Waco Schools Test Reading Help for Struggling Kids
The Waco Public Schools run an experimental six week reading program at Crestview Elementary for sixty students selected from across the city. Participants are average or above average in intelligence but two grade levels behind in reading. They were tested at start and will be retested at end to measure progress.
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Aeba Campbell
Waco Tribune
Herald
Waco
Crestview
Mhay
Guinea-Plf
Fort Hood to get $6 million in 1966 construction program
Fort Worth District Engineer said Saturday funds for a 1966 construction program totaling about 86 million dollars were previously authorized by Congress. The plan includes eight three story barracks eight classrooms two battalion headquarters buildings two medical dispensaries and training facilities plus an enlisted men's service club. A housing project for 125 family units will be built at Fort Hood and at Killeen Base and Gray AFB under the Capehart Housing Act. Bids are expected to open mid July.
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Hood
Fort Hood
Killeen Base
Gray Air Force Base
Capehart
Weather summary with scattered showers and high 91
Friday forecast shows partly cloudy skies and little temperature change today tonight and Monday. Scattered showers mainly in afternoon and evening. high near 91 at 3 pm, low around 70 tonight. River stage 3.1 feet Saturday morning prior period. First quarter moon rises at 5 56 am.
Baylor Plans Dormitory Bid Advertising and Financing
Baylor University aims to begin advertising bids this week for a six story women’s dormitory costing about 1.5 million dollars. Dr. Roy J. McKnight says final approval by trustees and housing officials is near as J Mallory Collins of Dallas submits plans. The building on South Eighth Street between Baylor and Connor Avenues will house roughly 200 women. Baylor is borrowing funds from HHFA, as with three prior dormitories, and Hilton Howell chairs the building committee with Mrs Mixson and others.
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Baylor University
Roy J. McKnight
Baylor
J. Mallory Collins
Dallas
Vfome Finance Agency
Fort Worth
Thunder Showers Hit Central Texas Gatesville Area
Central Texas saw scattered thundershowers with a trace to about one inch of rain around Gatesville as a line moved south of Waco. Forecaster Bob Stringer expects partly cloudy skies Sunday with scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening and a high near 95 degrees.
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Texas
Gatesville
Waco
Weather Bureau
Bob
Stringer
Hail Damages Crops Across Western Lubbock County
Hail damaged crops in an area about 10 miles long and up to 4 miles wide in western Lubbock County late Saturday. Rainfall was unofficially estimated at five inches in the same region. The South Plains saw light to heavy rains for the 18th consecutive day.
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Lubbock County
Associated Press
Thes South Plains
36th Division 10000 Guardsmen Train at Fort Hood
Ten thousand Texas National Guardsmen, the largest peace time mobilization, will move into North Fort Hood on June 17 for two weeks of intensive training. Maj. Gen. Carl L. Phinney says this will be the 36th Division’s first year with individual training proficiency tests observed by Fourth Army and Pentagon inspectors.
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Dallas
Texas National Guardsmen
North Fort Hood
Fort Hood
Carl L. Phinney
Fourth Army
Pentagon
Wills Witness Released In Brady Car Bomb Case
A witness in the Brady land case bombing was released late today but declined to talk to reporters saying he could be killed. Authorities gave no discussion on his relation to Sam McCollum’s blast. McCollum was removed from the critical list after injuries from the dynamite under his 1953 Mercury station wagon.
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Tex
Uh—Epp
Wails
Veterans Land
Miles
Dist
Atty
Bill Allcorn
Texas Ranger
Gully
Cowsert
Sam McCollumbi
McCollum
Mearn
R. Sheffield
Sheffield
Allcorn
Ann Angald
Kier
Aller Haing
Here
Waits
Milam County
Jet crashes into homes. civilians killed in Minnesota
A Navy Panther jet plunged into a residential street in Minneapolis killing six people, including four from one family, and critically injuring five children. The dead include Mr. and Mrs. John Donald Garris and two of their sons, Mark and Bryan. A third son, Joe, was missing. The crash set five houses on fire as debris scattered.
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Minn
Navy
John Donald Garris
Mark
Bryan
Joe
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Cuernland
T. J. Me
Debor Larty
Bell County
Ah Susan DeWolfe
27Th District Court
Don DeWolfe
McLarty
George Armstrong
Marine Veterans: Land Program
Air Reserve
Armstrong
Raymond
Thornton
Bellon
Edattorneys
R-Minn
Eisenhower
Armstrong O. D
Green
Cuero
Cameron
Adv
Wold
Chamberlain
Air Base
Harriman Enters Presidential Race
Averell Harriman announces his candidacy for president at a speech to 200 United Hatters delegates in New York. He vows the Democratic Party will emerge stronger after the convention and cites Roosevelt and Truman as guiding principles. He notes Eisenhower’s illness and prays for his recovery.
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Harriman
Chicago
Therberal Perty
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Marty S. Truman
Democratic’ Party
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United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
Statler Hotel
David Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Barriman
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dubinsky
Liberal Party
Alex
Eisenhower’s doctors report condition satisfactory after surgery
President Eisenhower’s medical team says he remains in satisfactory condition following an extensive pre dawn operation for an intestinal obstruction. Doctors project full activity in four to six weeks and say he could resume duties and seek re election if cleared.
GOP Hails Good News Of Eisenhower Recovery
Washington reports Republicans called the President’s intestinal operation a sign of swift recovery with hopes he can seek a second term. Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton said Eisenhower should sign papers next week and leave the hospital in about 15 days for convalescence. Democrats worry the illness could affect his Feb 29 decision to run.
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Wasitington
Eisenhower
Bean
Leonard D. Heaton
Waller Reed Army Hospital
Heaton
Peason
AF Leaders Demand Radical Pay Changes
Washington June 9 Air Force leaders urged Congress to enact radical pay changes to stem losses of thousands of young officers pilots and skilled airmen technicians The plan was unveiled in closed door testimony by Lt Gen Emmell O Donnell Jr deputy chief of the Air Staff for Personnel before the Senate Air Power Investigating subcommittee O Donnell cited civilian economy as the main lure and noted nearly one million trained personnel have left since 1949 He put training costs for an airman at 2500 dollars and suggested higher compensation as a remedy
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W—Air Force
Congress
Emmell
Nosy) O'Donnell Jr
Air Staff
Senate Air Power
West Point
Korea
Air Force
O'Donnel
O'Donnell
Russell bids extra aid cut from Ike request
Senator Richard Russell urges a further one billion dollar cut in foreign aid beyond the House’s 1.1 billion reduction. The note appears in the INDEX FOREIGN AID column referencing page 4 section 1. Also mentions Baylor trustees and a deed for land purchased in 1856 at Caldwell.
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Richard Russell
Ike
House
Baylor Trustees
Caldwell
Red Proposals Branded As Pure Propaganda
WASITINGTON June 9 UP American officials branded Soviet Premier Bulganin's disarmament proposals as pure propaganda They predicted a polite but firm American rejection Officials said the message to President Eisenhower lacked new ideas for solving the East West disarmament deadlock The United States has refused such proposals in the past and will do so again Bulganin urged disarmament without waiting for an international agreement with controls British officials in London received the letter coolly and expect no immediate reply The proposal called for troop cuts in Germany and noted Russia's plan to trim thousands more as it demobilizes divisions including 63 divisions and 30 000 men in Germany
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Nikoai A. Bulganin
Bulganin
Eisenhower
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London
White House
Moscow
Britain
France
Germany
Soviet Union
Russia
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