Traffic safety series questions ticket counts and driver records
Vaughn Hendrie reports on Lubbock 1961 62 fatal crashes and prior violations. Most drivers in fatal crashes had prior hazardous tickets, with speed drinking or failure to yield common factors. Police enforcement rose but overall fatalities declined, suggesting tickets alone do not gauge safety.
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Whfow
Vaughn Hendrie
Avalanche-Journal
Smost
Lubbock
Department of Public Safety
Don Hill
National Safety Council
Commission
The
Safety Council
OLICE
Three Hurt In Affray At Dance
A late night dance at the Fair Park Coliseum ended in gunfire when Antona Brito fired a six shot revolver, killing Dora Rodriguez and wounding three others. Police say a signed statement from Brito confirms the shooting. A second note states Brito and Rodriguez had a prior arrest together in 1962.
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Fair Park
Coliiseum
Land
West Texas
Dora Rodriguez
Wolfforth
Antona Brito
Id St
Bob Johnson
Tommy Wilbanks
C. W. Youngblood
Coliseum
Youngblood
Dora
Sgt
Wilbanks
Mrs. Brito
Debris and bodies found after Arab Airliner crash off India
An Arabian Sea crash off Bombay killed 54 passengers and 8 crew on a Tokyo Cairo flight. debris and oil patches spotted six miles off Madh Island prompted search teams but no survivors quickly found. The plane carried Boy Scouts to Athens and did not list any Americans aboard.
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Avalanche Journal News Services
QEOUL
Kony Ae
South
Ko/Nasser
Arabian Sea
Western
United Nations Command
India
UNC
Indian Navy
Madh Island
Bombay
Palhe
Tokyo
Cairo
Mahmoud Mohammed Shoura
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Athens
Father Martinez
Bank Breakin Nets $3,000 For Burglars
Mount Enterprise Texas burglars hit Merchants and Planters State Bank late Saturday night and escaped with over $3,000 in silver plus an undetermined amount of old coins. The vault knob was removed and $3,260.89 was taken as three FBI agents investigate the ransacked bank.
Belgians Survive Skopje Earthquake After 55 Hours
A Belgian man Serge Jacquemart and his wife Suzie were pulled from the ruined Hotel Macedonia in KOPJE after 55 hours entombed by the Skopje quake. They told doctors they planned suicide if rescue did not come, amid thirst and fear as more than 700 bodies were recovered. An American field hospital arrived near Skopje, while tremors continued.
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Kopje
Yugoslavia
Macedonia
Skopje
Suzie Jacquemart
Serge
West Germany
Jacquemart
Two Children Die In Weather Related Accidents At Post And Andrews
Sunday morning traffic incidents during a rainstorm near Andrews killed four year old Billy Martinez Jr and Victoria Estella Pence and left three others injured. Richard Salinas 16 of Post lost control his car and struck Billy in a yard while Pence died when a car driven by her mother hit a parked pickup. Funeral services for Billy Martinez pending at Mason Funeral Home.
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Andrews
Billy Martinez Jr
Post
Victoria
Estella Pence
Garza Memorial Hospital
Richard Salinas
Lloyd Merrit
Elton Corley
Salinas
Martinez
South Post Ust
Billy
Young Martinez
Mason Funeral Home
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Legend Of The Sandhills Tale From Indian Campfire
A sweeping legend from south of Muleshoe describes a vanished river and a Great Spirit topic. Chiefs and medicine men lead a fear‑filled ritual where tom toms race the heat as tribes are warned of a deceiver who claimed victory. The tale anchors in sandhills crossing the South Plains into New Mexico.
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Avalanche-Journal
Muleshoe
South Plains
New Mexico
Capitol
Austin
Runkels
Manawak
Music Man Burglars Loot Home and Local Properties
Burglars looted a residence, a panel truck, and three vending machines Saturday night, stealing about 700 dollars in goods. The biggest haul came from Mrs. Lola Keene’s home at 2017 Amherst, with 40 records, 100 singles, a stereo player, and stand valued at 414.20. Other thefts included a panel truck in the 1300 block of Ave. G, a vending machine at a Holiday Inn, and upholstery damage to a 1957 car. Police report multiple entries and a missing tool box valued around 250 dollars.
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Lola Keene
Amherst
W. Carlisle Nhon
Jesse Estrada
Prayer Note: A Quiet Thanksgiving Invocation
A brief devotional prayer references God in creation and daily life. It asks for guidance, strength, and wisdom for the days ahead, signed Anonymous.
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Heavenly Father
No Debt Ceiling Increase Needed
Washington notes Kennedy will hear from Dillon that extending the existing debt limit of 309 billion dollars may suffice until November. A simple extension could ease administration battles while Congress weighs a rail dispute, civil rights measures, and a Soviet nuclear test treaty.
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Washington
UPD
Congress
Kennedy
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
House
Ways & Means Committee
Senate
Russia
Area Farm Prospects Get Boost
Area farmers hailed weekend rains that drenched cotton and grain fields from Lubbock to Earth, with rainfall totals from an inch to 5.5 inches. A 14 year old Odessa girl died in a traffic crash near Analews on US Highway 70 during the downpour. Deputy Smith noted hail damaged cotton near Ray Kelly Farm east of town. Rain cooled a heat wave as Lubbock topped 82 degrees, with patterns of scattered showers across the South Plains and towns including Littlefield Muleshoe and Castro County.
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Oath Plains
Lubbock
Odessa
Victoria Estella Pence
Analews
Hwy
Weather Bureau
Lube
Petersburg
Lorenzo
Algary
Girard
Lamesa
Brownfield
Spring lake-Earth
Vol. Smith Jr
Uth
Ray Kelly
Smith
Earth
Kanth
Castro County
Sherif Jack Cartwright
South Plains
Cotton Center
Robert Lee
Littlefield
Oyer
Weather Map Page 104 Lubbock and Vicinity
Partly cloudy with scattered late afternoon and evening thundershowers. Highs near the upper 80s, lows around 80s, humidity high. Regional readings show varying winds and temperatures across cities including Paso Robles, Houston, Oklahoma City, Roswell and nearby areas with general precipitation patterns and forecasted hourly changes.
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Lubbock
Aso
Sussex
EU Paso
Houston
Okla City
Atlas
Roswell
Revere
MSW
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Hendrie
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Isin
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Elio Roc! Vela
Demilitarized Zone
North
South Korea
U.S. First Cavalry Division
George Creel
Birmingham
Ala
Creel
News
Wuderx
KFYO
Legend of the
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Ara What St
Camp Post
Lima
Peru
Fernando Belaunde Terry
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