Mink Collar Coat Stolen From Lubbock Store
A beaver shark mink collar coat valued at $475 disappeared from Ski bell's at 116 Broadway. Theft occurred between 10 a.m. Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday as store employees were unable to pinpoint the time.
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Skibell
Paul Valencia
Valencia
William A. Harrod
56Th St
California
Ruth Shirley
10Th St
8Th St
Roscoe Wilson School
25Th St
Henry Hughes
Joe Westbury
Enco
Parkway Drive
Monterey Shop Promotes Arch Cushioned Clinic Shoe
A Downtown Monterey shop offers smartly styled cotton wear with wear finish and promotes the Clinic Shoe with arch cushioning in the softest finish. The event takes place Thursday at the Monterey location.
Services planned for O B Sullivan in Smyer
O B Sullivan, 41, died after illness at home and was pronounced at West Texas Hospital Lubbock. Funeral at Smyer Baptist Church at 3 p.m. with Rev. James Fuller and Rev. J H Williams officiating. Burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. Survived by wife Freda two daughters Kitty Kelly, parents, sister Robbie Sullivan. Pallbearers named.
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SMYER
O. B. Sullivan
Smyer Baptist Church
James Fuller
J. H. Williams
Halfway Methodist Church
Resthaven Memorial Park
Rix Funeral Directors
Sullivan
West Texas Hospital
Lubbock
Woodson
Union Oil Co
California
Masonic Lodge
Levelland
Freda
Kitty
Kelly
O. B. Sullivan Sr
Robbie Sullivan
Harold Hyman
Robert Schultz
Weldon Milsap
Bill Thompson
W. F. Brown Jr
Henry W. Thompson
Vulgar Call Scheme Targets Lubbock Women
Lubbock police report three women endured 15 minutes or more of obscene calls Wednesday as a supposed telephone company agent traced the line. A Latin American man spoke crude language and a second man claimed company affiliation. Police say the caller was not a real employee, though tracing devices exist if victims seek aid.
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Lubbock
Earl Eubanks
Telephone Company
Eubanks
Fire Damages Buildings Across 34th Street Attic Blaze
A daytime fire in the attic of a 1900 block 34th Street building caused heavy damage to the structure and smoke damage to ten businesses including Debutante Beauty Salon at 1928 34th Street. Fire officials blamed the blaze on a ceiling origin around 1 p.m. The building owner is W. J. Settle of Abernathy.
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34Th Street
Debutante Beauty Salon
34Th St
W. J. Settle
Abernathy
Fort Worth and
Denver Railway
2243Th St
Universal Carloading, Inc
Woman could lose role as treasurer after nine-month vacancy
An 18 year tradition could end as Kathryn Granahan’s retirement leaves the Treasury post without a woman incumbent. William T. Howell, deputy treasurer, has been acting treasurer since October and is recommended for the $25,890 yearly post.
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Joseph R. Coyne
Washington
United States
Kathryn O’hay Granahan
Congress
Philadephia
Ury Department
Howell
Granahan
Post Department
Enly
Senate
Civil Service
Maurine Neuberger
Dore
Genevieve Blatt
Internal Affairs
Pennsylvania
Marjorie Lawson
District of Columbia
Henry D. Keith Dies at 78 in Lubbock
Henry D. Keith 78 of 4309 17th Lubbock died after a long illness at West Texas Hospital. A Robey, Tex., migrant, he worked for South Plains Monument Co. until 1962 retirement and belonged to Parkway Nazarene Church. Sanders Funeral Home handles arrangements. Survivors include wife Cleo, six sons Vernon Roy Dwain J D Waldo Melvin, three daughters, two sisters, 25 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
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Henry D. Keith
Lubbock
West Texas Hospital
Robey
Tex
Keith
South Plains Monument Co
Parkway Nazarene Church
Sanders Funeral Home
Cleo
Vernon
Roy
Mount Pleasant
Dwain
Dallas
Florence Rekers Funeral Today
Funeral services for Florence Rekers 66 are set for 1 30 p m at Sanders Memorial Chapel with Rev Houston Hodges presiding. The body goes to Buffalo N Y for Elm Lawn Cemetery graveside rites Friday morning. Survivors include sister Helen and brothers R G Rekers Howard Rekers and Paul E Rekers.
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Florence Rekers
Sanders Memorial
Houston Hodges
Presbyterian
Texas Tech
Buffalo
N. Y
Elm Lawn Cemetery
Rekers
67Th St
Methodist Hospital
Chicago
Lubbock
Rochester
Helen Rekers
R. G. Rekers
Mrs. Addie Mae Williams Funeral Friday in Plainview
Mrs Addie Mae Williams 80 long time Plainview resident died Wednesday after a short illness. Funeral service 2 p m Friday at Trinity Methodist Church with Rev Russell McAnally officiating burial in Plainview Cemetery directed by Lemons Funeral Home. Survivors include daughter Mrs W N Kunkel two sons Olen and Melvin two brothers and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Plainview
Addie Mae Williams
Trinity Methodist Church
Russell McAnally
Marshall Rhew
First Methodist
Lemons Funeral Home
Johnson picks new envoy to Thailand
President Johnson named Leonard Unger as ambassador to Thailand succeeding Graham Martin who returns to the State Department. Unger, 49, a former deputy chief of the Bangkok embassy, is fluent in Thai and among the few officials with Thai language ability.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Leonard Unger
Thailand
Unger
Graham Martin
State Department
Bang
Flipped Tractor Fatal to Youth Corps Member in Waco
A tractor flipped during a Neighborhood Youth Corps program at James Connally Technical Institute in Waco fatally injuring 17 year old John Barnett. Instructors were on a lunch break when the accident occurred, according to James Connally staff.
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WACO
John Barnett
James Connally Technical Institute
Robert M. Spillman
Derrick Mishap Kills Area Man in Gaines County
A toppled oil well derrick killed 27 year old Robert Ray Phillips of Andrews on Tuesday afternoon at a Gaines County site 33 miles northeast of here. Phillips, who moved from Downey California six weeks ago, died at the scene and funeral services are pending. He worked for Carl Ham Well Servicing Co. with coworkers escaping injury. Survivors include his wife a stepson and two stepdaughters and several siblings in California and Arizona.
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Andrews
Here
Gaines County
Robert Ray Phillips
Downey
Calif
Phillips
W. E. Cox Jr
Seminole
Singleton Funeral Home
Carl Ham Well Servicing Co
Law Oil Well
Mary
Ronald Fether
Canton
Ohio
Jacqueling
Catherine Fether
California
Arizona
Waggoner Rites Planned Today
Levelland special services set for 2 p m for W R Waggoner 75 of Levelland. The Rev D W Odom of Garland will conduct at George Price Funeral Home Chapel burial in Clarendon Cemetery. He died Tuesday evening after an apparent heart attack. Survivors include wife two sons two sisters nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren pallbearers E R Richardson L W Ford T H Kimbrough T E Lasley Ervin Gerlach Ira Purcell
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Levelland
W. R. Waggoner
D. W. Odom
Garland
George Price
Clarendon
Tex
Waggoner
E. R. Richardson
L. W. Ford
T. H. Kimbrough
T. E. Lasley
Erivin Gerlach
Ira Purcell
AFL-CIO foresees West Texas labor breakthrough in 1970s
Wain Miller reports Texas AFL-CIO head Hank Brown predicts a breakthrough era for organized labor in West Texas and the South Plains. Plans include a Plains district office from Odessa to Amarillo, a public information director, voter education for Mexican Americans, and legal defense support. Brown ties these aims to a broader push for fair labor practices and political influence, with convention debates set for Fort Worth.
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Wain Miller Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Afl-Cio
West Texas
South Plains
South
H. S
Hank) Brown
Lubbock
Brown
Texas Afl Cio
Odessa
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Plains
Organized Labor
Abilene
Plainview
Central Labor Council
South Texas
Farmers Co-op Compress
Shop Rite Foods
Tyler
Marshall
Lufkin
Lubbock Central
California Negro Leaders Press Reagan on Jobs and Racial Tension
Eighteen California Black leaders met Gov. Reagan in Sacramento to urge job creation for minorities as a key to preventing riots. They said they outlined causes of unrest and potential remedies, while some discord arose over civil rights leadership.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Ronald Reagan
Clarence R. Stern
San Francisco
Reagan
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Leonard A. Carter
Carter
Christus Wright
Los Angeles
Neil J Gibson Rites In Hobbs In Hobbs New Mexico
Services for Neil J Gipson 53 will be 4 p m today at Asbury Methodist Church with Rev W V McPhail officiating Gipson a butcher was burned to death in a trailer house where he lived alone He was a World War II veteran and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion Survivors include his mother Mrs Emma Stafford Hobbs a brother Roy Denver City two stepdaughters Mrs Don Dismuke and Mrs Freddy Sparger both of Hobbs and three grandchildren burial will be in Prairie Haven Cemetery Griffin Funeral Home directing
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ofhhe
American Legion
Emma Stafford
Hobbs
Roy
Denver City
Don Dismuke
Freddy Sparger
Startle Reflex in Mammals Protects Sense Organs
When startled many mammals flatten ears and close or marrow their eyes as a reflex to shield sense organs from potential injury.
Creation and Ambition in Daily Life by Julien C. Hyer
A short reflection on creation as a divine gift and the call to ambition. It contrasts basic needs with wealth and asks readers to pursue meaningful work beyond mere sustenance, urging courage over fear and selfishness.
AT&T asks FCC to reconsider profit limits on interstate services
AT&T petitions the FCC to review the July 5 order setting a 7 to 7.5 percent profit cap on Bell System interstate investments and to reexamine methods of allocating investment and expenses between intrastate and interstate services as well as exclusion from the rate base. The company says the limits threaten incentives for earnings gains and tech and efficiency progress.
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Bell System
At&t
Commission
The Federalist Essays by Hamilton Jay and Madison
The essays later published in one volume under the title The Federalist were written by Alexander Hamilton John Jay and James Madison under the common pen name Publius to gain support for the ratification of the Constitution.
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Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison
Publius
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