Draft Lottery Set for Early August Amid Draft Deadlock
The Selective Service plans a lottery in early August, likely August 5, to determine the order of call for 19 year olds and others eligible for next year. Congress delay halts induction of 16,000 men and up to 500,000 remain eligible under the expired act.
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Washington
Congress
Selective Service
Ing
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Yvoung
Defense Department
Nixon
Ground Broken For New Lubbock YMCA Facility
A groundbreaking ceremony on 24th St and Avenue P launches a $386,959 YMCA facility in Lubbock. The project includes an Olympic pool, two handball courts, a junior gym, an exercise room, showers, locker rooms, and administrative offices, with leaders from the YMCA, churches, and local groups praising community support.
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YMCA
24Th St
Avenue P
Hardy Clemons
Second Baptist Church
C. McMinn
Denton Rigsby
John Whitcomb
Ren
de Lubboc
Chamber Emmerce
TY Myers
United Fund of
Lubbock
Myers
McMinn
Clearing House of Lubbock
United Fund
Morris Wallace
Coffee Conner
Rex Aycock
L. W. Evans
R. T. Schreiner
J. Carl Hudson
Gary V. King
Ulysses Kelly
Styles
Roberts
Double eliminations slated in Lubbock soap box derby
The Lubbock Soap Box Derby will use double eliminations for the first time this year. Forty to fifty six boys, ages 11 to 15, will race under new rules starting Saturday at Avenue A between Erskine and Municipal Drive. The winner earns a $500 savings bond and an all expenses paid trip to Akron Ohio for the national contest. Spectator turnout is expected to rise with the new Saturday night schedule.
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Lubbock
Avenue A
Erskine
Municipal Drive
Holland Graves
Graves
Akron
Ohio
Hunger strike by Soviet Jews ends in Moscow clampdown
Police halted a hunger strike by Jews seeking emigration to Israel in Moscow. About 30 detained may be forcibly returned to Georgia. 50 to 100 militia entered the central telegraph building near the Kremlin at 4 a.m. The 44 in the hall were moved to sobering stations. 10 released after warnings of criminal prosecution. A Georgian Jew held over travel papers. one Ukrainian female striker flagged for possible mental treatment.
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Moscow
UPI
Israel
Georgian
Kremlin
Georgia
Nona Yanovskaya
Ukraine
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National Weather Service
NOAA
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
New
iLake Ransom Canyon
Chevrolet Co
Toronto
Bentley's
Jett Radio Shack
Parative
Fier
Caprack
Kresge's
Town & Country Shopping Center
University Blvd
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