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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 30, 1970

Page

7

Tech Biologist Launches Tick Study On Disease Vectors

Dr E George of Texas Tech leads an $18 325 National Health Institute project on argasid ticks linked to cliff swallows and bats. The study aims to understand tick biology and blood feeding as potential disease vectors, with field work in Palo Duro Canyon and Briscoe County.

Texas Caprock Gisticeturg Colorado Africa Bolivia George Ferther Department of Health, Education and Welfare National Health Institute Palo Duro Canyon Los Lingos Canyon Briscoe County Justiceburg

Wide Range in Absentee Voting Seen Across Texas Primaries

AP reports absentee voting varied widely for Saturdays primaries. Austin Travis County saw 2,344 ballots cast from 113,674 eligible. Harris County had 4,096 Democratic and 1,348 Republican absentee ballots from 650,612 registered voters. Bexar County tallied 1,812 Democratic and 149 Republican absentee votes. Lubbock County logged 549 absentee ballots.

Associated Press Austin Travis County Fritz Robinson San Antonio Bexar County Houston Harris County Lubbock County

Exiled Greek Composer Forecasts Regime Fall

Mikis Theodorakis, released from detention and in Paris, predicts the Greek military regime will be overthrown. He says billionaires like Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos will lose everything for backing the regime and condemns their wealth while Greeks suffer. He notes Onassis and his wife travel to their island home as he speaks.

Paris UPI Mikis Theodorakis Aristotle Onassis Theodorakis Communist Party Onassis John F. Kennedy Stavros Niarchos Athens Niarchos Zorba

Students Protest Fee Increases on CUNY Campuses

Thousands of students skipped classes across some City University of New York campuses to protest proposed fee hikes. Chancellor Albert Bowker sought a $17 million shortfall solution, raising day student costs from $35 to about $110 with proportional increases for other students, while other colleges remained largely unfazed.

NEW York UPI City University of New York CUNY Albert Bowker

Tech Music Symposium Showcases Hoffman And University Concert

Richard Hoffman leads the 19th annual Sym posium of Contemporary Music at Texas Tech with lectures on Schoenberg and his influence. A Friday 7 30 p m joint Tech choir band and orchestra concert features Webern Copland Penderecki Schuller pieces. The free events span Room 1 in the Tech music building to the Tech Union ballroom and end with Threnody for 52 Strings.

Richard Hoffman Texas Tech University Hoffman Arnold Schoenberg Schoenberg Tech Music Building Richard Meek Oberlin College Tech Union Ballroom Tech Choir Gene Kenney Webern Suzie Benton Aaron Copland Peggy Tonrey Dean Killion Percy Grainger Karel Llusa Prague Tech Orchestra Paul Elsworth Krzysztof Penderecki Paul Klee Gunther Schuller Department of Music

Masked Bandits Rob Highlands State Bank Heist

Two masked men robbed Highlands State Bank in east Harris County of over $18,000. They ordered two customers and 10 employees to stay down. One bandit menaced a teller Mrs James Reeves with a pistol while the other brandished a sawed off shotgun at Vice President Kenneth Oldham.

Houston (Ap Highlands State Bank Harris County James Reeves Kenneth Oldham

Campaign Heats Up as Primary Near in Texas

Senators Ralph Yarborough and Lloyd Bentsen clash over religion and school prayer in a heated Texas Democratic primary race. Both emphasize unity against political attacks as three-way contest for land commissioner looms and campaigns press on with speeches, memos, and a televised telethon.

Ralph Yarborough Pyoanentiny Lloyd Bentsen Bentsen Yarborough Wichita Falls Fair Campaign Practices Committee Fourth Missionary Baptist

Citizenship Rites Planned Today

About 26 persons will become citizens of the United States in naturalization ceremonies at 1 p.m. today in Judge Halbert O. Woodward's U. S. District Court. The Nancy Anderson chapter of the Daughters of the American Republic will present a patriotic ceremony after naturalization oaths. The DAR will give small flags and flag codes to each new citizen.

United States Halbert O. Woodward U. S. District Court Nancy Anderson The Daughters of the American Republic DAR

Postmen Return Letters Addressed to Jerusalem Palestine

Israeli mail returns all letters sent to Jerusalem Palestine as the government does not recognize a Palestinian state and the post office only delivers to Jerusalem within Israel.

Jerusalem Palestine Israel

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