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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1966
Page
6
An AP Newsfeatures rendering shows large solid rocket cases splashing down as parachutes slow them, with a second case chasing. By 1995 officials aim to make space travel cheaper and aerospace industry engineers report multimillion dollar savings if empty rocket cases are recovered and reused.
Police report numerous thefts and vandalisms across Lubbock Saturday. Looted items include a cigarette machine, a portable TV, 5000 trading stamps, four vending machines, tools valued at 805 dollars, a coffee machine, and more. Several residences and businesses were struck, with damages and numerous suspects described.
Robert Berry, 26, six feet tall ex convict, overpowered jailer Harvey Brooks at Peaone County Jail on Saturday after being held on a charge of attempting to kill his wife. Berry grabbed the jailer, took his keys, and locked him in a cell before escaping.
President Johnson designated the week starting October 9 as National School Lunch Week. The White House proclamation notes about 19 million children in more than 71,000 public and non-profit private schools will receive school lunches this year.
Francisco Simo who guided authorities to the area in Spain where a U S hydrogen bomb was lost has filed a 5 million claim for reward. Spanish lawyers presented the brief to American officials on June 13 through Washington. Previous damage claims have been settled and paid by the U S foreign claims commission.
In 1966 aerospace industry plans a 4000 strong orbiting space city with a space hotel and hospital, plus lunar bases and planetary missions. Experts predict lower costs, reusable rockets, and nuclear powered engines enabling extended manned flights to Mars and Venus.
Janet Auchincloss, 20, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wed Louis P. Rutherford, 21, in St Mary’s Church Newport with the former first lady present. About 2,000 spectators filled the streets and nuns watched from a convent window as crowds pressed for mementos from the altar and canopy. Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. attended the celebration amid police control and fanfare.
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