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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
6
The House accepted Senate changes on a bill revising marriage and divorce laws sending it to Smith for signature. It allows no fault divorces on incompatibility and lets men marry at 19 without parental consent. A 300 page school-law recodification bill also awaits governorship to tidy Texas statutes.
The U.S. destroyer Evans DD-754, built 1944 and with Korean War service, collided off Australia on Feb 11 1964 with the Australian destroyer Voyager, splitting Voyager and sinking it with 82 dead. Melbourne’s captain initially blamed, later cleared. Evans later survived a 1951 shell hit near Won San.
A cool front moved through Texas lowering readings by about 10 degrees and triggering light scattered showers. A tornado sighting near Paso caused no damage as the front moved on, with Lubbock and Presidio posting notable highs earlier.
The Texas Legislature passed a new divorce bill allowing marriages to end on insupportable grounds defined as ongoing discord. There would be no blame or plaintiff, aiming to boost reconciliation. Gov. Preston Smith can sign within 20 days.
The destroyer with the 7th Fleet saw multiple Viet Nam actions. It deployed to Viet Nam in early April and detached May 15 for SEA TO maneuvers. Its last combat mission involved gunfire support during Operation Daring Rebel, a 15 day sweep by 4000 troops reclaiming a 40 square mile island south of Da Nang. Long Beach, California served as its home port.
State Department sources said talks with the Soviet Union aimed at limiting the nuclear arms race are now expected to begin sometime this coming summer.
UPI reports 1968 fines for liquor law violations in Oslo rose 9 percent from 1967. Offenses included sale of moonshine and smuggling of hard liquor from abroad.
Spacemen aboard a Yak 40 served caviar and vodka while toasting each other’s health and success. The event ran more than two hours late and 90 minutes behind their next appearance, with the Americans exiting the plane clutching vodka bottles.
Numerous households report birth announcements from dads employed as farm laborers, students, drivers, and professionals. The records list newborns including daughters and sons with weights from 4 to 8 pounds and hospital times across Methodist, RAFB, Lubbock Osteopathic, West Texas, and other medical facilities.
Overnight fighting hit four bases near Dak To with light damage and few casualties. North Vietnamese forces including a commando battalion and artillery unit moved into hills around Dak To last month, engaging South Vietnamese infantry and shelling outposts. Dak To guards infiltration routes from Laos and Cambodia. fighting around Hill 875 on Thanksgiving 1967 secured firing positions for American paratroopers.
Scientists from Woods Hole and Scripps join Houston Museum researchers and the Navy to study strange mounds on the Gulf floor off Texas and Louisiana. They identify living coral and sponges at Flower Garden Bank, noting temperature links to submarine detection and climate clues.
Nyla earned the right to represent the South Plains in Washington, D.C., after spelling nineteen of twenty three area contestants at J. Slaton Junior High in Lubbock on May 4. The 78 participants begin Wednesday at the Mayflower Hotel with an awards banquet Friday at 6 30 p.m. The national champion will tour New York sights and appear on the Ed Sullivan Show with an escort as guests of the National Spelling Bee.
Braniff International announced it can begin nonstop Dallas to Honolulu flights on July 1 with immediate jet equipment and trained personnel. The Civil Aeronautics Board pushed the domestic trans Pacific route start date to July 1 from Friday.
Two 19 year old women Susan Davis of Camp Hill Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Perry of Excelsior Minnesota were found dead in a wooded area near Ocean City New Jersey. Police said the bodies showed welts and bruises with indications of sexual assault. The women had stayed in a rooming house and planned to return to their families for a graduation in Durham NC. Their car was later found abandoned along the Garden State Parkway.
The growing exhibit showcases 65 complete costumes and extensive photographs from Donald and Dorothy Cordry of Cuernavaca collected over 32 years. It preserves ancient textile techniques amid modern changes as scholars plan study and public viewing next year.
Marion, on death row after the 1963 Midland murder of Mrs. J Fred Turner, prayed in Huntsville and doubts execution today. An ordained minister of the Church of God, he faces a ninth writ of habeas corpus stay opposed by his absent Odessa attorney Warren Burnett, who has led his appeals since conviction.
Police described a fatal shooting scene with blood smears from the bedroom to the living room and to the telephone. Mrs Burdine, who was shot in the head, was moved to hospital after dialing for help. Evidence included a pistol with three empty cartridges and slug fragments in the ceiling.
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