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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1971
Page
6
Disjointed OCR text reveals varied references to figures and places, including mentions of Teak, Paget, Bebe Las, Operation Taganded, and Amore. The passage hints at elections, protests, and community concerns, with fragmented dialogues and scattered proper nouns across multiple regions and groups.
In San Antonio a party meeting screened potential House of Representatives candidates and named possible contenders for the speaker post. Talks focused on nominations and personnel amid speculation about who will lead the chamber and the state’s upcoming constitutional amendments committee.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a wallet theft involving $178 and two boxes of toads. Three men allegedly attacked the victim after forcing him to stop on a street corner. Further readable details are inconsistent and unclear.
The United Nations awarded its Peace Medal to cellist Pablo Casals in a Sunday ceremony at the General Assembly. The event featured Casals performing Bach and Stravinsky with renowned collaborators, marking a high moment in his career as audience rose to four standing ovations. The festival included participants from San Juan and notable figures such as Isaac Stern and Aryeh Istomin.
Fragmented OCR narrative reports a family in Jerusalem where a kindergarten teacher and parents, including Mrs. Yuteliay Berman, welcomed multiple births. Premier Golda Meir sent congratulations. The piece mentions nurses and hospital staff assessing conditions as a three girl birth outcome unfolds.
Damaging typhoon hits Da Nang Chu Lai Camp Eagle and surrounding areas causing massive destruction. Units suffer medium to heavy casualties with hundreds of troops delayed returning home and power and housing repairs prioritized.
Kosygin arrives from Namao Airport to tour Sherrit-Gorton nickel refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, accompanied by Canadian dignitaries and ambassador Boris Mironischenko. He walks past grinding machinery at the plant famed for its hydro reduction process as 700 demonstrators look on.
French authorities kept security tight as Kosygin's motorcade toured near a refinery with helicopters overhead and a police presence by the dozens. About 200 demonstrators called for Jewish immigration, while guards and plainclothes detectives prepared to block potential trouble linked to the Kosygin visit amid concerns stemming from Ottawa.
Reports say Maoist and Trotskyite factions tied to French Communists and led by Peters Creighton Abrams mobilized to guard government houses as Da Nang and Quang Tin areas suffer extensive war damage. South Vietnamese officials cite 70 to 80 percent damage to Da Nang air base.
A sequence reports Brezhnev on a West tour with a Canadian stop in Vancouver and a French sojourn. The Russian leader outlines stronger USSR Canada ties while facing protests from Ordre Nouveau and leftists as security and public events unfold in Marseille Paris and City Hall visits.
Reported missing Wednesday from Sweetie Cream Donut Show near Shaw, a Lubbock woman also missing since Sept 28, similar to Mesquite disappearances. Sheriff notes bodies found in a remote wooded barn area linked to a Dallas raccoon hunters club. Demonstrations occur outside the hotel as Kosygin addresses guests.
Oshima owner Dell Millar lost his wallet while boating near Snead's Fer my below Merehead Cit. Mrs Ti Dillinger of Greensboro called to say her husband, fishing nearby, had found and saved the wallet containing about $38. The wallet was recovered hours later. Harold Kniffen, 28, of Rt 2 Clyde, remained in critical condition after his left leg was severed in an accident at a construction site in Plainay EO.
The Bridgeton cemetery receives ongoing care from veteran Boultinghouse who found and remounted a long lost cannon, paints the gun annually, and has helped reposition and clean headstones. The Bridgeton American Legion Post will maintain the site, while Boultinghouse also works as a monument engraver and plans a Veterans Day flag ritual. He recalls leaving school in the sixth grade to support his family and later training for the 1916 Olympics before WWI redirected his path. He serves dawn to dusk, raising and lowering the flag at the cemetery.
Two people died in a Friday night collision on a ranch road east of Sonora Texas. The victims were Frank J. Moore 68 of the George Allison Ranch near Sonora and Mrs Rachel Sellers 76 of Cleburne. Both died instantly in the Farm Road 814 crash.
Early day portrait of Uncle Tang a beloved Lubbock figure shown in cornerstone ceremonies and photos. He wore a whistle on a cord to summon aid and relied on a wheelchair after leg amputation in 1916. The county provided a ramped first floor access while he tended courthouse grounds and kept sharp remarks for those rushing into stores.
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