Plains Farmers Devastated by Severe South Plains Weather
The Associated Press reports Texas South Plains farmers face widespread cotton losses after two weeks of tornadoes hail and heavy rain. Up to 500000 acres of cotton in a 23 county area have been ruined forcing replanting and millions in potential losses with damage to buildings lines and farms across Lubbock Plainview Hereford Littlefield and Muleshoe as a late spring storm system pounded the region.
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Associated Press
Texas
South Plains
Lubbock Cotton Exchange
Littlefield
Plainview
Hereford
Pecos
Kress
Erwin Grove
Lubbock
Baze Rites Pending for Ed Baze in Midland
Funeral services are pending at Bell Funeral Home for Ed Baze age 55 of 1712 Avenue S. He died at Cogdell Hospital this morning. Survivors include sister Inez Brown of Avenue S and brothers Jim Baze and Ross Baze of Snyder.
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Bell Funeral Home
Ed Baze
Avenue S
Baze
Cogdell Hospital
Inez Brown
Jim Baze
Ross Baze
Snyder
Child Injured In Mishap In Driveway
Two year old Donnie Hardin son of Mr and Mrs Robert D Hardin of 403 Thirty fourth Street was struck by a car in the family driveway shortly before noon. He was not run over and was taken to Cogdell Hospital for observation and treatment of minor injuries.
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Donnie Hardin
Robert D. Hardin
Thirty-fourth Street
Cogdell Hospital
Tehran Riots Leave 20 Dead Amid Shah Crisis
In Tehran crowds call for downfall of the Shah as heavily armed police face militant Shiite mobs. Hospitals report over 20 killed and 1,000 injured in the first hours of fighting near the royal palace. Security forces and tanks surround the area. Ayatollah Khomeini’s arrest escalates tensions.
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Tehran
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlev
Shah
U.S
Tehran University
Assadullah Alam
Hassan Pakrevan
Visitors suffer food poisoning at West Point awards luncheon
About 30 distinguished visitors fell ill after a U S Military Academy awards luncheon in the Officer's Club at West Point. Some 25 spent the night in base hospital. No cadets were ill. Names of the affected visitors were not released.
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West Point
N.Y
API
U.S. Military Academy
Everett O. Post
Officer’s Club
Post
Jill
Canada to Extend Its Sea Limits
Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced Canada will extend its exclusive fishing zone from three miles to twelve miles starting next May Aimed at reducing foreign fishing pressure and potential Soviet spying the plan also redraws the territorial line to a straight coastward projection Great Lakes fishing remains unaffected by the change
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Ottaway AP
Canada
United States
Lester
Pearson
House of Commons
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Fortune Teller Helen Marx Faces Court Charge
ST LOUIS AP report says Helen Marx appeared in court on a fortune telling charge. Detective Lorraine Geders testified Marx took 12 dollars for predicting the future. Marx denied the charge and predicted Judge Rodney Weiss would acquit her. Judge Weiss ordered one hundred dollars and costs.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Helen Marx
Lorraine Geders
Miss Marx
Rodney Weiss
Nuclear Stalemate Can Lead To War Kennedy Tells Airmen
President Kennedy warned Air Force Academy graduates that embracing nuclear stalemate risks war. He urged constant reevaluation of doctrine and stressed political and diplomatic links to military power during his Western tour, including stops in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, and California.
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JFK
Colorado Springs
Academy
Kennedy
Kenney
Air Force Academy
Cuba
North American Air Defense Command
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
California
Washington
Pacific
Democratic Party
Los Angeles
Burbank
Calif
Air Defense Command
White Land
Army
EL Paso
Tex
Mississippi
North Carolina
South
Judge bars Wallace from blocking university desegregation
A federal judge barred Governor George Wallace from blocking court ordered desegregation at the University of Alabama. The injunction forbids Wallace or associates from interfering with desegregation efforts, while not banning him from the campus. The ruling emphasizes federal supremacy and notes preparing for possible enforcement with federal troops.
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Birmingham
Ala
George ©. Wallace
University of Alabama
U.S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Wallace
Wallace Wallace
Montgomery
United States
Lynne
Alabama
Durham
N.C
Wense Grabarek
Duke University
Autherine Lucy
Printing error sinks Texas criminal code bill sponsors veto
Sponsors of a Texas criminal code revision disowned the measure after a printing mixup. Gov. Connally must decide by June 13. Harris County DA Briscoe asks for Atty Gen. Waggoner Carr to investigate. Dallas rep Bob Hughes favors a veto to avoid jeopardizing convictions.
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Bob Hughes
House
Dallas
Connally
Denmark envoy’s widow kills husband and herself mercy killing
In Copenhagen, the American wife of Denmark’s former ambassador to the United States allegedly bit his throat and then killed herself with a bread knife in a mercy killing. Henrik Kauffmann, 74, had inoperable cancer. his wife Charlotte MacDougall Kauffmann, 63, left letters explaining her action before authorities found them.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Henrik Kauffmann
Kauffmann
Kaufmann
Washington
Free World
Greenland
Weather Outlook Across Texas Through Thursday
Readings show 70s to 70s across North Central and Northeast Texas with 72 statewide. Expect partly cloudy to mostly clear skies, scattered thundershowers in central and north areas, mild tonight with highs in the 70s and 80s later in the week, winds southeast along the coast.
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Texas
Northwest
Tesas
Eoubeast
East Texas
Plans For Public Hearing On Junior College In Two Counties
A public hearing for a proposed junior college district for Fisher and Scurry counties is set for June 17 at 11 a.m. in Snyder High School. San Angelo board reviewer Penrose B Metcalfe will lead the session with local officials and residents invited to speak for or against the plan.
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Fisher
Scurry
Badger Robertson
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Penrose B
Metcalfe
San Angelo
State Board of Education
Snyder High School
Robertson
Austin
Snyder School Board Approves 1963 61 Budget with Bids
Snyder school trustees approve a 3 013 797 budget for 1963 64 up 61 239 from the prior year. Local sources tax driven funds total about 2 million. June 18 open meeting set in the high school cafeteria to discuss budget and bids. Three bids opened for maintenance garage addition. Jones Construction Co. of Big Spring low at 14 412. Typewriter cleaning bid awarded to Tom L. Rogers of Sweetwater pending checks. others left unsatisfied.
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Snyder School Board
Sys
Showl
Toransfer
Jones Construction Co
Big Spring
T. FE. Shelburne & Son
Rose Construction
Abilene
Royal Typewriter
Tom L. Rogers
Sweetwater
Rogers
Jarvis Office Supply
Bennett
Bud
Snyder
New Districts Urged for RAC in Texas Railroad Commission Plan
The Texas Research League urges two new districts for the Railroad Commission with new offices in Lubbock and Fort Stockton. The Midland district would be split into three parts reducing total districts to ten, while field staffing would grow to 61 inspectors and 30 engineers, despite a budget rise of about 300,000 dollars.
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Research League
Texas Railroad Commission
Lubbock
Fort Stockton
League
Commission
Midland
Pree Daniel
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