Lone Rough Rider Attends 69th Do-Or-Die Meeting
In Las Vegas New Mexico only one surviving Rough Rider attended the 69th annual do-or-die Roosevelt led unit reunion. Eighty seven year old Jesse D Langdon recalled Roosevelt asking if he could ride a horse and swore him in after Langdon answered yes.
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N.M
Teddy Roosevelt
Jesse D. Langdon
Red Oak
N.Y
Roosevelt
Cuba
San Juan Hill
Arthur L. Tuttle
Salinas
Calif
Frank C
Brito
Las Cruces
Rough Riders
Langdon
Medora
N.D
Average 2.8 Percent Car Insurance Hike Backed by Board
Statewide insurance rate hearings in Austin yield 2.8 percent proposed average rise, with industry leaders urging up to 4.9 percent. The Texas State Board of Insurance must set final rates by August 1, affecting 49 territories including Lubbock. Local impact notes liability for Class 1B drivers 25 to 65 without children could climb from 53 to 58 dollars annually, plus higher comprehensive and collision costs.
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Austin
Texas State Board of Insurance
David B. Irons
Texas Automobile Insurance Service Office
Russell Perry
Association of Texas Fire and Casualty Companies
Texas Auto
Fourth of July festivities spread across Lubbock South Plains
Lubbock residents join towns from Muleshoe to Hereford for parades picnics and fireworks as a four day holiday begins. Snyder anticipates about 10000 people while Muleshoe marks a double celebration. Fireworks planned at Buffalo Springs Lake. city offices close. city ordinance restricts fireworks inside town limits with fines.
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Lubbock
South Plains
Muleshoe
Snyder
Hale Center
Lockney
Hereford
Lubbock County
Federal District Court
U. S. District Clerk’s
Chamber of Commerce
Prayer Note From A Lubbock Reader
A reader from Lubbock reflects on distance from faith during societal turmoil. The brief prayer laments drifting from God and acknowledges a late return to seek guidance amid upheaval.
May showers threaten Fourth of July plans on South Plains
A murky Independence Day forecast kept South Plains residents uncertain as unseasonably cool air eased slowly toward normal. Lubbock posted back to back record low maximums while thundershowers threatened picnics and outings, especially in the southern half, with temps expected to rise soon. Meanwhile violent storms roared along a cold front from Maryland to the Carolinas to the Texas Coast bringing heavy rains and hail. Over two inches logged in some areas.
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South Plains
Lubbock
Maryland
Carolinas
Texas
Sirhan Brother Targeted On Pasadena Freeway
Sirhan B. Sirhan's eldest brother Saidallah reports being pursued by seven men in two cars on the Pasadena Freeway at 4 30 a m. They fired two shots, police recovered two bullets from a 38 caliber pistol, one found on his jacket. He avoided a fatal neck wound by leaning away.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
Robert F. Kennedy
Saidallah B. Sirhan
Ant Ste Od
TSS
Sirhan
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Los Angeles
Independent Star News
United States Celebrates Fourth of July With Pageantry Across Nation
Americans will mark Independence Day with nationwide festivities, speeches, and fireworks. Notable events include Johnson at Hemisfair San Antonio, Humphrey at Independence Hall Philadelphia, Civil War re enactments in Gettysburg, and colonial militia salutes in Williamsburg. Reenactments cover Revolutionary War triumphs near Kaskaskia and Pony Express rides from Cheyenne to Cody, plus a Navajo Long Walk remembrance. Governor Rockefeller leads Albany parade. Decatur hosts Spirit of America pageant with fireworks and a black powder anvil shooting demonstration.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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George Rogers Clark
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National
Pony Express
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N.M
Window Rock
Ariz
U.S
Washington Monument
Monument
Nelson A Rockefeller
New York
Albany
Ore
Decatur
Ala
William Harrison
Cargo Plane Crash Kills Eight Horses and Seven People
A British cargo plane carrying racehorses from Deauville to England crashed on landing at London airport, bursting into flames and killing all eight horses aboard along with seven people. The Elizabethan twin piston engined aircraft broke apart, severing tails from two parked jets, with three crew and four others among the dead. The horses included seven mares and a foal destined for an English stud farm. All victims were British.
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London
France
England
BKS Air Transport
Deauville
War toll in six months tops 1967. U S deaths rise
In Saigon, official figures show 9,557 Americans killed in South Vietnam during the first half of the year, surpassing the 1967 total. Weekly casualties declined, with 187 U S deaths last week, and reports of a rocket barrage near Da Nang and a large cache of rockets found near Saigon as U S forces press the war.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Itar Oana
Texas special session ends with tax hikes and liquor defeat
The 60th Legislature’s special session closed with a record 2.5 billion general appropriations bill needing 148.8 million in new taxes to balance. A sales tax rise to 3 percent and auto tax hike pass, plus a 3 million drivers license fund transfer. Gov. Connally’s liquor-by-the-drink plan fails, and he ends as a sidelined figure.
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Austin
Ben Barnes
Preston Smith
House
Senate
Representatives
John Connally
General Revenue
Texas
Connally
City Encephalitis Case Registered in Lubbock 1968
Lubbock reports its first encephalitis case of the season a 6 year old girl from the Cherry Point area east Lubbock is being treated at West Texas Hospital. Dr. David M. Cowgill says it is unclear if the infection is mosquito borne. The City County Health Unit has been notified of the case.
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Lubbock
David M. Cowgill
Cowgill
Cherry Point
East Lubbock
West Texas Hospital
City Board Approves Zoning For Multi Story Offices
The City Planning and Zoning Commission approved a plan permitting a multi story office building at 62nd St and University Ave and a three story retail apartment project at 50th St and Belton Ave. One of eight requests was denied a C 3 commercial strip on 4th Street.
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University Ave
50Th St
Belton Ave
City Planning and Zoning Commission
4Th Street
Toledo and
Vicksburg Avenues
David Casey
University Avenue
Plains National Bank
Casey
Bob Burr
Planning Commission
Weather Lubbock and Vicinity Forecast Today
Cloudy to partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. High in the middle 80s and a low in the low 60s. Southeasterly winds 10 to 20 mph.
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