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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1966
Page
10
Current figures show rapid growth in Lubbock school enrollment with 33 119 students and 3 452 Negro pupils, 1 29 integrated this year. Trustees discuss civil rights study scope and 14 year program while Madden notes a pending district inquiry into vocational education and future.
About 800 employees and guests attended Anderson Clayton Paymaster Gin and Oil Mill district service awards banquet on East 50th Street. 32 workers received awards for more than five years of service as a company vice president praised the firm.
The Texas Water Development Board's multi billion dollar half century proposal would divert surplus Northeast Texas water 980 miles to the South Texas coast while reserving several million acre feet in the eastern basin. East Texas critics say there is not enough surplus to justify interstate irrigation use and West Texas would bear high transport costs. The plan aims to irrigate over 800000 acres of new cropland in the Coastal Bend and Lower Rio Grande Valley and provide water for 170000 acres already irrigated in the Valley. West Texas advocates argue for closer, more certain imports as engineers doubt out of state sources could reach West Texas in 25 to 30 years. The TWDB will hold hearings with multiple stakeholders and may seek enabling legislation after hearings.
Reports describe a 16 year old Anglo American suspect seen fleeing east toward Akron Avenue after entering a yard near a home. A white male with black curly hair and a black sweater with a white stripe was last seen near Avenue Q. A 14 year old girl alleged forced prostitution. a beating of James Wooten near 4th and Indiana is investigated, and $170 worth of merchandise was stolen from Broadway Drug during remodels.
Viet Nam era reports say Air Force planes struck 12 to 16 boats north of Dong Hoi and a fuel and oil storage area near Thanh Hoa. Dams were damaged, trucks burned, and six enemy troops were killed near Quang Tri as Marines engaged in the field. Premier Ky hinted at a presidential bid as Buddhist protests grow and election plans unfold.
The Paymaster organization awarded wristwatches and service pins to three men with at least 30 years’ service Homer D. White of the Lubbock mill L T Winn gin manager at Springlake and George Brassell district manager in Lubbock W D Watkins ACCO vice president led the presentation Officials from Phoenix Abilene and Lubbock attended for Paymaster’s 22 gins and two oil mills in the Lubbock district Also recognized were pin recipients with 15 10 and 5 year pins including Johnnie Harris Lee Copeland Curtis Akins Horace Keith and others plus Mrs Carolyn Handley Mrs Jane Stephenson and more.
Grand Jury in El Paso charged Leopoldo Morales 22 with four counts of murder and one count of arson in the Sept 4 blaze that killed four residents. Prosecutors seek the death penalty. Morales held as suspect. four victims including Pvt Michael Artz 23 and Albert Meares 72 died. District Attorney Barton Bowling hopes for trial by November.
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