City Council to Review Bids and zoning changes
The council shifts to tonight to award bids for a microwave system linking the Lake Lavon power plant to city sites and for power transmission line work. It also weighs bids for concrete work and an ordinance changing a 7.47 acre tract on Broadway Blvd from single family to retail use. Three condemnations for street right of way are planned along Glenbrook Drive. Texas Power & Light seeks guard sites for Varo and Trans-Tex Petroleum seeks one, plus electric service for Garland Chrysler-Plymouth on Garland Ave.
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Lake Lavon
Glenbrook Drive
Texas Power & Light Company
Varo, Inc
Fifth Street
Trans-Tex Petroleum Company
Belt Line Road
Gatewood Road
Garland Chrysler-Plymouth
Garland Ave
Kingsley Road
Inventors Exhibition Schedule in Garland Texas
The Garland Chamber of Commerce with the City of Garland and the Texas Industrial Commission will host an Inventors Exhibition for Texas inventors on July 15-16 at South Garland High School. Inventors from across Texas are expected to exhibit and the event aims to attract interest from inventors and manufacturers.
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Garland Chamber of Commerce
Garland
Texas Industrial Commission
Texas
Chambers’ Industrial Committee
Charles Duckworth
South Garland High School
Duckworth
Jenny Wilson to Return Home After Girls State Trip
Jenny Wilson arrives in Garland Friday night after attending Girls State where she was elected State Treasurer. She is the first from South Garland High to be named a girls state delegate and to hold a top ten post. She will speak to clubs about her activities and experiences.
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Jenny Wilson
Girls State
Garland
Rubyrne Phillips
Jenny
South Garland High School
FiveYearOld Garland Girl In Auto Crash Injures
A five year old Garland girl, Lana Sue Clark, remained in Baylor Hospital in poor but improving condition after a 6 23 p m collision with a car driven by 17 year old William H Robinson Jr The incident on Livenshire Street left 27 feet of skid marks and the cyclist was injured The youth received a citation for negligent collision and police officer Joe Peterson investigated
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Garland
Baylor Hospital
Lana Sue Clark
Livenshire Street
Livenshire
Doctor's Hospital
Dallas
Baylor
William H. Robinson Jr
Young Robinson
Joe Peterson
Pompano Beach
Fia
UPI
Gold Coast
Solon Plans Insurance Rate Bill To Boost Competition
State Rep. George Skeet Richardson of Fort Worth says he will introduce a competitive auto insurance rate bill in the 60th Legislature. He urged Gov. Connally to back the measure, citing a State Insurance Commission rate hike and arguing free competition lowers costs for Texans.
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Texas
Richardson
John Connally
State Insurance Commission
Registration Opens for Learn-To-Swim Sessions
Park and Recreation officials announced registration for the second session of American Red Cross Learn-To-Swim classes. Registration for Pecan Grove Central and Holford Pools will be at the Community Center, 1310 Ave. F, on Saturday, June 25.
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Park and Recreation
American Red Cross
Pecan Grove
Central
Holford
Ave. F
Miller Road
MKT
Central Pool
PARC
Car stolen twice after police return owner’s car
Police recovered Ron Baran’s stolen car and parked it at the precinct. They informed Baran to pick it up. He arrived on Wednesday to find the car had been stolen again.
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New York
UPI
Ron Baran
Baran
Garland Women Named to OSU Roll for GPA 3.0 Plus
Two Garland University of Oklahoma State students are listed among 2 482 who meet the required grade point average of at least 3.0 with no grade below C and at least 15 credit hours. Deborah Ashenhurst is a freshman in arts and sciences and Teresa Ashenhurst is a senior in arts and sciences.
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Garland
Oklahoma State University
Robert B. Kamm
OSU
Deborah Ashenhurst
Teresa Ashenhurst
Garland Students Earn Baylor Degrees in 689-Graduate Ceremony
Baylor University conferred degrees on 689 graduates in Waco marking its first year of continuous operation. Abner V. McCall delivered the charge. Garland residents among the 187 Texas cities and several states included Sarah Ann Cleland Jimmie D Hannen and Martha Ann New each earning a Bachelor of Arts.
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Waco
Texas
Baylor Univerisity
Heart of Texas
Baylor
Abner V. McCall
Garland
Sarah Ann Cleland
Don Cleland
Hilltop
Jimmie D. Hannen
Otis Slaydon
W. Valencia
Martha Ann New
J. R. New
Freeman
Viet War Casualties Drop Amid Lingering Hostilities
UPI reports a seven day period ending June 18 shows U.S. casualties down with 79 Americans killed and 567 wounded, while South Vietnamese losses rose to 175 killed with 20 missing and Viet Cong deaths dropping to 928. Allied deaths totaled 20. Since Jan 1, 1961, U.S. toll stands at 3,883 with 21,549 wounded.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Garland Area Forecast Clears Warm Weekend Ahead
Weather forecast for Garland and vicinity calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warm conditions this afternoon tonight and Friday. Highs near 90 in the afternoons. Lows around 70 tonight. Winds from the south at 10 to 15 mph.
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Garland and Vicinity
Triple decade stay in barracks housing intrigues Iowa family
Robert Glesne aged 3 moved with parents to temporary married student housing at the University of Iowa. Now 22 and married, he still lives in the same barracks style home. In 19 years rent rose only six dollars fifty cents per month.
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Iowa City, Iowa
UPI
Robert Glesne
University of Iowa
Robert
Communist party push to enter mainstream politics
In New York top 300 Communists map a plan to place an independent leftist in the White House in 1969. Gus Hall delivers a 36,000 word speech urging unity with the peace and civil rights movements to defeat Johnson and the Republican candidate. In Florida and Mississippi unrest follows racial tensions and a Philadelphia march is planned. Viet Cong eligibility to vote in South Vietnam elections raises questions about their role and possible boycotts as Saigon sets voting rules inhibiting Communist candidates.
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New York
America
White House
Communist Party
Gus Hall
Reds
Hall
Johnson
Viet Nam
Washington
UPI
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
U. S
Saigon
Man gets 10 years for heroin hidden in hospital card
Fort Worth Texas sentencing occurred Wednesday for Joel E Guerra 30 after authorities found heroin concealed in a floral decoration attached to a get well card sent to a friend in a hospital narcotics ward.
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Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Joel E. Guerra
Short man wins fire brigade job after height hoax
Christopher Upton, 5 foot 6 and a half inches, padded his shoes and styled a wave to meet height rules for the Banbury fire brigade. Officials, impressed by his effort, waived the height requirement and hired him.
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Banbury
England
UPI
Christopher Upton
Fire Brigade
No Change For Draft Planned
Washington UPI reports Selective Service Director Lew B Hershey opposed any overhaul of the draft. The House Armed Services Committee opened hearings on general draft review with Rivers hinting at a lower peacetime draft age, potentially 22 or 23, while Hershey opposed the change. The panel had limited time to question him before adjournment.
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Rivers
Congress
Hershey
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