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SCOUTS TO PARADE
BLUEBONNETS FADING
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Moon Shouts His Innocence As He Dies
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attorney, Ray ,
Reeves of Houston.
The planning work for the pro-
aunt and uncle. Only his mother
ment of making him a
fall guy.1
Episcopal Home
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Roses: Vicki Sue Richter, Cina
Kolkhorst,
Philpot, Dottie Jean
erty is not sold for many years.
cabinet maker and wheel-wright.
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New Government Formed -
Koreans Shocked
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By Mass Suicide
Calendar of Events •
class-trip.—
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who admitted
Sanchez Moreno,
her boyfriend
stabbed
to
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needle, faced a charge of murder
dawn in a mass suicide pact. The
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ants to help him forg
Western Union office in downtown
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Seniors Ready For
New Orleans Trip
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WIDESPREAD'
RIOTS BIDPT
OVER NATION
Texan Is Accused
As Dope Smuggler
CITY SETS
DEADLINE ON
PAVING PLAN
Barker, Cindy Byrd, Vicki Becken-
dorf, Susan Holtkamp, Claudia Har-
ris, Sam Dibrell, Gail Lueckemey-
er, Connie Wilder, Karen Utesch.
Daisies: Kathie Pomykal, Donna
Texas Independence Day celebra-
tion at OH Washington and the
Rev. James L. Considine, rec-
tor of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church,
has announced that the dedication
of St. James House of Baytown, a
Home for elderly citizens sponsor-
era who will travel with the group
are faculty members Mrs. James
Graves, Cy Rodgers and Mrs. T.
A. Low: and Mr. and Mrs. John
tion will be published next Wednes-
day. An effort has been made to
see all prospective advertisers in
TAIPEI (UP!)— Sgt. James L.
Miller of Waco, Texas, who had
been accused of complicity in the
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South Korea against the regime
of President Syngman Rhee.
Other, demonstrations broke out
in Ankara, the capital city, and
the government proclaimed mar-
RECORD GM EARNINGS
NEW YORK (UP!)—The Gener-
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One-hundred members of the
senior class at Brenham High
School will board three chatWVT
buses bright and early Friday
morning for their annual senior
Malitz, parents of two of the class
members.
the edition, but we are sure some'
have been overlooked. If you wish
Girl Charged With
Killing Boyfriend
to a foot deep were reported from
the Waco vicinity.
The Department of Public Safe-
ty reported a layer of hailstones
six to 10 inches deep over a wide
area of Bosque County. Farmers
reported seeing two tornado fun-
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April 28:
— Free city trash pickup: north
of SP Railroad and west of Santa
Fe Railroad.
Rainbow Girts Initiation. Masonic
CHARLES E. DARBY
New School Official
Local FFA Teams
In State Contests
Not Afraid of Death
“They know I am innocent, but
they had to convict someone so
they charged the first guy that
came along on the scene of the
crime.”
Later he said he had prayed
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torney-Ca +m-s
Teenager
Insane
The City of
Hospitality and
Industry.
The following article was sent us,
telling about what will be done and
seen Sunday:
The historic heritage of Ander-
son, county seat of Grimes Coun-
ty, and Montgomery in Montgom-
ery County, will be relived on Sun-
day, May 1, the day of the 6th
annual Texas Trek.
Special church services will be
ers, Cynthia Harris.
Sweet Peas: Donna Wight. Jac-
qulyn Wight, Betsy Neinast, Iris
Ann Boone, Jo Ann Kokemoor,
Peggy Falkner.
Violets: Sue Tomachefsky, Dee
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For the seventh cnmwrmhwi
year, the seniors will visit old New
Orleans and other points of inter-
est in Louisiana on a three-day ex-
cusion.
Departure time is 5 a. m. Friday.
The return to Brenham is expected
There had been reports that his
life might be In danger because
of his alleged statement, to po-
lice. m
U.S, authorities said the 35-year-
old Air Force noncom is the son
of Mrs. Nora Lee Nix of Waco.
"The Saga of Anderson ”, recently
published book of Mrs. Irene Tay-
lor Allen, teacher in the Anderson
school- ---------—-—■
■ visitors expected for the celebra-
tion, for publication in our Mal-
ta fest Edition. Incidentally, the edi-
Brenham banks will lend the money
to property owners needing the
cash to pay for the- paving.
Work To Start •
H.One phase of the paving work is
expected to begin next week. That
is the laying of curb and gutter
prior to paving with asphalt two
streets at Fireman's Park.
One runs north- and south by the
Memorial Swimming Pool and the
other east and west from North
Park Street to the street by the
pool.
In other business, the commis-
sioners approved the expenditure
of about $600 for the laying of an
18-inch storm sewer for 400 feet
on Mill Street south of the Southern
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The Brenham FFA dairy and
poultry judging teams will compete
in the State FFA judging contest
at Texas A&M College Saturday.
The teams qualified for the State
contest by placing in the upper ten
per cent in the area judging con-
test. The dairy and poultry teams
both placed 4th in the area con-
test.
Dairy team members are Her-
man Lange, Jr., Billy Thedford
and Dennis Maass.
Poultry team members include
Jimmy Burleson, Robert Jeske and
Gene Keim.
The teams will be accompanied
to A&M by Carter Dibrell and
Carl L. Wendler, FFA advisors.
eran, and Christian Science.
Old fashioned country style din-
ners will be served at The Blue
Bonnet Cafe/ The Coffee Shop, and
The Anderson Hotel:
Especially featured on the Trek
this year is the beautiful home,
formerly The Preston Hotel, now
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Emory
Bay. Visitors will see the antique
bed, which belonged to Mrs. Isa-
belle Buffington Herbert, daughter
of Anderson Buffington, a* partic-
ipant in the Battle erf San Jacinto—
and dining room table used in the
Preston Hotel.
One of the oldest houses to be
open is tht of Mrs. Hannah Bec-
ker Steinhagen built in 1850 by her
Superintendent
The Brenham School Board Wednesday night hired an
assistant superintendent and re-elected all teachers ex-
cept Brenham High School Principal G.'L, Keahey.
Applications for the principal’s position at the high
school are now being accepted, the school board reported.
The new assistant superintendent and supervisor of
curriculum elected by the board in executive session is
Charles E. Darby. Darby is currently principal of the
Navasota Elementary School.
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ammmhese
quarter of I960.
Chairman Frederic G. Donner
Among her treasured possessions
will be a four poster bed, with its
Rose of Sharon Quilt, made by her
mother, Mrs. Christian Becker.
The home of Mrs. G. B. Kennard,
though not a pioneer home, will be
of great interest to antique enthu-
siasts. Photostatic copies of the
Kennard Texas land grants, tax
receipts of another era, Normandy
lace. Haviland china, old silver
and furniture, and other collection
.will be on display.
The Rev. C. T. Cummings' Infor-
HOUSTON (UPI)—Arnold Pl-
mer and Bill Collins fired six-un-
der-par 66s today to take the
lend among early finishers in the
opening round of the $35,000
Houston Classic Golf Tourne-
Foowing ehne on their heels
with 67s were Daw Ragan,, Or-
The City of Brenham Wednesday
set a deadline for residents who
want their streets paved.
They must have their paving
money in escrow by June 1, or
plans for the paving on the street
will be dropped.
Meeting in special session at the
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our representative will call.
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ALL SCOUTS, both boys and girls
20-Man Crew
To Do Mapping
On Yegua Dam
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Musical Revue Hal law there as well as in Istan
a --m‘ psrem
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Red Cross first aid ctass meet-.
ing, 7 p.m., at City Hall.
April Ht *
The Social Security Represents- .
tive will be at the County Court-,
room. -
April 30:
SPJ$T Lodge Nu 14 in—
posed Somerville Dam and reser-
voir is apparently moving into the
advanced stages.
Engineering work has resumed,
and. a crew of about 20 men from
the United States Corps of Engi-
neers office in Fort Worth will ar-
rive Monday. They will be in the
area for between 45 to 60 d a y s
securing data for a contour map.
Heading the crew is David D.
Wheeler,, engineering technician
from Fort Worth, who is already in
the city. '
The crew is making the St An-
thony Hotel in Brenham its head-
quarters.
Several surveys for the propos-
ed $20 million dam across the
Yegua Creek about 13 miles north
of Brenham have already been
made.
nght before a justice of the
peace, who set her bond at $2,500
The body of her boyfriend. Jose
Macias Reza, 23. was found ly-
tny on a sidewalk in Imnt of the
day. The 18 witnesses, mostly
newsmen, said he had a surly,
mean expression.
“I’m innocent. Yeah, I’m inno-
cent,” he said as he was strapped
into the chair. Twice more he
shouted. But his final words were
drowned out by the crackling
electricity and the hum of the
dynamo as the first charge sent
his body surging against its re-
straining leather straps at 12:05.
Four minutes later he was pro-
nounced dead.
Killed Three Hunters
The Houston killer was convict-
ed of the murder of Steven Apple-
ton, 11. The youngster was shot
to death along with his father,
Bertram J. Appleton, and a fam-
ily friend, Lee Hanson, as they
hunted near Addicks Dam in Har-
ris County. ■
(Applewhite was a salesman for
Esther .Williams swimming pools
and had visited Brenham several
times).,
A few hours before his execu-
tion, he ordered a last meal of
chocolate cake and ice cream,
and visited for two hours with his
the eales wer* • reenrd for
any three-month period in GM
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executioner was 2nd Lt. Kang
Suk, Lee’s elder son whom Rhee
adopted.
. Massacre with Pistol
The family' gathered in a secre-
tary's apartment at the presiden-
All contracts given by the board
■ at its closed session at Brenham
High School Wednesday night are
for’a one year period, according
to a statement released by the
board today.
The statement read:
“The Brenham Independent
School Board of Trustees met in
Executive Session last night to dis-
cuss and act upon school person-
nel for the year 1960-61.
"At the beginning of the meet-
ing Waldie Sonnenburg was sworn
in as a new member of the board
to replace Mr. L. M. Guggolz who
recently resigned from the board.
"Supt. Frank W. Allenson sub-
mitted recommendations from his
evaluations and that of the prin-
cipals. All teacher personnel, cus-
todial and secretarial were elected
for the coming year.
"Two principals were re-elected
and given one year contracts: they
are Mr. H. arlton Smith and Mt.
W. I. Alton.”
Principal Keahey was not men-
tioned in the written statement and
a board spokesman said he was
. not re-elected and that-the board is
seeking a replacement. .
Philippines last week “for his own
protection,” U.S. authorities said
today.
In response to a UPI query, a
spokesman at U. S. headquarters
said Miller may be court mar-
tialed in the Philippines.
Chinese police announced last
month that Miller had confessed
participation in the ring which
had smuggled $751,000 worth of
drugs and other goods into For-
mosa from Hong Kong and named
a number of alleged accomplices.
Nineteen Chinese arrested on
the strength of Miller’s state-
death early Tuesday with a long honesty, called on the new cabinet
“to wipe out illegalities, irregular- died, with his entire
ities, corruption and confusion L - —n
was interviewed by board mem-
bers Wednesday after several ap-
plications for the position were
studied. The position has been va-
cant since the resignation under
fire early this year John Hens-
ley.
All school board members were
present for Wednesday night’s
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showed any emotion after their
two-hour stay.
“I hate to see the boy go to
the electric chair because I am
convinced he is insane,". Reeves
Mid.
Moon charged during his last
day that he was being “railroad-
ed” to the chair and accused the
Harris County district attorney’s
Mayor Reese B. Lockett.
The. mayor said it is definite
there will not be as many as 16
blocks paved — the number of pe-
titions for paving originally filed
by property owners.'
Some Topping Due
However. Lockett said there will
be “at least several blocks" top-
ped.
“We'll pave just one block if the
property ownei s put up t h e i r
money," the mayor reported.
He said the city has only $60,000
to spend on the proposed project,
and cannot afford to pay the full
paving costs on some pieces of
property and then charge the costs
on the tax rolls.
“We have too much on the rolls
already from the 1956 paving pro-
gram. This will have to be on a
cash only basis,” Lockett said. (
The mayor explained that in most
instances such charges are not col-
lected until the property changes
hands, and that usually the prop-
lurkey Proclaims Martial Law
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shed anti rioting in South Korea. ,
family at Hall. 7 p.m.
in advance. Money to pay for the
planned activities was raised by
UW MftfOH through sponsorship of
various class fund raising activi-
ties.
Features Friday will-include a
visit to the Louisiana state capital
building at Baton Rouge at 2 p.
m., arrival at New Orleans about
5:30 p. m. and a boat trip on the
Mississippi River at 9 p.m.
The students will stay at the St.
Charles Hotel.
The annual class breakfast will
be held at Brennan's Restaurant
Saturday at 9 a.m., followed by a
tour of the city. The students will
visit the French quarter that
night.
Sunday morning is free time for
held at the Anderson churches:
Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Luth- office and the sheriff's depart-
rade. “All they have to do is report
in uniform to where the parades
will form on East Msin Street,”
Routt said. Scout units have al-
ways been an integral part of the
Maifest parades.
THE CHAMBER OF Commerce
Bluebonnet Information Booth will
not operate S h n d a y. Chamber
Manager Jim Thomason reported
Thursday. Thomason said he had
made a tour of several bluebonnet
areas and the flowers are “fading,
fast.” There are still a lot of but-
ter cups and daisies, but the blue-
bonnets and red blankets are going
to seed, the chamber manager
said.
today.
She was
in Beaumont, said radar detected
the storm that produced the large
hailstones “only briefly" when it
struck about 9:30 p.m.
Hail accumulations of 10-inches
which ended in near disgrace aft-
er a wave of violence.
Huh spoke of the ’I rvle'-cpa
pust and called in six independ-
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By LEROY HANSEN
t hited Press ipternationat
SEOUL, Korea (UPI) - Acting
President Huh Chung formed a
day to wipe out the fraud and
corruption of the Rhee regime in
a nation shocked by the mass sui-
cide of Vice President-elect Lee
Included in the family visitors
were his mother and father, four T.
Brenham Maifest each year, and
it will be nice to return the visit, brothers and four a sters, and an
' GOING TO HAVE visitors,‘for
, the Maifest?-Then call Mrs. Ruby
Robertson, GR 6-3597, and tell her
EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER D-J
TOKYO (UPI)—Princess Suga
youngest daughter of Emperor
Hirohito, will become a popular
music disc jockey May 2 on a
ten-minute daily radio broadcast.
The princess, who now is Mrs.
Takako Shimsu, wife of Hisan-
aga Shimau, a bank employe,
said she is now "negotiating’’
with her husband to be the first
guest on her program.
Kathy Dell Keim, La Donna Rog- ed by the Dioqes? of Texas, is
scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday.
and after a visit to Lake Pontchar- Western Uwion office in downtewn ents to he‘P ew Toree A govern- i.-.
train the return trip is scheduled San Benito. His heart had been ment that would bring democracy 5:M
The trip yearly to plauned log for 3:30 p.m. pierced by the needle. to South Korea, suad “sainst
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FOR MURDERS School Board
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Lockett said all three of the awas heavy. A. F. Wolford, direc-
tor of the IES. Weather Bureau
For Aged Opens
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BRENHAM ITES INVITED
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“ BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY; APKH. 28,1960
tices with irregularities" of the
Se4M Eztbexapr
then please
c- _ biggest drug-smuggling ring ever
father-in-law. Car 1, Steinhagen, .a uncovered here, was flown to the
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WE HOPE MANY from Bren-
ham and Washington county will
visit the "Texas Trek" at Ander-
son and Montgomery Sunday.
•Many from those areas attend the ramily and., an
SAN BENITO (UPD—Apotonia K1 Poong and Ms family.
- ----- who admitted Huh spoke of the "evil prac-
By United Press International
Violent spring weather that
brought hailstones as big as a
man’s fist.- near Beaumont, piles
of hall as deep as 10 inches
around Waco and at least. two
tornado funnels swept across Tex-
as Wednesday. - ——
The U.S. Weather Bureau fore-
cast more thunderstorms today.
Temperatures were expected to
range between 75 and 85 in East
and North Central Texas today,
rn the 80's inSouthwestend South
Central Texas and between 72 and
82 in Northwest Texas.
Skies were reported clear
across the country west of the
Pecos and portions of the South
Plains today but there was a
cloud cover with some light driz-
zle in South Texas and some fog
in the South Plains early today.
Low temperature ranged between
43 at Dalhart and 73 in Corpus
Christi and Brownsville.
Wednesday's high was 93 de-
grees at Presidio.
The most rainfall in Texas for
the 24-hour period ending at 6
a.m. was .48 at College Station.
Wichita Falls had .31, Dallas .30.
Brownwood .30, Abilene .24, Fort
Worth .25, Waco .03 and San An-
tonio a trace.
Hailstones the size of a man’s
fist fell about three miles north
of Shepherd, Tex., which is about
70 miles northwest of Beaumont,
in San Jacinto County. Sheriff
Charlie Meyers of Jefferson Coun-
ty said ‘he had reports that dam-
age to farm buildings in the area
Students Protest
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Many Injured *
ISTANBUL, Turkey (UPI)—The
Turkish government proclaimed
martial law tonight in an effort
to end widespread anti - govern-"
ment rioting in which three stu-
dents were killed and scores of
persons injured.
Thousands of students boiled
into the streets from Istanbul
University during the day to pro-
test new government laws giving
unprecedented powers to Parlia-
ment.
Police met them with tear gas
and fired volleys of rifle shots
over their heads. Some shots
were reported fired into the crowd
when the students failed to. dis-
perse.
The government of Premier
Adnan Menderes acted then and
proclaimed martial law effective
at 3 p.m. Menderes already had
canceled a trip to the CENTO
meeting in Tehran because of the
crisis.
Thousands of students were in- ‘
volved in the day - long rioting
which began early today and
which still had not been put down
when martial law was imposed.
First reports said scores of
students a n d three policemen
were injured in hand-to-hand fight-
ing perhaps inspired in part by
success of the student riots in
Kang opened fire. He p. m. at Firemans ParK Kitchen.
Refreshueuta. I ...
of all divisions, Thursday were
’ urged by Celebration Chairman
Milton Routt to take part in either
4. or both of t he two Maifest parad-
•T es. Routt said bulletins have been
sent out to the various scout troops,
( but if one was missed that the
scouts can still march in the pa-
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SPECTATOR
mal gardens will be open. Rev.
Summings is approaching U> 9thments ar nowonirial here:
Available to Trekkers will be
eGR 63643,2212
al-Motors Corp. reported Wedncs- ..
day net sales of $3,657,972,07! and Sunday about midnight,
earnings of $323,625,616. or $1.14 ' ------
a common share for the first
To Be Held At
BHS Saturday
The fifth free spring musical re-
vue of pupils in the Brenham
School of Music and Dancing will
be held at the Brenham High
School Auditorium Saturday at 8
p.m.
Entitled "Springtime Fantasy,”
the revue will feature the talents
of about 600 young Brenham musi-
cians and dancers and also several
guest dancers from Houston.
Mrs. J. C. Price is the instructor
in piano and voice and Shirley Mil-
ler is the dance instructor.
The program includes:
. (Prologue
April Showers. Sue Tomachefsky.
Flowers of Spring.
The new assistant superintendent Cl^y ^e commissioners ap-
provedthe deadline suggested by
JOHNNIE GRABARSCHICK, 35.
operator of the Hang Out Place
on U. S. Highway 290 West, is re-
ported in very critical condition at
Milroy Hospital. His physician
said Grabarschick is hemorrhaging
from the stomach. Grabarschick
collapsed Wednesday night and was
rushed to the hospital by ambu-
lance.
charged Wednesday deeply accumulated” by the ad-
ministration of Syngman Rhee
Money Must Be
a Put Up By
June 1
Rt. Rev..John E. Hines, bishop .
of the Diocese, and Rev. Thomas
W. Sumners, chairman of the
board of trustees, will conduct the
services. • • .
St. James House, built at a
cost of more than $500,000, was
opened last February. It is one
of the most modern residences for
the aging in Texas. It is located on
a beautifully wooded nine-a cre
tract, on the outskirts of Baytown.
While the Home is operated by
the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, it
is open to people of all faiths. Only
ambulatory residents are accept-
ed. It is not a nursing home. It is
designed for the aging who are
looking for a happy place to live
with others in a Christian environ-
ment.
Partly cloudy and warm through
Friday. Low tonight 65. high to-
morrow 84. Readings for 24-hours
up to 7 a. m. today: Max. 86, Min.
62,7a.m. 66, sunrise 5:42, sunset
6:56.
communism and end a system of
pobee terror.——------
Appointment of the new cabinet
has one major and immediate ef-
fect: It restores the flow of U.S.
economic aid, halted temporarily
because Korea had no recon-
struction minister. U.S. military
aid had not been inter rupted.
Lee, who assumed “final re-
sponsibility” for the recent blood-
d Billy Maxwell, history and the earnings were a
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HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (UPI) -
Teen-age killer Nearvel Moon
swaggered into the death chamber
at Huntsville Prison early today,
then shouted his innocence from
behind a leather mask until thou-
sands of volte ef electricity sealed
his lips forever.
Moon, 19, walked up to the
electric chair at 12:02 a.m. to-
bul.
The rioting began in the
morning and increased in scope ■
as the day wore on. In early
afternoon some students were
still holding out against police in
the university garden and inside
a building.
The demonstrations began after
the National Assembly passed a
bill Wednesday night taking
powers away from judges and
military authorities and giving
them to investigation committees
set up by the assembly.
The committees originally were
set up to investigate the “de-
structive activities” of opposition
parties and to strengthen the
government’s control.
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Hail Shatters Windows
Hail up to the size of baseballs • estimated at between two and three
shattered plate glass windows and million dollars (NEA Telephoto).
roofs in San Angelo, causing damage
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