YMCA Advancement Fund aims to liquidate debt in Waco drive
Weary of mortgage retirement costs the Waco YMCA launches the Advancement Fund campaign under Dr. Joe Weldon Bailey as general chairman. The goal is 300000 to clear debt and fund a Doris Miller branch swimming pool while easing United Fund obligations. About 250 volunteers will solicit, with headquarters at the YMCA on Twelfth Street.
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E. L. Humphreys Jr
The
Joe Weldon Bailey
Bailey
Y&y Advancement Fund
United Fund
Humphreys
Advancement Fund
YMCA
Y Advancement Fund
Doris Miller
Twelfth Street
Columbus Avenue
Waco Symphony Association Readies Debut Season
With its nonprofit charter secured, the Waco Symphony Association announces a first season opening November 6 featuring Christian Ferras and plans three concerts. Eleanor Steber and Van Cliburn also slated, with Sternberg as musical director and conductor and IRS tax exemption pursued.
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Waco Symphony Association
Christian Ferras
France
Eleanor Steber
van Cliburn
Izing
William Sloane
Maurice Barnes
Roy Rutland Jr
Goodhue Smith
Ferras
Miss Steber
Cliburn
Lacy Clifton
Alexander Haw
Jack Jeffrey
David Kultgen
Hart Nance
Harry Provence
Truett Smith
Daniel Sternberg
Ral
Comos
Waco
Sternberg
Internal Revenue Service
Weather forecast for Waco and vicinity today and tonight
Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers today tonight and Monday. High today 90 low tonight 70. Temperature high 83 at 10 am lowest 66 at noon. Rainfall 24 hours ending 6 30 pm 1 16 inches total this month 3 13 inches normal this month 2 67 inches year to date 16 48 inches total since Jan 1 11 14 inches. River stage 9.1 feet Saturday 7 30 am. Full moon June 17 at 8 08 pm.
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Waco
Tornado Sighted Near Mexia Amid Widespread Texas Rain
A funnel was spotted near Mexia with no damage reported. Rain persisted from 11 02 a m to 2 08 p m across North and Central Texas as hail and high winds affected Terry County and Brownfield area.
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Mexia Satuday
Waco Weather Bureau
Waco
Texas
Terry County
Hillsboro
Paris
Tyler
Temple
Abilene
Childress
Oklahoma
Storm Sweeps Over Carlsbad New Mexico
A severe rain and hail storm hit Carlsbad, southeastern New Mexico, Saturday afternoon with two to three feet of water in streets. Police reported telephones out, 3-4 inches of rain, and a small tornado in Otis area while hail golf ball sized fell before the downpour.
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Carlsbad
N.M
New Mexico
Loving
Otis
Connally Reaches Out to Former Democratic Opponents
In Austin AP report John Connally said he has contacted most of his former gubernatorial opponents to seek help in the general election. He initiated the calls to Price Daniel Will Wilson Marshal Formby and Don Yarborough as part of unifying the party.
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Austin
John Connally
Connally
Democratic Party
Price Daniel
Will Wilson
Marshal Formby
Don Yarborough
Manuel Claims He Followed Game Rules In Leaks
Republican counsel Manuel testified behind closed doors that he gave Estes leak report copies to Earl Maze of the Herald Tribune and Rep. Will iam Cramer before subcommittee members saw them. He said he was following the rules of the game and noted leaks are widespread, mentioning a reporter winning a Pulitzer. The probe concerns Estes grain storage operations.
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Washington
House
Billie Sol Estes
Agriculture Department
Robert Manuel
House Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee
Manuel
Earl Maze
New York Herald Tribune
William Cramer
R Fla
Estes
Dr Williams Elected McLennan County Demo Chief
Dr William J Williams was elected Saturday by acclamation to a two year term as chairman of the McLennan County Democratic Executive Committee at Town Hall Lake Air Center. He heads Baylor University mathematics and has long served as a precinct 4 Democrat. Carlton Smith and Mrs Katherine Huskerson were also elected to two year terms as vice chairman and secretary respectively.
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Walter J. Williams
McLennan County
Democratic Executive Committee
Williams
Town Hall
Lake Air Center
A. P. Cagle
Baylor University
Precinct 4
John Sloan
Curtis Rierson
Katherine Huskerson
Carlton Smith
Ae Huskerson
Communists Press for Berlin Talks After Secret Session
The Warsaw Treaty nations urged renewed Soviet American discussions on Berlin and a German peace settlement. They warned the West against delaying talks or seeking a separate peace with East Germany, saying further talks must reveal Western intentions. Khrushchev attended the Kremlin session with Foreign Minister Gromyko.
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Moscow
UPT
Warsaw
East Germany
Communist Party
Pravda
Moscow Radio
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Mission Farmer Delivers Nation's First 1962 Cotton Bale
Harlingen AP Mission farmer Ray Barnick delivered the first bale of 1962 cotton, weighing 516 pounds, at the police station at 1 36 p.m. after ginning at Mission. He will receive at least 750 dollars plus possible 500 more in prizes and usual auction proceeds.
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Harlingen
Ray Barnick
Mission
Here
Mission Gin Co
Barnick
Providence Hospital in Waco Affirms It Won’t Close
Providence Hospital in Waco says it has no plan to close on July 1 or any time while the city supports it. Administrator Sister Austin notes efforts to expand services including out patient care after past financial difficulties and a drop in patients. The facility has operated since 1995 and aims to grow despite rumors and staff shortages.
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Providence Hospital
Waco
Austin
Daughters of Charity of
Ing
Berlin Crisis Tensions Rise As Cold War Flare Possible
Washington reports signs of renewed strain in U S Soviet ties after a prolonged lull. Officials say Khrushchev faces pressures that could push him to apply new pressure to Berlin, though a confrontation remains uncertain.
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Washington
U.S
Berlin
Khrushchev
Coalition Talks Hit Snag in Laos
Right wing government in Vientiane accuses pro Communist and neutralist factions of blocking coalition by demanding more police and defense powers. Three Laotian princes meet at the Plain of Jars to form a government with Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong. talks pause awaiting a final agreement.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Phoumi Nosavan
Boun Oum
Souvanna Phouma
Lac Presse
Red
Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
Khang Khay
Plain of Jars
Lao Presse
Souvamba
Spanish Speed Speech learns language in 24 hours
The Waco News-Tribune and Times Herald offer Spanish Speed Speech a course by William R. Archer to learn conversation Spanish like a child. It includes manuscript textbooks two 45 RPM records and a dictionary priced with daily coupon prompts starting June 11 and ongoing through paper editions.
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Waco News-Tribune and Times Herald
William R. Archer
Archer
Mexico
Waco
Waco News-Tribune and Times-Herald
Waco News-Tribune
Times-Herald
Cultural Center Hit In Algiers
OAS members used a hazardous device to set fire to the U S Cultural Center in Algiers causing $50,000 in damage. Six thousand books and thirty nine film projects were destroyed though no one was injured as the building housed by US Information Service was unoccupied. Police reported the blast at 1 p m in a lecture room followed by a fire that was quickly contained. The center near the harbor supports American literature and films. Another OAS arson and fire occurred at Guyotville, with two fatally wounded and ten injured in separate incidents as violence waned for Muslims yet persisted in the region.
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OAS
Algeria
American Cultural Center
US Information Service
United States
USIS
Algiers
Guyotville
Kennedy predicts Washington as next political stop
Ted Kennedy, 30, projected his next move to Washington after capturing the Democratic state committee endorsement in Massachusetts. His victory swamped Edward J. McCormack Jr. as Figen conceded, signaling a sustained Kennedy political surge.
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Springfield
Mass
UPI
Ted Kennedy
Washington
Massachusetts
John McCormack
Kennedy
Figen
Arrest wave hits Spain amid Franco cabinet shakeup
In Madrid a broad crackdown followed bombings and a two year suspension of free movement in Spain. Officials report hundreds detained as the cabinet seeks to quell anti-government groups and restore order after a seven week strike wave. A priest was not detained according to official sources.
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Madrid
Spain
Franco
Munich
Germany
Francisco Franco
Solis
Opus Dei
Prest
Demo Leader Criticizes GOP Policy Statement as Platitudes
Democratic National Chairman John M Bailey denounces the Republican policy declaration as specious shallow and narrowly partisan urging that it shows the party lacks principle and policy substance in the statement released Thursday in Washington AP reporter notes Bailey calls the document a declaration of platitudes that misleads voters.
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Washington
John M. Bailey
New Republican
Bailey
Berlin tensions and protests spark East West clashes
U S commander in West Berlin protested border guard firings on fleeing refugees. Warsaw Pact nations urged talks yet warned, Khrushchev may reengage Berlin. In Spain arrests surge as cabinet blocks freedom of movement. Algiers sees secret army arson at U S cultural center. Ted Kennedy predicts Washington stop. Johnston Connally touts unity with former rivals. Central Texas sees more rain while local politics resume including YMCA fund liquidation chair. Hospital administrator denies Providence Hospital closure rumors. Spanish learning to speak Spanish teased elsewhere.
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U. S
West Berlin
Berlin
Khrushchev
Spain
Algiers
Ted Kennedy
Washington
East Berlin border guards fire on fleeing youths
Communist border guards in East Berlin opened fire on two boys fleeing to West Berlin, wounding one twice in the leg as they crossed a cemetery wall. Maj. Gen. Albert Watson II protested to Soviet commandant Andrei Solovyev, condemning the violence as crimes of the most serious order and warning of dire consequences for law and order and U S-Soviet relations. The incident followed a clash during a refugee boat crossing on the Spree and prompted West Berlin authorities to return fire to protect civilians.
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Wedding
East
West Berlin
Watson
Andrei V. Solovyev
Berlin
United States
Soviet Union
Friedrich Wolf
Spree
East German Border Unit Crosses into West Germany
A heavily armed East German border unit of 18 soldiers and three officers crossed the Werleshausen border near Hesse to hack underbrush for possible West escape routes. Western patrols and American troops arrived, prompting the East Germans to retreat back into East Germany.
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Bad Hersfeld
Germany
UPD
West Germany
Werleshausen
Hesse
Can
East Germany
U. S
Idth Armored
West Ge
Charity Hospital Payroll Risk Faces Houston Budget
Houston city controller Rey B. Oakes warned that the city-county operated Charity Hospital would likely fail to meet its payroll for the rest of the year under the proposed budget.
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Houston
Rey B. Oakes
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