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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1964
Page
5
Senate debates a compromise filibuster gag rule linked to employment discrimination limits. A bipartisan coalition backs an amendment and supports staged reductions from 100 employees or 100 union members, while leaders from both parties oppose changes and plan a cloture showdown with around 66 votes anticipated.
Lt Gen Howell M Estes Jr named commander of the Military Air Transport Command by President Johnson. The space expert and former Lubbock visitor is celebrated as a popular figure who called Lubbock his adopted home town.
A Kansas missionary education tour bus carrying 41 people collided with a dump truck near Cuba New Mexico. The truck driver Buddy Hendricks was killed and 39 bus passengers were injured while the bus overturned and debris spread across the highway. Only two occupants escaped uninjured.
Debris fills waterways while helicopters circle for stranded residents. The lth Avenue Bridge nears inundation as evacuations expand fifty miles downstream to Loma population 125. Gov. Babcock cites ten million dollar flood damage and engineers plan downstream dam safeguards.
Various early 20th century notices report births in Wichita and Lubbock with weights and times, plus a highway incident in New Mexico where three women were rescued from a bus. Names include Dale, Randall J. Rickels, Frank A. Rivera, and Glynn Haddock. locations include West Texan Hospital and Main Street in Lubbock.
Widespread Montana floods batter towns along the Missouri and Flathead rivers. Rescue teams pull bodies from debris while evacuees flood Kalispell and Lewistown areas. A temporary morgue sets up south of Browning as crews work amid wrecked dikes and gasoline spills.
Gen Estes will go to United Nations duties with Lt Gen Blanchard as his deputy. Underhill will leave Inter American Defense Board chairmanship as the post rotates. Terrill to be replaced by Maj Gen Henry Viccellio who now leads the 19th Air Force. Davis Viccellio Compton promoted to lieutenant general with Compton to become inspector general of the Air Force. Ryan moves to vice commander in chief of Strategic Air Command while Harris becomes commander in chief of Pacific Air Forces.
A border patrolman received an anonymous tip about a bomb on a bridge. Officials confronted the caller but realized the message referred to a bum on the bridge, not an explosive, as Akira Sato explains the miscommunication.
Governors meeting in Cleveland discuss Romney's reluctance to run for president and Nixon's push to unite behind a moderate candidate. Goldwater stands wary as Nixon hints at a potential anti Goldwater strategy, while party leaders gauge the path to 655 delegates for the convention in San Francisco next month.
President hopeful Richard Nixon told reporters at the National Governors Conference that the Republican nominating race is being determined this week He indicated that if Governor George W Romney does not actively seek the nomination it will default to Barry Goldwater Nixon called his own chances "very remote" and said Rockefeller Scranton are effectively out of contention He predicted Goldwater will be nominated on the first ballot in San Francisco unless Romney enters the race
Hundreds of Black residents shouted for freedom as they clashed with police outside a Tuscaloosa church. The violent outbreak involved mainly teenagers and followed a ban on street demonstrations, leaving the scene bloody and chaotic.
The Star notes Lady Bird Johnson invested in a Texas radio station that grew into a broadcasting empire while Lyndon Johnson rose through the Senate Commerce Committee and later the presidency. FCC records show no proof he sought preferential treatment, and the First Lady placed family holdings in trust with no income during his tenure.
A veteran attorney is lauded in a formal tribute noting his landmark career as a trial lawyer and the high esteem in which he is held by judges, fellow lawyers, and colleagues.
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