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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1964
Page
8
Lubbock voters approved a $15.668 million capital program in 1968. Current outdoor projects totaling $4.737 million plus $1 million in cost-sharing work aim to complete by year end. City officials expect no tax increase and anticipate steady activity through summer as citizens see the program proceed.
Public Safety reports 1963 crime levels reaching a new high with increases across major categories. Major crimes occurred roughly every two and a half minutes, and total crimes rose 5.8 percent from 1962 and 88.6 percent from 1953. Colonel Garrison cites population growth not fully explaining the trend while noting FBI national increases.
A Brussels tale reports a Belgian man who just turned 104, rejected by the Army in 1881 for a weak heart, retired 44 years ago, yet remains robust enough to blow out candles. He quips that the secret to longevity is do nothing.
The fragment lists the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and its publishing variations, references to Associated Press and United Press international wire service affiliation, and a pledge text resembling the U.S. national motto. It cites Amarillo and Texas locations with a date of March 24 1964.
Readers in New York Brooklyn and beyond respond to coverage of the Ruby trial. Citizens accuse columnists of vilifying jurors and civic figures while debating editorials, quotes from Hearst and Bernard Weissman, and posttrial reflections on journalism and justice.
Senator Kenneth Keating criticized a secret U.S. plan to disburse nearly a half million dollars in Nazi property claims to former Austrian Nazis or sympathizers. He urged Secretary Rusk to reveal any outstanding or frozen assets and warned the treaty approach bypasses law and could undermine justice as war-criminal trials continue.
Andrew Tully argues for U S intervention in Cambodia citing strategic risk to Laos South Vietnam and Thailand. He details Sihanouk’s alliances with Red China and Moscow and calls for force including Marines to protect regional interests amid anti American protests.
Dispatches report Hungarian leaders and top army chiefs appear captured as Hitler tightens grip in Hungary. In Wichita Falls, Sergeant-Gunner Rankin Dumont Wyman and his father are reunited after 22 years apart, following combat service in the Solomons and a mistaken death notice.
Washington columnist Richard Starnes urges a more fitting memorial at Arlington Cemetery for John F. Kennedy and his children. He critiques the grave site as cluttered and shabby with a bare fence and scattered floral tributes, calling for dignity and beauty to reflect the late president.
AFL CIO President George Meany said expanding the minimum wage would be the most effective weapon in the war on poverty. He spoke at a Building Trades conference in Washington and backed Johnson's antipoverty legislation, noting labor strongly supports training programs as part of the effort.
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