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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1964
Page
10
New York columnist HAL BOYLE notes Earth’s restlessness with an average of 85 quakes daily. The column mixes trivia and satire on science, daily life, and culture, including Coolidge coin trivia and jokes about shoes and weather.
The piece outlines a future featuring automated highways with movable sidewalks underground, neighbor hood car sharing, base parking to keep cars in use, and meters charging drivers by time of day and street priority. It argues these changes would reduce gasoline taxes and push drivers to buses and trains. Later, a Livingston AP report notes Game Warden Wayne Chappell was wounded by buckshot during a deer poaching arrest, with two white men and a 70 year old Negro detained after a large manhunt aided by police and bloodhounds.
UD city schools prepare 34 elementary and secondary campuses for a new term. New plants Haynes Elementary and Wester Elementary open in southwest Lubbock. Beginners attend half days Aug 31 to Sept 18, with extended bus schedules for early graders. Registration for older students runs Aug 17 to 21, with schedules issued Aug 31 and Labor Day closing Sept 7.
President Johnson's daughter Luci, ill with a 24 hour bug, canceled a San Francisco Symphony fundraiser at Stanford University. She briefly appeared at a La Honda barbecue before symptoms forced her to retreat with Secret Service protection. The illness also disrupted a planned concert appearance with conductor Arthur Fiedler.
Violence a charge of assault to murder noted in a case around a dispute over matches. Fatal collisions and drownings occurred across Texas and adjacent areas including Fort Worth San Marcos Beaumont Dallas Orange and Arlington with victims named Turley Graff Payne LaBue Wallace Jacobitz Silva and a child saved after a boating incident.
Police traced Des monde and Slover through tavern witnesses and arrested them as they appeared at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church in Middletown for a Saturday wedding. Marshall family vacationed at their summer home with a groom hospitalized and unconscious.
William L. Dunn longtime director of engineering and vice president of the Admiral Corps died recently in Glenview at age fifty.
Page One reports a discussion on the freedom of grazing sheep on common lands and the status of title holders. The piece notes that commoners gain courtesy titles like Esq. by receipt of a tailor bill and that titles such as court rolls, surveys, rent rolls, and minute books are being sold by C. M. Stanford and Son for J. L. he.
Japanese Foreign Minister Etsuseburo Shiina told the House Affairs Committee that U S destroyers Maddox and Joy were acting in self defense when Communist torpedo boats attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Reports confirm six drownings in remote Luzon areas and raise tally to 79 dead or missing from Typhoon Ida. Estimated damage listed at 25 million dollars as officials assess impact across Manila and surrounding regions.
A fragment suggests Beaumont of Coggleshall is described as the perfect gift for someone who has everything. The note emphasizes novelty and desirability, though context remains limited and unclear.
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