Senate Blocks Welfare Revival and Plans New Bill
Governor Preston Smith said the legislature might exceed the $80 million welfare ceiling to keep federal funds, though voters rejected raising the limit. Lt. Gov. Barnes and Rep. Traeger push a new bill to remove the ceiling and ask voters in the fall.
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Preston Smith
Ben Barnes
Smith
Texas Atty
Crawford Martin
John Traeger
House
Constitutional Amenmiments Committee
Senate
Barnes
Prayer Excerpt Reflects Rest in God Through Spirit
A devotional prayer requests divine aid to return to rest and to feel God’s presence. The reader seeks stillness and awareness of the divine in daily life, invoking guidance from a higher strength.
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God
FAA clears 2.87 million grant for Lubbock airport upgrades
Federal officials approved a 2.874 million grant to fund taxiways service road and storage building at Lubbock Regional Airport with 75 percent of costs for new runway lights covered by federal funds. City share near 3.2 million will come from prior bond proceeds and existing runway construction funds.
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Sam Fletcher
Avalanche-Journal
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Lubbock Regional
Marvin W. Coffee
Coffee
Lubbock
Spectacular West Texas salute features 28-foot American Flag
In Littlefield at 8 p m a concert titled Texas Size Old Glory Due Salute presents the Littlefield School Wildcat Band directed by John McGre and the Littlefield Junior High Band directed by Tom SoRelle. A 28-foot flag will be unfurled as the climax, created by Littlefield High senior girls over 16 hours on 10 sewing machines.
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Avalanche-Journal
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West Texas
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Margaret and
Kelly Fain
Charlotte Hinds
Vicki Wimberley
Marsha French
Kay Armistead
Clashes Across Vietnam Costly For Communist Forces
Allied forces clashed with Communist led troops at four points from Ao Minh Forest in the Mekong Delta to ridges around the A Shau Valley. Besieged fighting left 79 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dead. 2 South Vietnamese soldiers killed and 53 wounded, including 47 South Vietnamese and six Americans.
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Mekong
A Shau
Saigon
Amarillo Lubbock Clash Over Water Rates Persists
Amarillo and Lubbock officials met to discuss the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority rate dispute after a new rate formula increased Amarillo’s charges by about 15.5 percent. Lubbock’s share would fall about 6 percent under the plan approved by the authority board in October 1970. Amarillo city manager John Stiff said the dispute could cost Amarillo roughly 1.3 million dollars over 50 years, a burden tied to contracts signed in 1960.
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Avalanche Journal
Amarillo
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
Lubbock
City Mer
Bill Blackwell
Authority Board
John Stiff
Queen Elizabeth seeks 900000 raise for royal family
In London, Queen Elizabeth II asked Parliament for a pay rise for herself and the royal household. Court sources say she needs about 1.92 million dollars, up from a 1.02 million dollar allowance, as lawmakers prepare to push legislation before summer. An opponent warned of a fight over the monarchy.
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London
Eizabeth II
House of Commons
Camp Fire Girls Adopt Lubbock Elder in Show of Friendship
Lennie Williams, 75, who recuperated from surgery at Ray's Hospitality Home, received visits from six Camp Fire Girls from Lubbock. The teens adopted him last year, delivering companionship and photo copies for his family to ease worry.
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Perry Flippin
Avalanche-Journal
Lennie Williams
Lubbock
Williams
Ray
Idaho
Town
Kansas
O'Donnell
Tve
Avalanche- Journal
Kelley Martin
Lloyd L. Martin
47Th
Glenna Bartlett
Kenneth See Oldster
Soviet Mars-2 Space Probe Launch Report
Moscow reports the launch of Mars-2 an automatic interplanetary station. It aims to reach Mars by next November Tass states. The United States planned two Mars photography attempts this year with one failing and another pending. The Tass release does not confirm a lander approach.
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Soviet Union
Mars
Tass
United States
Senate keeps Europe troop levels as SST funding dies
The Senate defeated Mansfield's 50 percent cut in European forces by 61 to 38 and backed ending federal subsidies for the SST program. A Proxmire motion to delete 85.3 million for SST was approved 58 to 37, with Magnuson proposing restoration and termination costs. House actions created ambiguity about final fate.
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Avalanche.Journal News Services
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Senate
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Europe
White House
Willam Proxmire
Dwis
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
House
Boeing Company
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Ogden Nash Dies at 68 famed poet wit
Poet Ogden Nash died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 68 after abdominal surgery and a stroke. He had been treated with an artificial kidney and later suffered heart failure, with his wife and two daughters at his side. Funeral plans were pending.
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Ogden Nash
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Nash
Union Memorial Hospital
Hopkins
New Yorker
Times
Texas voters approve liquor by the drink in 46 counties
Business leaders predict major economic gains from legalized liquor sales in 46 Texas counties as the first public bar drinks are set to pour. Critics warn of higher alcohol consumption and potential highway risks amid the anticipated boost to tourism, conventions, and state revenue.
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United Press International
Texas
William Holtzinger
San Antonio
Houston Ship Channel
Leon Goldstein
Houston Restaurant Association
John Hurt
Baptist Standard
Weather map glimpse for Lubbock region
Partly cloudy and warmer through Friday with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Highs reach the low 80s across the area with temperatures shown for Abilene El Paso Albuquerque Hobbs Amarillo Houston Dallas and surrounding locales.
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