Grand Ole Opry celebrates its forty fourth birthday
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry marks its 44th birthday this week with a festival and DJ convention drawing about 6,000 delegates from around the world. The event honors stars like Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff, noting the Opry began in 1925 and has grown to 57 acts with over 200 sidemen, remaining a cornerstone of Music Row in Nashville.
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Opry
George Dewey Hay
Jimmy Thompson
WSM
The
Tabernacle
Music Row
U.S.A
RCA Victor
Columbia
Decca
Reform Bill Aims to Modernize Congress Yet Sidesteps Major Reforms
Washington AP says a congressional reform bill to modernize legislative machinery would lift the radio TV coverage ban on House hearings and provide a dorm for page boys while designating August as a congressional vacation month. It avoids major changes to lobbying rules or the seniority system and keeps most powers with committee chairs. Rep. B F Sisk calls it a realist plan aimed at passage as the subcommittee reports a limited package.
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House
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Congress
Sisk
Trinity River Authority Adopts $11.6 Million Budget
The Trinity River Authority of Texas approved an 11,648,970 budget for the year starting December 7 at a quarterly board meeting in Livingston. General Manager David H. Brune outlined programs across 17 counties in navigation, water storage and conservation, municipal, irrigation, commercial and industrial supply, soil conservation and flood control.
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Trinity River Authority of Texas
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David H. Brune
Arlington
Williams Named To House Office Committee In Texas
State Rep. Lindon Williams of Galena Park was named to the House Office Committee by Speaker Gus Mutscher. The panel oversees renovations and repairs within the State Capitol and will work on new offices after the Finance Building is completed in August 1970. Chairman will be Rep. Will Smith of Beaumont and Rep. James W. Stroud of Dallas. The speaker praised Williams for administrative skill and veteran support. The article notes projected growth for the Dallas area and highway and sewer projects tied to state planning.
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State Building Commission
State Finance
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Senate
Texas’ Capitol
U.S
Mutscher
Man reports theft of billfold and knife on Oak Street
D. E. Hanson of Liberty told Baytown police a stranger stopped his car on Oak Street and got inside. The man took Hanson's billfold containing $14 and threatened him with a pocket knife, which came from Hanson's right front pocket.
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D. E. Hanson
Liberty
Baytown
Oak Street
Hanson
Oak
Spitz Named Director of AISE Group
Harry Spitz, general superintendent of U S Steel's Texas Works, elected a director of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers AISE. Announcement made at the 1969 AISE Convention in Pittsburgh. He will begin a one year term in January 1970.
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Harry §. Spitz
U.S. Steel
Texas Works
Association of Iron and Steel Engineers
AISE
Pittsburgh
Spitz
International Technical Society
Swaziland bans publications from Communist nations
Newly independent Swaziland has issued a list of banned publications. The prohibition targets works from Communist nations or front groups, including Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung and all dispatches from the New China News Agency.
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Mbabane
Swaziland
Mao Tse- Tung
New China News Agency
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Charles W. Fisher, Jr
Ben H. Carpenter
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Dallas-Fort Worth
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