Amtrak prospects in Dallas Fort Worth and Texas rail service
The piece notes ongoing activity to boost rail schedules in the Dallas Fort Worth area with Amtrak trains already running Dallas to Fort Worth and connections to Lone Star service. It mentions ICC hearings later this month on freight facilities and potential Amtrak proposals.
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Plains
Amtrak
Dallas, Houston and
Fort Worth Triangle
Dallas
Fort Worth
Kansas City
Chicago
I.C.C
Pacific Coast
Belen
Newton
Mel Marshall Returns from Western Writers Convention
Borger novelist and outdoorsman Albino Mel Marshall attended the 1975 Western Writers of America convention in Carson City Nevada which celebrated its centennial. He carried his Ballentine paperback Buffalo Hunt a western tale on white buffalo and Comanche hunting with historical notes confirming white albino sightings and sacred status among tribes.
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Mel Marshall
Borger
Western Writers of America
Carson City
Nev
Mel
Ballentine
Bumper sticker quips spark desert road oddities in Nevada
Mel Marshall spots a bumper sticker stating The gas war is over Gas won while noting clipped magazine items from Olsen Park Pete. The fragmentary humor mentions bathing laws in Amarillo and other towns, social aphorisms on driving and money, and a Police sign noted by RES IZZARD.
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Mel Marshall
Nevada
Olsen Park
Pete
Amarillo
Texas
Dallas
Kokomo
New York
Police
RES Izzard
Farmers May Join Wheat Suits Over 1972 Russia Sale
Within 45 days over 55,000 wheat farmers in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico face class action decisions seeking more than 200 million dollars in damages from the 1972 sale of wheat to Russia. Lawyers said the suits backed by Zinser Spearman and Cleveland target Continental Grain Company and Clarence Palmby.
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Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Russia
Joe Zinser
Deaf Smith County
John Spearman
Curry County
N. M
Edgar Cleveland
Altus
Oklo
Continental Grain Company
Clarence Palmby
United States
U.S. District Court
Fred Daugherty
Oklahoma City
Economy Revival Forecast for 1975 76 in Major Powers
Brussels based European Commission projects a late 1975 return to growth in major industrialized nations led by the United States. It predicts 1976 gains and wider spread to smaller economies, but unemployment may rise into 1976. US tax cuts and rebates totaling 22.8 billion dollars are expected to boost consumer spending and investment though US industry capacity may keep investment subdued.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
European Commission
Commission
Common Market
Europe
U.S
TDHR Approves West Amarillo Landfill Plan
The Texas Department of Health Resources okayed a city landfill west of Amarillo. the NE 24th and Currie Lane site was rejected with orders to close by December 31. TDHR decisions on northeast site near St. Francis and Airport Road and the SE 26th and Grant incinerator are pending. Public comments allowed for 30 days before possible action in early August. FAA objected to the northeast site over aircraft bird hazards. locals opposed the west site near Coulter Road and I-40 due to water-well pollution concerns.
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Amarillo
Texas Department of Health Resources
TDHR
Jerry McGuire
Globe-News
NE 24Th
Currie Lane
McGuire
St. Francis and
Airport Road
SE 26Th
Grant McGuire
Federal Aviation Agency
Amarillo Air Terminal
FAA
Coulter Road
Combined Holiday Editions For Amarillo Papers
In observance of the July 4 holiday the Amarillo Daily News and Amarillo Globe-Times combine editions on Friday. The edition lands Friday morning for daily and Sunday subscribers only. Sunday subscribers get their delivery via the same carrier, with no afternoon delivery.
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe-Times
Weldon Baskin
Weather Outlook With Warm Temps And Tstorms Risk
Clear to partly cloudy through Friday with a slight chance of mainly late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. High today in the upper 80s, low tonight mid 60s. High Friday near 90. Wind variable 5 to 15 mph. Probability of precipitation 20 percent today and tonight.
Trash Pickup Starts in NYC After Court Order
Mayor Abraham Beame announced that a court-ordered back-to-work directive allowed some sanitation trucks to resume service in New York City. About 100 of 800 trucks were to be on streets by morning as the strike continued to draw officials from unions.
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New York
Abraham Beame
Sanitation Department
Bigger and Better Than Ever Before Fireworks Show
The 22nd Annual Globe- News Free Fourth of July Fireworks Show takes place at Dick Bivins Stadium on the Tri-State Fairgrounds. Activities start after sunset with music patriotic speaking and a nighttime fireworks display around 9 30 p m.
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Globe- News
Dick Bivins
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Suspected Shootout Witness Testifies Ahead of Grand Jury
An Indian named David Sky is set to testify before a federal grand jury after boasting of the shootout that killed two FBI agents. Sky, also called David Ski, was held as a material witness on $50,000 bond in Pennington County Jail while the investigation continues.
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Friends
FBI
David Sky
U.S
James Wilson
Rapid City
Hubert Horse
Porcupine, S.D
Wilson
Horse
David Ski
David Scott
Oglala
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Wounded Knee
Sky
Pennington County
Jack
R. D. Hurd
Sioux Falls
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Thomas McGinn
Philadelphia
McGinn
Associated Press
Beirut War Kills 274 as U S Army Colonel Reported Kidnapped
In Beirut, eight days of urban fighting claim at least 274 lives amid a fragile cease fire. A U S Army colonel may have been kidnapped by an armed faction involved in the conflict.
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Beirut
Lebanon
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