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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1967
Page
2
A hundred students and adults booed Gen Maxwell D Taylor and Clark Clifford as they met New Zealand officials over Vietnam. Police detained a youth with a war banner. demonstrations included hippies with flowers and placards calling for an end to the war.
A five man rescue team on Mount McKinley Alaska faced a new storm while searching for four missing climbers after three bodies were found at about 18 000 feet. Weather and exhaustion paused operations as officials said the search could continue depending on the men's condition. In Scotland Everett Hughes resumed a solo flight from Texas to Germany after a forced landing near Holy Loch.
In Havana the OLAS conference elevates Ernesto Che Guevara as honorary president while Stokely Carmichael joins as a guest urging new Vietnams across the Americas. Soviet style claims of Wuhan and Shanghai unrest accompany the event as Cuba pushes a revolutionary message.
Moscow reports say Soviet crime is rising with hooliganism and drunken crime in crowded housing blocks. Nikolai Shchelokov urges harsher action and notes improved police powers, while some areas claim no crimes recently, officials admit prevention misses many people.
An AP dispatch from Paris notes another yearned event or occurrence with limited readable detail. No clear names, dates, or places are confirmed in the fragment.
A Corpus Christi police Juvenile Bureau head reported that summertime crime among youths has dropped by about half amid the Poverty Program. He credited neighborhood centers and volunteer summer activities for reduced glue sniffing, fewer knife fights, and calmer streets in both poverty and non slum areas.
Lord Harewood 44 wed Patricia Tuckwell 38 in a simple outdoor ceremony at the Lapham estate in New Canaan beside a lily pond. The Queen approved the union after counsel, despite Harewood’s prior divorce. the couple plan to England, with the estate to be sold for 1.5 million.
Southland Corp officials announced plans to expand the Seven-Eleven chain into Canada. President John Thompson and EVP H. E. Hartfelder said small convenience stores would open in Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Toronto and Winnipeg by the summer. The Dallas company would set up a Canadian subsidiary. about 2,500 stores exist in 30 U S states.
Burglars hit multiple Lubbock locations Sunday night and Monday taking shoes, $240 in travelers checks, cash and checks, five stereo types, car items, and tires. A service station, grocery, and various homes reported break ins with weapons and valuables missing. Police described two armed suspects looting Walt's Service Station and escaped on foot.
The committee approved lease or sale of county peanut acreage allotments for 1968 and 1969 with a 50 acre transfer cap. A two thirds vote referendum could authorize cross county transfers, and downward adjustments apply if yield differences exceed 10 percent. Cotton allotments sale or lease remains allowed with limits.
Federal grand jury charged Thomas Richards 42 Weymouth John Kelley 51 Water town and Patricia Diaferio 32 Boston with taking part in the Plymouth Mass robbery. About $1.55 million in cash was stolen from a U S mail truck en route to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Bail set at 25000 for Richards and Kelley and 5000 for Diaferio.
A new juvenile law from the 60th Legislature takes effect Aug. 28. It lets a juvenile court transfer cases of youths over 15 charged with felonies to district court and requires the court to appoint a lawyer for youths without one, with county payment. Attorney General Crawford Martin noted the change and Supreme Court rights, while stressing counties’ limited powers to fund counsel.
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