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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1968
Page
6
A 17 year old Cooper High School senior Keith Burkett Jr. is making rapid progress in hospital therapy after a spinal injury. He travels the 20 foot ramp by arm strength and can sit up with assistance, aiming to return to school and sports as he continues rehab in Gonzales.
In Lubbock on Friday, city leaders and sanitation officials met with picketing workers after a Thursday walkout. Superintendent M. R. Cundiff and Jose Vazquez spoke with AFL-CIO member Andres Sandoval as volunteers were approved to begin trash collection amid ongoing protests near City Hall and Municipal Drive.
Mrs Ishmael Dominguez and Mr James Hall welcome sons weighing 8 lb 5 oz and 6 lb 4 oz. Other families announce newborn daughters and sons with weights from 6 lb 6 oz to 8 lb 13 oz at West Texas, Methodist, Lauf Clinic, and other local facilities. Parents’ occupations include Potato Specialty Co, Gilford Hill Western, Furniture Fair, GFC Loan, Reese AFB, Litton Industries, and tech student status.
The piece gathers quotes from university leaders and state figures backing Humphrey or McGovern. Opinions vary on whether McGovern should be vice president or stay in the Senate, with critics arguing for a convention process and others favoring a national primary.
The parents of a college student who donated a heart visited Nobuo Miyazaki the 18 year old recipient. Hospital officials said Miyazaki thanked Mr and Mrs Yamaguchi and all three wept.
City officials unveiled a six point plan to end a sanitation strike led by Isidro Gutierrez. City Manager Bill Blackwell offered two paths including court action to compel workers and replacing vacancies if needed. Workers urged a return at 9 a.m. and demanded overtime pay guarantees.
Allied commandos broke through to a remote U S Special Forces post at Duc Lap where South Vietnamese mercenaries and Beret advisers fought a 3 to 1 battle. Jets bombed the camp as fighting continued into a second day near the Cambodian border.
Two men were wounded during a late Friday argument at an east Lubbock apartment house. Charles Thompson, 38, and Ernest Cook, 67, were being treated at Methodist Hospital. Thompson was shot in the mouth and shoulder. Cook was shot in the left arm and badly beaten. Police continued to investigate as tenants recalled the brief gunfight at 1711 Ave C shortly before 11 p.m.
A minority of the Democratic platform committee proposed a Vietnam peace plank calling for an unconditional halt to bombing and a coalition government in Saigon. Backed by over 20 members and by McCarthy and McGovern, the plank seeks floor support against the official draft, aiming to insert a peace declaration at next week’s meeting amid divisions over policy.
Plunket S Norfleet 77 died Friday morning in a local hospital after an apparent heart attack. He was a retired oil field worker and carpenter. Services are pending at George Price Funeral Home. He came to Levelland in 1959 from Sun Down. Survivors include wife Sallie three daughters a brother seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
A convention rules subcommittee approved a nomination 18 to 5. Johnson declined comment on Erwin reports of growing Texas sentiment to nominate another Texan, with potential to junk the unit rule and bind 104 votes differently. An authoritative source said Johnson had no advance knowledge of Erwin’s move.
Leonard Drake 42 of Eugene Oregon received the 33rd human heart transplant today at Stanford Medical Center. The operation led by Dr Norman E Shumway lasted 41 hours and Drake was alert within eight hours. Donor Larry B Smith 20 of Stockton California died in an automobile accident August 14.
Forrest Kyle a close friend of President Johnson and Gov Connally died Friday after a heart attack. He lived in his late 70s and rose to prominence with the Brown County Gazette at Bangs after months of illness.
Dr John A Llewellyn resigns from NASA Wag after dual flight instruction in the T37 jet trainer. He plans to pursue space research at Florida State University Tallahassee where he was an associate professor.
Mrs. M. Byron Fisher of Salt Lake City aged 29 won Mrs. America 1969 at the Minnesota State Fair in St Paul. She won the safe driving event and was a finalist in pancake cooking money management fashion and modeling. She holds a BYU education degree and is active in Republican party work and teen counseling. She will stay in the Twin Cities for 10 days as a state fair guest.
Indiana Democrats seized a case of Rocky bumper stickers and cut off the Y to promote Lt. Gov. Robert I. Rock for governor as Nelson A. Rockefeller campaigns stalled and Republicans seek a nominee.
Services for John Alex Bednarz 16 are incomplete at England Funeral Home in Slaton. He died in a two car crash five miles south of Walsenburg Colorado on U S 85 87. His sister Joan Frances Bednarz was seriously injured. Bednarz was a junior at Slaton High School and member of the band. Bednarz a 1967 Texas Tech graduate was to teach retarded children in Pueblo this fall. His parents were in another car en route to Pueblo to visit relatives. Officers said the parents learned of the accident when they found their children’s car no longer following them.
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