Kennedy praises Dillon after Inter-American Alliance for Progress
President Kennedy lauded Secretary Dillon for his work at the Punta del Este conference where 20 nations signed the Alliance for Progress charter while Cuba did not. He urged strong, fully funded foreign aid and noted House and Senate pass different bills awaiting conference.
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Washington
Kennedy
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Cuba
Dillon
Punta del Este
Congress
Alliance For Progress
House
Senate
Powers Ends Year In Jail
MOSCOW AP Francis Gary Powers completed a full year in prison after being sentenced last August to 10 years for spying. He is jailed at Vladimir where he works in a paper shop making envelopes. U.S. Embassy officials say requests to see him are ignored and no transfer plans are confirmed.
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Moscow
Francis Gary Powers
Vladimir
Powers
U.S
Foreign Office
United States
Barbara Powers
Texas Tech Board Increases Budget For 1961 62
The Texas Tech board of directors approved a 12 112 220 budget for 1961 62 raising total funding by 1 574 727 backed by legislative appropriations and Merit based faculty pay raises. Plans include a 776 bed dormitory, a non commercial educational TV station on Channel 5 funded privately, and a renamed Pan Tech Farms to Texas Technological College Research Farm Pantex Amarillo. CC 1 Wall Amarillo elected board chairman.
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Lubbock
Texas Tech
Tech Board of
Manuel DeBusk
Dallas
Tech
DeBusk
Pan-Tech Farms
Amarillo
Texas Technological College Research Farm
Pantex
Tex
CC. 1
Wall
Mishap Fatal To Snyder Man
One man died and seven were injured in a two vehicle crash 12 miles west of Snyder on U S 180. Jim Lawson Sullinger Jr., 38, of 2603 Avenue W, died at Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Injured were his wife Juanita Sullinger and six children, all treated at Cogdell. The other vehicle was a 1960 Chevrolet pickup driven by Robert Wheat of Lamesa with passengers Gene Tyre and Robert L. Creel. Highway patrolman Ivy Daniels investigated. Sullinger, a lifelong Scurry County resident and Lone Star Gas employee, was a Snyder Volunteer Fire Department member. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Snyder
U.S. 180
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Jim Lawson Sullinger Jr
Avenue W
Juanita Sullinger
Kay
Faye Sullinger
Jimmie
Billy
Richard Sullinger
Bill Wiman
John Wiman
Twenty-seventh Street
Sullinger
Robert Wheat
Lamesa
Gene Tyre
Robert L. Creel
Ivy Daniels
Bolger
Fluvanna
Scurry County
Lone Star Gas Co
Snyder Volunteer Fire Department
Bolger Funeral Home
Jet Crash Kills Two in Hasty Colorado Field
A B47 bomber crashed and burned in a wheat field near Hasty Colorado early Saturday killing aircraft commander Lt. Raymond F. Gaub age 28 of Menna South Dakota and maintenance man Airman J C Richard Jones 22 of Mount Vernon New York. Survivors parachuted to safety were Lt. Larry Eastlund 23 Denver navigator and Lt. Arturo Aviles Jr. 27 Los Angeles the pilot with minor injuries.
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HASTY
Colo
Raymond F. Gaub
Menna
S. D
J.C. Richard Jones
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Larry R. Eastlund
Denver
Arturo Aviles Jr
Los Angeles
Light rains drift across Texas as cool front lowers highs
A midsummer cool front sparked showers across wide parts of the state. Rain led to delayed cotton harvest in the Lower Rio Grande Valley while North Texas and the Panhandle saw light drizzle to scattered downpours. Highs ranged from 74 in Dalhart to 94 in Dallas.
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Snyder
Sweetwater
Roscoe
Vincent
Colorado City
Big Spring
Center Point
Texas Midlands
Presidio
Dalhart
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
Lubbock
Childress
Galveston
Midland
Dallas
Wink
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Panhandle Plains
South Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Johnson Applauded By West Berliners In Welcome
Vice President Lyndon Johnson received a patriotic, rousing welcome in West Berlin as U S troops reinforce the Berlin garrison. He urged Berliners to stand with the free world and warned communism will fail to keep Germany divided.
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Johnson
West
Berlin
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Adenauer
West Germany
U.S
East Germany
Mannheim
U. S. Berlin
Britain
Kennedy
Germany
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union Rejects Western Berlin Protests Over Border
Moscow rejects Western protests on East Berlin border closing. It accuses the West of bribery and blackmail driving German refugees, blames West Germany and the Allies for East Berlin unrest, and warns of a separate peace treaty with East Germany if no détente.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
East Germany
Berlin
U. S
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Khrushchevy
West Germany
Germany
East Berlin
Hearings on Gambling Set by McClellan Probe
Senate investigations panel will begin hearings next week into organized crime, focusing on illegal gambling and crooked gaming devices. Witnesses from major cities include Owen Madden. probe will examine devices, interstate distribution, and related betting networks.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
Senate
House
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations
McClellan
New York
New Jersey
Boston
Philadelphia
Miami
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Louisville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Little Rock
Ark
Owen Madden
Snyder business men to tour Rome Ga industrial centers
Thirteen Snyder business men are set to fly to Rome Ga on Tuesday to see what Police Chief Howard Long praised as a well balanced town with thriving business and good schools. The group will tour Rome then Monroe La and Longview to survey industrial installations.
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Snyder
Rome
Howard Long
Long
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
C. T. McLaughlin
Monroe
Longview
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Billie
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Jim L. Sullinger Sr
Dermott
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W. A. Reeder
Stanfield
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X Reds
By George Syvertsen
Snyder G
Georereia
Diamond M Industries
Russell Yorgesen
Deffebach and
Yorgesen
Mel Zane Gilbert
KSNY
John Blum
Woody Forrester
Chamber of Commerce
Roy Dunlap
Max West
Snyder Savings and Loan Association
Doug McGlaun
McGlaun
Gulf Service
Lyle Deffebach
Deffebach
Herbert Feather
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