Texas Tech Opens Dorms As Campus Ramps Up For Fall
Student rush begins with dorm opening as campus projects progress. New executive vice president Dr Glenn Barnett and VP for student affairs Dr Owen Caskey reshape student life. Renovations include snack bar reopening by midweek and binding building use fees, housing policy shifts, and a bus system expansion ahead of registration and football season.
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Unions
Nelson Longley
Glenn Barnett
University of Colorado
W. M. Pearce
Owen Caskey
James G. Allen
Florence Phillips
Tech Board of Directors
Municipal Coliseum
Law
University of Cincinnati
Jones, Stadium
Texas Tech
Solons weigh Farm Act extension amid uncertain passage
House and Senate may act by Thursday on a one year extension of the 1965 Farm Act with no payment limits. Johnson rates final passage at 50-50, noting possible changes to payments and multi year terms. Gins receiving awards, officials from Cotton Council and USDA spoke as Poage and Page push for revised farm programs.
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House
Senate
Gut Johnson
Congress
Scout Death Follows Embankment Cave In
In Lamesa a Boy Scout troop faced tragedy when an embankment cave in trapped Mike Farmer. Despite warning by Scoutmaster Charles Warner, digging resumed and the Cox youth was crushed. Parham and older scouts attempted resuscitation before transport to hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at Brandon-Phillips Funeral Home. He is survived by his parents a sister and both sets of grandparents.
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Charles Warner
Sam Parham
Cox
Varner
Parham
Lamesa
Farmer
Brandon-Philips Funeral Home
Jude Holdridge
Fort Worth
Ira Jeter
Midway
John Farmer
Allied Drive Into DMZ Marked by Heavy Losses and Naval Strikes
U S and South Vietnamese forces mounted a major assault into the southern half of the DMZ, aided by tanks, warships, and aircraft. Navy pilots reported destroying at least 12 barges while ground forces engaged North Vietnamese troops near Gio Linh. Casualties included 158 enemy dead, four South Vietnamese killed, and 24 wounded. American losses were 22 wounded. A separate three day engagement on the island of Vinh Loe yielded 97 enemy killed and 168 captured.
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Navy
Hancock
Constelation
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Air Force
Marine
Gio Linh
I Vinh Loe
Hue
Police seek former Dania officer in child murder case
Dorothy Chirk, 42, of Clarkston Georgia, recalls meeting a khaki uniformed man with a round patch on Dania Beach the night of the shooting. Her daughter is dead. she was shot six times and remains hospitalized in Fort Lauderdale. Police say the suspect Erler, a former Dania officer, was identified on phone tapes and linked to the killings in a chain of calls and sightings.
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Dorothy Chirk
Clarkston
Dania Beach
Parton
Hollywood
Dania
Donald Dalziel
William White
Erler
Irvin Goetz
Goetz
Hollywood Fort Lauderdale International Airport
Orbison's Sons Feared Dead In House Blaze
Roy Orbison faced an overnight tragedy as two of his sons, Roy Duane 11 and Tony 6, were reported missing and presumed dead after a lakeside Hendersonville Tennessee house fire. Wesley 32 escaped uninjured as flames and a basement explosion struck the residence while Orbison was en route home from England engagements. The children were under grandparents care in his absence.
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Hendersonville
Tenn
Roy Orbison
Roy Duane Orbison
Tony Orbison
Wesley
Orbison
England
Orbie“Orbison
FBI Checks Kidnapping Report From Richardson Man
Richardson, Texas man Dr. William Gee reported he was abducted at gunpoint and driven to Jackson Mississippi before escaping. An FBI agent said the investigation was checked but findings would not be released at present. Gee contacted his wife in Richardson after the incident.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Richardson
Tex
FBI
William Gee
Gee
Jackson
Freak Accident Kills Minister at Church Construction
Dallas AP reports Rev. Bailey E. Smith aged 55 was killed at a church construction site when a wire mesh segment snapped back injuring him in the eye and brain. Witnesses described the moment as a freak accident during the building of Calvary Baptist Church.
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Dallas
Calvary Baptist Church
Bailey E. Smith
PCGA approves officers and adds new directors in annual meeting
At the next Congress session plans to expand the agriculture minimum wage law. PCGA directors re elected all officers for a one year term. Officers named are A Higgins Plainview president Bill Quattlebaum Lubbock vice president and Dixon White Lubbock secretary treasurer. New directors are Hershel Belew Earth and Gayle Craft Plains. A seven year no lost time accident noted for Sun Down Gin as TCGA safety awards honor six years of accident free work.
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Congress
Johnson
Bob Peave
Waco
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
House
Tony Price
Tdallus
Texas Cotton Ginners Association
Price
PCGA
Skinny
Roy Forkner
Lubbock
Maurice Goodwin
Ralls
Jessie Johnson
Union
Gene Morrison
Dimmitt
Guy Nickels
Sudan
Bill Thompson
Shallowater
Bill Weaver
Lamesa
Sundown
TCGA
Heavy Rains Drench Texas After Naomi Remnants
The Weather Bureau traced Naomi remnants over eastern Mexico along the Rio Grande with no strong winds left but broad cloud spread pulling Gulf moisture across Texas. Coasts saw heavy downpours including Aransas Pass 3.05 inches and Corpus Christi up to 3.20 inches, while several towns reported over 1 inch and some areas flooded briefly. A tortilla plant roof collapsed from water weight. a worker was slightly injured. Winds reached 67 mph in Lander Wyoming as a cold front sparked Rockies storms.
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Weather Bureau
Naomi
Mexico
Rio Grande
Gulf
Texas
Panhandle
Aransas Pass
Uvalde
Corpus Christi
Corpus
Camp Wood
Alice
Bracketville
San Angelo
Sterling City
Cotulla
McAllen
Dalhart
Lander
Wyo
Rockies
Mexican Independence Day Observance Parade in Lubbock
Miss Irma Ponciano Miss Janie Rivera and Miss Sally Nombreo named as top contenders in a Mexican Independence Day event. A parade at 4 30 p.m. moves from 1st Street and Avenue P through downtown to Fair Park Coliseum for a 6 p.m. patriotic program. Jose Villegas chairs the Comite Patriotico Mexicano inviting all residents to attend the free ceremony detailing Mexico's struggle for independence.
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Irma _ Ponciano
Jesse Ponciano
Rt. 1
Abernathy
Janie Rivera
G. C. Rivera
Ute Ave
Sally Nombrano
John Nombrano
E. 14Th St
Lubbock
1St Street
Avenue P
4Th Street
Avenue M
Broadway
Fair Park Coliseum
Mexico
Jose Villegas
New Deal
Comite Patriotico Mexicano
Fr. Hidalgo
Senate Delays Fortas Issue Amid Draft Speech Scrutiny
Dirksen cites Senate delay on Fortas matter as subpoenas loom for Richard Goodwin and Daniel Yergin. Committee awaits possible service before Monday hearings end while Gordon Allott remains the lone witness scheduled. Clifford defends his memory of meetings with Fortas and Vietnam talks and seeks to avoid testimony. Meanwhile Dirksen predicts no action this session on a treaty to curb nuclear spread as Nixon backs ratification with caveats and Humphrey urges steps amid tensions over Czechoslovakia. Johnson pushes Democratic leadership to highlight Republican obstruction.
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Richard N. Goodwin
White House
Daniel Yergin
New York Magazine
Goodwin
Fortas
John Holleman
Sen
Gordon Allott
R-Colo
Clifford
Treasury
Joseph W. Barr
DeVier Pierson
Sec
Defense
Clark MM. Clifford
Judiciary Committee
Vietnam
Justice Fortas
Supreme Court
Congress
Nixon
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
Gunshot Kills Olton Man Wife Injured
Olton authorities report Charles Alford McClain 42 killed in a 1:35 pm shooting at Ave E and 3rd Street. His wife critically wounded and transported to Methodist Hospital Lubbock. Inquest by Justice of the Peace W G Finney ruled death due to gunshot wounds in the head. no ruling yet on wife’s injuries. Services for McClain at Parson Funeral Home. Survivors include wife, son Charles A, daughter Debbie, brother Earl, and sister Juanita Cottrell.
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Olton
Charles Alford McClain
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Justice of the Peace
W. G. Finney
McClain
Ave. E
3Rd Street
Births See Multiple Offerings at Methodist Hospital
Mr and Mrs James Garrison announce the birth of a daughter at Methodist Hospital weighing 9 pounds 9 ounces at p m Saturday The father is a salesman for Orkin Co Also listed are births for Mr and Mrs Arnold Hernandez Mr and Mrs Ivan Chambers Mr and Mrs H Trammell Mr and Mrs Peter Oghoban and others with details on weights times and occupations in a local birth notice.
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Mao
Wallis Rumsey
36Th St
Con
Methodist Hospital
Southwestern Telephone Co
James Garrison
41Th St
Orkin Co
Arnold Hernandez
Hub
Ivan Chambers
39Th St
Tech
SM Trammell
Fist St
Ady P.m
Methodst Hospital
Malouf
Peter
Sr. UN
King Topennets
West Texas Hospital
LCB Arrests 24 In Lubbock Raid
Twenty four Lubbock men were jailed after a Texas Liquor Control Board raid on a North Luly bock residence. Agents seized 10 cans of beer, 20 opened beers, and a fifth of vodka. All face misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages.
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Lubbock
Texas Liquor Control Board
North Lulybock
David Carpenter
Herman Stokes
Carpenter
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Student Union
Tay Ninh
South Vietnam
Beeton
Farmers Cooperative Association of Eenochs
Farm Producers Co-Op
Lakeview Gin Co
Plains
Roy B. Davis
National Cotton Council
Roy Baker
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Charles Jarvis
San Marcos
Mike
Goliad
API
Rayecg Iss
Willis H. Mitchell
North Texas
Optimists
Norman Duke
University Optimist Club of
Paul Schwedler
Jack Krahn
Dennis Owens
Dirksen
GIN Association
The
Plains Cotton Ginners Association
Lubbock Country Club
Hershel Belew
Earth
Gayle Craft
Bill Quattlebaum
A. L
Imig‘gins
Plainview
Dixon Whits
LCB
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