04 Jul 1966
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1966
Page
1
Lubbock area news highlights include a five year urban renewal story plus a purse theft intrusion and assault on a local woman. Also mentions Braves, Cloninger, and San Francisco exhibition.
The Nation’s highway deaths rose during the July Fourth weekend with estimates from the National Safety Council of 510 to 610 fatalities overall. Texas reported 85 traffic deaths, leading states, as two fatal crashes in distant areas claimed eight lives locally, including three men near Clarendon on Texas 70.
AP reports a series of light quakes along the San Andreas near Paso Robles and observations of the fault moving north. Scientists note 5.6 magnitude quakes with fractures along a 20 mile section, yet warn LA would take millions of years to reach San Francisco at current creep rates.
Ten people died in a head on crash on the Papago Indian Reservation 30 miles west of Tucson. Victims identified include Felix Reine and his wife Lois and son Douglas from Sells, and several Sells residents with no survivors. Patrol said both drivers may have been in the Reino and Felix cars. The crash on Arizona 86 centered near Sells with a storekeeper notifying police after witnesses confirmed all occupants were dead.
A Harvard Medical School study reported in JAMA finds nonwhite male drivers in states without regular auto inspections face over twice the fatal accident risk. They note older cars, lower incomes and aging fleets drive higher danger, with race and age as factors. Between 1950 and 1960 fatality trends rose in noninspection states.
Sunny hot Fourth forecast as Lubbock counts on pools parks and police. Police logged over 150 fireworks complaints Sunday while recreation areas ran normally. Many businesses close and July Dollar Day delayed. Major urged cautious driving after nine injuries in city crashes. Independence Day events planned in Hale Center Muleshoe Snyder and Stamford with Make Freedom Really Ring across 20,000 communities.
The Crosbyton Lockney and Hale Center communities join in a Liberty Bell memorial bells event. Buffalo Lakes hosts a large fireworks show at 9 p.m. City parks and pools open for holiday reunions and picnics at Mackenzie State Park. Lubbock Downtown Lions Club plans its annual fish fry.
The nation endures a record heat wave as New York tops 102 and LaGuardia hits 106. Harrisburg reaches 107, Philadelphia 104, and Atlantic City 104. Lubbock and Wichita Falls log 102, Amarillo and others exceed 100. Torrential Texas rains ease some readings last night.
Amid claims of expanded aid to North Vietnam from the Soviet Union and China, New China News Agency and Peking broadcasts said the United States has no bounds in assisting Hanoi. China warned of possible ground force action in Laos and accused Thailand and South Vietnam personnel of infiltrating Laos. The U S spokesman in Washington dismissed the statements as reiterations of prior pledges.
An old West Texas Independence Day custom called shooting the anvil drew on powder to explode anvils for loud Fourth of July noise. The stunt, warned as dangerous, relied on improvised fuses like celluloid collar strips and was a pioneer era tradition.
The British tanker Alva Cape was sunk by a Coast Guard cutter after a three hour gun barrage and five inch shells. Seventeen seamen died in initial fires, with 37 total fatalities amid two blazes and a collision near New York Harbor.
OCR read shows scattered timing and humidity data with references to a day and evening schedule. Contains numbers 92 1 pm and 9 pin e in 1 pom and 342 am, plus humidity values 30 77 and 40 percent. Overall the fragment reflects a weather and time log with unclear events.
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