14 Aug 1966
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1966
Page
1
In Melbourne a four story Salvation Army destitute home fire killed 29 men and injured 12. Police blame likely electrical fault or smoking in bed on the fourth floor as residents, many asleep, suffocated or died of heart attacks. Fire crews arrived quickly after 11 pm.
Shelby Kritser 52 chairman of the Texas Aeronautics Commission dies when his F8F Bearcat crashes at Amarillo Municipal Airport during an air show before about 2,000 spectators. He had flown at a Lubbock show July 10 before the fatal dive. Services set for Monday at St Andrews Episcopal Church with burial in Llano Cemetery.
United Press International reports a Navy F8 Crusader was shot down 25 miles east of Haiphong during strikes on oil barges as U S losses in North Viet Nam rose to 14 planes in seven days. Air Force F105s and FAC Phantoms destroyed trucks while responses continued over Hanoi.
Pasadena, California. The JPL managed Orbiter aims to enter lunar orbit at 8:44 am PDT today after initial failure to lock on Canopus. The star tracker eventually located Canopus, with inertial guidance keeping the spacecraft on course. a midcourse maneuver was scrubbed due to the precise path.
Australian rice farmer Leonard Bowditch and his wife visit Vernon and Chickasha connections on a world journey. Their daughter Helen was a former exchange student in Chickasha, Oklahoma, linking the Bowditchs with the McDougals near Lubbock. The trip traces Asia to North America with plans to Las Vegas and California before returning to Australia.
An unmarried mother left a five day old infant in a cardboard box in St. Elizabeth's Church on Main Street with a note begging for the baby’s adoption. Parishioners Aubrey Perry and Marie Holloway found the child near the altar and alerted church officials.
A baby was found at a church with the discovery made by Mrs Perry and Mel Holloway reporting the child had just been fed. Police were notified and theorize the infant was left minutes before the public notice of the finding.
Cpl Perron Shinneman, 21, lost a left leg to a booby trap near Da Nang in April while serving with Company C of the Third Engineer Battalion. On convalescent leave at home with wife Shirley and daughter Sharleen, he recalls the combat and praises the Marine mission despite the cost.
A busy sports day features Texas beating Pennsylvania in the Big game and the East defeating the West in the Greenbelt Bow. The issue spotlights Carlton Stowers on Texas and Bill Hart on the Greenbelt Bow, with Burle Pettit noted on Tech’s half pint of nitro.
Dryland crops in the heart of the South Plains gain from multi million dollar rains as Davison Lynn and Gaines counties report two to five inch totals. River flooding hits West Central Texas with Frio River rising 18 feet and prompting park evacuations at Garner State Park.
Prodigious rains across West Central Texas push five rivers to record rises with widespread flood damage to towns and farms in Nebraska. A North Texas tornado hit Greenville airport while Lackland and Del Rio helicopters evacuated residents near Garner State Park.
A Friona High School sophomore, Sora Ban Shindey, died after an apparent drowning at Camp Blanco near Friona. Sheriff Stark called it a freak accident during a Lifesaving course with eight Girl Scouts and instructors present.
Weather map page shows clear to partly cloudy conditions for Lubbock today with a warmer forecast. Highs near upper 80s, tonight's lows in upper 60s to 70s, southeasterly to southerly winds around 20 mph.
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