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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1972
Page
2
The report notes the July index at 23 percent of a 1910-14 base and records a June rise to 317 points. The data imply inflationary movement across the period and reference price levels used for the calculation.
Odessa and Titus County delegations pressed the Texas highway commission for nearly 9 million dollars in roadwork. The Odessa group led by Mayor Jim Reese urged four million four hundred twenty seven thousand two hundred for city and university traffic improvements and a state spur from 42nd Street. Others sought widening projects on U.S. 271 U.S. 77 and Texas 300 along with rural farm-to-market connections as part of a broader “Green Route” to the Gulf Coast from the Oklahoma line south toward Cortin and Port Arthur.
A $52 000 federal grant to the Texas Panhandle Community Action Corporation in Amarillo funds Head Start and technical assistance training for 148 teacher aides and non certified teachers. The program runs retroactively from June 23 1972 to May 31 1973 and supports basic college courses toward an associate of arts degree in early childhood education.
Antonio Mendoza will replace Francisco Espinosa as visiting artist in Wednesday's fine arts program at Texas Tech University Center. The concert remains at 8 p.m. in the Coronado Room and open to the public despite Espinosa's withdrawal due to an injury.
Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson will attend a ceremony at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin to admit the first student. The event occurs at 6 p.m. in the UTPB Administration Building and the student will be chosen at random from the initial applicants. Classes start fall 1973.
One of two charged in the Odessa Osella Tonto murder case testified about the crime move from Lubbock. Robert Walseth Pall, also charged in Giovanni murder, was sentenced to death, later voided by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Texas execution laws. Ree, 17 in November, was 15 at the crime. indictments and juvenile-to-adult handling followed. Odessa prosecutors include Dist. Atty. John Greenian and Assistant John Hoestench Jr.
U S District Judge Halbert O Woodward directed jurors to return a verdict for IRS attorneys in an 8723 civil tax suit filed by Jamelle Tubbs wife of Fenner Tubbs against federal officials over an 480 acre Lynn County land deeded by Tubbs mother Linnie Garrard. The judge found IRS computations correct as Garrard kept income from use of the land. A criminal trial jury was also selected for Gene Roy Trexler charged with felony fraud.
The American Red Cross outlines its role in weather disasters at a club meeting at 8 p.m. today in the Lubbock Newenal Bank Building. A. Voight, a Red Cross official, will chair the program. The public is invited.
Fourteen participants from four states attend a two week training program on management development. The course covers topics from technical operations of oil mills to management techniques. Dr James Steele and Dr James Watt of Texas Tech University School of Business Administration lead discussions.
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