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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1971
Page
4
News briefs report two Red Cross sponsored classes at Clapp and Mackenzie Pools with sessions 6 30 to 8 pm Monday through Friday. Included are accident and injury updates from Methodist Hospital, Lea General Hospital, and local funeral notices for residents of Slaton Hobbs Andrews and Lubbock.
A Minneapolis officer trying to save three Idaho Falls climbers in Grand Teton National Park plunged into a snow hole and into an underground stream, coming within inches of reaching a nine year old before rising water forced him back. Divers recovered the climbers days later in murky 30 feet of water. the incident was the park’s worst climbing accident.
Funeral services for Barney Reece Latham 69 will be held at 4pm Thursday at First Baptist Church Paducah with Rev. Robert Beck. Burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter Carol Vrska and nine grandchildren. native of Cattle County and retired chef.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck between Corona and Elsinore at 3:41 a.m. triggering alarms and splashing water from the Western White House pool. No damage reported at Nixon’s San Clemente home or across Riverside Orange and San Bernardino counties. The quake marks Cal Tech’s eighth event in two days on the Elsinore Fault, not an aftershock of the Feb. 9 6.6 event.
A 52 year old Wichita Falls truck driver and a 24 year old Heavener motorcyclist died in Oklahoma. Fred Shrewsberry, 52, of Wichita Falls, was killed north of Oklahoma 7 on I 35 in Garvin County while changing a flat tire. Toy Wise, 24, of Heavener, died when his motorcycle left a sharp curve and hit a fence in eastern Oklahoma.
Plainview funeral services set for James Edward White 35 after a Saturday dance shooting at Hereford Odd Fellows Temple. He died at Central Plains Hospital after a head wound. Three bystanders injured. two brothers in custody. White survived by wife Tressie, four children, parents in Plainview, siblings across Texas and beyond.
Charles Fulkerson elected president of the Terry County United Fund. New officers include Lee Bartlett Jr as first vice president Johnny Stockton as second vice president Bobbye Slack as secretary and Frank Gordon as treasurer The outgoing president W A Dub Legion received a plaque for service.
Services for Tamie Fernandez three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Fernando Fernandez of Rt 3 Shallowater will be at 1 pm Thursday in Shallowater Catholic Church. Burial will be in Lubbock City Cemetery. The child died after being injured at home when farm equipment struck her head. Survivors include her parents a sister Christine and grandparents Mr and Mrs Santiago Servin of Lubbock.
Services for Jerry Willis Goolsby 78 of 508 Ave B are set for 2 p m Thursday at Sanders Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park. He died Tuesday morning at Highland Hospital after living in Lubbock since 1937 moving from Knox City. He was a retired carpenter and contractor. Survived by wife Farinie four sons Wadelon John Obbie and Anson, a daughter Vera Kret, two sisters Enla Bregs and Lula Prestridge, 14 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Services for James M Manire 89 of 2320 20th St will be at 10 am at University Church of Christ with Jim Massey and Cline Paden officiating Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park under Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home direction Manire died about 8 40 pm Monday in St Mary of the Plains Hospital after a month long illness He was a retired farmer and lived in Lubbock 21 years He was a University Church of Christ member Survivors include two sons James J of Gresham Ore and Melvin D of Oregon City Ore two daughters Mrs Joe Bollinger of 5020 42nd St and Mrs Wanda Jones of 5001 42nd St a sister Mrs Alice Phillips of Flagstaff Ariz 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren
Louise Fowler Weldon was killed early Tuesday near Lake Worth Bridge after a divorce court hearing. Investigators suspect three men chased her as she returned from a Richardson Texas Instruments job to Azle with her two year old daughter and her husband Ronnie Weldon granted visitation in a preliminary divorce ruling.
Funeral services for Roy Allen Hill 60 of Andrews will be held at 2 30 p m in the Chapel of the Chimes at Sieleton Funeral Home with Jerry Browning of the Downtown Church of Christ officiating. Burial will follow in Andrews Cemetery. Hill, a Texas native, had lived in Andrews six years after previously residing in Wellington. He died Monday afternoon in the Veterans Administration Hospital at Big Spring. Survivors include his wife one sister Mrs Margaret Winesman of Seattle Wash and three brothers Ernest Hill of Andrews T R Hill serving in the U S Air Force and Elmer Hill of Amarillo.
A farewell poem by Julien C Hyer cites Genesis 31 49 and Shakespeare to bless parting. The speaker frames Mizpah as a departing word and notes the Lord will watch between them while they are apart. The dated, religiously framed marriage farewell reflects 19th or early 20th century sentiment.
ABERNATHY August M. Jones 73 lifelong Abernathy resident and real estate salesman died Tuesday afternoon at his home. Services set for 2 30 p m today in the United Methodist Church of Abernathy with Rev Conrad Ryan officiating assisted by Rev H G Coggin. Burial in Abernathy Cemetery under Chambers Funeral direction. Lottie two sons Wayman and Carol a daughter Mrs Rex McKinney two sisters Mrs Luja Darden Mrs Clara Galloway 11 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Paul Rowling 67, a former Snyder resident, died Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Big Spring. He lived in El Paso at his death. Services today at Bell Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Pat Abbananto officiating. Burial at Hillside Memorial Gardens. Born in Buffalo New York, he married Gladys Cox in El Paso in 1945. she died in 1963. Survivors include sisters Elizabeth Gaginella Milwaukee and Mary Perrie Chicago.
William W. Heath 67 former University of Texas regent and ambassador to Sweden under Johnson died of an apparent heart attack at his Austin home. Heath chaired the UT board during desegregation and later practiced law with his nephew. Funeral plans were pending. survivors include wife Mavis Barnett two daughters two brothers and four grandchildren.
Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mrs Johnson will visit Odessa to dedicate the John Ben Shepperd Jr. Memorial Library of the Presidents. Johnson speaks at 5 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, First Christian Church, with Mrs Johnson dedicating the library at 4 15 p.m. The exhibit marks the museum’s 14th showing of a former U.S. president. The library honors John Ben Shepperd Jr., who died in an auto accident in 1970. his father, John Ben Shepperd Sr., helped organize the Presidential Museum.
Services for Martha Alice Day 79 of Afton will be held at 3 pm in First Baptist Church Afton burial at Afton Segler Funeral Home Matador. She died Tuesday morning in Lubbock Methodist Hospital survived by son Marshall Day of Akimogorda two daughters Jewell Pendergrass Phoenix Pauline Bateman Afton two brothers Ballard Winkels Plainview Leslie Winkels Anson two sisters Flora Alexander Toma King Irene White Rising Star and 25 grandchildren two great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
A Dallas department store published an advertisement reading Six Spiro Agnew watches Were $15, then $7.49. Now $4.99. The cheeky sale copy drew notice as a playful commentary on political times.
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