Courthouse expansion plans and budget changes approved
Courthouse and post office property purchases advance plans for a new office building and a subterranean parking facility with future above ground levels. The court delayed the budget hearing to Sept 26 to ensure all commissioners attend and approved multiple equipment bids and budget amendments including jail, jury, and welfare costs.
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Post Office
Judge Shaw
Commissioners Court
Mosher Steel Co
APBM
Robberson Steel Co
Ninth Judicial Administrative District
Youths claim government anti democracy in Saigon protests
In Saigon and Hue a crackdown slows antiwar student protests amid fears of drafting and prison. University leaders cite war weariness as students condemn the regime while authorities argue for order during wartime.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hue
Regcme
Vietnam
Saigon University
Tran Quang de
North Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ko
Federal charges filed in Abilene narcotics raid
Federal charges were filed Monday against two Dallas area men after a raid by narcotics officers seized more than 23,000 pills in Abilene. U. S. Commissioner Bobbie L. Dendy set bonds of $10,000 each for Charles L. Harrington of Mesquite and Carl Cecil Crawford of Dallas. The pills, mostly amphetamines, were taken when a truck and an automobile were stopped just inside Abilene by 15 officers from state, federal and local agencies.
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San Angelo
Dallas Area
Abilene
U. S
Bobbie L. Dendy
Charles L. Harrington
Mesquite
Carl Cecil Crawford
Dallas
Police clash on Michigan Avenue Bridge spurs press beatings
Demonstrators clash with Chicago police on the Michigan Avenue Bridge as newsmen from Associated Press Newsweek and Milwaukee Journal report beatings or threats. Journalists cite targeted police actions while Deputy Supt Rochford orders cooperation with reporters for the convention.
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Lincoln Park
Michigan Avenue
Associated Press
James G. Peipert
Chicago River
Newsweek Magazine
Jeff Lowenthal
Howard Berliant
Milwaukee Journal
Berliant
North Clark Street
Newsweek
John Culhane
Sun- Times
Brian Boyer
Chicago
James M. Rochford
Rochford
Michael] Waters
Waters
Air Police
New Texas Tech Grads Lead Lubbock Teacher Cohort
President and school officials welcomed 271 new teachers to Lubbock. Dr. Reynolds praised the audience as character builders. Ishmael Hill reported 24 former teachers, 11.76 percent hold master degrees, average 2.97 years teaching, and graduates hail from 67 colleges, with 36 percent Tech alumni.
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Supt. Williams
James M. Reynolds
Doyle Justice
Bill Tucker
Charles Waters
O. Brandon Hull
Lubbock
Ishmael Hill
Texas Tech
Rockwall man killed by train on Farm 740
Robert Lee James, 48, of Rockwall was killed when a Katy freight train struck his car on Farm 740 two miles south of Rockwall. Sheriff O L Speyer said the car was on the tracks as the Denison to Dallas freight train approached.
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Rockwall
Tex
Robert Lee James
Katy
O. L. Speyer
Denison
Dallas
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L. H. Kirby
Bill Crutcher
U.S. 87
J. L. Moore
Lubbock County
Lamb
Bbody
Sinh Vien
Students’ Association
Johnson
Nguyen Dang Trung
Saigon University Students’ Association
Neuyen Truong Con
Nontgon
Glen Campbell
KIEL
Flipper
Cavnas
Glen Campbell Records
Boston
Turner
Jim
Johnny
McAlister
Caprock Center
Chuck
Doug
Davis
Roger
Carter
Harrigan
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