Council Row Flares Into Walkout Over City Manager
A walkout by Councilman Morris Turner ends a closed session on City Manager W R Blackwell. Turner accuses Mayor Rogers of favoring strong mayor style while Rogers says Blackwell is a strong manager. An open meeting is planned later. a 4 1 split favored retention in an informal Friday poll.
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Kenneth May
Avalanche-Journal
Morris W. Turner
W. R. Blackwell
Turner
W. D. Rogers Jr
Rogers
Bill Blackwell
James Granberry
Lonnie Hollingsworth
Denton Rigsby
Blackwell
PUNNY GIRL Performed Tonight at Municipal Auditorium
One night only showing of PUNNY GIRL at Municipal Auditorium as city arts coverage notes a single performance tonight. The page also references Idaho superintendent leading a pilot school program and scholarships for tech students at the Aggie Pig Roast.
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Municipal Auditorium
Idaho
South Plains
Tech
Aggie
Poage says farmers subsidize consumers through prices
U S Rep Bob Poage told the Texas Cattle Feeders Association that Americans subsidize shoppers via farm prices and rising costs. He argued housewives still get great value, noting farm land has risen nationwide since 1952 while farm products lag parity.
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Duane Howell
Avlanche-Journal
U.S
Bob Poage
Waco
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
Koko Palace
Pouge
Flu Vaccine Rationing Urged For High Risk Patients
U S Surgeon General Dr William H Stewart says a new flu strain A2 Hong Kong 68 could trigger a severe winter epidemic. He urges doctors to reserve scarce vaccine for high risk elderly chronically ill patients while nine drug makers rush new doses with licensing expected toward month end.
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United Press International
Washington
U.S
William H. Stewart
Stewart
Hong Kong
United States
Far East
Thank You Prayer Note From Lubbock Reader
A devotional prayer message from B. L. Swift in Lubbock asks for forgiveness for sins and weakened faith, expressing gratitude to God and seeking pardon.
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B. L. Swift
Lubbock
Peace Not Yet Won Bitter Days Ahead Vietnam War
President Johnson warned Americans that more action in Vietnam lies ahead before peace is attained. He spoke at a White House ceremony honoring five Medal of Honor recipients including a Roman Catholic chaplain, stressing that only the possibility of peace exists and that future brave acts will be required as talks continue.
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Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
White House
Pais
Chaplin
Westmoreland
Willemem Co Westarland
Aras
Bipper
Hall to join Smith staff as press secretary
Jerry Hall a former Lubboen newspaperman will join Lt. Gov Preston Smith’s staff when he becomes governor. Hall is chief of The Austin American Statesman Capitol Bureau and The Avalanche-Journal’s Austin correspondent with a career as a Statehouse reporter since 1966 and previous Washington experience with Rep. George Mahon.
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Avalanche-Journal
Austin
Jerry Hall
Lubboen
Preston Smith
Hall
Longtone
City Hall
Austin American Statesmitian
Capitol
Avalanche Journal
Statehouse
Lubbock
Washington
George JT Mahon
Smith
Lubbock Housewife Attacks Amendments Gobbledygook
A Lubbock housewife quoted by AP in Texans in Politics says amendment lists voters face at polls are gobbledygook. She, Jane Gilmore Rushing, criticizes lack of clarity in Texas politics and notes voters struggle to find legislators' addresses.
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Lubbock
Associated Press
Texas
Garth Jones
Fort For Today
James A. Rushing
Soth St
B. AL Moa
Texas ‘Tech
Jane Gilmore Rushing
Page
Angered Parents Seize Ocean Hill Brownsville School
Teachers and students returned after the long New York City teachers strike. Angry parents in the Ocean Hill Brownsville district seized control of a school and vowed to stay in charge as a state trustee was named to run the district.
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New York
Mubt
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Funds Freed For Downtown Federal Building Project
Funds totaling 4.508 million for an eight story federal office building and courthouse in downtown Lubbock were released from a freeze in Washington. The project, approved by Congress in 1967 and previously deferred, includes planning and site purchase for a two block area bounded by Broadway 11th Street Avenue H o and Texas Avenue. The new structure will consolidate federal agencies and house a federal courthouse.
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Lubbock
Federal
Dave Knapp
Avalanche Journal
Washington
U.S
George Mahon
Congress
Broadway
11Th Street
Avenue Ho
Texas Avenue
Lubbock Bank Building Vies for Core Upgrade and Federal Project
Mahon announced late Tuesday that Neto square footage will reach 106000 for a two story owing and a new eight story building in Lubbock central core. Bids opened last week on Lubbock National Bank project and a court police office building with a 20 million plus facility at Texas Avenue and Main Street near the federal complex. Construction could start soon with bid invitations in two weeks and awards by mid February, resuming a federal project seen as a step in the right direction.
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Washington
U.S
George Mahon
Texas Avenue
Neto
Mahon
Lubbock
Lubbock National Bank
Court Police l
Maton Bank
Main Street
Federal Complex
First National Bank- Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Broadway
Bonn Holds Line as Bonn Proposals Target Trade Surplus
West Germany moves to curb exports and ease imports to stabilize international payments while rejecting a miners' evacuation amid mounting global pressure. France praises the steps as an international monetary effort, with Paris cutting 1969 budget aims to tighten belts. The plan seeks to reduce Germany s growing surplus and aid importers in a tougher world market.
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Kurt Georg Dsetoinger
West Germany
Deader Tard
Hie
France
Welc
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
Inter
Mauthe Couve de Murville
Germany
Renter Delt
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