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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1968
Page
5
News briefs note the Longbotham family will gather at the Seminole Community Building July 2021 for their annual reunion. Other items include traffic and theft charges in Lubbock and surrounding areas, plus local funeral notices and minor injuries in a series of city incidents.
A reflective verse by Julien C Hyer urging pursuit of truth through God inspired rightness. It asserts truth leads to freedom and peace of mind, enduring through adversity and sin. It emphasizes disdain for littleness and wrong as guiding values.
Services for Dr. Ferrell Farrington 67 will be at 3 p.m. today at Forrest Heights Methodist Church with Rev. O A McBrayer officiating. Burial in Resthaven Memorial Park by Rix Funeral Directors. He was a Lubbock dentist, born 1900 in Alba, served in WWII, and survived by wife Toye, daughter Mary Ann Steed, a brother and two sisters.
Bessie Kavada Larimer 73 a Snyder resident for 13 years died at Snyder Hospital after a seven month illness. Funeral services will be Friday at Bell-Seale Chapel with Rev A B Lightfoot officiating. Burial is Hillside Memorial Gardens. Survived by husband George a daughter Mrs Bill Chauncey Snyder a son Marvin E Hubbard Snyder a sister Mrs Ada Gentzell of is and a brother Jim Prather of Muleshoe.
Lagos hosts the new Institute of International Law for Africa to bridge modern and traditional law. The first headquarters sit at the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs on Victoria Island. Founder includes T. O. Elias Nigeria attorney general and former governor of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Conferees set a tentative 1.8 billion authorization for military construction this year. Reese AFB in Lubbock will receive 101000 for one of 22 Texas projects, the smallest Texas allocation. Final authorization awaits future appropriation and Air Force review.
A civil jury in 140th District Court awarded J. D. Hufstedler Truck Co. Inc. a $4,093.39 judgment against Commercial Standard Insurance Co. The verdict came just after 3 p.m. Judge William R. Shaver presided in the absence of Judge Robert H. Bean.
Funeral services for Dayton Sullivan 85 retired paint contractor who died in West Texas Hospital will be at 10 a m Friday in Sanders Memorial Chapel with Tom Gordon minister of Sunset Church of Christ officiating Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park Sullivan a Lub bock resident for 45 years lived at 2006 Ave W native of Denton County moved to Lub bock in 1923 Survivors include a son Wayne Sullivan two daughters Mrs E L Caraway and Mrs M L Stiles a brother Earl Sullivan two sisters and 10 grandchildren
Canadian villagers halted the river dam at the Maine border after protests against odor and fish-killing wastes from Easton plants. A bulldozer breached the center while officials said one plant stopped dumping and the other ceased dumping as well. the river remained unable to support life.
President Johnson will award Gen. William C. Westmoreland a second oak leaf cluster of the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service as commander of U S forces in Vietnam from December 1967 to July 1968. White House press secretary George Christian announced the ceremony. Westmoreland becomes Army chief of staff.
Everett C. McLeary testified before senators that a Chicago policeman arranged bottles in a room near a shooting to falsely suggest liquor and narcotics involvement. The incident at a job training center tied to a $927,341 Office of Economic Opportunity grant targeted members of the Devil's Disciples gang.
Aubrey R. Cartlidge, long time enforcement division chief of the Liquor Control Board, has requested retirement effective August 31 after a critical attorney general report dated June 22. Cartlidge, who turns 65 August 14, remains on the payroll as investigations continue and board action is awaited later this month.
Police reported burglaries in Lubbock with portable TVs stolen from two homes. Herb Kittle said his $90 television disappeared while he slept. E E Penington cited an unlocked door and a broken window with a portable TV and toaster missing valued at $55. Juvenile officers questioned a 15-year-old in a separate $99 cash drawer theft at A R A Rentals with $50 previously taken.
Funeral arrangements for Carroll Lee Hood 37 former Lubbock resident are incomplete at Resthaven Funeral Home. Hood died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack in Thailand while serving with the U S Air Force. His wife and two sons live at Spur during his overseas assignment. He was born in Iowa and served since 1950 with duties in Arabia England Thailand since October 1967. Surviving relatives include his father Ralph Jameson Hood West Des Moines Iowa and four brothers Wayne Des Moines Dean Indianola Miles Pontiac and Paul Newport News. The Spians term noted as a reference to Thespis is mentioned.
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