Mystery gift car shocks Bay Area worker
Thomas Weaver a 21 year old family man in Newark California received a bill of lading for a fully paid eight thousand dollar foreign convertible. He fears shipping costs and possible insurance. Another Thomas Weaver in Long Beach knows nothing about the car. If kept he plans to sell it to pay bills.
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Newark
Calif
Thomas Weaver
San Francisco Bay Area
Weaver
Long Beach
Marie G. Georgalis
San Francisco
Local banks report record deposits and loans in Snyder
Snyder banks announce all time highs in deposits and loans as of December 31 1964. The two banks show total deposits of 28 321 874 58 and loans of 14 135 720 02, surpassing year end 1963 highs. Snyder National Bank records 20 107 596 93 in deposits and 9 997 163 74 in loans while West Texas State Bank posts 8 214 277 65 in deposits and 4 138 55 28 in loans.
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Snyder
Snyder National Bank
West Texas State Bank
Felix Jones To Lead Snyder Chamber In 1965
W Felix Jones executive vice president of Snyder National Bank was elected chamber president for 1965 at a Tuesday night meeting. Bill Seale is first vice president and Bentley Baize second vice president. Dr Jack Nesbit treasurer. Preston Smith of Lubbock set to speak at the January 15 banquet.
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W. Felix Jones
Snyder National Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Seale
Bentley Baize
von Roeder Seed Farms
Jack
Nesbit
H. A. Johnson, Jr
Jones
John Boren
Preston Smith
Lubbock
Texas
Chamber
Snyder Chamber
Boren
Felix Jones
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Jack Nesbit
Quiet Battle Zone Scene In Viet Nam
More than 800 South Vietnamese troops moved from Binh Gia into a new operation area as a retaliation effort. An enemy sniper wounded one paratrooper before being captured. Eighty helicopters ferried troops under Lt. Gen. Throckmorton. no enemy fire met the landing. Casualties in the region were heavy for government forces with six Americans killed and two missing and believed captured. Villagers reported Viet Cong signs and a large enemy presence around the Catholic refugee settlement.
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Binh Gia
South Viet Nam
John L. Throckmorton
U.S
Viet Nam
Saigon
Binh Gin
Democrats Tighten Grip on House Committees
Democrats expanded control across House committees, reshaping the Ways and Means ratio to 17 Democrats and 8 Republicans and boosting chances for health care and Social Security measures. Appropriations also shifts to 34-16 in favor of Democrats, with Rules remaining 15-10.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Rules Committee
Decisis
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
Appropriations Committee
Costly fire at Eglin destroys satellite complex
At Eglin Air Force Base Florida an all night effort by 75 military and civilian firefighters extinguished a fire that destroyed a satellite and missile tracking complex valued at a high amount. Air Force investigators probed the ruins to determine the cause. One firefighter, Robert E Chambers, was hospitalized with a fractured rib after being struck by a hose. The blaze began on the building's second story in a wedge shaped historic structure Tuesday.
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Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Air Force
Eglin
Robert E Chambers
Weather snapshot across Texas with warm highs
Central Texas is clear to partly cloudy this afternoon and Thursday, with warmer conditions tonight and highs around 70 to 80. Northeast and Southeast Texas show increasing cloudiness and rising temps into Thursday, while West Texas faces mainly partly cloudy skies and a few warmer periods.
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Snyder
Thort
Texas
Northern Calif flood danger rises as rain and melt threaten towns
Army and Air Force helicopters evacuate nearly 200 people near the Eel and Mad rivers as floods near record levels. Relief efforts reach thousands of sheep south of Eureka while tides and gale force winds hamper response. Authorities warn residents from Eel delta to Blue Lake to brace for more rain and rising waters through Thursday.
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San Francisco
California
Army
Air Force
Eureka
Calif
Washington
Oregon Coast
Eer Delta
Blue Lake
Ruth Dam
Rites For Mrs Harris Set Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs Minnie Tucker Harris 59 of Snyder will be at 2 pm Saturday at Durin Baptist Church. She died Tuesday at home on El Paso Avenue. Born December 17 1905 in Alabama she lived in Mitchell and Howard counties before moving to Snyder in 1951. Survived by husband Paul and five sisters and two brothers. Burial in Hillside Memorial Gardens under Bell Seale Funeral Home.
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Minnie Tucker Harris
Snyder
Harris
el Paso Avenue
Alabama
Texas
Mitchell
Howard Counties
Lubbock
Paul Harris
John Waugh
Louise Bendersky
Selma
Ala
Bob Keeper
Los Angeles
Cal
C R. Carter
Topeka
Kan
Earl Bailey
Calvert, Ala
Howell Tucker
Brent, Ala
Allan Tucker
Durin Baptist Church
A. B. Teague
Wichita Falls
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Indonesia's UN Decision Splits Reds
Jakarta reports indicate a Sino Soviet exchange over Indonesia leaving the United Nations. Moscow warns withdrawal could worsen eastern Asia tensions while Peking backs Sukarno's move. Subandrio meets with Russian and Chinese envoys as U.N. officials eye formal notice and possible reconsideration.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Soviet Union
Commu
Nnst
China
United Nations
Peking
Moscow
Nikolai A. Mikhailov
Subandrio
Kremlin
Asia
Yao ‘Chung-ming
Presiden Sukarno
Peking ‘Radio
Fim
Peking People’s Daily
Sukarno
U.S
Howard P Jones
Pakistan
Czechoslovakia
Poland
World Organization
United Arab Republic
Algeria
Philippines
Cathedral Completion Ends Six Centuries in Milan
MILAN Italy AP reports the city marked the completion of its great Gothic cathedral after six centuries of construction. The ceremony drew officials and residents who celebrated the long awaited milestone and its symbolic significance for Milan's heritage.
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Milan
Italy
Milanese
Cathedral’s new mass uses local tongue and signals
At the world’s second largest church in Los Angeles officials unveiled changes to the facade and interior. Mass in Italian was performed publicly for the first time in Italy liking vernacular language with a built in tape recorder delivering amplified instructions. The traffic signal now shows Dont walk Walk readings at crossings. The Vatican decree prompts slower adoption worldwide.
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Los Angeles
Italy
Eckstine Limped Back On Stage After Attack
New York AP report says singer Billy Eckstine, who missed his Royal Box supper club opening after being beaten kidnapped robbed of 600 dollars and fed knockout drinks, limped onstage Tuesday night.
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New York
Billy Eckstine
Royal Box
Eckstine Says Abduction Claim Not a Hoax
The singer Eckstine told reporters his 26 hour disappearance from Harlem was real not a publicity stunt. He said he was waylaid by three Black men in Harlem late Sunday and returned to his apartment early Tuesday morning, suffering three bruised ribs and one broken rib.
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Eckstine
Harlem
Industrial Corp Amends By Laws At Annual Meeting
Industrial Corp approved two amendments to its by laws at the annual meeting in the district courtroom. One allows use of funds to aid equipment financing and promotional work, the other permits expenditures from earned interest for promotional efforts. Current capital remains intact. Directors re elected include Claude McCormick and J. Mark James Rosser among others.
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Board of Directors
Development Corporation
J. Mark McLaughlin
Claude McCormick
H. W. Cargile
George Patterson
Max West
Bill Wilson
Felix Jones
Gene Thompson
Lyle Deftenbach
J. Mark James Rosser
H. F. Clark
Hearings Clash Over Proposed Robert Lee Dam Plan
Opponents and supporters clashed at a Texas hearing over the Robert Lee reservoir project on the upper Colorado River. The Lower Colorado River Authority seeks an 8 000 acre-feet per year water use for mining and waterflooding while expansion would raise capacity from 403 700 to 488 760 acre feet. Critics warn water would divert flows from Lake Buchanan and the Highland Lakes system supplying Austin, recreation and power.
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Ler Jones
Austin
Robert Lee
Gideon
Upper
Colorado River
Elbert Hooper
Sim Gideon
Colorado
Texas
Water Commission
Hooper
Colo
CRMWD
Radio River Municipal Water 1960 Commission
Big Spring
Colewarts
Mitchell County
Provideroject
Coke County
LCRA
Lake Buchanan
LORA
Highland Lakes
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Oregon
Nevada
Idaho
Mrs. Harris
U.N
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Malaysia
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