White House to mail 700 Luci Johnson Nugent invites
The White House announced invitations will go to 700 personal friends and relatives for the Luci Johnson Pat Nugent wedding on August 6. Envelopes will bear five cent stamps and invitations are a personal rather than state affair, with guests including many out-of-town friends from Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Leslie Carpenter
Avalanche-Journal
Washington Bureau
Ashington
Luci Johnson
Pat Nugent
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Elizabeth Carpenter
Luci
Pat
Nugent
Illinois
Wisconsin
Johnsons
Swelter Continues as Rains Drench South Texas
South Texas saw up to 3 to 5 inches of rain early Wednesday while heat kept nearly 100 degrees in South Plains. A severe thunderstorm alert affected parts of the northern Texas Panhandle, with possible large hail and damaging winds but no tornadoes reported. Temperatures remained hot across the state as showers edged northward from the Gulf Coast.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
South Texas
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Tucumcari
Raton
Jubbock
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ochiltree
Lipscomb
Hansford
Texas
Gulf Coast
Presidio
Soviet Proton 3 launches weigh secrecy in space race
The Soviet Union launched the unmanned Proton 3 laboratory into orbit amid secrecy over its weight. Tass did not disclose the payload mass, but observers guess a multi ton satellite, potentially larger than prior Protons. Analysts note no crew aboard and reference recent US heavy payloads and ongoing manned spaceflight history.
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Avalanche-Journal
Soviet Union
Tass
United States
America
U.S
Alexei Leonov
U.S. Manned Space Center
Houston
Proton
Pavel Belyayev
Russia
Baikonur
Star City
City Apology For Missed Pollution Notice
City officials issue an apology for failing to provide official notification on a pollution report. The item appears in the paper's Page 18, with planning and zoning coverage in Section A.
Water Pollution Forum Aims to Explain Lubbock Area
The Water Pollution and Future Water Supply forum in Lubbock is set for 7 30 p m at the public library. Speakers include Russell Bean Walter Breedlove and Paul Fischer with a film It s Your Decision Clean Water and discuss Buffalo Springs Lake pollution and fishing decline.
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Helubbock League of Women Voters
Buffalo Springs Lake
Lubbock
Russell Bean
The
High Plains Underground
Walter Breedlove
Paul Fischer
Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept
Fischer
Avalanche Journal
Parks and Wildlife Dept
Lubbock Area
Bean
Board
CIA Spy Ad Ends With Happy Husband Twist
A reporter describes how a CIA recruitment approach via a trade magazine ad failed due to his happy marriage. The CIA allegedly sought a candidate willing to abandon family life for two years, prompting interview by phone but no meeting in person. The tale underscores spy job myths and the agency’s supposed confidentiality.
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Evening Star
Ernest A. Ostro
Ostro
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Ann Arbor
Mich
Ostra
CIA Spy
Former Sen Byrd Hospitalized Amid Declining Health
The 79 year old Virginia Democrat and long time Senate Finance chair is near death after a steady deterioration and coma. His son Richard Byrd said doctors report no hope of regaining consciousness and that disclosure of illness was withheld to avoid alarming him.
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Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Virginia
Democratic Party
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Harry F. ‘Byrd Jr
D-Va
Richard Byrd
a_ publishing
Apple Kingdom
Cutback 1967 Autos Slated Early
Detroit July car output will dip to 464000 units a Ward s Automotive report due to early model changeovers. August production drops to 173000, lowest since August 1963, with September rebounding to 703000. Early sales pace in late June trails 1965 by about 10 percent.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Detroit
Ward's
Cadillac
Mustang
Red China accuses Tokyo over aid to North Vietnam
Red China on Thursday accused Russia of spreading a groundless rumor to betray world opinion that aid goods to North Vietnam are stalled along the Chinese border.
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RED China
Tokyo
Viet Nam
Secret anti missile breakthrough aids U S raids on Hanoi
American pilots used a secret method to dodge surface to air missiles and attack 16 launching sites in North Viet Nam in a record bombing day. Spokesmen call the breakthrough significant as U S planes downed 12 to 14 missiles and prove the SAM system can be nullified. In ground fighting, the 7th Division and allies overwhelmed Viet Cong depots in the Mekong Delta, with heavy casualties and large seizures including medical supplies from Thach Thoi.
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Avalanche Journal News Services
AIGON
North Viet Nam
U.S
7Th Division
Mekong Delta
Delta
Thach Thoi
Ken Hoa
South China Sea
Saigon
Viet Nam
Tass
Hanoi
Air Force
UPI
Frank PD. Moruzzi
Agawam
Mass
FAC
Reds TIred Ball Says Reds Tired in Viet Nam War Weariness
Acting Sec. of State George W. Ball said North Viet Nam shows war weariness and no evidence of Chinese intervention. He noted Hanoi’s recent reports are encouraging yet warned against undue optimism. Ball said observers detect greater weariness at home and that a political settlement could come, but cautioned no firm decision.
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B. Ashington
UPI
Sec
George W. Ball
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Ball
Hanoi
Balli
Haiphong
Prayer Note Seeks Mercy and Forgiveness
A devotional line requests God’s mercy to guide actions and character and asks for forgiveness of all sins in a concise anonymous prayer.
Downtown facelift eyed for parking meter poles in Lubbock
City leaders and business groups plan to dress 1094 parking meter poles with artificial flowers baskets flags and trash receptacles to create a facelift for downtown Lubbock A 12 member committee will work out details and six or seven uses for the poles were suggested including flowers baskets and signs to welcome visitors.
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Achinery
Lubbock
W. D. (Dub) Rogers Jr
Downtown Merchants Association
Lubbock Development Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rogers
Chicago
el Dorado
Ark
Jaycees
Downtown
Weather Map Page 12-A Lubbock area forecast hot and fair
The weather map shows a hot day in the Lubbock vicinity with fair to partly cloudy sky conditions today and tonight. Highs near the upper 90s, lows around 70, and winds from the south and southwest at 10 to 20 mph. The report includes hourly estimates and a 98 degree maximum with a 70 degree minimum for the day. Humidity peaks around 61 percent.
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Aim S&s
Abilene
el Paso Albuque
Houston
Amanita
Tatlas
Rosw
Denver
Walta
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