Post Office scraps first class 24 hour delivery plan
Heavy mail volume drives cost concerns as the Post Office abandons a 24 hour service for 85 percent of first class mail. Officials say six cent letters overwhelm the system and tax payers bear the expense. Dallas region staff worked nights to support the plan, increasing costs.
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Post Office
Jerry Com
Avalanche-Journal
Post Office Department
U.S
Lubbock
Texas
Dallas
Louisiana
House Unit Approves Farm Plan
The House Agriculture Committee voted to cap subsidy payments on wheat, feed grain, and cotton at 55000 per crop for any single producer. The three year farm bill passed the committee by voice vote, replacing the current 1965 law which had no individual caps.
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Arat Andhnvernes Kowa
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
W.R. Poage
D-Tex
Be ready for Becky hits Florida panhandle with floods and tornado
Tropical storm Becky swept the Florida panhandle causing heavy rains and a tornado that leveled homes near Panacea. No injuries were reported as Tallahassee received over four inches of rain and leaks appeared in the Capitol roof while lawmakers debated a farm aid ceiling of about 55,000 dollars per person or crop. The administration backs the limit but critics argue it is too high and seek tighter language to prevent farm consolidation to dodge the cap.
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Panama City
Fla
Becky
Florida Panhandle
State Capitol
Appachicola
Poage
Sorf
House Democratic
Reward
Georgia
Jeastern
Panhandie
Ford M. Hardin
Hardin
South Carolina
West Virginia
Florida
Weather Agency
Silvio
Conte
R-Mass
Paul Fin
Capitol
Tallahassee
Legislative
I Weather Boards
Atlantic
Lesser Antilles
Findley
Secretary of Agriculture
Ap- Seo
Women students join Tech Air Force ROTC program
News notes list items from Lubbock area including council actions on tornado zoning pleas and a reception for retiring school administrators. Also mentions New York power shortage forecast, Ford Foundation grant to police, Suez Canal airstrike impact, and a Saigon soldier incident.
Texas job openings fall as layoffs rise in June
A Texas Employment Commission report notes industrial layoffs tied to Indochina war scaling down and a general economic slowdown. Nonfarm job openings and placements dropped by about 6,000 each in June, signaling higher unemployment and fewer hiring opportunities.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
Commission
Prayer request echoes faith heritage for children
A reader pleads for guidance in passing on Christian faith to the next generation. The appeal invokes Jesus teaching and the Lord's Prayer as the spiritual legacy to be transmitted to children.
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Christ
Band Students Swing Between Bach and Rock at Camp
Larry Cheek reports on 600 junior and senior high students at Texas Tech who attend a two week youth music camp. They study classical composers like Beethoven and Mozart by day and unwind with hard rock at night in dorms. Band director Bill Woods notes the spectrum of taste is wide, with students embracing both serious literature and contemporary sounds.
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Larry Cheek
Avalanche-Journal
Texas ‘Tech
Bill Woods
Woods
Seagraves High School
Defense job cuts may reach a million by mid-1971
Pen tagon economists project about one million jobs at risk in defense and related industries by mid-1971, a figure showing 360,000 more civilian losses than last winter’s defense官 officials’ forecast. The two year span ends next June 30, with May data indicating 367,000 defense industry losses, suggesting another 600,000 by July next year.
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Tearene
Washington
Pentagon
Defense
Nixon Administration
Congress
Defense Industries
Indian Tragedy Toll Put At 600
NEW DELHI AP A Himalayan river flood swept 25 buses 5 taxis and an army vehicle into a narrow gorge killing many pilgrims from Badrinath. Press Trust of India said about 600 may have perished and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi voiced shock. Backlogs in defense orders reduce unemployment as 2.4 million workers likely next summer.
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New Delhi
Himalayan
Press Trust of India
Badrinath
Home of the
Indira Gandhi
Pillowcase Burglar Case Hits Detroit Area
Detroit police arrest Helen Haynes dubbed the pillowcase burglar after a eight month spree. They found more than 200000 dollars in jewelry watches coins certificates guns and other items in her attic and downstairs stacks of pressed pillowcases. She admitted looting homes with a motive of hosting a jewelry sale party while claiming small jewelry thefts were easy targets. She was arraigned on breaking and entering charges.
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United Preen International
Detroit
Helen Ann
Detroit Area
Livingston
Street Plan Delayed for Avenue Q Widening Project
Street widening on Avenue Q between 22nd Street and Cavis Road has been delayed for months. Kerr Construction Co. of Lubbock bid $679,692 to the Texas Commission in Austin, but the commission rejected it as too high. Plans now expect the Avenue Q widening to be bundled with two other Hub City street projects, with letting likely in December or February.
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Avenue Q
22Nd ‘Street
Cavis Road
Catty Crain
Viet Nam War clash leaves heavy losses near Hue
Heavy jungle fighting near the Hue area leaves 12 U S paratroopers dead in a six hour engagement the heaviest American loss in weeks. Communists incur few disclosed losses while new Cambodian operations disrupt Phnom Penh’s links as Lon Nol seeks Western aid. American air raids target anti aircraft sites as tension rises across Indochina.
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Jouren
Saigon
America
South Vietnam
U. S
Hue
Dole Eo
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Portompong
Som
Phnom
Lon Nol
Bangkok
Mic
Thailand
Family Held Hostage In Lubbock Robbery Investigation
Police pursued a faint lead after intruders tied and gagged the McNally family at 3715 36th St in Lubbock. The attackers searched for a wall safe and escaped with a small safe reportedly containing valuables. The incident followed another Newark case where ex mayor Addonizio and four others were convicted in a federal kickback scheme.
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Lane Arthur
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Younger McNally
W. A. McNally
36Th St
McNallys
Trenton
UPI
Newark
Hughin
Addonizio
McNally
Andy
Mandey
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KFYO
Aegate
Killion
Jerry Horn
Seminole
Mike Pyatt
Pauline Warner
Nila
Robert C. Moot
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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