Hippie Harassment Test Reveals Limited Police Cooperation
Henry Gottlieb reports from Newark that nine participants including a hippie pupil, a civil liberties lawyer, and seven reporters attempted to trigger police harassment on New Jersey roads. They rode in a VW camper for 50 miles discovering few illegal searches, except a theft incident in Seaside Heights involving psychedelic stickers. The venture, led by Stephen Nagler of the New Jersey ACLU, aimed to highlight cases claimed by the ACLU clients.
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Henry Gottlieb
Newark
N.J
New Jersey
American Civil Liberties Union
Seaside Heights
Stephen Nagler
ACLU
Plans For Library Get Council's Okay
Lubbock city council approved plans for a new city-county library and authorized architects House McMurtry and Larry Craig to prepare working drawings for early next year construction. The project includes 48,800 square feet of usable space at 8th Street and Avenue L, with a full basement and 20,000 to 22,000 square feet of future expansion. Architects propose travertine marble exterior and white exposed aggregate panels with columns lining the entrance, while a basement expansion and cost contingencies were discussed. County commissioners offered up to 75,000 to cover costs beyond contingency funds if the city matches.
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Vaughn Hendrie
Avalarch- Journal
Lubbock
House McMurtry
Larry Craig
Fiveman County Commissioners Court
8Th Street
Avenue L
Civic Center Complex
Council
Guerrillas Routed In Cambodia
South Vietnamese forces claimed a decisive victory in eastern Cambodia near Svay Rieng, reporting 72 enemy dead in four hours with no Vietnamese casualties. Gunships aided the assault, and U.S. Cobra gunships and F4 Phantom bombers joined air support as the drive pressed north of Highway 1.
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Associated Press
Saigon
Cambodia
Svay Rieng
Holger Jensen
Camboxiia
Jensen
iHighway 1
Ambulatory Service Debate Returns to Public Forum
A Tod TAY note from Lubbock details the seventh session of the Citizens Grievance Commission resuming discussion on ambulance service. Also listed are sections covering an 18-year-old receiving a narcotics sentence, June unemployment in the area, Ford’s price increases for 1972 models, and world and national briefs. The paper lists pages for market reports, family news, farming, and sports, with a humorous quote in the comics.
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Citizens Grievance Commission
Daily Prayer Invocation Echoes Gratitude and Grace
A prayer text asking for sensitivity to grace in daily life, recognizing goodness in daily bread and nearness in neighbors. The closing blessing invokes Jesus' name and marks it as a reader's concluding note.
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Jesus
Hostages Aid Pol icemen In Broadway Shootout
In a blazing Broadway gunfight that echoed an old West scene, police killed one alleged bank robber and wounded another as a dozen hostages dropped from the line of fire. Three of four survivors were captured and all $11,833 taken from Bankers Trust Co. on Broadway and West th Street was recovered. The fourth suspect escaped, believed wounded.
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New York City
Broadway
Banker's Trust Co
United Press International
New York
Westth Street
Baum Testifies Too In Texas Stock Scandal Probe
Travis County grand jury questioned three profiteers in the Texas stock scandal amid SEC allegations of stock manipulation to aid banking bills in 1969. Elmer Baum and aides Rush McGinty and Jonny Schulte testified behind closed doors. Waggoner Carr’s law partner may testify next Tuesday.
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SEC
Baum, McGinty and
Smith
Leo Grand Jury
U.S. Urged To Convert Weights And Measures
The Nixon administration urged a gradual ten year shift to the metric system in a report to Congress after a three year study. Maurice R. Stans said meters kilograms and liters should replace yards miles ounces and quarts, with costs shared by business and consumers.
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United Frese
Washington
Nixon
U.S
Congress
Commerce
Maurice R. Stans
United States
Stans
Bureau
U. S
Market Falls To New Low Amid Steel and Rail Strikes
The Dow dropped to 861.42 as fears of a midnight steel strike and rail slowdown canceled four major carriers. The S P 500 slipped to 96.02 while NYSE averages fell and volume rose. analysts linked budget deficits and a slide in leading indicators to a slower economic recovery.
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Uilited Press International
New York
U.S
Standard & Poor
Washington
Britons To Drop Space Program
LONDON AP Britain will abandon its only satellite launcher the Black Arrow Space launcher after its last flight later this year Aerospace Minister Frederick Corfield told Parliament the program cost 27.6 million dollars and took six years to develop and will be terminated.
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London
Britain
Frederick Corfield
Spacemen Set For Landing On Moon Basin
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden lowered to within 42000 feet of the moon's mountains and canyon for a planned landing at 515 p.m. CDT Scott described Falcon as on its perch before the descent into the basin amid plains and craters after a 250000 mile flight from Earth.
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Prear Space Center
Houston
Falcon
Apollo
David R. Scott
Scott
James B. Irwin
Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Moon
Moon Mission Sights Awe-Inspiring Lunar Features
Astronauts report mind boggling views from low lunar orbit. They describe Tsiolkovsky crater and Apennine Mountains as they skim above the moon’s backside, praising the unreal, overwhelming perspective after months of study.
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Tsiolkovky
Scott
Apennine Mountains
Moon
Mission Control
Falcon
Talks Set Rail Unions Increase Strike List
Washington union negotiators face renewed pressure as rail wage talks stall and four major railroads remain crippled. The AFL-CIO United Transportation Union plans selective walkouts across more lines while steel plants loom on edge of a nationwide strike, with U.S. Steel signaling halted production in Gary Indiana and a midnight Saturday deadline looming for steelworkers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Afl-Cio
United Steelworkers of America
U.S. Steel
Gary
Ind
Charles Luna
United Transportation Union
Lmore
Railia
Five Hurt as Twister Hits Deer Park Trailer Park
A tornado struck Tolar's Trailer Park in Deer Park at 4 17 p m injuring five people none severely and destroying two trailers with six more toppled from foundations. Coyd Hester 30 Elizabeth 22 and their six month old baby were hospitalized alongside two others.
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South Plains
Houston
Deer Park
Tolar
Coyd Hester
Elizabeth
Pasadena
Parker County
Knox City
Knox County
Lubbock
Wichita Falls
Dallas-Fort Worth
Weather Lubbock and Vicinity Outlook Today
A slight chance of light showers remains today with partly cloudy skies. Cooler conditions bring a high in the low 80s and a low near 60 as northeasterly winds of 10 to 20 mph persist.
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Lubbock
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