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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1970

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Graduation Sermon Delivers Vision to Lubbock Seniors

At Municipal Coliseum at 2 p.m. Sunday 1 761 graduates from Lubbock five public high schools heard Rev Morris Sheats of Trinity Church deliver A Vision The Hope of the World He urged the class to pursue ideals with action declaring a vision without a task is drudgery and a vision with a task is the world’s hope.

Municipal Coliseum Lubbock Morris Sheats Trinity Lubbock Christian High School Sunset Church of Christ Aber Linesin Sunset School of Preaching Christ the King High School James E. Fitzgerald Christ the King Church Estacade High Estacade Auditorium Lubbock High Dunbar High Dunbar Auditorium Monterey High Satontay

Lubbock Area Pastoral Appointments and Graduation Notices

Reading across West Texas communities lists pastoral appointments for 150 churches in the area and notes a West Texas Museum Association dinner today. It also covers high school graduation plans, commencements at Christ The King and Sunset Church of Christ, and public school exams and schedules for the coming week.

Lubbock West Texas New Mexico West Texas Museum Association

Nixon Ride Sees Upturn Hint In Economy

President Nixon's budget director Robert Mayo said unemployment would rise further before a noticeable recovery in the economy in the second half of the year. He noted no immediate plan for a general tax increase despite a growing deficit and revised spending projections that widened the gap from initial White House estimates.

Alloa Press Washington Nixon Robert P. Mayo Mayo

Cheap Soviet laundries attract few housewives in Russia

In Moscow and Orel, Soviet laundries offer 37 kopeks per kilogram but only 1 in 10 million housewives will use them. Women complain of gray shirts, unwashed collars, holes in sheets and 10 day waits to reclaim laundry despite the low price, per Feminine Worker survey.

Associated Press Moscow Soviet Union Orel Feminine Worker

Prayer excerpt urges strength and service to others

A brief prayer asks Heavenly Father for courage in danger and guidance to set an example by forgetting personal sorrows and focusing on the needs of others. It emphasizes overlooked self and aiding those in distress.

Heavenly Father

Cross That Divides Eugene Voters War Memorial Bid

Eugene residents vote Tuesday on designating a 1964 cross atop Skinner Butte a war memorial or removing it from city park land. Opponents say it violates church state separation while supporters hope the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in.

Eugene Ore John Alltucker Skinner Butte Gene Oregon Supreme Court Carl Nelson N Park Land Abe Brooks Temple Beth Israel G. Douglas Straton Department of Religious Stu Oregon University Warren Cameron Glen U.S. Supreme

Richter Quake Scale Inventor Turns 70 Retired but Curious

Charles Francis Richter, creator of the earthquake magnitude scale, turns 70 in Pasadena. He remains at Caltech's Seismology Lab, writing, consulting, and diagraming faults while pondering the potential to predict quakes. The scale has no top limit and 4.5+ can be destructive, with the 1906 San Francisco quake estimated at 8.3.

Seres Charles Francis Richter Fae Associated Press Pasadena Calif Richter Lucille California Institute of Technology San Francisco Hamilton Ohio Cal Tech

Tornadoes Hit Zapata injuring many and damaging homes

Tornadoes ripped through Zapata Texas near the Rio Grande injuring 34 persons and damaging or destroying more than 70 homes. Damages estimated at 250000 to 400000. Weather warnings earlier in Willacy and Camterson counties expired without touch down.

Avalanche Journals Service Rio Grande Valley Zapata Texas-Mexico Raymondville Weather Bureau Willacy County Camterson County Utah Iowa Nebraska Missouri Ilinois Findley Springfield Otos Florida Western Keys Ifield Ohio Fort Myers Fla Jackson Florida Keys Indiana Ichigan

Storm section reissued for avalanche disaster story

Avalanche-Journal offers additional copies of the storm special for 10 cents. The feature, printed with words and pictures, recounts the disaster. Over 60 000 copies sold so far at the Circulation counter on the ground floor of The Avalanche Journal at 8th and Ave J.

Avalanche-Journal 8Th Ave. J

Stars On The Ground Brighten Plains With Security Lights

An Avalanche Journal piece notes how early prairie travel relied on the North Star and campfires, while modern rural life glows with security lights from farmsteads. Co-ops illuminate homes, barns, and trees, giving travelers a new kind of starry panorama.

Y Tanner Laine Avalanche-Journal

Cambodian Troops Drive Out Enemy Near Tonle Bet

Allied forces report U S trained Cambodian troops drove enemy from the Mekong port of Tonle Bet in Cambodia. Five Americans were killed and eight wounded in a night clash of the 1st Air Cavalry inside Cambodia as B52s conducted six overnight missions near the DMZ. Army stockpiles uncovered included 200 tons of war materiel and 600 bicycles with caches of rifles and ammunition discovered northwest of Saigon. Martial law announced for June 1 in Cambodia amid political tension with Lon Nol and Sihanouk planning talks in Hanoi.

Preas Saigon Cambodia U.S Mekong Tonle Bet Kompong Cham 1St Air Cavalry Division South Vietnam Demiliarized Zone Vietnams Lon’ Nol Sihanouk Hanoi Norndom Sihanouk Cadet North

Rogers Sees Air Support For Vietnam

Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the United States may provide air support for some future South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia after the June 30 withdrawal deadline. He emphasized not signaling enemy moves in advance and noted a July 1 troop exit. Nixon aides indicated a commission would investigate the Kent State shootings with Warren Commission thoroughness.

Associated Press Washington Sec William P. Rogers Cambodia U.S Rogers Nixon Advantage Sec. of Defense Melvin R. Laird Andrews Air Force Base NATO Rome Herbert Klein Sunfay U S UPI National Guardsmen Ad. Administration White House Communications Herbert G. Klein Kent Ohio Robert S. White Warren Commission John F. Kennedy Klein Commission Lnto

Weather map page reports warm, partly cloudy conditions

Partly cloudy and warm through tonight with a slight chance of thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday afternoon. Tonight's low in the upper 50s and today's high in the upper 80s with southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Rain chances around 20 percent tonight and 1 percent midday. May include regional temperatures from Abilene, Denver, Amarillo, Oklahoma City, El Paso, and midweek outlook.

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