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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1966
Page
6
A Saigon protest movement grows from Hue and Da Nang student actions with pledges of support and street demonstrations. Local markets show food mainly from the United States or other areas for American forces.
A fast moving fire at Palo Duro Poultry Farms seven miles south of Amarillo caused over 30000 in damage. Three broad barns a feed mill and three truckloads of grain burned. No poultry was present. Firefighters from Canyon and Amarillo fought the blaze for hours.
In a northern New Jersey case, Dennis Van Orden says his sister Penny was found beaten and raped on a road near Newark after leaving a Newark source at 6:50 p.m. Sunday. The man identified as Lang was arrested after a blue Cadillac sighting and later confessed in court.
Neighbors awoke to family terror when a kidnapper forced entry at the Goldman home. Aaron Goldman and his wife were bound and assaulted as authorities, including FBI, hunted a suspect across the area. The family’s son, Allan Beach High School senior, remained a central figure in the investigation and ransom effort as police broadcast bulletins statewide.
Readable fragments report dozens of births and family notices across Lubbock and surrounding areas. Names including Mr Jesse Barhewa Mrs James MreJunkin and Mrs Rob Punkeney appear with hospitals in West Texas and Lubbock. Fathers connected to local employers are named.
Russians and Chinese who rejected an invitation are expected to attend this year’s congress. Brezhnev will deliver the most important public address since he took party control and the speech may exceed four hours. The five year plan foresees modest industrial growth and a shift from Khrushchev’s goals as the new leadership outlines economic reform and major policy questions.
The United States Navy plans to use an unmanned television equipped undersea vehicle to locate and attach a recovery cable to a nuclear bomb resting 2 000 feet deep in the Mediterranean near Palomares Spain. The device is described as able to withstand extreme pressure and provide lifting force to secure the bomb. Three prior cables detached during earlier attempts to raise the ordnance.
A delegation of three leading U S Communist Party leaders arrived in Moscow for the opening of the 23rd Congress. Henry Winston former editor of The Worker Dr Herman Lumer editor of Political Affairs and Gus Hall party spokesman attended.
NEA president Richard Batchelder told about 280 at the Tulia Community Appreciation banquet that public education is the nation's key enterprise and that teachers must be free of time consuming tasks not tied to teaching. He urged salary increases to prevent moonlighting and praised teachers as younger, better prepared, and increasingly entering the profession.
President Johnson and Indira Gandhi discussed using surplus U.S. funds from agricultural shipments to aid India with a proposed endowment for a new foundation. A five point agenda covered Asia peace, India Pakistan relations, economic and social challenges, and food production.
A Monday storm system drenched Dallas and many Texas locales, totaling up to 2.20 inches in Mercury and causing at least 95 traffic incidents in Dallas. Two tornadoes were sighted near Abilene with no reported damage, while high winds toppled a house trailer in Austin and pea sized hail fell in some areas.
LeBreton held on a $5,000 bond after police filed bomb related charges and withheld statements about a dismantled car parts case tied to a theft report in Amarillo. Officers noted LeBreton gave statements on both matters, but contents were not released.
Police report a violent tropical storm hit Gunabara and Rio de Janeiro over the weekend. About 40 dead were feared with 28 bodies found in Petropolis and many more buried in collapsed homes. Ten bodies recovered in Rio de Janeiro and three others missing.
Avalanche Journal reports Donna Axum, Miss America 1964, in Lubbock to emcee the Lions Club Queen contest. Nine contestants vie for honors, with Axum offering advice for hopefuls about aging, education, talent development, and maintaining poise while traveling and meeting fans.
Weather on the South Plains should clear today after two days of spotty rain and hail. Monday night showers touched Seagraves Denver City and Seminole with Seminole reporting around a quarter inch. Lub bock forecasts call for partly cloudy skies mild temperatures and light winds with a mid sixty high after a near 38 at midnight. A hail streak on Highway 1 near Denver City Sunday night measured about two inches deep over roughly three miles. Sunday rainfall across the area included Abernathy Crosbyton Floydada Lamesa Dawson County Levelland Lockerville Plainview Tahoka with variable amounts.
A federal judge blocked a potential nationwide rail strike this week by issuing a temporary injunction until April 1. The order bars the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen from striking to restore jobs eliminated under a fed eral arbitration award, though BLE had not called a strike.
A clean, well‑dressed one-year-old boy identified only by the date September 1964 was found crying Monday at the Little Flower Shrine by Mrs. Clemente Hernandez. The child had an empty bottle and was taken to the county Children's Shelter as police investigate the case. A separate recent case involved a five-to-six day old girl named Josie found with handwriting on her leg, also placed in the shelter.
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