Namur starts the day on the South Plains
Independent Democratic newspaper Namur section published weekday mornings with Sunday consolidation. Lubbock Avalanche Journal Evening Edition by Avalanche Journal Publishing Co. in Lubbock Texas. Associated Press United Press International wire members. September 22 2066.
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Avalanche
Journal
Avalanche-Journal Publishing Company, Inc
Sth St
Ave. J. Lubbock
Texas
Texas Daily Press League
Dallas
Associated Press
United Press International
Parker FO Prouty Chas. A. Guy
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Plengf
United States of America
Democrats Open Discussion On Austin Platform Shakeup
The Texas Democratic and Republican state conventions debated sweeping reforms in Austin and San Antonio. The platform favors include the Texas Water Plan state college reorganization, longer state official terms, constitutional revision and Spanish study. A Republican blend aims at higher teacher salaries and insurance rate reform.
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John Connally
Ben Barnes
Fexas
State Utilities Commission
Waggoner Carr
U.S. Senate
John Tower
Mr. Carr
Connally
State Board of Insurance
Katzenbach moved from Justice to State in reshuffle
The President shifts Nicholas de B. Katzenbach from Attorney General to Undersecretary of State. The move aims to steady the administration and possibly groom him as a future Secretary of State, while critics question if the change improves governance or merely repositions a reshaped cabinet.
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Walvenbach
Neoman
Johnson
Chastice
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Justice
Mia Katzenbach
Dean Rusk
Katenbach
White House
Kennedy
West Texas Surplus Water Seen for Reappraisal
The Texas Water Development Board announced surplus surface water is available for West Texas under the same rules as other areas. TWDB Executive Director Joe G. Moore Jr. spoke after a September 9 hearing in Lubbock, the final in a series. The board will reevaluate plan elements possibly reducing water for the Lower Rio Grande Valley irrigation. West Texas farmers gain cautious hope for dependable surface water supplies.
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Lubbock
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White House talks life of Johnson era appoints Applebaum
A mock interview in the Johnson White House shows Prof Heinrich Applebaum learning duties for the resident intellectual role. The aide explains the job to feed dialogue with scholars, advise on spelling, assist Mrs. Johnson, and handle the red direct line to the President.
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Galtdmanns
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Norman Mailer
Tim
Johnson creates secret peace desk at State Department
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report President Johnson silent about Averell Harriman’s unpublicized post on the State Department’s seventh floor. Harriman reports to craft all possible U S positions for talks with North Vietnam and to chase any shift in Hanoi’s stance.
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Llewelyn Thompson
Peace Talk Rumor Surfaces Over Vietnam War Settlement
Washington sources discuss a possible peaceful settlement in Vietnam with a civilian Saigon government. The piece notes CIA and other sources may push a pro peace line, while questions remain about Communist motives and the influence of the Ky junta on any new assembly. Harriman heads the peace desk mission to Hanoi with authority to explore flexible negotiating positions.
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Senate
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William Fulbright
Dick Daley
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Junta
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ASTOP
Communist Party
Red China
Mao Tse-tung
Red Guards
Soviet Union
Peking
Communist Movement
Moscow
Hanoi
Voice of America
Fable by Wilfred Owen Sparks Urban Renewal Debate
Washington conference on urban problems features Wilfred Owen from Brookings presenting a fable about fixing crowded cities. The piece imagines a Chief Urban Warrior pursuing garages, transit shifts, and mixed housing to ease congestion and rebuild central cities, ending with a utopian Grateful Society.
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Washington
Wilfred Owen
Humphrey
John V. Lindsay
America
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Brookings Institution
Paris Russia blocked oil protections at peace talks
The Slav bloc led by Russia blocked a proposal granting special protection in Romania to British and other foreign oil firms at the European peace conference. The report cites international friction over resource interests amid broader postwar diplomacy.
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Paris
Russia
Romania
Marriage squeeze looms as birth boom alters match odds
An editorial cites Census Bureau researchers Paul Glick and Robert Parke Jr on a postwar wave of marriageable singles. They report 1950s ratios of 99 men per 100 women now at 93, risking hundreds of thousands of women delaying or missing marriage. Options mentioned include younger men or older women marrying, with reference to Justice Douglas.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Paul Glick
Robert Parke Jr
Justice Douglas
Dallas Morning News
Rioting in China Framework and American Customs Talk
The writer notes that Red Guard rioting is government encouraged, sees it as a sign of potential better US China relations when China adopts American customs. He questions a figure of 99 million US drivers licenses, suggesting the number was counted before Labor Day.
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