Congress approves Great Society programs and election financing
Congress moves toward a Saturday adjournment after final House approval of Great Society education slum and antipoverty spending totaling about 6.1 billion over two years. The House also passes a financing bill for elections and a separate antitrust immunity item for the NFL and AFL merger.
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Ashington
Congress
Johnson
Great Society
House
Senate
United States
White House
Departments of State, Justice and Commerce
Ulcer Diet Protest By Bronx Hospital Patients
About six ulcer patients from a Bronx hospital left rooms in pajamas to protest hospital conditions for an hour. They criticized the bland diet, while hospital administrator Hardy Salkind urged them back, noting the patients receive a special bland diet.
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New York
Bronx
Wilfredo Castillo
Hardy Salkind
Salkind
Lubbock Man Sings Sigma Chi Sweetheart Song
A Lubbock area man is noted among the first to sing the well known Sigma Chi sweetheart song on page 1 section B. A separate note mentions a missing blackened pea crop in a secluded area on page 1 section BR. The LHS MHS battle at Lowrey for the Silver Spurs is listed in section D. The Arnold Air Society joins a Tech graduate's life battle with blood donations on page B.
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Lubbock
Gaines County
Sec
Lowrey
Arnold Air Society
Tech
Page
New motion picture code to modernize Hollywood life
Newspaper notes discuss a proposed motion picture code intended to move Hollywood from old practices toward contemporary depictions of U S life. The item appears in Section B along with brief mentions of Lynda's Beau and a Nobel Prize for literature to a German-born Israeli author.
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Hollywood
U.S
Good Neighbor: A Person Who Avoids Snobbery
A compact editorial defines a good neighbor as someone who treats others with respect, without looking down or keeping up with trends. It emphasizes kindness, community spirit, and mutual support as core neighborly virtues.
Hanoi Might Consider Separate Viet Nam
United Nations dispatch reports Hungarian sources saying North Viet Nam may accept a separate South Viet Nam. They suggest Hanoi would allow South Viet Nam to remain independent after the war, within a coalition that could include the Viet Cong political arm.
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United Nations
North Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
Communist National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Warmup in Area Due for Lubbock and South Plains
A light warmup is forecast for Lubbock and the South Plains with a cold front approaching late Thursday. Gusty winds and cooler air are expected Saturday morning with temperatures in the sixties by afternoon. Tech Homecoming parades at 10 am and a 2 pm Red Raider SMU football game amid winds up to 20 mph. Southwesterly winds to 50 mph today retreat as the front moves in, with no major weather hazards anticipated.
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Lubbock
South Plains
U.S. Weather Bureau
Tech
Red Raider
SMU
Texas
County Judge bids shift venue for Ruby trial
Andrews County Judge Ros Bennett says he asked Dallas officials to move Jack Ruby murder trial to Andrews County 109th District Court. He notes Ruby was convicted in 1964 for Oswald slaying and appeals court reversed, ordering a new trial outside Dallas. Bennett sent letters to Henry Wade and Judge Louis Holland requesting fairness and venue change to Andrews.
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Ndrews
Andrews County
Ros Bennett
Dallas
Jack Ruby
109Th District Court
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F Mennedy
Appeals Court
Holland
Bennett
Wade
Dist
Louis Holland
Andrews
Texas
United States
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Texas Tech Homecoming Rush Opens on Campus
Homecoming activities begin at Texas Tech in Lubbock with eight events today including a football game pep rally parades and queen coronation. The 41st celebration marks the theme Happiness is Texas Tech and features a gala two day schedule with a KoKo Palace dance to close Saturday.
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Dave Knapp
Avalanche
Journal
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Texas
KoKo Palace
Post
Troy V. Post
Greatamerica Corp
Century Club
Dallas
Braniff International Airlines
Fx-Students Association
Formic
Geardon Hall
Peruna
Southern Methodist University
Con
Verwoerd Killers Declared Mad at Trial
Dimitrio Tsafendas, the parliamentary messenger who killed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, was judged mentally ill and unable to stand trial. Cape Province Judge President Andries Beyers ordered his indefinite detention in prison.
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Cape Town
South Africa
UPI
Dimitrio Tsafendas
Hendrik Verwoerd
Cape Province
Andries Beyers
Tsafendas
Ex-Students name officers for 1966-67 at Union
Ex-Students Association will elect officers for 1966-67 at a council meeting in the Student Union ballroom at 1 20 pm. C H Cliff Cummings Class of 1994 leads the candidate list along with others nominated for office. See THOUSANDS Page 6
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Ference
FBI Probes Thefts Of Army Gear In Virginia
FBI and Army officials sealed details on a suspected large scale theft of military equipment in eastern Virginia. Police seized items at a 10 acre Middlesex County farm including cranes road tractor gear parachutes and drums of oil amid an ongoing Ft Eustis property theft investigation.
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Associated Press
Ake
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Virginia Army
Middlesex County
Ft Eustis
FBI
Ft. Eustis
Artificial heart patient Benjamin Flores dies after pump implant
Benjamin Flores, 26, of Oregon, Mexico, died at 6:25 pm in Houston Methodist Hospital less than 28 hours after a ventricular assist pump was implanted to aid a diseased heart. He was the fourth patient to receive the device, following prior use on another Mexican patient.
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Ouston
Houston
Methodist Hospital
Benjamin Flores
Obregon
Mexico
Flores
Disperanza del Via Lie Vasquez
Mexico City
Johnson Holt say North Vietnam cannot win military victory
President Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt said allies barred a military victory for North Vietnam and will press ahead until a satisfactory settlement is reached. They stressed urgency of rapid economic and social development in Southeast Asia and noted a Manila summit next week. Johnson praised joint efforts to stem aggression and urged continued military effort until settlement.
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Associated Press
Anberra
Johnson
Harold Holt
North
Viet Nam
Melbourne
Manila
Holt
Johnson-Holt
Two Fired Red Rockets Not Manned Soviets Launch Two Satellites
In Moscow the Soviet Union launched Cosmos 10 and another satellite from Baikonur, a space show for eight Communist leaders. The missions, part of a long-running series relaying TV and radio signals, occurred as a summit discussed Viet Nam and China's aid stance.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Baikonur
Soviet Space Center
Central Asian
Molnivai
Tras
Bulgaria
Cute
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Monstoba
Poland
Romania
Soeviet
Red China
Charles de Gaulle
Cosming
Ex Senator Harry Byrd Dies at 79 in Virginia
Former U S senator Harry Flood Byrd died at 8 25 a m at his Rosemont Virginia home after a long illness. He was 79 and had long shaped Virginia and national politics as a conservative leader. His son Harry F Byrd Jr learning of the death spoke by phone in Washington as the family prepared for funeral arrangements at Christ Episcopal Church in Winchester. tributes from colleagues praised his consistency and stature as a statesman.
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Associated Press
Erryville
U.S
Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia
Rosemont
Judy
Byrd
Beverly
Richard E. Byrd
Washington
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Byrd Jr
Virginaa
Johnson
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Christ Episcopal Church
Winchester
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Wei O Can
Harry Byrd
Weather Map Page Forecast for Lubbock and Roswell
Weather map page 2 A shows today and tomorrow with a slight warming trend followed by cooler air. Winds from the southwest ease this afternoon with temperatures dipping to the low 80s and upper 70s.
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Fort Worth
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el Paso
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Diane King
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Leslie Duckworth
Judy Stewart
Liz Gerbert
Lubbock, Area
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Echureh
Berlin
Women's News
Comic Dictionary
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Andrews Creed
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Verwoerd
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Houston Hospital
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