Snow Plows Highlight Amarillo Cold Weather Stereotype
The article criticizes a seventh grade Texas history page for using Amarillo as the cold weather symbol in a weather feature from Texas Our Heritage. It notes Plainview had Texas largest snowfall and recalls a Dallas banquet cold snap to counter the stereotype.
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Texas
Amarillo
Brownsville
Panhandle
Plainview
Dallas
Jaycees
Ralph W. Steen
Frances Donecker
Steck Company
Austin
Phil Phillips
Phillips Junior College
Berger
Downstate
Welfare aid delayed as Texas legislature acts quickly
Texas lawmakers moved to avert a welfare cut by suspending AFDC reductions until June 1. The Senate and House approved a $905,815 supplemental appropriation, with the Welfare Department authorized to shift up to $350,000 to prevent the $28 monthly welfare decrease. The bill also funds college enrollment increases and new positions.
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Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Preston Smith
State Welfare Department
AFDC
U. S Supreme Court
Dionysus
University of Michigan
Colorado College
Colorado Springs
Nixon Press Holds First White House News Conference
President Nixon pledged urgent new initiatives at Paris peace talks to end the Vietnam War and warned of possible Middle East conflict. He planned NSC talks to review options, favored arms talks with the Soviet Union, and sought Senate ratification of the nuclear test ban at the proper time. He met reporters in the East Room and then at the Pentagon.
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Washington
UPS
Nixon
Paris
Johnson
Southeast Asia
White House
United States
Middle East
National Security Council
United Nations
East Room
Senate
China
U.S
Warsaw
Poland
Pentagon
Ky hints of meet with foe in Paris talks
Vice President Ky said Saigon would meet privately with the other side to discuss peace and that talks could be held in Paris or elsewhere. He noted a possible Tet tru ce for about 48 hours and stressed that the NLF was not considered an independent entity. Ky’s remarks followed a session with U.S. Ambassador Lodge and amid deadlock between sides.
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Paris
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
Saigon
Viet Cong National Liberation Front
NLF
North Vietnam
Hanoi
CAB to Review Youth Fares In Airline Discount Policy
The Civil Aeronautics Board ordered a review of an examiner Arthur Present's ruling that would end standby 50 percent youth fares for ages 12 to 21 and 33 1 3 percent reserved-seat discounts. The board took action on its own initiative with no hearing date set, keeping special fares in effect pending review as bus lines sues since 1966.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Examiner
Examiner Arthur & Present
Shooting At Dance Ends In Death In Roy NM
Donald Horton 20, of 1100 Clyde died after a fight at a Roy High School gym dance. Robert Romero, son of former Roy marshal, was arraigned on a murder charge. Horton, shot in the neck by a high velocity rifle, died at Miners Hospital in Raton.
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Robert Romero
Roy
H. W Dikeman
Donald Horton
Clyde
Horton
Roy High School
Amarillo
New Mexico
Miners’ Hospital
Raton
Romero
Santos Romero
Tucumcari
Mosquero
Harding County Sheriff's Office
Lufkin
West Texas State University
Biafrans Propose Cease-Fire Conditions In Statement
The Biafran Ministry of Information released a document entitled a cease-fire that can work. It calls for complete stoppage of arms to both sides and for Nigerian troops to withdraw from Biafran territory, allowing refugees to return, with international supervision of evacuated areas.
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Biafran Ministry of Information
Cleanup tightens grip as Southern California floods end
Rain ends after nine days of torrential storms leaving 91 dead and $35 million in damage. Rescue and cleanup begin across Los Angeles and three counties with about 9 000 homes damaged or destroyed and 700 in the LA area. Neighbors share food and provisions at emergency centers as residents begin salvage in Glendora and hillside areas.
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Los Angeles
California
Glendora
San Gabriel Mountains
William Sugden
Sugden
Oakland mother defends store with pistol in two robberies
Linda West, 25, fired a .38 pistol during two liquor-store robberies in Oakland, killing two men with felony records. She says the store’s safety and family survival forced her to act, after her husband gave her the gun following the first holdup.
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Oakland
Calif
Linda West
Jack
West
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