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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1967
Page
8
Tech students mail 18 000 Christmas cards to GIs with names like Murdough Thompson Wells Weymouth Sneed Hall and the Men's Residence Council. Past years required postage and air freight costs. the card wording thanks service members for their sacrifices and wishes a merry Christmas.
Students in residence halls assemble cards, insert them into envelopes, and mail them to soldiers. Cards are printed, addressed, and sent from Reese AFB to California or Vietnam, with many letters received in return. Each card bears the sign of the Men's Residence Council or the sending dorm.
The proposal raises air mail and advertising rates, limits hiring of relatives in all federal branches, expands life insurance, tightens mail porn controls, and creates a pay commission. It would boost third class bulk mail to 3.6 cents next month and 4 cents in July 1969 with a 3.8 cent trial for the first 250,000 pieces. Second class rates rise to 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 cents by 1970, with nonprofit and in county mail adjustments. A 5 percent postal raise next July and full comparability by 1969 are planned for federal salaries.
Texas Tech geologist Corwin C. Reeves will discuss West Texas Lakes and the Ice Age at a Sigma Xi luncheon. The $1.35 meal is open to Tech faculty graduate students and the public. reservations via 742-7237.
Lubbock County Commission approved a total of 80 653 48 in special bills across multiple funds including General Fund Road and Bridge Funds officers salaries and permanent improvement. Notable entries include McGlain Office Supply Thomas Brothers Co and City fire calls. A separate list authorizes indigent defense fees and notes correspondence from Vietnam era service members praising support from back home.
The project uses a $45,000 Welch Foundation grant to fund chemistry department work on atomic arrangements in molecules. It aims to guide applied researchers toward better waxes, waterproofing compounds, and lubricants, while noting the public may still struggle with the term methyldideuterosilane.
County board approves welfare rule changes for indigent maternity and elective surgery oversight, sets staffing, and considers funding for a planned maternity program. It adds a caseworker, reviews hospital ER expense requests, and adopts bids for culverts, lys, and court projects while approving relocations and plat corrections.
Four Texas Tech professors will discuss background current and future U S involvement in Vietnam in a 7 15 p m panel in the Tech Union ballroom. Moderator Vernon R McGuire and speakers Benjamin Bock William Oden David Rodnick Mitchell Smith will give 10 minute talks followed by Q A. The event is sponsored by the Tech Union International Interest Committee and the Tech Forensics Union.
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