Delegates Gather for Area II FFA Convention
West Texas FFA delegates from 44 counties assemble for Area II convention with about 300 expected attendees. Weldon Mason of Brownfield will give the opening address and events include talent and public speaking contests, interviews for awards, and an area sweetheart contest. Nelson Hogg presides as Area II president with officers listed. Khrushchev sends welcoming remark to Pope John XXIII.
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FFA
Snyder
Billy Bob McMullan
Sammy Hughes
Freddy Wortman
Ysleta
Leo Perkins
Eldon Lawrence
Jimmy Laster
Future Farmers of America
West
Texas
Weldon Mason
Brownfield
Nelson Hogg
Lamesa
Area II
T. E. Busby
Divide
Bill Countess
Midland
Leonard Kent
Eldorado
Dean Hammitt
Rotan
Tom Smith
Iraan
Salvador Rivera
Fabens
Pope John XXIII Near Death After Sudden Relapse
Pope John XXIII suffers a sudden internal bleeding relapse and grave condition, with doctors warning it could be hours or days. Vatican officials say he remains serene yet critically weak, receiving viaticum and extreme unction while Cardinal Cicognani and Cardinal Testa discuss church matters.
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Bennet M. Bolton
Vatican City
John XXIII
Piero Mazzoni
Rome
Raimondo Manzini
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
Manzini
Pope
Vatican Radio
Antonio Gasbarrini
Gasbarrini
Bologna
Angelo Dell Acqua
Gustavo Cardinal Cento
Vatican Curia
L’osservatore Romano
Pope John
Traffic Toll Sets Record for Memorial Day
The Associated Press reports 155 traffic deaths in a 30 hour Memorial Day period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Thursday, the highest one day total on record, exceeding the NSC estimate of 130. Three multi casualty crashes claimed 17 lives, with fatal incidents in Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri, and Utah.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Connecticut
Iowa
Unionville
Glendale
Utah
Bank Robbery in Austin Nets $250
A 25 year old man robbed the Texas State Bank in Austin of 250 dollars. Drive in teller Evelyn Creamer reported the robber claimed a bomb was in place and demanded money. The thief fled in a stolen 1963 car later found in a hospital parking lot.
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Austin
Texas State Bank
Evelyn Creamer
Teens Die En Route to Driving Tests in Texas Crash
Three Celina youths riding to Sherman to take auto driving tests were killed in a two vehicle crash at US 75 and Farm 545 ten miles south of Sherman. Seven others were injured including drivers Dick Seibens and William Cluck and Celina teens in the station wagon.
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Ama, Tex
Sherman
Mike Carter
Billy Joe Cody
Gene Kinney
Celina
Dick Seibens
McKinney
William Cluck
Cluck
E. L. Marks
Dennis Gray
Guinn Forqguihar
Wilson and Jones Hospital
Jackie Hayes
Jimmy Fugene Cryer
Collin Memoral Hospital
Hayes
Cryer
Seibens
Wysong Hospital
Weather forecast notes widespread thundershowers across Texas
Readable fragments describe warm conditions across Central, North and Southeast Texas with high temps near 85 to 92 degrees and lows around 64 to 77. Scattered thunderstorms, especially in central and northern portions, with southeasterly winds and partly cloudy days in several regions.
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Snyder
Cecrees
Texas
Baturcay
Tesas
Baturca
Lele
Aide
Balurcey
Debris of Thresher Photographed Near Ocean Floor
Photographs by the research vessel Conrad show the hull diving planes and sail area of the nuclear submarine Thresher lying about 8,400 feet below the surface. The Thresher sank April 10 with 129 aboard during a deep sea test dive off Boston.
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Portsmouth
Nhap
Thresher Thresher
Conrad
Boston
Navy Court of Inquiry
Navy
Washington
Ballyseather Trieste
J. Lamar Worze
Lamont Geological Observatory
Adm
Elton W. Grentel
US Atlantic Fleet
Norfolk
Thresher
Trieste
Destructive Weather Lashes Texas Areas Again Thursday
Severe storms battered West Texas cities including Wellman Balmorhea Brownfield and Union with 85 to 100 mph winds and heavy rains causing flash floods. Five families marooned by floodwaters. power lines and a drive in theater screen damaged. no injuries reported.
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Texas
West Texas
Lubbock
Wellman
Brownfield
Union
Terry County
Pecos
Semimore
Balmorhea
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Wessage
Moscow
John XXII
Amleto Cardinal
Cicognani
Gustavo Cardinal Testa
Towle Park
Country Club
Towle Pool
VEW Post
Pearl Sellars
VFW Auxiliary
America
Snyder Cemetery
VFW
Wayne Merritt
Floyd Williams
Skylark
James D. Watson
Leutenant Watson Said
Wichita Falls
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Abilene
Haskell
Presidio
Dalhart
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