Gravediggers Strike Cripples Colma Economy and Delays Burials
In Colma near San Francisco a seven week strike by gravediggers slows burials and cremations of about 640 bodies. Local florists and gravestone firms report a 75 percent drop in business with 418 bodies stored in mortuaries awaiting resolution.
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Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Colma
Marion Deneluz
Colma Floral
Jack Coyne
Bureau of Environmental Health
Judge Denies Writ In Lach Case In Fort Worth Hearing
Judge Byron Matthews refused a habeas corpus writ for Benjamin Lach and delayed ruling on extra time to appeal his 40 year sentence. Lach, a former Texas Tech student, was convicted of the 1967 killing of Sarah Alice Morgan in a case moved from Lubbock.
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Perial
Fort Worth
Byron Matthews
Benjamin Lach
Matthews
Texas Tech
Lach
Laibbock
Sarah
Alice Morgan
Tech
Carl Pee Joe Shaffer
Ouston
William J. Gillespie
A. W. Salyars
Lubbock
Gillespie
Salyars
Steetame
Sudanese general reinstates Numeiry in Khartoum coup clash
In Khartoum fighting flared around the presidential palace as Maj. Gen. Jaafar Numeiry’s loyalists retook power from pro Communist officers. Numeiry urged a hunt for traitors and called for a new anti Communist drive as curfew was imposed.
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Jaafar Numeiry
Sudan
Hashem Atta
Africa
Libya
Nuneiry
Benghazi
Khartoum
anti-Numeiiry
Numeiry
Communist Party
Omdurman
Larmy
Midland Odesba Air Terminal to Host Regional Planning Meet
Regional Planning Commission schedules a Thursday session at the Midland Odesba Air Terminal as the meeting venue. The region faces ongoing planning challenges amid federal policy discussions and local resource considerations.
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Midland-Odesba
Regional Planning Commission
Prayer reflection on love and sacrifice
A brief prayer expresses gratitude to God for love and asks for strength to love others and sacrifice for the world, recalling the example of giving up His only Son to forgive sins. Amen.
Astronauts Complete Final Moon Mission Practice
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott Alfred Worden and James Irwin wrapped last scheduled training for Monday's lunar liftoff at Cape Kennedy. Engineers resolved a minor countdown issue as authorities projected up to 1.5 million people to witness the 8 34 a m CDT launch with spectators flocking to spaceport motels and beaches with a sea turtle nesting nearby.
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Cape Kennedy
Appolo 15
Space Port
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Trash Can Lids Policy Eases as Council Softens Enforcement
Lubbock city council foregoes red tagging for missing trash can lids tied to solid structures amid criticism while keeping other garbage ordinance provisions in force. The session also advanced right-of-way acquisitions for University Avenue, approved four zoning changes, denied four, and postponed a grievance commission chair's appearance due to a family death.
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Lubbock
University Avenue
Virgil Johnson
Citizens, iGrievance Commission
Johnson
Public Works
Sam Wahl
18th Century HandGin Stirs Memories
The article recalls the mobile hand gin used from 1700 to 1850 in the Southeast. Planters moved gins between plantations and could operate them with two men, lifting on boards. A gin could produce significant cotton, with cleaners and cranks described as part of the gear.
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Barnett
China
J. W. Webb
Mother Watches Son Die in Lightning on Florida Beach
In Ormond Beach a 15 year old boy, Dale Shepard, was killed by a lightning strike while near the water. His mother, Pat Shepard, was at a hospital with her younger daughter Sonya when police wheeled the boy past her in a stretcher.
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Ormond Beach
Pat Shepard
la Hospital
Dale
Mrs. Shepard
Monroe
Shepard
Claremont
Fla
Dallas Bank Raises Discount Rates to 5 Percent
Five Federal Reserve Banks raised their discount rates to five percent effective today. The move follows last week’s action by seven other regional banks. The Federal Reserve Board announced rate boosts across Cleveland Chicago Kansas City Richmond and Dallas and explained the rate is what member banks pay to borrow.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Cleveland
Chicago
Kansas City
Richmond
Dallas
Federal Reserve Banks
Sharp Gets Subpoena
Texas officials sought to amend a June 14 order granting immunity to Frank Sharp. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez demanded resignations of Deputy Atty. Gen. Kleindienst and AAG Will Wilson, while U.S. Atty. Anthony Farris should quit. A subpoena to Sharp called for Austin grand jury testimony on stock and bank fraud allegations.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Texas
Houston
John V. Singleton Jr
Frank Sharp
Washington
Henry B. Gonzalez
San Antonio
Richard G. Kleindienst
Will Wilson
Gonzalez
U.S
Anthony Farris
Crawford Martin
Travis County
Robert O. Smith
Austin
Sharp
Singleton
Flooding Follows Deluges Across Panhandle South Plains
Thunderstorms drenched the Panhandle and South Plains with heavy rain and small hail causing some flash flooding. Amarillo reported up to 2 inches, Pantex area saw 1.35 inches, and many towns logged light to moderate totals. Rain chances persist today at 20 to 30 percent with highs in the low 90s.
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Panhandle- South Plains
Amarillo
National Weather Service
Pantex
Happy
Palo Duro State Park
Lamesa
Andrews
Seminole
Avalanche-Journal
Tohoka
Lynn County
Lubbock
Sudan
Anton
Spur
Big Spring
Littlefield
Friona
Cotton Center
Hereford
Idalou
82Nd Street
Quaker Avenue
Lubbock Regional
Buffalo Springs Lake
South Plains
Missing Odessa secretary may link to string of crimes
Odessa region investigators, led by Sheriff Slim Gabrel, say they may tie the June disappearance of Gloria Sue Nix Greene to four women reported missing since October 1968. Three were found dead, including two in a north Odessa cow pasture and another on an oil lease near Kermit. a fourth was stabbed in her Odessa apartment.
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Karen Wright
Avalanche-Journal
Odessa
Ector County
Slim Gabrel
Kermit
Gloria Sue Nix Greene
O&l Well Services Company
Ector County Sheriff's Deputies
Cee
Texas
Well Service
West Odessa
Weather Outlook for Lubbock and Vicinity
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain today increasing to 30 percent tonight. Highs in the low 90s and overnight lows in the upper 60s.
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Lubbock
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