Senate Advances Water Storage Bill and Education Measures
The Senate approved a bill to let Texas spend up to 50 million dollars on purchasing space in federal water storage facilities with a 15 million limit per project. The measure, tied to a constitutional amendment, moves to the House for consideration. Other bills to study higher education and establish a tourist agency await final votes.
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Senate
House
Texas
Connally
Tourist Development Agency
San Angelo College
Dorsey Hardeman
San Angelo
Snyder High journalism students manage two school publications
Snyder High School journalism students produce The Tiger's Tale bi weekly and The Tiger's Lair yearbook with 17 staff members under Miss Carolyn Payne. Students learn beats gather info edit copyread and lay out stories with Friday headlines and a Friday final step before 4 pm.
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Snyder High School
Carolyn Payne
Miss Payne
Janet Head
Janet
Feather Printing Company
Cold spell hits Texas as storms burst across Tennessee and deep south
A late winter cold front surges toward Texas with gusty winds and rain showers in the Panhandle and North Texas, while South Texas remains milder for now. Tornadoes devastate parts of Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi, killing five and leaving scores injured as floods threaten East Tennessee rivers.
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Rockies
Texas
Upper
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Gulf
South
Parrottsville, Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
East Tennessee
Parrottsville
North Carolina
Cocke County
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Chattanooga
Knoxille
Kingsport
Parrotsville
Jerry Coakley
Cullman County
Starkville
Plane Skids On Runway at Logan Airport
An Eastern Airlines DC7 with 15 passengers and five crew skidded on a slushy runway at Logan Airport. No injuries were reported. The aircraft listed to the right after striking landing lights and bending propellers. pilot Capt. Edward R. Leidecker said brakes had no action on touchdown.
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Boston
Eastern Airlines
Logan
Frank Sweeney
Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission
Sweeney
Edward R. Leidecker
McLear
Washington, DC
Solons Appalled By D. C. School Setup
Six members of the House Education Committee toured Pierce Elementary and Hine Junior High in Washington. They described the conditions as a blight and disgrace with damp basements, crowded classrooms, aging textbooks, and debris from a 1959 fire. They urged construction funds to improve D C public facilities.
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Washington
Congress
United States
House
Pierce
Hine
Its &W
John H. Dent
D-Pa
Frederick A Smith
Dent
Edith Green
Dore
Three Killed In Road Crash Near Floydada
Three unidentified occupants in a Florida car died in a two car head on collision 15 miles east of Floydada Texas. The crash moved the area to a second three person fatal crash in 24 hours near Throckmorton. The scene was about 55 miles northeast of Lubbock on US 70.
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Floydada
Tex
Florida
South Plains
Throckmorton
Lubbock
Odessa Pastor Dr. Lightfoot Accepts Snyder Call
Dr. A B Lightfoot pastor of Crescent Park Baptist Odessa has accepted a call to First Baptist Snyder. He will move April 8 and deliver his Easter Sunday sermon at 11 am. His interim successor has been Byron Bryant. Lightfoot, a Santa Anna native, has held multiple pastorates and is a trustee of Hardin Simmons University. He and Mrs. Lightfoot have two sons.
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A. B. Lightfoot
Crescent Park Baptist Church
Odessa
First Baptist Church
Snyder
Lightfoot
Walter A. Mitchell
Mitchell
Abilene
Byron Bryant
Hardin Simmons University
Santa Anna
Vesta Evans
Howard Payne College
East Texas Baptist College
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Oak Street Baptist Church
Colorado
Crescent Park
Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist Memorial Geriatric Hospita
San Angelol
Hardin - Simmons University
Odessa Heights Lions Club
Masonic Lodge
Europe
Holy Land
Paul
Christ
Machen Rites Set Here for William E Machen
Funeral services will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at Morningside Baptist Church for William E Machen 71 of 104 Thirty fifth Street who died at Veterans Hospital in Big Spring at 7 30 am March 1 after a long illness He was born January 18 1892 and survived by his wife two daughters three sisters two brothers and other relatives Burial will be at Hillside Memorial Gardens under Bolger Funeral Home direction.
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William E. Machen
Thirty - Fifth Street
Machen
Veterans Hospital
Big Spring
Mr. Machen
Morningside Baptist Church
James L. Rogers
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bolger
Weather snapshot across Texas shows cooler trend statewide
Fragmented readings show scattered highs from the 70s to 80s and lows near 40s to 50s. Increasing cloudiness and chances of light rain or snow in the Panhandle and Northwest while Southeast Texas stays partly cloudy with showers near the coast.
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Snyder
Central Veras
Texas
Panhandle
Teans
Mauibte
North
Wettecne
Lo Couta
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Economic Progress Division
Agency For International Development
U. S. State Department
U. S
By Jerry Pillard
Austin
SHS
Russellville
Ala
McMinnville
Tenn
Cullman Area
Geraldine Bowen
Minnie Dunn
J. Frank Manderson
Alabama Civil Defense
Mrs. Bowen
Marilyn Brock
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Reform
Sherwood
Lewis
Vaiden
Hamilton
Ackerman
W. T. Kelley
David
Kelley
Lawrenceburg
Alabama Line
Murfreesboro
Mid- State
Jasper
Georgia Line
Stones River
Donelson
Nashville
Harpeth River
Kingston Springs
Little Sox
Pat Johnson
Humane Association
Peggy Hayes
Association
Media
Solons
D. C
Mrs. Green
John Brademas
D-Ind
Charles F Goodell
R-N.y
Carlton Sickles
D-Md
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
Que
District of Columbia
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