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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1964
Page
5
President Johnson outlines a broad national security speech mentioning Polaris missiles and a call for unity. He reads from notes about avoiding class, race, and religious conflict while stressing strong defense and national resolve amid Cold War tensions.
A series of crashes Saturday left seven injured in Lubbock. A brick contractor, 40, and his daughter survived a motorcycle collision with a car driven by Orval Watkins, 21, at Cornell Street. A 2-year-old was treated after a two-vehicle crash on 38th Street and Avenue P. Other incidents included a 16th Street collision with an unload vehicle, a soda bottle causing a single-vehicle crash, and a bakery truck overturn near 3rd Street and Avenue S. Medical staff treated all involved at West Texas Hospital and Methodist Hospital.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs James Isaacs 1832 KE Brown St on a daughter weighing pounds 244 ounces at 25 a.m. Saturday at Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital. The father is employed by Ince Ou Ca.
Dryland crops suffer on the South Plains as subsoil moisture remains scarce. Officials slash Dawson and Lynn county estimates by 15 000 bales each and predict little production from about 600 000 acres of dryland cotton, while irrigated cotton offsets losses. The Cotton Exchange secretary notes farmers lack moisture to battle sand and browning fields.
The article details a new office building project with architect James Atcheson and the firm Atcheson Atkinson and Cartwright. It describes massive concrete work, reinforced steel, vault foundations, soil tests, and wind considerations for the 157 foot tall structure in a high wind area.
The Texas comptroller reported the largest general revenue fund balance in 15 years with $73 million left over as 1966 and 1967 requests total $3.75 billion, up $622.5 million, signaling how to pay the bills in the 1965 legislative session.
Labor Day events in Lubbock include a Jaycees rest stop offering coffee, doughnuts, and free drinks on U.S. 87 in front of the Ramada Inn with Salvation Army volunteers. Other items cover Mackenzie Park fishing hours, city pool openings, and holiday office closures as state budget debates anticipate education and salary increases amid projected revenue gaps.
Khrushchev and Novotny warned the Chinese regime led by Mao is seeking to split world communism. They stressed Moscow’s unity amid Peking’s push, noting broad support from more than 90 Communist parties for the Moscow line.
Goldwater argues that concentrated central government threatens private dispute resolution and labor rights. He attacks coercive federal action and defends voluntary unionism, proposing tax cuts to curb bureaucracy while opposing a national right to work and endorsing state discretion on union shop laws.
Storm Dora churns 425 miles south southeast of Bermuda while Ethel sits 1300 miles east-northeast of San Juan Puerto Rico. Typhoon Ruby pounds Hong Kong with 18 dead 35 missing and 250 injured. Typhoon Sally causes light damage as it brushes Guam. Moscow reports Tass says engineers plan to stabilize Pisa’s leaning tower.
Sherry Beadle 1964 Miss Lubbock offers Ray Dean of Snyder a donut at a Lubbock Jaycees rest stop on US 82 North. Beadle, serving as hostess, notes free coffee donuts soft drinks and safety brochures. Stop runs through Labor Day weekend ending 1 a.m. Tuesday. Brochures provided by Citizens' Traffic Council.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, first woman chairman of the U S Communist party, dies in Moscow at 74. Tass reported she had been a long time leftist figure in the United States and leadership passes to Gus Hall. She had entered a Moscow hospital a month earlier after feeling very tired.
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