Industrial Proposal To Be Outlined In Snyder Tonight
A major industrial proposal to locate a plant in Snyder will be outlined at an 8 p.m. meeting in the high school auditorium. The proposal could employ 400 to 800 people with a payroll of 2 to 4 million annually. Local leaders from the Industrial Development Corp urge all residents to attend, as the plan would affect businesses, churches, schools, and community agencies.
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Snyder
Industrial Development Corp
Snyder Area
Bill Wilson
The
Industrial Corporation
Wilson
Industrial Development Corp. Board
Indus
Trial Development Corp
John Connally
Connally
State Hospital Board
Texas Department For Mental Health and Retardation
Senate
House
Arling ‘Ton State College
Texas A&m
University of Texas
Civil Righters Drive Ahead 50 Mile Selma March
Rain dampens a civil rights pilgrimage as 300 marchers continue their third day of a 50 mile trek from Selma toward Montgomery with Dr. King absent for a staff conference in Selma and leaders at the head of the line including John Lewis and Albert Turner. A white aide, Nell Washburn, joins the march, while Betty Jean Sullivan fainted after camping in Lowndes County swamp. The route moves along U.S. 80 toward four lanes again, with a 4 p.m. Thursday deadline to reach the Capitol in Montgomery.
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Ross Hagen
Selma
Ala
Lowndes County
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Cleveland
Ohio
Jain
Montgomery
Betty Jean Sullivan
Martion
Andrew Young
King’s
John Lewis
Cochairman
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Albert Turner
Marion
Charlies Rangle
New York
George Fowler
New York Commission On Human Rights
Norman Houston
Geles
National Association For the Advancement of ‘Colored People
Nell Washburn
Atlanta
U.S
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Capitol Building
Rose Steele
Spacecraft Gemini 3 completes three orbits and lands in Atlantic
NASA report says Gemini 3 crew Virgil Grissom and John Young flew three orbits around Earth in a historic maneuvering test. The capsule landed in the Atlantic about 58 miles from target. divers secured the craft as recovery ships moved in.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Virgil Grissom
John Young
Earth
Verable
Manned Space Ship Radio Today
Atlantic
Mission Control
Atlantic Ocean
Mission Control Center
Coast Guard
Intrepid
Ts. Mission Control Center
Grissom
Air Force
Young
Molly Brown
Clues Sought as Washington Lab Probes Birmingham Bombs
Federal and local authorities seek leads in a Birmingham bombing spree. Six homemade bombs found within four miles of the northwest district prompted FBI lab tests in Washington and door to door interviews. A $3,000 reward is posted by state and local groups, amid ongoing bomb threats and a connected Bessem er incident.
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Birmingham
Ala
Washington
Steel City
FBI Laboratories
Frank House
House
16Th Street Baptist Church
Bessemer
Sheri Mel Bailey
George C. Wallace
the News and Post-Herald
Downtown Action Committee
Cold Wave Warnings Blanket Texas
The Associated Press reports that cold wave warnings covered all of Texas as winter returned. Snow sleet and freezing rain were forecast for northern areas with bitter temperatures expected across most of the state by Wednesday.
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Texas
Fund Initiated To Aid Leukemia Patient Kayla Ramage
A group of Kayla Ramage’s friends started a fund to help the hospitalized child, who has leukemia and has been at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Donations are accepted by Dan Callaway at the County Tax Assessor Collectors office in the county courthouse.
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Little Kayla Ramage
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Dan Callaway
Viet Planes Strike Radar Station North of Da Nang
Eight Vietnamese fighter bombers attacked a radar station near Ban Binh about 100 miles north of the border. Ground fire was heavy but the radar was knocked down and set aflame. Aircraft also hit enemy convoys on Route 1 and a bomber was damaged but returned to base. US planes accompanied the raid.
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Peter Arnett
da Nang
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Communists
Es- AP
North Viet Nam
U.S
Ban Binh
South
Viet Nam
Ranger 9 slingshot maneuver aims at moon crater
A brief rocket burn aboard Ranger 9 nudged the 800 pound camera ship toward the moon, with officials saying the command was acknowledged and executed. Scientists expect confirmation after about 10 hours as the craft nears a planned impact to capture images of Alphonsus crater and surrounding terrain for future missions.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ranger 9
Moon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Alphonsus
Texans Place Poll Taxes Back On Chopping Block
A House vote was possible today on removing the poll tax from the Texas Constitution as a voting requirement. Rep. Travis Peeler proposed to repeal the poll tax, which voters rejected in 1963. The levy brings in about $2.5 million annually, and qualified voters may vote for federal officials without paying it.
Moonbound Ranger 9 to show live lunar surface shots
Pasadena AP reports Ranger 9 will provide real time television closeups of the lunar surface before impact at 08 am EST. Networks will broadcast up to 100 shots in the 10 minute window, a first for public access. Earlier Rangers delivered data after delays. Ranger 9 uses a new electronic system to rebroadcast as received, aiding site selection for future missions.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ranger 8
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Joe Breeden Dies Rites Wednesday
Joe H. Breeden 42 of 602 Twenty eighth Street died at Cogdell Hospital Monday after 10 months illness. Funeral at Avenue D Baptist Church Wednesday at 10 am, with burial at Hillside Memorial Gardens. Survived by wife, parents in Gladewater, daughter Mary Katheryn 18, son Joe Harold Breeden Jr. 16, sisters Mrs. Bobbye Jean Brooking and Mrs. Flaye LaVerne Dunn. Army veteran of World War II and Korea. Pallbearers named.
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Joe H. Breeden
Twenty - Eighth Street
Breeden
Cogdell Hospital
Avenue D Baptist Church
Bobby Phillips
Marvin Rogers
Allen Cartrite
Abilene
Carl Smith
Silver
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Mr. Breeden
van Alstyne
Kilgore
Weather across Texas eyes cold wave and wind
Weather summary shows highs around 75 in parts of Central Texas with readings near 7 am, but forecasts say much colder today and tonight. Northeastern and Northwest regions issue cold wave warnings with low temps from 18 to 36 and Wednesday highs 16 to 45. Snow flurries noted Panhandle to west and north tonight and Wednesday.
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Snyder
Tow
Texas
Cote Weve
Northwest
Panhandle
Bet
Sevih
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Associated Press
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Lunar
By Lee Jones
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