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Baytown Sun in Baytown, Texas

17 Dec 1968

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Baytown Sun

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Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1968

Page

3

Texas water plan would link Mississippi and Sabine sources

Texas Water Development Board unveiled a 10 billion plan to create a statewide water system with Trans-Texas and Coastal canals, 68 new dams, and pipelines. Surplus Mississippi water would flow from Louisiana and Sabine water to West and South Texas including El Paso, with 68 reservoirs storing 33.6 million acre-feet and 16.1 million acre-feet for flood control.

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Austin Texas Water Louisiana South Plains Hundres el Paso Sabine River Beaumont Rio Grande Valley Texas Water Development Board John Connally Texas Water System Upper Sulphur River Texas Lubbock Abilene Sweetwater Snyder San Angelo Colorado City Dallas-Fort Worth Trans-Texas Canal Bull Lake Caprock Reservoir New Mexico Midland-Odessa Big Spring Pecos Mississippi Sabine Brazos River Houston Galveston Bay Gulf Coast Corpus Chrisi Garcitas Palmetto Bend Confluence San Antonio Cibolo Cuero Goliad Rio Grande Amigrad Reservoir Winter Garden Laredo Texas Line Trans-Texas New Orleans Red River Navigation Project Water Development Fund Water Development Board Howard Boswell West Texas East Texas South Boswell
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Gifts At Christmas Should Do Something

Vivian Brown surveys holiday gifts for home use. Women receive chairs beds pillows and vibrating devices while men gain high tech desks weather stations and electric gadgets. The piece notes ultrasonic cleaners cordless spoons and computer style controls along with novelty items like a blinking nothing box and self loading lawn mowers.

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Playboy Brunswick McCulloch
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Thanatopsis Attributed to Bryant Says Almanac

The World Almanac states William Cullen Bryant wrote Thanatopsis at about 17. Richard Henry Dana questioned the authorship, declaring no one on this side of the Atlantic could write such verses.

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William Cullen Bryant Bryant World Almanac Richard Henry Dana Atlantic
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Beatles' Lawyer Found Hanged At Home In England

Da vid Jacobs, lawyer for the Beatles and other stars, was found hanged at his seafront mansion in Hove England. An inquest was ordered. He was 57 and unmarried. Jacobs had represented Sir Laurence Quvner Marlene Dietrich Judy Garland Liberace Shirley Bassey and Zsa Zsa Gabor. It was the second close death to the Beatles in recent years after manager Brian Epstein died in 1967.

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Hove England David Jacobs The Beates Jacobs Brian Epstein Beatles Sir Laurence Quvner Marlene Dietrich Judy Garland Liberace Shirley Bassey Zsa Gabor
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Crime rises across all categories in FBI report

The FBI Uniform Crime Report shows a 42 percent rise in purse snatchings and a 19 percent overall crime increase in the first nine months of the year. Violent crimes climb with robberies up 32 percent, rape 17 percent, murder 15 percent, and aggravated assault 13 percent. Property crimes rise as thefts over $50 up 23 percent, auto thefts 22 percent, and burglaries 16 percent. Regional increases: Northeast 25 percent, West 19 percent, South 17 percent, North Central 16 percent. Also notes a call to remove acting FAA head D. D. Thomas amid complaints of inadequately trained personnel and understaffed control centers.

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Associated Press Washington FBI South North Central
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