Stats The Day On The South Plains
Local morning newspaper notes from Lubbock with staff credits and publishing details for October 1 1973. Names listed include Norris Rickman Knapp Harris Pettit May Cannon McVay and others as editors and managers for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.O. Bow
Lubbock
Teta
South Plains
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Southwestern Newspapers Corporation
St. and Ave
J. Lubbock
Texas
Texas Daily Press League
Dallas
Associated Press
United Press International
Robert R. Norris
J.C. Rickman
David BE. Knapp Jay Harris
Denator
Burle Pettit
Kenneth May
Carl N. Cannon
Robert C. McVay
City Eyes Options After TTU Indiana Avenue Rift
Lubbock residents face mounting traffic near the Texas Tech campus as TTU backs away from Indiana Avenue extension. The paper urges city action to secure state funds and upgrade roads, stressing cooperation between the university and city taxpayers.
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Indiana Extension
Texas Tech
Tech
Indiana
Texas faces pay reform split amid November election
Backers of an amendment to raise legislative pay in Texas fear voter apathy worsened by the Agnew Watergate case. Supporters of annual sessions push for long term reform while opponents balk at a $15 000 annual salary. A constitutional commission proposal may follow next year.
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Texas
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Nixon
Weinberger orders 77 percent cut in HEW public affairs
Secretary Caspar Weinberger orders a 77 percent reduction in HEW public affairs staff and elimination of 275 publications by next June 30 to save about 20 million dollars for programs aiding the poor elderly and infirm. The move targets a robust department operation and faces entrenched bureaucratic resistance. The piece also notes the guilt-by-association theory.
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Caspar W. Weinberger
Weinberger
Self-cleaning oven analogy colors Nixon era vice presidency debate
Washington observers compare the U.S. political system to a self-cleaning oven amid Nixon’s vice presidential selection. The Watergate crisis, Agnew’s probe, and questions about Nixon’s taxes and finances dominate talk of impeachment and possible resignation as Congress weighs Ford’s nomination.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Gerald Ford
Pat Derian
Democratic National Committee
Mississippi
Spiro Agnew
Wright Patman
D-Texas
Jerome Waldie
Calif
Agnew
The
National Archives
John Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Peter Rodine
New Jersey
Richard Nixon
Connally Nomination Seen as Risk After Agnew Resigns
In the frantic hours after Vice President Agnew's resignation Republican leaders in Congress and states signaled that nominating John B. Connally to fill the vacancy would pose too grave a risk.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Congress
John B. Connally
Middle income squeeze sparks housing and education concerns
The piece rails at rising costs hitting middle income families as taxes, mortgages, and utilities soar. It links home prices and mortgage payments to political inaction while noting debates over federal aid, tuition hikes, and welfare housing markets. It also covers Connally's presidential prospects and Republican splits on his vice presidential nomination.
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Congress
Senate
Texas
John Connally
Big Jawn
Long Walk to Fourth and Open Minds in Tech Traffic
A column surveys Texas Tech traffic talks with the Board of Regents rescinding a 1968 agreement and leaving doors open for talks. It weighs Indiana area issues, city plans, and funding limits while noting public figures and local politics.
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Lubbock
Texas Tech
Indiana Avenue
Texas Tech Board of Regents
Indiana
Fourth
Board of Regents
Morris Turner
Quaker
Tech
Pass It On and Voting Machine Old News Bits
L M Boyd notes a trial lawyer claims a hand to mouth gesture signals perjury after 25 years of observation. A safemaker Jacob H Myers built the world’s first voting machine in 1892 at Lockport New York. Gopher teeth and apples versus colds are lightly joked with zoology and sleep study asides. Address L M Boyd Fort Worth.
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Jacob H. Myers
Lockport
N.Y
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
United States
Armerica
Fourth Street
Brownfield
University
Andrew Tully
U.S
America
Iatio
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Connally
Virginia Payette
Evans
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
Tess
John Bowden Connally
Capitol Hill
House
Melvin R. Laird
Bryce Harlow
Lyndon Johnson
William Brock
Tennessee
GOP
Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Jay Harris
Dobbin
Grover Murray
Murray
Floresville
L.M. Boyd
Zoology
P.O
Fort Worth
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