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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1965
Page
3
Texas asks a Houston federal court to dismiss a challenge to a legislative redistricting bill and to declare the proposal constitutional. Atty Gen Waggoner Carr represents Gov Connally and state officials in Kilgarlin et al suit.
FBI and Oklahoma officers revisited the El Reno area as reports of Delbert Garman sightings persisted. Garman abducted Jane Blanchard in Oklahoma City, later escaping with her car before more sightings proved unreliable while hostage cases in Altus and Perry Bennett remained unresolved.
Voters approved a 2 million bond issue and a 30 cent tax for Central Texas College to open in fall 1967. The campus between Killeen and Copperas Cove will serve Killeen Nolanville and Copperas Cove with an expected 250 to 300 students in 1967 and capacity for 725.
The Lockney Band Booster Club has made a $2,000 payment on high school band uniforms purchased earlier in the fall. Booster president Boyce Mosser said only $1.08 of the original $6,672.35 debt remains to be paid.
The Seagraves Loop drive to raise five thousand dollars for the Community Chest will start at 7 a.m. Monday with a breakfast in the Community Building. Don Sellers serves as drive chairman, Lawrence Barber as chest president, Mrs Earl Layman as vice president.
Texas Tech agricultural engineering department earns 15903 dollars for year two of a three year grant from the Electric Research Advisory Committee. The study measures power use and efficiency of irrigation well pumps and units with data from 100 pumps across a 300 mile radius of Lubbock.
Texas Tech directors approved numerous staff appointments for the 1965-66 school year during a Saturday meeting. The list includes names across Student Life, Public Information, College Library, various departments, and part time instructor roles in Architecture, Mathematics, Psychology, Economics, and more. Army trucks collide near Cairo killing eight soldiers and injuring nineteen.
Texas A&M directors announced ten appointments and awarded construction contracts totaling 2,472,145 dollars. Dr Clarence Zener of Westinghouse named dean of science and Dr Leslie Reid of Michigan State chosen to head the new Department of Recreation. Maj Gen Robert Stillman named assistant director for James Connally Technical Institute in Waco. Barlow Irvin named athletic director after acting tenure. Low bid for a biological sciences building addition was 1,997,991 dollars from Stokes Construction Co of San Marcos.
Washington officials said Brazil may act soon on the U.S. request to extradite BenJack Cage for embezzlement in Texas after Cage fled to Brazil. The treaty that took effect last December could aid his return though Cage claims Brazilian citizenship.
Texas Republicans gather in El Paso to map a 1966 victory plan including re-electing U S Senator John Tower. The State Executive Committee meets at the Sheraton El Paso Motor Inn with Tower as featured speaker and addressing a Young Republicans group. Committeewoman Mrs. J T Moorhead of El Paso serves as chair. secretary position and three committee vacancies are on the agenda.
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