BOAC Jet Crash Kills 124 In Japan Near Fuji
Four hundred passengers aboard the BOAC 707 suffered a catastrophic loss as the jet plummeted to the southern slope of Mt. Fuji after departing Haneda. Among the dead were 75 Thermo King Corp executives and spouses on a company junket. Pilot Bernard J. Dobson did not transmit an emergency, and officials ruled out sabotage. The crash capped a week of air disasters worldwide, with Tokyo authorities and witnesses documenting the violent breakup and fiery wreckage.
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Lubbock
Overseas Airways
Mt. Fuji
I Tan Tate
Thermo King Corp
Junket
Bernard J. Dobson
Dobson
Fuji
Tokyo
Haneda International
Hong Kong
National
San Francisco
Pearly teeth machine brings orthodontic woes to Lovington family
In Lovington a local family faces a prolonged orthodontic treatment after their son’s dental issues are diagnosed. The father notes high costs and calls the process an investment while the mother reads magazine tips. A lighthearted column also comments on local newspaper sourcing and regional news habits.
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Lubbock
Ronny
Lovington
Jeanne
Justice Dept Moves to Registry of DuBois Club
The Justice Department petitions the Subversive Activities Control Board to force the W E B DuBois Club to register as a Communist front. Albuquerque members Rudy Andrews and James Kennedy defend rights while claiming government attempts to suppress dissent and silence opposition to Johnson's Vietnam policy. The UNM refuses campus recognition for the club.
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Albuquerque
UPD
Southwest
W.E. B. DuBois
Frig
Justice Cement
Rudy Andrews
Corrales
DuBois Club Naional Executive Board
Leeman
Justice Department
Subversive Activities Control Board
Albuquerque DuBois Club
James Kennedy
University of New Mexico
Kennedy
Bettina Aptheker
Berkeley
Calif
Andrews
Johnson
Viet Nam
Texas A and M Receives Gifts For New Library
Gifts totaling almost a million dollars were accepted by Texas A M University system directors. Wofford Cain of Dallas gave 2 300 shares valued at 840 00 as the largest donation toward a 1913 graduate's pledge of 250 000 for the new library. Funds for scholarships research and salaries totaled 981 359 plus 38 982 in scholarships and fellowships 64 470 in research funds for Texas A M 242 042 in grants in aid for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and 52 123 for Tarleton State scholarships and materials.
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UPI
Texas A&m University System
Wofford Cain
Dallas
Texas A&m
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Tarleton State
Meeting of Pere Sones in Lovington Forms Radio Club
A notice calls all Pere Sones in the Lovington area to a meeting on Tuesday night March 8 1966 at 7 00 PM in the Coffee Room of the Western Grill to organize a Citizen's Band Radio Club.
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Western Grill
All Pere Sones
Lovington
First MIGs Fire On U S Jets In North Vietnam Air War
Reports from Saigon detail the first MIG fighter passes since bombing resumed near Hanoi with three MIGs attacking U S Phantom jets near a SAM site. U S forces claim heavy air strikes and significant ground actions in the south near Quang Ngai and Tuy Hoa, with 443 enemy troops confirmed killed in one valley battle. Separately, New Mexico State University approves an $85 000 Peace Corps training contract for Paraguay and Colombia and funds a 12 room Carlsbad school building project.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Hanoi
North Viet
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Tuy Hoa
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
North Viet Nam
Navy
Air Force
South
Quang Ngai City
Carlsbad
UPI
Paraguay
Colombia
New Mexico State University Board of Regents
Jacob T. Tejada
Regents
Tejada
NMSU
Salvador
Guatemala
Carlsbad Board of Education
New Mexico pledge eyes 60 hour shower world record
Joe Shaffer a 19 year old Phi Kappa Tau pledge at New Mexico State University aims to break the 56 hour shower record. He began his attempt at 4 30 p m Friday planning to remain until Monday morning. Fraternity brothers kept him company as he slept under the spray. The idea came after hearing a national commentator discuss the 56 hour mark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LAS Cruces
UPI
Phi Cappa Tau Fraternity
New Mexico State University
Joe Shaffer
Roswell
Shaffer
Eastern University
Lovington Forecast For Carlsbad Lovington and Clovis
Weather summary for New Mexico cities Carlsbad Lovington and Clovis showing mostly clear Sunday with variable cloudiness Monday. Warmer Sunday and Monday with highs from 40 to 65 and lows around the mid teens to mid twenties, plus year to date precipitation at .41 inches for Lovington.
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Carlsbad
Lovington
Clovis
Cloevis
New Mexico
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Grahams
Japan
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Gwen Lovelace
Christene Hann
Janice Smith
LaRene Whitehead
Sherron Gaskill
Jo Hennington
Cynthia Myers
Linda Stoops
A. M. Swarthout
Don Yarbro
Uncle Sam
John Benge
Albuquerque Journal
Duke City
Harold Baer
Nell Lewis
el Paso
Fort Worth
John
Harold
Texas
Santa Fe
Lea
Curry
Roosevelt
Neck of the Woods
Justice Dept
DuBois
Peace Corps
Watorial
Bamate
Cilfmen
Imag
Lovington Forecast
Ernest Willyard
Yarbro
Jim Willyard
W. Madison
Llano
Manyent
Egraph
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