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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1968
Page
2
Community leaders discuss a multi agency effort to stabilize property values and revive Northeast Lubbock. FHA and VA repossessions include 784 houses with losses near 3.5 million dollars while schools and local churches face funding impacts.
Sandra Wagner 23 ended a seven day strike against payless housework in Stockton California. She sought recognition for 120 hours of weekly labor with no pay and said she appreciates her husband more after the protest. The couple agreed to return to normal duties after a family discussion.
Services for 76 year old Jewel Edith Hunt will be at 2 p m in Smith Rovers Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Joe Emanuel officiating. Burial will be in Lovington Cemetery. She had lived in Lovington 25 years and died Thursday in a local rest home where she had been a patient the past two months. Survivors include a step daughter Mrs G J Lilly of Texas.
Poem emphasizes patience and hope as virtues for personal bearing. It suggests that calmness makes others trust and rely on you, making interactions smoother and more confident for those nearby. The author Julien C. Hyer frames patience as a practical habit.
J Elwood Wildman 50 longtime area resident dies of burns from oil field accident near Gladiola Field east of Tatum. Service 2 p m Sunday at Smith Rogers Chapel Lavington officiated by Rev Doyle Riley and Manny Loveaul. Graveside at Tatum Cemetery. Survivors include wife Louise three daughters Stella Leslie Abbe and three sisters and two brothers.
Mrs Frances Humphrey Howard sister of Humbert Humphrey vice president and Democratic candidate visits Amarillo. She arrives Sunday night and is to attend a Herring Hotel reception at 8 30 pm then tours stockyards and a noon luncheon at the Bank of the Southwest. Luncheon reservations via J D Helms Spearman.
Sacramento AP report notes ten white youths were arrested on Thursday amid interracial skirmishes at John F. Kennedy High School after Afro-American Club meeting. Police detained 13 Negroes, two whites and one Mexican-American on Wednesday as fights disrupted classes.
Francis Biddle former attorney general and judge on the four power tribunal died at Cape Cod Hospital at age 82 after a heart attack at his Wellfleet summer home. His wife Katherine Chapin and family survive. He led internment orders for Axis suspects and defended labor liberal causes during a long public career.
Services for 74 year old H E McNutt will be held at 2 p m Monday at Tabernacle Baptist Church with Rev E L Bynum officiating. Burial will be at City of Lubbock Cemetery. McNutt died Friday morning at Colonial Nursing Home after six weeks illness. He lived in Lubbock 20 years and previously Floydada. Survivors include his wife a daughter a son four brothers three sisters four grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
Mae McManus 70 a native of Shawnee Oklahoma died Friday in Methodist Hospital. She lived at 407 West Street and funeral services are pending at Rix Funeral Home. Survived by daughter Mrs A L Spikes of 2522 59th Street.
Snyder residents mourn Army Warrant Officer Paul Rollins killed when his helicopter was shot down in Vietnam. A 1966 Snyder High School graduate, Rollins served from 1967, trained at Fort Wolters and Fort Rucker, and was married to Joan McKinley. Funeral plans are pending as his body is returned from Vietnam.
Cathryn Slanker 49 a Lubbock resident since 1949 died at 9 20 p m Friday after a lengthy illness She resided at 3312 27th St and was a Westminster Presbyterian Church member Services are pending at Sanders Funeral Home Survivors include her husband William H two sons Billy and Sammy both at home and her mother Mrs J R White of 2213 23rd St
Services for Melville E Hankins 62 of 2309 Broadway will be at 4 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with Rev. J T Bolding officiating. Burial in Smyer Cemetery directed by Sanders Funeral Home. Hankins died at West Texas Hospital after two weeks hospitalized. He had extensive real estate and farming holdings in the Lubbock area. Lorraine his daughter Mari Alyce of the home and his father E A Hawkins of 2302 13th St. survive.
Services for Everett Phillips 75 longtime Hale and Floyd counties resident will be held at 4 p m today at Lemons Memorial Chapel. Dr Tim Trammell pastor First Baptist will officiate Burial will follow at Plainview Memorial Park Phillips native of Collin County died Friday morning after a short illness He was a retired farmer Surviving are his son Buford of Hale Center a brother Travis of Princeton three sisters Mrs Buford Smotherman Mrs Pearl Nelson both of Dallas and Mrs Rufus Irwin of Goodland plus a grandchild. Six presidential fathers had one girls Van Buren Pierce Lincoln Coolidge Hoover and Eisenhower.
Obituary and funeral notices for Mrs. Elmer M Fern Conley Luther Doyle Whitehead Carmen V Cruz Stella Elizabeth Eads W R Porter Randall LeRoy Terrell and related services listed with times churches and burial sites. Also brief items on SOUL meeting student activities and local legal and crime notices including arrests and probation. Local political visit by Lt Governor Preston Smith covered with two reception times and locations.
Grady Dickson 60 a retired farmer from Deport who lived west of Brownfield died after an extended illness. Services were held at 2 p m in First Baptist Church with Rev Ed Crow officiating. Burial in Terry County Memorial Cemetery. Brownfield Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include wife Annie Mac two daughters Merlin Speed Brownfield and Carroll Johnson Ramey AFB Puerto Rico one brother H H Deport two sisters Mattie Ellen Dixon and Sid Grant Deport and six grandchildren.
Mrs Kathryn Hendrix 68 of Santa Fe New Mexico a former Tulsa resident will have services at 2 p m today in Wallace Funeral Chapel with the Rev Murray Travis officiating Burial will be in Rose Hill She died Wednesday in a Santa Fe hospital she had lived in Santa Fe many years a native of Hugo Oklahoma she lived in Tulsa 1912 to 1926 Survivors include one son Adair Bethesda Md one daughter Mrs Robert Brown Santa Fe one half brother Fred Hendrix Amarillo and two other relatives.
Services set for 2 p m at Sanders Memorial Chapel for Annie Lou Holt 66 who died after a long illness at her home 1920 31st St burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery Sanders Funeral Home in charge Holt came to Lubbock from Haskell in 1925 with husband they ran People's Ice Co 1925 to 1965 Survivors include husband a daughter two brothers a sister and three grandchildren Pallbearers named Jerry Irby Jack Hopkins Earl Crow Virgil Shell Frank Turley J D Jones
Tullamore John O'Donovan, a pedigreed British bulldog, broke a tooth while escaping his kennel. Owner Daniel Rorke had the tooth replaced with a molded fang so the dog could compete fully at dog shows.
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