Meatless Movement Grows As Households Boycott Meat
Lubbock housewives join a nationwide push to skip meat amid rising prices while some factions argue prices should have a price floor rather than a ceiling. Shoppers report meat and chicken costs climbing sharply with calls for six month boycotts to protest high prices.
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Worth Wren
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Nixon
Simone Gordon
16Th St
Judson
Gladys) Maynard
49Th St
First Baptist Dallas Heads World’s Largest Southern Baptist Church
Dr Wallie Amos Criswell leads First Baptist of Dallas a vast denomination hub with around 18 000 members including Billy Graham H L Hunt and Van Cliburn The church runs a 105 class Sunday School 10 305 strong across four blocks and a 2550 seat sanctuary with 1600 choristers and live TV viewing for overflow in a nearby chapel The piece contrasts church size with mercantile style management and broad reach in Texas
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Godfrey Anderson
Dallas
Southern Baptist Church
First Baptist of Dallas
Gimbels
Macys
First Baptist of
Texas
Evangelist Billy Graham
H. L. Hunt
van Cliburn
Tornadoes Rattle Northeast Georgia Leaving Casualties And Injuries
At least two people reported dead and scores injured as a series of tornadoes struck northeast Georgia Saturday night. Authorities in Athens and Conyers warned of confirmed deaths and described extensive damage to mobile homes and buildings. Emergency crews treated more than 100 at Rockdale County Hospital while homes and a plant, warehouse, and trailer parks were demolished or damaged. The storm moved from a housing subdivision across Interstate 20, destroying roofs and uprooting trees. See Tornadoes Page 15.
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United Press International
Georgia
Athens
Monroe
Twisters
Conyers
Atlanta
Iinterstate 20
Lewis Wilson
Earace
Lewis
Rubber Co
Pants ,Manufacturing Company
Rockdale County
Convers
Crete
Panhandle
High Plains
Luflsin
Texas
Diplomat Unit Off For China Mission Preparations
Al Holdridge leads a five member State Department team to Hong Kong and Peking to arrange Nixon administration liaison with China. The party includes Jenkins and prepares for David Bruce who will head the Peking mission with John Holdridge as deputy chief of mission. The Chinese advance party will arrive in Washington in April to ready the opening of the two liaison offices in May. Huang Chen will head the Chinese mission in Peking.
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UPI
al Holdridge
State Department
Teft
Eni
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Nixon
China
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Sen Tiblomat Rage
Chicago
Hong Kong
Willl
David K.E. Bruce
Bruce
Huang Chen
France
People’s Republic of China
Communist Central Committee
John Holdridge
National Security Council
Airport Work Hums At Lubbock Regional
Construction surges at Lubbock Regional Airport as 6 million dollars of upgrades proceed. Concrete taxiways cover 45 acres, a seven bay fire and rescue building nears completion, and planned projects include a 2.7 million aircraft apron a 5 million passenger terminal and a 3.5 million runway extension as part of a 22.3 million expansion funded by 14 million in local bonds and FAA match.
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Lubbock Regional
L. H. Lacy Co
Dallas
Sevenbay
Federal Aviation Administration
Airport Fire and Rescue
Airport fire station under construction near terminal
A new airport fire station designed by Whitaker and Hall of Laibbock, built of precast concrete and brick, rises 6000 feet east of the passenger terminal. It will host seven bay fire trucks, dormitories, a kitchen, and a training dining area with an alternate emergency operations center in the basement. The $275000 NETMA Inc. project in Libook has 18 firefighters stationed in temporary quarters while construction nears completion.
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Whitaker and
Hall
Laibbock
Netma, Inc
Lubibook
Measles Epidemic Kills Nearly 800 in Upper Volta
Foreign Minister Joseph Conombo reported on Saturday that about 800 people have died from a measles outbreak in Upper Volta since the year began. The epidemic has prompted health officials to urge vaccination and emergency measures.
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Ouagadougou
Upper Volta
Joseph Conombo
April Fools Day Pranks Charged With Folly History
A humorous UPI item discusses April Fools Day origins and jokes about prime steak prices, noting Charles Lamb on fools and the tradition's link to springtime folly, with a mention of France’s Poisson de Avril and a prompt to see further on Page 15.
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New York
UPI
Charles Lamb
France
Easter Spell Predicted Again Across State
Weather wisecracks aside, forecaster warns of a persistent cold spell extending into Easter. The piece recalls past late season freezes, teems with regional references to Texas panhandle conditions, and hints at significant damage from prior bouts.
POWA SWINGER AS FLIGHT MAJOR REUNITES WITH SISTER
Air Force Maj Edward W Leonard of Winlock Washington and Colorado Springs Colorado arrives at Travis AFB California swinging his sister Karen. Leonard was shot down over Laos on May 1 1968 and was listed as missing in action until recently.
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Air Force
Edward W. Leonard
Winlock
Wash
Colorado Springs
Colo
Karen
Travis Afb
Calif
Leonard
Laos
Texas Tech Lineman Terry Bridge dies in crash
Terry Lynn Bridge 21 and Benjamin Williamson 22 died after a pickup struck their disabled vehicle on U S 87 near Victoria Texas DPS said the crash occurred around 12 50 a m while they changed a flat tire. Bridge was a Texas Tech football player from Springlake Earth and had signed in February 1969.
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Texas Tech
Dale Evans
Tech
Liceneer
Victoria
Bridge
Jacek Fligg
Terry
Ridge
TEXAS
Terry Lynn Bridge
Springlake
Benjamin P. Williamson
Refugio
U.S. 87
Department of Public Safety
Williamson
DPS
Larry Joel Borak
Wharton
Springlake Earth
Raider
Cambodia Bombing Restraints Move Afoot In Congress
U S senators consider curbing actions in Indochina as Cambodia facing intensified Communist offensives around Phnom Penh. Senate leaders weigh amending the State Department authorization bill to block further bombing, with hearings set to begin Tuesday.
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Ashington
USS
Ac Fuons
Southeast Asia
Bomiyong
Cambodia
Homsad
Amercan
Phnom Penh
Highway 2
Senate
Mike Mansfield
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