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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1970
Page
1
Karl Wallenda of the Great Valendas walked a highwire 700 feet above Tallulah Gorge Georgia amid a 35 000 spectator crowd. He paused twice to stand on his head and continued to the far end despite the risk period.
Washington officials released the National Goals Research Staff report urging a middle path to balanced growth into the 1970s and beyond. The 14 member White House think tank called for public discussion of goals and priorities, with Moynihan hoping Congress may hold hearings.
Allied forces opened a new combat base at Kham Duc, an abandoned U S Green Beret camp 1.3 miles from the Laotian border in Vietnam. Airlift operations began after engineers cleared shell craters and wreckage from May 1968 abandonment. The move follows a week of activity as Vietnamese and U S forces reassessed near Da Nang and Spighnaba, amid ambushes and artillery exchanges with North Vietnamese troops.
Lubbock area page notes a planned Appaloosa horse show as a featured attraction at the Panhandle South Plains Fair. Separate items reference pre school screenings, local doctor tributes, and unrest in Ireland over rubber bullets.
Today’s prayer asks God to live for the present, forget the past, count blessings, and not fear the future. The verse ends with the doxology Amen.
Moving day at the Texas Tech campus museum nears completion as staff pack more than thirty years of items. The 5,000 pound pictograph in the basement is being removed with a cable since the elevator cannot handle it.
Two masked men with a pistol stopped a scaled down Great Train Robbery at Bracken Ridge Park in San Antonio Saturday. About 30 passengers aboard were robbed as they chased the fleeing train. one victim was choked and another roughed up before help arrived.
Larry Cheek reports firms in Lubbock recover from tornado damage. A multimillion dollar company rebuilds its showroom bigger and better, while an electric supplier housed in a cotton exchange building prepares to reconstruct. A city surveying error delays new construction.
A Texas and Pacific Railway derailed between Midland and Odessa injuring seven cars and wrecking autos and goods. Heath Furniture Co of 1923 4th St says it will be back in full operation by August 1 after days of long hours repairing and taking payments despite the disaster.
No injuries were reported in a crash around 12 45 a m Saturday near the Midland Odessa Air Terminal on U S 80. About 70 cars and pickups en route to El Paso from Fort Worth were on the two cars that left the track.
Bill Fortenberry became the first mayor of New Deal when he won 43 votes at a Saturday club house election. The New Deal township charter approved earlier filled five alderman seats. Ray Williams ran unopposed for town marshal. Alderman seats 1 through 5 were won by David Williams 35, R. F. Hess 26, Berhl Robertson 36, Bob Shropshire 40, and Ray West 34.
Special to the Avalanche Journal reports a first oil gusher in Motley County eight miles south of Matador spurted 32 feet early Saturday. E B Brooks of Dallas owns and operates the well, leasing the land from W A Fremont. The new field, likely named North Roaring Springs, sits north of proven production in the East and West Roaring Springs fields which contain about 30 small wells.
President Nixon accused Congress of a travesty in its 200.8 billion federal spending ceiling and warned of inflation and a larger deficit. He urged a meaningful cap and criticized funding without adequate revenue, signaling possible veto power and stressing accountability for programs raising taxes and prices.
Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, says he is sure he will go back for another look someday and believes tourists will follow. He now heads NASA and notes the possibility of future space travel, while a weather map section covers Texas conditions and highs near the upper 90s.
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