Lubbock Census Sends Mixed Signals On Growth
The editorial notes the 1960 City of Lubbock population rose to 128,068, while the Metropolitan figure hit 155,485, placing Lubbock ninth among Texas cities. Amarillo leads in city totals. Lubbock surpasses Waco Metropolitanly, and officials claim overall growth remains strong despite a short city count. Mayor Casey lauds quality growth even if quantity lags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Amarillo
Texas
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
el Paso
Austin
Corpus Christi
Topus
Beaumont
Waco
Lubbock-Amarillo
David C. Casey
Lyndon Johnson Advises Calm Response to Khrushchev
Lyndon Johnson urges restraint over Khrushchev’s tirades and violent talk. He advocates calm, dignity, and decorum in public remarks. The piece notes a psychologist’s quip about women facing reality and mentions a court ruling allowing Lady Chatterley’s Lover through the mails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon Johnson
Nikita Khrushchev
Senate
Red Butcher
Khrushchev
No satisfactory solution to problems of human nature
A concise reflection argues that no adequate resolution exists for issues tied to human nature because human nature itself lacks a solution. The quote emphasizes inherent limits in addressing behavior and motives in people.
Starts The Day On The South Plains
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal public notices details a weekday morning edition and Sunday consolidation. The page lists address, circulation, pricing, and advertising information for the Lubbock Texas paper dated May 18, 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Avalanche Journal. Publishing Company, Inc
Btn &T
Ave. J
Texas
Texas Daily Press League
Dating
Associated Press
United Press Internationa
Panater
EAS Ts Bilaher Ohar
Ratliff
Momo
Pretty Senorita Turns on Castro in Cuba
Former rebel Pepita Rier, who helped Fidel Castro's forces in Oriente, grows disillusioned as Raul Castro and Che Guevara align Cuba with China and the Soviet bloc. She flees after Fidel's anti American tirades intensify.
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Ruth Montgomery
Ashington
Senorita
Pepita Rier
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Oriente
Pepita
Raul Castro
Che’ Guevara
Travel barriers push Europeans to skip U S tourism
The piece notes ease of visiting the USSR versus the United States, citing visa hurdles for Britons, lack of a national tourism office in the U S A, and high perceived costs. It highlights the Visit the U S A in 1960 campaign, an American British effort led by Hans Thunnell, and mentions proposals to create a Federal tourist agency.
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Inez Robb
Ondon
Russia
United States
Eisenhower
Communist Party
Britain
America
Internal Revenue Office
Singapore
U.S. A
Hans Thunnell
London
Greyhound Bus Lines
Senate
New York
Las Vegas
Miami
Heather McConnell
McConnell
Westbury
National Association of Travel Organizations
NATO
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States Senate
John
Connecticut
Spain
Nixon
Khrushchev Uses Plane Crash Fallout to Bolster Image
Soviet and Western sources say Khrushchev exploited the downed Powers plane incident for domestic rallying and Cold War diplomacy. The article links rising Russian discontent over shortages and high prices, Khrushchev’s leadership changes, and Soviet fears of Western influence to his theatrical response ahead of a summit.
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Ray Tucker
Ashington
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Eisenhower
Washington
Khrushchev
Kremlin
New York
Mexico City
Havana
Pravda
Izvestia
Joe Stalin
Moscow
Presidium
Communist Party
K.Y. Voroshilov
Lenoid I. Breshnev
Kazakhstan
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
The Job Difference and the Modern Man’s Ambition
The excerpt contrasts job wage expectations with a preference for wealth and security. It notes that wages are large nowadays and implies a shift from traditional labor to modern, ready made convenience represented by a motor boat.
Slaton student competes in West Texas oratorical contest
Viola Martin, Slaton High School sophomore, travels to Big Spring for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce My Home Town contest. Also noted are Texas Tech student officers taking oath for 1940 41 and a Ralls High School senior class commencement with 38 graduates at the First Baptist Church. Paris decree places city in army zone as Allied and German forces clash along the Meuse with Americans urged to depart.
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Lubbock
Texas Tech
Lee Byrd
James Snyder
Morgan
Emily Ann Mack
Fort Worth
Roy Wilks
Floydada
John Williams
White Deer
Paul Redding
Punxsutawney
Haynes Baumgardner
Fred Day
H. L. Gunter
Dessie Katherin Lewis
John O. Miller
Jack Myers
Bob Pendleton
Johnny Phillips
Bob Sams
Marie Shook
Marguerite Brannen
Dexy Sudduth
Aston Willingham
Mary Burke Yeager
Hubert Mosley
Cy Clayton
Peggy Lovelady
George W. Dupree
Ralls High School
Ralls First Baptist Church
E. E. Hancock
Mae Weakley
W. R. Derr
T. §. Parks
Hancock
R. B. Loftin
Board of Trustees
Rotary
A. L. Winfrey
A. N. Boyd
Ed. Tharp
Paris
Meuse
France
Possible choices for vice president teased in party talks
The piece surveys Democratic and Republican vice presidential prospects for 1960. It mentions Kennedy, Wagner, Brown, and supporters of a Johnson Kennedy or Symington Kennedy ticket for Democrats, and Rockefeller, Goldwater, Lodge, Keating among Republicans, with Seaton and Mitchell also named as possible running mates.
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John Kennedy
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Pat Brown
California
Sokolsky
Kennedy
Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Nixon
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Henry Cabot Lodge
New England
Lodge
Massachusetts General Court
United States Senate
United
Kenneth Keaing
Senate
Fred Seaton
Interior
James Mitchell
Labor
Mitchell
Seaton
Nebraska
Kenyan American Universities Club formed in Nairobi
Nairobi reports that Kenyan graduates from 28 U.S. universities have formed the American Universities Club. Members span business diplomacy missionary work nuclear physics medicine agriculture and education across European Indian Afr can and Goan-Portugues Indian communities.
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Nairobi
Kenya
U.S
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Lady Chatterly
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
United States of America
Haven
USA
WRUL
Joan D'Arc
Andres Vargas-Gomez
Walter S. Lemmon
Holland
U. S
Emmon
Columbia University
State Department
USIA
Lemmon
Latin America
Europe
Africa
Boston
Montgomery Page
Tizzy
By Kate Osann
Germany
Wareham
Purbeck Island
George E. Sokolsky
By Galbraith
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