Lubbock Sees Several Federal Projects and a Dallas Plant
Lubbock experiences planned growth with a $100000 classified postal station, a $2 million Main Post Office, a $4.5 million Federal Office Building, and a $750000 Area Surveillance Radar at Municipal Airport. The radar will add 14 to 18 federal staffers and family relocations, while Texas Communications will open a manufacturing plant expected to hire 75 to 100 within a year, joining 209 existing manufacturers and boosting the city’s factory profile.
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Lubbock
Federal Aviation Agency
Lubbock Municipal
Chamber of Commerce
Texas Communications, Inc., of
Dallas
Bert Neeley
Avalanche Journal
Texas Tech budget row ends with public release promised
The Texas Tech board initially refused press access to the budget but reversed course after media pressure. Avalanche Journal reporter Kenneth May gathered details from the chair, and the paper plans a detailed follow up as officials deemed the budget public property.
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Texas Tech
Avalanche Journal
Kenneth May
May
R. Wright Armstrong
The
Avalanche-Journal
Truth About Official Declaration Versions Stir Washington Debate
Washington debates the official text of the Declaration of Independence. Three versions exist: Jefferson’s draft, the Continental Congress corrected draft, and the engrossed parchment. Officials say none is legally official and discrepancies appear in memorial carvings and capitalization.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
U. S
Librarian of Congress
Brant Coopersmith
American Jewish Committee
Coopersmith
Jefferson Memorial
Interior
Stewart Udall
Udall
Continental Congress
Jefferson
Julian P. Boyd
Princeton University
Journal of Congress
Boyd
Mumford
Wayne C. Grover
Grover
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Louisiana race shifts GOP focus toward 1966 elections
In Opelousas Louisiana local observers see the Seventh District race as a gauge for national contests. With Rep. Thompson dead in office the field opens and Republicans push a unified front to regain strength while Democrats split. Governor McKeithen delays a special election as campaigns heat up and potential candidates test the waters.
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Opelousas
Louisiana
T. A. Thompson
Washington
Capitol Hill
John McKeithen
Thompson
Baker
GOP
City Hall Versus The Poor In New York Slum Poverty Fight
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak examine Johnson era efforts in New York City where local control clashes with the aim of empowering the poor. They note mutual distrust between City Hall under Wagner and poverty workers, with neighborhood boards and school integration as flashpoints. The piece argues the conflict stalls results nationwide.
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New York
Johnson
New York City
Washington
Czark
Sargent Shriver
Humphrey
Anti-Poverty Council
Robert Wagner
Shriver-Humphrey
Wagner
Julius Edelstein
City Hall
Chicago
Richard Daley
Inside Washington and City Hall clashes in 1960s policy
A column reviews Bay of Pigs fallout and Dominican intervention, noting Kennedy and Johnson era decisions, air cover debates, and Johnson's use of force in Santo Domingo. It also critiques New York Harlem governance, Powell influence, and fading Van Den Heuvel in poverty programs amid federal-local tensions.
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Washington
Dave Schoenbrun
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Schoenbrun
Averell Harriman
Paris
Lyndon Johnson
United States
Kennedy
Dominican
Johnson
Bobby Kennedy
Bobby
Uncle Sam
U. S. News and World Report
U. S
Central America
Eisenhower
U.S
Santo Domingo
Holda
City Hall
Chicago
Cleveland
New York
Harlem
Adam Clayton Powell
Kenneth Clark
City College
Powell
William van den Heuvel
Harriman Mission Faces Three Phase Viet Nam Puzzle
Henry J. Taylor describes Averell Harriman’s Moscow mission amid three Viet Nam phases Immediate short range and final He notes potential U S atomic threats and a Soviet power struggle below the surface citing Pravda Izvestia Trud Kommunist and internal Kremlin intrigues as indicators of a tense backdrop with limited clarity on ultimate aims.
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Averell Harriman
Moscow
Viet Nam
Johnson
North Viet Nam
Eisenhower
North Korea
Tany
Hanoi
Peking
Kremlin
Red China
Russia
U.S.A
Alexei Kosygin
Leonid Brezhnev
Harriman
Trud
USSR
Kommunist
Kosygin
Nikolai Podgorny
Central Committee
Brezhnev
Gennadi Voronov
Pyotr Demichev
Pravda
Slaton schools face teacher shortage weeks before opening
July 24 1945 report notes four high school and East Ward resignations plus two vacancies at the Negro school threatening the teaching force. Other items include radium recoveries in Abilene and Petain treason trial remarks by Laval. South Plains cotton condition shows gains per Clapp’s August 1 report.
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Slaton
Slaton Public
Kavanaugh
East Ward
Abilene
William Schriever
Department of Physics
University of Oklahoma
South Plains
K. N. Clapp
Anderson-Clayton
Clapp
Offhand Thoughts on Revolts and Common Sense
An old-timer recalls when bakers gave extras and notes that popular uprisings are often exaggerated by Communists. The writer cites flour and money as factors that keep revolts alive despite fading public support.
Texas tourism doubts hint at neglect of Old Engine No 1L
Guest editorials tie two El Paso items as James Gaines urges Texans to treat tourism as a major industry. He notes local indifference, says missions like San Elizario deserve revival, and warns that tourist dollars flow elsewhere while Old Engine No 1L rusts on the Texas Western College campus.
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Texas Western College
Texas Tourist Development Agency
el Paso
James Gaines
Board of Advisers
Texas
United States
Gaines
California
San Elizario
el Paso Times
Clue on repeal taft hartley act debate gains pace
The Orlando Sentinel notes Northern governors prefer repealing Taft Hartley Section 14B. The National Cotton Council reports manufacturing jobs rose 13 percent in right to work states versus lower gains elsewhere. Florida Nevada and Arizona lead per capita in new industrial jobs as senators seek federal limits on nonunion labor.
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National Cottons Council
Florida
Nevada
Arizona
Nnion
Orlando, Fla
Sentinel
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Henry J. Taylor
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