20 May 1973
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1973
Page
1
Dr. S P Yang agrees with the assessment that the meal plan is adequate after a Friday evening serving of chicken and noodles rice and beans. Strawn notes he just follows instructions and prepared a large pot of beans.
Vaughn Hendrie reports that after the May 12 electric revenue bond election LP and Lubbock Power and Light may form an independent board. Chairman J Q Warnik suggests council should create an independent board to run the city utility more businesslike while remaining a city department.
Cotton shippers denounced lifting of a 50 point price support loan penalty on barky cotton at the Plains Cotton Growers meeting in Dallas. The group and allied associations debated how bark and grass affect grade while urging policy that would not hinder harvest quality and ginnery practices.
Mostly fair skies with little temperature change. High 90s, low around 60. Northerly winds to 15 mph. Sunrise 6 49 AM, sunset 8 42 PM. Humidity near 58 to 90 percent, with midnight around 60s.
Ed's Drive In Cleaners owner E. E. Wickliffe says a lone Negro robber posing as a customer tied him up with cord and fled with 500 dollars in cash and 40 dollars in checks and cards from 305 Ave H. Police describe the suspect as Wayne Davis, about 6 feet tall, 175 pounds in dark pants and blue shirt.
Record heat saturated Lubbock and much of the South Plains with 100 degree readings at the National Weather Service station. Amarillo stood cooler by about 10 degrees as thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front. Showers appeared late, with light rain in Wilson Tahoka and Grassland. A bank bag theft occurred at Dapper Dan Cleaners but no armed robbery was reported.
A reader offers a brief prayer thanking God for days of sunshine during difficult times. The message closes with a simple Amen in Jesus' name.
AP correspondent describes Tonga's strict Sunday observance. No work allowed. even watering lawns forbidden. A man jailed for making fire on Sunday received a six month sentence on a back yard copra shack fire. Churchgoing is common with multiple denominations present across Nuku'alofa and the countryside.
Senate Watergate hearings resume as investigators scrutinize whether government wiretaps reached the Nixon reelection campaign. James McCord testifies about daily internal security reports and memoranda distributed to senior Nixon aides and campaign staff.
Washington scientists warn human energy use could alter regional and global climate within 50 years. High energy input from heating, lighting, and transport may raise atmospheric heating rates and trigger feedbacks with unpredictable global effects.
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