Apollo 16 Moon Launch Rehearsed Rehearsed at Cape Kennedy
Apollo 16 astronauts rehearsed their launch to the moon at Cape Kennedy for the final time on Friday. The exercise tested countdown procedures and launch readiness ahead of the mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Walter Ji Kapryan
John W. Young
Thomas K. Mattingly
Charles M. Duke
Xapryan
Launch Control Center
Oceanside
Kenedy Space Center
Mission Control Center
Houston
Tahoka eighth grader wins Lynn County Spelling Bee
Jane Wilke, an eighth grader from Tahoka, won the Lynn County Spelling Bee at Tahoka High School Library. She earned the right to represent Lynn County at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Regional Spelling Bee in Lubbock on April 15 by correctly spelling attraction and then attribute. Joe Boles placed third and Joan Kitten fourth after missteps.
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Tahoka
Jane Wilke
Lynn County
Tahoka High School
Jan
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Susan ‘Thornton
Joe Boles
Joan Kitten
Carlton Wilke
Rt. 2
Wilson
Susan
Garland Thornton
Tohoka
Bettye Green
Frank Nanson
O'Donnell
Ted Dockery
Larry Wilson
New Home Sch
New Home
J. P. Hewlett
The
Bee
Harlem Four Freed On Technicalities After Eight Years
Four Harlem youths known as the Harlem Four were freed on bonds of 5000 each after hours of support from families and neighbors. Their cases included three inconclusive trials and a murder conviction that was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals. A Wednesday hearing on motions to block a fourth trial was planned by defense lawyer William Kunstler.
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New York
UPS
Court of Appeals
William Kunswhom
Istler
Frank
Hogan
Kunstler
Thomas
Harlem
Supreme Court
Wallace Baker
Twiater Tho
Joseph A. Martinis
William Craig
Ronald
Felder
Margit Sugar
Cornelius and Peter Unite To Welcome Gentiles In Baptism
The account describes Caesarea as a Roman era port where Cornelius the Centurion, a devout Gentile, receives a vision and sends for Peter. Peter preaches and baptizes Cornelius and his household, marking the first Gentile converts and a turning point for the Christian church.
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Palestine
Caesarea
Herod the Great
Cornelius
Man of God
St. Peter
Christ
Peter
Jesus
Forum Tonight Hosts Three Lubbock Mayoral Candidates
Public forum invites all residents to hear Mayoral candidates Willie Barnett Morris Turner and Denton Rigsby at 8 p m Sunday. Each will present and take questions from attendees, with invitations extended by B nai Birth Lodge president Stanley Kaye.
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Lubbock
al Ee Nee
Willie Barnett
Morris Turner
Denton Rigsby
B'nai Birth Lodge
Stanley Kaye
Hippies Jailed in Mexico After Immigration Bust
Eleven hippies including ten Americans and one Argentine were detained in the southwest Mexican jungle for lacking immigration papers. Police said they were wandering under the influence and were brought to a resort island before being handed to immigration authorities.
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Cobumel
Mexico
UPI
Tana Roo Peerltong
Jazz clergyman counsels brass and blues in New York
Rev. John Garcia Gensel 54, Protestant Lutheran jazz pastor, serves St. Peter’s Lutheran and the Board of American Missions while roaming New York clubs to counsel musicians. He blends ecumenical outreach with a half century of church life, guiding performers through personal and family stress and mixing sermons with jazz vespers.
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Duke Ellington
John Garcia Gensel
New York
Ellington
Gensel
New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
Board of American Mis
Sions
Lutheran Church In
Johnny Hodges
Mr. Gensel
Mansfield
Ohio
Piketon
Alfore
Advent Lutheran
St. Church
Peter's Lutheran Church
Tulia Girls Triumph in State OEA Parliamentary Contest
Eight Tulsa OEA girls won first place in parliamentary procedures at the State OEA Conference in Fort Worth, earning a spot at the national conference in Columbus Ohio April 29 to May 3. Team members include Sharron Miller K Linn Borchardt Jayleen Whitmire Patricia Stephens Mary McPherson Joan Nobile Marilyn Heard and Sheree Watson.
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Tulia
Tulsa Oea
Fort Worth
National Office Education Association
Columbus
Ohio
Sharron Miller
K. Linn Borchardt
Jayleen Whitmire
Patricia Stephens
Mary McPherson
Joan Nobile
Marilyn Heard
Sheree Watson
Cox
CFA
Marsha Sharp
Marcil ‘Loring
Tulsa Ofa
Charla Riker
Becky Albrecht
Zane Finck
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Redeemer
Lutheran
Daryl G. Meyer
Reese Air Base
Christ Lutheran
Indiana
Ronald L. Jenkins
Redeemer Luthern
Elmer G. Neunaber
Robert Lee
Plains Christian Church
University
Curtis Dickinson
Wilmette
Wilmette Catholic
North Vietnam
St. Peter's
Spirlt
Higginbotham
University Christian
North Ash
Charles Carma Minster
FAITH
Assembly of God
Fob Goodwin
Truly Pentecostal Church
Faith Assembly OF God
50Th Street
Mid-Western Gospel Singers
Smithlawn
Church of
Bible School
Toth & Hwy
First Unitarian Universalist Church
36Th Street
Daniel G. Higgins
Ainte Hs
Sheats
Children's Services For Children
Joshua
S.S
Fellowship Hall
Ken Black
Trinity Church
Denton Avenue
All Faiths
Channel 28
KSEL
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