Plans Take Shape for July Fourth Town Celebration
Towle Memorial Park hosts a Chamber of Commerce meeting shaping July 4 events. June 10 is the deadline for concessions booth applications. a June drawing selects booth spaces. Activities include a fishing contest tennis tournament horse shoe pitching art show carnival and a 10 am patriotic kickoff followed by the parade. Bill Dryden chairs the Parks and Recreation Committee.
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Towle Memorial Park
Chamber of Commerce Parks and Recreation Committee
Bill Dryden
Chamber
Parks and Recreation Committee
Wemken Rites Planned in Hermleigh for Ronald Wemken
Funeral services set for Wednesday in Hermleigh for Ronald Gene Wemken 21 who died Monday in Hereford from an apparent heart attack while employed by a refrigeration firm. Born December 20 1944 in Roscoe he lived in Hermleigh Canyon and Hereford. He is survived by parents sisters and brothers and grandparents.
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Hermleigh
Ronald Gene Wemken
Hereford
Roscoe
Canyon
Central Baptist Church
Bernie Finch
Bob Creswell
Bell-Seale Funeral Home
Edgar Wemken
Ettie Lou Fenter
Amarillo
Darline Wemken
Snyder
Shiela Fenter
Rickey
Jeff Wemken
G. W. Wemken
Grover Barnes
Vote Tabulation Error Noted In Treasurer Race
Mrs Agnes Brown Scurh County treasurer identified a box by box miscount in the treasurer race in Monday's Daily News. Dunn box showed 15 votes for Brown and 63 for her opponent, while the correct totals were 66 for Brown and 14 for the opponent. Brown noted Dunn is her old home.
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Agnes Brown
Scurh
Daily News
Dunn
Brown
Mrs. Brown
Mao Tze-tung Ends Lengthy Seclusion
Mao Tze-tung reemerged from a six month absence to meet with an Albanian government delegation led by Premier Mehmet Shehu. The meeting was reported by the New China News Agency and Peking radio as Mao attended a public function for the first time since November. Lin Piao and Premier Chou En-lai were noted participants at the visit.
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Mao Tze-tung
Mehmet Shehu
Communist New China
Mao
Albanijans
Peking Radio
Red China
Shanghai
China
Peking
New York
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Long Lout
Lin Piao
Central Committee
Par
Lin
I Ty
Chou En-lai
China News Agency
U S ImPresses Ousted Russian
Russian novelist Valeriy Tarsis, stripped of Soviet citizenship, says living in the free world opened his eyes. He spoke at the National Press Club during a two month US lecture tour after fleeing Russia via London on a three month visa. He recalls silencing critics as a Soviet practice and treasures his Kaschenko Mental Hospital stay as a defining page of his life.
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Washington
Valeriy Tarsis
Free World
West
America
Tarsis
National Press Club
Russia
London
United States
Kaschenko Mental Hospital
Red China Test May Be Dud Says Defense Sources
A Washington AP report cites Defense Department sources that China's March atomic blast may have failed to produce a fusion explosion. Peking radio spoke of thermonuclear materials but stopped short of calling it a hydrogen bomb. The test's yield is estimated around 100 kilotons or less, with previous detonations at about 20 kilotons.
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Bob Horton Washington
Red
China
Defense Department
Peking Radio
Peking
Pentagon
State Department
Marshall Wright
Wright
Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Weather synopsis for Texas regions and showers forecast
Readings show early morning 7 am at 56. North Central Texas expects scattered showers tonight increasing Wednesday with highs 66 to 74. Northeast Texas cloudy with showers, low 56 64, high 66 74. Northwest Texas mostly cloudy with thundershowers, high 62. Coast winds 10 to 20 knots today easing. Southeast Texas partly cloudy with cooler highs around 76 66. Southwest Texas cloudiness with widely scattered showers mainly east, high Wednesday 58 68.
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Snyder
Texas
East
Jerry Lewis Sues Paramount and York for 3.4 Million
Los Angeles AP report says Jerry Lewis filed a 3.4 million damage suit in Superior Court alleging breach of contract. He claims the market for two new films suffered from re releases of older titles and that he was slandered by being labeled unprofitable.
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Los Angeles
Jerry Lewis
Paramount Pictures Corp
York Pictures Corp
Lewis
Red Ship Seeks Berth For Repairs
A Russian trawler Chernyakhovsk seeks a sheltered berth for engine repairs near Drake’s Bay San Francisco Bay. Coast Guard will inspect after Henry Fowler denied entry. Fishermen’s group U.S. safety concerns cited as Soviet fleet operates off California Oregon coasts. Weather hampers progress.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Coast Guard
Henry H. Fowler
the Treasury
Fowler
United States
Drake’s Bay
State Department
California
Oregon
W. G. Saletic
Congress of American Fishermen
CAF
Top Reds Begin Tours
Soviet Union leaders Brezhnev and Kosygin embarked on international trips to reinforce Moscow’s influence. Brezhnev moved to Romania for three days signaling Romania's independence from Moscow. Kosygin headed to Cairo for eight days aiming to align Nasser with the Soviet bloc.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Romania
Brezhnev
Peking
Alexei N. Kosygin
Cairo
United Arab Republic
Gama Abdel Nasser
Mine blast shatters Saigon in midday ambush
Viet Cong mine blast torn Saigon street killing five and wounding 29 to 32 including a policeman, three women, and a child. U.S. MPs fired in confusion. seven suspected attackers were released. B52s bombed Viet Cong targets near the Cambodian border as ground fighting remained light.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
U.S. Army
Hai Ba Trung
Guam
Air Force
Navy
North Viet Nam
Mu Gia Pass
Ho Chi Minh Trail
What Ky Really Said At News Conference in Saigon
AP reports Premier Nguyen Cao Ky indicated he would stay in power until the National Assembly is elected and a new constitution is drafted. Secretary of State Rusk says Ky's remarks were misinterpreted and a transcript lacks the disputed statement.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Washington
Dean Rusk
NBC
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Lake Thomas records best gain in history for April
Lake Thomas shows April inflow of 27 000 acre feet lifting total to 601 419 acre feet over 11 years with May and autumn months expected to bring larger yields. The study notes September and October as peak months with several 30 000 acre foot plus runs and three past spillway flood events.
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Lake Thomas
J. B. Thomas
Colorado River
W. P. Odom
Romney Urges State Role in Auto Safety Rules
Washington AP governor George Romney challenged federal auto safety proposals saying they would erase state and private efforts toward vehicle safety and push full control to Washington. He urged combining strong federal standards with substantial state and industry participation.
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Washington
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
American Motors Co
House Commerce Committee
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Reuther
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