Saigon Site Of Grim Battle Big City Vote Uncorks Liquor
16 year old Marianne Baratta in Granada Hills California faces imminent death from kidney failure. She awaits a life saving operation and a $5,000 artificial dialysis machine donated by Clyde Trent of Brooklyn New York who learned of her case in a newspaper.
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Big City
Granada Hills
Calif
Marianne Baratta
Marianne
Clyde Trent
Brooklyn
N.Y
Robert L. Vernier
University of California At
Storms Drench South Plains With Hail and Rain
A Sunday storm period brought extreme hail to Matador and Big Spring with golf ball sized hail and up to two feet of ice in spots. Several towns reported heavy rain and high water while others saw little to no moisture. Storm activity spread to Midland region with a severest alert and warm temperatures statewide.
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James Boyett
Avalanche-Journal
South Plains
Weather Bureau
Lubbock
Matador
Itown
Roaring Springs
Big Spring
Idalou
Dimmitt
Tulsa
Bovina-Muleshoe
Gail
Borden County
Muleshoe
Bovina
Midland
Mason County
Texas
Mercury
Dems Move Toward New Runoff as Drink Issue Wins in Texas
Large Texas cities favored liquor by the drink boosting support for Governor race contenders Preston Smith and Don Yarborough as the primary nears June 1. About 1.8 million voted, beating 1964’s 1.6 million, with mixed-drink legality winning in GOP ranks but failing in Democratic strongholds. Analysts say results guide but do not bind lawmakers. See BIG CITY Page 12.
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Associated Press
Texas
Preston Smith
Houston
Don Yarborough
Paul Eggers
Eggers
GOP
el Paso
Harris
Bexar
San Antonio
Texas Election Bureau
Big City
Monterey closing in on another AAAA title
The report notes Monterey leads 4A schools as they near another championship with the Lubbock area aiming for top honors. The article details playoff readiness and key players for the upcoming rounds.
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Lubbock
Area Monterey
Prayer Verse Reflects on Straying From God's Path
Mrs. A. W. Voight of Lubbock notes a devotional reflection on praise and gratitude for guidance, yet questions why believers stray, emphasizing the longing to walk in the planned way.
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A. W. Voight
Lubbock
Burglars Steal Safe From Lumber Firm in Break-In
Durwood Finley discovered a break-in at For rest Lumber Co. Saturday night. Thieves used a broken overhead door panel to enter, removed a small safe inside a larger one, and loaded it into a company pickup that was later found missing. The safe held about 500 in cash and 6 000 to 7 000 in checks plus 10 in cash from a cigarette machine. Damages estimated at 1 000 to 1 500. No arrests reported.
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Forrest Lumber Co
4Th Street
Durwood Finley
Knife Fight Kills Youth in Hong Kong Street Clash
Police reported two knife wielding gangs fought in a street confrontation in Hong Kong. One youth was killed and another was seriously injured as the violence escalated Sunday.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Smith plans traditional vote drive for governor runoff
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith launches an old fashioned campaign to energize support ahead of the June 1 Democratic gubernatorial runoff. He vows a positive program focused on the people, with extensive travel and mass meet the public outreach statewide. Don Yarborough is also expected to campaign vigorously, while Smith says results matched expectations from the primary.
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Preston Smith
Smith
Don Yarborough
Primary decides nothing in race
In Dallas County Democrats fail to win a majority in a three way state representative race. B W Crude led with 44 104 votes while rivals C A Gunn and Dick Reed tied at 24 670 each. If official canvass does not change totals a runoff may be required.
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Dallas
B. W. Crude
C. A. Gunn
Dick Reed
PACTS APPROVED Telephone Service Revival Due Today
The 18 day nationwide telephone strike ends as 54 680 members vote for the three year Bell System contract with 30 721 against in 17 CWA units 14 Bell units support Michigan Bell rejects final tallies pending in two units The pact covers 400 000 CWA Bell workers and could set a pattern for 200 000 others while service remains near normal under executive personnel.
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Associated Press
Washington
Afl-Cio Communications Workers of America
CWA
Bell Telephone System
Bell System
Michigan Bell System
Strike Ends as Pickets Depart at Southwestern Bell Lubbock
The 18 day strike ends with pickets removed from Lubbock Southwestern Bell facilities at 10 p.m. Sunday. About half the 10 p.m. shift of operators returned to work and a full staff is expected today. Lubbock CWA Local 6290 says workers will resume at 8 a.m. The accord was described as peaceful with praise from CWA and company officials.
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Communications Workers of America
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Lubbock
Southwestern
CWA
CWA Southwestern Local
Fort Worth
Blackboard section party recalls Spur small town elections
Tanner Laine recalls the pre computer election party at Red Front Drug Store in Spur Texas where a chalkboard tracked county and state results from telephone updates. A. C. Hull presided as townsfolk waited for returns while Burlington Avenue was closed for the event.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Red Front
Spur
A. C. (Deacon) Hull
Texas Election Bureau
Ferguson
Burlington Avenue
Viet Cong Invaders In Action Across Saigon
The second day of a nationwide Viet Cong offensive sees heavy shelling of Tan Son Nhut Air Base and street clashes around Saigon. Allied reports claim 341 enemy killed in weekend engagements. one Vietnamese commander was fatally wounded in the tomb area near the airport. Newsmen were targeted in Cholon with several killed and one reporter executed.
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George Esper
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
Lau Kim Cuong
Cuong
33Rd Tactical
U.S
273Rd
North Vietnam
Radio
Hanoi
Cholon
South Vietnam
Heart Transplant Efforts Face Setbacks Across States
A California patient died after a heart transplant attempt in Palo Alto while Houston surgeons completed a second heart transplant on James Borden Cobb. The same team had earlier transplanted a teen girl’s heart into Everett Thomas in Phoenix, signaling a complex, high-stakes series of operations.
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United Press International
California
Houston
Joseph Rizar
Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital
James Borden Cobb
Alexandria
St. Luke's Hospital
Everett Claire Thomas
Phoenix
Rizor
Norman E. Shumway
Four Western newsmen killed in Saigon ambush
In Saigon by Viet Cong gunmen in the Chinese quarter four reporters from Reuters Australia and Time Life were killed when an open top jeep was mowed down. Only one journalist survived by feigning death and fleeing into a refugee crowd. Diplomat Hasso von Kolienberg of West Germany was found shot and bludgeoned nearby.
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Jack Walsh
Saigon
Frank Palmos
Melbourne
Australia
Bruce Pigott
Reuters News Agency
Charboard
New South Wales
Ronald Laramy
Reuters
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Cornwall
England
Vietnam
Michael Birch
Australian Associated Press
John Cantwell
Time- Life
Hong Kong
Hasso von Kolienberg
Cholon
Palmos
Washington Post
Indonesia
Cantwell
John
Weather Map Page 14 A Notes for Lubbock Vicinity
Chance of a few thundershowers this afternoon in the Lubbock area with partly cloudy skies tonight. Temperatures reach the low 80s today and fall to about 50 tonight.
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