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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1964
Page
1
Wind driven blaze in a three block tenement district on the South Boston Dorchester line destroyed at least 19 frame homes and damaged 10 more. About 1,000 fled or evacuated as 22 were hurt, mostly firemen, with no confirmed deaths. Five treated on danger list at Boston City Hospital.
Mortimer M. Caplin resigns as commissioner of Internal Revenue Service effective July 10, citing personal responsibilities. The White House confirmed decision. President Kennedy accepted with regret. Caplin, 47, longtime Virginia professor and tax-law expert, previously led the IRS since Feb 7, 1961, after a career in New York and Charlottesville practice. He aimed to improve taxpayer assistance and education.
A three hour blaze on Bellflower Street drives residents to flee while 13 frame houses burn and rubbish collectors rescue families. Twenty mph winds spread embers causing fires nearby as firefighters battle explosions from heat and oil stoves near the Southeast Expressway. Several people are hospitalized with smoke inhalation and exhaustion while others are treated for minor injuries.
A Negro student has temporarily been accepted for enrollment at the all-white University of Mississippi in Jackson. The name of the student was withheld, and the disclosure came Friday amid ongoing desegregation tensions and university policy considerations.
Two masked men abducted Madeleine Dassault, 65, from her limousine as she neared the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. A getaway black car fled toward Versailles with her husband Marcel Dassault, a major French industrialist and Gaullist backer, alerting police who launched a nationwide search. Witness Marcel Lesaux, who pursued briefly, reported the sequence and a more powerful car joined the chase before losing the suspects on winding park roads and a freeway.
Eastern New Mexico University president R Donald C Moyer addressed the sixth LCC commencement for 70 graduates in the auditorium. He urged finding oneself through education and hard work then losing oneself in a chosen mission to gain life and spiritual fulfillment. Awards were given to 17 freshmen and sophomores, including Karl Eugene Donovan and Mary Carl Rose, each receiving $100 for top progress. LCC Associates funded $100 scholarships for highest GPA to William Hugh Baker and Kathryn Anne Ross, both 3.97. Sophomore honors went to Richard Earl Lane and Sharon Elizabeth Tole with $25 each. runners-up noted.
The page index lists sections including HOROSCOPE in Section C, WOMEN'S NEWS on Pages 2 and 3 in Section B, SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS from Pages 1 through 5, EDITORIALS and COLUMNS in Section A, and RADIO TV PROGRAMS on Page 12. No stories are summarized here.
Frantic weather hit West Texas with 78 mph gusts at Monahans and a brief ground tornado near Jacksboro. Showers spread east across the state while temps rose to near 100 in many areas. Rain totals included Corpus Christi 1.66 inches and Brownsville 1.24 as storms stretched from Del Rio to Wichita Falls.
Mrs. Jeannette Grauberg Roth berger, 80, known as Grand ma, will receive a UC Santa diploma next Wednesday to become the oldest graduate in the university’s history. She arrived at Ellis Island in 1901 as a 17-year-old Romanian immigrant, later moving from New York to Tucson in 1929 for health reasons.
The article follows a woman who worked as a department store clerk and a railway depot candy seller while attempting to pursue higher education. She first enrolled 34 years ago but left to care for a ill daughter, tried again in 1944 but cancer surgery interrupted her studies, and later in 1959 at age a continuation or final enrollment is mentioned on page 10.
Paul J. Thompson known as the father of the UT journalism school died Friday night at age 74 at his Austin home after suffering a heart attack earlier. He joined the faculty in 1919 and directed the school until his 1958 retirement, remaining active as director emeritus thereafter.
A devotional verse from the Book of Common Prayer asking God to send moderate rain and showers to sustain crops and honor Him through Jesus Christ Our Lord. The invocation seeks divine provision of weather for bodily sustenance and agricultural fruitfulness.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Red China that the Vietnam conflict could widen if Communist aggression continued in Southeast Asia. He ruled out withdrawal of U S aid, outlined four alternatives in South Viet Nam, and noted U S jets conducting reconnaissance missions over Laos as forces assess Communist drives. A Laos crisis looms as a potential expansion of U S involvement across the region.
U S reconnaissance missions over Laos completed with two Navy Crusaders from the carrier Kittyhawk taking part. One plane was hit by antiaircraft fire but the pilot survived and the craft returned to base. Data will go to the Laos government and the International Control Commission for use in assessing Pathet Lao actions in central Laos.
Evangelist Billy Graham sharply criticized American foreign policy saying the United States must either win the war in Viet Nam or withdraw. He warned the war is a quagmire and questioned policy that subjects soldiers abroad while hampering Cuban exiles seeking to remove communism near U S shores. The remarks came at the Southern Baptist Convention alongside a Johnson message praising Baptist influence.
Weather forecast for Lubbock and vicinity calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with low 60s temperatures and weekend highs in the upper 40s. A chance of thunder showers exists late today or tonight. Regional readings show Abilene Houston Amarillo Roswell Denver with varying highs and lows, reflecting mixed conditions across the area.
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