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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1968
Page
15
Dear readers share home hacks from dyeing unmated stockings for bright outfits to shrinking closet clutter with large bags for donations. A reader describes painting plastic grass runners outside, repainting them with enamel for renewed use, all for a dollar or less.
Patricia McCormack surveys quirky tax rules highlighting how a housewife imagines living as a sewing machine for deductions. The piece compares depreciation and expenses for machines to human costs, notes child care and charity deductions, and laments inconsistent loss rules amid IRS codes.
Levelland begins mixing Canadian River water from Lake Meredith with local well water. Assistant city manager Jack i Odom says taste is similar and the water is slightly softer. The city is running tests on the new supply after years of seeking replenishment. About a million gallons a day are pumped into the reservoirs.
Dr Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first successful heart transplant, said on Sunday that the world would eventually see a brain transplant but likely not in his lifetime. He also noted Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town may admit another heart transplant patient in about six weeks.
Rhodesian security forces report the death of four more African nationalist guerrillas, lifting total combat deaths to 52 in three weeks. A guerrilla was captured and quantities of arms and ammunition of Communist origin were seized, according to a Monday communique.
An automobile collided with a bus near Kabul on Sunday, killing nine members of a family and injuring three others. The car was traveling from the Jalalabad winter resort area in eastern Afghanistan toward Kabul.
In Cuero Texas Mrs Ford hosts a visitors by surprise as Lyndon B Johnson and about 40 European journalists tour her seven acre wildflower yard. The first visit set off a daylong crowd of cameras as Mrs Johnson praises the yard and Mrs Ford offers flowers freely.
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