28 May 1969
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1969
Page
1
Space Center Houston reports astronauts returning from a moon mission will undergo strict isolation in an $8.5 million facility. Fifteen technicians and medical staff will monitor them as every object from their mission is sterilized and air is recirculated, likened to prisoner-like confinement.
Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan were greeted by loved ones at Ellington Air Force base after their eight day 750000 mile lunar mission. Debriefings begin to ready Apollo 11 launch on July 16 with Armstrong Collins and Aldrin practicing at Cape Kennedy.
Lubbock area resident remains determined in locating the owner of a lost satchel. Details from Page 6 indicate ongoing retrieval efforts and community help.
Lt Gov Barnes and Speaker Mutscher push a one year budget with a $6 million bill approved 96 to 22 to fund it. Galveston Senator Schwartz backs a $10 college building use fee to cover faculty salaries and returns the measure to the Senate for conference.
HEW grants a 10 a.m. June 18 hearing in Washington to discuss the not acceptable status on Lubbock ISD integration programs. Nat Williams says the meeting follows a school board procedure aiming for compromise with HEW rules. attendees include U.S. Rep. George Mahon and district officials.
A reader offers a devotional plea to God asking for strength to endure sorrow and faith that trouble will be transformed into praise through divine guidance. The note emphasizes turning hardship into song as spiritual resilience.
Atlanta based Office of Economic Opportunity hires 24 poor people as consultants at 35 dollars a day for 14 day contracts in six states. Extension of contracts approved. if they work 44 days total each would earn 1540 dollars for a government cost of 3600 dollars.
A tornado touched down near Anahuac demolishing a residence and killing T. L. Boudreaux 78 and his sister Mrs. Gene Renois 78. Boudreaux's wife Birdie 68 died later from injuries. A second tornado sighted near Colorado City caused no injuries.
Incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty holds a diminishing edge over challenger Thomas Bradley as early returns show Yorty with 86,879 votes (56 percent) to Bradley's 68,045 (44 percent) from 516 of 2,890 precincts. Nearly one million voters turnout in the bitter mayoral race amid a historic bid to elect LA’s first Black mayor.
The Texas House approved a name change for TTU to Texas Tech University amid opposition seeking to block the bill in the Senate. Supporters say the change will stand, while opponents argue it may be killed or delayed, with talk of a future attempt to use Texas State University as an alternative.
Gov. Preston Smith signed into law a bill creating a Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Lubbock. The act aims to fund planning with $450,000 and seeks federal matching funds, with an estimated $40 million total cost for the medical training facility and teaching hospital in West Texas.
A propane gas storage tank near downtown Iowa City exploded Tuesday night. Fire and rescue units were dispatched to the scene with no word on casualties.
A Penn Central train fire in a tunnel under the Hudson River trapped 200 commuters. One man, Will J. Thompson of Rahway, died after touching a live third rail. Ninety two people were injured and treated across five New Jersey hospitals with many evacuated to Newark.
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