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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1967
Page
3
Absentee voting continues through Tuesday for a Saturday election on creating a Lubbock County hospital district. Proposals include establishing the district, granting a tax levy, and authorizing $4 million in bonds. Only 34 ballots cast so far.
A Texas business index shows an impressive rise as the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports July to August gains. Dr. John R. Stockton notes the August peak signals strongest rise this year with a 10 percent jump from July and year to year growth. The report cites a 44 percent July to August surge in building permits, a 31 percent homebuilding rise, 2.2 percent in industrial production and 6 percent in retail sales.
Texas sociologist R L Skrabanek estimates the 1960 nonwhite population at 1 365 000 in a UT Bureau of Business Research report. Nonwhites include Negroes American Indians Japanese Chinese Filipinos Koreans Asian Indians and Malayans. Negroes account for 98 5 percent of nonwhites. Mexicans are classified as white unless Indian or nonwhite lineage is clear. County shares vary widely with 120 counties under 500 nonwhites and Harris County at 249 478. Nonwhites mostly urban by 1965 75 percent in cities. 8 1 median schooling for nonwhite adults 8 1 years vs 10 8 for whites. most nonwhites in service crafts operatives and labor, while whites dominated professional and managerial clerical sales and crafts. income gaps persist with about 60 percent of nonwhite men under $3 000 annually in 1959.
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