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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1971
Page
2
A state narcotics agent told Odessa law officers that illegal narcotics traffic into Lubbock and Texas Tech is growing worse each day. He charged local officials refuse to discuss the problem and asserted drag traffic from Austin to Tribbock is heavy.
Lubbock citizens attend a week long program at Texas Tech Museum to learn about campus operations. Grover Murray presides over briefings with 26 civic clubs and service organizations including Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions. Drug abuse topics are discussed by university leaders and local police, with officials noting increases and campus outreach.
The Lubbock School Board meets Thursday at 7 15 a m to review 5 6 million in April bonds including 120 000 for lighting upgrades at Wheatley Jackson Stubbs Wheelock and Matthews Smylie Wilson. discuss hiring a lighting engineer and possible disposition of over 100 acres of vacant land valued at 445 000. Committees will be named to recommend next year’s textbooks and to advise on federal library aid.
Dallas mayor Manuel Sanchez says reorganizing federal programs shifts funds to mayors, boosting local control. He cites Lubbock and Canyon Lakes grants, noting faster, direct action without Washington approvals. He stresses the mayor as primary problem solver for communities.
NICAP National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena marks its 15th anniversary. Since 1956 it has collected over 10 000 reports with about 20 percent unexplained and is expanding during 197? to investigate roughly 100 cases. NICAP aims open scientific debate and citizen reporting, noting no threat to security. Initiatives include Project ACCESS to share UFO data with scientists.
Jurors in Judge Robert C. Wright's court start deliberations today in the murder case of Ramon Torres 50 of Lubbock County. Torres faces charges for the March 8 shooting at the Las Palmas Club on Tahoka Highway that left Joe Riojas 3d dead.
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