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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1966
Page
3
A 1966 AP column argues inflation costs bite on groceries and services while wages rise. It notes higher interest and loan demand, yet savers gain with government bonds and bank accounts paying more. The piece highlights mixed effects on homes, stocks, and general living standards.
Allen Academy a preparatory school and junior college for boys invites applications for a limited number of vacancies in the 1966-67 school year. Classes start with the seventh grade and run through the second year of college. The program focuses on disciplined study habits and individual guidance to develop academic achievement, character, leadership, and self discipline. If your son is moral, eager to learn, and willing to follow a planned program, contact the Director of Admissions for full information.
The new eight million dollar international airport at Acapulco Mexico has begun operation to serve growing Pacific coast air travel. The American National Automobile Association reports average take-off weights per adult at 165 pounds in winter and 160 pounds in summer with children under 12 averaged at 80 pounds.
In an interview Braniff International honors a flyer who pursued every color flight to New York. He details chasing orange after yellow green beige blue ochre and others, finally achieving the orange milestone and earning Braniff’s Rainbow Award. Braniff promotes colorful Dallas to New York service with varied color flights.
Levelland voters approved a 987000 bond issue by 472 to 110 to expand facilities across the district. The plan raises taxes by five cents per 100 valuation and funds a new vocational school, new classrooms, and renovations at multiple campuses including Central Elementary becoming a junior high.
Democratic and Republican leaders described the White House briefing on Viet Nam as generally optimistic and hopeful. President Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and Richard Helms attended, with Rusk reporting from Asia and noting both battlefield gains and no peace talks from Hanoi.
Dallas Police Chief Charles Batchelor announced major personnel moves, transferring Lt. Jack Revill from intelligence to the personnel bureau amid controversy over a note about the Kennedy assassination. The memo allegedly cited an FBI agent on Oswald and the Communist link, a dispute FBI and Dallas police had only recently repaired. The police administrative assistant post is abolished and Capt. W F Dyson will head a new bureau combining internal affairs and public information.
Homer G. Maxey and the Goodacres and Elliotts seek a combined 15 million dollars in a civil suit in 72nd District Court against Citizens National Bank of Lubbock and associates. The case ties maxey led Plaza Building Corp holdings to properties in Lubbock and across four states. Maxey asks 12.58 million in damages while the Goodacres and Elliotts seek 2.54 million. Trial date undecided.
Shallowater Schools Board set the 1966 board of equalization meeting for Aug. 4 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the new junior high building, and a budget hearing for Aug. 18 at 10:30 a.m. in the superintendent's office. Named to serve on the equalization board are Earl Elliott, Bert Deavours and M. J. Williams.
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