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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1970
Page
1
Ford officials announce the permanent shutdown of the Dallas assembly plant on February 27, citing modernization costs. The facility, operating since 1925 with a $17 million annual payroll, employs about 1,900 and faced costly upgrades for continued two shift operation.
House Democrats mobilize against President Nixon as Congress votes loom on a $197 billion education and health bill. NEA calls for override to fund education, health and welfare programs, while White House cautions about fiscal responsibility as Senate delays action.
Subzero temperatures swept the Deep South and beyond, leaving families without heat as power plants reduced voltage to meet demand. The cold claimed nineteen lives nationwide, with ten deaths in Tennessee, while PJM reported generator limits and outages across Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Delaware and Virginia. Snow flurries touched parts of the coast and South Plains as forecasts show a gradual warmup and lingering cold pockets.
Myrl E. Alexander, retiring head of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons after 38 years, says drugs and narcotics are a growing problem in large metropolitan institutions while homosexuality has declined. He notes officials must limit incidents and dismisses conjugal visiting as a solution. Alexander will join Southern Illinois University next month.
Edgartown Massachusetts judge barred testimony on whether Edward Kennedy could have saved Kopechne if help had arrived sooner. The secret inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne's death adjourned after days of testimony and excluded Jenna Farrar's opinion on her role in the recovery.
A Texarkana Ark grocer’s daughter escaped her captors after being held for about two hours by a kidnap trio demanding four hundred thousand dollars. Police say the suspects released her unharmed Friday night and fled.
Texarkana detective reports three armed men abducted Karen Veekers from her home at gunpoint while she answered the door. Bryant and Smith, identified suspects, allegedly held Veekers captive in a motel room until an informant prompted their release of the girl. In another item, Mrs Ermina Ogden of Pampa dies in a two vehicle crash east of the Panhandle city, injuring two others.
Battlefield native 78 year old George Corry recounts being captured at gunpoint near Wellington in 1933 by Bonnie Parker Clyde Barrow and Buck Barrow. He and Sheriff Paul Hardy were tied to a cottonwood tree after driving to aid a river accident victim.
A fast moving blaze at Harmer House Nursing Home in Marietta Ohio killed at least 36 people, many seniors, Friday night. Firefighters faced zero degree cold as smoke halted rescue efforts and victims were removed through doors and windows.
A Yale finance roundtable hears economist Frederic Rinfre t propose a government credit card freeze as a tool to dampen inflation amid tight credit. He argues cards were issued with little scrutiny during a period of high demand, while others warn details are uncertain and familiarity varies across lenders.
Mahon of Lubbock told a Rock Patice audience that a budget tightening will rescind advance payments to feed grain producers under the TT ford eiains program and that Congress may seek to reverse it. He said Hardin expects payments to resume early in the new fiscal year.
Weather notice notes considerable cloudiness and a warmer trend today in the area. Southwesterly winds up to 28 mph. Tonight expect decreasing clouds and a shift in readings with highs and lows around city values listed for several locations.
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