City Council Okays Right Of Way Purchase For Avenue X
The council authorized negotiating the 62 foot strip of Avenue X right of way from 19th Street to prepare for a possible McDonald’s site and city sale of land for industrial use. Mayor W D Rogers Jr stated the plan aims to protect the street and support dispersal in the area.
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McDonald’s
19Th Company
Ofapman
McDonald's
Chapman
Avenue X
MaNanalde
W. D. Rogers Jr
Joel
Morahan
19Th Street
Cll
Commerce Board of City Development
The
Clity
Lubbock Officials Address Local Industry Contracts and Jobs
The council approved a lease-purchase site for Pond and Blakeey’s new industry in Lubbock. Turner Construction Co. won a 1968 seal coat bid of 196,885.30 as part of a broader street program costing twice the expected amount due to a severe winter. Mayor Rogers proposed a summer job study after noting 149 hires at peak last year and $66,818.35 paid in salaries. Welfare Board policy changes were approved by the County Commissioners.
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W. D. Turner Construction Co
Wgihsel
Rogers Jr
Taft
Parks and Recreation
Rogers
City + County Welfare Board
County Commissioners’ Court
Birth notices and welfare changes feature in local brief
The page lists multiple birth announcements from University Hospital and Reese AFB Hospital including parents Mrs Paul T Younger and Mrs Oscar Lopes among others, detailing newborns with weights and times. It also reports welfare board changes, income limits, and emergency dental coverage, plus local road-widening plans on Indiana Avenue and brief U.S. military actions near Saigon with Viet Cong casualties.
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Larry Wayne Childress
Oscar
Lopes
Abernathy
Texas
Bill Smith
Slaton
Welfare Board
Indiana Avenue
Indiana
Rites Planned For Mrs Bailey In Terry County
Services for Lauretta Bailey 67 longtime Terry County resident will be held at Immanuel Baptist Church in Brownfield with Rev. Darold Baldwin of Aspermont and Rev. Alton West officiating. Burial follows at Terry Brownfield Funeral Home. She died Thursday in Highland Hospital Lubbock after six weeks there. Survived by three sons Larry Ardmore Okla John Houston and Jerry Carlsbad N M a daughter Mrs Ronnie Bartley of Brownfield a sister Mrs A E Clack of Sadler and 11 grandchildren.
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Brownfield
Lauretta Bailey
Terry County
Immanuel Baptist Church
Darold Baldwin Ofl Aspermont
Alton West
Terry
Brownfield Funeral Home
Bailey
Sherman
Highland Hospital
Lubbock
Jack and Jill Day Nursery
Ess
Larry
Ardmore
Oklo
John Houston
Jerry
Carlsbad
N. M
Ronnie Bartley
A. E. Clack
Sadler
Methodists AAU backed tax exemptions for church
A church government relations report from the Methodist conference in Dallas details plans to equalize salaries and pensions for Negro and white ministers as Negro regional conferences integrate into White conferences. It notes current pay gaps and a fund to support gradual readjustment while addressing Vietnam era concerns with peace pickets outside the meeting. It also reviews a call to investigate the Methodist Publishing House in Nashville amid racism and union disputes allegations. The commission supports school prayer bans but urges religious studies to remain in public education.
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Joseph HH. Albrecht
Springfield
South
Dallas Memorial Auditorium
Methodism
Perkins School of ‘Theology
Southern Methodist University
Columbus
Ohio
Claude Garrison
Methodist Publishing House
Nashville
Tenn
Commission On Relations With
U.S. Supreme Court
Cosmos 217 and 218 Spacecraft Launches Reported
The report notes Cosmos 218 launched reaching 130 miles max and 89 miles min from Earth at a 50 degree angle amid space research claims. Cosmos 217 launched Wednesday with a higher irregular orbit from 246 to 322 miles at 62.2 degrees, 93.4 minute period, suggesting warhead re entry testing patterns.
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McNamara
Soviet Union
Cosmos
Prairie dogs and the town’s changing view on pests
Prairie dogs once faced bounty, poison, and gunfire as a pest control target. Now surplus animals are trapped or shipped to zoos and even abroad. Park officials note dramatic shifts as colonies migrate and old methods give way to new containment challenges.
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Prairie Dog Town
Papa
Danger
Grandpa
United States
South America
A. C. Hamilton
Hamilton
Southland
Lubbock
Belton
Plainview
Escapee Chubb Shot After Theft Near Kelly AFB
The escapee Chubb, wanted since February 21 for assault with intent to rape, was found shot after a stolen Kohne vehicle was located near Kelly Air Force Base in south San Antonio. An FBI warrant charged him with interstate theft. no witnesses to the shootings of Price or Chih were reported.
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Kohne
City Electric
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
Chubb
Bexar County
Andy Coy
Coy
Auto
FBI
Price
Chih
Arraignment Set Today For Lach Benjamin Lach
Lach Benjamin Lach a 23 year old Texas Tech graduate student charged with the December 4 scalpel slaying of Mrs Sarah Alice Morgan is to be arraigned at 10 am in 99th District Court Judge Howard C Davison will preside over the hearing with trial counsel to be appointed Lach was arrested March 13 after attempting to enter a professor s office in the biology building and fleeing a stolen car and is later linked to the murder case.
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Benjamin Lach
Texas Tech
Sarah Alice Morgan
99Th District Court
Howard C. Davison
Lach
Davison
Bill Gillespie
Lut
Warm today with mild highs and cool front impacts
A weak cool front moved through the South Plains Thursday night, lowering Lubbock temperatures from 70 to 57 before rebounding to 58. Expect fair, mid 70s today with NW winds. Thursday set 78 in Lubbock after a 42 overnight low. many Texas sites reported record lows.
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Lubbock
South Plains
Jefferson County
Corpus Christi
Houston
Dalhart
Mercury
Presidio
Texas
Carolinas
Great Plains
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Lakes
Maine
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Johnson Seeks Quiet Exit From Campaign Heat
President Johnson hinted at a productive postterm period as he avoided campaigns and political headlines. He said he would stay through the remainder of his term, then clarified plans to lead with Mr. Johnson in remaining service. He dodged questions on Vietnam, looting, and a possible tax hike while promising further announcements on Arthur Krim’s future role.
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Ball
U.N. Post
Johnson
Iowa
Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Goldberg
United Nations
Hanoi
Vietnam
Richard J. Daley
Johnsson
U.S
Martin Luther King Jr
Congress
Arthur Krim
Democratic Party
Krim
Wallace Campaign Stops Across East Texas
Wallace drew large crowds in Beaumont Port Arthur Lufkin Tyler Texarkana and Lubbock as he urged voters to choose the national party ticket. Spokesmen praised turnout and donations in red buckets while signs and literature booths appeared at each stop. A group calling themselves the King's Men from Stephen F. Austin College protested at Lufkin.
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Dallas
Point
Alabama
Lurleen
Beaumont-Port Arthur
Wallace
Lufkin
Tyler
Texarkana
East Texas
Beau-fourth
mont-Port Arthur
Wallace Texarkana
Stephen F. Austin College
Wallace Campaign Faces Protests and Milk Law Clash
Demonstrators jeered George Wallace with hostile signs while his Texas tour targets 14,259 precinct delegates to secure a spot on the presidential ballot. Wallace defends a milk purity clause and forecasts a Texas victory with 34 percent of the vote amid campaign stops in San Antonio Houston and Corpus Christi.
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Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Dallas Love Field
Dallas
Texas
Studdard
Farmer's Daughter
Bailey
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Frank M. Walters
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Seaman
Ray Warren
Aubbock “Osteopathic Hospital
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Laut
Tather
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