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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1964
Page
4
Civil rights leaders say they won an economic victory as Mississippi Pearl River Water Supply District failed to secure an acceptable bid for a 24.6 million bond issue, signaling a setback for the district's financing plan.
Defense attorney plans a show of act by Tammy True before six jurors to prove the dancers from The Cellar nightclub were not indecent. Police testified to revealing attire as vice officers raided the club with 35 complaints against the waitresses. The cases hinge on double jeopardy claims and prior pleas, now under later corporation court trial before Judge Don Leonard.
At Memorial School in Eatontown New Jersey an eighth grade class splits into boys learning carpentry and girls cooking. The project aims to teach values attitudes and perspective. students plan a luncheon for mothers and exchange feedback on skills and teamwork.
A fragmented brief notes the National Association and Advancement groups urging action on housing and equality. Only one bid was received from a syndicate tied to the water district, prompting questions about who will fund and approve the proposal.
Queen Elizabeth II asked for daily condition reports on the Duke of Windsor who was to undergo ballooning of an abdominal artery at Methodist Hospital. Dr. Michael DeBakey led the 60 to 90 minute procedure as the duchess stayed in a nearby suite and both expressed cautious optimism.
Investment houses refused to bid on an 8.775 million dollar Mississippi state school bond issue citing an 3.65 percent ceiling and civil rights pressure. NAACP and CORE condemned the move as moral resistance to segregation and pressed for prohibitions on selling securities from segregated areas. CORE officials planned actions in Massachusetts New York New Jersey and California to curb such sales.
Ford Motor Co. chairman Henry Ford II predicts 1964 U S car sales will reach 8.1 million and total 8.7 million in 1965, a first eight million milestone. He cites strikes cutting fourth quarter output and notes 1964 world auto sales may hit 8.2 million with overseas gains and 4 million truck units up 15 percent from 1963.
Government forces and Pathet Lao fought ten days near Vientiane with little territorial gain. Nine Laotian soldiers were killed and 92 wounded. Communist losses were not reported.
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