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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1964
Page
5
President Johnson flies to Washington to address Congress and deliver the State of the Union style budget push and civil rights proposals. He aims to secure funds for elderly medical care and other programs while signaling continued international diplomacy with West Germany and Cyprus.
Details from page one recount three traffic incidents. Frasier, a Sunbeam Laundry employee, died at Garex County Hospital after being struck by a pickup driven by Tee Wayne Ploree. Funeral arrangements were pending. Calville died when his automobile overturned, with services planned at White Federal Home in Tahoka. Surviving family members and multiple relatives are listed. Separate NM 18 and US 2 collisions near Lovington injured six people, four in one crash and two in another, with one critically hurt.
Lovington area wrecks injure six people. Melba June Wills, 16, Lovington, critical in Lubbock Methodist Hospital after a NM 18 crash near Lovington at 10 p.m. Saturday. Leonard Woodward, 18, Hobbs, fractured vertebrae and other injuries in Lovington Lea General Hospital. Marydafe Hill, 12, Hobbs, fractured collarbone and shoulder blade. Doug Williams, 15, Hobbs, facial lacerations. Conrad Chavarria Jr., 17, Hobbs, broken ribs and pelvic injuries in fair condition. Catarina Mor, 16, Hobbs, treated and released.
congressional action centers on a bipartisan civil rights bill and a Kennedy health care proposal. House Rules Committee to hold hearings on civil rights amid discharge petitions while Senate filibuster risks stall. Health care financing via Social Security tax hike eyed after tax and civil rights debates.
Washington AP Freeman says farm income gains under the Freeman approach amount to 2.3 billion above 1960 levels, a figure critics say mirrors direct subsidies. Aides counter that farm programs reduce price pressure and surpluses, potentially shaping 1964 politics as the Johnson administration weighs broader use of payments for wheat dairy and cotton.
UPI reports three American servicemen wounded Sunday during a day-long battle near Saigon. U.S. helicopters faced ground fire from a Viet Cong battalion, with military sources noting the strikes but no further details on casualties or outcomes.
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev concluded a three day unofficial visit to Warsaw with a Sunday night departure, according to the Polish news agency Fapj.
More than 20 000 Lubbock school students resume classes today after winter vacation. Christ the King Catholic School 450 students and Lubbock Christian College 483 students also reopen. The 1964 first civil jury in 6th District Court plans to hear at 1 30 pm with Judge Robert H Bean presiding. Margie Vega 10 injured when a dog knocked her down near 217 Uvalde received emergency care and was released. James Edward McKay remains in critical condition after a hydraulic dump struck a vehicle near an underpass outside Snyder.
Raul Castro hailed Cuba's power and promised solidarity with the Soviet Union while denouncing enemies and counterrevolutionaries. In Miami a report noted his remarks to the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, broadcast excerpts describing perceived imperialist threats.
Jorge Moreno chair of the Workreation board in Storrs introduced a program to provide six weeks of summer jobs for students aged 16 to 18. Participants will work four hours daily five days a week earning 30 cents per hour with 75 cents kept by the student and 5 cents into a recreation fund. Funding estimated at around $3,500 annually to cover admin costs. Applications distributed through schools and signed by principals and parents. The program, a project of the Lubbock Youth Committee, was adopted by the City Commission and will begin with a board of directors. The lion mascot may move to a future Lubbock site if constructed. The voice of officials stressed the goal to aid students who cannot find summer work and reduce delinquency observed in similar programs elsewhere.
Police publish detailed descriptions of two men aged about 23 and 20. The first is 140 to 150 pounds with a low oval face long straight nose brown eyes thin lips pale skin acne and a dark coat with a beige hat. The second, about 5 feet 8 inches, has a long face and pointed nose and wore a belt trench coat and beige hat. Detectives continued following up leads Sunday night with no new developments.
In Wichita Kai APIA said a man asked service station mechanic Paul Jacobs for cents to buy whisky. He offered to leave his false teeth for security. Jacobs noted the teeth were still in the Joash register Sunday.
The pope arrived in Israel on a pilgrimage to Nazareth Kfar Kana Capernaum Galilee and Armageddon amid tense Arab Israeli tensions. Security was tight with armored cars as listeners heard chants and radio jamming interrupted Hebrew translations.
Goldwater would push the Senate to threaten a diplomatic break with the Soviet Union as a bargaining tool while denying a war risk. He says the move could be explored but insists it does not close doors to negotiations. He also criticizes Johnson’s economy, UN policy, and Civil Rights stance, urging gradual desegregation and constitutional limits.
Pope Paul VI's arrival in Amman included a ceremonial cup of thick Arabic coffee offered by King Hussein. In Vatican and Beirut dispatches, the pontiff stresses the religious nature of the pilgrimage with no political aims while greetings go to Turkey's president from the air. Stamps in Vatican gatherers line up at dawn to buy commemoratives as the Pope presents gifts to King Hussein including a signed portrait and medals. A tropical storm was detected near Samoa and Tahiti within the Pacific.
AP reports the Astor Hotel ballroom in midtown Manhattan caught fire Sunday night triggering two alarms. The blaze spread quickly to draperies as theatergoers fled, with the hotel located on Broadway at 46th Street in the heart of Times Square.
Republican senator Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky said Goldwater remains strong in delegate counts. He noted Goldwater is substantially ahead in the southern tier and some mountain states in the quest for the nomination.
The London Mirror claims a U.S. government report shows smokers die from lung cancer at about ten times the rate of nonsmokers and that the study labels diuretics as killers. The paper says the report, attributed to Dr. Luther L. Terry, would be released soon and notes precautions to protect the tobacco industry.
Mrs John F. Kennedy and her two children Caroline and John Jr returned to Washington on Sunday after an 18 day holiday in Palm Beach Florida. They flew in an Air Force jet, the private school at the White House prepared for Caroline and other youngsters, and classes resume today as Cavaline faba transfers from the British Embassy during Christmas break.
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