16 Oct 1965
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1965
Page
1
A protest march was halted by authorities as two youths died in a local fire. The city school trustees approve a budget for expanding adult education. Page references indicate wide coverage from local to international events and editorials.
Thousands of students nationwide joined antiwar protests with the Berkeley march attracting about 10 000 demonstrators. Oakland police blocked the route near the army facility as eggs were hurled at marchers and banners read LBJ S War.
A flash fire in apartment 1015 DE. 29th St. killed Roland Fitzgerald Pouge 14 months and Ronnie McCraw 3 months, while their parents A. McGraw 24 and Dorothy McGraw 19 faced injuries and air evacuation to Brooke Army General Hospital. Fire started when a pilot light ignited fumes from gasoline as a cleaner, trapping children in a corner away from interior doors.
Showers and thundershowers sweep across the plains with 45 mph winds, as Lubbock sets a high of 92 and Texas towns report 97 in Presidio and 94 in Laredo. Cooler air expected Sunday but no drastic cold. Texas faces scattered moisture and continued warm spell through the weekend.
Citizens National Bank invites the public to tour the Citizens Tower today and Sunday during open house hours from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event marks fifty nine years since the bank began in a frame building in Lubbock. Industry staff will present the latest in modern banking facilities.
The Titan 3, the US’s most powerful rocket, failed to execute four planned switch engine ignitions, delivering only two course shifts and not achieving satellite separations. NASA reported OGO 2 continued to function despite an attitude control issue affecting a subset of experiments.
The General Assembly's main political committee chose non-proliferation of nuclear weapons as the first agenda item in its disarmament debate. The decision was announced Friday for a Monday session.
Twenty seven members of Coach Pete Cawthon’s 1938 Texas Tech football team gathered in Lubbock for a reunion and were honored at halftime of the Red Raider versus Oklahoma State game at Jones Stadium. Bo Sexton hailed them as the men who put Tech on the map, while captain Frank Guzik mused on 1965 versus 1938 styles.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko will make a four day stopover in Cuba next week before returning to Moscow. He has made several prior trips to the island and no specific purpose was announced. Gromyko arrived in New York for the U N General Assembly on September 21.
Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford aim for history’s first linking of two orbiting spacecraft at 4 21 p m CST Oct 25 NASA announced Friday night. The maneuver would follow their Cape Kennedy launch and after the Agena target vehicle is in orbit. Four practice dockings are planned with alternating pilots in varying light conditions.
Plans detailed by Gemini officials outline the detachment of the Gemini capsule from the Agena rocket at 5 a.m. CST Oct 26 after a long hookup. Commanders Schirra and Stafford, a Navy captain and an Air Force major, will perform experiments for about 46 hours 40 minutes total. They will descend into the eastern Atlantic at 9:27 a.m. CST Oct 27 at the end of the 30th revolution, with close but controlled approach to Agena and extremely small collision risk.
The piece notes Cuban refugees arriving at Key West under Castro’s migration plan face poverty yet remain hopeful. It details distributions of aid from the Cuban Refugee Center in Miami, with $60 per person and up to $100 for families, and cites U S aid totals exceeding $200 million for about 300000 refugees since Castro rose to power.
Blond Rhonda Oglesby, Miss Arkansas, who vanished from the University of Arkansas last week, has returned to her home in INE BLUFF. She says she went to Washington with boyfriend Lee Carter to join the Peace Corps but decided to rethink after learning the process can take months. Her father Horace Oglesby released a handwritten statement. she was not available for further questioning.
U.S. Senator John Stennis denounces CBS News for aiding draft dodgers by broadcasting programs that describe evasion tactics and promote the belief that avoiding service is acceptable. He urges the administration to halt the campaign and questions airing material to troops in Vietnam.
Weather map page for Lubbock and vicinity reports partly cloudy conditions and warm temperatures. Highs mid to upper 80s today, overnight lows in the upper 50s, with gusty west winds. Humidity highs around 63 percent and a trace to light precipitation listed for several locales, including Abilene and Amarillo.
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