Mild Dry Weather Forecast for Texas Tech Game
The U S Weather Bureau in Lubbock predicts sunny skies for Saturday with temperatures in the low 70s for the Rice Texas Tech football game at 2 p m. A slight rise in wind is the only expected weather change. October Indian Summer extends into November with no significant rainfall forecast for five days.
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Texas Tech
U.S .Weather Bureau
Lubbock
South Plains
U.S
Tees Dam
Abilene
Paso
Albuque Amarillo
Houston
Roswell
Denver
Falls
Council Scolds Zoning Board Over Planned Changes
Laubock City Council sharply questioned the Zoning Board of Adjustment over actions that bypassed council conditions. The hearing cited waivers of 10 foot setbacks on 50th Street C-2A lots and a station sign variance, with the council directing the city attorney to draft a resolution clarifying ZBA duties and limits.
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Zoning Board of Adjustment
Laubhock
City Hall
ZBA
50Th St
W. 4Th St
Jack Eastman
Rolan Simpson
Council
City approves zone changes for dorms near Texas Tech campus
City officials ok 11 zoning changes including two for multi story private student housing near Texas Tech. A $2 million four story dorm for 968 students breaks ground north of 19th Street west of the Tech freeway with plans to expand to 12 stories and 4,000 students. A $60,327 refund from surplus tax funds was accepted and a Reese AFB water contract discussed.
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Ubbock
Texas Tech
Board of City Development
Reese Afb
19Th St
Tech
Halloween plans spark city events Saturday night
Lubbock area residents plan Halloween activities across the city with most events set for Saturday night. The notice appears in the A-J under Local Happenings with calendar details and related events.
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Lubbock
Area
Sec. D
Early Day Tech Memories at Coronation Queen Exhibit
Mrs. Raymond Marshall recalls 1926 coronation queen regalia on display at a Tech memory scene. Jo Ann Rice, Bay City senior and Miss Playmate of 1965, admires the dress while a replica 1928 Tech band uniform stands nearby in the campus exhibit.
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Raymond Marshall
24Th St
Marshall
Jo Ann Rice
Tech
Bay City
Pauline Warner
Miss Sammons Crowned Tech's First Homecoming Queen
In 1926 Texas Tech crowned D Ann Sammons as the first homecoming queen in a grand city pageant. More than 6000 spectators attended with around 1000 students participating, as memories linger of a pivotal campus social event later chronicled by alumni.
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Ken Estes
Avalanche-Journal
Texas Tech
D'Ann Sammons
Mademoiselle
Sigma Chi
Miss Sammons
Lubbock
Raymond Marshall
D’ann Sammons
Tech
Queen D'Aun
Two Robbers Hit Houston Bank For Over Thirty Thousand
Two armed men robbed the Northeast National Bank of more than $31,000 Thursday and fled in a stolen 1959 tan car. The bandits demanded cash from four tellers, warned of shooting, and packed bills into a paper sack before escaping. W. Otto Frosch, bank president, said the initial loss was estimated higher, then confirmed at $31,000.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Dyett Pa - A
Matt
Jeff
Northeast National Bank
Gnelier
Houston
W. Otto Frosch
Frosch
Leftist meet stirs talk of volunteer army for Viet Cong
undercover reporter attends Militant Labor Forum in Los Angeles where bearded speaker claims Freedom Fighters are negotiating with North Viet Nam to send a military brigade to aid the Viet Cong. He says volunteers will be enlisted on the spot and guns in a few weeks as others recount travels from Compton to Algeria and Zanzibar.
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Jerry Leblanc
North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc
Anta Monica
Calif
Nana
Viet Nam
California
Militant Labor Forum
MLF
Socialist Workers Party
Congress of Unrepresented People
Los Angeles
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Alaskan A Test Shot Postponed by Wind and Storm
An Allied test at Anchita Island faced a delay as wind directed toward the control center seven miles away. The $10 million Project Long Shot device was rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday or Monday, with a storm from Japan clouding the outlook for the buried 1 megaton thermonuclear test.
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Anchita Island
Alaska
Japan
Bid Top Russia Seen in Unprecedented Space Rendezvous
Johnson disclosed that the United States plans a no contact rendezvous with two Gemini capsules. Space officials weighed a December or January launch for Gemini 7 and Gemini 6 in side by side flights to edge Russia in space.
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Avalanche-Journal
Terre
Johnson
United States
Ec Oe
U.S
Space Agency
James E. Webbs
Federal Space Agency
Convideseine
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Moyers
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Cape Kennedy
Schirra
Stafford
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Cuban Refugee Airlift Sparks Cuba Florida Transfer Plan
Refugees flee via a coordinated airlift after Cuba halts the sea shuttle from Havana. Officials report a boat with 30 overdue passengers may have dodged patrols to avoid seizure. Iberia and KLM protest the plan, fearing losses as Cuban evacuees fill flights to Florida for onward transfers.
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United Preas International
Cuba
Florida Straits
Fid
Castro
Coast Guard
Miami
Camarioca
Florida
Plainview Dedicates $300,000 Fertilizer Plant
Plainview hosts a dedication for a $300,000 W. R. Grace & Co. fertilizer blending plant with over 300 attendees. William J. Haude explains future Plains area investments as the company plans eight to ten similar plants. Guests include Texas Agriculture Commissioner John White and baseball star Mickey Mantle. Rein Mesdag describes a nitrogen slurry product to be produced at the facility.
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Avalanche Journal
Lainview
Hale County
Plainview
W. R. Grace & Co
William J. Haude
New York
Nitrogen Products
W. R. Grace &Co
Haude
Plains
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
John White
Mickey Mantle
Rein Mesdag
Grace
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Electrical Board of Examiners
George McCleskey
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
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Icheck
McCleskey
BCD
By Jerry Hall
Lubbock Public Schools
Colombia
Sec. C
Texas Baptists
NAVY
Russia
China
Tech Queen
KFYO
Gatlin
Houston Bank
W.E.B. DuBois
Congress of
Ron Ramsey
Compton
Ben Bella
Berkeley
Zanzibar
Tanzania
Mohammed Babu
Ramsey
Washington
KLM
Iberia
Havana
Key West
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