01 Mar 1963
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1963
Page
1
Hugh Harbert chairs the Lubbock City Youth Council presenting a 19 point program to city commissioners. The plan aims to create a Youth Service Department focused on counseling rather than law enforcement to help youths with problems and those not in trouble.
Dorothy Schiff announces The New York Post will resume publishing on Monday under old contract terms, ending a 83 day blackout affecting nine major dailies. The move prompts mixed reactions from labor and industry leaders as peace talks resume amid forecasts of a stiff union response.
A 53-year-old workman, John Russell, died after being blown from an 18th floor window of the Tennessee Gas Transmission skyscraper in downtown Houston by a sudden gust of wind. The incident occurred amid a day of unusual cold and mixed precipitation across the Panhandle, South Plains, and Southwest Texas, with alerts for wind and storms in the Houston area.
District Judge Ward Chandler granted an instructed not guilty verdict in the four day oil theft case of David C. Moore of Gladewater. The dismissal ended the trial in Moore stronghold and drew applause from about 175 observers. Moore expressed relief and said he felt completely exonerated.
City Youth Council report backs a proposal to add nine holes to Meadowbrook Golf Course. Lubbock Commissioners approved a 71 item agenda, set a quasi judicial hearing for March 13 on alleged police harassment of Lubbock Ambulance Service, and purchased warehouse stock uniforms and vehicles. A downtown angle parking petition failed after survey showed two of 11 signers used the spots for holidays. Otis Maner and Ken Flagg urged the Meadowbrook expansion with a petition showing 225 to 250 names.
Mary Louise Bell 15, a Roman Catholic schoolstudent, was found beaten and stabbed in a park near Minnehaha Falls. Police say 19 year old Ronald Leroy Steeves told investigators a friend killed her after luring her from an apartment. A 17 year old boy and a 16 year old girl were in the car at the time. Steeves said he carried Mary after she fled and she died in his arms.
A brief prayer note from Mrs. Amos Pate of Littlefield asks for nearness to God during suffering. It thanks God for care in hardship and asks for health or grace to endure, noting sun after rain and joy after sorrow. It affirms God’s constant presence with believers.
Mrs. John M. Brady of Birmingham found a roll of fifty $100 bills in Paramus New Jersey last summer and turned it to police. The Paramus borough council unanimously awarded the $5,000 to her after a nationwide search failed to locate the owner. She plans to donate part to charity and says the rest will fund her two sons through college.
A young woman believed to be a flight attendant was decapitated when the propeller of a DC-7 cooling for takeoff struck her at Logan International Airport Boston. The incident occurred during a shuttle flight to New York and Washington with 24 aboard and witnesses reported the tragedy to police. The victim’s identity was not released.
A Texas House vote killed USTIN A bill to shorten election campaigns as Gov. Connally and party leaders opposed altering May and June dates. Rep. Howard Green admitted the bill’s doom. an amendment killing the enacting clause passed 97-44. The study group urged study rather than a new date. A loan shark control bill moved toward final edits for Senate Banking Committee review.
A light literary note compares marriage to a partnership where two people cooperate for a common purpose against each other, framing domestic life with playful wit across editorial sections.
A pickup truck collided with a Fort Worth Denver Railroad freight train at a Wichita Falls intersection on Thursday, killing A. D. Sheppard of Wichita Falls.
Pennsylvania argues before the Supreme Court that banning Bible readings in public schools would violate the First Amendment by showing government hostility to religion. A three judge Philadelphia court previously ruled the 10 verse daily reading unconstitutional, prompting defense claims the practice is educational, not religious. See HIGH COURT Page 10.
Clear to partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon with high temperatures in the 60s. Winds shift west to southwesterly up to 25 mph across the region.
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