Hotel men Press Second Plea For Special City Funds
City council faces a decision on using hotel motel tax revenue for next year's budget. Miller says funds could be earmarked at $100,000, with half a percent directed to promotion. Law requires the revenue to be used by a committee of the Chamber or by the city through a contract with designated entities.
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Miller
Chamber of
Lubbock
Elvie
Intel
Board of City Development
Civic Center
Blackwell
Fourth influential invention barbed wire in the West history
Collector Cloe backs the barbed wire story as a window on the West with factory errors and varied twists. The piece tracks patents from 1868 to 1900, notes the evolving hotel tax debate in Lubbock, and highlights collector Jack Glover’s work while describing types like the obvious and smooth wires and the role of convention promotion.
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Ind
Cloe
Baker
Scutts
Kelly
Brotherton
Frye
Tord
Upham
Colewell
Glidden
Civic Center
New Mexico
Colorado
Kansas Plains
Scouting Lake
Jack Glover
Sunset
Glover
Canyon Rock Hound Area Man Remembers Life of Travel
An area resident recalls a life spent traveling for work, reflecting on journeys and experiences from different places and times. The reminiscence highlights a practical, workhorse approach to itinerant labor and the humor found in wandering.
High Schools Will Add ROTC Study
High schools plan ROTC programs with military drill uniforms and instructional aids supplied by the Air Force. Instructors will be retired officers and NCOs, with classrooms, storage, and counseling space provided by the districts. Enrollment projections list 85 Coronado, 80 Lubbock High, and 67 Monterey.
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Air Force
Coronado
Lubbock High
Monterey
Lubbock
Ronald Goo
Joe J. Graves
Richard H. Bruns
Walter E. Moeler
Helicopters to Raid Fields in Mexico City Area
U S and Mexico will each pay half the cost to bring helicopters into Mexico City to destroy marijuana and poppy fields in the surrounding area.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Postal Workers Get Scheduled Pay Increases In Five Raises
About 50 part time and substitute postal employees receive roughly half the amounts of full timers. Raises total 250 annually, phased July 20 1971 Oct 20 1971 Jan 20 1972 July 20 1972 Jan 20 1973 and result in 1250 yearly increase. Lubbock workers see daytime approx 8000 yearly gross. night shifts add 10 percent. Union members comprise ~75 percent of those gaining raises in Lubbock.
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Lubbock
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Briehn
Amarillo
Robert Gunns
Williamsport
Gunns
Canyon ‘Rock Hound
South America
Alaska
Roosevelt
Russia
Foreign Service
Whitey
University of Michigan
Michigan State
Held
Canyon
Cutter
Ciudad Juarez. Mexico
UPN
U.S
Ciudad Juarez
IBSON
Goodyear
Secial Swag
Devoe
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