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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1966
Page
2
County commissioners set a public hearing for Sept 26 at 11 a.m. to review the budget and ad valorem tax rate, which unofficially stands at 78 cents per $100. The meeting also addressed proposed salary raises of 1,000 dollars per year for key county officials and approved bond deposit changes with Lubbock National Bank.
Lubbock County Commission proposed and approved a total 125 816 25 in special bills including General Fund items for The Paper Cup Inc and Thomas Brothers Co and City of Lubbock health department payment. Additional actions covered road projects right of way and utility pole removals. Present were Judge Shaw and commissioners Lamb Green Derrick Brazell.
Lil lian Fern Earnest daughter of Mrs Gladys Earnest from near Shallowater was reported improving after a bullet wound in the stomach at an Isfahan hospital Officials said she had gone to Iran to marry an Iranian Air Force officer but the marriage was illegal under Iranian law. Local relatives describe her as a Frenship High School graduate who resigned from Methodist Hospital to marry and travel overseas.
The 28th annual South Plains Electric Cooperative membership meeting occurs at 6 p.m. today in Fair Park Coliseum with 750 to 1000 farm families from Lubbock Hale Hockley and Crosby counties expected. Registration begins at 6 p.m. followed by a banquet and business session to name three directors including terms for Kitten and Cherry. late Elton Settle’s term also to be filled.
Sunday school attendance across 62 churches reached 20 204 this week up from 19 093 in 73 churches two weeks earlier Labor Day disruptions reduced last week totals to 12 946 in 53 churches Readouts list participating churches across Methodist Baptist Church of Christ and other denominations including Westminster Presbyterian First Baptist Calvary Baptist and St John’s Methodist among others
Three defendants pleaded guilty before Judge Edwin H. Boedeker in County Court-at-Law No. 1. Jimmy Doyle Hardage received a probated six month sentence for drunken driving. Richard Linn Kelsey admitted driving with a suspended license and was fined $75 plus court costs. Manuel Chapa Santos was fined $150 and given three days in jail for drunken driving. Eleven others were bonded after pleading innocent.
AP dispatch from Tokyo notes hints of changes at the top of China’s political ladder. Leaders Liu Shao-chi Chu Teh Chen Yun and others may have been removed from the Politburo standing committee, with Kang Sheng newly added. Deputy Premier Tao Chu and Chen Po-ta shown as rising figures amid purge activity. Gov. Chen Yu of Kwangtung reportedly fired for antiparty actions.
A bust of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla will be presented to Lubbock at 2 30 p m today by David Cardenas a Braulio Fernandez representative. Mayor W D Rogers Jr Manuel Esparza and Mario N Ceballos will attend with local Mexican consul and vice consul for the ceremony in City Council chamber. Hidalgo sparked the 1810 liberation movement signaling the end of Spanish rule. City Council designated Sept 11 17 as Mexican Independence Week.
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