Plains Farming Subsidy Needed On Cotton Crop
The piece argues for federal subsidies to sustain cotton farming amid prices around 22 cents per pound and rising costs. It contends large and small growers alike need support to maintain competitiveness while producers invest in marketing and efficiency. It notes government payments in 1966-67 totaled 1.7 billion with cotton sales offsetting most costs, and calls for a managed subsidy until research lowers production costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong
Small Town Volunteer Fire Departments Face Funding and Coverage
The article profiles several Texas towns Slaton Abernathy Shallowater Idalou and nearby areas and their volunteer fire departments. It notes equipment like pumper trucks boosters rescue units and four town sirens plus home and car radios for responders. Members include Don Kendrick Clyde Doherty Ed Crow Bury Hart Jessie Lee Vance and Robert Layne Jr. as leaders with coverage across Hale Lubbock Garza Lynn and surrounding counties and insurance implications discussed by Weldon Pud Boyd.
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Slaton
Don Kendrick
Clyde Doherty
Staten
Garza
Lynn
Abernathy
Ed Crow
Hale County
Lubbock County
New Deal
Shalicwater
Bury Hart
Shakewater and
Wolfforth
Jessie Lee Vance
Shallowater
Robert Layne Jr
I[dalou
Idalou
Weldon
Pud) Boyd
Graham Back in Garden for New York Crusade
Evangelist Billy Graham opens a 10 day Madison Square Garden crusade in New York amid a religious slump. About 1,000 ushers and a 2,000-voice interdenom inational choir assist as he tours Times Square and tape broadcasts begin. He links moral decline to societywide immorality and cites past success in 1957 with nearly 2 million attendees and 61,148 religious conversions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Cornell
New York
Billy Graham
Madison Square Garden
Graham
Christ
Timea Square
Times Square
Charlotte
N.C
History Accounts To Go On Tape In California Project
Bancroft Library at the University of California begins a five year project to record first hand political histories from 1925 to 1953. Verbatim accounts will preserve events and motives from those who witnessed them, with emphasis on Earl Warren’s California career from 1943 to 1953.
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Berkeley
Cali
UPN
Califor Inia
Bancroft Library
University of California
California
Earl Warren
U.S
Legend Ended Guerrilla Veteran Dies in Mexico City
Maria del Carmen Rubio de la Llave known as Marieta, a legendary guerrilla fighter with Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, died Thursday after an undisclosed illness. She will be buried today. The folk figure inspired songs including Aye Marieta Dont Seas Coqueta. In recent years she worked as a Mexico City road inspector.
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Mexico City
Maria del Carmen Rubio de la Llave
Pancho Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Black Manifesto Triggers Church Backlash and Debate
The Black Manifesto seeks 500 million dollars from white churches provoking fear of reduced support for Negro aid programs. Church leaders critique tactics, warn of donor pullback, and consider directing funds to independent Black empowerment projects rather than Forman’s group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Cassels
United Press
James Frrman
National Black Economic Development Conference
Forman
Episcopal Church
Haseen
Stephen F. Bayne
Jave Leery
Methodist Board of Missions
Sweden Lubbock Couple Reflects on Longevity and Work Ethic
Arvid and Martha Eklund of Lubbock trace their long lives to hard work and clean living. Born in Sweden, they recount early farm labor and a simple lifestyle, while Jim Latimer of the Social Security Administration notes their experiences with U S Medicare and life in two countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Minnesota
Eklund
Lubbock
Arvid Eklund
Waco St
Stockholm
Martha ‘Hellstrom Eklund
Jampland
Jim Latimer
Social Security
Latimer
Ostersund
Tomn
Arctic Circle
Lapland
Last Battle and Life in Sweden to Emigration
A Swedish immigrant recalls early work from boot making to chandlery, bakery, and a long career as a traveling salesman. He left Sweden for Minnesota in 1903, ran a Virginia Minn sweet shop, then moved to the Southwest and Lubbock, where he spent 40 years in travel sales. He notes Lutheran birth, later religious shifts, and a lifetime of varied work before recounting drafts of U.S. troop withdrawals in Vietnam and Marine unit movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Eklund
United States
Minnesota
Virginia
Minn
Southwest
Lubbock
Lions Club Officers Installed at South Plains Club
New officer slate for the South Plains Lions Club was installed Friday at a diner meeting. From left are Don Nickels treasurer Goodwin Powell secretary Lamar Dvess first vice president and Weldon Adams president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
South Plains Lions Club
Don Nickels
Goodwin Powell Secretari
Lamar Dvess
Weldon Adams
Weather forecast shows showers across Great Lakes to Atlantic states
Showers are expected today from the lower Great Lakes into the North Atlantic states. Additional showers are indicated for parts of Florida, Oklahoma and Texas with rain in portions of the central plains and the Rockies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower
Great Lakes
North Atlantic States
Florida
Oklahoma
Texas
Central Plains
Rockies
Microfiche to Speed Social Security Help in Lubbock
Social Security Administration plans microfiche rollout in West Texas with 27000 plus beneficiaries in the district. District manager John Hutton and Clyde James describe faster service, access to larger beneficiary records, and reduced in person inquiries as microfiche starts in September with nationwide installation by December.
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Lubbock
John G. Hutton
Socio Security Administration
Clyde James
Hutton
Social Security Office
Baltimore
James
Texas Tech
Social Securi
Social Securi. Hhe Foiuw
West Texas
New Mexico
Social Security
United States
Social Security Central Accounting Office
Thees
Medicare
Texas
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Avalanche-Journal
Cotton Producers Institute For
Jesus
Rds
John
Heias
Nixon
Chris
Formans
Owen
U. S. News and World Report
United Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
San Antonio
Tex
9Th Infantry Division
Delta
Vietnam
Armed Forces
9Th Division
Saigon
Pacific Command
Hawaii
Washington
3Rd Marine Division
1St Marine Division
Honolulu
Pentagon
Ini Washington
National Guard
Onefrne Geek Mat Jerrell Perkins
1914
Ave
van Gill
International Bible College
Apostolic Christian Church
Taboha Hwy
EB. Higginbotham
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