The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1961 Page: 3 of 36
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5 A THE ABILENE REPORTER SEWS
• Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, July 13, 1961
Flood Kills 139. 1L. L „
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“ ended May 29 failed in this major | n South K orea 1 I Ml IFIIll
A task. WUCUEE FEHLEEATA
The Senate’s appropriation bill.BE ATYVV E
calls for spending $364.3 million SEOUL (AP) — Surging flood Near Namwon, a rice and cot
from the general revenue fund in waters poured over wide sections ton-growing area 150 miles south
s the next two years starting Sept, of South Korea’s rice bowl, leav- of Seoul, hundreds of residents
1 The balance of the $2.5 billion ing a reportedT39 persons dead worked feverishly through the
comes from a wide variety of Thursday and hundreds homeless night piling sandbags against a
funds, including much from fed- Most of the victims — 106 or second threatened dam, the Yo
eral source more—were killed near Namwon Chun.
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MELLER -DR AMMER TRYOUTS — Local Thespians seeking roles in the old
fashioned melodrama, “The Miner’s Daughter," to be presented Aug. 17-19 and _
24-26 at the ACT Playhouse in Fair Park, tried out for parts Wednesday night 0 TD-T
at the Windsor II otel Here, from left, Mary Dean Kincaid. Mrs. Henry Strauss, VEL LG
Jerry Foote and John Todd read from scripts. (Staff photo) .
- Both the Senate and the House Wednesday when an irrigation About 425 houses were reported
I are expected to give early ap- reservoir, swollen by torrential smashed or washed away when
; proval to their separate versions summer monsoon rains broke the earth-and-concrete lebak
I of how much lo spend, then send through the large concrete Dam collapsed Two villages near |
1 it he matter back to anothe' con- eart hen lebak Myun Dam Namwon a city of 38 000 vs ere |
■ ference committee for adjust The small village of Hyo Kiri also reported flooded by the
1 | ment, was reported almost entirely un- muddy waters.
I I The first house bill voted out IT " ter. Thirteen persons were ‘ The disaster was the worst in
1 | of committee in this special ses-missing nd tae Sou th a week of ra ins th at have spread
sion was a measure (HB16) to Korean Red Croa feared the death and misery over this count
■ allow game wardens on Lake Tex- death toll would go higher No try
| . arkana to enforce the water safe- I S troops are stationed in the S
| ty act That sent the bill to the area The Home Ministry reported
I floor for debate This is the type Flood warnings went up in earlier that 50 Koreans died and
of local hill that often is consid- Seoul as additional rains were 10 were missing in floods and
ered in special sessions although forecast and officials feared the landslides The number of home-
they are not within the range of Han River, which meanders less was put at 3.417.
I topics ordered by the governor through the city, would flow over
| Raising cf a point of order against its banks The South Korean air BOMBAY. India AP) — Floods
such bills kills them force evacuated jet airplanes after three days. of torrential
A new version of teachers’ nay from K16 an air field in a low- rains brea hed a d m on the
■ ise plans appeared in the Sen- lying section n the city Mutha , River outside Poona
ate It was sen B. P ----------------------Wednesday , threatening the vest
j propo: . . U.L , Indian city of 300,000 with disas-
1 $1,000 more a year by September. Hamaas LOrIs
1965 It would provide a ssho raier "9NYP3 J . The ground floor of the town
this September, $200 more in n hall was under water. Street
DIG Slayer were awash. The swollen river
September 1965. Thi compares ' was still rising, 10 feet an hour
with the flag $810 raise proposed DALLAS (AP —Ronald William ‘n some spots.
in other measures Whitaker, a confessed slayer, was Road, telegraph and phone
turned over to Tarrant County communications between Poona
officers after Criminal Dist and Bombay were cut Troops
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(All Stars Of The
Comfort League
Ayub Terms U.In Speech
o
■ Judge Henry King dismissed an were called out in help police
application for a writ of habeas evacuate threatened areas
corpus No casualties have been re-
(Continued from Page 1M Sheriff Bill Decker turned the ported
18 j ear-old youth over to sheriff’s The Mutha runs through Poona
Jack Chapman of Clyde with deputies from Fort Worth after and Wednesday night all four
170 on Easy Money An Elk City the application of his lawyer, bridges across the river were im-
Okla . contender, Frank Freas, Charles Tessmer, was denied passable
| rode Fishook for 169 and third. Three deputies appeared at the
Lead's for Night hearing with a warrant for Whit-
A 12-second flat calf-roping time aker’s arrest, on a charge of
gave Tom Nesmith of Bethel, murdering a Dallas store clerk
Okla the night’s lead Tied for Thomas H Watson at Grapevine
second with 129 sonny Lake June 29.
W ASHINGTON AP - Pakis- in his country cussing the economic develop- cel n , as was S an n3__________________________
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a oint meeting of consorable with the err.....asis placd A schedule talk on Kashmir and Trine of Cusndsiddnother S Johnson Retires
* ve s on the candor with which Ayub rel t ons with India was deferred tere r ‘ rook thi d FORT WORTH (AP) - Lee "
ta a on aid and the state oi democracy until Thursday, the final day of with :26. . . Johnson Ji announced his re 1
not afford to stop providing as Sis Armstrong of Marietta,"
sistance to his country and other !his state isit . Okla, scored a 19.3 to lead the tirement as C hairman of
similar nations "It was the fr ankest baring of Ayub told Congress that in the barrel racers Tied for second the First National Bank. He will
- - , the mine he t H ‘ chie of event of real trouble “there is no Jane Mayo of Okemah, be 70 Sunday. Murray Kyser
SUN-FLAVORED TO
in , , each with 20.5 A GOLDEN GOODNESS
spoke to the House and Senate ....... "The only people who will stand A saddle brone rider with 170 °er_____
----------------—--------* 0by you are the people of Pakis- points for a ride on Hot Scat was
--.Committee I didn’t agree with tan,” he said, with a burst of ap-Billy Weeks of Abilene. Clark
WSplause interrupting his sentence. Holden of Pottsville, Pa. rode (
E Sen Alex under Wiley R Wis When the appaluse died down Gunslinger to an identical score." $
E dim W W Basenor members of the Foreign Ae ov o u are Then were was a three-way tie
Relat ons Committee, ca led Ayub of course ready to stand Try the of 169 each for Palmer, Leonard x ,
„ upersolesman Chairman ' people of Pakistan Lancaster of Oklahoma City, and / P
William Fulbright, D-Ark of the \ b urged the United States Freckles Brown of Lawton, Oka _
Semite Foreim Relations omni ) , witch would Don Huddleston of Clayton,
ate Pakistan’s problems or Okla, pulled his steer to the
.j nardize - its security ground in a quick 9.1 to carry
the first place Steer wrestling homorWC
_ ofiow of US economic assistance Freas came up second with :12.5.
YuA ADD CC DPIOLE IEPO1 . , 1 “
to India already has imperiled followed by Char ley Boyles of A
Fort Stockton.: 13.1.A
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1961, newspaper, July 13, 1961; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1672006/m1/3/?q=%221961-07%22%26grid: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.