Six Die In Cleveland Gun Battle Fueled by Riots
A Cleveland gun battle left six dead and several officers wounded as crowds looted and arson spread across the Hough area. Police, armored cars, and tear gas cleared the streets while Mayor Stokes called for calm and order amid ongoing violence and racial unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Blackwell
Law and Order
Cleveland
Stokes
Negro
Hough
Lewis
C. Coffee
Brink's
Coffee
Cleveland Plaint- Dealer
East Side
Health care planning agency eyed for South Plains
A Lubbock meeting examined creating a health care planning agency linked to SMCOG with federal funds for a full-time staff. The plan would start county level, then expand multi-county to coordinate health facilities. North Texas already operates a seven-staff council. Attendees included city and county officials, health agencies, nonprofits, and the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SMCOG
Councils of Government
Brewer
Dallas-Fort Worth
North Texas Planning Council For
Council of Governments
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
John Connally
PACT
Planning Agencies Council For
Texas
South Plains
Lubbock County Hospital
Rogers
Shaw
Johnson vows no coalition or communist takeovers in Vietnam
Johnson declares the United States will not impose a government on the people of South Vietnam nor permit totalitarians to install a Communist regime. He warns the days ahead will be hard but the search for peace will continue while resisting aggression on the battlefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Vietnam
Hawaii
Johnson
Senate fights over foreign aid levels and loan terms
The House proposed 1.97 billion in economic aid but Senate floor action shaved it further. Senator Clark pledged to restore House levels, though votes favored keeping or cutting House figures. The Senate set development loan interest at 5 percent for ten years and 3 percent thereafter, raising rates by one percent. A 20 million cut hit periphery aid to communist bloc nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Sen
Joseph
Clark
Senate
House Committee
House
Nine Injured In Roller Coaster Derailment
Nine people were injured Tuesday night when a roller coaster train derailed at an amusement center near North Dartmouth Massachusetts. The incident occurred at an amusement park facility while riders were aboard the car during the evening hours. Local emergency crews responded to the scene and transported several victims to nearby hospitals for treatment. Authorities investigated the derailment and the condition of those injured was not immediately released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dartmouth, Mass
Here
Possible New Cash Crop for Plains Sunflowers
Sunflowers gain interest on the South Plains as the area tests high oil types for edible oils and feeds. Researchers led by Brigham caution the crop is experimental, with insects, rust, and slow insecticide development challenging early efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Lamesa
Dalton E. Gandy
Memphis
Memphis, Tenn., of the National Cottonseed Products Association
South Plains
San’ Antonio
Gandy
National Crushers Group
Plains
Brigham
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas
Russia
Texas A&m University
New Mexico
Oklahoma
California
Alabama
North Dakota
Minnesota
Six Killed in Michigan Summer Home Slaying
Detroit publisher Richard C. Robison his wife Shirley and their four children were found shot to death in their Lake Michigan shore cottage near Petoskey. Investigators believe the killings occurred the night of June 24 or morning of June 25 as they traced a month-old murder trail.
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Petoskey
Mich
Detroit
Lake Michigan Shore
Richard C. Robison
Impresario
Shirley
Richard
Gary
Randy
Susan
Clifford Folmore
Folmore
Robisons
Lathrup Village
Chauncey A. Bliss
Blss
Kentucky
Florida
Bliss
Russell Moore
Coldwater
Mic
Michigan
Shirley Robison
Randall
Birth Announcements From Local Hospitals Across the Area
Numerous families welcomed newborns this Tuesday at Laut Clinic West Texas Hospital Reese AFB Hospital and University Hospital. Parents include Cortez Pope Garcia Townsend Coffer Maslak Keneda Rios Cervantes Oddress Henning DeSylva Baker and Rojas with fathers taking roles as farm workers teachers roofers truck drivers carpenters and service station owners.
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Wesley Oddress
Ransor
Methodist Hospital
Jerry Henning
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Weley Gene Baker
W2nd
West Texas Hospital
Rainbow Bakery
Gonzalo Rojas
Lorenzo
Saut Clinte
War Flares On Routes To Saigon
Allied forces report heavy fighting along infiltration routes to Saigon with at least 110 Communists killed. Da Nang clashes kill a U S Air Force general and hospitalize many as rocket and mortar barrages hit the Da Nang base complex. In Saigon area a major engagement leaves 18 Communist dead and 16 American wounded. Mekong Delta action yields 51 enemy dead and two captured.
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Saigon
UPS
da Nang
U.S
Robert F. Worley
U.S. Air Force
Vietnam
Worley
North
South Vietnam
Saigon conditions worsen as city tightens security
Frontline scene in Saigon shows street crime and Viet Cong danger while UPI photographer recalls changes since December. Two Viet Cong arrested July 1 near the US Public Affairs office with an explosive briefcase, as watch theft and pickpocket risk rise amid six days without rocket attacks. Mall windows reflect distrust and altered daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vietnam
United States Public Affairs Office
Bill Sneed
UPI
Saigon
Russian Threat To Czechs Seen
Prague reports a new Soviet military maneuver near the western frontier signaling possible intervention as reform leaders face the Soviet Politburo. Dubcek and the presidium stayed unseen amid tense talks with Brezhnev’s leadership.
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Prague
UPI
Moscow
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Presidium
Leonid J. Brezhnev
Humphrey Signals Limited Role in Picking Running Mate
Vice President Hubert Humphrey suggested he would prefer input on a running mate if nominated, while avoiding a definite pledge. He pledged a quick statement on Asia and noted Vietnam concerns without committing to Kennedy talks. The news conference followed an endorsement from the Supremes led by Diana Ross.
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New York
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Vietnam
Asia
The
Supremes
Diana Ross
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Johnson
New York City
Connally predicts Texas voters could back Nixon or Humphrey
Former Texas Democrat John Connally says George Wallace will not carry Texas in November and cannot forecast whether Nixon or Humphrey will win Texas. He notes Wallace has gained strength recently but may not be thick enough to shift the election to the House. He cites law and order as the top issue and Vietnam as secondary, criticizing McCarthy's war plan.
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Texas
Alabama
George Wallace
Humphrey
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Wallace
Connally
House of Representatives
Eugene McCarthy
Houston Records 27th Transplant
The St Luke's Episcopal Hospital team completed its seventh heart transplant in under three months and its second in three days. The patient Henry W. Jurgens, 57, a Nebraskan lathe operator, was responsive and improving hours after surgery with no real complications.
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Houston
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Henry W. Jurgens
Beatrice
Neb
Jurgens
U.N. General Assembly Provisional Agenda Ahead for 1968
The United Nations in New York shows a provisional agenda of 90 items for the 1968 session starting September 24. In prior years agendas reached 92 and were later expanded to 99, with a peak of 108 items in 1965.
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United Nation, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Local briefs cover education art demo and civic notices
Arts and crafts demonstration by the Head Start Parents Involvement Group set for today at Chris Harwell Elementary School from 8 20 am to 11 am. Bill Blackwell speaks at the 29th Firemen's Training School at Texas A M on coordinating disaster agencies. Lubbock fire staff assist at the event. Clyde M Owens elected to the Texas Motor Transportation Association board. Local court actions set bonds for Graves and Harless on theft and property destruction. Wallace group elects John Ray president and others at 4716 Ave Q headquarters with a Sunday meeting planned.
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Chris Harwell
41St and Ave. PD
City Myer
Bill Blackwell
Texas A&m
Lubbock Fire Department
W. Hershel Sharp
A. C. Black
Charles Scott
R. H. Brewer
Louis Pettigrew
Tom Foster
Lubbock
Young Americans
Wallace
John Ray
Ave. Q
Larry Sumrow
Karen Kyle
Patricia Maxwell
Anita
Rita Phifer
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James Fryer
Lakeview
Superior Aves
Spurr
Carl B. Stokes
Cleveland Safety
Joseph McManamon
U. S
Argentina
R. R. Morrow
Levelland
Lubbock Highway
Morrow
Cvirny Serre
United Press International
Robert Cortez
Wolfforth
Laut Clinic
Robert Leon Pope
Pat Garcia
Ave
Oon Birch
Weuhing & Pounds
Glen ‘Townsend
Clark Equipment Co
Eugene Coffer
Queens
Lubbock Wood Works
Albert E. Taylor
Arnold Drive
Reese Afb Hospital
Reese Afb
Snd
Richard Maslak
Gary Lenn Keneda
University Hospital
Watson Institutional Foods, Inc
Mro
Jose Rios
Laut Clinec
Mroo
Johan Cervantes
Peps-Cola Bottling Co
James DeSylva
Anton
Richardson
Tulsa
Flasher Co
HHH
NWS Briefs
Clyde M. Owens
Tth Street
Texas Motor Transportation Association
Owens
Denzil Bevers
Jerry D. Graves
7Th St
A. D. Ferguson
19Th St
Edwin H. Boedeker
Paulita Harless
8Th St
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