CAB dismisses Lubbock air service expansion bid
The Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington suspended Lubbock's petition for expanded air service. The order alters Continental Airlines route rights from Lubbock to Austin Houston and San Antonio with Midland as a stop and lifts 1955 merger prohibitions. Parties may file show cause by Sept 24. Continental regional director Tom O'Donnell voices disappointment.
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Unclear summary due to damaged OCR text
A fragmented passage mentions CAB, March 12, legal attorneys, the City of San Ante, Lubbock status, a raid, a campaign stamp in April, and a statement that chances were good. Ford is quoted about the CAB being independent and hesitant to speak for it.
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Briscoe Promises No New Taxes At Lubbock Luncheon
Gov Dolph Briscoe spoke to 375 at a $25 plate luncheon in Lubbock praising fiscal restraint and less bureaucracy while championing the Texas Tech School of Medicine and a water importation plan. He stressed health care needs and the region’s productive potential, but avoided firm stance on state funding for teaching hospitals.
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Lubbock
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Tech Medical School
Texas
Johnny Bob Carruth
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Harold Deavours
69Th Drive
Terry Davis
Mystery Illness Linked to Two Additional Deaths
Two attendees of the Eucharistic Congress died of legionnaire's disease raising the death toll to 28 and the illness count to 177. Victims Stanley Kuczek and Sister Mildred Trail stayed at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, investigated as the likely outbreak site. Officials noted no confirmed cause as investigators explore nickel carbonyl gas theories with inconclusive results.
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Cedar Rapids
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Lewis Polk
University of Connecticut
City Council moves to sever ic senates shared medical services
The City Council began steps to separate from joint county health services and tasked the public services director to review the joint budget and suggest what care the city can afford. Mayor Bass urged cautious, city focus with a study of a city-only program while pending litigation shapes hospital district obligations. A special meeting at 10 15 a m was called to discuss workers' comp premiums and a budget supplement.
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Tr Couch
City Public Services
Roy Bass
99Th District Court
Thomas L. Clinton
City council approves marketing push for transit system plan
The council votes to fund a $30,000 marketing program for the mass transit system and a $16,000 municipal court study partly funded by a federal grant. Dissenters West and McAlister oppose. The Planning and Zoning Commission is partially overruled to let Dick Pollard relocate used vehicles to the west side near Loop 289 and Indiana Avenue. The council delays annexation of northwest Lubbock amid talks with Trinical Coatings Inc on water service extensions. A society official argues pets deserve a humane death if life cannot be decent, citing long euthanization times and recent improvements.
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Bill McAlister
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Dick Pollard
Loop 289
Indiana Avenue
Lubbock
Trinical Coatings, Inc
COMIC DICTIONARY HONEYMOON TRANSITION DEBATE
A humorous take on a man’s transition period before his wife begins pointing out his faults. The item frames domestic life with light satire and a playful tone.
Nine Hostages Freed Surrender Ends Cleveland Office Take
An unemployed Vietnam veteran held nine people hostage for nine hours on the 36th floor of Terminal Tower in Cleveland. Ashby Leach of Huntington West Virginia freed them after seeing on TV that Chessie System agreed to GI benefit improvements. Leach surrendered unarmed after the hostages were released. 50 police kept watch and four escaped earlier.
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Ashby Leach
Huntington
W.va
Chessie System Inc
Chessie
Charles R. McKinnon
FBI
Leach
Howard Skidmore
McKinnon
Railroad Holding Company
Birthday Observance Closes Some Texas Offices for LBJ
The Birthday of Lyndon B. Johnson led to the closing of select state offices including the Drivers License division in Public Safety and the Texas Employment Commission. The Welfare Department will stay open with limited staff. Banks and most businesses operate normally. Johnson was born August 27, 1908 near Stonewall. He served as president from November 22 1963 to January 20 1969 and died in 1973 at age 64.
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United States
Texas Department of Public
Safety
Texas Employment Commission
State Welfare Department
Johnson
Stonewall
John F. Ken
Fall semester registrations reach nearly six thousand
About 5,900 students registered on Thursday for the fall semester. Officials report campus enrollment growth across disciplines and encourage late adds as registration continues.
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