Lubbock Retail Boom Faces Clouds On Horizon
Lubbock merchants report record Christmas sales with department stores up to 50 percent higher than year-ago levels. Statewide surveys show 21 percent weekly gains as shopping spree continues. yet merchants warn of potential tax hikes and inflation threatening the bright start for 1968. Retha Martin of Dunlap’s notes terrific Christmas sales in Lubbock.
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Duntlap’s
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Abduction of Isabelle MacMasters Shocks San Francisco
Police recount a striking kindergarten abduction in which a pale man seized five year old Isabelle MacMasters from Sarah Dix Hamlin school. The child’s mother Dolly Fritz, a Nob Hill social figure, previously recovered Isabelle and her sister Marguerite in Mexico with private investigators after a 1962 custody dispute. Authorities identified the father at San Francisco International Airport before the trail vanished.
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San Francisco
Merida
Mexico
Los Angeles
Nob Hill
Virginia MacLean
Not Eligible for Office Seven Year Old Wins Constable Seat
Willam Gibory was certified winner of the nonpaying constable race in Canaan Township Pennsylvania after write in and absentee votes. Despite the win the second grader cannot take office due to age, he is seven and hopes to run again at 21. Japan plans to extend fishing zones.
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Willam Gibory
Canaan Township
Pennsylvania
Gibney
Space Center Cutbacks As NASA Budget Shrinks
Space Center Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston says 105 workers face job losses or reassignment due to tightened NASA funding. Termination notices reached 37 local employees, with 15 at White Sands, N.M., and 53 Houston staff plus two at White Sands reassigned or demoted. Congress trimmed NASA's FY1968 budget by about 10 percent to 4.6 billion dollars.
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Houston
UPH
Manned Spacecraft Center
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Houston Center
Earier
White Sands
N.M
Congress
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NASA
Postmasters face stamp shortages as rate change nears
Congress enacts new postal rates with stamp denominations in short supply. Lubbock Post Office experiences a three hour sellout of 6 cent and 1 cent stamps as patrons prepare for rate changes at midnight. An air shipment from Dallas arrives around 4 p.m. to ease the temporary shortage.
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