Call-Up Tags Texas Units In Reserve Mobilization
Secretary of Defense Clifford announced 24 500 reservists called up 10 000 to go to Vietnam the first reserve mobilization for the war. Texas four reserve units affected total not yet counted. 88 units nationwide 34 states notified to report within 30 days up to 24 months service. Clinton says no escalation and no impact on peace talks. McCarthy criticizes administration handling. See CALL-UP Page 12.
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United States
Southeast Asia
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Aitford
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Hanoi
White House
George Christian
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Rain Pattern Spreads Across South Plains With Thunder
Weather officials report spotty showers across the South Plains with light rainfall totals including 0.30 inch in Lamesa and traces in several towns. Forecasts call for lingering activity and potential thunderstorms into today and Saturday as a cold front moves in. A commemorative stamp in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was announced in Mexico City.
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Seminole
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Lubbock
U.S. Weather Bureau
Mexico City
UPI
Mexco
Rae Ateer
Abilene
el Paso
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Clovis Okla
Derver
W. Fat
Georgia coeds stage second sit-in over liquor hours
Nearly 200 University of Georgia coeds occupy the Academic Building for a second night to protest liquor and late hours. Sophomore Susan Carroll from Miami Beach leads cheer, asserting they will stay until demands are met. President Davison refuses to concede, but a university spokesman says forcible removal will not occur. The students claim curfews are unfair and argue liquor laws are unconstitutional.
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Athens
University of Georgia
Miss Carroll
Looters Called Solid Citizens in Riots Across Cities
In the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s assassination more than 100 cities saw racial violence as blocks burned and shops looted. Interviews suggest many arrestees were normal workers, not outcasts, with examples from Washington Pittsburgh Chicago and Memphis showing varied motives and responses amid the unrest.
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Jerry Buck
Associated Press
Martin’ Luther King Jr
City's Stop and Go Relief Hoped From Green Remedy
A brief item notes fast relief hoped from a green colored remedy, described as the solution in a stop and go case. The article on Page 6 Section B hints at a swift cure or treatment being pursued.
Johnson signs open housing civil rights bill in White House
President Johnson signed the civil rights and open housing bill in a White House ceremony following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s assassination. The measure makes it a federal crime to interfere with civil rights efforts and aims to outlaw housing discrimination by 1970. Johnson condemned the violence and urged Congress to pass further social justice laws.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Martin Luther King Jr
Voice of Justice
Congress
House
America
Prayer for the repose of the departed souls
A reader requests prayers for the souls of those who have died expressing grief and a desire for spiritual comfort and remembrance.
War Hero Meatball's Devotion Costs Life
Meatball the mongrel dog who saved a Marine in South Vietnam and was brought to the United States as a reward is dead. Police killed the dog while restraining him after he bit a door-to-door salesman at Gerald Brissman's Indianapolis apartment. Brissman, a returning Marine, and his fiancée Ruth planned to move after their wedding next week with Meatball guarding the home. Meatball's rescue aided by Senator Birch Bayh helped secure its return to the United States last year.
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Indianapolis
Meatball
South Vietnaam
United States
Gerald Brissman
South Vietnam
Brissman
Ruth
Sen
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Warsaw No Talks Site Declared By Vietnam
UPI reporting from Washington says North Vietnam proposed Warsaw as a talks site with the United States but President Johnson rejected the idea seeking a neutral atmosphere. Officials noted Poland's allied role and concerns over timing and neutrality.
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Warsaw
Merriman Smith
Washington
UPI
North Vietnam
United States
Johnson
Poland
Pulse Of Area Thunderstorms Taken
A U S Weather Bureau study by G Alan Johnson and Thomas P Clarke at Lubbock Municipal Airport analyzed 15 years of data from 1952 to 1966 across April to October. The study mapped daily thundershower events into four time blocks and notes dew point frontal triggers often complicate forecasters efforts.
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Lubbock
G. Alan Johnson
Thomas P. Clarke
U. S
Weather Bureau
Lubbock Municipal
Johnson and Clarke
Kidnap Story Probed In Snyder Case
A 17 year old girl and 20 year old Fort Worth man told the Scurry County Sheriff that they were abducted in Tarrant County Thursday afternoon, later released about 20 miles west of Snyder. They alleged rape by the captors, who fled northwest in a black and white 1966 Oldsmobile. They named three armed suspects called Bonnie Clyde and Bill, and said $30 to $40 and a wristwatch were stolen.
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Snyder
Fort Worth
Scurry County
Keith Collier
Tarrant County
Here
Collier
Bonnie
Clyde
Bill
Moon Eclipse Tonight Observed Across Americas
The total lunar eclipse will be visible across most of North and South America. The Moon enters Earth shadow at 9 10 pm CST and becomes coppery red, with totality starting 10 12 pm and lasting 50 minutes per the American Museum Hayden Planetarium.
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New York
UPI
North
South America
American Museum
Hayden Planetarium
City Approves Traffic Signals and Park Improvements in Lubbock
City council approves purchase of traffic actuated signals at 12 major intersections and pursues widening Indiana Avenue. They erase a conflict with state law on double yellow stripes, reject angle parking near the Post Office, and seek changes to West 19th Street median. Also table a zone change, consider Yellowhouse Canyon land option, and fund East Lubbock park projects with a $4,000 grant for a 14.25 acre tract.
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Jerry McCarty
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Indiana Avenue
Texas Highway Department
West 19Th St
Ave. Q
34Th St. At
Yellowhouse Canyon
James E. Walker
Parks and Recreation Commission
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