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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1973
Page
6
A 1973 report describes Dean detailing a cover-up plan involving the President and key aides. He cites talks about Watergate matters with Nixon and others, noting discussions of clemency and strategic handling as investigators prepared to widen the Senate inquiry.
Dean testified in a five week hearing that Haldeman Ehrlichman and other officials directed cover up actions. He described meetings about money to silence Watergate defendants and said Nixon discussed possible executive clemency and raising up to one million dollars.
Kerr Construction Co and S2H1T 25 assess paving costs for Precincts 1 2 3 and 4 totaling 247 722 13.77 65 716. The commission approves an IBM dictation equipment contract for the district attorney office after noting IBM may be lowest when discounts are applied. Bob Nash reports Lubbock Lakesite Development Corp seeks private funding for the archaeological dig with needs for beef for participants and fencing materials. A special meeting is set with the Hospital District to discuss space for a new county teaching hospital.
A surgeon reports a second operation at City Hospital to repair a ankle joint implant. The two hour surgery followed a three hour first operation six weeks earlier. The patient will rest with a cast then undergo therapy as tissues heal.
The article notes potential grain shortages and ongoing price controls. It cites Secretary Earl Butz discussing possible expansion of export controls and the impact on feed costs and meat prices. Stores display ceiling lists under freeze rules while customers show limited interest.
State officials said Artesia Hall may be operating without a license as it prepares to house remaining students. A former welfare supervisor testified she was demoted after opposing the license and alleged pressure from a former State Board member. The school, under state control since Friday, had only 12 pupils remain with 37 withdrawn by parents by Sunday night.
Investigators traced the murder area after witnesses reported seeing Canales in a northside cafe Saturday night. A shirt fragment and buttons were found in a blood pool. the weapon is missing. Canales body was found near the city sewage lake at Levelland. Graveside services were held for Canales at Hockley County Cemetery.
Report notes a man slain near Levelland with clothes removed except for a red shirt. Authorities say the scene is about a half mile north of the radio station on an oil lease road. The article also mentions college funding and energy capacity forecasts.
Tech Music Theatre inaugurates its first summer season with a double bill of Menotti operas The Telephone and The Old Maid And The Thief The performances run Monday through Thursday with dress rehearsals and are praised for their singing piano accompaniment and humor Tickets are 1 for students and 1 50 for nonstudents Donations to the Tech music scholarship fund welcomed at dress rehearsal Performances begin at 8 p m in the Laboratory Theater near the Tech Library end by 9 30 p m
The communique issued as Brezhnev met with Georges Pompidou in Paris urged mutual withdrawal talks and a 50 percent trade boost between the two nations from 2 billion to 3 billion over three years. It called for strict ceasefire enforcement in Vietnam and Laos and an early end to fighting in Cambodia, with each country free to determine its political future without outside interference.
Rep Gunn McKay withdrew his yes vote causing a tie and the House then approved the Senate cutoff by voice vote. The action blocks all supplemental funds and prior war appropriations for bombing. Opponents vow to attach stricter China war bans to future defense funding and start Tuesday with a stopgap continuing resolution to fund DoD and agencies until regular bills pass.
The district approves a 5.395 million loan and 7.395 million federal loans to fund a teaching hospital project. federal bonds will cover the loans and the government will pay the first 3 percent interest. The district expects to cover remaining interest near 4 to 5 percent as construction progresses amid past funding disappointments. The board also authorizes indigent care payments totaling 46,751.56 for hospitals, 874.49 for drugs, 5,098.48 for physician services, and 1,628.62 for transport in May.
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