City Council backs right approach after tense East Lubbock talks
In a Thursday meeting councilman Leaton Rigsby urged doing what is right as black residents pressed for improvements. A citizens committee will study issues and push ongoing improvements while avoiding violence. Voters and businesses show support for hiring more minorities and equitable city policies.
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Leaton Rigsby
Lubbock
East Lubbock
Evers
John Conyers
D-Mich
Charles Evers
Mississippi
Idea of Criminal District Attorney in Lubbock County
Legislation quietly proposes merging the District Attorney and County Attorney roles in Lubbock County with a 1973 start. Proponents cite better law enforcement and efficiency, while critics note the process lacked public discussion and the bill’s secrecy. The plan fixes salaries at about 90 percent of a district judge’s pay.
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Lubbock County
Delwin Jones
Dallas
Cabinet rejects mini skirt ban as unconstitutional in Thailand
The Bangkok cabinet rejected a Parliament member's proposal to ban mini skirts and hot pants, branding the idea unconstitutional. The move highlights debates over dress norms in Thai society and government authority.
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Bangkok
GOP Vietnam Plank of 1968 Predicted Nixon Policies
David Lawrence argues the 1968 Republican platform contains a prophetic critique of Johnson era Vietnam policy and foreshadowed Nixon administration approaches. The text condemns overreach, urges new leadership, and endorses selective military, political, and diplomatic aims with a peace plan based on self-determination and multilateral cooperation.
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Vietnam
Wasitington
Dltcate
America
Republican Party
United States
Thie
Southeast Asia
U.S
Miami Beach
Weird Bits From Plainsmans Column on Town Life
A light paged column notes a progressive grocer offering car delivery and financing. It mentions pollution not destroying civilization and a motel wall problem hindering listening but aiding sleep. The piece hints at Midland flagpole sitters and tips on rigging a flagpole.
Community Theater seeks flagpole sitters for Good News
Mrs. Bill Garay of Midland seeks guidance on safe flagpole seating for two volunteers to promote Midland Community Theater's Good News musical, part of the theater's 25th anniversary with showings July 410 and July 16-17.
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Bill Garay
Camarie St
Midland
Garay
Garay Soonest
Lindsay McCloskey Pact Rumor Ties Nixon Challenge
An anon New York adviser claims Mayor Lindsay and Rep McCloskey met in New Hampshire to plot Lindsay's Republican bid against Nixon. The plan allegedly seeds an anti Nixon campaign, with McCloskey courting anti war and GOP factions while Lindsay targets Democratic cross over potential.
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Washington
New York
John Lindsay
Lindsay
California
Pete
McCloskey
Nixon
New Hampshire
Concord
St. Anselm's College
Manchester
Tiger
Téndsay
Jase
Muskies
McGoverns
Humphreys
Pass It On L M Boyd column questions and lore
The column presents a mix of quips and curios about love at first sight a famous trolley anecdote and a baby delivery myth with brief audience Q A exchanges. It covers social norms past and present and invites reader correspondence to Fort Worth Texas for inclusion.
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Royal Commission On Assizes
Royal Commission
Jove
TTU
Clifford B. Jones
Doctor Jones
Texas Tech
Alumni Association
Edwin C. Hill
Warman
L. M. Boyd
P.O
Fort Worth
Texas
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