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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1965
Page
25
The board adopts a shopping center valuation plan with land at about 75 cents per square foot and buildings at 6 to 7 dollars per square foot. A five member panel will hear center owner applications to adjust land and awning values with 300 taxpayers awaiting hearings and potential tax-rate impacts.
Bill Gaddis leads an Armchair Pilots contest offering free entry for all aircraft types including a DC-3. Darwin Poague rides a Roose Parakeet and Jack Bailey a American Eaglet with Tom Craig demonstrating spot landings in a DC-3. Three divisions judge two landing attempts per pilot with trophies from Town and Country Aviation.
A Lubbock based Peace Corps ORT worker describes housing in village schools with about 30 Pakistani staffers and other volunteers. She details diet related deficiencies, interviews with women, and vitamin A shortages causing preventable blindness, plus cultural challenges and personal growth during tenures in Dacca and Brattleboro.
Johnson reports PCG budget focuses on research and advertising while seed funding to Lubbock and Halfway centers drives new grants. After a round table, Crosbyton urged protests against slanted ASCS mailings, as growers warn of major income cuts and expanded secretary authority under the farm bill.
The piece cites authorities on siestas and naps for mothers with children. It notes that busy people should sleep more and discusses how daytime rest can support families and reduce tension. Readers learn why naps matter and how rhythms affect nightly sleep.
A 300 ton top sail schooner being built for the sail training association will be named Sir Winston Churchill. Lady Churchill has agreed to the use of her late husband's name and has sent her good wishes. The project aims to perpetuate the memory of the English statesman through the famed vessel.
In heavy rain near Richmond a two-vehicle crash killed Edna resident Alta Butler age 62. Her husband Taylor Butler 62 survived but was injured as their car was struck by another vehicle. Charles Kitchens 23 from Victorage was also involved. Kitchens suffered a skull fracture and others had cuts from shattered glass. Florence Flagg 81 and Butler’s mother were held for observation.
A partial readable fragment mentions a word spelled out in heads on the ela cave. Details are sparse but the note points to a decorative or cryptic display. No dates or named entities available in the legible text.
About four hundred pacifist demonstrators marched silently from City Hall to the Army recruiting and induction center in New York. Afterward counterpickets burned draft cards and at least five youths clashed with police. The rally condemned the Vietnam war with participants from infants to seniors wearing black armbands.
Clancy received the duty of keeping inmates from crossing the space between two fences around the prison. He restricts passage to all, including convicts, guards, and even the dog handler. The report notes most deep sea life is black or scarlet.
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