08 May 1976
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1976
Page
1
Yearbook ceremony honors longtime residents as the O Donnell museum preserves background on the Six Mile School. Research shows railroad town roots in 1910 with a move of the one room school in 1912 and later brick buildings rising through 1926 and 1948 fire.
Buford C. Terrell files with city secretary Trevo Phillips a petition to call an election to revamp the 59 year old Lubbock Charter. Supporters aim to collect signatures from registered voters and city attorneys as officials scrutinize the seven page request for validity.
The proposer urges eight districts with a ward system, a city mayor elected at large, a nine-member governing body, and a city manager appointed police chief. Also calls for prohibiting city property alcohol sales, a $1000000 cap on a city fund, sale of Lubbock Power and Light for at least $50 million, and periodic municipal elections every two years. Mayor Bass and several council members received the petition. Some officials deem parts unacceptable and unclear.
Dr. Ernest Wallace, longtime Texas Tech history professor and authority on the Comanche, will retire after nearly 40 years of service. A public reception honoring him is planned in the Coronado Room of University Center from 8 to 5 p.m. The path from learner to teacher shaped his half century at Tech.
Ernest Wallace began with a cotton sack under the August sun and rose toward higher learning. The newsletter notes his journey from labor to study, and how education shaped his future and inspired students to pursue history with dedication.
Severe weather from a string of tornadoes menaced Houston and Harris County with several funnels touching down inside city limits. A pregnant woman was injured in a Crosby trailer park, and a second woman suffered a near severed foot from flying glass. Damage was widespread but largely minor with 95 mph winds at the Exxon Baytown refinery and high winds at Hobby and Ellington.
Efforts to establish a teaching hospital complex connected to a medical school are nearing a critical stage after more than a decade and a half of dreaming about the project. Local officials and health leaders are pushing to secure funding and finalize planning for the facility.
Tech and hospital district seek a path to open the 22 million dollar 245 bed hospital in October 1977. Regents chair Clint Formby cites inadequate funding as the main hurdle while noting legal and financial complexities in a proposed Health Sciences Hospital integration.
At a special meeting the Water Development Board approved a weather modification permit for Atmospherics Inc and Weather Improvement Association to operate in all or parts of Lamb Castro Swisher Crosby Lubbock Hockley Ran Parmer and surrounding counties. An adjudicative hearing found the operation may dissipate clouds but could not prove it will alter rainfall patterns. officials note possible hail reduction benefits yet mark the record as inconclusive with witness split opinions.
A fragmented OCR line hints at a confrontation or confrontation about a Republican party meeting. Details are unclear but the item centers on party organization and a proposed gathering.
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