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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1963
Page
5
A powerful nine hour hurricane battered Haiti at 140 mph causing widespread destruction. Reports say entire cities lie in ruins with bodies in the streets and waves stranding a vessel named Caridad. no crew details given. Over 350 homes destroyed in Oriente as the storm progresses.
A Utah led expedition recounts a 120 mile Grand Canyon river journey begun from Salt Lake City with aims to explore caves and record early civilizations. The group faced portages and food shortages with two members missing near Chihuahua Mexico while others endured long delays and weather challenges.
A Tulsa man is critically injured and two companions are hurt when their car struck the rear of a tank truck hauling oil on U S 87 two miles south of Kress at 4:25 a.m. Andrew Holt 27 is in Methodist Hospital Lubbock with head injuries Rosetta Alexander 17 and Robert Casel 18 are at Plainview Hospital slight injuries. James Ray Keeney 32 of Borger piloted the truck and was unharmed.
Gen. David M. Shoup told reporters in Tokyo that if Marines are called to fight in regular units in four years it will likely be in Latin America. He warned South America shows the strongest potential for revolutions due to long standing poverty. He retires this year after 37 years in the Marine Corps noting U.S. Marines are already in Vietnam with a helicopter squadron.
Three United Packinghouse Food and Allied Workers locals in Omaha Nebraska South St. Paul Minnesota and Mason City Iowa said they ratified agreements ending a strike at Armour and Co. Voting also planned by locals in North Platte Nebraska Kansas City Kansas St. Joseph Missouri and Denver Colorado. The walkout began Thursday and idled 9000 workers with possible extra actions threatened at plants in Chicago Fort Worth San Angelo and Lubbock Texas. The dispute centered on job standards governing work per shift.
President Kennedy will sign ratification papers for the nuclear test ban treaty in the White House treaty room today. The pact, signed in Moscow on August 5, bars atmospheric and underwater testing by the United States Britain and Russia, with underground testing allowed. Ratification by the U S Senate occurred September 24 by an 80 to 19 vote and the treaty will take effect Thursday as the three powers deposit documents.
Volcanic emissions around Hawaii Island sent lava toward two small villages on Saturday night and renewed Sunday three miles east of the Napan crater. Authorities closed the road to the crater due to poisonous sulfur fumes, though no threat to populated areas was reported. Steam blanketed the rugged rain forests, hindering direct crater observation.
Twenty buffalo will be released next month on uninhabited Brunette Island off Newfoundland’s south coast to see if they will eat herbage laced by moose and caribou. If they thrive they will be moved to the mainland to supplement big game wildlife.
A badly injured protester required six stitches after a demonstration in Saigon. U S sources say CIA chief John Richardson left Saigon for Washington amid reports of possible replacement over crisis differences with Lodge.
Report on a sixth monk self immolation in Saigon amid Buddhist protests against the South Vietnamese government. Officials dispute claims of anti government persecution and stress Communist influence rejection. Other items note Kennedy policy praise, congressional inquiry plans, and slowed helicopter actions after U S visitors.
The Clovis Business and Professional Women’s Club selects Mrs. Marcella Davidson as Woman of the Year. Davidson is a state B and P W official active in American Legion Auxiliary and United Fund work. She will be honored at a October 15 dinner.
A blaze gutted a local news agency in PAPEETE Tahiti, leaving the outlet without operations. Firefighters reported extensive damage to the building, with crews still extinguishing remaining hotspots and authorities assessing root causes.
A Lubbock woman Mrs. Jerry Lee Edwards 23 and her three children were injured in a two car collision at 42nd Street and Salem Avenue. They were admitted to Methodist Hospital by Franklin-Bartley Home ambulance. Daughters Tamya Tondya and Tacy aged four months three and five were treated with varied outcomes. Police said both vehicles owned by Mrs Edwards husband of 2011 64th Street and James Wesley Hopkins of 4414 46th Street were involved.
Civil jury weeks begin in Third District Court and County Court at Law No 1A with Judge Robert Bean presiding. jury panel to report at 1:40 pm in 140th District Court. Second annual Farmer Merchant Rancher Appreciation at 6 pm today in Antelope Stadium, sponsored by the chamber. George S Berry Post 575 American Legion to meet at 7:50 pm in DAV Hall. Rattlesnake Club to plan next spring event at 3:40 pm in Plains Co Op Mill conference room. Legal education training course starts 7:30 pm at Texas Tech Building Room 106. Trade Winds luncheon for Ralls businessmen at noon. Sigma Chi Alumni meeting at 6:30 pm in Lubbock Club. Thelma Lawson, 2014 70th St., injured in Friday crash, reported improving at Methodist Hospital.
In New York five young white men were stabbed in a street fight with youths from a racially integrated birthday party. Police arrested sixteen people, eight from the party, and four Negroes face felonious assault charges.
Tass commentary marks the sixth anniversary of Sputnik and signals cautious Soviet openness to joint space efforts with the United States. It notes broad cooperation, cites satellites and weather research as already shared, and urges international space communications and meteorological satellite use led by USSR Academy of Sciences, NASA, and Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Rep W Reed Quilliam Jr urged Texans to guard and cherish state history at a West Texas Museum meeting. He cited 18th Legislature laws to preserve artifacts, historic markers, monuments and structures, with participation from 10 counties and leaders of the Texas State Historical Survey Committee.
Four people were injured in weekend assaults at Wolfforth and on the Sharon Highway. Cecil Monroe 26 was stabbed at the El Cortez Club on Slaton Highway and admitted to St Mars Hospital. Robert Lee Draper 19 was shot at the same club and treated at Porter Hospital. Gamecinda Gutierrez 23 and Lupe Guadalupe from Wolfforth received care at Methodist Hospital and were released after an incident at a labor camp in Wolfforth. Sheafs deputies investigate the altercations.
Izvestia reports a cigarette shortage in the Soviet Union blamed on a lack of railroad cars. Meanwhile a Canadian embassy statement notes a manpower detachment arrived to sell tobacco and Canada hinges on wheat sales amid limited rail capacity. About 8,000 tons of tobacco sit unused in ports due to car shortages as Moscovites volunteer to unload fruit and vegetables.
In Lampasas area lore Pink Higgins, famed for swift gunwork against rustlers, cared for his family amid danger. He rode many miles daily tracking cattle thieves while his wife Lena and daughters faced threats with courage.
Dodgers win the World Series as Wills tags Hector Lopez at the plate. The crowd of 59,912 erupts near the third base line while pitchers and hitters celebrate, earning each winner about 12 720 dollars and each loser 8 480. Mantle ties Ruth with 15 career series homers.
Texas A&M University officials confirm the mascot horse Beauty was found safe after a prank involving a small stall and scratches on her head and leg. Dr. Ralph Durham notes she was tired and hungry but in good shape. searchers initially failed to locate her near Idalou before a barn location was confirmed miles south.
Twenty one people were killed and 30 injured when a bus plunged off a highway into a 200 foot ravine near Cebu City, Philippines, Sunday, according to AP via Philippine News Service.
Mr and Mrs Hubert Greener of Rt 2 Morton announce the birth of a daughter weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces at 9 43 a m Sunday at Methodist Hospital. The father is a farmer.
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