Bonham Considers 1 Percent City Sales Tax On Tuesday
Bonham voters will decide a 1 per cent city sales tax to raise about 50000 for city services. Council members endorse the measure to avoid higher ad valorem taxes and future water and sewer rate hikes. Nearby towns and many surrounding cities have already approved similar taxes.
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Bonham
Fannin County
Honey Grove
Ladonia
Leonard
Windom Andrenton
Denison
Sherman
van Alstyne
McKinney
Dallas
Whitewright
Greenville
Wolfe City
Commerce
Bells
Celeste
Domino Tournament At Honey Grove IOOF Lodge
The Honey Grove IOOF lodge hosts a domino tournament in the lodge hall Saturday night April 27 at 7 30 p m with trophies for top winners. Residents note bluebonnets and wildflowers blooming along highways in Fanning county and the highway department will delay mowing while they are in bloom.
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Honey Grove Ioof Lodge
Fanning County
Highway Department
Wolfe City Kiwanis Barbecue Dinner Planned
The Wolfe City Kiwanis club will serve a barbecue dinner in the Wolfe City gymnasium on Sunday April 28 between 11 30 a m and 1 p m.
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Wolfe City Kiwanis Club
Wolfe City
San Jacinto Day noted with observances and cancer crusade
Banks close Monday for San Jacinto Day with Texas history notes on the 1836 battle near Houston and Santa Anna's capture. The author mentions the Texas Aggies Master Day, a projected ice age joke, and the 1968 Cancer Crusade in Bonham and Fannin county. Local scenes include Joe Shaw inspecting north side buildings and Lions Club remarks by Dan Mize and Gene Danner.
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San Jacinto
Houston
Sam Houston
Texas
Santa Anna
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Texas Aggies
Blast hits Sao Paulo newspaper plant injuring workers
A dynamite blast at the QO Estado plant in Sao Paulo damaged the first floor and injured a man. Police spokesman Claudemiro Moreira de Carvalho blames terrorists and notes it is the third explosion in the city this month. The building also houses UPI offices.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
QO Estado Today
Claudemiro Moreira de Carvalho
O Estado
United Press International
Bonham Area Forecast Calls For Warmer, Partly Cloudy Sunday
Partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer temperatures are forecast for the Bonham area by the U S Weather Bureau. Bonham saw 3.17 inches of rain in the 24 hours to Friday 6 p m, with heavier amounts elsewhere. Bois d Arc banks overflowed, roads were impassable, and all county creeks ran out of banks, delaying outdoor work for a week or more. Sunday highs in the low 80s with mid 50s lows are expected.
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Bonham
U. S. Weather Bureau
Honey Grove
Telephone Strike Near End as AT&T Talks Progress
Washington CWA president Joseph A. Beirne said a breakthrough in negotiations with AT&T could end the cross country walkout by 200 000 Bell Telephone and Western Electric workers. AT&T might negotiate a new three year contract including fringe benefits while wage demands focus on a wage reopener.
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At&t
CWA
Bierne
Thomson buys Northwest Arkansas Times from Fulbright family
The Thomson newspapers group purchased the Northwest Arkansas Times from U. S. Senator J. William Fulbright's family. The sale price was not announced. Thomson, based in Chicago, owns about two dozen U.S. papers and over 170 worldwide. St. Clair McCabe said there would be no changes in staff or policy.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Thomson Newspapers
Northwest Arkansas Times
U. S
J. William Fulbright
Thomson
Chicago
St. Clair McCabe
Stereo Tape Stolen From Car In Overnight Burglary
Burglars broke into a locked car at the Jerry Boone Ford Mercury Co on Highway 78 and stole a stereo and tape during the night. City police were notified Saturday morning.
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Jerry Boone Ford Mercury Co
Highway 78
Elephants used to push supplies into South Vietnam
North Vietnamese pack elephants haul hundreds of pounds of weapons through jungle corridors from Cambodia into the central highlands. U.S. observation planes struggle to spot the routes as pilots fly low amid dense foliage and booby traps. An embedded report notes repeated mined trails and elephant tunnels evading detection.
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Kontum
South Vietnam
UPI
Cambodia
Highlands
U.S
O. E. Cavender
Atlanta
U.S. Ath
George Long
East McKeesport
Lond
Long
Peace talks eyed as site jockeying winds down
Defense Secretary Clark Clifford said Vietnam peace talks would proceed with a site chosen to suit allies and negotiations, while noting no serious delay from heavier antiaircraft fire. He dismissed McCarthy’s Pueblo ransom idea and urged reasonable conditions for talks.
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Washington
UPS
Clark Clifford
Vietnam
United States
North Vietnam
Clifford
NATO
Holland
North Vietnamese
Panhandle
Johnson
20Th Parallel
South Vietnam
Hug
Hanoi
Paris
Defense
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
U. S.S
Mt Mayon Signals Impending Eruption In Philippines
Mt Mayon, the 8 283 foot volcanic peak near Manila, showed signs of an impending eruption Saturday according to a volcanology commission reporter.
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Manila
UPI
Mt. Mayor
Philippine
Volcanology Commission
Cancer Crusade Planned Across Bonham Fannin County
Bonham and Fannin County set for the 1968 Cancer Crusade on Tuesday with eight Bonham districts each led by a chairwoman. Countywide co chairmen oversee gifts while Martin Hassell heads the county crusade. Volunteers will fundraise and distribute cancer detection and treatment information.
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Bonham
Fannin County
C. Williams
Williams
Willie Carpenter
Bob Ell
Bion Reeves
Dean Staton
Walter Sisk
Joe Risser, Jr
Leon Poliakoff
Dorothy Railback
Herbert Buron
Joe West
Martin Hassell
Crusade
C. C. Strickland
Savoy
M. L. Brent
Dodg City
Leeman Riddle
Windom
Mags
Hubert Eaton
Ravenna
J. T. Woodson
Gober
R. F. Voyer
Honey Grove
G. Q. Hodge
Trenton
Grady Giddiens
Baisley
Bon
Realtors Pledge Open Housing Support Nationwide
Oklahoma City report says the head of America's 85,000 realtors pledged full cooperation to implement and enforce the open housing law. He warned of initial confusion until the housing director's interpretation is issued and argued the law infringes owners rights to sell and enjoy property. He noted NAR is launching the Make America Better program to tackle ghetto concerns this year.
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Oklahoma City
Spl
America
Congress
Davis
Nareb
Phone Cables Cut by Vandals Near Lansing
Seven telephone cables were deliberately cut one mile north of Lansing Friday and again early today. State Police said vandals used a cable cutter and also opened six telephone casecuts. The damage left much of the northern part of the city without telephone service.
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Lansing
Mich
UPI
Disaster Tag Sought For Greenwood After Fata Tornado
Lt Gov Maurice Britt sought federal disaster designation for Greenwood Arkansas after a Friday tornado killed 12 and injured hundreds. National Guard state police Red Cross civil defense workers and reservists joined in search and rescue as crews cleared debris from nearly half the town.
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Greenwood
Ark
UPI
Maurice Britt
Britt
National Guard
Little Rock
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Army
Air Force
Marine
Little Western
Arkansas
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Harry S. Truman
Independence
George Miller
Bob Cantrell
Joe Shaw
Dan Mize
Gene Danner
Lions Club
Kilo
Jimmy Justifs
Thel Williams
Claudia
LS Ry
Bonham, Fannin County
Cancer Crusade
U.T
Austin, Tex
UPJ
University of Texas
Norman T. Hackerman
Austin
Students For A Democratic Secret
SDS
Catholic Peace Fellowship
Young Illegialists
Hackerman
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