Cautious stance urged on heart transplants by NAS
The National Academy of Sciences calls for careful limits and strict safeguards before widespread heart transplant use. It urges independent review before procedures proceed and cautions against treating transplantation as an accepted therapy. Dr Barnard argues moral issues are not involved, planning more operations.
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National Academy of Sciences
Media 1
Academy
The
U. S
Board of Medicine
Christiaan Barnard
Cape Town
Philip Blaiberg
Barnard
Spiritual Vacuum Threatens Society Under Pressures
Wise observers warn Americans face mounting stress and risk of collective nervous breakdown as traditional religion wanes. Critics say the modern era’s affluence fuels a spiritual famine, eroding morals and leaving society built on shifting expediency.
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Prophets of
New School
Captured Documents Business Fuels Vietnam War Narrative
Bart Buchwald reports on a purported North Vietnamese program selling and distributing captured enemy documents. The piece details a supposed 101st Captured Enemy Document Brigade operating underground near the Chinese border, printing 10,000 documents daily on low grade paper. The documents serve multiple uses from insulation to handkerchiefs, while some are forged in English for U S readers. North Vietnam allegedly monetizes the trade and warns of consequences if illegal traffic continues, as Hanoi seeks leverage at talks.
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Washington
Vietnam
Hanoi
CED
Inh Su
101St Ced
Pentagon
101St
Saigon
South
the Avalanche-Journal
Congress
Lubbock
David A. McMakin
H” Co
FPO
San Francisco
Cal
The
Avalanche Journal
John Bircher
John Birchers
John Birch
John A. Martin
41St St
Readers react to politics and war in letters to editor
The Avalanche Journal publishes readers letters criticizing LBJ and drugs, debating Vietnam policy, Texas name changes for state universities, and political alignments. Contributors urge investigations into the drug industry, defend veterans, discuss university naming, and mock Birchers while urging civic engagement.
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Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Texas State University
Texas Technological College
Southwest
University of the Southwest
Glen Amonett
Petersburg
Tales of Davy Crockett and Comanche Trail legends
Offbeat readers share tall Texas yarns about Davy Crockett, halleys comet mystique, and Pecos Bill, plus Comanche Trail lore from Lamesa to the Big Bend. The note seeks stories of local Indian Mounds, petrified giants, Witness Tree, and Palafox Villa ghosts with readers invited to write OBT, care of Ed Syers in Ingram, Texas 78025.
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Lamesa
Ed A. Noret
Mexico
Childress
Matador
Crosbyton
Post
Fort Stockton
Marathon
U.S. 365
Big Bend
Persimmon Gap
Rio Grande
Old Presidio San Vicente
Mariscal Canyon
Dawson
Ranald Mackenzie
Snyder
Wayne Boren
Scurry County
Texas Forestry
Lst
Sycamore
J. Wright Mooar
Scurry
Heallhville
Jolene Jones
Marshall
Harrison County
Bryan
Stuart Cole
Neches
Alto
Texas
Indian Mountains
Brown, Burnet
Comanche
Edwards Counties
Quanah
Medicine Mounds
Lubbock
Dorothy Rylander
Richard Dennis
Dennis
Hood
Shackelford
Uncle Dick
Pleasanton
Steve Ridgway
Laredo
Diamondback
Palafox
Ed Syers
Bax F
Ingram
Levelland Man Can't Go Along On Liquor Issue
Readers letters discuss liquor laws and highway safety, arguing that easier access increases drunk driving and costs welfare, while opposing revenue gains from alcohol sales. Written by J. W. McDonald of Levelland and Mrs. C. J. Hibbetts regarding marriage adjustments and fair treatment.
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Levelland
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock
Santa Fe
Main Street
J. W. McDonald
Idea to curb litter via returnable bottles and cans
Mrs H W Lowery of Plainview proposes banning drinks in cans and non return bottles. She suggests raising deposits on return bottles to create an incentive to recycle. She notes empty bottles and cans collect water and breed mosquitoes and cites the U S population and daily discarded items as a litter problem.
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Avalanche Journal
U. S
H. W. Lowery
Plainview
Editorial on constitutional limits and school prayer
The Avalanche Journal letter argues conservatives ignore the Constitution and critique Supreme Court limits, praises Eisenhower’s Warren appointment, defends prayer in schools as silent and voluntary, urges practical Christian principles in schools, churches, and media. G. A. Graham, 3012 33rd St.
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The
Avalanche Journal
U.S
Birchers
Robert Welch
Welch
Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Warren
Christ
G. A. Graham
Threat to Washington debated in Denver City letter
Sue Stevens argues government tolerance of insurrection and welfare for able bodied workers fuels unrest. She endorses tougher action against Martin Luther King and calls for an AG to "lower the boom." Stevens muses on anti-Communist marches on Washington and questions the high African American population in the capital.
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The
Avalaunche Journal
Washington
Martin Luther King
Cong. O. C. Fisher
Martin Luther King & Co
Sue Stevens
Denver City
Almanac Questions English Richness and Word Use
The World Almanac notes that English has roughly 800000 words but educated Americans use about 5000 in speech. Experts doubt any person has an active vocabulary near 60000 words, suggesting real usage covers only a small fraction of the language.
Portraits Ocean Dawn by John C Metcalfe
A poem describing the ocean dawn with imagery of night fading, fog lifting, and the sunrise painting the sky in crimson and gold. It reflects peaceful seascape scenes and the beauty of morning light over the waters and shore.
Dear Turnrow Tunner on winter fun and choices
O C McBride muses on growing winter recreation in the U S and recalls hog killing days. A reader asks which career has a brighter future between law and surgery while noting divorces outpace operations. The column ends with a light foreign policy quip about defending Europe with help from France.
Public official reflects on hair, fun, and hazy details
An elderly group jokes about kissing girls and lips over goo. A public official declares it’s time to let hair down as a man is killed, leaving hazy details. The piece mixes humor with a fatal incident and a quip about dandruff, attributed to Hocadine.
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Hocadine
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