Afghan Colonel Tours Texas Roads For Comparison With Home
Col Sayed Amir Ansari, Afghan Director General of maintenance for highways, toured parts of Garza and Borden counties in Texas with Joe Middleton to study road upkeep. He praised Texas freeways, noted irrigation farms for Afghan fruits, and discussed Afghanistan’s road-building efforts and heavy reliance on American trucks and imported vehicles.
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Rowdyism Threat To School Sports
The Associated Press reports that rowdyism and vandalism at high school football games threaten the tradition of Friday and Saturday night games. Cities like Toledo Milwaukee Providence and Bridgeport have moved or banned night games citing injuries fights and vandalism. Some districts require special permission to play at night and Louisville shifted to Friday afternoon games with limited success.
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Valachi Testifies Before Senate Crime Committee
Mobster Joseph Valachi arrived in Washington to testify in a Senate crime probe. He described underworld figures as he prepared for a private hearing, with a public session set for Friday.
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Nolan von Roeder Dies After Africa Surgery
Nolan von Roeder died in Africa after an emergency operation for a ruptured intestine in Iringa Tanganyika. He was part of a hunting party that left Snyder August 26 and had planned travel to Narobi before his death between 10 30 am Wednesday and 6 am this morning. He was a rancher fruit grower oil producer and cotton farmer known for many community roles in Scurry County. He leaves a wife Opal Maxwell von Roeder one daughter Carla Jean Clark one son Max six grandchildren and many relatives. Funeral arrangements had not been completed.
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Weather Digest for Texas Regions and Dates
Clear to partly cloudy across North Central and Northeastern Texas today and Friday with a few thunder showers east and southeast. Lows range from 46 to 69 and highs from the 60s to mid 80s across regions including Port Arthur Brownsville and the extreme southwest.
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Rightist Military Leaders Control Dominican Republic
Bloodless coup ousts President Juan Bosch after seven months in office. Military chiefs led by Elby Vinas Roman accuse Bosch of steering toward communism and war with Haiti. Bosch, 54, seized at dawn and exiled to Puerto Rico. U S suspends relations and aid. Dominican ambassador calls the new government illegal. dissatisfaction cited over Trujillo era wealth laws.
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Former Texas Lt. Governor Smith Dies in Lubbock
John Lee Smith longtime Texas political figure died in a Lubbock hospital at age 1 after cancer surgery May 20 Born in Chico he served as Throckmorton County judge and state senator before becoming lieutenant governor from 1943 to 1947 He chaired Knights of Pythias groups in Texas and the United States and practiced law with son Mark Spencer Smith in Lubbock
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Macmillan Readies for Tough Fight Over Denning Report
Prime Minister Macmillan prepared to confront Labor leader Harold Wilson and Conservative critics after Lord Denning’s 55 000 word report on the Profumo scandal. Denning found ministers failed to act on the affair and rejected claims of cabinet sexual impropriety while noting secret sex parties in London society.
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Havana Hit by Asthmatic Crisis
Havana suffered a sudden asthmatic crisis with at least five deaths and more than twenty hospitalizations after a freak atmospheric change on Wednesday night. The Havana radio report said all cases occurred within an hour and blamed a abrupt, rough atmospheric shift. A similar collective episode occurred last year in Old Havana's waterfront.
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Prisoners in Nashville Jail Break Attempt Through Wall
Two prisoners Edward Louis and Sam R Scruggs sawed through a steel wall inside Nashville City Jail. Their hole opened to a plumbing-utility room then to locked doors, and they faced Jailer Buford Hill who had heard the sawing.
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