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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1967
Page
7
The state faces the hottest spell of the season with temperatures reaching the century mark. Presidio reported 107 degrees as readings stayed high statewide. Forecasters expect clear to partly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers in West Texas and parts of the South Plains.
Sunday violence left Walter H. Wilkenson 59 of 715 Old St. wounded by a gunshot in a Grocery store altercation on Avenue H about 6 15 pm a 20 year old man held by police and another man jailed for a drunk charge A 28 year old woman Lila Rodriguez treated for a scalp laceration after a fight at a liquor store near 98th Street and Quirt Avenue Witnesses identified the bottle wielder Three break ins reported with losses including a wedding ring set valued at 150 and coin operated machines at Wagon Wheel Restaurant 1005 Idaleu Rd. A service station theft of oil and change around 100.
Five people were injured in two separate traffic incidents. A rear end collision at 4th Street and College Avenue injured six year old may be a bicyclist and a 75 year old pedestrian, all treated and released. A 9:45 p.m. collision injured three passengers including Paulina Jacobo Rosa Escrilla and six month old Laurie Gray. A 9 p.m. incident left Petra Salsar with head cuts after being struck in an alley. Minor injuries occurred when James Ray Haffner’s bicycle collided with a car near Gary Avenue and 28th Street.
Four boys drown at Lake Falcon in Rio Grande City when they stepped into deep water. Victims are Rudy Garcia six Amarillo. Roberto Gonzalez ten. Rudy Gonzalez eight. Antancio Gonzalez Jr four Rio Grande City sons of Rogelio Garcia Antancio Gonzalez Sr. and families identified. Bodies recovered quickly. revival efforts failed. funeral home in Rio Grande City notified.
Hobbs New Mexico resident Ern est Duane Keck, 26, drowned while seining with a companion near a fenced area by a power plant on Lake Colorado City. The body was recovered about 20 minutes later as strong currents from the plant’s discharge drove it against the fence.
South Korean military and police squads killed three suspected North Korean agents and captured two others in two separate encounters near a coastal area 140 miles southeast of Seoul on Saturday. In Yangnam-Myon they killed two and captured one. in Yongbok they killed one and captured one. No South Korean casualties.
Pasadena AP reports Surveyor 3’s hard landing was blamed on unusually reflective rocks confusing its radar brain. Surveyor 4 will add a magnet and nonmagnetic bar to test for iron and surface adhesion during descent.
Congress returns from a 10 day break to consider a $45 million Senate pay and expenses fund for the current fiscal year, expanding payrolls, adding elevators, increasing long distance allowances, running electricity around the clock, and hiring 46 Capitol Police. The plan frames a new 131 level pay schedule and state population based staff allowances amid broader legislative priorities.
The Congolese government says loyal troops retook Kisangani Bukavu and Kindu as heavy fighting and bloodshed from a mutiny by white mercenaries and Katangese gendarmes ripple through three cities. In 1964-66 western powers orchestrated rescue flights to Stanleyville amid rebel chaos.
Mr and Mrs Richard Terry of 3620 Ave A announce the birth of a son weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces at 2 13 am Sunday in Methodist Hospital. The father works at Lubbock Imported Cars. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Freeman of 2503 Apt 10 Weber Dr report a son born at 12 23 pm Sunday in Methodist Hospital. The father is a construction worker.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arrived to pick up command in Vietnam after Westmoreland’s three year tour. He toured the front south of the DMZ and received word that North Vietnam has unleashed a 152 mm self propelled gun, a long range weapon capable of firing 108 pound shells up to 17 miles, amid Marine-NVA artillery duels near the battlefield.
The battered Con Thien post faces new Soviet mobile 152mm artillery in the demilitarized zone, enabling rapid camouflaged repositioning and complicating U.S. fire. Marines report heavy fighting and claim over 11,000 Communists killed in 1st Corps area since Jan 1 as McNamara visits and weighs troop needs.
North Vietnamese gunners temporarily closed the Dong Ha Marine air base with a rocket barrage, damaging the runway and wounding seven Marines. The base near the DMZ has faced heavy fire for over a week as Marines fought long-range artillery duels along the zone.
A Viet Cong terror squad set off a homemade pellet mine near Saigon's largest U.S. military barracks on a crowded Chinatown street at 7 p.m. killing four Vietnamese civilians and wounding 14 Americans including six women and six children. US military police returned fire after sniper fire erupted, marking the boldest guerrilla raid in months.
White House adviser Walt Rostow said Secretary of Defense McNamara visited Vietnam to assess troop requirements and not to consider halting or expanding the bombing. Rostow stated no change in U S bombing policy was under review and denied any decision to increase forces had been made.
Maggie Wood built a varmint proof henhouse but a bullsnake slipped into the nests. The snake emerged from straw as she retrieved an egg and was chased away with a hoe. Despite the scare Maggie continued to collect daily eggs from the prize hen.
A group begins behind-closed-doors talks on 1968 1969 and 1970 car costs with United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther sending bargaining teams to General Motors Ford and Chrysler. The parties seek wage increases pensions and rules while price changes tied to safety features and labor costs loom over 1968 model rollout.
Oklahoma City police, aided by up to 300 people, planes and boats, scoured over 150 square miles across two counties for 5 year old Judith Ann Elwell who vanished Thursday after a sister saw her nearby. A blue tennis shoe found near an abandoned house is among scant clues as investigators pursue dozens of tips.
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