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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1970
Page
1
After the May 11 tornado in Lubbock Texas the HUD reports nearly 700 families found housing. Most moved into homes repossessed under defaulted FHA or VA loans. Officials say the relief effort progressed swiftly with shelter first then transition to ownership on favorable terms.
Nearly 50 property owners face a June 15 cutoff for debris removal costs as the Army Corps of Engineers awards five contracts totaling about 800000 to clear the storm wreckage in northeast Lubbock. City plans push toward a memorial civic center while right of way talks proceed along 3rd and 4th Streets.
Donations flood Lubbock fund with 49 065 from A donors in Fort Worth. pledges aid government officials in Idalou and state issues. White House to push 50 million for summer youth jobs. Impeachment charges against Justice Douglas difficult to prove. World news and other sections noted.
Lubbock County Commissioner Alton Brazell won the Democratic nomination for another term defeating Paulina Jacobo 2158 to 1546 after a strong rural vote. Turnout was light at 27.6 percent in Precinct 4 with 13 769 registered voters. Brazell led by 612 votes in the second Democratic primary with 3704 cast overall. Jacobo held early city leads and toped rural areas, while absentee ballots favored Brazell 53 to 13. Other counties held runoffs. Panhandle group saw Max Sherman beat Jack Haxlewood for state senate nomination 12324 to 9024. In the three-county ward district Big Spring attorney Dee Jon Davis won 4263 to 3391. Glenn W. Thompson defeated Don Lynskey 696 to 585 for Cochran County Judge. Helen Arrington won Dickens county district clerk race by defeating John Warren. J. K. Holmes won Floyd County Judge 842 to 570. J A Holleman beat Bill Lentz 699 to 397 for two-year Sheriff term at Post. Martin County Judge Jim McCay lost to Carrot Yater 366 to 5 at Stanton. Yoakum story continues on Rural Vote page 15.
A reader offers a devotional plea to God asking for the bread of life this day and warning that material riches cannot satisfy the soul. The prayer emphasizes spiritual nourishment over wealth and invites divine aid.
Dr. C. L. Kay assistant president of Lubbock Christian College returned from a Southeast Asia trip with views on Vietnam and Cambodia. He met foreign ministers wounded GIs and four star generals and will speak in five states this week asserting Communist forces are losing. He supports Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia as a strategic move.
Acting Mental Health commissioner probes claims of drinking and mistreatment of young patients at Austin State Hospital. Rep Cavness cited a quiet room where patients are kept unclothed for days and liquor is possessed by some in the alcoholic rehabilitation center.
A six year old girl, LaDonna Havens, was killed when she rode her bicycle from a private drive into FM 28 traffic about 7 15 p m near Crosbyton. William Truman Barnett of Crosbyton was identified as the driver. The death raises the South Plains traffic toll to 49 for the period. Services pending at King Funeral Home. She is survived by her parents a sister and a brother and several grandparents and great grandparents.
In Moscow two cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov extended the Soviet record for time in space aboard Soyuz 9, approaching five days. Valery Bykovsky’s 1963 Vostok 5 total of five days remains the benchmark, with officials undecided on final mission duration and aims.
Robert H. Finch, 44, leaves the Health Education and Welfare post to serve as a principal White House counselor. Elliot Richardson will replace Finch at HEW, returning to a post he held during the Eisenhower era. Finch accepts a broader domestic and foreign policy advisory role, taking a salary cut of 17500 dollars annually.
A lightning storm ruptured one tank battery and started a second fire near Odessa while rain spread across eastern New Mexico. Fire burned about 45 minutes at the exploded tank north of Odessa near Goldsmith. the other fire west of town was contained with no damage estimate.
A unidentified Black man about 28 held up the Red Raider Drive In cashier at 10:40 pm on Saturday. He fled with more than $100 in small bills and change after threatening to shoot if the phone rang. The suspect wore an Afro hairstyle and a turtleneck, about 6 feet tall, and fled along a fence.
Partly cloudy and warm with light afternoon and evening thundershowers likely Monday. Highs today and Monday near the upper 80s, tonight lows upper 50s. Rain chances today about 20 percent.
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