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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1969
Page
9
President Nixon urged restraint as federal outlays climb and projected 200 billion dollar budget needs loom. He cited rising uncontrollable payments and warned tax policy actions may not curb inflation, with bond yields remaining high and retail prices under pressure.
A letter from a worried eldest child asks the Goodfellows to provide Christmas gifts for eight siblings and a mother facing medical bills. The writer explains surgery and hospital costs and asks donors to send contributions to Box 561 to bring some joy this year.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority reports about 70 percent of last summer’s strontium 90 and caesium 137 fallout over Britain came from China’s December 1968 H-bomb test. The rest traces to the 1967 test and older debris. tests estimated at 2 to 3 megatons.
Convict Haywood Quinn seized 22 people including a baby at Tennessee State Prison after being denied parole. He threatened violence, released hostages after receiving $2200 state compensation and a $100 payment to each, and handed over a prison knife to Commissioner Lake Russell. Quinn faced past punishments since 1961 following a 1960 holdup.
Egypt announced that Wednesday night forces struck Israeli positions across the Suez Canal. The operation involved explosions at ammunition dumps and large blasts, triggering major public safety concerns.
Congratulations to multiple local couples on newborns across Lubbock area hospitals. Daughters and sons arrive with weights from 3 and 7 pounds, times late Tuesday to midweek, fathers serving in trucks, teaching, or military roles.
The Senate debated an appropriations bill for DHHS and related agencies with a Whitten amendment barring using funds to force school desegregation and busing. The Scott amendment added constitutional language, with administration opposition noted. Conference fate remained uncertain as House and Senate debated language.
The Nixon administration endorsed three Senate resolutions on Vietnam while urging rejection of any calling for troop withdrawal or ending the Gulf of Tonkin mandate. One supports peace talks and free elections, another condemns Phan Van Dong’s linking Americans for peace to North Vietnam, and a third favors peace with self determination for South Vietnam, per the State Department. Eight color TV sets are installed in San Juan plazas at a cost of 3400 dollars for idlers, mostly elderly.
The UPI report notes 80 percent of last year’s general aviation fatal accidents were caused by pilot error. NTSB tallies 692 accidents among business and private pilots killing 1,339 people. 384 attributed to pleasure flying errors.
AP reports Tiny Tim wed Victoria May Budinger in NBC Studios with 250 guests during The Tonight Show. Rev William Glenesk presided at 6:43 p.m. CST and the couple received a champagne toast with Johnny Carson. The ceremony followed Tim’s claim of sobriety as they began married life together.
The couple began their honeymoon at the King's Inn in the Bahamas with adjoining rooms. Tiny Tim said they will have as many children as the Lord sends. During a post taping news conference he revealed he wrote all the ceremonial vows and joked about marriage laws.
At Webb AFB on a routine training flight the fuselage and tail section failed, igniting cedar trees. The wreckage was found by Webb aircraft at 2:30 p.m. near the Caprock escarpment where oil wells and dirt roads cluster 20 miles northeast of Gall. Lt. McCracken, a Cedar Hill native, left a wife Nancy Rustige and parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. McCracken of Cedar HG.
Former Brazilian president Arthur da Costa e Silva died at 67 after a brain stroke on August 31. He led Brazil during a military regime that dissolved Parliament and was succeeded by a three man junta before Gen. Emilio Garrastazu Medici took over as president.
The University of Colorado report led by Dr. Edward A. Condon found that most UFO sightings were ordinary phenomena and that further extensive UFO research was unlikely to yield scientific benefits. Project Blue Book conclusions and Air Force guidance on unidentified objects are summarized, with a note on the lack of national security threat evidence.
The Justice Department suit against Georgia’s state and school officials argues for abolition of dual school systems. The court says desegregation cannot rely on mass litigation across districts and warns against courts acting as super school boards. Gov. Maddox calls the decision a violation of US law and predicts public education collapse if enforced. He notes no further appeal except parental challenge across races.
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