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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1963
Page
3
Communities in Michigan and beyond debate accepting a new post office and Federal building. Editors clash over need and pork barrel politics while some towns resist federal funds, valuing independence and local effort. The piece contrasts past and present willingness to rely on government support.
The long time Washington observer Ray Tucker ends his National Whirligig column amid illness and surgery that offered only temporary relief. The Avalanche-Journal notes his 35 years of accurate fair reporting and asks readers to wish for his health and possible return.
The page carries obfuscated notices from the Lubbock Avalanche Journal labeled by era terms and references to Democratic papers, a pricing schedule for subscriptions, and a pledge statement. It notes ad rates, payable in advance, and lists monthly and yearly terms, with a final line asserting the national pledge found on page 4, sec A, in Lubbock, Texas, dated February 193.
Rep H R Gross accuses federal agencies of hiring psychiatrists to probe private thoughts of workers and cites a Voice of America employee ordered to a headquarters examination after a late parcel delivery. He warns of increasing use of mental health exams to smear staff across the government.
New York women increasingly avoid revealing ages at parties. Presents vanish to a guest room while guests toast instead, treating birthdays like July Fourth celebrations. The trend aims for festive acknowledgment without questions, with some advising to skip birthdays altogether.
The speaker warns against forcing psychiatric exams on civil servants, citing Gen. Edwin Walker’s federal confinement and a clerk moved to St Elizabeths. He argues psychiatry is misused to curb liberties, urging protection of civil service rights and wary oversight of government psychiatrists.
The piece portrays Gamal Abdel Nasser rising in the Arab world, uniting Egypt with Syria into the United Arab Republic, and shaping a Pan-Arab plan from Casablanca to Muscat. It notes likely moves through Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Yemen, and weighs Western intervention risks as Israel braces for possible renewed conflict.
British leaders fear de Gaulle's Common Market veto may halt the Channel Tunnel project. Experts note feasibility, with lower chalk conditions and a four to five year build, cost competitive with a bridge, and potential rail and truck use.
The Lubbock Independent School District Board of Trustees met Tuesday night to reelect principals, set the April 3 election date for three new trustees, and authorize monthly bonuses equal to 12 percent of salaries. Incumbents whose terms expire this year are R. F. Bayless E J Parsons and Walter G Alderson. Election judges named are Glenn Hess P C McCoy and W E Ballew.
A Steubenville Ohio man named Harry Dotey died after frequent opera attendance each night. He reportedly bought two seats, one for his eyes, hat, coat and cloak.
New York UPI reports missile nurses visit Cape Canaveral launch pads to counsel workers answer questions and demonstrate first aid and safety techniques. Dr Laurent P LaRoche and nurse Ann McMechen discuss the evolving nursing specialty in the American Journal of Nursing official publication of the American Nurses Association.
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