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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1971
Page
4
The report notes the morning hours of Wednesday September 22, 1971 in a stylized national brief. It references locations and entities with altered spellings reflecting OCR irregularities.
Attorney General Crawford Martin told the Austin conference that Attica raises warnings against using the riot to discredit law enforcement and the penal system. He urged reform of corrections and noted critics often blame victims and the system rather than the offenders. He warned that attacks on police undermine all institutions and society.
Maria Vovchok, a 22 year old Russian defector, tells Rosemary Collins that American students often go West with idealism but in Russia they face secret police. She describes Soviet society as dull, repressive, and Stalinist with a growing KGB role and questions Western protests as a lesson in contrasting systems.
TheSummer festival boom ended in disaster with no successful events and multimillion losses. Washington state hosted the first legal festival ending amid violence and mud. Promoters faced counterfeit tickets and a quarter million dollars in losses. Abroad attempts in Latin America failed as Avandaro police investigated missing swimmers and hundreds of drug overdoses. The 1971 festival era fails to shed its controversial image.
Industry leaders told Congress removing the 7 percent auto excise tax would boost demand, save jobs, and curb inflation by lowering car prices. Arthur E. Summerfield and son testified on higher imports, wage competition, and potential $200 buyer rebates, citing shifts in foreign and domestic vehicle employment.
ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK report from FIRE BASE KIM QUY in South Vietnam. At this lone mountaintop fortress, 101st Airborne infantrymen express a bitter mood amid Vietnamization despite Nixon’s policy. The mood is a mix of fear boredom and fatigue.
The Democratic Governors Conference shows broad scrutiny of Mayor John V. Lindsay. Governors label him opportunistic, divisive, and unpopular in many states, with only a few offering cautious support for a televised campaign.
Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams declares support for George Wallace's plan to block the busing of students to desegregated schools. The stance underscores political opposition to forced desegregation and signals regional alignment in the school integration debate.
The Attica crisis raises the broader issue of political prisoners and prison reform. Tully argues prisons must punish crimes and deny incitement while recognizing inmates’ rights, noting censorship and bans provoke justified protests but not violence. He cites Crain testimony about an underground newsletter urging violence.
A string of wry observations ranges from a catcher’s knee bends in baseball to a San Diego bartender’s rule on criticism. It notes a 1915 Parker Amusement Co. carousel purchase, jokes about wives on merry‑go‑rounds, and the dietary milk intolerance gap among whites, Negroes, and Orientals with sharp observations and statistics.
Four Allied tank columns entered the iron triangle in Korea Friday, with officers estimating nearly 1000 Chinese casualties. Washington reported Russia took steps to gauge Truman's force policy. Bowie saw four downtown buildings burned, while Levelland and Post hosted two big South Plains fairs with winners named.
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