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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1967
Page
1
Baltimore residents react to Apollo Builder Fred Graves plan to plant free trees along streets. 41 of 101 households oppose the offer, with locals saying trees belong in the country or that city trees are unnecessary.
Officials here favor counseling for first offenders aged 10 to 17 and use jail only when serious or attitude demands it. Sheriff and police leaders say case by case decisions govern juvenile confinement, with about 268 of 1061 cases in the prior year sent to the county ward.
Lubbock chamber plans review of Avenue Q widening along with eight other street proposals. Government notes include Connally appointing a Lubbock attorney to Tand District Court to replace Victor Lindsey. Museum opens sixth season with Art in Business program. Medical testimony in Cappolino Florida murder trial appears contradictory. World headlines cover Allied action in Vietnam and ideological talks easing between powers.
A House investigating committee member released excerpts from a NASA report on North American Aviation and the Apollo program. He said NASA concealed findings showing improper supervision and poor contractor quality that endangered astronauts after a Cape Kennedy fire.
HEW approves funds totaling 130 768 to help 747 students in Lubbock pay for college. Texas Tech receives 116 809 for 627 students and Lubbock Christian College gets 13 959 for 120 students. Grants require college matching funds and offer $1 per hour with potential raise to 35 percent next year. Applications encouraged through Tech and LCC financial aid offices.
Isom Otis Yates and Hobbs area men joined American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor on a 12 day Philippine trip marking the 25th anniversary of the Death March. They retraced the route from the Bataan peninsula to POW camps and saw Filipinos line the road to cheer and talk with them. Ferdinand Marcos, who also walked the march, later became president of the Philippines. See BATAAN Page 23.
A devotional excerpt emphasizes reliance on divine power for victory on earth and the promise of an eternal home for those who love God.
Texas lawmakers approved a bill to join the federal Medicaid program with state matching funds. If signed by Governor Connally, Texas will provide basic medical services to welfare recipients and create a medical assistance program for the medically indigent by 1970 to retain federal funds. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Dorsey Hardeman and Rep. W. S. Heatly, passed by voice vote with no debate.
A Senate Public Welfare Committee sent the fair wage bill to the Senate floor. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Bernal of San Antonio the measure would set an 11 25 an hour minimum and create a three member medical care advisory panel to set fees. The vote was by voice and announces favorable action by Bernal's clerk.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, using her mother's name, denounces the Soviet Communist Party and Stalin's successors for crimes she says they committed while absolving his closest associates of murder. She calls for greater personal liberty and reflects on her son and her Orthodox baptism in 1982.
U S warplanes raided the Hanoi Haiphong area for the third straight day striking a bridge used for rail and highway traffic from Red China. Viet Cong explosions damaged locomotives and a crane in South Vietnam in apparent reprisal. Seven U S airmen were killed in a crash south of Nha Trang. six ACA7 transports have now been lost in combat.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said communist MIG fighters had been more active in the previous three weeks, prompting President Johnson to order bombings of North Vietnamese airfields. He spoke after a closed Senate hearing on European troop deployment, denying that Westmoreland was silencing dissent and noting possible troop increases could total around 60,000.
General Motors Corp reports a 35 percent drop in first quarter earnings to 390 million dollars or 1.35 per share from 1966’s 2.07. Sales fall to 4.9 billion amid weaker auto demand and a Mansfield Ohio strike hitting 237000 workers.
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