Local news notes from Lubbock in late November 1973
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Monday morning November 26, 1973 lists staff roles and publishing details. It notes the paper is a Southwest newspaper with AP and US wire services and credits Roberta Norris as Vice President General Manager and other editorial and advertising personnel.
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Hor
Todbterh Tenac
South Plaine
Anth Labtec Avalanche Journal
Basic
Southwestere Newenapere
Felon
Soard
Ace J Tabbera
Teras
National Advertisng
Teras Daisy Press League
Dallas Treas
Associated Press
Nsed Press International
Roberta Norris
Rickman Hychees
Pan
Meany’s Weekly Attacks on Nixon Aim to Impede Presidency
AFL-CIO leader George Meany and most of the Executive Council plan weekly attacks on President Nixon following Bal Harbour strategy. They target Nixon’s legitimacy, Plumbers offenses, and national security leaks, aiming to derail Ford’s VP confirmation and push toward impeachment if Nixon won’t resign.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Bal Harbour
Nixon
Cleveland
McKinley
Hoover
Congress
Victor Riesel
Gerald Ford
Dick Nixon
Meany
Paltry Sum for Taxpayers Echoes in Spending Debates
A discussion of congressional spending and tax changes highlights a House Social Security boost of 11 percent with staged increases and a base tax rise to 13 200. It notes a 15.2 million federal pay delay proposal and quotes Sen Gale McGee and the Chamber on the meaning of a paltry sum for Wyoming constituents.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Nixon
Gale McGee
Woo Sen
Mctsee
US Chamber of Commerce
Washington Report
Wyoming
Sen. McGee
Chamber
Elevator mirrors ease delays at Tulsa courthouse
At the Tulsa Oklahoma courthouse visitors and staff long complained of slow elevators. The elevator company installed full length mirrors at waiting spots to help riders pass time while they wait. The measure proved effective and highlighted the value of understanding human nature. The piece ends noting the most unforgettable person is the one someone has tried to forget for decades.
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Tulsa
Okla
Texas
Sons and Daughters of Texas
Texas Lawmans
Neighbor solves service pain with live-in tradesman plan
A Virginia housewife enlists a plumber carpenter painter as a live-in helper to fix recurring service failures with contractors. After heated battles over a broken water heater and hiking installation fees, she wins a replacement heater and a written rebuke to the carpet firm while urging others to mail in their complaints.
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Nader
Raiders
Pri
Sadat outlines war aims in private Cairo talks
In a private briefing with British and French ambassadors, President Anwar Sadat defined his aims after the Oct 6 war began. He outlined a three stage plan: a rapid Sinai advance, defensive hold, cease-fire, then diplomacy, noting he preferred ending the fighting rather than continuing.
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Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Sinai
Sadat
Nixon Reagan seek Southern comeback footholds in 1976 race
In the Deep South Nixon and Reagan pursued comeback efforts with Georgia Mississippi and other states seen as pivotal to 1976. Nixon faced cool reception at Mercer while Reagan drew support at a Mississippi GOP event amid housing loan investigations tied to state leaders.
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Washington
South
Richard Nixon
Oval Office
Ronald Reagan
Dixie
Nixon
Georgia
Mercer University
Lyndon Johnson
California
Mississippi
Clarke Reed
Reagan
Deep South
Republican
Telephone directory time rolls into Lubbock Slaton
In December 6 1973 Sw Bell will distribute about 132 580 telephone directories for Lubbock and Slaton with no major changes in numbers. The new cover features a painting Our Texas by Edward Herbes and a scroll motif symbolizing Texas liberty.
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Lubbock and Slaton
Ma Bell
Lubbock and
Slaton
Lubbock
Dale Johnson
Southwestern Bell
San Antonio
Austin
Edward Herbes
Our Texas
Jest For Fun
A woman reports her missing husband at a police station. She describes him as 30 years old, 6 feet 3 inches tall, dark and handsome. The desk sergeant counters with a joke about his bald, fat, forty appearance. The wife retorts she does not want him back.
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Gene Brown
Danbury News-Times
Pass It On Notes on Coolidge Humor and Kickbacks
LM. Boyd discusses Calvin Coolidge as witty but hard to print. contrasts kickbacks with finder’s fees, noting illegal versus legal and a rural twist. He jokes about the term’s evolving meaning and recalls an anecdote from September 1923 involving a Treasury check. Mail address: L.M. Boyd Fort Worth Texas.
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Calvin Coolidge
Bunk Coolidge
US Treasury Department
Coolidge
Washington, D.C
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Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Marianne
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Israel
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Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Faisali
Nassere
Tel Aviv
Riyagh
Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Egypt
Riyadh
Khadafy
George Wallace
Yemen
America
White House
Suez Canal
Sinai Peninsula
AY Harris
Hob Jones
Dobbin
Bob
National Safety Council
NSC
Safety Organization
Safety Council
LM. Boyd
L.M. Boyd
P.O. Bou
Fort Worth
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