Railroad Industry Not Dead In City
In Lubbock and nationwide freight hauls now outpace passenger service as rails modernize. Freight cars move through Lubbock daily with about 1,000 passing through, while safety has improved and track work shifts to welding long sections. Local officials note top ten shipping center status and ongoing rail upgrades.
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Lubbock
Plainview
Aunt Maude
Paul Buchanan
Slaton
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
H. D. Pearson
Lub
Houston
Amarillo
Bledsoeand Seagraves
Buchanan
City hospital ordeal shows community aid during disaster
Injured care relied on shared resources as Furr's delivered bottled water and Hygela trucks while hospital staff worked in torn clothes. Velma Herd and doctors rushed to duty, with volunteers aiding distressed relatives. The piece notes old railroad culture and the shift to computerization, amid disaster planning and evolving emergency response.
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Furr
Velma Herd
Agra
Maureen
St. Mary’s
Wayland Complex to Serve 1971 Medical Needs Amid Storm
Wayland’s new complex part of a planned 1971 upgrade will house a gymnasium, classrooms, athletic facilities and an Olympic pool. Surge in patients after a tornado tested West Texas hospitals, with volunteers, doctors and nurses working through power outages and candlelight.
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Northwest Texas
Amarillo
Brewer
Childrer
Miss Herd
Anuana
West Orodan Texas
West Texas
C. H. S Hollingsworth
Methodist
Wayland
Cts Ville
Tex
Mac Pinine Kay
Fett
Jay
Asher
Mildred Waybourn
Methodists
Chicago No Longer Hogs Stock Yards
Chicago sources report a spring announcement by the Union Stock Yard Co that it will cease operations at the Chicago stock yards due to rising refrigeration costs and shifting meat supply near farms. The move ends nearly a century of hog trading in the city, with implications for producers, buyers, and the regional meat market.
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Chicago
UPI
Edinburg, Scotland
General Assembly
Church of Scotland
God Save Us
Philip D
Armour
Gustavus F. Swift
Terrene
Nicolaos
Pope
Alexmeat
Jandria
Carl Sandburg
Larry Kane
International Amphitheatre Co
Karachi
Pakistan
Inj
Lahore
Miami Youths Turned Drug Peddling Case Study
A Miami Beach report profiles Larry a 13 year old who delivers heroin marijuana LSD and barbiturates to classmates for weekly profits. The piece highlights the citys drug problem with youths selling from school halls and scooters near tourist zones.
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Miami
UPI
Larry
Shami
Carris
Onge
Miami ‘Beach
Chamber of Commerce
Emotion and cancer link eyed by researchers in Houston
AP reports Dr. Pierre Denoix of Gustave-Russy Institute in Villejuif says emotions and a French hormone secretions may influence cancers such as breast uterus and prostate. He notes fear among doctors about cancer slows study and that cancer remains a mystery keeping people away from research.
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Houston
Pierre Denoix
Gustave-Russy Institute
Her- Villejuif
France
Denoix
Legal Seminar Brings Texas Lawyers to Texas Tech Law School
About 60 Latin American lawyers from across Texas attended a weekend civil rights seminar at Texas Tech Law School sponsored by the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund. Eight attorneys and professors lectured on civil rights litigation in courts, covering prisoner rights, teacher and student rights, and de facto school segregation.
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Texas
Martin Frey
Price of Law
University of Texas
J. D. Gerard
Washington University
St. Louis
Albert W. Alschuler
Frank Maraist
University of Mississippi
Larry Kraft
Fd Polk
Dallas
David Richards
Austin
China Cambodia Exchange Due
Swissair Singapore manager said a chartered jet will fly Chinese Embassy staff from Phnom Penh to Peking on Monday and return with Cambodian Embassy personnel after an overnight stop. Diplomats have been stranded since China Cambodia diplomatic ties dissolved on May 9.
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Singapore
Phnom Penh
Peking
Switzerland
Rant Campbell
China
Cambodia
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Gineer
Statig
Puter
West Tital
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Topeka
Kan
Waylan
1D Baptist College
St. Mary of the Plains
K. N. McKinney
Guy Southern
Burlington Lines
Slinans
Lubbock & Plainview
Orl
Stevens
Chatham
Morgen-Jones
Asia
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