Miss Texas pageant entrants prep for Fort Worth kickoff
Avalanche Journal reports IRLS from across the state including six from the South Plains and Panhandle travel to Fort Worth for the Miss Texas pageant opening. Reigning Miss Texas Susan Kay Logan will crown the winner July 29 at Will Rogers Auditorium. A red carpet sendoff for contestant Mrs A C Verner plus coach and chaperon is planned at Municipal Airport with Lubbock Jaycees sponsoring.
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Joe Gordon
Avalanche-Journal
Irls
South Plains
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Susan Kay Logan
Texas Patrolman charged in wife's slaying
Alfred P. White 37, a Texas Highway Patrolman, was charged with murdering his wife Joyce after her battered body was found at their Abilene home. Police described intruders entering by a back screen and said White was taken from Austin to Taylor County Court for arraignment.
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Charles Richards Bilene
UPI
Texas
Alfred P. White
Taylor County
Texas Rangers
Abilene
Austin
Travis County
Bob Kuhn
White
Joyce
Dodson
New Troop Units Goal In Vietnam
Two of President Johnson's top advisers Dick Maxwell D Taylor and Clark Clifford head to six Vietnam allied nations seeking up to 39000 more combat troops. They aim to gauge support for a possible fall summit while McNamara studies urged troop needs. United States forces in Vietnam may reach 550000 by July as allies face political strains and regional tensions.
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Hoffman Ashington
Johnson
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
South Vietnam
Washington
Clark Clifford
White House
George Christian
Sec. of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Vietnam
McNamara
United States
Taylor
Clifford
South Korea
Philippines
Thailand
Australia
New Zealand
U.S
Britain
Malaysia
Singapore
Zoning board approves trailer houses for dwellings
Lubbock area zoning board grants a zoning variance to allow use of trailer houses as residences in a relocation pilot. County officials review old post office remodeling plans as part of a broader community redevelopment study. Pressure grows for Connally to seek a fourth term. Personal income in the United States shows a sizeable increase. A Carolina plane crash prompts calls for stricter air controls. Plainfield New Jersey riots escalate as terminations loom. German military planners study Israeli Army organization amid regional shifts. Russia reportedly eyes a Mideast compromise. Market reports and oil news featured with radio and TV logs in various sections.
Reuss Blasts Defense Dept on Arms Sale Figures
Rep Henry Reuss assails the Pentagon for releasing partial figures on arms loans and ties a rise in Export Import Bank activity to a $4.5 billion funding request. He questions security seals and presses Congress to scrutinize arms financing amid State Department testimony shifting blame to the Soviet Union and China.
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Henry Reuss
D-Wis
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United States Congress
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House Banking Committee
State Department
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Red China
United States
Middle East
Far East
Eugene iV. Rostow
China
Rostow
Congress
U.S. Export-Import Bank
Appoint of McHugh Stirs Senate Furor
Sen. Gordon Allott denounces the nomination of Simon F. McHugh to the Subversive Activities Control Board as an outrage and a disgrace. The 29 year old accountant was appointed by President Johnson after marrying one of the president's former secretaries, prompting questions about the process and influence. The nomination advanced in Congress with routine support, facing no known pending cases. Mansfield and others defended the handling, saying no White House intervention altered the outcome.
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Ashington
Gordon Allott
Simon F. McHugh
Johnson
Colorado
Allott
Wall Street Journal
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
McHugh
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Senate Judiciary Committee
White House
Navy Fliers Claim Three MIGs Down North of Haiphong
U S Navy pilots on the carrier Bon Homme Richard engaged MiGs twenty miles north of Haiphong, downing three fighters for the first time in 113 months and boosting U S claims of MIG kills to eighty. Two Crusader jets were damaged but returned safely.
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Associated Press
BON Homme Richard
Tonkin
A Gulf
U.S. Navy
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnamese
Navy
Lon
Baby Born To Comatose Mother In Boston Hospital
A 36 year old woman in a coma since January gave birth to a healthy six pound girl at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Doctors said the delivery was normal and attributed to special care, with the mother showing no signs of waking. The physicians noted the baby was normal and in excellent condition.
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Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Shirley May Sweeney
Somerville
Barry G. Aronson
Harvard
Sweeney
Aronson
John Grover
Massachusetts
Courtroom in the Round Considered for Lubbock County Courthouse
Lubbock County seeks an 827000 addition with a circular courtroom on the third floor modeled after Frank Lloyd Wright plans. Judge James A. Ellis urged commissioners to review the design, which Haynes & Kirby preliminarily acknowledge with costs to be estimated in coming weeks.
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Jerry McCarty
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock County
L. H. Kirby
Haynes
137Th District
Frank Lloyd Wright
Marin County Hall of Sale
Marin County
Calf
137Th District Court
James A. Ellis
Lubbock
Judicature
Journal of the American Judicature Society
Bee County
Prayer Excerpt Entrusts Strength to God in Lubbock Note
A devotional fragment from a Lubbock reader seeks divine guidance and spiritual cleansing. The speaker asks for God’s strength and love to guide their path and purify motives, expressing faith in the Father and Spirit.
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Lubbock
Twisters Dip In Lynn Area
Severe storm reports in southwestern Lynn County triggered twin funnel sightings near Wells in Tahoka area. Rainfall drenched the South Plains with up to two inches in places, causing minor flash floods and highway closures while rivers swelled across South and Central Texas.
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Dave Knapp
Avalanche-Journal
Lynn County
South Plains
Tahoka
Post
Texas
Frio
San Saba
el Paso Weather Bureau
Ta‘hoka
O'Donnell
Wells
Department of Public Safety
Coun See
Johnson blasts GOP for killing rat extermination bill
The House defeated an administration plan to spend 40 million dollars over two years for a federal rat control program in slums. President Johnson called the move a cruel blow to poor children and contrasted it with protections for livestock. Republicans blocked floor consideration citing wartime spending and costs in 1968 and 1969, with critics calling it unnecessary.
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Ashington
House
Johnson
America
GOP
White House
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Rohio
H. R. Gross
Iowa
Minneapolis Racial Unrest NYC amid Torchlight Rally
Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin blamed a few lawless individuals for Wednesday night street fights and a firebombing in two city sections. Police reported a mixed crowd, 45 officers deployed, three arrests, a rock struck a woman, and a North Side market firebombed. seven nearby shops had broken windows as tensions rose near the Aquatennial parade.
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Enneapolis
Arthur Naftalin
Naftalin
Calvin Hawkinson
North Side Market
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