Yarborough Leads in Texas Runoff Margin Tightens to 40,335
Don Yarborough tops Lt. Gov. Preston Smith by 422,823 to 382,335 in final Texas Election Bureau totals for the May 4 vote. Yardborough leads in 47 of 254 counties, with major gains in metropolitan areas, while Smith carries 111 counties. Party totals include liquor by the drink and other measures, with the American party ballot and Wallace signatures noted.
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Don Yarborough
Preston Smith
Texas Election Bureau
Smith
Yarborough
Houston
Republcan
Paul Eggers
Eggers
GOP
Robert L. Johnson
Election Bureau
Dallas
Lubbock
Eugene Locke
Dallas County
Locke
Texas Atty
Waggoner Carr
John Connally
Wallace
George Wallace
American Party
Texas
Briscoe
Carr
Johnnie Mae Hackworthe
Brenham
John Hill
Pat O'Daniel
al Veloz
Edward Whittenburg
Ben Barnes
Don Gladden
Fort Worth
Gene Smith
Dallas Blankenship
Robert S. Calvert
Supreme Court
Matt Davis
Sears McGee
James Denton Oo
Tom Beavley
Happy Youth elects FFA Area 1 president at Lubbock convention
Wickey Culp of Happy was chosen Area 1 president and Jill Donnell of Dumas named sweetheart at the area convention in Lubbock. Bill Sarpalius of Boys Ranch selected to compete for state president among area nominees.
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Dumas
Jill Donnell Right
L. C. Donnell
Roxann Thurman
Wickey Culp
Happy
FFA Area 1
Lubbock
Jill Donnell
Sweetheart
Bill Sarpalius
Boys Ranch
Whiteface
Groom
Tulsa
Tony Chauveaux
Claude
David Smith
Hart
Star American Farmer
Gary Schaffer
Cooper School
Greenhand
Mike Ralston
Grover
Star Chapter Farmer
Chuck Clauson
Gruver
Star Lone Star Farmer
Jay Potts
Friona
Wayne Keadlich
Cooper High
Boryce Fink
Dick Cummins
Canyon
Gary Dwane Schwalk
Perryton
Michael Trotter
Orton
Jack Lee
Spearman
Bob Gruner
Bill Fowler
Hereford
Jim Hall
Petersburg
Levon Harmon
Monty L. Cook
Plainview
Sale and Service
Gilberto Capetillo
Estacado High
Douglas Armstrong
Dalhart
Ronnie Jensen
James Padgett
John Davis
Dimmitt
Lipan School Fire Destroys Gym, Lab and Home Economics
A fire likely started by an overloaded switchbox destroyed Lipan elementary high school facilities including the gymnasium, home economics room, and science lab. More than 300 trophies melted as firefighters from five locale units battled the blaze for over an hour. Superintendent A. W. Berry says classes may move to churches while spring commencement planning continues for Lipan's about 200 students.
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LIPAN
UPI
Central Texas
Granbury
Stephenville
Mineral Wells
Weatherford
Fort Walters
A. W. Berry
Electric Co op Talks Win Washington Trips
In Swisher County Electric Cooperative oratorical contest winners are Mac Devin of Tulsa and Barbara Davis of Silverton. They receive an all expense paid trip to Washington DC, with Texas winners traveling by chartered bus to the capital to present material on Texas electric cooperatives.
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Tulia
Swisher County Electric Co-Op
Lubbock Avalanche Journal Mail Subscriptions Rates
Subscriptions for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Sunday Morning Edition offered by the paper in Lubbock Texas list monthly and per Sunday rates for Morning Evening Sunday and combined options. Pricing details include 2 1 6 month 3 month 1 month terms with varying discounts, and second class postage paid in Lubbock.
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
8Th and
Aggrue J
Lubbock
Texas
Sun
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Robert E. Ford
Briscoe Vates
Dolph Briscoe
Democrats
Repub
Wallace Sisk
John Trice
U.S. House
John Dowdy
Athens
Dempsie Henley
Liberty
Joe Pool
David Ivy
John Young
Hubert Letts
Corpus Christi
O. C. Fisher
San Angelo
Gordon Johnson
Odessa
Robert Casey
Clyde Doyal
Henry Pressier
O. C. Calloway
Beaumont
Newspa Pers Land
Up _ MADRID
Spain
Happy Youth
Area
FFA
Washington
Iy ‘At
Zenith
Tam
Bewey
Ollie B. Livingston
Qercia
Mackenzie Village
4Th & Parkway
Klednex Towers
Kodacolor
MRT
Clvta
Smaett Remington
Remington
C. D
Kee
Henan
Anderson's
Oldewe
Irs
Monterey Center
J. Davis Armistead, O.D
John M. Bealmear, O.D
Doctors of OptomeTry
Duane L. Griffith, O.D
Optometry
St. Lubbock
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