Johnson Travels Keep Fellow Tourists Guessing
President Johnson remains elusive about his July Fourth Texas visit as aides and press pool follow the president's jet to Andrews Air Force Base and Bergstrom before he heads to the ranch. The White House press office offered little detail while travelers anticipate potential boating or fairground appearances near Fredericksburg.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Johnson City
Tex
President Johnson
Texas
Fredericksburg
Washington
White House
George Reedy
Johnson
Andrews Air Force Base
Secret Service
Andrews Field
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Weather of Texas and Louisiana Sunday outlooks
A statewide Texas forecast shows hot conditions with highs from 86 to 112 across regions including Northeast 94 96, Northwest 94 98, South Central 94 103, and Southwest 98 112. Isolated thundershowers expected in many areas, with coast winds 10 to 20 knots. Louisiana remains partly cloudy Sunday with scattered to daytime thunderstorms and similar upper 80s to mid 70s readings.
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Snyder
Texas
Louisiana
Armstrong To Build New Texas Plant At Arlington
The Dallas division of Armstrong Cork Co. plans a 100000 square foot plant in the Great Southwest Industrial district Arlington to start operations around April 1 1965. The move will bring cork lined metal crowns for beverage containers from Dallas a shift to the new site this fall.
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Dallas
Armstrong Cork Co
Arlington
Great Southwest
Arlington Airman Dies From Injuries At Brooke
Arlington airman Frederick W. Valent ine died at Brooke Army Medical Center after being injured in a traffic accident June 22. He had been at the Nike missile base in Colorado and was transported from Carswell Air Force Base in Texas to San Antonio for treatment.
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San Antonio
Brooke Army Medical Center
Frederick W. Valentine
Arlington
Alvarado
Carswell Air Force Base
June Water Record Shatters for CRMWD Output
The Colorado River Municipal Water District posted a June production of 1,223,535,102 gallons, up 28.59 percent from June 1963. Odessa, Big Spring, and Snyder accounted for most of the increase, with Sun Oil Company waterflood adding 73,637,000 gallons.
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Colorado River
Sun Oil Company
Odessa
Big Spring
Snyder
Sun Oil
CRMWD
Lockhart Barber Remembered After 60 Years in Snyder
James Gillis Lockhart 92 died at Cogdell Memorial Hospital after a long career in Scurry County. He opened a barber shop in 1897, growing from one chair to eight, serving cowboys and travelers. Funeral set for 3 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church with Masonic rites at Snyder Cemetery. Survivors include son Tate, grandchildren Jimmy and Robert, and three great grandchildren.
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James Gillis Lockhart
Snyder
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Georgia
Lockhart
Hood County
Scurry County
First Baptist Church
Jack Dean
A. B. Lightfoot
Snyder Cemetery
Bell- Seale Funeral Home
Tate Lockhart
Jimmy G. Lockhart
Doylstown
Robert Vance Lockhart
Midland
Mr. Lockhart
Masonic Lodge
Violent incidents surface as states test new civil rights law
In Atlanta Lester Maddox pistol whipped three Negro ministers and a white crowd gathered with ax handles as protests erupted near his restaurant. In Cambridge Maryland Fehsenfeld, owner of Dizzyland, faced assault charges after a doorway shove with civil rights leader Lawrence Cundiff. Durham North Carolina saw restaurant doors locked and blinds drawn amid protests.
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Tom Chase
Atlanta, Ga
Johnson
Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Maddox
George C. Wallace
Albamia
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Cambridge
Robert Fehsenfeld
Lawrence D. Cundiff
Theing Committee
Washington, D.C
Fehnsenfeld
Cundiff
Fehsenfeld
Dizzyland
Fourth of July Road Toll Lulls Amid Brisk Holiday Travel
The nation recorded a mid weekend lull in highway deaths with 161 fatalities since 6 p.m. Thursday, about 15 percent below 1960's pace. The National Safety Council projected 450 to 550 deaths for the 78 hour period ending Sunday midnight as 83 million cars would travel some 84 billion miles.
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National Safety Council
Council
Associated Press
Americans Lead Units To Safety In Viet Nam Attack
Seven U S Special Forces men led their mangled unit to safety from a dawn attack on Camp Polei Kong in central South Viet Nam. Forty five Vietnamese were killed. twenty three defenders and two Americans were wounded as Communists looted equipment and captured weapons near the Laotian border. The garrison, near Kontum, had stood as a training base for local tribesmen guarding the border area.
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Peter Arnett
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
South
Polei Kong
Kontum
America
Potei Krong
Strol
Snyder Area Oil Finds and Multiple Texas Wildcat Drilling
Texaco reports No. 278-NCT-1 Fuller Ellenburger discovery near Snyder with 6 bpd oil and 14 bpd water after perforations at 5,136-42 ft. New wildcat No. 1 O. D. Weatherbee targets Cisco sand near Rota n in Fisher County. Marathon Oil stakes two new projects in the Guest See area as oil activity intensifies across Stonewall, Scurry, Fisher, Nolan, Kent, and surrounding counties.
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Stonewall
Scurry County
Kent
Fisher
Nolan
Scurry Region
Texaco Inc
P. L. Fuller
Ellenburger
Snyder
Fuller
H&tc
Nueve Operating Co
Mayfair Minerals, Inc
Abilene
Rotan
Fisher County
Roby
Marathon Oil Co
J. W. Phillips
Strawn
Kent County
Clairemont
Jack N. Blair
L. R. French Jr
Midland
Whitefield
Aspermont
Norman Oil Corp
Bastrop
Bastrop County School Land Survey No. 313. Hovgard & FitzGerald of Abilene
Strawn Reef
No. Z
D. Herring
Nolan County
Maryneal
Oxford
Stasney
Marathon Oi Co
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Durham
N.C
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Miss
Muehlebach
Kansas City
Congress of Racial Equality
Lloyd Soper
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H&tc Survey
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