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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1971
Page
6
Justice Department wins court appeal as the front page war series is blocked from publication. The weather section notes a hot summer preview with highs near 95 in Lubbock and widespread humidity across the state.
An Odessa DPS helicopter will search for Mrs. Green who vanished from Andrews while living with her son and parents. Police link her disappearance to three other slain women found on oil lease land, suggesting possible abduction by an oilfield worker.
President Nixon met with news executives in Rochester to push Congress passing revenue sharing welfare reform and government reorganization bills. He framed the tax protests as a taxpayers revolt aimed at skyrocketing property taxes and pledged a 30 percent potential relief from federal revenue sharing. He cautioned against false euphoria on foreign policy while rallying crowds and noting a multiagency effort to curb drug trafficking.
Ponnamperuma reports identical amino acid and pyrimidine patterns in the 1969 Murchison meteorite and the Murray meteorite from 21 years earlier. He suggests the shared chemistry may reflect a basic phase in the universe’s organic molecule formation and cites NASA Ames as the paper source.
President Nixon adviser Paul McCracken says unemployment decline is too slow and 6 percent is near, as OECD predicts U S jobless rate will not fall far below that level. All 15 most active issues fell, 12 by more than a point, on the American Stock Exchange with an 0.28 drop in the Amex index to 25.38. volume reached 4.31 million shares.
Apollo 15 astronauts Col. David Scott Maj. Alfred Worden and Lt. Col. James Irwin named their command ship Endeavour and landing craft Falcon. They launch July 26 from Cape Kennedy for a 12 day mission promising the "most significant scientific exploration" with a lunar buggy to cover 25 miles on a northern plain near the Apennine mountains.
Worden will spend 67 hours on the moon double the time of prior Apollo landings. He will also use a new instrument set aboard the orbiting command ship to map extensive regions on both sides of the moon and collect data on regions unreachable by astronauts.
Lubbock firefighters reported a calm shift with no major fires. Alarms included a 1:30 a.m. blaze of cotton bales at Plains Co-op on Coronado Road, a 2:59 a.m. attempted arson at Majestic Club, and an 11:44 a.m. washdown of weedkiller after a car wreck on Brownfield Highway.
The Washington Post reports secret Pentagon papers show Johnson advisers planned unproductive bombing lulls to justify escalation and placate opinion while seeking to push North Vietnam toward negotiations. The study notes lulls were treated as steps to intensify pressure, with talks only possible after easing terms.
Reports from Saigon indicate at least 13 Marines killed and 15 wounded with final tallies pending while Da Nang sources say heavy fighting eased Friday morning though sporadic mortar fire continued. Ba He Mountain lies two miles from Fire Base Sarge where rockets and mortars have rained for a month. Outposts Sarg and two nearby sites were shelled again Thursday with light casualties reported. Farther south an American was killed and more than six wounded in two attacks 43 miles east of Saigon. The U S Command attributed most casualties to entrenched enemy forces opening fire on a U S air cavalry patrol. Nearby Saigon, a security sweep uncovered an enemy stockpile nine miles southeast of the capital including 15 Soviet rifles, 20 grenades, 20 blasting caps and 1 500 rounds of ammunition.
The police chief stepped down amid an inquiry into a liquor theft involving department staff. The council urged resignation citing a lack of cooperation with city employees and other law enforcement. City Attorney Dan Prouty also resigned, becoming assistant city attorney in Dallas. Other top officials had quit recently.
Governor Smith addresses the public at 6 30 p m CDT and 7 30 p m CDT detailing the recent legislative session. He cites saving taxpayers from a 2 cent per gallon gasoline tax by threatening a veto, prompting lawmakers to roll back the tax while he signed the rest of the new levies.
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