Flooding Hits Several Areas and Roads Closed
Widespread rain drenchesLubbock and New Mexico panhandle towns. Seventeen traffic incidents, six injuries, and water depths up to four feet flood intersections and parks. Evacuations near Carlsbad, damaged dams, missing persons, and stranded motorists spotlight widespread flood crisis across the region.
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38Th St
Ave. A
N. Quaker and Erskine
Lubbock
A. C. Hamilton
Brimsall Hamilton
Mac Simmons
K. N. Clapp
O. W. Ribble Park
58Th St
Ave. U
Higginbotham Park
Sam Wahl
Wahl
Lubbock Municipal
Lovington
Edward L. Colby
United Airlines
Lubbock Area
Mason City
Iowa
New Mexico
Carlsbad
Tansall
KPBM
Joe Little
Artesia
Don Welch
la Mirada
Calif
Tucumcari
U.S
Thomas Welch
Bay
Reese Afb
Sitting Bull Falls Road
Hobbs
Eunice
Roswell
Texas Line
U.S. 285
el Paso
Corona
Lucy
Plains
Yoakum
Carl Losson
Kress
Gil Lamb
Tno
Lamb
Muleshoe
Panhandle
Lufkin
U.S. 287
Harold
Erma C. Baker
van Horn
Highway Department
Odessa
Texas
Sukarno Supporters and Opponents Clashes in Jakarta
Youth supporters of President Sukarno attacked an anti Sukarno student group in Jakarta port area. The brief two-group brawl ended when police intervened, marking a second incident in three days.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
Births Reported in Local Hospitals This Week
Congratulations to families across the area as multiple births are announced. Daughters and sons born at Porter Clinic, Methodist, and West Texas Hospitals with weights ranging from 5 pounds 5 ounces to 7 pounds 12 ounces. Parents’ occupations include Perry R. Bass Oil, Rush Tractors, ceramic tile setting, and Farr’s Supermarket.
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Lone Island
N.Y
Iowa
Burlington
Spen Icer
Sanford
Fla
Derroll Wolfenbarser
Sundown
Porter Clinic Hospital
Perry R
Harold Fults
Hobbs
Methodist Hospital
Rush Tractors
Leo H. Evans
Methodist
Lonnie Womack
West Texas Hospital
Farr’s
Red Buds Square
Clarence Doyle Ashmore
Hale Center
Cicero Faces Threat of Violence Amid King March Call
The Cicero suburb seeks immediate Illinois National Guard mobilization as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plans a Sunday march into Cicero. Gov. Kerner meets officials to discuss troop deployment while Cicero officials fear disorder and request protection. Police report crime spikes linked to civil rights protests. A Nigerian factory expansion by Singer Sewing Machine Co. is announced in Jos with 200 jobs.
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Cicero
Martin Luther King Jr
National Guard
al ‘Capone
Chicago
Christy 5S
Berkes
Otto Kerner
Kerner
Springfield
John Kerner
Cooks County
Richard Ogilvie
Leo Boyle
Illinois National Guard
Berkos
King
Albert A. Raby
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
King and
Raby Haveeen
Imarches
John Karner
Associated Press
National Guardsmen
Circuit Court
O. W. Wilson
Ismati
Wilson
Jos, Nigeria
Conferees Accept Higher Fannie Mae and Transit Funding
Conferees endorse lifting mortgage purchase ceilings and approve large extra funds for Fannie Mae to draw from the Treasury and special funds. A $150 million annual transit aid is set for 1968 and 1969 to help cities modernize systems with two thirds of net project costs covered.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Fannie Mae
Fannie Mac
Alaska
Guam
Hawaii
Johnson
Del City Flood Crisis Strikes Far West Texas Farmlands
Severe flooding from Guadalupe mountains runoff inundates Dell City area and surrounding farms. Thousands of acres of cotton submerged as highways and bridges fail, with relief via Red Cross housing and Fort Bliss evacuation attempts under Operation Webfoot.
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Salt Flat
Dell City
del City
el Paso
Ft. Bliss
Miniskirt debate draws mixed fashion views across nations
A panel of commentators from New York London Boston and Detroit weigh miniskirt looks. They compare British and American legs and comfort, with Dean Martin Janet Leigh and Stella Stevens weighing in on the style trend and age appropriateness.
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London
Raleighe Rogers
Boston
Donna Calkins
Natick
Mass
Mary Lou Butcher
The
Detroit News
Miss Butcher
Adele Simpson
New York
Dean Martin
England
Census privacy debates sharpen over data storage fears
lawmakers clash over including detailed personal data in the census and linking records with other agencies. Rep. Gallagher warns a personal file on every American could be stored in a single room, echoing fears of past abuses. Eckler defends privacy safeguards and notes Civil Rights Act mandates on voting registration questions.
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Eckler
Cornelius E. Gallagher
Gallagher
Germany
Census Bureau
Bureau
Texas Lawmakers Eye West Texas Water and Guadalupe Park
Barnes cites aims to join the Western Water Plan though Colorado River access remains distant. Mahon seeks 200000 for Missouri Mississippi River water import studies. Texas may have to donate oil and gas rights if Guadalupe National Park approved, otherwise park status could be three years away.
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Barnes
West Texas
Mahon
House Appropriations Committee
West
Texas
Colorado
Guadalupes
Senator Bible
National Park
Padre Island Park
Bible
Guadalupe National Park
Texas Assembly
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Cannon Afb
Clovis
Reese
von M. Liebernecht
Joseph Connell
AIC
Wendell Stumbaugh
Det
Western Aerospace and Recovery Center
Pecos
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
White City
Morton
Cochran
Floyd Edwards
Crosbyton
Anton
Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Clarendon
Claude
Dimmitt
Paducah
Dalhart
Canadian
Memphis
Midway
Childress
South Texas
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Laredo
N.M
Art
Wendell Keith Howard
R. C. Young Iced and Grainn
Agan
Richard B. Ogilvie
Cook County
Chicago Lawn
Edward Marciniak
Chicago Commission On Human Relations
Belmont- Cragin
Belmont-Cragin
Roane
Red Cross
el Paso Coliseum
Harry Cayce
Plains Record
Yoakum County
Levelland
Pfe
Robert J. Fisher
Fisher
Karmers
DPS
Thease
United States
Department of Public Safety
Len Pozynanski
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