Texas Auto Insurance Plan Hardens Penalties for Careless Driving
The Texas Insurance Board announces a new penalty plan effective Aug 1 1967 to raise premiums for careless drivers. Penalty points are assigned for speeding causing accidents drunken driving hit and run driving license violations and other serious offenses. By 1969 points over three years will raise premiums. speeding points carry forward one year. Territory based rates replace statewide credits. plan targets offenders with higher penalties.
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Texas
Texas Insurance Board
Textile mill announced for construction spur location
A new textile weaving mill is announced for construction at a spur. The notice references page 12, section D of the market reports and radio TV schedules, and a comic dictionary entry defining grouch as a person who is discontented yet content to stay so.
Local area names linked to schoolboy season preview
Sherry Angell Estelline Anita Sundquist Dolores Colo Penny Dial center instructor Amarillo Cindy Riffel Guyman Okla Betty McCombs Roswell N.M. Mike Plunk Dallas. Incidentally the schoolboy season is barely six weeks away. Story Page 10 Sec A.
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Sherry Angell
Estelline
Anita Sundquist
Dolores
Colo
Penny Dial
Center
Amarillo
Cindy Riffel
Guyman
Okla
Betty McCombs
Roswell
N.M
Mike Plunk
Dallas
Sec. A
Jim Coker
First Refund Paid Water Tax Rebate For Plains
Floyd County farmer Marvin Shurbet received three IRS refunds totaling 3661.30 for irrigation water depletion on his farm near Hare BOWL AGS 81s AEE GE a8. The case backing by High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No 1 began in 1962 and signals millions in annual refunds for qualified landowners on the Southern High Plains.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Petersburg
U. S
High Plains
Texas
Marvin Shurbet
Floyd County
Frenchman completes 102 mile Death Valley hike
Jean Pierre Marquant, a 28 year old former paratrooper, finished a grueling 102 mile hike through Death Valley. He staggered to the end thursday saying it's over and battled swollen feet and extreme thirst. Friends noted he remained in good physical shape aside from the ordeal.
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OS Angeles
Jean Pierre Marquant
Death Valley
States
City Council plans charter vote on two petitions
Lubbock officials advanced two petitions on charter amendments. Mayor Rogers announced 4,654 signatures validated for the BCD tax repeal measure, with 919 rejected and 48 withdrawn, needing 13,757. A second petition by Local 972 seeks equal pay with police, carrying 14,445 signatures and awaiting screening.
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Dick McAlpin
Avalanche Journal
Ubbock City
W. D. (Dub) Rogers Jr
Lubbock
BCC
Owen McWhorter
Appearance Deceptive Charlotte Tops U S Murder Rate
FBI statistics reveal Charlotte metropolitan area had 58 homicides last year, a rate of 15.9 per 100 000, far above the national average of 5.1. Police Chief Ingersoll cites emotion driven cases while Mayor Brookshire links crime to poverty and substandard housing.
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Charlotte
John Ingersoll
Stan Brookshire
Prayer for Compassion From Trinity Baptist Pastor
Today's Prayer Dear Lord asks for grace to see others' needs and to live for others. The writer, Rev. C. Melvin Ratheal, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, seeks guidance to imitate Christ and honor God through selfless service.
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Rev
C. Melvin Ratheal
Trinity Baptist Church
No Settlement Likely Soon In Airline Labor Dispute
The Senate Labor Committee voted 11 to 5 to let President Johnson order striking machinists back to work on five major airlines with three 60 day cooling off periods. The measure covers any other airlines facing strikes within six months and awaits action by both Senate and House before becoming law.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Johnson
White House
American Airlines
Senate
House
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Congress
Morse
Sec
of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Sea Airlines
U S Troop Losses Up Toll Said Double That Of Prior Week
U S troop fatalities rose sharply with a report noting losses more than doubling from the prior week amid ongoing Vietnam combat. The piece also covers congressional debates on strike actions and emergency measures related to the labor dispute policy.
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U.S
Associated Press
Gaigon
Viet Nam
United States
Judges Lead Testimony on Juvenile Crime Hearing
Twenty two witnesses testified before four Texas House Committee members at a Holiday Inn hearing on juvenile crime. Juvenile judges, law enforcement officers, probation officers and civic officials detailed county programs, with strong input from the Permian Basin council and its organizer Winkler County Judge W L Cook who urged a 16 county diagnostic center and boys ranch style facilities.
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Jerry McCartry
Journal
WENTY
Texas House Committee On
Holiday Inn Parkway
West Texas
Permian Basin
W. 14. Cook
Winkler County
Weather Map Page 11 A Lubbock Area Clear to Partly Cloudy
Weather map notes show clear to partly cloudy skies for Lubbock and vicinity with isolated evening thundershowers. Highs near the upper 90s, overnight lows around the mid 70s, light southerly winds and a 5 percent rain probability. City high 93, low 79, sunrise 5 57 am, sunset 7 00 pm.
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Lubbock
Bam
Wam
City Park City
Abilene
el Paso
Albuquerque
Houston
Amarilla
Dallas
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