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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1968
Page
3
Washington UPI reports Democratic loyalties show division as a three way race develops for the presidential contest. George J. Marder notes factions forming amid competing candidates and policy appeals.
President Johnson signs a bill designating the Tiwa Indians of El Paso as a recognized tribe. The 167 member community will receive state support for programs including free school lunches medical care and clothing. The move allows Texas to oversee federal anti poverty initiatives and preserve Tiwa songs dances and language. June dances at Ysleta Mission continue as the Tiwas recall their early Texas settlement roots.
April Sunday lectures at 3 p.m. in West Texas Museum on the Texas Tech campus explore relativity, time viewing through telescopes, and distant quasars. Admission 50 cents to 23 cents, free for museum members. parking available.
Air Force reservists recalled to active duty will see changes in dining at Reese Air Force Base with a new buffet style option featuring hamburgers and hot dogs alongside traditional meals. Ground meat and wieners are provided for the alternate meals, with separate-ration airmen paying 60 cents for noon and 45 cents for evening meals.
Two brothers from Michigan were killed when their car ran off a road and crashed into a house in South Haven whose kitchen had been the scene of a 1960 murder involving a third brother. Sheriff Whitcomb noted the eerie coincidence as the affected family grieved and the house sustained major damage.
More than 4,000 attendees filled the Lubbock Coliseum Saturday for a Lions Club and Seventh Step Foundation benefit. Headliners were Dan Blocker and Mike Landon of Bonanza with acts by Tony Lee Scott the Fireballs and Slumtown S...
A rally for Don Yarborough Democratic candidate for governor is set at Municipal Airport between 4 and 4 30 p.m. Monday during his stopover en route to Borger and Amarillo. He returns to Lubbock Tuesday afternoon and attends a $5 plate Yarborough for Governor dinner at 7 30 p.m. in Vanns Catering Service. A luncheon in Amarillo will precede the dinner with tickets available from Lubbock campaign headquarters 3029 34th St SW5-0309.
A two engine aircraft carrying six mining officials and three crew members crashed and burned in the western desert while flying from an iron mine near Bahariya oasis to Cairo. No survivors were immediately known according to Al Ahram.
In the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination crowds ignite unrest in several cities but volunteers from church civil rights and black power groups mobilize with the slogan cool it baby. In Chicago Blackstone Rangers and East Side Disciples pledge peace while Baltimore youth distribute signs urging restraint and San Francisco's Youth for Service resumes operations to prevent arson and looting.
A U.S. Army A6A Beaver crashed into a rice paddy four miles southwest of Seoul on Friday. Pilot 1st Lt. Gary E. Taylor of the Army Security Agency escaped without injuries, according to a military spokesman.
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