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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1968
Page
4
Tuesday Morning January 2 1968 issue highlights future inventions and how Bern ie Kahn's 1960 book On Thermonuclear War influenced postwar strategy. The article notes Rand Corp physicist Kahn and Trudson Institute researchers now reassessing deterrence and brushfire warfare with missiles and H bombs of limited use.
Services for C E Simmons Sr 68 of 2601 56th will be at Westminster Presbyterian Church at 2 pm today. Burial in Resthaven Cemetery. Simmons chairman of Simmons Machine and Tool Corp died after arriving at Methodist Hospital from a heart attack. He was WWI veteran and Mason. Survivors include wife Lula two sons Larry and C B Jr one daughter Jo Ellen Fowler and seven grandchildren. Contributions to Carl Farley's Boys Ranch. Pallbearers listed. Honorary pallbearers include Simmons employees and local notables.
Mrs Minda Ella Wise 88 Friona resident since 1953 dies in local hospital burial in Friona Cemetery services at 2 pm in First Baptist Church with Rev Bill Fol officiating and Curtis Murphree Jayman assisting Survivors include two sons two daughters seven grandchildren eight great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren
Funeral services set for 2 pm today at Rix Funeral Chapel for C. H. Gordon who died Sunday at Sloane's Convalescent Home. Rev. Hubert Christian will officiate with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Gordon, a former Lamar County resident, was a farmer and Coca Cola bottling employee. Survived by wife three sons two daughters and many grandchildren. Pallbearers named Melvin Perry Bob Brock William Horton Billy Nesbitt Delbert Underwood Glenn Underwood.
Mary Irma Sprawls 65 dies from apparent heart attack. Services set for 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church Lamesa graveside rites in Idalou Cemetery Idalou under Branon-Phillips Funeral Home. Born October 8 1902 in Scranton Texas she lived in Lamesa since 1926. Survived by two sisters and three brothers.
A 2000s outlook argues millennium shifts can bring affluence and better living if technology and institutions align. Leaders from World Future Society to commissions on the Year 2000 push systematic planning, social engineering, and diffusion of goods as drivers of a more humane, less violent world.
Obituary notice for Malcolm Grant Mack Wilson 71 of Lubbock who died at Methodist Hospital. Services set 2 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist with Rev. D C Hamilton and Rev. John Schwenser officiating. Burial City of Lubbock Cemetery by Sanders Funeral Home. Survivors include wife Netile, daughter Lois Yelvington, brothers Milton and Buster, sister Cora Pierce, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences joins Carnegie Corporation in a major program to analyze the nation’s future. Citing January 4 2000 as a milestone, the effort urges preparations to shape lives for the next generation.
Four sailors from USS near Vietnam, after drifting aboard a Soviet ship to Moscow, seek political asylum in Sweden via the Vietnam Peace Committee. They describe joining a protest and bomb-explosion view as catalyst, and await Swedish government decision. The group includes Michael Lindner and Richard Bailey, among others, staying with peace committee members in Moscow.
W B Gregory 85 Browne field resident and retired farmer dies Sunday night at home. Funeral at 10 a.m. today at First Methodist Church with graveside rites at Lamesa Memorial Park directed by Branon Philips Funeral Home. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs W N Anderson and Mrs Florence Benson both of Lamesa a son Bill Gregory Spur a sister Mrs A M Johnson Maybank a brother D S Gregory Lubbock seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A reflective verse excerpt attributes inaction to cost and loss, invoking the old maxim He who hesitates is lost. It contrasts those who chose to die or not defend themselves with those who remained stationary on the plains of hesitation.
CORPUS CHRISTI AP. J James R Railey, 67, longtime Dallas newspaperman, died Monday in a Corpus Christi hospital. A Little Rock native, he joined the Dallas Morning News in 1920, later worked in the Austin Bureau, and since 1980 resided at Lagarta Ranch near Sandia. Funeral services pending. Survived by his widow two sons James M Railey Fort Worth Malcolm R Railey Austin a sister Marie Floyd Houston a brother John Railey Oklahoma City and four grandchildren.
Snyder Texas Special reports Bonnie Huntsman a 66 year old Sea County farmer died Saturday services are set for 3 p.m. Thursday at Mount Olive Baptist Church Burial will be in Snyder Cemetery with Bell Seale Funeral Home guiding arrangements Huntsman survived by two daughters four sons three sisters and one brother
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