Hereford Western Days Celebrates Riders Club Anniversary
Western Days events mark the Hereford Riders Club rodeo anniversary with seed spitting cow chip throwing and beard growing from today through Saturday. The schedule includes an old fiddlers contest with $500 in prizes, a downtown parade, rodeo each evening at 8 pm, and dances to Tommy Hancock in the Little Bull Barn.
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Hereford
Spc
Hereford Riders Club
Downtown Merchants Association
Hereford Jaycees
Hereford Lions Club
Deaf Smith County Bull Barn
Bull Barn
Lions Club
Main Street
Riders Club
Tommy Hancock
Lubbock
Little Bull Barn
Screwworm Warning Issued for Oklahoma Cattlemen
Oklahoma cattlemen were urged to inspect herds after a confirmed screwworm case in Wilbarger County Texas, adjacent to Jackson and Tillman counties in Oklahoma. Billy Ray Gowdy, president of the state Board of Agriculture, stated the infestation was verified in Vernon Texas.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Texas
Billy Ray Gowdy
State Board of Agriculture
Wilbarger County
Vernon, Tex
Jackson
Tillman
Sanders Denies Ethics Vote Charge In Texas Senate Fight
Mrs. Sanders, campaigning for her husband amid a Democratic Senate race, says a Yarborough reference to Barefoot Sanders’s 1957 ethics vote is distorted. She notes the vote was on an amendment that would have killed the ethics bill and recalls Barefoot leading a committee probing a bribery case. She adds the campaign has stretched across towns with family members.
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Barefoot Sanders
U.S. Senate
Texas
Sanders
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
Barefoot
Lubbock
Amarillo
Rio Grande Valley
Railroad Vet Recalls Changes Along the Line
Bill Dettle, a 72 year old Stinnett rail telegraph veteran born on a train near Milwaukee on December 31, 1899, recalls a life spent on the railroad. He started as a carl boy in 1913 and served 46 years in Stinnett, now using a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy. Dettle remains active with the Morsey Telegraph Club and writes a local column, noting telegraph's fade as microwave and teletype replace it.
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Stinnett
Bill Dettle
Dettle
Milwaukee
Telegraph
Hooker
Okla
Carl
Liberal
Kaw
Gen
John
J. Pershing
Detile
Stratford
Sanford
Florence
Boomer
Telegraph Club
Morsey Telegraph Club Inc., of
America
Central Southwestern
Arkansas
Samuel F. B. Morse
Sage of
Stinnett Herald
Hutchinson County
Five Escaped Fort Bend County Jail Suspects Sought
Fort Bend County authorities hunted five men missing since fleeing the county jail early Monday. The last report placed the escapees in Sulphur, Louisiana, about two hours after the breakout, with Atlanta, Georgia as a possible destination if not already reached. John Henry Allen, 36, Hitchcock, remained detained on a charge of aiding the escape and could not post a $25,000 bond.
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Richmond
Tex
UPI
Fort Bend
Sulphur
Atlanta
John Henry Allen
Hitchcock
Two Rape Suspects Granted New Trials
The State Court of Criminal Appeals granted new trials to two Panhandle men convicted of assault with intent to rape. Hubert Bernard Hurt, 33, Tulsa, 45 years, won a new trial after a psychiatrist’s cross examination. Antonio Sierra, 30, Plainview, 70 years, also received a new trial for the 1970 assault on an Abernathy housewife.
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Austin
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Panhandle
Hubert Bernard Hurt
Tulsa
Antonio Sierra
Plainview
Hurt
Tulia
Customs Officers Busy at Laredo
U S Customs officers seized 37,123 pounds of marijuana in the first five months of the year between Laredo and Brownsville. The tally also includes 81.28 grams of heroin 997.25 grams of cocaine 43 grams of hashish 163,670 pills 21 grams of LSD and 805 pounds of peyote. Brownsville workload has tripled over 40 months while staff remains fixed. In Laredo further seizures totaled 15,400 pounds of marijuana 1.5 ounces heroin 1.5 pounds cocaine 32 grams hashish and 5,000 pills.
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Edinburg
Tex
U.S
Laredo
Brownsville
Farris
Southern
District of Texas
Raul A. Gonzalez
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Shoeroom
S. Georgia
Wolflin
Lewiman
Vic Coburn
Nas
Feddars
Ditioner
Ing
the Whisperer
Jos
Gustane Peiien
Maytag Dishwashers
Bellave
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