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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1964
Page
3
Officials discuss a proposed program to subdivide land for family units and resell on long term loans to tenants. aims to help rural cooperatives and reduce poverty in farming areas. Orville Freeman says the plan could create thousands of permanent jobs over a decade as planners focus on developing credit and housing in rural America.
Carlsbad New Mexico AP reports famed oil well fighter Red Adair warns it may take days to halt the gas fire near Carlsbad. His crew builds a firefighting machine from three tractors covered in corrugated iron to clear debris before using dynamite or gelatin to stop the blaze. The gas venting about 60 million cubic feet daily and daily equipment losses around $5,000 with total damages estimated at $400,000.
Five service members die in a head on crash near a central Texas town. Four soldiers from Fort Hood and a Marine who had visited his mother near Killeen were killed. Names given include Lance Corporal Winfield Larmand and Private Dennis R. Lewis with next of kin in Crowley Louisiana and Warwick New York.
A 19 year old woman, Miss Mary Sullivan, was found strangled in her Beacon Hill apartment, the second eastern Massachusetts killing in 29 months. Police say the method matches the 10 prior unsolved cases since June 1962, with the victim bound by nylon stocking and scarves and the apartment shared by two roommates on Charles Street.
Congressman Cooley says the We Department backs a voluntary cotton allotment reserve program for 1964 1965 and likely 1966 to curb surpluses. Producers would be paid in kind from CCC stocks for reducing acreage, with 20 to 80 percent diversions and potential over one million bales cut annually, risking reactivating the soil bank.
Auburn Alabama AP reports Auburn University students were required to carry identification cards during registration and on campus. A campus dog mascot Snowhall appeared with an ID card, complete with his name and photo, though no one knows who arranged it.
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Fragmentary line references astonishing state of drug counters and preparation methods. Wording suggests a claim about sufferers and a “gator” device or result, but details are unclear and names or places are not provided.
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