Tech hires Bob Bass to coach Texas Tech cagers
Denver Rockets coach Bob Bass named to succeed Gene Gibson as Texas Tech basketball coach. Bass pledged a new era and said he was already at work. UCLA captured a third consecutive NCAA title with a 92 to 72 win over Purdue. Temple beat Boston College 89 to 76 for the NIT championship.
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Texas Tech
Bob Bass
Denver Rockets
Red Raider
Bass
Gene Gibson
Tech
UCLA
Bruins
Purdue
Temple
Boston College
Communists Shell 15 Bases as US Troops Face Fresh Attacks
In the fifth week of the general offensive, Vietnamese Communists shelled 15 allied bases and towns, with 11 Americans killed and 69 wounded. The fiercest ground clash occurred 250 miles northeast of Saigon, where an armored column of the 4th Infantry Division was ambushed, seven Americans died and 21 were wounded. Across the coast and along a northern infiltration corridor, 109 Communists were killed while American losses stood at four dead and 48 wounded. Spokesmen reported light damage from rocket and mortar fire, with notable helicopter and ground action near a rubber plantation and in the An Loc area.
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Associated Press
Saigon
U. S
U. 8
U. S. 4Th Infantry
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
An Loc
11Th Armored Cavalry
Maj
James Bradin
Buford
N.C
Nixon limits federal retaliation on campus violence
President Nixon denounced campus disorders as a threat to civilization and intellectual freedom while restricting federal retaliation to withholding federal aid from students convicted of law violations. He directed HEW to prepare initiatives to ease tensions as college administrators were urged to enforce aid laws and follow new procedures.
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Associated Press
San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Sec. of Health, Education — and Welfare
Robert H. Frith
Oceanside
California
Los Angeles
Finch
Congress
Roman C. Pucinski
D-Ii
Prayer of Guidance from a Lubbock Reader
A prayer asks for the Holy Spirit to help T recognize every child of God with love today. The speaker requests guidance and support to rise when they fall, in a devotional note from a Lubbock reader.
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Lubbock
All-Around Cowboy title ends rodeo in Lubbock
Ray Westbrook reports BUZZ SEALEY of Roosevelt Washington won $920.70 and the All-Around Cowboy title at the 27th ABC Rodeo in Lubbock. The four day event closed Saturday at the Municipal Coliseum with Fess Parker and The New Establishment drawing big crowds. Clown Jimmy Schumaker and his dog act entertained as riders Kathy Crowe Dolly Beutler and J W Stoker performed bravado runs on running horses.
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James Boyett
Avalanche-Journal
Buzz Sealey
Roosevelt, Wash
ABC
Lubbock
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
Fess Parker
Daniel Boone
Jimmy Schumaker
Dre Betler and Son
Eley
Kathy Crowe
Dolly Beutler
J. W. Stoker
Washington
Fire kills two in four story Los Angeles building blaze
An apartment house blaze in Los Angeles left Army Pfc. Theodore Smiley and Celia Shiffman dead as 15 others were injured. Firefighters battled the 40 unit building for 45 minutes with 115 men on scene. Arson investigators looked into the cause of the $100,000 blaze.
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Los Angeles
Heath
San
Central
Celia Shiffman
Army Pfc
Theodore Smiley
Postal boom in West Texas amid soaring sixties economy
Avalanche Journal maps postal receipts from 99 offices across 31 counties around Lubbock. 1960 total reached 5.73 million dollars, climbing to 8.83 million by 1968 for reporting offices. Case study: Andrews rose from 4,264 in 1942 to over 100,000 by 1962, illustrating broad gains.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
West Texas
Andrews
Point
Solon Sees Conflict of Interest in Defense Payrolls
Sen. William Proxmire reveals that 2,072 retired high ranking officers work for the 10 leading defense contractors. He cites the military industrial complex as a danger to public interest and plans to name the officers and firms in a Senate speech. The 10 firms employ most retirees and hold over $26 billion in military contracts.
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United Press International
Washington
William Prosmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Senate
Defense Department
Pentagon
Department
United States
Oo Proxmire
Lockheed Aircraft
Boeing Company
McDonnell Douglas Corp
General Dynamics
North American Rockwell
General Electric
Ling Temco Vought
Westinghouse Electric
TRW, Inc
Hughes Aircraft, Co
Matte Arrested After Shooting At Mosquito Helicopter
Gerard Matte, 22, was arrested Saturday on a charge of shooting at a low flying helicopter in Montpelier France. The helicopter spraying marshes for mosquitos forced to land after buckshot holes appeared in its gas tank and the pilot was hit in the leg.
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Montpelier
France
Gerard Matte
Weather bumper storms lash South Plains with hail and rain
A Pacific cold front triggered storms across the South Plains delivering up to 2 inches of rain and ping pong ball hail in Swisher County with several X roads reported as slick. Lubbock recorded .46 inches with other towns seeing scattered showers as forecasts predicted lingering unsettled weather.
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Dave Knapp
Avalanche-Journal
South Plains
Swisher County
Tulsa-Happy
Sheriff's
Danntiac
Ran Arind
SREP
Serena
Lubbock
Lockney
Tulsa
Happy
U. S. Weather Bureau
West Texas Air Terminal
Amarillo - Presidio
Weather Bureau
Miami youths plan decency rally at Orange Bowl
Thousands of Miami teens plan a rally at the Orange Bowl to promote decency led by Mike Levesque 17 and other originators of the D D D for Decency program. Sponsors target 50 000 attendees with entertainers Jackie G Anita Bryant and bands. The event has ecumenical support from Roman Catholic Protestant and Jewish leaders and rent free use of the stadium was provided. Donations reached 3800 by Saturday.
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Associated Press
Miami
America
Mike Levesque
Levesque
Mike
Two On Serious List Two-Car Mishap Fatal To Abernathy Woman
A two-car collision 4 3 p m Saturday 2 1 miles north of Lubbock at County Road 62 and Quaker Avenue killed Claudia Havins Smith 41 Abernathy and injured Hilton Morris Smith 40 and Amberson Smith Akens 64 from Graham. Both others hospitalized in serious condition.
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Lubbock
County
Road 62
Quaker Avenue
Justice of the Peace
Wayne Leeroy
Claudia Havins Smith
Abernathy
Hilton Morris Smith
Methodist Hospital
Aid
Amberson Smith Akens
Graham
Texas Highway
Pat Thompson
Smith
Akens
Thompson
Renee Aus
Epertine
Pam
Peyeneee
Renee
A.m. Oy
Southwes City
Abilene
Denver
Albuquerque
el Paso
Amarillo
Houston
Clovis
Okla
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