McNamara Announces U.S. Troop Buildup to Vietnam
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said 20 000 to 30 000 more U S troops will be sent to Vietnam within 90 days. He stressed reserves would not be called and the current force could reach the 480 000 cap, with the Pentagon listing 464 000 in theater this week.
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United Press International
Ashington
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Johnson
McNamara
United States
Gnanding
Wyrnerssap
Pentagon
Zone
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rusk
Dean Rusk
South Vietnam
Bee McNamara
Jailhouse Therapy Endorsed to Curb Youth Delinquency
Lubbock area director of Youth Services backs a jailhouse therapy program as a strategy to reduce juvenile delinquency. The item appears in a local news roundup with other notices and feature items from Page 1.
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Lubbock, Area
City Council agenda highlights 42 items and rate hikes
The meeting includes a public hearing on renaming College Avenue and considers raises to city bus and natural gas rates. Pioneer Natural Gas seeks higher charges, raising a typical monthly bill by 72 cents and boosting regional net income. bus fares would add five cents per ride.
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College Avenue
Lubbock
Th Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Pioneer Natural Gas Co
C. I
Stony) Wall ofAmarillo
Gar Company
Walls
Texas Railroad Commission
Bea
City. Council
Surveyor 4 Launch Delayed to Friday Morning
Cape Kennedy AP report states NASA postponed the Surveyor 4 moon mission after a rocket problem. Engineers ordered removal of Surveyor 4 from the booster to access the area for inspection and repair ahead of Friday planned liftoff.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
America
Moon
Fukinh Thanmenhtiam
Red Carpet Celebration Announces Swisher County Birthday
Tulia plans a red carpet weekend as Swisher County marks its 17th birthday. Susan Kay Logan of Lubbock, Miss Texas, will walk Tulsa’s red carpet Saturday. One hundred twenty-five Tulsa firms extend red carpet from doors to curbs across many locations.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Tulia
Swisher County
Tulsa
Plains
Tule Canyon
Rains reach six inches as South Plains storms drench area
A cool front triggered hail laced thunderstorms across the South Plains. Four to six inch rains drenched Floydada Petersburg and surrounding areas while Lubbock saw only a trace. Flash flooding disrupted power as the line of storms moved east toward the Caprock.
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Dave Knapp
Avalanche-Journal
Solent
South Plains
Amarillo
Lubbock
Floydada
Petersburg
U. S. 87
Hale
Virginia State Police Clash With Rioters at Newport News Shipyard
State Police used nightsticks and riot dogs to disperse about 1,000 demonstrators outside Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. on a Wednesday night. Bottles flew and firecrackers exploded as troops and police dogs scattered the crowd into side streets. The clash followed a refusal to disperse at the front gates of the massive shipyard.
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Newport News
UPI
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co
Alphabetic neurosis linked to late-name users health risk
In Bristol a London hospital study finds adults with last names starting from S to Z face higher ulcer and heart-attack risk due to “alphabetic neurosis.” Based on 10-year mortality data, consultant Weston says waiting for names to be called raises stress, moroseness, and may shorten life by about 12 years for the late-letter group.
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Ristol
England
Medical Association
Trevor
Weston
London Teaching Hospital
Prayer for Truth and Humility in Daily Life
A reader offers a brief plea asking for deliverance from false pride and superficial living. The speaker seeks sincerity in speech and action, urging honest intent in daily conduct.
Building On Avenue G Destroyed In Three Alarm Fire
A three alarm blaze destroyed a building in the 800 block of Avenue G near downtown Lubbock late Wednesday night. An explosion blew out the east wall of the Keith Martin freight sales and National Cylinder Gas Co. storage building, with damage estimated over $80,000 and spectators endangered.
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Phil Hamilton
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Avenue G
Keith Martin
National Cylinder Gas Co
Asst
Jack Hays
Swift & Co
Martin
A. C. Black
Gas Company
Columbia Reported To Reveal New Smoke Filter
Columbia University will announce a method to reduce the health hazard of cigarette smoking by rights to a new filter that reportedly cuts tar and nicotine intake by two thirds. Major tobacco stocks rose on the news as universities plan further medical research.
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Associated Press
York
Columbia University
Columbia
New York Stock Exchange
Aynolds Tobacco
Lorillard
American Tobacco
Liggett & Myers
Robert Strickman
Allied Testing Laboratories
Hillsdale
N.J
Strickman
U.S
Washington
John W. Gardner
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Congress
Rioters Battle Hong Kong as British Troops Falter
Chinese mobs in Kowloon and across the harbor raged through Hong Kong burning buses taxis and cars attacking police. British Army troopers joined police in countering the violence with shotguns and carbines leaving one rioter dead and several wounded. The government imposed severe water rationing and warned a new phase of violence and terror may unfold as Red China faces the colony on the doorstep of Peking.
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Associated Press
Ong Kong
Hong Kong
Red China
David R. Holmes
Holmes
Legislative Council
Partly cloudy with scattered storms for Lubbock area
Weather map notes from Page 7-A forecast partly cloudy conditions in Lubbock and vicinity with widely scattered thunderstorms mainly in the afternoon and evening. Highs in the mid 80s, overnight lows in the mid 60s, winds 10 to 20 mph, gusty near storms, 20 percent rain chance. Maximum 92, humidity 73 percent, minimum around 31 percent.
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Lubbock
U. S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Minumum Enites
Bun Jay
Bun
Houston
Dallas Oswell
Denver
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