Ex Classmate Held For Coed s Murder
James C. Cross Jr., 22, UT student, was charged with murdering two Chi Omega members Susan Cross and Shirley Ann Stark. Police say Cross strangled them July 18 in Austin. he signed a voluntary statement and is jailed without bond. Grand jury to consider indictment. death penalty sought.
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Lee Jones
Austin
Garrison
Cross
Travis County
Dist
Atto
Tom Blackwell
Grand
Miss Stark
Japan
Fort Worth
Richard H. Adlock
Wildcat drilling sites mapped across Snyder area oil fields
New wildcat sites were staked this week across Snyder area oil fields in Fisher and Stonewall counties. Projects include Midwest Oil Corp and Harding Brothers Oil & Gas No 1-A, with planned depths up to 4 100 feet, near Rotan and Longworth areas. C W Gore of Abilene filed for a 3 600 foot Swastika probe in Stonewall County near Aspermont.
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H&tc
Snyder
Fisher Feet
Stonewall
Midwest Oil Corp
Midland
Harding Brothers Oil & Gas No
G. B. Motley
Dallas
J. M. Hayes
Rotania
Ackerly
Dean Fisher
North
C. L. Norsworthy Jr
U. S
Fisher County
Longworth
Newman
Ht&b
C. W. Gore
Abilene
Matchett
Stonewall County
Aspermont
Carol Ann
Tannehill
Hamrick
Bbb&c Survey
Dellwood Oil Co
Crown Central Petroleum Corp. of
Houston
Greek King Weighs Next Move As Crisis Lingers
King Constantine closed talks with political leaders in Athens on Greece's 23 day political crisis but offered no clear plan. Ex-Premier George Papandreou, 77, seeks recall to the premiership or general elections, with speculation about his Union party role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Dopoulos
Athens
Constantine
Greece
George Papandreou
Papandreou
Union Party
Johnson Rejects Plea To Halt North Viet Bombing
Tokyo AP report notes Communist China warned of intervention if the United States presses its Viet Nam war effort. Beijing vowed broad support and even deployment of Chinese forces to aid Hanoi, stating it would act against U.S. aggressors.
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Tokyo
China
United States
U.S
New China News Agency
Johnson rejects Nkrumah appeal for halt to Viet Nam bombing
White House disclosed President Johnson refused Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah request to stop all bombing of North Viet Nam. He assured Nkrumah there is no danger to a peace mission flight to Hanoi and outlined Congress briefing plans for Viet Nam updates next week.
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Washington
White House
Johnson
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Viet Nam
Kihumah
Hanoi
Bill D. Moyers
Nkrumah
Moyers
Alex Quaison- Lackey
United States
Congress
Senate
House
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
Quaison-Lackey
U.N. General Assembly
Quaison- Lackey
Snyder High Band Announces Second Summer Session
Snyder High School Band will start a second two week summer session on Monday led by director Melvin Montgomery. Daily lessons cover percussion oboes at 8 a.m. French horns and flutes at 9 a.m. Clarinets and cornets at 10 a.m. Trombones baritones basses and saxophones at 1 p.m. Stage band at 1 30 p.m. A twirlers program for seventh through twelfth grades runs for one week beginning August 16.
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Snyder High School
Melvin Montgomery
Johnson Calls Meet On Water Shortage
President Johnson summons governors mayors and Congress members from New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania to a White House conference next Wednesday on water shortage. The action follows warnings of a water impasse in early September due to ongoing drought affecting the three states.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
White House
Showers Sweep Across North Texas with Tornado Hit Near Pottsboro
Unsettled weather spread across north Texas Friday night with light to moderate rain from Dallas to Scurry County. A tornado damaged a boat storage roof near Pottsboro on Lake Texoma, while winds gusted across the region. The Weather Bureau warned of continued high winds and slowly easing skies into Sunday.
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Texas
Snyder
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Scurry County
Camp Springs
Scurry-Fisher County
North Texas
Pottsboro
Tex
Lake Texoma
Dallas-Fort Worth
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
Mineral Wells
Sherman
Lubbock
G. W. Clark Service Set Here Monday
Funeral services are planned for 2 pm Monday for George W. Clark 70 of 808 Thirty-first Street. A Georgetown native, he lived in Scurry County 50 years and worked 31 years at Southland Ice Co. He married Gertie Lee Collier in 1915. Survived by wife two daughters two sons two sisters and a brother Eleven grandchildren. Service at First Assembly of God Church with pastors Malone Dearman. Burial at Kins Cemetery under Bolger Funeral Home supervision.
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George W. Clark
Thirty-first
Clark
Georgetown
Scurry
Southland Ice Co
Gertie Lee Collier
Benjamin
Frances Sanders
Billy Miles
Snyder
Henry
Hank) Clark
G. W. Clark Jr
San Angelo
Eva Rose
Bell Sparks
San Diego
Calif
Henry ‘Clark
Knox City
First
Assembly of ‘God Church
E .E. Malone
Church of God
R. C. Dearman
First Assembly of God
Church of God Kins
Bolger Funeral Home
Weather summary for North Central Texas and regions
Parts of Texas forecast with high temperatures from 90s to mid 100s and lows in the 60s to 70s. scattered showers across areas including North Central, Northeast, Northwest and Southeast regions with variable coverage. Winds southeast to gusty along the coast through Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Texas
Northwest
Eight Die In Plane Crash Near Lakewood Cemetery
A Beechcraft twin engine plowed into All Souls Cemetery near Lakewood California in dense fog minutes after takeoff from Long Beach Airport. Eight aboard two families were killed including pilot James Whitmarsh 37 his wife Mildred and children Terry 16 Mary Margaret 14 and James Edward Dent 37 Rebecca and children Peggy 15 Richard 16. Neighbors reported extensive damage and a fireball in the yard.
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All Souls Cemetery
Long Beach
John Hagedorn
Hagedorn
Joseph Rhoades
Roy Kundtz
James Whitmarsh
Lakewood
Mildred
Terry
Mary Margaret
James Edward Dent
Whittier
Calif
Rebecca
Peggy
Richard
Congressman's Son Denies Role in Officer's Death
In West Point Mississippi the son of U S congressman Henry Reuss denies pushing patrolman B Cowart who died during a Civil Rights protest. District Attorney Harvey Buck says Reuss 18 pushed Cowart while Cowart attempted to frisk him. Reuss states he learned of Cowart's death only in jail and describes tension at the scene. The incident followed a weekend demonstration against arrests of 54 Negro protesters. Reuss is a Stanford student and volunteer civil rights worker visiting from Wisconsin.
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West Point
Miss
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Harvey Buck
B. Cowart
Mike Reuss
Cowart
Reuss
Henry
D-Wis
Young Reuss
Stanford University
Joe Strickl
Buck
England
Milwaukee
Rett
Tyler
Wendell Hess
Bloomington
Beasley
Iil
Delbert Hess
Plainview
Jimmy
Bruce Hess
Herm
Leigh
David Leon Ward
Hermleigh
Laney Athe
Sandra Ward
D Z Hess Dies Rites At Hermleigh
David Z Hess 84 longtime Hermleigh resident died Saturday in Lubbock after a long illness He served as Scurry County School Board president and was active in the Hermleigh Methodist Church and Masonic Lodge Funeral services set for 4 pm Sunday at the Hermleigh Methodist Church with burial at Pyron Cemetery Masonic rites at the graveside Pallbearers named Memorials suggested to the Hermleigh Methodist Church Survivors include wife Nora three sons Forest Orval and Dale Hess a sister Mrs R N Gar-
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David Z. Hess
Hermleigh
Lubbock
Mr. Hess
Scurry County
Methodist Church
Stewards
Pam
Hermleigh Methodist Church
Ernest McGaughey
Pyron Cemetery
Bolger
Fred Bowen
Clinton Lewis
Roy Lewis
Jim Farr
Gaither
Alton Barfoot
Charley Morrow
Orval Allen
Hess
Nora Hess
Mary Ward
Forest
Orval
Dale Hess
R. N. Gar
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Huntsville
Ala
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
Timith Wassian
Chi Omega
Homer
Miss Rigsby
the University
Snyder Area Oil
Dawson County
Lamesa
T&p Survey
Three B Oil Co
Jack van Norman
R. H Read Jr
van Norman
Red China
Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Park
G. W. Clark
Lakewood, Calif
D. Z. Hess
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