Lubbockites Split Over Daylight Saving Time
A random survey of Lub bock residents and business people shows mixed views on daylight saving time after several weeks of observance. Drive-in theaters restaurants and grocers report mixed effects while housewives favor the extra daylight for yard work and gardening. One critic named Fred Ashmore complains the change disrupts schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Fred Ashmore
N. Kimberly
Lubbockites
War Thought Worthwhile Investment by a Texan in Vietnam
Texan at war Sgt. Thompson of Lubbock says the Vietnam effort is a worthwhile investment and necessary. He designed hangars as a site development specialist at Tan Son Nhut after an earlier stint in Saigon teaching English to Vietnamese children. He hopes to resume architecture studies after the Air Force, and is a 1965 Lubbock High School graduate, son of Elmer R. Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny L
Thompson
U.S
Vietnam
Air Force
Lubbock
United States
Tan Son Nhut
Pacific Air Forces
Southeast Asia
Saigon
Texas Tech
University of Delaware
University of California
Elmer R. Thompson
E. Baylor St
Sgt
Lubbock High School
Preston Smith to keynote St Marys of the Plains Hospital groundbreaking
Lt Gov Preston Smith to speak at the 11 am groundbreaking for the 4.5 million four story St Marys of the Plains Hospital at 24th Street and Nashville Avenue. Area Builders Inc. holds the $4,529,800 contract. Brasher Goyette and Rapier are the architects. construction is underway with ceremonies led by Bob Nash and Francisco Hernandez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Neelley
Avalanche-Journal
Preston Smith
St. Mary of the Plains Hospital
24Th Street
Nashville Avenue
Area Builders, Inc
Brasher, Goyette and Rapier
19Th St
Bob Nash
Lubbock
Municipal Novelty Concert Orchestra
Franciso G. Hernandez
Jack Washington
St. Paul's On the Plains Episcopal Church
W. D. Rogers Jr
A. W. Bronwell
Smith
Austrian Scientist Joins Texas Tech Engineering Faculty
Dr Karlheinz Seeger director of the Boltzmann Institute Vienna will join Texas Tech electrical engineering Sept 1 on an NSF visiting foreign scientist grant. He will teach one course guide seminars and direct research on secondary breakdown effects and solid state electronics before returning Feb 1 1969. He holds dual citizenship in West Germany and Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karlheinz Seeger
Boltzmann Institute
Vienna
Austria
Texas Tech
National Science Foundation
Seeger
University of Vienna
Tech
Europe
Russell H. Seacat Jr
Physical Electronics
West Germany
Lake Meredith water fuels Amarillo Lubbock tensions
Amarillo protests Lake Meredith water over odor taste and salt. Lubbock buys CRMWA allocations from Plainview and Pampa to meet demand, while Amarillo seeks to abandon Meredith and return to well water. City officials debate price and supply as underground reserves are conserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
City of
J. Ernest Stroud
Lake Meredith
Lubbock
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
CRMWA
Plainview
Pampa
Josing Lake
Meredith Water
Gordon W. Willis
Save
C¢Uty
Sam Wahl
Wahl
Glass Bottles and Jars Dominate U S Market in 1967
New York reports that over 75 billion glass bottles and jars were used in 1967, packaging everything from catsup to caviar. About 33 billion were newly made, while 42 billion trips came from returnable bottles, with averages of 16 to 33 trips depending on product.
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New York
UPI
United States
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
GCMI
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ST. Mary OF the Plains
Charles Paul Rust
Rex
Albuquerque
South Vietnam
Cpl
Richard Rust
Henry Mancini
Sergio Mendes
Dunlap's
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
The
Associated Press
H. A
Hap) Padgett Jr
R. H
Bob) Brummal
Development Council
Mildred Montgomery
Hospital Personnel Council
Maureen
Sisters of St. Joseph of Texas
Padgett
Joe Arrington
Tom Battin
Anna Riddel
Charles Jones
Marshall Pennington
Joe Bryant
J. T. Talkington
Eli Urbanovsky
John Hughes
Tech Post
Nelson A. Rockefeller
San Francisco
Stroud
John Suff
California
Elastikord
Jamaica
Caprock
Town & Country
50Th
Elgin
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