Air Armada Targets Ho Trail as Red Supply Route Under Strain
Hundreds of U S warplanes including B52 bombers roared over Laos and Vietnam as raids against the Ho Chi Minh Trail intensified. Military reports say 1,200 to 1,500 North Vietnamese vehicles moved daily, while only about 8 percent of supplies reached South Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hanoi
United States
Nixon
Laos
Red
Khe Sanh
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Luang Prabang
Kompong Som
South Vietnam
Old Whitharral site rebuilt after tornado reunion
Whitharral residents and alumni gathered for a reunion at a rebuilt $445,000 school complex that combines an elementary, high school junior high, cafeteria and band hall under one roof. More than 50 early settlers attended and toured the new facilities after the April tornado damaged the prior structures.
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Tanner Laine
Journal
Whitharral
Hockley County
Lions Club
Tahoka Men Die in Plane Crash Near Lamesa Airport
Special to The Avalanche reports a light single engine plane crashed less than a mile north of Lamesa Municipal Airport Saturday morning. Two Tahoka residents were found dead, identified as pilot Howard Bland Draper 36 and passenger John Frederick Freddy Thomas TTL 26.
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Lamesa
Howard Bland Draper
John Frederick
Freddy'' Thomas Ttl
Wreck Kills Two Men in Piper Plane Crash
A Piper PA 150 crashed and flipped in a field leaving two dead. Peace Justice A L Standefer said the victims died at the scene while en route from Tahoka to Odessa. Relatives reported they left Tahoka Friday night and the plane was found near John Middleton Jr. farm by Alberto Diaz at dawn.
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Peace Justice
A. L. Standefer
Tahoka Io Odessa
Tahoka
Alberto Diaz
John Middleton Jr
Lubbock Council rejects Rose offer over bond suit
The Lubbock City Council refused to bargain with Merle Rose regarding his appeal of a capital improvements bond program. The four paragraph reply said the demands repeated the suit’s allegations and the council lacks jurisdiction. Rose, facing a Monday deadline for $7 million bond delivery, held a last-ditch meeting with mayor James Granberry and others to drop the suit.
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Kenneth May
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Merle Rose
Rose
James Granberry
Denton Rigsby
Robert Isom
James G. Marshall
Granberry
Prayer Note From A Reader
A reader offers a daily supplication asking for guidance to follow God’s will in all activities today. It invokes Heavenly Father and seeks obedience and discernment for the day.
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Heavenly Father
Lubbock Girl Vicki Moses Wins National Art Honors
Monterey High School student Vicki Moses, 17, earned top ribbons in national and state art shows. She began art in eighth grade, joined Ninth grade for fun, and progressed to portraits of friends and travelers at terminals, reflecting a budding artistic career.
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Vicki Moses
Astro City Park
Sam Moses
55Th St
Pauline Warner
Monterey High School
Vicki
Lubbock
Van Norman Lake drains revealing quake damage near Sylmar
After the February quake that killed 64 people, engineers drain Van Norman Lake near Sylmar to assess dam damage. Cracked towers, buckled slabs and twisted steel reveal the full extent as authorities plan a rebuilt dam in the same area within two years. The study, by city and state, aims to guide a similar emergency storage reservoir replacement for Los Angeles.
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Associated Press
Sylmar
Calif
San Fernando Valley
van Norman Lake
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Gerald A. Wyss
Wyss
Los Angeles
West Texas Sees Record 100 Degree Day Across Cities
Record highs hit 100 in Childress and Wichita Falls while Lubbock reached 94 with a 52 overnight. San Angelo 96 Midland 95 Amarillo 94 Abilene 92 El Paso tied 1928 record. A cool front lowers temperatures toward spring by Monday across Panhandle.
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Mike Read
Avalanche-Journal
West Texas
Panhandle
Childress
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
San Angelo
Midland
Amarillo
Abilene
el Paso
Midland site for Tidwell mobile home plant
A Tidwell Industries plant will be built in Midland Industrial Park, Haleyville Alabama firm to employ 250 workers and generate about 1 million dollars in payroll annually. It will be Tidwell’s fifth facility in two years marking a rapid expansion.
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Midland
Chamber of Commerce
Tidwell Industries, Inc
Haleyville
Ala
Tidwell
Top Races Heat South Plains Elections
Upcoming school and municipal races across the South Plains spark interest with competitive contests. A county judge Hulon Moreland of Levelland recalls a past "gold hunt" as part of a story with photo on Page 8, Sec. A. UCLA coverage on Page 1, Sec. B.
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South Plains
Hulon Moreland
Levelland
UCLA
State income tax gains traction in Texas House
Rep. Honore Ligarde, a Laredo banker with a moderate voting record, argues the state personal income tax has come of age as a necessity. He will gauge legislative mood Wednesday regarding the idea that has shifted from stigma to consideration.
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Associated Press
Austin
Laredo
Texas
Honore Ligarde
Tax proposal aims 1 percent income levy on individuals and firms
House committee hears Ligarde’s income tax bill to fund state needs claiming a 1 percent tax on federal payments would yield about 62 million dollars annually. The plan would not affect individuals for two years and signals a shift beyond sales tax reliance.
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House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Ligarde
House
Senate
Lamesa Opens 1.5 Million Middle School Facility
The Lamesa Middle School unveiled a modern building and a program of continuous progress learning. Dr. Glen Barnett of Texas Tech University spoke at the dedication, highlighting self-directed learner goals and team teaching.
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Lamesa
West Texas
Cetral Lamesa
Glen Barnett
Texas Tech University
Lamesa Middle School Dedication Marks New Center
In Lamesa the 1.5 million learning center dedication occurred at 2 p.m. with Supt. Alvin Cannady, board President Bill Reid, Vice President Charles Bratcher and local ministers in attendance. The new facility serves grades five through eight as part of the district's learning-center plan.
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Lubbock
Northerly
Lamesa
Alvin Cannady
Bill Reid
Charles Bratcher
Lamesa Middle School
Dan Inady
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