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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 25, 1968

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Johnson Renews Unity Plea In Vietnam Peace Talks Push

Washington reports say U S and North Vietnamese officials held personal contacts in Vientiane seeking a site for preliminary talks. Paris and Warsaw are named as possible locations while U Thant urges a halt to fighting and a concrete site decision.

Avaumneseve Washington State Department U.S Paris Robert J.mccloskey Vientiane Laos United Nations U Thant United States North Vietnam Vietnam Warsaw McCloskey Hanoi

City Council approves five zone change requests in brief session

In a 12 minute meeting the Lubbock City Council approved five zone change requests for areas within the five zone plan. The agenda also notes ongoing discussions on coolant supply for a local generating plant and notes various sections of the paper detailing museum goals politics and market reports.

Lubbock West Texas Museum

Campus Turmoil as Columbia Seals Buildings After Sit-Ins

Several hundred demonstrators seized two campus buildings at Columbia prompting sealed entrances, canceled classes, and a 24 hour sit in by 75 students in President Kirk's office. Police surrounded the scene as clashes between Black and white groups spanned two days amid vandalism and chaos.

Associated Press New York Columbia University Grayson Kirk Harlem Alexander B. Platt Students For la Democratic Society SDS F Kirk Charles Kenyatta Kenyatta John V. Lindsay Martin Luther King Jr Vietnam Students For A Democratic Society Rembrandt

Postcard With Twenty Dollar Bill Reaches Recipient

In Atlanta Charlie Womack mailed a crude cardboard postcard with a visible $20 bill stapled inside. The money was delivered the same day to a local friend, Jim Sanders, despite snow rain heat and challenging conditions.

Atlanta Charlie‘Womack Jim Sanders

Fire destroys two Earth businesses in 3 a.m. blaze

Fire swept through Bitman Tire and Supply and burned the roof of Earth Locker in Earth, destroying two firms and smoke damaging Taylor Furniture. More than 100 firefighters from Spr inglake and seven towns contained the flames after practicing for multiagency cooperation.

Earth Earth Locker Taylor Furns Lubbock Bitman Tirc Ture Pauline Warner Bud Matlock Bitman Tire Taylor Furniture Springlake Olton Littlefield Amherst Sudan Muleshoe Matlock

High Court speeds rule on insanity in Texas cases

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that trial judges must halt proceedings to seek a jury verdict on a defendant's present sanity if evidence raises the issue. The decision rejects delaying competency to stand trial until after guilt is determined, stating due process requires timely sanity determinations.

Associated Preswy Austin Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Busi Matlock Mary Jory Morales Petersburg High Court

Weather shatters records as Texas cools then warms

Lubbock and the South Plains rebounded from a string of subfreezing readings with highs near 80 in the afternoon. Morning lows ranged from 25 in Mileshoe to 45 in San Antonio, with the HemisFair city posting a new April 24 low of 45. Forecasts hinted a slight cooldown Friday and a chance of showers from Dawson to Dickens counties eastward.

Lubbock South Plains San Antonio Hereford Morton Silverton Abernathy Dimmitt Floydada Ropesville Tulsa Mileshoe

Wallace Begins Swing Through Texas on Presidential Bid

Wallace campaign volunteers plan a three day Texas tour to promote his American Party bid for the presidency. He is to speak in Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston with stops in Lubbock, Beaumont, and other cities, aiming to win votes in the Nov. 5 election. A Texas Capitol news conference is set with a peace group parade also planned at UT.

Angela Penna Wichita Fallas Austin Associated Press Alabama George Wallace Texas Ond Uwallona Lubbock American Party Texas Capitol University of Texas, Peace Group Dallas San Antonio Houston Jairport Beaumont-Port Arthur Lufkin Tyler Texarkana Dallas Lave Field Marehman Hotel Wichita Falls Amarillo Midland San Anonio International Airport Corpus Christi Victoria Hobby Field

Johnson Links Peace Drive To Unity In Politics

President Johnson told a Chicago audience that national unity must trump party conflicts and pledged to devote his days to winning the peace. He spoke at a Cook County Democratic dinner after indicating he would not seek reelection, urging politics to serve national goals rather than partisan aims.

Douglas B. Cornell Chicago Johnson Washington White House Cook County Demos Richard J. Daley Cook County ‘Democratic Organization America

Tax Delinquent Jeweler Gets Five Years Probation

Percy B. Preble, 50, a Corning jeweler, pleads guilty to failure to file federal income tax returns. U.S. Judge George B. Harris fines him 2000 and orders back taxes of 31645. Preble quit paying taxes after a medical prognosis of four years to live in 1998. Amputation and infection followed childhood injury. probation notes show infection has been arrested for years.

San Francisco Percy B. Preble Preble Corning U.S George B. Harris Harris

Career Comes To An End By GERRY BURTON

A WEATHERMAN retires this month after nearly 49 years with the weather bureau Henry Snyder recalls mishaps and wary forecasts in Lubbock Abilene and across Texas including a roof tear off that backfired and a day with no clouds but rain later.

Gerry Burton Avalanche-Journal Henry Snyder Weather Bureau Lubbock Panhandle Snyder Abilene Texas Weatherman

Prayer fragment invoking the Holy Spirit and grace

A religious invocation asking God to send the Holy Spirit into hearts and illuminate understanding through heavenly grace in Jesus name Amen a reader

Jesus

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