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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
10
Hobbs city commissioners approved forming a bi racial committee to study race relations. Mayor Audra Kemnitz will appoint members with input from Negro school principal Ralph Littleton who urged equal rights and responsibilities and stricter patrols in the Negro Section to curb youth unrest.
City planning officials review requests for C-2 local retail along 50th Street and nearby zones. Proposals include extending C-2 on 34th Street near Salem Avenue and converting M-1 to C-4 on Ave B and Main. Officials note prior refusals and current R-3 zoning while nine subdivision plats await action.
The Shady Grove talent show lists Jan Cone of Lubbock sponsored by Delta Delta Delta singing Swanee. Pat Eakins of Lubbock with a Little Red Cinderella. Sherry Burgamy of Lubbock sponsored by Horn Hall singing Chances Are. Alpine Trio performing Away Rio. Raider Rambles winner auditions to appear in Region IX at Texas A&M with five-year Tech entrants. Judges include Murrell Foster and others. Gene Price of KLBK will emcee. James Sudduth in charge of music.
Seven bids opened at a Tech campus meeting led by Pennington on a contract for the largest dorm construction in school history. The women’s hall will rise on the south side near the current women’s residence, while the men’s new complex will be south of the existing men’s housing off Flint. Also Paris reports Yves Montand planning a French My Fair Lady with Corinne Marchand, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Jeanne Moreau possibly in the cast.
Portales will see a transfer to Artesia and two units activated overall four towns affected by a Reserve restructuring announced by Secretary McNamara. Roswell Clovis Hobbs retain some units with strength adjustments. Portales has no current unit remaining.
Texas welfare outlay for the year ending Aug 31 totaled 188.4 million with a 22 million rise from the year before. Old age assistance led at 160.9 million, plus 18.2 million for dependent children, 4.2 million for the blind, 4.9 million for the disabled, and 7.2 million in admin costs. The split was 52.5 million state and 135.8 million federal, including a new medical care program purchasing private insurance for the aged.
A widespread earthquake struck the Denver region and eastern Colorado the second time in two days. Shocks extended up to 125 miles from Denver and lasted about five minutes. Regis College seismologist Father Joseph Downey noted the 6:48 a.m. event, while USGS official Jerry P. Eaton reported six shocks between Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning.
Pan American Petroleum Corp wins motion to exclude evidence on oil value in a damage suit over slant oil wells. Judge Sheehy rules damages wiped out by time bar as Orr and others face penalties in broader investigations into deviated wells.
Tehran police chief Col. Abdullah Wasiq banned a teen twist after secret police raided a party organized by a local movie house. Police say the twist is harmful for teen-agers and ordered action to stop further performances.
Chilean police report the arrest of Walter Hermann Julius Rauff, 56, in Punta Arenas on charges of exterminating 90,000 Jews during World War II. He was flown to Santiago and placed at the disposition of the Supreme Court. West Germany seeks extradition.
An eight member military court in San Antonio began deliberations over Col John A Herrington a decorated war hero and special weapons director at Kelly Air Force Base accused of shooting his wife June 45 in their bed at home after he said she nagged him The case centers on his claim he shot to end years of nagging and marks a charged moment in a high profile defense.
Princeton professor Dr James Holly Hanford will headline Tech Union Poetry Hour at 4 p m on the Sun Porch Union Building. He will discuss Yeats Frost and Eliot and read selections. The event is organized by Tech Union Ideas and Issues Committee led by Rozanne Cannon with Sandra Wolff as chair.
The Poetry Hours are designed to give Tech students and faculty its opportunity to hear and meet noted persons with special knowledge and insight in literature and culture.
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