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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1971
Page
8
The court rejected Rose demands for injunctions on the bond fund, citing details on fund use and monthly accounting. City must tighten control of the Board of City Development and define duties, amid a dispute over disaster recovery bond funds and chamber of commerce dues.
A new Area Vocational School in Lamesa opens for classes in September within the high school facilities. The $266000 center includes cosmetology auto mechanics and distributive education with seven audio programs and forty study carrels for independent study. Administrators named are Neal Chastain and Jim Davee. trustees include Brown Hughes Agnes Smiley Norman, Reid, and Bratcher.
Barbara White of Tahoka presents a 14 karat gold bale of cotton to Elda Crews, Miss Cotton of Texas, at the Texas Cotton Association convention in Dallas. Crews, photographed at Lubbock Regional Airport, wore the 10-diamond miniature bale during a luncheon show.
Draper a Tahoka native and farmer dies in a crash near the airport at Lamesa. Funeral services are 2:30 p.m. Monday at Tahoka Church of Christ with minister Darnell Boyd officiating. Burial in Tahoka Cemetery. Draper attended Tahoka schools and Abilene Christian College. his daughter Deborah recently featured for a solo flight on her 16th birthday. He has two sisters, Barbara Finley of Denver and Linda George of Denton.
A late season winter storm blankets from the northern Great Plains to the Upper Great Lakes with rain sleet and freezing rain. In Tahoka funeral services were held for Thomas, a local farmer and North Texas State alumnus, with burial in Tahoka. Survivors include his wife Marion and son John Frederick Thomas IV, plus his mother and grandparents.
At Monterrey senior carnival last fall Vicki ran a caricature booth with drawings priced from 35 to 75 cents. Her instructor Mrs. Paul Boone encouraged her to enter the Junior Classical League state contest in San Angelo where her Pandora drawing won first place. In August she swept National Junior Classical contest prizes with first second third and superior ribbons among thousands of entrants. winning pieces included Charta Aeneidas Geographica.
Vicki will attend the state contest in San Antonio on April 2 with Armor Study as her main entry. She plans to study art at Washington University in St. Louis where 120 freshmen are admitted to the art program. Vicki plays piano and guitar, sings in the Monterey school choir, and hopes to teach college level art in the future.
UT regents returned a $600,000 anonymous donation intended for the chancellor's $907,000 West Austin home amid accusations by the Legal Research Project and the Daily Texan. Former chair Frank C. Erwin Jr blamed campus critics, calling the controversy an attack on the board and noting the donor’s wish for anonymity and the funds' nonallocation in public funds.
Ligarde, a 50 year old House member since 1963, weighs options for new taxes. He foresees a state income tax and raises in sales and franchise taxes to fund finances, noting nine states lack personal or corporate income taxes. He argues timing matters to avoid crisis driven legislation.
Brenda Box, 19, from Amarillo and UT Austin student, won Miss Texas Universe and will compete in the Miss Universe Pageant in Miami in May. First runnerup was Jackie Lynn Behrendt of San Antonio. second runnerup was Sandra Hagler of Coleman County.
UPI reports fierce air strikes destroyed over 120 Soviet built tanks and 1.3 million liters of gasoline during the Laos campaign. South Vietnamese troops may take control of a DMZ base as U S withdraws from northern bases. Khe Sanh defenses are dismantled while North Vietnamese raids loom near the Laotian border. An attack on Luang Prabang airport halted a C130 cargo flight with artillery for Laos.
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