Storm Rehabilitation Aims At Shared Funding Plan
Lubbock City Council and County Commissioners Court agreed to share local funding for tornado recovery. They cited highway rights of way and library portions of a memorial civic center as likely uses for county bond funds to attract private investment and restore taxable values. A decision was to be given by today.
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Lubbock
County Commissioners Court
Memorial Civic Center
Memorial Center
Rod Shaw
Commissioners Court
Texas Highway Commission
James H. Granberry
Arch Lamb
Memorial
Lamb
Alton Brazel
Rights of Way
Shaw
City Hall
Buffalo Springs Lake
Yellowhouse Canyon
Insurance costs spark debate on auto rates and repairs
Officials discuss Texas auto insurance as premiums rise 11.4 percent while accident costs climb. A Texas debate notes highway, law enforcement, and repair costs, with goals of cutting accidents 15 to 20 percent and funding street widenings and memorial centers through county city partnerships.
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Willams
Texas
Williams
City Plans 11.6 Million Bond Drive With Renewal Efforts
The council weighs an 11.6 million bond program to fund streets parks water and sewer upgrades and a civic center. A proposed reallocation includes 4.7 million in aid and 2.07 million in relocation grants for tornado affected areas with up to 5 000 per displaced person and 3 500 grants for homeowners.
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Guadalupe
Ndp
Memorial Civic Center
Argentine military coup ousts Ongania and seizes power
Argentine president Juan Carlos Ongania resigns after three military chiefs seize control. A provisional junta led by Lt Gen Alejandro Lanusse, Adm Pedro Guavi, and Brig Gen Juan Carlos Rey takes over as tanks guard the capital. Ongania anticipated a new president within ten days amid widespread political upheaval.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Carlos Ongania
Government House
Army
South America
Ongania
Campo de Mayo
Alejandro Lanusse
Adm
Pedro Guavi
Navy
Juan Carlos Rey
Air
Supreme Court
U.S. Forces Cut Back in Cambodia Claim West Viet Cong Loss
The article reports 370 Viet Cong killed in Cambodia as U.S. forces reduce presence while carrying out civic action. It notes a secret annual plan signed Oct 31 by the United States and allies directing 1970 operations and cites troop withdrawals and rotations, with Nixon and Laird announcing resumed withdrawals and pledged counts returning to Vietnam.
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Vietnam
South Vietnam
United States
South Korea
Thailand
Australia
New Zealand
Nixon
U.S
Sec. of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon
Saigon
Cambodia
Lubbock schools win desegregation review with mixed findings
A federal examiner found Lubbock ISD operates a non discriminatory neighborhood plan and a largely desegregated system with 54 percent of Black students in desegregated schools. He praised facilities and non discriminatory use of federal funds while rejecting HEW plans to close Dunbar or Lubbock High as educationally unsound.
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HEW
Dunbar High
Struggs
Des and Wheatley
Wheatley
Supreme Court
Nixon
Lubbock
Sommer
Dunbar
Lubbock High School
Storms, Hail Sweep Plains Along Storm Belt Edge
Broad weather summary across western Texas notes scattered showers and half inch to two inch rainfall totals in counties such as Idalou Meadow Plainview Levelland Spade Petersburg Ralls Sundown Tahoka Shallowater Ropesville and Happy. Reports include hail in several towns and a dust storm near Earth with rising winds and a funnel cloud near Port Acres. Temperature dropped from 84 to 61 in three hours near Lubbock as storms moved east toward Amarillo.
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Idalou
Meadow
Newear
Plainview
Levelland
Spade
Petersburg
Ralls
Sundown
Tahoka
Shallowater
Ropesville
Siaton
Earth Earth
Brownfield
Pettt
Whiteface
Barrow
Hal
Whitharral
Swisher County
Lubbock
The
Weather Bureau
FAA
Panhandle
Amarillo
Downstate
Port Acres
Texas
Pater
Jefferson County
Census protests as Texas cities miss projected counts
Areas such as San Antonio Laredo Longview and Amarillo report census figures well below Bureau projections. City leaders blame computers pills and suburban flight while recount campaigns mount yet gains remain elusive mirroring 1960 nationwide trends.
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Census Bureau
San Antonio
Laredo
Longview
Amarillo
Texas
Supreme Court to Rule on Local Housing Veto Powers
The court will decide if city and town residents may block low cost public housing projects. The San Jose case questions whether public housing is a fundamental right or a government benefit and its impact on poor and minority groups in several states.
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Washington
Supreme Court
California
San Jose
Erates Exp
Helsinki
UPI
Minnesota
Nebraska
Dakota
Texas
Virginia
Finland
Federal Court
San Francisco
People of
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Vernon Lowrey
New Orleans
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University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
A Tami As
Olivos
Pedro Aramburu
Osiris Villegas
Ambbassador
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Villegas
Argentine National Security Council
Aramburu
Montevideo
Uruguay
Jone
Aan
Facilites
Richmond
Maem
Focgts
Ope
Entaine Vaabarga
Buenoas Aires
Luan
Carlos Ongania
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