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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1972
Page
6
Court upsets Texas redistricting plan as reports indicate a challenge to the state House map. Weather notes show wintry conditions affecting travel with area airports reporting varied temperatures across Lubbock Abilene Amarillo and surrounding New Mexico regions.
Lubbock forecasters at Lubbock Regional Airport predicted warmer NM air moving into the region could push temperatures near 70 this afternoon with a high in the low to mid 60s. No precipitation was recorded but fog left a coating of ice on trees and objects mid morning. streets were hazardous though not dangerously icy.
Amid northern Bohemia wreckage doctors reported Vesna’s severe injuries including brain bruising, multiple fractures and internal damage yet she is expected to live. Yugoslav officials cited a bagged bomb causing the DC9’s engine to fail, with survivors scattered across Strbska Kamenice. A separate storm chipped across Texas with ice fog and record warmth in McAllen, while Juliane Koepcke, 17, survived a Peru jungle crash after a Christmas Eve disaster that killed 91 others.
Midland special report on Valerie Brown 17 and Rebecca Brown 15 died in a collision with a Texas and Pacific train near Midland at U S 80 and Bankhead Highway. Funeral services set for 2 p m at Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Survivors include parents Max and Mrs Brown, two brothers Thomas and Ben, and three sisters Natalie Elizabeth and Martha.
A book mystery twists as the writer and Edith Irving deny that Edith and Helga R. Hughes are the same person. The couple, at their Ibiza home, say they face framing and threats from forces of hate while Irving hints at danger and contemplates legal action and further questioning in Switzerland.
The Dallas court’s plan prompts clashes over 1972 redistricting as the Legislature’s prior plan remains favored. Ralph Brock notes the stay likely returns the process to lawmakers with a constitutional plan needed before 1974 elections. Other figures discuss district realignments affecting Price and Purcell.
FDA Commissioner Charles E. Edwards announced regulations to cap saccharin intake at one gram per day, roughly seven 12 ounce diet drinks or 60 tablets. Tests on rats fed high saccharin showed bladder tumors, while those at the limit showed no ill effects. Results, from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will be reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences.
Texas politics reel as a three judge panel's plan for districting faces a Supreme Court stay. Filing fees and election timing remain unsettled while Gov. Smith and Loyd Hacker discuss implications. The stay keeps old election rules in place and signals possible further appeals.
President Nixon pledges a centralized drug crackdown with Ambrose overseeing a unified federal effort. The plan parallels strike forces blending federal and local authority, while citing concerns over police corruption and jurisdictional clashes. Arrests for drug offenses rose 44 percent in 1970, with youth constituting over half. Federal anti drug funding surged from 20.2 to 164.4 million, with a proposed 64.6 million increase to 224 million next year.
Police arrested a 37 year old man at a club on 1700 block of East 4th Street and a 28 year old man at a house on the 2700 block of East 7th Street. Both were found with substances believed to be marijuana and capsules thought to be dangerous drugs.
U S military command reports ten American troops wounded in a flurry of fighting east of Saigon. The 1st Air Cavalry Division troopers faced shelling mine explosions and two brief firefights near Xuan Loc. Officials note conflicting reports amid Tet preparations.
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