Tech hosts Peace Corps trainee program amid Viet Nam conflict
A Peace Corps program at Texas Tech trained 56 students in rural community development amid Viet Nam war actions. The project, with a $90,000 contract, faced security zones near Tay Ninh and Saigon as B52 raids and Viet Cong attacks occurred. Trainees remain unnamed to avoid embarrassment, with follow up studies planned for senior year.
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Odessa Conference To Host Interracial Meeting In Auditorium
About 2,500 people are expected for an interracial meeting at Odessa Blackshear High School Auditorium October 19 to 27. Peyton Elliott Womack, evangelist of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference and of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Odessa, will lead the series with the theme Christianity and the World Today. Another item notes psychiatric admissions to general hospitals may rival state and county mental hospitals per American Hospital Association.
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Frenship 4-H Club Names New Officers
WOLFFORTH Special Ken neth Patterson was elected president of the Frenship 4-H Club at its meeting Monday night. Other officers elected include Kim Nelson vice president Lee Odom secretary and Mike Wright treasurer. New council delegates to the county organization will be Barbara Oswalt and Dennis Yeager. Fold American blue cheese into waffle batter for your pre game brunch.
Fire Department Program Slated In City Thursday
Lubbock firemen announce a Thursday event featuring a Dancing Rainbows water display and a 12 act program led by Lt. Tom Foster with 99 off duty firefighters. Fire Marshal Black will observe fire prevention as Chief Smith notes a $1 million department budget and 186 personnel.
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Charlie
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Bishops pray for Pope Paul on UN visit
Vatican ecumenical council bishops prayed for peace as Pope Paul traveled over the Atlantic to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. They urged leaders and institutions to strive for peace and discussed creating a Vatican secretariat to tackle poverty and social justice.
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Two Killed In Funeral Procession Crash In Texarkana
A truck jackknifed into two cars carrying mourners on Texas Highway 59 killing the hearse driver Wallace Gulledge 63 and two mourners Marsha Lynn Otwell 12 and Clint Otwell 31. Five others were injured including the truck driver Billie Jeff Robbins of Arkansas. Grim toll shifted when another vehicle hit a gasoline truck injuring a woman follower of the procession.
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Marsha Lynn Otwell
Clint Otwell
Billie Jeff Robbins
Hoxie
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Martha Cox
Tyler
Robbins
Lucy Milke
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Forecasters predict mild trend with late-month cooling
The center expects two events in the first 15 days and at least three cold fronts breaking from northern high pressures. A slight chance of an early freeze is noted, with normal to cooler temperatures near month end. Highs start in the mid to upper 70s, then fall to the upper 60s, while normals drop from the upper 40s to mid 50s early October.
$160 Assistance Is All That Was Needed
A Lubbock County man, R. L. Clark, was robbed of 160 dollars Monday afternoon after answering a call for help from a Latin American woman in the 1700 block of Ave D. He had just cashed his check when the plea led him to a house where his wallet vanished on his departure.
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Three Hurt In Area Accident
Three people injured in a two car crash at the U S 84 and County Road 15 intersection in Shallowater. Willie Hazzel Lavern Hazzel and Pink Parson were treated at Methodist Hospital with injuries ranging from head trauma to minor head injuries.
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French divers place oil well head undersea off Mediterranean
Jacques-Yves Cousteau directs six French divers who spend two weeks in an undersea house in the Mediterranean and place a five ton oil well head at a depth of 365 feet. The National Geographic Society reports the achievement, which the society has sponsored since 1952.
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