Pattern of Pillage in Detroit Riot Debacle
Detroit riots show organized lawlessness with fires started by Molotov cocktails. Looting targets liquor and gun stores as mixed race mobs destroy what police and soldiers cannot defend. President Johnson deployed troopers as Michigan National Guardsmen and police failed to stop the tide. property losses reach up to 150 million dollars with 14 deaths. Newark also reports 26 dead. Critics blame black power rhetoric for license to violence and call the events a leaderless, long hot summer replay.
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Detroit
Johnson
Michigan National
Newark
Stokley Carmichael
Cuba
Motor City
Berlin
Jerome Cavanaugh
Hugh Addonizio
New Jersey City
Sky High Texas Growth Lures Industry and New Arrivals
The piece notes Milam County and Cen-Tex cities offer opportunities as Texas industrializes rapidly, following California’s example with a projected population surge to 60 million by 2000. It cites clear air, space, and economic prospects drawing Northeastern migrants seeking a better life and cleaner living conditions.
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Texas
California
Buckholts Pastor Named Outstanding Young Man of America
The Rev. Frank Simcik Jr. of Buckholts Ocker and Seaton Brethren Churches is selected for the 1967 Outstanding Young Men of America. Nominated by the Temple Junior College Alumni Association, he teaches Bible at Temple High School and serves with the Temple Ministerial Alliance.
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Frank Simcik Jr
Buckholts Ocker and
Seaton Brethren
Temple Junior College Alumni Association
Rev. Simcik
Temple Junior College
The
University of Texas and
Austin Presbyterian Seminary
Temple High School
With
the Temple
Unity of the Brethern
Abbott
Frank Simcik
Route 4
Temple
Sixteen Texas amendments face voters on November ballot
Secretary of State John Hill outlines 14 amendments for 1968 plus eight more of local interest. Major items include park bonds, veterans land program funding to raise borrowing, and a park admission fee. Gov Connally backs parks plan and campaign to secure voter approval.
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Texas
John Hill
U.S
Park Bend
John Connally
Connally
Dallas
Houston
Old Philosopher imagines science changing sports and life
A reader muses on science automating fishing golf and dominoes then critiques amendments on hospital districts and education advisory boards. He muses about 14 billion lost man-hours and ends with a joke about wrapping fish in a Chronicle copy.
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The
Houston Chronicle
United States
Congress
the Chronicle
Vanderpool Named New Construction Manager at Alcoa Rockdale
John B. Vanderpool is appointed construction manager at Alcoa Rockdale Works succeeding E. R. Werner who shifts to Lafayette Works. Vanderpool, a Dallas native and 1952 OU civil engineering graduate, will oversee the seventh potline and redraw rod casting facilities.
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Vanderpool
Alcoa
John B. Vanderpool
Rockdale
E. R. Werner
Lafayette
Ind
H. F. Chrisco
Dallas
University of Oklahoma
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. Navy
Civil Engineering Corps
Pittsburgh
Jamaica
Surianame
Ruth Strange
Reykjavik
Iceland
Vanderpools
Vicky
Harold
Werner
Gilmore Named Planner for Cen Tex Economic District
Judge J Howard English announces Jackson L Gilmore as Planner for the Central Texas Economic Development District. Gilmore, chosen by a 4 country committee, comes from the Waco Chamber of Commerce where he led the Industrial Development Department and holds a UT economics degree.
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J. Howard English
Hillsboro
Central Texas Economic Development District
Jackson L. Gilmore
Gilmore
Texas
Waco Chamber of Commerce
University of Texas
Bureau of Business Research
English
Central
Patricia
Waco
American Industrial Development Council
The
Southern Industrial Development Council
Texas Industrial Development Council
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Cameron Herald
Walter Williams
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
Ben Milam
Milam
Cameron
Frank M. Luecke
Don Scarbrough
Milam County
Buckholts
Eb Becot
Veterans Land
Southeast Asia
Hitler
Ralph Poteet
Mes
Mesquite
Tp&l
Chevrolet
N. Fannin
America
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