Subdivision Tricks Cut Subsidy Impact on Northern States
The Agriculture Department forecasts about 2.7 billion in federal payments for cotton wheat and feed grains this year down 600 million from 1970. New limits cap payments at 55000 per crop or 165000 total per farmer group. The Washington Post reports Eastland and John Wayne subdivide holdings to keep subsidies, leasing to others to claim payments.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Washington Post
Sen
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
John Wayne
Eastland
Senate Agriculture Committee
Mississippi
Post
Wayne
Airman Charged in Clovis Park Shooting Death
A murder charge was filed Monday in Clovis against Andre E. Simmons 22 an airman from Cannon Air Force Base in connection with a shooting that killed Kenneth R. Askew 19 of Texico in a crowded city park. Simmons also faced weapons charges along with fellow airman John Allen Jr. 21. Two other airmen Alan Mills 19 and Caryn R Mills 19 were charged with aggravated assault.
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Jegrand Clovis
Andre E. Simmons
Cannon Air Force Base
Kenneth R. Askew
Texico
Simmons
John Allen Jr
Canmon Afb
Alen
Caryon RR. Mills
Ernest Williams
Cannon [Afb Hospital
Allen
Clovis
Mills
Askew
Steed-Todd Funeral Home
Battle of the Boredom helps Lubbock firemen conquer day
In Lubbock area coverage readers learn how city firemen battled a dull crisis in a feature titled Battle of the Boredom. The report lists activites across study work and recreation as services offered by the department.
Morning Prayer Exhorts Lift Toward Heaven
A reader offers a brief, earnest prayer asking to rise from sin and corruption. The petitioner seeks to walk and talk with God and honors the belief that Heaven was prepared by Christ's sacrifice.
Crisis Seen In Size Of Work Load
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger warned that the Supreme Court’s quality will deteriorate if its workload is not reduced. In his State of the Judiciary address to the American Bar Association, he urged self regulation within the legal profession to avoid outside controls.
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United Press International
New York
Warren E. Burger
Supreme Court
State of the Judiciary
American Bar Association
Burger
Burger urges nine justices role limits court reform
Chief Justice Burger warns the Supreme Court must handle about 4 000 filings annually, up from earlier decades, rejecting enlarging the court. He calls for stricter legal profession discipline and careful reexamination of standards to protect the public amid corporate abuse in legal services.
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Supreme Court
Burger
ABA
Tom C. Clark
Gov Preston Smith hints at 1972 gubernatorial bid
Gov Preston Smith said he is not ready to announce a run for governor but has hinted at it. After a ground breaking ceremony in Navasota he told reporters he plans to run in 1972, yet insisted he has said all along he would run for governor if he runs.
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College Station
Preston Smith
Navasota
Smith
After Long Holiday Business As Usual Due In Area Today
South Plains residents return to work after a three day Fourth of July break with clearance sales planned. Weather during the holiday was sunny with blue skies and scattered thundershowers. Several area cities including Snyder Slaton Muleshoe Olton and Friona completed Independence Day festivities with strong turnout.
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Don Vandiver
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
South Plains
Snyder
Slaton
Muleshoe
Olton
Friona
Father smothers 3 year old in East German escape bid
In Feisenstadt Austria an East German couple fleeing to West fell from a truck. The father, alarmed by border guards and the crying child, pressed his hand over the boy’s mouth and suffocated him. Austrian guards found the child limp in the father’s arms after the escape attempt aborted.
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Feisenstadt
Austria
Salable Skill Aids Staying Out Convicts Train As Divers
In Chino California inmates at Chino State Prison are trained as deep sea divers as a salable and challenging path to freedom. Robert Howard runs the program with an $925 monthly pay cut and an $80 000 federal grant backing three training tanks a decompression chamber and related facilities built by inmates and private donations. Guards are barred from the building and the class travels with only Howard and an assistant. The program hinges on peer discipline as inmates fear getting left behind and strive to avoid returning to prison after release.
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Chino
Calif
Chino State Prison
Robert Howard
Grant
California ‘Institution
Howard
Lubbock Buffalo Springs Lake Fireworks Sets Crowd Record
Lubbock’s Buffalo Springs Lake fireworks drew a record 32 400 attendees Sunday night, per lake manager Jim Segrest. He cited paid admissions season passes and other sources as the basis and noted earlier estimates ranged from 27 000 to 38 000. In Clovis the holiday events at Leon Williams Stadium also drew full capacity but exact totals were not released.
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Lubbock
Buffalo Springs Lake
Jim Segrest
Segrest
Clovis
Joe
Maddox
First Tropical Storm Arlene Forms Off NC Coast
Tropical storm Arlene, the season's first, quickly intensifies with 50 mph winds off the North Carolina coast. The National Hurricane Center, noting stronger winds and falling pressure from NRP data, places the center about 250 miles south of central Long Island and predicts a path near or east of Nantucket.
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Miami
UPS
Arlene
North Carolina
National Hurricane Center
Navy
Long Island
Nantucket Island
Hurricane Center
Holiday Road Death Toll Surges Across Nation
The Independence Day weekend saw traffic fatalities exceed the National Safety Council estimate, with 580 deaths and a total violent toll of 817 reported by late Monday. A council spokesman called the weekend disastrous as final counts awaited, with drownings and plane crash deaths contributing to the totals.
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Avalanche Journal News Services
National Safety Council
Council
Texas heat peaks at 104 across cities amid thundershowers
Record highs hit 104 in Lubbock and other Texas cities as a heat wave continued. Forecasters expected more of the same with widespread 100s noted in Wichita Falls Wink Childress Abilene Midland and San Angelo while storms brought scattered rain totals and cooled pockets.
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Texas
Lubbock
National Weather Service
Mercury
South Plains
Weather Service
Morton
Crosbyton
Brownfield
Slaton
Idalon
Ralls
Reese Air Force Base
Meadow
Childress
Levelland
NWS
Wichita Falls
Wink
Abilene
Midland
Mineral Wells
San Angelo
Waco
Dallas
Man of the Year Honors Go to Cotton Promoter Donald A Johnson
Donald A Johnson of Lubbock executive vice president of Plains Cotton Growers Inc is named Man of the Year in Texas Agriculture for 1971 by the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association He is nominated by the Lubbock district agents and will be honored at the association meeting August 23 in Wichita Falls Johnson a Hamlin native and Texas Tech graduate 1955 serves as an alternate National Cotton Board member and trustee of the High Plains Research Foundation He attended the Paris textile machinery show in 1968 and was named secretary of See CITY Page 8.
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Donald A. Johnson
Lubbock
Plains Cotton ‘Growers Inc
Texas Agriculture
Johnson
Texas County Agricultural Agents Association
Hopkins
Paul Herschler
Sulphur Springs
TCAAA
Association
Wichita Falls
Hamlin
Texas Tech
National Cotton Board
Cotton Inc
National Cotton Council
High Plains Research Foundation
Weather Map Page 12 C Lubbock Vicinity Forecast
Partly cloudy and hot through today and Wednesday with highs near 100. Low temperatures in the low 70s. Light southerly winds expected today.
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Lubbock
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