Proposal On Council Slate Power Rate Hike Sought
A council proposal aims to raise electricity rates to promote electric heating. Kelly cited monthly usage figures showing a 250 kWh home would rise from 7.13 to 8.12, 500 kWh from 11.96 to 13.44, 1,000 kWh from 21.61 to 24.07, while 2,000 kWh buyers would pay 0.23 more per month.
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Kelly
Southwestern
Lubbock
Texas
Lubbock Power and Light
Avalanche Journal
Lp&l
Lnst
General City Operating Fund
General Fund
Sterling Miller
Counscilman
After divorce Shots Leave Three Dead In Houston
Police said a 44 year old insurance broker, Steve P. Prokopak, killed his former wife Ophelia Prokopak 39 and lawyer Arthur Whitcher Jr. 35, then shot himself in his South Houston office. Whitcher had represented Mrs. Prokopuk and had a restraining order against Prokopuk. Neighbors reported hearing shots and officers took a car license number from a man seen leaving the home. The case prompted schools to place children in protective custody.
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Houston
Steve P. Prokopak
Ophelia Prokopak
Arthur Vs. Whitcher Jr
South Houston
Prokopuk
Whitcher
Grace Meeks
Rites Planned For Mrs Walker At Missionary Church
Mrs Mabel Walker 78 a Littlefield resident died on her birthday. Services set for 2 p m today at Missionary Baptist Church with Rev David Jackson officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Littlefield under Slammons Funeral Home. Survivors: husband C K Walker son Herbert Odessa daughter Mrs Lawilie Semry Canyon brothers Charles Gross Tahlequah and Otto Gross Greenville sister Mrs Elsie Burtley Milwaukee eight grandchildren six great grandchildren
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Littlefiold
Mabel Walker
Littlefield
Missionery Baptist Church
David Jackson
Memorial Park Ander
Slammons Funeral Home
Teatnfield
C.K
Herbert
Odessa
Lawilie Semry
Canyon
Charles Gross
Tahlequab
Gokia
Otto Gross
Mrs. Chester's Services Set in Tulia and Tishomingo
Mrs. H J Chester 72 dies in Swisher Memorial Hospital after a week’s illness. Funeral services at Wallace Funeral Home Chapel in Tulia at 10:20 a.m. with James Jolly officiating. Burial in Connerville Oklahoma follows a Thursday service in Tishomingo. Survivors include brothers Homer Teafatiller and Horace Teafatiller and sisters Ella Weaver Leeda Pleasant and Ruby Nidiffer.
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Tulia
H. J. Chester
Wallace Funeral Home
James Jolly
Crosby Street Church
Homer Teafatiller
Gatesville
Horace Teafatiller
Tulsa
Ella Weaver
Teathart
Leeda Pleasant
Tishomingo
Ruby Nidiffer
Hernandez Services Pend Slaton Man Dies in Lubbock Hospital
Gregory B Hernandez 28 died after an extended illness at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Services are pending at England Funeral Home. Survivors include two sons, Gregory Jr and Samuel, two daughters Medessa and Darlene, his mother Minnie Hernandez, three brothers Raymond David and Frank, and three sisters Julia Cecelia and Oralia Aguirre all of Maton.
Obituaries and Memorial Services in Lubbock Area
Numerous funeral services and death notices across Lubbock and nearby towns honor residents including Carrie Copeland Maude Melvarnee Milt Cinnamon Floyd Hauk J R Whatley Estelle Parrish W P Stephenson Floyd Hill Ida Robinson Edward McGee George Mannix Robert Steffens Marie Wilbur O L Clark David Curry Berner Pace and Lyman Upham. Deaths occurred in local hospitals or at home with services at churches chapels and cemeteries coordinated by local funeral homes and churches.
Accident Injures Lubbock Youth
A 15 year old Lubbock youth, Carlos Salazar of 209 N Avenue O, was hospitalized in serious condition after a car motorcycle crash at 6th Street and Avenue W around 3 45 p m Tuesday. Investigators said Salazar's motorcycle hit one car then spun into another.
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6Th Street
Avenue W
Lubbock
Carlos Salazar
N. Ave.o
Methodist
Salazar
Be Mature A Course of Wisdom and Composure
A reflective verse by Julia C Hyer praising maturity as profit and radiance. It stresses composure as the mark of spirit, ranking above hasty speech and emotional outbursts as the first test of poise and authority.
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Julia C. Hyer
Auto Orphan Going Home
Donna Sue Singleton age 17 months, orphaned by a Jan. 5 head on collision near Shelbyville, heads to Speedwell Tennessee to live with aunt Miss Shirley Singleton and grandmother Hallie Singleton. She is released from Major Hospital to Tennessee doctors after recovering from internal injuries.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Aps
Donna Sue Singleton
Tennessee
Shirley Singleton
Donna Sue
Hallie Singleton
Speedwell
Tenn
Miss Singleton
Singleton
Elk Grove
Grace Odom Dies at 63 in Post Rites Set
Grace Hagood Odom 63, a Post resident for 43 years, died about 2:30 pm Tuesday at Garza Memorial Hospital after a three day stay. Services set for 4 pm today at Hidman Memorial Chapel with ministers from Ranger, Post, and Lubbock churches of God of Prophecy. Burial in Terrace Cemetery under Hadran Funeral Home direction. Survived by two daughters Jessy Curb of Lubbock and Frances Curb of Lubbock, six grandchildren, three sisters Mrs. J R Atkinson, Mrs. John Putman of Post, Mrs. D L Holt of Odessa, and others.
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Copeland
First Baptist Church
Plains
James Mosley
H. A. Tarkington
First Assembly of God Church
Plains Cemetery
Barrett
Brownfield
Terry County
Ida Robinson
First Christian Church
Post
Terrace Cemetery
Hadmian Funeral Home
Robinson
Garza Memorial
Grace Hagood Odom
Garza Memorial Hospital
Hidman Memorial Chapel
Oscar Neudigger
Ranger Church of God of Prophecy
H.L. Smith
Post Church of ‘God of Prophecy
IH. M. Tomlinson
Lubbock
Polaroid Plans Sales Changes in South Africa
Polaroid Corp will continue private sales in South Africa while suspending government orders and forming a task force to improve black positions. A U S protest group named Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement urged a total halt to South Africa sales. VP Tom Wyman said South African government sales were about 100 000 and total SA sales around 1.5 million, under 1 percent of global revenue.
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Cambridge, Mass
APT
Polaroid Corp
South Africa
Polaroid
United States
Pola
Revolutionary Workers ‘Movement
Tom Wyman
Tabloid mail targeting senators alleges Kennedy affair
An aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy says anonymous opponents sent copies of The National Tatler to congressional offices claiming Kennedy spent a night with Italian princess Maria Pia. Kennedy and his press secretary call the allegations false and unverified.
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Washington
Chicago
Maria Pia
Ted Kennedy
Drayne
Kennedy
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Sen. Kennedy
Five Men Arrested in Vacant Beech Avenue House Raid
Police nabbed five Black men after a Beech Avenue search turned up two matchboxes of suspected marijuana, several marijuana sheds and what were believed to be marijuana roaches. Officers chased three men from 2909 Beech Avenue and halted two more attempting to flee by car. Ages ranged from 17 to 20. one suspect flushed items in a bathroom.
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Floyd Price
J. TD
Holdren
Beech Avenue
Henry Jackson
Beech Ave
Price
Supreme Court weighs abortion grounds in first major case
The high court examined whether pregnant women and doctors have rights to abortion amid a District of Columbia law restricting abortions to health preservation. Justices pressed for a clear standard while debating doctor discretion and a woman’s right to decide, with calls to return the case for fact development in the lower court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
District of Columbia
Samuel Huntington
U.S
Solicitor General's Office
D. C
Dorsen
New York
Warren E. Burager
Byron R. White
Harry A. Blackmun
Huntington
Nellis
Bracewell Named Chairman of Texas Water Development Board
Gov. Preston Smith announces Searcy Bracewell of Houston as chair man of the Texas Water Development Board succeeding Marvin Shurbet of Petersburg. Shurbet remains until Dec 30 1973. Smith says proceed with the water plan and tighten spending including a $271 364 cut from the board request and re evaluate plan structure.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Searcy Bracewell
Houston
Texas Water Development Board
Bracewell
Marvin Shurbet
Petersburg
Smith
Shurbet
Texas Water Plan
Eastern Airlines Expands New York Jamaica Routes
Eastern Airlines boosts Caribbean service with daily non stop New York to Montego Bay and Kingston flights and direct Boston to Jamaica via Newark. The carrier has operated Caribbean services from Friendship Airport to Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia for over a year.
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New York
UPI
Eastern Airlines
Jamaica
Montego Bay
Kingston
Boston
Newark
N.J
EAL
Carribbean Island
Friendship Airport
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Arle Robert Romines 74 laid to rest in Plainview
Services for Arle Robert Romines 74 of Plainview were held at the Ninth and Columbia Streets Church of Christ with Gene Polvado and Kelly Newman officiating. Burial followed in Plainview Cemetery. Romines a retired farmer and ginner died Tuesday in Central Plains Hospital. He moved from Oklahoma to Texas in 1931 and to Plainview in 1948. Survivors include his wife Nannie Bell two sons eight daughters two sisters and three brothers plus 32 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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Plainview
Arle Robert Romines
Ninth
Columbia Streets
Church of Christ
Gene Polvado
Kelly Newman
Plainview Cemetery
Wood- Dunning Funeral Home
Romines
Central Plains Hospital
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
Nannie Bell
Donald
San Francisco
Calif
A. L
Austin
Lewis Deel
Calvin
Don Tyler
27Th St
Lubbock
Hannah Laney
36Th St
Cary Ward
Rockford, Tenn
Frank
Leonard
Coney
Weatherford
Roberts Rites Planned After Floydada Resident Dies
Harmon Wesley Roberts 175 died about 1:15 pm Tuesday at Caprock Hospital. Services set for 2:30 pm Thursday at New Salem Primitive Baptist Church with Joe Jackson and Dr. Floyd C. Bradley. Burial Floyd County Memorial Cemetery. Survived by wife, son John, daughter Mrs Travis Janes both of Floydada, sister Mrs Bertha Head Tyler, six grandchildren and a great grandchild.
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Harmon Wesley Roberts
Caprock Hospital
New Salem
John
iTravis Janes
Floydada
Bertha Head
Tyler
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Idaho
Pato Raie
Mrs. Chester
G. B. Hernandez
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Pend
Carrie Alice
Maude Melvanne
Melrose
N.M
Melrose First Baptist Church
Fred Porter
Clovis
Lawnhaven Memorial Garviews
Sherwoml Mortuary
Melivarnee
Clovis’ Memorial Hospital
Milt
Ursuline St
Sanders Memorial Chapel
Peaceful Gardens
Cinnamon
West Texas Hospital
Floyd EF. Hauk
T3rd St
W. W
J. R. Whatley
23Rd St
Broadway Church
Christ Chapel
Horace ‘Coffman
City
Lubbock Cemetery
Whatley
Ini University
Estelle Parrish
Church of the Nazarene
Grassland
Parkish
Albuquerque
W. P. Stephenson
212
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25Th Street Baptist Church
Resthaven Memorial Park
Resthaven-Singleton- Wilson Funeral Home
Stephenson
Floyd Lee Hill
Grinnell St
Flint Avenue Baptist
Afton
Hill
Ralph Cocanougher
55Th St
Methodist Hospital
Cocanougher
Prestressed Structures, Inc
Edward Lee McGee
United Baptist Church
Walter Griffin
Plainview Memorial Park
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
McGee
George T. Mannix
Lubbock and
Crosbyton
Crosbyton Cemetery
Mannix
Whitewright
Robert Edward Steffens Sr
Nazareth
Holy Family Church
Holy Family
Steffens
Marie Wilbur
10Th St
O. L. Clark
David Curry
H. W. Curry
Rt. 5
Berner Pace
Levelland
Saturn Day
Lyman Upham
Seminole
Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park
Tohoka Highway
Woodrow
Saturn
Ee Ie Eeart Pieter FO
Miami
Fla
Grace Odom
Fitnerat
19Th Lubbock
Local Florist
South Plains Professional Florists Association
Water Board
A. R. Romines
H. W. Roberts
Rites
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