12 Feb 1973
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1973
Page
1
AP reports on the eve of prisoner releases, noting 115 Americans to be freed. The Hanoi regime’s editorial highlights humane detentions and early releases for wounded and elderly prisoners. Among named pilots are Everett Alvarez and Robinson Risner, with Shumaker pocketing hope for homecoming after long detention.
U S Air Force hospital plane led the first group of POWs released under the Vietnam cease fire from Hanoi Gia Lam Airport toward Clark Air Base Philippines. A second C141 transported POWs loaded as the first departed, with Navy Captain Brian Woods added to the list.
Washington AP Da vid Lawrence editor and founder of U S News World Report died Sunday in Sarasota Florida at 84. He had a 60 year Washington news career covering 11 presidential administrations and suffered an apparent heart attack at home. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. His widely syndicated conservative column appeared in about 300 newspapers and long ran on the Avalanche Journal editorial pages. His Monday column is on Page 4 See SYNDICATED.
Washington AP Speaker Carl Albert pledges Congress to resist Nixon budget cuts he says harm the poor elderly sick and unemployed While agreeing with some reductions he warns against scrapping worthwhile programs Such a budget he says lacks vision and would curb hospital health clinics education libraries water waste disposal and veterans benefits It would also weaken revenue sharing for states and cities Albert notes four year federal budgets rose from 195 to 289 billion crediting Congress for trimming 20 billion from the president's request See Albert Page 11
A pickup with six passengers and a cotton burr truck collided seven miles south of Lamesa around 8 15 p m Sunday killing two Andrews residents and a Mexican national. Edurriges Gonzalez Marquez 19 died at the scene. Edwin Valadez and Rudy Nieto Valadez 42 died at Medical Arts Hospital. Three others were critically or gravely injured or in undetermined condition. The burr truck driver Polito Trevino of Patricia was not injured. The Higginbotham Gin Co operated the pickup. The Dawson County fatalities raise the South Plains death toll to 21 for the year.
A Sunday morning coordinated operation by federal, state, county and city officers resulted in 36 arrests across Clovis Portales and Cannon Air Force Base on dangerous drug charges. The raids yielded 30 pounds of what was believed to be marijuana and about 2,000 LSD tablets. John A Tapia, 36, and Junior Tapia, 19, faced multiple distribution counts with bonds totaling 65,300. Suspects were housed in Roosevelt and Curry counties.
Major currencies from West Germany Britain France Italy Japan and others shut markets to curb speculators in the dollar. A high level emergency talks including Valery Giscard d Estaing Paul Volcker and Giovanni Malagodi convened in Paris as officials seek a coordinated plan to stabilize the global monetary system amid massive dollar selling.
A quoted line from The A-J Today reflects on education as a form of futility where deeper study reveals greater ignorance. The note frames study as uncovering limits of knowledge rather than expanding certainty. It presents a skeptical view attributed to an educational discussion in the paper.
Avalanche-Journal recalls the birth of churches on the South Plains in Lubbock Texas with memories of bells at the first Methodist church built in 1905. Veteran tailor J C Jake Sanders and Louis Murfee Sr describe rival church bells and Murfee’s wartime absence when the old sanctuary burned in 1917.
A burglary attempt at Burl M. Pigg’s jewelry shop on 46th Street was stopped Sunday night when a nearby florist fired two shots in the air to deter intruders and help police seize a maroon 1965 Chevrolet. Police detained three suspects in connection with the incident.
A reader offers a brief daily prayer seeking God’s strength to increase love for others. The plea asks for growing compassion toward fellow humans and ends with Amen.
Cloudy and mild with a 30 percent chance of precipitation today and tonight Southerly winds gusting to 50 mph. High around 55 to 59 degrees with midnight low near 33. Yesterday’s high 66. Sunrise 7 35 a m sunset 6 29 p m. Humidity peaks around 82 percent at midnight and 63 to 79 percent elsewhere. Regional temps shown for Abilene El Paso Albuquerque Hobbs Amarillo Houston Dallas Oklahoma City Denver.
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