement and cites the 1960 Paris summit disruption after the U2 incident with Gary Powers
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Moscow
United States
Berlin
Britain
France
West Germany
Khrushchev
East Germany
Russia
Germany
West Berlin
Kremlin
Moscow Radio
Amintore Fanfani
Italy
Hijacked Jet Stirs Nation
An itinerant car salesman Leon Bearden and his son Cody hijacked a Continental Airlines jet with ten hostages. The incident sparked calls for piracy-style penalties and triggered political reactions from White House to Congress. Bearden and Cody were bound over to a federal grand jury on bonds of 300000 dollars after nine hours onboard. Leonard Gilman tackled Bearden, aiding the FBI and leading to the end of the hijack.
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EL Paso
Tex
White House
Congress
Leon Bearden
Cody
Bearden
Arizona
California
Kennedy
Border Patrol
Continental Airlines
Havana
Leonard Gilman
Immigration Service
FBI
Gilman
Senate
Washington
Fidel Castro
Castro
United Nations Security Council
U.S
Cuba
J. Edgar Hoover
Mexico City
Continental
Los Angeles
Captain Rickards Prevents Hijack and Forces Landing
Captain B D Rickards, with 34 years of flight experience, redirected the hijacked plane to El Paso International Airport after signaling the danger. He convinced Bearden the craft lacked fuel for a Cuban flight, prompting a fuel stop and landing. Four armed men were aboard, prompting security confusion and roughing up two hostage crewmen mistaken for pirates.
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B. D. Rickards
Rickards
el Paso International
Bearden
el Paso
Richards
Rusk Arrives in Paris to Set Up Berlin Talks
U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived in Paris to coordinate negotiations with Britain and France on West Berlin and Germany. He said Western nations hold postwar rights in Berlin and noted NATO meetings extend through Monday with a full council session next. He affirmed Allied withdrawal accords shaped by World War II.
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Joseph FE. Dynan
Paris
U.S
Dean Rusk
West Berlin
Germany
Rusk
Berlin
East Germany
Soviet Union
West Germany
Western Europe
NATO
Searchers Find Body of 12 Year Old in Pond
NACOGDOCHES AP Searchers found the body of Maurice Session 12 early today in a pond on a dairy farm near here He was the son of Mr and Mrs Yolen. Sensi.
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Nacogdoches
Maurice Session
Yolen. Sensi
Patching Guardsmen Return Home After Intensive Training
North Fort Hood report on Texas 36th Infantry Division soldiers finishing a two-week peacetime training stint. Maj. Gen. Car L. Phinney praised progress on Army Training Tests and readiness while noting potential future drills at home and possible extended summer training next year.
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Fort Hood
Snyder
National Guardsmen of
Texas
36Th Infantry Division
Berlin
Herbert Powell
Continental Army Command
Séth
Stamford
Car L. Phinney
Dallas
Phinney
J Lewellen Dies In Big Spring
Jack L. Lewellen aged 62 died at 3 30 a m today in Big Spring while visiting a daughter s home He was born September 11 1898 and had lived in Scurry County for 12 years A former mechanic and partsman for Musselwhite Trucking Co he was a Baptist and member of several Masonic bodies and the Shrine Club Funeral services are pending under Bolger Funeral Home and he leaves a wife four daughters three stepdaughters one son one stepson two sisters and two brothers
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Jack L. Lewellen
Big Spring
Bolger Funeral Home
Mr. Lewellen
Scurry County
Musslewhite Trucking Co
The
Baptist Church
Levelland Masonic Lodge
Levelland
el Paso
Levelland Council
S. M
Shrine Club
Weather outlook for Texas regions this week
Texans face warm to hot weekend with scattered thundershowers through Saturday. North Central and Northeast Texas expect 70s nights and 90s to low 90s highs with clear to partly cloudy skies. Northwest and Southeast Texas show little temp change, coastal areas breezy, while South Central and Southwest Texas report highs near 90s to low 100s and isolated storms.
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Snyder
Texas
Texas tax measure moves to conference committee
House delays Senate 360 million tax package a 2 percent sales tax proposal with 24 cent threshold seeking a compromise committee to close the gap before Tuesday. Lawmakers ask AG for ruling on gas tax legality amid constitutional questions as negotiators aim for workable terms.
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Austin
House
Texas
Senate
Will Wilson
Conference Committee
Charles Sandahl
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