Storms Grip Texas with Tornadoes and Heavy Rain
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes pounded Texas on Saturday as high winds hail and heavy rains disrupted communities from Matagorda to the South Plains. Lubbock logged 1.08 inches pushing the yearly total near 3.98 inches with other towns recording 0.49 to 7 inches locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Knapp
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
South Plains
U. S. Weather Bureau
West Texas Air Terminal
Lanct
Huntsville
Houston
Matagorda
Victoria
Laredo
Austin
Andrews
Seminole
Denver City
Floydada
O'Donnell
Lubbock
Abernathy
Amherst
Aspermont
Brownfield
Cotton Center
Crosbyton
Dickens
Dimmitt
Friona
Gail
Hale Center
Hereford
Lamesa
Levelland
Littlefield
Lockney
Lorenzo
Matador
Morton
Muleshoe
Orton
Paducah
Petersburg
Plains
Plainview
Post
Seagraves
Silverton
Slaton
Snyder
Flood Losses Reach Five Million Across Midwestern States
Flood damage tops five million as Red River and James River surge along the North Dakota Minnesota border. Grand Forks evacuations and flooded basements persist while bridges, roads, and elderly housing developments face extensive harm. Gas hazards and renewed evacuations accompany the rising floodwaters across multiple communities.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Red River
North Dakota-Minnesota
Grand Forks
N.D
William Guy
North Dakota
James River
Jamestown
James
Foote
Elm
Songs Chide Reformers Conservative Folk Singer At Yale
Yale junior Tony Dolan writes and performs conservative folk songs. He markets his album Cry, the Beloved Country and uses selective dating rules tied to National Review. His songs appeal to liberal and conservative crowds in Connecticut coffee houses and groups like Young Americans for Freedom.
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Associated Press
New Haven
Conn
Tony Dolan
National Review
Dolan
Yale University
Connecticut
Young Americans For Freedom
SDS
Dr. Spock
Nixon forecasts $5.8 billion budget surplus for 1970
President Nixon announces a revised budget plan with a $5.8 billion surplus for the 1970 fiscal year starting July 1, citing large reductions in military and domestic spending. He contrasts with Lyndon Johnson’s lower targets and seeks $5.5 billion in reduced appropriations, with defense cuts of about $1.1 billion.
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Washington
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
LBJ
Johnson
Congress
Robert P. Mayo
Sheriff Deputy Jim Cooper Shot During Warrant Attempt
A 28 year old sheriff's deputy Jim Anthony Cooper was shot in the lower abdomen while serving a gambling warrant at 2801 Slide Road. Det. Billy Knox and police chased down the suspect Jasper Ray Pruitt who was charged with assault with intent to murder and held on $10,000 bond. The incident occurred as multiple officers responded and Cooper underwent surgery with a Serious condition reported.
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Lane Arthur
Avvalanche-Journal
Jim Anthony Cooper
E. Purdue
Slide Road
Cooper
Methodist Hospital
Jasper Ray Pruitt
Justice For the Peace
Wayne LeCroy
Billy Knox
Knox
Ray Huffman
Pruitt
Huffman
C. G. Bartley
Jack Sealy
Jackie Knox
Preacher
Deacon
Kim
Real Flying Nun comes to Lubbock to instruct teachers
A clipped newspaper page lists diverse items: a Flying Nun tour to instruct teachers in Lubbock. Rotarian conference planned in Midland. Reese graduates celebrate 54 student pilots. a Houston transplant list. a Stargazer satellite update. FTC pre merger notices. Anguilla political moves. Soviet security talks. plus horoscopes, market reports, editorials and farming notes.
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Lubbock
Prayer Aide Seeks Guiding Walk With Lord
A note from Mildred Voight of Lubbock asks for daily guidance and prayers as she reflects on rushing ahead of divine will to face the day and find clarity in faith.
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Mildred Voight
Lubbock
Taxes Too Safety Tag Deadline Sneaks Up
Procrastinators face long lines as Tuesday marks the deadline for income tax filings and vehicle safety inspections. Many taxpayers rush to the post office before midnight while inspection centers anticipate heavier volumes, with local reports noting 15 cars lined up Saturday and 60 vehicles at peak in prior days.
Texas lawmakers move to cap DPS helicopters at two
In Austin, Texas legislators push to limit the Department of Public Safety to at most two helicopters in the 1970 71 appropriations bill though DPS currently operates five and has two more on order. The House and Senate clash over crime fighting expansions with narcotics and highway patrol staffing proposals, split on campus enforcement.
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Roland Lindsey Austin
UPI
Texas
Law and Order
Department of Public Safety
House
Senate
DPS
Texas Ranger
Letter from Gold Star Mother on Vietnam Deserters Plea
Mrs. Richard F. Keyer Sr. of Xenia protests a Stockholm based deserters committee urging relatives of fallen soldiers to press for ending the Vietnam War. She recalls her son Dennis Keyer, 21, Navy medic with the 3rd Marine Division, killed May 1, 1966, and says she has no sympathy for the deserters while trusting the government to end the conflict. Her letter to President Nixon rejects intrusion into her privacy and asserts her son volunteered and believed in his country.
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Associated Press
Xenia
Vietnam
Nixon
American Deserters Committee
Richard F. Keyer Sr
U.S
Deserters Committee
Stockholm
Sweden
Congress
Eisenhower
Viet
Lubbock Avalanche Journal Wins Headliners Public Service Award
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal received the National Headliners Club outstanding public service award at a luncheon in Atlantic City. Editor Chas A Guy accepted the plaque. judges praised the paper's investigative reporting that helped solve the Texas Tech campus murder of a cleaning woman on December 4 1967.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lubbock -Avalanche Journal
National Headliners Club
Tom
Pap) Paprocki
Associated Press
Adrian W. Phillips
Chas. A. Guy
Avalanche Journal
Haddon Hall
Jin
Texas Tech
Missing Florida tot found dead in shallow grave
The mutilated body of 8-year-old Camillia Hand, missing since Thursday, was found Saturday in a shallow grave near where she was last seen. Deputies questioned a prominent local man as an angry crowd gathered outside. Clothing was found nearby.
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Qocoee
Fla
Orange County
Dave Starr
Camillia
Starr
Governors Reception Opens Mansion to 28th District
Gov and Mrs Preston Smith host a 5 to 7 pm reception at the Governor's Mansion in Austin for the 28th Senate district a series inviting Texans from Andrews Crosby Dawson Gaines counties to visit the mansion with families no invitation required the governor said the open door policy continues to welcome residents for six years in the Senate before his 1963 lieutenant governorship.
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Glen Castlebury
Avalanche-Journal
Austin Bureau
Austin
Preston Smith
28Th District
Governor's
Senate
Andrews
Cochran Crosby, Dawson, Gaines
Doc Blanchard
Smith
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