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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1967
Page
3
Dear Arne addresses a youth in Lubbock finding little to do besides studying. The Avalanche-Journal lists summer activities including five golf courses, a unique night driving layout, and several theaters with wide screen showings as alternatives to staying home.
Two Air Force officers died when their T33 jet crashed near an abandoned farmhouse while returning from a training flight to Austin. Maj. Charles S. Ruble, 27, from Jersey City, Virginia, was the pilot and William H. Quay Jr., 28, navigator. Wreckage spread over a half mile. cause under investigation. Funeral arrangements pending.
Julien C. Hyer urges readers to avoid dwelling on grim defeats from the past. He encourages facing today and tomorrow with bravery, embracing new opportunities, and pursuing victories despite yesterday's losses. The tone mirrors a devotional exhortation grounded in Luke 24:38.
Mrs Mona Towns died in Lubbock after an extended illness and services were held at 4 30 p m in the First Baptist Church Mule Shoe with Rev Don Murry and Rev Jph Hovey officiating Burial was in Bailey County Memorial Park Singleton s Funeral Home in charge She was active with the Wayland Baptist College board of trustees and led WMU groups at church district and state levels The family moved to Mule Shoe from Lamesa in 190 Survivors include her husband a daughter a son her mother five sisters four brothers and two grandchildren
Services are pending at Carter Funeral Home for Mrs. Clarence Hardy 22 of Lockney who was killed in a one car crash 6.2 miles south of Plainview on U S 87 about 4 45 am Friday Her brother Melvin Raysis sney 18 Lockney High School track and football star was seriously injured in the crash.
Mrs. Cecil Blackwell 79 died at her home on 105 79th St. Funeral at Sanders Memorial Chapel with two ministers. Graveside services Monday at Barton's Cemetery near Albuquerque. Survivors include three sons, five sisters, four brothers. The report links a separate accident involving Sissney and notes two related local obits.
The Texas Health Department reported a new paralytic polio case for the week ending July 22, bringing the annual total to five. The patient lives in Cotulla in La Salle County, a year after 23 paralytic cases were recorded.
Dallas laboratory reports a high-molecular weight polymer additive for JP4 jet fuel that reduces incendiary and small arms fire losses. Tests at Grapevine show Safuel does not ignite while ordinary fuel does.
Slaton Texas special funeral for T. L. Weaver 53 of 2506 Ave K Lubbock died Thursday after a traffic accident in Lubbock and a heart attack. Services 3 p.m. Evangelical Methodist Church with Reverends Weldon Thomas and Linam Prentice. Burial Southland Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter two sons parents two brothers and two sisters. Weaver moved to Slaton 49 years ago and was a church member. He drove a city bus in the wreck at 33rd Street and Hartford Avenue. He was taken to Highland Hospital where he died.
James P. Macon longtime grain dealer who built the first Parmer County grain elevator died at Parmer County Community Hospital Friona. A Tennessee native who moved to Texas in 1907 taught school in Shamrock Texico and later settled in Bovina. Survivors include wife Evelyn two sisters and two brothers. Services pending at Claborn Funeral Home Friona.
Dr Luther P Pitts former Hobbs resident died in a Roswell hospital Friday morning. Services are at 10 a m today at Ballard Funeral Home Chapel in Roswell with burial in Roswell Cemetery. Survived by wife Mary.
Rep. William Minshall of Ohio demanded the arrest on treason charges if Stokely Carmichael or H. Rap Brown set foot on American soil again. He said he telegrammed President Johnson and the Justice Department to detain them without bond, accusing them of promoting violent uprisings from what he called a communist base in Havana. He criticized Brown’s release on bond and urged permanent confinement for both activists.
Services for Selburn Walthall 73 will be held at 2 p m in Henderson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev J T Bolding of First Baptist Church officiating Burial will follow in Rest Haven Mausoleum Walthall a longtime Lubbock resident and retired grocer died after a Texaco stop at 2402 19th St Surviving: wife Bessie a son Max H Walthall of Covington La a brother Gilbert of Burnett and two grandchildren Pallbearers named Wayne Walthall J T Ross Winfred Ross Joe Davis Bill Barry Roy Byrd
Corbin City tax collector Mrs. Lillian G. Gandy, 93, says she faces no opposition and plans no campaign for an 11th term. She jokes an upset would be the big news while noting she remains familiar to residents and will not be left without work even if defeated.
Mrs. Gandy, longtime Corbin City resident and former mayor and councilwoman, remains active at 96. A Republican, she believes modern politicians are less honest, keeps busy with housekeeping and shopping, and credits faith and community routines for her long life since moving from Fostoria, Ohio in 1907.
Jane Fonda will headline the science fiction film Barbarella for Dino De Laurentiis with husband Roger Vadim directing the project.
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