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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1964
Page
6
The article reports Robert McNamara describing the Tonkin incident with added details and stating that no battleship from the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam was present at the time. He urged scrutiny of the U.S. plan for renewed war actions against the country.
The Teamsters campaign promotes public support for Hoffa tied to a congressional investigation. A mail-in brochure offers a $70 wrist watch for top letter writers and outlines suggested statements about the Hoffa trial in Chattanooga and government conduct.
The dedication will occur about a year after Litton announced its Lubbock arrival. A 300‑strong workforce with annual payroll over 1.5 million has been trained in Lubbock. The facility features 41,800 square feet and can be doubled later. Visitors see the black boxes with navigator tech for the F-11 fighter. Thornton was the general contractor. Gov. Connally and Rep. Mahon are slated to attend.
In Paducah during his residence he led the Lions Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce and chaired church building efforts. A former dealer association president and district director, he is a 32nd Degree Mason and Shriner serving with Scottish Rite in the Dallas area. He and his wife Vera reside at 2906 44th St.
Railroad crews cleared 24 derailed freight cars five miles west of Chillicothe Ohio after a Saturday derailment. One car carried 180 unfused 500 pound bombs per Navy description. The Baltimore and Ohio Freight train from Cincinnati to Earle New Jersey derailed due to a burned bearing with no injuries reported.
More than 4,000 attended the final day of the 11th Floyd County Fair in Lockney with total three day attendance estimated over 10,000 led by Mrs. J. P. Taylor of South Plains and her daughter Katie as sweepstakes winners. Over 100 horses entered and the fiddlers contest crowned Denzil Boyter of Slaton as overall winner.
Texas Tech alumni from the class of 1939 gathered for a reunion at the campus now crowded with new five to six story dorms and a modern library. Old grads toured Jones Stadium and the $2 million library while sharing memories of the Cotton Bowl era and meeting former teammates including Leonard Latch Gene Barnett and James Huffman. A dinner featured remarks from Dr R C Goodwin and Lamb, with a film of the 1939 Cotton Bowl and a 1963 Tech game shown.
Texas Tech fall enrollment reached 13,802 at noon on Saturday doubling as a major rise from last fall. Arts and Sciences leads with 5,898 students followed by Agriculture 1,071 Business Administration 2,929 Engineering 2,029 and Home Economics 763. The Graduate School enrolled 1,112. Officials anticipate higher enrollment estimates for the future.
A federal mediator from the National Mediation Board shuttled between union and management representatives in Washington to avert a nationwide railroad strike set to begin next Tuesday. The talks involved Michael Fox for six shop craft unions and J E Wolfe for the railroads, with no comments on progress released.
Justice of the Peace Earl Ford pronounced Banda dead at the scene after a two-vehicle collision at 7 50 p.m. A load of paint in a rear pickup spilled onto a police car injuring patrolmen. Banda, who moved to Levelland in 1962 from El Dorado, is survived by wife and four relatives. The South Plains total this year reaches 89 traffic deaths, down from 98 at the same point last year.
Rep. William E. Miller charged President Johnson with condoning street violence as he concluded a 111 state campaign. Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, Miller claimed Johnson did not denounce anticipated racial disorder, urging a stronger stand against violence during the 1964 election outreach in New York.
Washington authorities report defense secretary Robert S. McNamara's 22 year old daughter Margaret McNamara was held up by a young Black man near her home. She and Charles D. Hickey were forced to surrender wallets. she had three dollars, Hickey eighty five dollars.
Swish er County Historical Survey committee holds a regular meeting at 2 p.m. on September 19 in the new museum building formerly the National Guard Armory south of the VFW Hall. Plans will be made to move into the new building.
London sources say Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wants a summit with the U.S. president as soon as possible after the November vote. Moscow fears a Red China deal with Washington could isolate the Soviet Union, and Beijing may be seeking closer ties with Japan and West Germany.
Charles Douglas Jackson, 63, senior vice president of Time Inc. and former publisher of Fortune and Life, died in New York Hospital after months of illness. A longtime adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, he helped shape Cold War policy and attended major conferences in Bermuda and Berlin. He split residence between New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts.
Cyprus President Makarios returned from Athens and said the Turkish military rotation issue on the island was now in UN Secretary General Thant’s hands. He noted Turkey would rotate 335 of its 650 Cyprus contingent, a move previously linked to a potential Greece Turkey clash.
At a Chicago campaign appearance both sides clashed around the crowd with Goldwater banners and Humphrey rhetoric. Goldwater pledged not to immediately slash farm price supports and criticized interim leadership while Humphrey urged reform of farm programs and warned against arbitrary handouts.
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