Weather Summary from Palo Duro to San Antonio
A cool spell spread across West Texas with temps dipping to 55 in Dalhart and Hereford and a6 in Dimmitt and Friona. San Antonio led the state with a high near 60. Rains remained below expectations, with Lubbock reporting 0.78 inches at the West Texas Air Terminal and KFYO sites recording around 1 inch locally. The cold front weakened as it moved through the region.
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Mercury
Dalhart
Hereford
Dimmitt and
Friona
San Antonio
Panhandle
Lubbock
U. S&s. Weather Bureau
West Texas Air Terminal
KFYO
82Nd Street
Quaker Avenue
Ardmore
Okla
Denison Dallas
Brownwood Junction
Marfa
South Plains
Abernathy
Aspermont
Crosbyton
Dimmitt
Floodada
Hart
Lamesa
Levelland
Morton
Muleshoe
Olton
Plains
Plainview
Post
Ropesville
Seminole
Silverton
Slaton
Tulsa
Tohoka
Panhandle Panhandle
Jericho
Donley County
Wheeler
Clarendon
Pampa
Perryton
Shamrock
Follett
Amarillo
Midland
San Angelo
Palo Duro Canyon
Ford
High Water
High Plains
Johnson
Rioters Clash With Police in Chicago During DNC Protests
Reporters describe street clashes as demonstrators confront patrolmen near the Conrad Hilton during the Democratic National Convention. Police defend actions to maintain order as Mayor Daley backs security measures amid public anger and televised coverage.
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Michigan Avenue
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nanni
Conrad Hilton
Chicago
International Amphitheater
Democratic Party
Humphrey appoints O'Brien as DNC chair and campaign manager
Lawrence F. O'Brien, longtime Kennedy ally and political strategist, is named both chairman of the Democratic National Committee and campaign manager for Humphrey. The move followed Humphrey warning against a Republican victory and outlining O'Brien's wide authority.
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Waverly
Chicago
Humphrey
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Kennedys
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic National Committee
O'Brien
John M. Bailey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rumors Stir as Johnson Warns on Soviet Moves
The report notes conflicting U S and Romanian positions amid rumors of Soviet and Warsaw Pact troop movements toward the Romanian border. Officials cite uncertainty, while Bucharest tensions rise as Czechoslovakia’s crisis deepens and purges target liberal reformers. Nixon tours New York and Humphrey campaigns with a fractured Democratic Party backdrop.
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Washington
Romania
Johnson
United States
Bogdan
Rusk
Warsaw
Russia
Warsaw Pact
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Bucharest
Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Prague
Sovie
Ota Sik
Wallace backs talks to end Vietnam War and 1960s politics
Wallace said both parties have sold out Eastern Europe since Yalta and attacked pro Communist protests in Vietnam. He urged lowering the voting age to 18 for servicemen, claimed wide support from young voters, and eyed debate invitations while predicting bipartisan Congressional support if elected.
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Wallace
White Beuch
Europe
Yalta
Vietnam
Pin
Congress
Hearings Scheduled On Water Pollution
The 11 member committee to study land use and environmental control will hold hearings in Chambers and Galveston Counties on September 5 and 6.
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Austin
Chambers
Galveston
Attorney Dies Uma amend Aide to Norfolk Shipyard Commander
The obituary notes the death of an attorney who served as aide to the commander of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during the Korean War and headed the Naval Reserve Surface Division in Lubbock from 1957 to 1960. He earned a Tech journalism degree and worked at The Avalanche Journal. Survivors include his wife Lucille, his mother, and a brother. Services are pending at Rix Funeral Home.
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Norfolk (Va
Naval Reserve Surface Division
Lubbock
Tech
Clark
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock County
Texas
American Bar Associations
First Methodist Church
City of
Motorists Begin Labor Day Treks Across Nation
Chicago dispatch notes millions on the road as Labor Day begins. The National Safety Council estimates 575 to 675 persons may be killed during the a heavy highway travel period from Friday evening to Monday midnight. The item also mentions the British Empire’s pre-1914 land area.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
FBI Rescues Kidnapped Boy After Wild Auto Chase
The kidnapper led six FBI cars at 80 to 90 mph in Los Angeles area streets and alleys before agents rammed his car to save the boy. The exchange involved a ransom of 250000 in twenty-dollar bills and a family intermediary Red Tracton. The suspect, Stan Dacy, fought officers. two bystanders were injured, and the boy was unharmed.
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Red Tracton
Los Angeles
Dacy
FBI
Wesley G. Grapp
Grapp
Emmett Doherty
Doherty
Stan-Stan
Katherine Stafford
Tracton
Coiner
Misty
Susan
Daey
Camp Cooke
Calif
Terre Haute
Ind
Trio Arrested In Connection With Abduction
Arizona Highway Patrolmen arrested Billy Roy Hughes alias William Roy Tidwell and Clifford Ray Ward along with Wanda Gail Hughes in Booneville Mississippi for the kidnapping of William Stanley Blazyk of Austin Texas. Blazyk said he was assaulted and stripped before being bound in his car. Hughes and Ward held at Florence federal center and Wanda Hughes at Maricopa County jail for extradition to Texas.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Arizona
William Stanley Blazyk
Austin
Billy Roy Hughes
William Roy Tidwell
Wanda Gail
Booneville
Miss
Clifford Ray Ward
Oxford
Blazyk
Blayzk
Texas
Woman Charged After Kidnapped Baby Found in Port Arthur
A 43-year-old woman was arrested and charged with kidnapping 5 day old Diek Reese after he was found crying on a doorstep in Port Arthur. The infant, abducted from St Marys Hospital Wednesday, was safe and unharmed. Dist Atty W C Lindsey said motive is a mystery. Police found the infant’s hospital bracelets and clothing in the suspect’s apartment.
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Diek Gregory Reese
Darrell Reese
Port Neches
Port Arthur's
St. Mary’s Hospital
Port Arthur
Diek Reese
Dist. Atty
W. C. Lindsey
Santiago Flores
Justice of the Peace
Fulton Lee
Lindsey
Flores
A. L. Whittredge
St. Mary's
Labor Day Meeting Set by Lubbock Central Labor Union
Lubbock’s Central Labor Union sponsors a Labor Day gathering for local and area unions at 2 p.m. Monday at Mackenzie Terrace Party House. Union presidents will speak on their work and plans for the year, with dignitaries to attend. Attorney Mark Smith of Lubbock will give the main address. A separate note mentions a meteorite shipment to New York from Greenland via Admiral Perry.
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Lubbock
Central Labor Union
Mackenzie Terrace
Walter J. Allison
Central Union
Mark Smith
Local Births Recorded At West Texas Hospitals
A series of birth notices from West Texas area hospitals lists multiple families in Lubbock and nearby towns. The items name parents, addresses, newborn weights, and times, noting fathers' occupations from Marine Corps service to IBM and Johnson Service Company.
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Guadalupe Santoya
Rt. 4
Lubbock
Sauf Chimie
Marine Corps
Robert W. Cassidy
6Th St
West Texas Hospital
Prudential Insurance Company
David Lee English
IBM
Travis Polk
Broadway
Brownfield
Simmons Machine & Pipe
Keith Elkins
42Nd St
Methodist Hospital
Johnson Service Company
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Palo Duro
Tke
Daley
Cottonwood
Alabama
San Francisco
Palm Springs
California
Parker
Larry O’brien
New York
National Committee
Fifth Avenue
62Nd Street
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Eeath
Vienna
Sik
Yugoslavia
Czecho- Slovakia
Oldrich Cernik
Cernik
Belgrade
Vilna
Jiri Hajek
Hajek
Cesimir Cisar
Miroslav Galuska
ADN
Ludvik Vesely
Reform
Literarni Listy
West Germany
Nixon
Republican
Gov
Rockefeller
Paul O’dwyer
Jacob K. Javits
O'Dwyer
William O'Dwyer
Eugene J. McCarthy
Democrats
Robert F. Kennedy
American State Bank
F.d.1.c
Woter
Robert L. Dacy
Uruguay
Montevideo, the
Capital
Douglas Thompson
City Union
New York City
Iil
Greenland
Admiral Perry
Raymon Guerra
E. Hamilton
Indianapolis
Lauf Clint
Indianapoli Crown Set Manufacturing Co
Denzil Lee Minyard
Petersburg
W. £. Snellgrove
Rt. Y
Harold Eugene Ellis
Indiana Ave
Welchimg
Clyde McCall
Sunset School of Preaching
Robert Charles Walker Jr
34Th St
Texas Tech
James Earl Blain
Auburn
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Benny Simon
N. Elgin
Garry Dale Seale
Ave. B
Auto Parts Co
Joe Sandoval
Rt. 2
Hancock Manufacturing Co
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