Eleventh and Twelfth Streets Become One Way in Waco
Eleventh and Twelfth Streets will join Waco’s major street system as one way at midnight Monday. Traffic signals at key intersections will operate automatically by traffic flow, with left turns limited near Waco Drive until storage slots are built.
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Eleventh
Twelfth Streets
Waco
Eleventh Street
Franklin Avenue
Bosque Boulevard
Twelfth
Waco Drive
Seventeenth
Bosque
Homan
Public Works
Jack Huffman
Dutton
Texas Highway Department
Huffman
NATO Nuclear Strategy Shifts Emphasize Alliance Deterrence
McNamara warned that strong Allied forces deter Soviet city strikes and stressed NATO must integrate nuclear and non nuclear power. He said alliance strength minimizes big war risk and protects civilian society, while expanding non nuclear forces to deter aggression short of all out attack.
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McNamara
Soviet Union
NATO
Europe
Two men linked to death after river walk in Peach Street area
Witnesses recall Wallace and McCollaum leaving toward the river after drinks. Smith says a scuffle with Wallace led to a fatal fall. bystanders found Wallace in the road near a barn. Funeral services are pending. survivors include parents Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Wallace and siblings.
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Smith
Mr. Wallace
Peach Street
McCollaum
A-1
Connally Funeral Home
M. P. Wallace
Lelia Street
John Wallace Jr
U.S. Army
Massachusetts
L. G. Savell
Pearland
Charles Wallace
Funeral Notices for John D Wallace and Watts Jr
Funeral notices report the deaths of Dr. John D. Wallace and Watts Jr. John D. Wallace was found beaten near Peath Street and leaves parents a wife and three siblings with arrangements pending at Connally Funeral Home. Watts Jr died at 40 after a weekend hospital admission with services at Wilkinson Haiech Chapel and Forest Lawn Memorial. Survivors include spouse, son, siblings and in-laws.
Waco Unit Tests at Polk During Summer Training
The 9th Infantry Division unit at Ft. Polk Louisiana Company A 1st Battle Group 558th Infantry became the first Waco unit to take the Army training test during summer camp. Captain Barton W Sandlin of McGregor commands the company with Platoon leader Lt Donald R Fada and instructor Lt Alton Clement guiding the platoon level exercise. First sergeant Andrew E Schmedhorst and field sergeant Arthur R Craw complete the leadership lineup as the unit undergoes its tactical and technical proficiency assessment.
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Waco
9Th Infantry Division
Ft. Polk
1St Battle Group
558Th Infantry
Barton W. Sandlin
McGregor
Donald R. Fada
Alton Clement
Andrew E. Schmedhorst
Arthur R. Craw
Bean Arrest Warrant Reaches El Paso Judge Sought on Tax Charges
A federal warrant for El Paso County Judge Woodrow Bean on a five count indictment charging failure to file income tax returns arrived Saturday in El Paso. Authorities did not locate Bean immediately.
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EL Paso
API
Woodrow Bean
Bean
JFK Urges Students to View Public Work as Duty
President Kennedy told 6 000 college students on a summer government work program that public service is dedication to the job. He urged them to return home as advocates who dispel prejudice about government and explain how the system operates, noting the seminar will include talks by Cabinet officers and officials.
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Washington
UPT
Kennedy
White House
Head on Crash Fatal to Waco Negro Man
A 40-year-old Curtis N Williams of 914 Burgan Street was killed in a two car head on collision at South Eleventh Street and Dutton Avenue about 11 45 p m Saturday. A 1 Ambulance transported him to Hillcrest Hospital where he died. Two others were injured and treated at Hillcrest at midnight. Williams worked at the James Connally Air Force Base cafeteria.
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Curtis N. Williams
Burgan Street
South Eleventh Street
Dutton Avenue
A-1
Hillcrest Hospital
Hillcrest
Williams
James Connally Air Force Base
Solon Raps Insurance Board for Rate Hike
Corpus Christi state Rep. Ronald Bridges demanded a public explanation from the State Board of Insurance after it approved a 27 percent rise in storm damage insurance rates for Gulf Coast dwellings. The increase, blamed on Hurricane Carla, affects all coastal counties and adjacent inland counties. Bridges called the hike unconscionable and noted the lack of notice.
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Corpus Christi
UPI
Ronald Bridges
State Board of Insurance
Texas Gulf Coast
Seacoast
Carla
Bridges
Screwworm Eradication Factory Opens at Mission Texas
A Mission Texas plant will produce 20 to 75 million sterile screwworm flies weekly to suppress the pest in a 60 000 square mile Texas region. The project funded by private donations of about 1.7 million dollars, with federal and state support, targets eradication in three years at a total cost of 12 million.
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Florida
Texas-Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Louisiana
Mission Saturday
Texas
Moore Air Base
Mission
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation
Texas Animal Health
Husman
Bridges
Kerrville Experiment Station
del Rio
Coleman
Comanche County
Port O'Connor
Brownsville
Rio Grande
el Paso
Arizona State Line
New Mexico-Arizona
Texas Animal Health Commission
Dallas Man Drowns While Fishing at Lake Eddelman
Paul Cornett of Dallas drowned Saturday while fishing at Lake Eddelman near Graham. His nephew Bobby Cornett reported him missing after returning to the lake to find the boat upside down. Rescue units from Breckenridge Olney and Graham joined the search for the body.
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Graham, Tex
UPI
Paul Cornett
Dallas
Lake Eddelman
Graham
Cornett
Bobby Cornett
Breckenridge
Olney
Texas screwworm plant opens to curb infestation
Dr. R G Garrett of the Texas Animal Health Commission calls for producer support as the facility begins operations to combat screwworm outbreaks. Central Texas counties raised funds, with McLennan County alone contributing over 6000 dollars. The plant will produce six million sterile flies daily to disrupt local fly populations and protect livestock nationwide.
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Congress
R. G. Garrett
Texas Animal Health Commission
Austin
Texas
McLennan County
Kiwanis Funds Help Build Central Texas Zoo Lecture-Reptile Facility
Central Texas Zoo advances a 30 by 50 foot dual purpose building funded by the Downtown Kiwanis Club. The project, to include a reptile house and lecture room, will serve thousands of students with glass-walled displays and a 21 foot python among planned exhibits. Zoo director Buddy Porterfield and Kiwanis president Floyd Hollingsworth noted club support and ongoing collaboration with the Zoological Society.
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Central Texas Zoo
Kiwanis Club
The
Zoological Society and
Zoo
Bill Lehms
Zoological Society
Kiwanis
Miller
Buddy Porterfield
Game and Fish Office
Porterfield
Student Earns First Highest Honors at Baylor College of Medicine
Paxton H. Howard of Tulsa becomes the first student in Baylor College of Medicine history to graduate with highest honors as 87 Doctor of Medicine degrees are awarded at the University of Houston commencement. Harold Martin Selzman of Cleveland Heights earns high honors. Also notes a short ton and long ton comparison.
Influence Too Strong
In Tucson on a single day arrests were made for drunkenness involving a grocery store hose prank a student balancing a basketball on his nose an under aged youth drinking beside a police car and a man staggering into a downtown police station all noted in AP dispatches from Tucson Arizona.
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Tucson, Ariz
Tucson
University of Arizona
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