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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1969
Page
5
Police report multiple injuries and deaths from shootings accidents and a fatality in Lubbock and nearby areas. Names include Geneva Hawkins Sharon Paxon Daisy Daniel Mary Addie Coffman with services and hospital updates. A garage fire at 1908 7th St and an auction at 324 Municipal Drive are noted along with park attendance and scholarship news.
E M Pooley 71 former Man of the Year in journalism and retired editor of the El Paso Herald-Post will be buried today. He died at home Wednesday night. Pooley began at the Houston Press in 1926 and joined the Herald-Post in 1937 retiring in 1963. He once hit a judge during a vice hearing costing a 100 dollar fine and opposed Allan Shivers in a bid for a third Texas gubernatorial term. Survived by widow Ruth daughter Mrs John Boylan and three grandchildren.
The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne diverted to Singapore to unload inflammable aviation fuel before entering Sembawang Shipyard for bow repairs after colliding with the American destroyer Evans during a SEATO exercise. One Evans crewman was found dead and 73 were listed missing. a US Australian naval inquiry will begin at Subic Bay with testimony from both crews.
Funeral services for Gunnery Sgt. James H. Brown of 35 are set for 2 p.m. at W. W. Rix Chapel with Rev. Wilburn Coffman officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Cemetery. Brown died Monday in a Long Beach California hospital from leukemia after serving in the Korean War and a long Marines career. He is survived by his wife Wilma and three sons Bobby Bruce and Billy, plus a mother, father, sister, brother and several extended relatives.
Funeral services for Lola V Heath 60 a resident of Scurry County for 46 years will be held at 2 30 p m at Bolger Chapel burial in Snyder Cemetery under Bolger Funeral home. She died at 9 25 am Thursday after illness at home pronounced dead on arrival at Cogdell Memorial Hospital in Blackwell. She was married to Leo Heath and survived by 12 children, two grandchildren, a sister and several relatives.
Services for Eddie Dean York five month old son of Mr and Mrs Eddie York of 2606 N Quirt Ave will be at 10 am today at Rivelawn Assembly of God Church with Rev W F Love officiating Burial will be Resthaven Memorial Park under Rix Funeral Directors direction The child was found about 730 am Wednesday by his father and had apparently fallen from his crib Survivors include his parents two brothers Jerry Don and Terry Leroy and his grandparents Mrs Viola York of Lubbock W H York of Clyde Mrs Alice Anglin of Dallas and Raymond Anglin of Fruitvale
A reflective note urging personal growth and self reliance. It argues that true aid teaches skills and understanding so the recipient can advance independently rather than depend on others. The message emphasizes planning guidance and encouraging self effort.
Friona mourns O J Beene 53 longtime local businessman died Wednesday Funeral at 3 p m today at First Baptist Church with Rev Bill Foil and burial at West Park Cemetery Hereford Beene born Hereford came to Friona in 1945 operated a drug store until 1956 later an insurance representative Survivors include wife Decima Beene two sons Jay and Ramey a brother Bill Beene and two aunts Mrs C C Barnett Plainview and Mrs Myrtie Beene Hereford Body was at church from 1 30 to 2 30 p m today.
Governor Preston Smith signed bills creating the University of Texas at San Antonio and a UT San Antonio dental school on the Alamo steps. He linked the act to Travis and urged unity against ignorance, stressing higher education to meet student demand and transferring the Institute of Texan Cultures to UT.
Bobby N Teel 26 a Hobbs fireman died at 8 am Thursday from injuries suffered on the job when he fell from a moving fire truck May 29 en route to a blaze Services will be at 2 30 pm Saturday at First Baptist Church Hobbs with Rev L R Adams officiating Burial will be in Prairie Haven Cemetery Griffin Funeral Home directing Teel born August 27 1942 in Lamesa attended Hobbs schools Lovington High School New Mexico Junior College and served in the U S Air Force 1962 to 1965 Survived by wife Jo Ellen one year old son and step brother William A Budley Marley of McDonald NM
George Allen Harkness 73 died Wednesday at Lovington Lea General Hospital after hospitalization since May 27. Services will be at 10 a.m. at Smith Rogers Funeral Home Chapel with Cecil Hook officiating. Burial at 2 p.m. in Strip Cemetery near Petersburg. He was WWI veteran and American Legion member. Survived by wife Letteress a daughter Darryl Gaines of Rogers NM and two grandchildren.
Services for Isidoro Rangel 54 of Plainview are pending at Lemons Funeral Home after he was killed Tuesday when a truck at Occidental Chemical Co backed over him. He leaves Feliz a daughter and five sons including Isidoro Jr Jose Luis in Germany and Richard who left Plainview to be inducted. He is survived by two brothers aes and Leon in Car eee Springs.
Professors Cesar Lattes and Shoichi Fujimoto announced a possible new state of matter inside protons and neutrons after a seven year study using cosmic radiation on Chacaltaya Peak Bolivia. They name the discovery Fireball and seek August Budapest confirmation with potential Brazil produced nuclear energy within two years.
Orom B Souther 68 of Andrews to be mourned with 9 am service at Singleton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Carl Grissom officiating. Graveside rites at 5 30 pm at Firview Cemetery in Pampa. Souther died at Permian General Hospital in Odessa at 4 25 am Thursday after a long illness. He lived in Andrews three years after moving from Selma MO He worked 32 years with Texas Company retiring in 1959 and later farmed He was a member of First Baptist Church in Andrews He is survived by Christine a sister Della Souther of Graham and seven brothers Harris and Roy of Wichita Falls Herman AT Louis and Donald of Graham and others
Army Specialist 4 Louie Z. Leija 20 of Tulia was killed in Vietnam on May 29 during a combat operation. Survived by wife Guadalupe, mother and stepfather, sister and two half brothers, and half sister. Services pending at Wallace Funeral Home. Squad members collected funds for the family through the Red Cross.
Jack P. Padgett, 72, longtime director of commercial and industrial news pages at the Dallas Times Herald since 1952, died Thursday. Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Saturday. Padgett, born in Gainesville, had a career in promotional newspaper work with papers in Wichita Falls, Midland, Big Spring, Austin, Roswell New Mexico, and Baton Rouge Louisiana.
Susan Yoachum, a 14 year old from Dallas, wins the national spelling bee final in Washington. Margaret Mathees, 14, from Huntsville Alabama places second. Miss Medlock tours the White House with the Bee group and expresses gratitude for the trip and the good weather.
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved reclassifications moving 60 parcels from A-3 to A-2 or A-1 and granted 76 acres of C-3 commercial zoning at the northwest corner of Slide Road 289. The panel also rejected a Loop 289 north of Tech Memorial Park reclassification to C-4 for a mobile home park, while approving various requests for R-2 duplex, A-2 heavy, and M-1 industrial zoning and deleting development conditions on another tract. The decisions aim to refine zone maps and balance residential buffers with commercial development.
Students from page one face a funding condition tied to campus code enforcement. Mrs Green supports Erlenborn's bill as a basis for upcoming legislation. Steiger warns the measure could push more students toward radicalism, complicating university administration.
OGO 6, a 1,393 pound Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, launched from Vandenberg AFB California at 7:43 a.m. atop a Thorad Agena booster. It achieved a near perfect polar orbit between 248 and 683 miles high, with antennae and booms extending up to 80 feet, giving a dragonfly appearance. The mission aims to aid future satellite detection of potential disasters and benefits for humanity.
Lawmakers move a $25 million package of fund transfers and minor revenue measures to cover the shortfall caused by new spending. Governor and attorney general are both under watch as a line item veto could upset the teacher pay bill and big appropriation.
The decomposed body of 30 year old Ida Laddie, manager of a drive in restaurant, was found beside a doll’s leg driven into the ground by a spike in a vacant lot near her business. Police say the injuries suggest a beating, but identification and certainty are limited due to condition.
W H Williams of Route 2 Tahoka died Thursday at West Texas Hospital in Lubbock after three weeks of hospitalization. Services set for 3 p m Saturday at Tahoka United Methodist Church with burial in Tahoka Cemetery. Survivors include five daughters, two sons, a sister, two brothers, and numerous grandchildren and great grandsons.
Dr. Charles E. Oswalt Jr., 52, Fort Stockton physician and former Texas Academy of General Practice president, died Thursday in Dallas from cancer. He practiced in Fort Stockton and was a UT Medical School Galveston graduate.
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